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Message no. 1
From: Deirdre M. Brooks xenya@********.com
Subject: How companies get named.
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 15:21:59 -0700
http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/11/30/naming/index.html

This stuff is real.

After reading it, I have the temptation to run a Shadowrun wherein the
PCs are hired to steal a Name Company's database only to encounter
excessive and lethal security and finally cause the CEO to break down
into tears as they take his life's work...

Blah. ;-)

--
Deird'Re M. Brooks | xenya@********.com | cam#9309026
Listowner: Aberrants_Worldwide, Fading_Suns_Games, TrinityRPG
"If you loved me, you'd all kill yourselves today."
-- Spider Jerusalem | http://www.teleport.com/~xenya
Message no. 2
From: Alfredo B Alves dghost@****.com
Subject: How companies get named.
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 17:54:57 -0500
On Sat, 13 May 2000 15:21:59 -0700 "Deirdre M. Brooks"
<xenya@********.com> writes:
>
> http://www.salon.com/media/col/shal/1999/11/30/naming/index.html
>
> This stuff is real.
>
> After reading it, I have the temptation to run a Shadowrun wherein
> the
> PCs are hired to steal a Name Company's database only to encounter
> excessive and lethal security and finally cause the CEO to break
> down
> into tears as they take his life's work...
>
> Blah. ;-)

That gives me an idea ... use news reports to give the players/PCs
insights into the repercussions of their runs.

"... little girl that was taken from protective custody Monday night was
found beaten to death earlier to today..."

--
D. Ghost
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best
- Troutman's 6th programming postulate.

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Message no. 3
From: Dennis Steinmeijer dv8@********.nl
Subject: How companies get named.
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 02:16:24 +0200
From: "Alfredo B Alves" <dghost@****.com>
> That gives me an idea ... use news reports to give the players/PCs
> insights into the repercussions of their runs.
>
> "... little girl that was taken from protective custody Monday night was
> found beaten to death earlier to today..."

I've been doing that since I started GMing. It works rather well, especially
to get people in the mood and make them remember what they did during last
week's session. That's why I use it right at the start. It's also a good way
to inform players of what's happening around them, events that shape the
world.

I use the three newsreporters that used to feature in the Spawn comic and
have them make comments about the same subject but from three different
points of view. One is a CNN type woman, straightforward and factual. The
second is a poshy fop of a newsanchor that has a tends to say what he is
said to say, he changes his mind radically at the suggestion of the media
spin-doctors, he's sort of the "voice of the people", voicing the most
commonly accepted theories and opinions.
The third is a tough as nails, overweight, conspiracy theorist that anchors
for the shadowrunners and people keeping their ear to the underground.

For those who would like to see one or several copies of the newsreports
I've made, mail me privately and I'll mail them to you.

Regards,

DV8

"Abashed the Devil stood, and felt how awful Goodness is,..."
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
Message no. 4
From: Deirdre M. Brooks xenya@********.com
Subject: How companies get named.
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 17:40:29 -0700
Dennis Steinmeijer wrote:
>
> For those who would like to see one or several copies of the newsreports
> I've made, mail me privately and I'll mail them to you.

I've seriously considered using a Spider Jerusalem-esque reporter - he'd
fit right into Shadowrun, I think.

--
Deird'Re M. Brooks | xenya@********.com | cam#9309026
Listowner: Aberrants_Worldwide, Fading_Suns_Games, TrinityRPG
"If you loved me, you'd all kill yourselves today."
-- Spider Jerusalem | http://www.teleport.com/~xenya

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