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Message no. 1
From: "Ratinac, Rand (NSW)" <RRatinac@*****.REDCROSS.ORG.AU>
Subject: Fogey Runners (was RE: [OT] Re: Underworld)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:09:54 +1000
> >Okay, that "Pat-Like" remark went WAY over my head. And the reason
> the
> >picture sucks is because it was taken by a pretty cruddy digital
> camera
> >in a dark computer lab about...oh hell, three or four years back now.
>
> Pat was a character on Saturday Night Live who was, well, the question
> of many "Is that a guy or a girl?" questions. I think after they
> milked the sketch for all it was worth and turned it into a movie, Pat
> turned out to be male, but I turned it off after about 30 minutes..
> :-)
>
> -Adam
> Who hears those questions too. Can't guys have long hair if they
> aren't in a metal band? :P
>
Short answer, Adam?

No.

Not without the inevitable question/s being asked.

Actually, I once had a ponytail.

No, really. In fact, if you could see the back of me in that picture,
you'd notice it.

Of course, I cut it off at the start of last year when I calculated that
with the amount of hair I was pulling out, I was going to be bald by the
age of 25.

So, now I wont be bald. Instead I'll be grey.

I have got the darkest black hair you'll ever see (with white highlights
- imagine that) - and I started getting my first white hairs when I was
20. In another year I'll have grey streaks all the way through. Can you
imagine what that'd do to my image - if I had one?

There's an interesting thought. What happens to old and grey runners? I
mean, unless you've killed off all your enemies, they'll still be
around. And unless you have the money for Leonisation, you'll be slowly
down dramatically. Do you retire your runners after a certain period of
time or after making a certain amount of karma/money? Has anyone ever
played an 'old fogies' runner campaign?

Hmmm...old fogey deckers (Fastjack, perhaps?) and maybe mages and
riggers, paired with up-and-coming street sammies. ("Listen, boy, when I
was your age, we respected our elders. We said 'please' before we mugged
them and 'thank you' afterwards. I don't know WHAT this world is coming
to.")

*Doc' starts dreaming up ideas for a walking frame minigun and a
wheelchair assault cannon. Armoured electric wheelchairs, anyone?*

Doc'

.sig Sauer
Message no. 2
From: Anders Swenson <anders@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Fogey Runners (was RE: [OT] Re: Underworld)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 18:08:19 -0800
Ratinac, Rand (NSW) wrote:
......

> *Doc' starts dreaming up ideas for a walking frame minigun and a
> wheelchair assault cannon. Armoured electric wheelchairs, anyone?*

--Anders remembers tales of a friend's CoC investigator named Sandy Peterson
who had 98% Mythos knowledge and a shuggoth prod mounted in each armrest of
his wheelchair...
Message no. 3
From: Mike Bobroff <Airwasp@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Fogey Runners (was RE: [OT] Re: Underworld)
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 09:37:04 EST
In a message dated 12/25/98, 1:38:35 AM, SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET writes:
<<> *Doc' starts dreaming up ideas for a walking frame minigun and a
> wheelchair assault cannon. Armoured electric wheelchairs, anyone?*>>

Okay, if anyone wants truly off the wall stuff, imagine this. You and your
group are hired to go into this rich guys house, hack into his personal
computer and copy certain files. You think this is going to be somewhat of a
cakewalk run, but, when you break in, and then all of the furniture begins to
move and either attack or move away from you, you begin to think otherwise.

Yes, everybody, my rigger in the weekend game got bored with normal vehicles
somewhat one day and looked rather interestingly at the furniture in his house
and began to transform them into drones. It took a while, and I finally
sprung this stuff on my weekday group (the almost SR canon group) about two
weeks ago, and their eyes were rolling and mentioning things about stringing
my pc up if there Sunday pc's get downwind of what he has done to the
furniture. Frag, I have the pc's wife and kid as just shrugging their
shoulders and mentioning the fun they can have with him using his very own
drones against him should they ever choose to do so.

Perhaps the most dangerous room in the entire house is the kitchen, especially
the stove and the section of drawers which holds the silverware and other
various sharp objects (even dull spoons).

-Herc
Message no. 4
From: Bai Shen <baishen@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Fogey Runners (was RE: [OT] Re: Underworld)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:36:24 -0500
> *Doc' starts dreaming up ideas for a walking frame minigun and a
> wheelchair assault cannon. Armoured electric wheelchairs, anyone?*

Sounds like somethin' I heard at SciCon. We had to write our char's
greatest fears. One guys was troll riggers in wheelchairs with PAC's.
:)
--
Bai Shen
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
http://www.series2000.com/users/baishen
UIN 3543257 (Don't ask to join if you aren't going to send me anything.)

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