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Message no. 1
From: Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM>
Subject: Easter Egg in sourcebook
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:08:51 -0700
Since this is a crossover, I thought I'd post it to both mailing lists.

I was wondering if any others that play both the SRRPG and the SRTCG
noticed a little Easter Egg in the artwork on page 132 of the new
Rigger 2 sourcebook.

Check out the computer screen, it reads as follows:

WEAPON SYSTEMS
INSTALLATION SUCCESSFUL
RIGGER INTERFACE 100%
SRTCG ACTIVE
HAVE A NICE DAY

You'll probably also recognize a few familiar TCG faces on the back
cover as well.

Just thought I'd mention it. :o)

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Message no. 2
From: Les Ward <lward@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: Easter Egg in sourcebook
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 16:54:41 -0400
>You'll probably also recognize a few familiar TCG faces on the back
>cover as well.

Count on this happening more and more. I wouldn't be at all surprised if
the artwork inside SR role-playing books starts to come directly from the
card game.

Wordman
Message no. 3
From: Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject: Re: Easter Egg in sourcebook
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 06:50:25 -0700
Les Ward wrote:

> >You'll probably also recognize a few familiar TCG faces on the back
> >cover as well.

> Count on this happening more and more. I wouldn't be at all surprised if
> the artwork inside SR role-playing books starts to come directly from the
> card game.

Though I like crossovers and Easter Eggs and hidden words and all, I've
gotta put a word in for keeping some things separate. Just look at the
amount of back art they could have possibly used, and the amount they
actually did use -- that's sort of the ratio I'd like to keep.


-Mb
Message no. 4
From: Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Easter Egg in sourcebook
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:43:21 -0700
---Les Ward wrote:
>
> >You'll probably also recognize a few familiar TCG faces on the back
> >cover as well.
>
> Count on this happening more and more. I wouldn't be at all
surprised if
> the artwork inside SR role-playing books starts to come directly
from the
> card game.

<plug>
Joel Biske (a member of the FASA art dept) has commented on this on
the SRCard mailing list.
</plug>

Apparently alot of the crossover art that can be found in the
Shadowrun Companion (Lord Torgo, Fringe Surgeon, etc.) was originally
done for the SRTCG and then ended up being put into the sourcebook.

I figure the crossover art in Rigger 2 came about the same way.

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Message no. 5
From: adonis <adonis@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Easter Egg in sourcebook
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 18:03:56 -0400
> Since this is a crossover, I thought I'd post it to both mailing lists.
>
> I was wondering if any others that play both the SRRPG and the SRTCG
> noticed a little Easter Egg in the artwork on page 132 of the new
> Rigger 2 sourcebook.
>
> Check out the computer screen, it reads as follows:
>
> WEAPON SYSTEMS
> INSTALLATION SUCCESSFUL
> RIGGER INTERFACE 100%
> SRTCG ACTIVE
> HAVE A NICE DAY
>
> You'll probably also recognize a few familiar TCG faces on the back
> cover as well.
>
> Just thought I'd mention it. :o)
>
Yep...I actually caught that at my SR session this weekend! My GM has just
"discovered" SRTCG and we are in the process of developing house rules for
our group. So we were kinda hyped on finding it. Yeah, we think we're
kEwL!! :p ha!

SOOiCydE

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Message no. 6
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Easter Egg in sourcebook
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 12:43:28 +0100
Loki said on 12:08/20 Oct 97...

> Check out the computer screen, it reads as follows:
>
> WEAPON SYSTEMS
> INSTALLATION SUCCESSFUL
> RIGGER INTERFACE 100%
> SRTCG ACTIVE
> HAVE A NICE DAY

Yep, I noticed that one.

> You'll probably also recognize a few familiar TCG faces on the back
> cover as well.

And those too. There's also the word "FASA" on one of the office buildings
in the picture on page 63. I just hope they're not going to recycle too
much TCG artwork into the RPG, or vice-versa.

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Message no. 7
From: Max Rible <slothman@*********.ORG>
Subject: Re: Easter Egg in sourcebook
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:08:57 -0800
There's also one in the first printing of the 2nd Ed. Wizard's Grimoire that
I noticed was deliberately blurred out in a later printing that a friend
has. IIRC, it's in the section full of spells, and it depicts a wizard's
grimoire; if you've got that first printing, it contains some messages
that some parents might find objectionable in their children's gaming
material...

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Message no. 8
From: "Logan Graves <Fenris>" <logan1@*****.INTERCOM.NET>
Subject: Re: Easter Egg in sourcebook
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:39:10 -0400
In our last episode, Max Rible wrote:
>
> IIRC, it's in the section full of spells, and it depicts a wizard's
> grimoire; if you've got that first printing, it contains some messages
> that some parents might find objectionable in their children's gaming
> material...

