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Message no. 1
From: tkerby@***.net (Tim Kerby)
Subject: Exotic Metas
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 96 14:15:28 EDT
I just started the novel "Just Compensation" by Robert Charrette. So
far so good, but something I just read raised a question. Here is a
quote from pg. 44:
"The people who debarked were a wild mix of heights, weights, and
builds, but almost all were norms. Tom only saw three elves, and a
dwarf; no goblin metatypes, or exotics."

Can anyone tell me what exotic metatypes are? Never heard of them.


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Message no. 2
From: Pete Sims <petesims@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Exotic Metas
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 20:06:14 +0100
In article <199610061810.SAA126598@*****.ny.us.ibm.net>, Tim Kerby
<tkerby@***.net> writes
>I just started the novel "Just Compensation" by Robert Charrette. So
>far so good, but something I just read raised a question. Here is a
>quote from pg. 44:
>"The people who debarked were a wild mix of heights, weights, and
>builds, but almost all were norms. Tom only saw three elves, and a
>dwarf; no goblin metatypes, or exotics."
>
>Can anyone tell me what exotic metatypes are? Never heard of them.
>
Not exotic metatypes, exotics, multi racial, awakened, magically aware,
oriental. Exotics.

You can have exotic metatypes, as in Japanese elf, etc. but I don't
think this is what he was implying in the book, specifically non-
mundanes, hence the comment, "almost all were norms". :)

Pete
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Message no. 3
From: GRANITE <granite@**.net>
Subject: Re: Exotic Metas
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 16:27:23 -0700
Tim Kerby wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what exotic metatypes are? Never heard of them.
>

They were probably talking about stuff like vampires, dragons and the
like..those you don't see everyday..Well unless you run the shadows of
course...
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Message no. 4
From: RAY MACEY <r.macey@*******.qut.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Exotic Metas
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 10:36:19 +1000 (EST)
On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Tim Kerby wrote:

> I just started the novel "Just Compensation" by Robert Charrette. So
> far so good, but something I just read raised a question. Here is a
> quote from pg. 44:
> "The people who debarked were a wild mix of heights, weights, and
> builds, but almost all were norms. Tom only saw three elves, and a
> dwarf; no goblin metatypes, or exotics."
>
> Can anyone tell me what exotic metatypes are? Never heard of them.

Things like Sasquathches(sp?) and the like. Though, they aren't actually
Metahumans. I guess maybe Ghouls?


Ray.

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Message no. 5
From: "Loki" <loki@*******.com>
Subject: Re: Exotic Metas
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 23:23:09 -0700
> >"The people who debarked were a wild mix of heights, weights, and
> >builds, but almost all were norms. Tom only saw three elves, and a
> >dwarf; no goblin metatypes, or exotics."
> >
> >Can anyone tell me what exotic metatypes are? Never heard of them.
> >
> Not exotic metatypes, exotics, multi racial, awakened, magically aware,
> oriental. Exotics.
>
> You can have exotic metatypes, as in Japanese elf, etc. but I don't
> think this is what he was implying in the book, specifically non-
> mundanes, hence the comment, "almost all were norms". :)

Does bring up a similar question. In the sourcebooks, when they give the
population vitals the always list the percentages as: Human xx%, Elf xx%,
Dwarf, xx%, Ork xx%, Troll xx%, Other xx%.

What the frag is included in the Other besides sasquatch, and the
occasional Free Spirit or Dragon that they can identify? Enquiring minds
would like to know...

