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Message no. 1
From: chaos@*****.com (Steven Ratkovich)
Subject: Election Day and Bug Spoliers...:)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 23:35:03 -0500 (EST)
>> Hi there!
>Greetings

Hiya:)

>Yes, I allow limited usage in tactical situations or high security/high
>threat areas. I also use them to patrol the CZ in Chicago. Having said
>that I also have ED-209 units roaming in some areas.
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>> I'm planning on using them in my PBeM game (I run it on a local BBS)
>> inspired by the fact that the bugs have broken out in Chicago and Ares
>They have???? Hadn't noticed.
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If you aren't too heavily involved in a bug campaign, or you run, I'll tell
you what I know... Otrherwise it's a major spoilr...:)
Ok, here ya go...:)

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Ok, here ya go... Remember, this is from a players perspective...:)

In Super Tuesday and Maybe the next book, can't think of the name off hand,
we ran two connected adventures involving General Yeats and Anne Penchyk.

The first involved us going back into Chicago with Anne to find her brother,
along with another woman. Turns out it was all a ruse by this second woman
to get Anne into the CZ. Mara,. this other girl, happens to be a Mantis,
and they want to turn Anne into one and then get her back out so that they'd
have a Mantis in the White House, if she won...

Well, we puit a stop to that, and parted on good terms with Anne. Well, a
month later, we get a call asking if we want a job. If we're interested,
meet Mr. Johnson in teh penthouse of this building. Ok, we head there, and
what do we find in the room? General yeats, with most of his unternal
organs ripped out. Nice... their goes my candidate.

Well, we do some digging and tracking, and finally end up tracking down the
fixer who set this up, and lo and behold, we meet Anne along with Vixen, aka
Adrienne, who used to be and kinda still is Johnny's wife (my partner, a
coyote shaman), who we are on good terms with, sort of. Well, it turns out
that Adrienne has struck a deal with Anne to fight the bugs that are outside
Chicago.

Wait a minute, I exclaim. What Bugs?!?!?!? They're are supposedly bug
hives outside Chicago setting up shop similar to the way they did the United
Brotherhood, although without the exposure and the mistakes they made
before. this time, they are really working in secret, and Yeats was one of
them, a wasp to be precise...

Anne isn't a bug, as far as anybody knows, including our GM, cause the books
haven't said. She is working with the Mantid, though...

Now, I will say this... this is from a players perspective. Other than
Dunk's Will, I haven't been allowed to actually read any of the election
stuff, because we're still using some of it. And my GM, Steve Tinner, is
known for changing things immensly, so if I'm wrong about something or
missed something completely, that's why...:)

That's my take on it all...:)

CYA:)


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"You do more damage out of simple irritation than most
men can do in a towering rage."
-David Eddings, "Demon Lord of Karanda
Message no. 2
From: bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject: Re: Election Day and Bug Spoliers...:)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 23:39:35 -0500 (EST)
>Now, I will say this... this is from a players perspective. Other than
>Dunk's Will, I haven't been allowed to actually read any of the election
>stuff, because we're still using some of it. And my GM, Steve Tinner, is
>known for changing things immensly, so if I'm wrong about something or
>missed something completely, that's why...:)

Actually aside from the personal stuff about Johnny's wives, you pretty much
got everything AFAIK.
Message no. 3
From: Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net>
Subject: Re: Election Day and Bug Spoliers...:)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:12:23 -0500
At 11:35 PM 9/25/96 -0500, you wrote:
>If you aren't too heavily involved in a bug campaign, or you run, I'll tell
>you what I know... Otrherwise it's a major spoilr...:)
> Ok, here ya go...:)
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>Ok, here ya go... Remember, this is from a players perspective...:)

>Wait a minute, I exclaim. What Bugs?!?!?!? They're are supposedly bug
>hives outside Chicago setting up shop similar to the way they did the United
>Brotherhood, although without the exposure and the mistakes they made
>before. this time, they are really working in secret, and Yeats was one of
>them, a wasp to be precise...

Well, the Chicago Bug Hive was supposed to be the largest hive in North
America, leading one to believe that there are smaller hives in other
cities, and possibly larger hives still on other continents. Hey Sascha,
you're GMing a German-based game, right? And Joker is basing his in
Australia, eh? (I just know Lady Jestyr is going to hate me for that :)

And what if the Universal Brotherhood was only one way that the Insect
Spirits were invading? Hmmm. I'd worry. What if there were other groups
being formed that did the same thing as the UB? What if they were operating
in Dallas, CAS, where my campaign is based? What if Bill Ashe ignores my
requests not to read anything with spoilers on the ShadowRN Mailing List and
sees this? What if I'm just making Bill paranoid?
-Thomas Deeny
the Cartoonist at large is on the web at www2.cy-net.net/~fauxpas

I hate insomnia.
Message no. 4
From: bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject: Re: Election Day and Bug Spoliers...:)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 01:32:14 -0500 (EST)
>What if Bill Ashe ignores my requests not to read anything with spoilers on
the >ShadowRN Mailing List and sees this? What if I'm just making Bill
paranoid?

Then I'd say old Bill is in for one heck of a well deserved scare! :-)



ADDITION TO STEVE TINNER'S FAMOUS LAST WORDS:
"Hey...that bird's flying straight at the window...."
"Come and look at this guys! Don't worry...he won't get through..."


With many thanks to Hamish, the death by rhino Scot

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