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Message no. 1
From: Mike Loseke <mike@***.SC.COLOSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Magic v. the World (was: shadowrun ==> earthdawn)
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 14:37:30 -0600
> Whoops! Good point. It was VITAS and VITAS-3, by the way.. HMHVV is the
> Human Metahuman Vampiric Virus, and if it started causing massive drops in
> the population we'd have a whole new string of problems. >8->

Whoops! Thanks for correcting me! I'm not real fresh on the timeline: I need
to read it agin.

> That's cool. If in your game world you want the percentage to be under 1%,
> then it's under 1%. In my game world it's slightly higher. (Or maybe the
> player characters just tend to run into an inordinately large number of
> them. Who can say?) >8->

Actually, I'd like it where you place it, I was just trying to remember what
the book said the actual number was. I'll look it up for sure this afternoon.

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