Yes chummer it does,

I'd forgotten about that easter egg. It's a mage's journal (or
Grimmy) with a bunch of entries/notes/scribblings. It's very, very,
tiny & (nearly as I can tell) it reads as follows (GrimmyII, pg.130):

"Day 10, hi mom hi stacy hi tim [something] [something] craig and
wendy(?) etc. etc."

"Day 8, I bet its very hard to read type when it is this small"

"hmmm? very [?] interesting thingy -->" [pointing at arcane symbol]

"Day 61, We still have no f**king idea what these symbols mean. of
course we are immortal--did you know that loud music will make your
p***s grow to the size of a house! No kiddin! Lookie!--->" [points at
another arcane symbol]

[yet another arcane symbol]"<-----Blah blah blah blah blah blah"
[NEXT PAGE of Journal: large pic of demon dominated page]
"GREAT DEMONS DO EXIST ON THE PRIM MATERIAL"

"This is an example: shown here is the fearsome Kozlow-ski
demon--->"[points at demon drawing]

"Notice ow Big his loin is. He is quite a man indeed!--->" [points at
*another part* of demon]

"That's Big _real_ big!" [nearby *part*]

"Hmmm?" [next to arcane symbol on this page]


(Oh, yea, this one is signed " *MikeN 92* ") <-- Bad, Skuzzy!


--Fenris (who can't believe he actually took the time to do this)
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Message no. 9
From: Timothy Little <t_little@**********.UTAS.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Easter Egg in sourcebook
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:36:11 +1100
At 10:08 AM 10/21/97 -0800, Max wrote:

>There's also one in the first printing of the 2nd Ed. Wizard's Grimoire that
>I noticed was deliberately blurred out in a later printing that a friend
>has. IIRC, it's in the section full of spells, and it depicts a wizard's
>grimoire; if you've got that first printing, it contains some messages
>that some parents might find objectionable in their children's gaming
>material...

(I think I've got the first printing, my GM the second)

Was the writing blurred out, or blotted? Mine is very hard to read (one
might even say "blurred", but readable. My GM has the picture with a couple
of ink-blots covering up the 'objectionable' material.

Besides, what sort of parent would object to the material written in tiny
letters in one of the pictures, which isn't even too bad, when:
there's pictures of guys running around firing guns at each other,
having chunks variously cut, blown or shot off their bodies, and slopping
bits of internal gore all over the place?

Oh no! You could have a child who grows up to talk dirty, rather than be a
nice wholesome killer. What shame!

--
Little One
Message no. 10
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Easter Egg in sourcebook
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 07:31:37 -0400
In a message dated 97-10-21 14:11:46 EDT, slothman@*********.ORG writes:

>
> There's also one in the first printing of the 2nd Ed. Wizard's Grimoire
that
> I noticed was deliberately blurred out in a later printing that a friend
> has. IIRC, it's in the section full of spells, and it depicts a wizard's
> grimoire; if you've got that first printing, it contains some messages
> that some parents might find objectionable in their children's gaming
> material...
>
"Notice how big his loin is, his a big man indeed..." Yep, remember it all
really well.

-K
Message no. 11
From: Jod <chatin@*******.NL>
Subject: Re: Easter Egg in sourcebook
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:33:24 +0100
<<SNIPPA!>>
>Besides, what sort of parent would object to the material written in tiny
>letters in one of the pictures, which isn't even too bad, when:
>there's pictures of guys running around firing guns at each other,
>having chunks variously cut, blown or shot off their bodies, and slopping
>bits of internal gore all over the place?
>
>Oh no! You could have a child who grows up to talk dirty, rather than be a
>nice wholesome killer. What shame!

Stupid indeed.... it happens in most things though, take video games for
instance. 'Soulblade', for the Playstation. One-on-one fighting game, the
characters have weapons, and they beat the snot out of eachother. Now, one
of these fighters has nunchuckas. (sp?). Some guys of the censuring-comitee
can't handle this, so they change it to three chained sticks (Which is a
real weapon to, 'though I can't remember the name right now.), but the 'guv
fighting with a huge two-handed axe is okay? I ask you.....

Strange thing, censorship...

CU'round,

Jod
chatin@*******.nl
Message no. 12
From: Bredget Stroud <bstroud@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Easter Egg in sourcebook
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:21:30 -0700
Jod wrote:

>Some guys of the censuring-comitee
>can't handle this, so they change it to three chained sticks (Which is
a
>real weapon to, 'though I can't remember the name right now.),

It is a 3 Section Staff. Believe me, it can do more damage than the
nunchukas...

BTW, did you know that spellchecker's suggested spelling for Jod is God?
hehehe

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