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Message no. 1
From: Mike Bobroff <Airwasp@***.COM>
Subject: About my home game. Pt 1.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 10:01:14 EDT
Thanks for the uplifting Tinner, I needed it, I've been in a sort of a rut for
more than 2 to 3 weeks now, and along with getting game ideas from my players,
that also helped a bunch too.

So, getting onto the topic of the email, I'm gonna let you all now about some
of the irons currently burning in the fire in the home game here.

The group picks up after the Winternight Wars in early 2060, to find
themselves getting involved in a simple extraction run from a small county
prison about 70 klicks from Atlanta. The singular highlight of this entire
run comes when the party's mage casts a Mob Mood spell onto one of the guards
involved in a fight to get the prisoner out of the jail. The emotion inspired
(along with lots of successes) LUST. Now then, the player forgot that Mob
mood was an AoE spell and that it would nail everyone in the party (the ones
in the fight at least), and it did. The two elves went for each other,
including the guard, and the two Filippino's went for each other (keeping it
in country). But things went on from there.

Later that same month, the group decided to make a helicopter to get around
in, so they managed to buy from Aztlan a old Aguilar chopper, which they then
combined with a Ares Dragon scale chassis to come up with a fast, sleek cargo
chopper, and they called it Conspyre.

The group has a small hand in the death of Juan Azcatlipoca, who reveals the
treachery of OROtech (which everyone knew anyway), and a new president is
seated into power, someone who has been officially baptized a Christian, but
who is also a High Priest of Tezcatlipoca, and a retired VP for Aztechnology
who used to be involved in Mergers and Acquisitions.

Then comes the day Leonardo is killed (Lofwyr confirmed he did no swallow, he
just chewed in a meet at a later date). And the events of BitB are determined
to have already happened (causing some whiplash to the players at least -
stock certificates for Fuchi became something of a NERPS collectible for the
month).

Aztlan and Aztechnology begin to act kinda strangely. Something is changing
in the upper levels, but the group has no clue what's going on.

In the ensuing search for information about Leonardo's death, Hestaby is
attacked by an unknown draconic assailant, as she was blind-swiped by the
other dragon. Hestaby then retreats to her domain in Shasta to recover after
having been barely rescued by another dragon. This oppurtunity is noticed by
the Tir Tairngire Council as a chance to take the parts of Upper California
they have always wanted. And so Tir Tairngire invades, with Japanese
attentions turned to their possessions in the Pacific before the volcano
explodes and causes tsunami which will reek havoc on their possessions.

However, the Japanese do become involved. Why? Easy, Aztlan sends her main
battle fleet with the Toltec aircraft carrier into the Pacific and heading
northward towards Tir Tairngire. In addition, the CEO of Aztechnologies
Northwest is replaced by Kamalkahn, a great feathered serpent. The other
reason is that some lawyer pipes up that Japan is obligated to engage the Tir
forces due to the Treaty they signed with Calfree a long time ago.

This little situation brews for about a month or so.

More in the next part (Pt 2)

-Herc
------ The Best Mechanic you can ever have.

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