Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Jason Spadaro)
Subject: Cthulhu and concussions
Date: Fri Aug 3 16:00:02 2001
Hmm... I guess 5 RPG's arn't as many as I thought. It's just when you
lokk at all the source books....... :)

Anyhow, a Cthulhu/Shadowrun combo does sound really cool. In fact
that's been my evil scheme from early on that I have yet to start. At
this point only one of the PC's in my campaign knows about it though. :)
I think I'll take a look at Lars Page (when I get the time and a good
translater. I use to take German, but I'm far from a master of the
langauge.)

Also, here's my thoughts on the concussion topic. There's a wide
spectrum of effects that could be felt (I got a minor one a couple
month's ago. I didn't even go to the doctor. The only effect was that
I was dizzzy for about a week.) A severe one might entitle a wound
effect check for the intellegence attribute. :)

One last thing. What are these horrors I keep hearing about? I havn't
played long, but they sound really cool.

-Cthulhupunk
Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Lars Wagner Hansen)
Subject: Cthulhu and concussions
Date: Sat Aug 4 11:50:01 2001
From: "Jason Spadaro" <cthulhupunk@********.att.net>
<Snip>
> Anyhow, a Cthulhu/Shadowrun combo does sound really cool. In fact
> that's been my evil scheme from early on that I have yet to start. At
> this point only one of the PC's in my campaign knows about it though. :)
> I think I'll take a look at Lars Page (when I get the time and a good
> translater. I use to take German, but I'm far from a master of the
> langauge.)

Well there isn't much simularity between German and Danish, so I belive you
would be just as good off as somebody that dosn't know German. Techically
German, English and Danish (and 7 other, see SR1 page 61) all belong to the same
language group, the Germanic language group. But understanding one of the
languages does not mean that you will be able to understand any other of the
languages, except for the odd word here and the. To me Dutch sounds like a
mixture of Danish, English and German, but I cannot understand a word of it.

See I knew that one day my old SR1 would come to some use :-)

If you ever find an online translator that can translate to/from Danish, I'll be
more than happy to know where.

In any case my page is mostly concerned with rules, which is the one thing you
don't realy need when you introduce the Cthulhu mythos. In fact Bull's
suggestion on the Dumpshock forums
(http://forums.dumpshock.com//Forum1/HTML/002792.html) might be just as usefull
(and more funny).

> One last thing. What are these horrors I keep hearing about? I havn't
> played long, but they sound really cool.

You don't want to know... Ina any case they seem to be on a low. If you want
more information you could try to get hold of some of the following books:
Harlequin's Back (Adventure), House of the Rising Sun (Novel), Worlds Without
Ends (Novel, very bad, You would only read this if you really like Immortal
Elves and Horrors). There are also tell tales of Horrors in many other books,
such as Threats, Dunkelzanh's Secrest, Aztlan, Tir na nOg, Tir Tairngire (sp?)
and some other books that I've forgotten about.

They could be cool, but IMO they were overused.

Lars
Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth)
Subject: Cthulhu and concussions
Date: Sat Aug 4 13:45:01 2001
According to Lars Wagner Hansen, on Sat, 04 Aug 2001 the word on the street was...

> Well there isn't much simularity between German and Danish, so I belive you
> would be just as good off as somebody that dosn't know German. Techically
> German, English and Danish (and 7 other, see SR1 page 61) all belong to the same
> language group, the Germanic language group. But understanding one of the
> languages does not mean that you will be able to understand any other of the
> languages, except for the odd word here and the. To me Dutch sounds like a
> mixture of Danish, English and German, but I cannot understand a word of it.

My experience is that reading a language when you know a related one is
often a lot easier than trying to figure out what someone is saying in that
same language. I don't speak Danish, for example, but do know Dutch,
English and German, and can sort of figure out the meaning of (simple)
Danish texts. OTOH spoken Danish sounds pretty much like gibberish to me
(no offense, Lars :) aside from the occasional word.

> See I knew that one day my old SR1 would come to some use :-)

Except that it lists Dutch and Flemish as separate languages, as all RPGs
seem to insist on doing. More accurate would be to say that Flemish is a
collection of Dutch dialects as spoken in Belgium and certain parts of the
south of the Netherlands.

> > One last thing. What are these horrors I keep hearing about? I havn't
> > played long, but they sound really cool.

The Horrors are the main bad guys in Earthdawn: they're terrible monsters
from some distant metaplane (see Magic in the Shadows, if you have that,
for info about what metaplanes are) that ravaged the earth in the time
before the setting of the ED game. They could cross from their metaplane
into the astral and physical planes when the magic level became high
enough, but by the time of ED, most of the Horrors have gone again.

In SR, it'll take until (at a guess) sometime around the year 4000 before
they would be able to cross into the world again, but due to special
circumstances and deliberate meddling by various parties they had a chance
to be about 2000 years early -- in the late 2050s. That's what the books
Lars mentioned (which I've snipped) are about.

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
Tot straks en poppelepee maar weer.
-> NAGEE Editor * ShadowRN GridSec * Triangle Virtuoso <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://plastic.dumpshock.com <-

GC3.12: GAT/! d-(dpu) s:- !a>? C+@ UL P L++ E W-(++) N o? K w+(--) O V?
PS+ PE(-)(+) Y PGP- t@ 5++ X(+) R+++(-)>$ tv+ b++@ DI- D+ G+ e h! !r y?
Incubated into the First Church of the Sqooshy Ball, 21-05-1998

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about Cthulhu and concussions, you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.

Thwap!