| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Shannon Buys) |
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| Subject: | Food Fight and weird NPC's |
| Date: | Thu Jun 13 05:05:03 2002 |
something, let me explain.
Food Fight. Everyone's played it. Most liked it. I've run it so many times
for newbies I can run it without the book by now. Anyway, one of the first
times I ran it, the NPC Static (big older looking guy that finds inanimate
objects nicer and friendlier than people) got confused and ended up being
the last one of the gang left. The PC's in a stroke of strange and unnatural
compassion decided not to kill him in cold blood and even felt sorry for
him, took him in and looked after him.
He now loyaly follows the streetmage around and has become everyone's
favourite NPC in one of my longterm games. (Difficult to communicate with
due to a severe Schitzotypal disorder numerous other phsycological
screwups.) The Mage (his owner/caretaker). Has taken to trying to dig up his
past and find out exactly where he came from.
Anyway, reading through his stats again in Food Fight, I noticed he had
Datajacks (plugged) computer skill (reduced) and basically just skills and
cyberware that the other cannon fodder didn't have.
His age (he seems quite a lot older than the other gangers, which I gauged
at between 50 and 65 - Hey, you can do alot with modern bio, cyber and
cosmetic surgery)
Anyway, His age and cyber and stuff just whispers something in the back of
my mind ...Hmm, Echo Mirage?
I now wonder if the writer of Food Fight somehow put just a little something
extra into Static, just for the hell of it?
Ideas?