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Message no. 6
From: chaos@*****.com (Steven Ratkovich)
Subject: Re: Exotic Metas
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 02:51:00 -0500 (EST)
>Does bring up a similar question. In the sourcebooks, when they give the
>population vitals the always list the percentages as: Human xx%, Elf xx%,
>Dwarf, xx%, Ork xx%, Troll xx%, Other xx%.
>
>What the frag is included in the Other besides sasquatch, and the
>occasional Free Spirit or Dragon that they can identify? Enquiring minds
>would like to know...
>
Ummm, I would say Vampires, Were-Creatures, Ghouls, and other Non-officially
recognized sentient races...:) And of course, bugs...:)



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Message no. 7
From: "Sascha Pabst" <Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
Subject: Re: Exotic Metas
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 21:42:45 +0000
On 6 Oct 96 at 23:23, Loki wrote:

> Does bring up a similar question. In the sourcebooks, when they give the
> population vitals the always list the percentages as: Human xx%, Elf xx%,
> Dwarf, xx%, Ork xx%, Troll xx%, Other xx%.

> What the frag is included in the Other besides sasquatch, and the
> occasional Free Spirit or Dragon that they can identify? Enquiring minds
> would like to know...
What about Ghouls? Were... err, Shapeshifters?

Sascha
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Message no. 8
From: Pete Sims <petesims@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Exotic Metas
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 01:57:58 +0100
In article <m0vALZI-0004wbC@*******.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>, Sascha
Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> writes
>On 6 Oct 96 at 23:23, Loki wrote:
>
>> Does bring up a similar question. In the sourcebooks, when they give the
>> population vitals the always list the percentages as: Human xx%, Elf xx%,
>> Dwarf, xx%, Ork xx%, Troll xx%, Other xx%.
>
>> What the frag is included in the Other besides sasquatch, and the
>> occasional Free Spirit or Dragon that they can identify? Enquiring minds
>> would like to know...
>What about Ghouls? Were... err, Shapeshifters?
>
> Sascha

Do you often answer you're own posts Sascha ???

Pete
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Message no. 9
From: Pete Sims <petesims@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Exotic Metas
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 01:57:10 +0100
In article <199610070751.CAA10349@***.ncweb.com>, Steven Ratkovich
<chaos@*****.com> writes
>>Does bring up a similar question. In the sourcebooks, when they give the
>>population vitals the always list the percentages as: Human xx%, Elf xx%,
>>Dwarf, xx%, Ork xx%, Troll xx%, Other xx%.
>>
>>What the frag is included in the Other besides sasquatch, and the
>>occasional Free Spirit or Dragon that they can identify? Enquiring minds
>>would like to know...
>>
>Ummm, I would say Vampires, Were-Creatures, Ghouls, and other Non-officially
>recognized sentient races...:) And of course, bugs...:)

Have you got a *thing* for Bugs Steve, I mean there is this ongoing
mentioning from you in nearly every post about Bugs. I keep trying to
tell you, they *aren't* the real threat, they are merely a powerful
distraction from the true threat to mankind, and no it's not *really*
the horrors either. :)

Please, please contact my friend at Aztechnology (Prof. Jose) he
*really* can help :) :) :)

Pete
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Heroes or Fools? That's a determination others will make in hindsight. But by
being here now, we make that determination for ourselves, and it's neither.
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Message no. 10
From: "Mark Steedman" <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Exotic Metas
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:36:05 GMT
> From: "Loki" <loki@*******.com>
>
> > >Can anyone tell me what exotic metatypes are? Never heard of them.
> > >
>
> Does bring up a similar question. In the sourcebooks, when they give the
> population vitals the always list the percentages as: Human xx%, Elf xx%,
> Dwarf, xx%, Ork xx%, Troll xx%, Other xx%.
>
> What the frag is included in the Other besides sasquatch, and the
> occasional Free Spirit or Dragon that they can identify? Enquiring minds
> would like to know...
>
Sasquatch's
Wendigo, vampire, banshee, kobold, dooz-na-qa, nosforatu, etc.
Ghouls : probably the majority
free spirits and dragons etc.
sprite (windling in ED)
Zombies.

Note it is possible to goblinize into a Ghoul,
i'm not so sure about sasquatch

There are probably more.
Ogre and minatour might also be in this rather than the orc/troll
listings at least in the USA as they are not common there.

Mark

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