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Message no. 1
From: zebulingod@*******.net (zebulingod)
Subject: Need a new run idea (WAS: SRd20: Increase my vocabulary)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:10:04 -0800
Timothy J. Lanza wrote on Friday, April 02, 2004 11:03 AM:

>
> In the cyberpunk context, it is a particular type of
> prostitution and/or sexual slavery. In Shadowrun, it is
> accomplished via personafix BTLs. For the duration of the
> "session" the woman /is/ somebody else - schoolgirl, athlete,
> wild animal, dominatrix, whatever.
>


Now this sounds interesting. Hmmm... Anyone use this in their games to form
the basis of a run? I'm not sure I can come up with something that isn't
just a "sideline" element using it. Maybe, though, I just need more coffee.
Any ideas?

Zebulin


"Per Ardua ad Astra"
Message no. 2
From: tjlanza@************.com (Timothy J. Lanza)
Subject: Need a new run idea (WAS: SRd20: Increase my vocabulary)
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 14:23:04 -0500
At 02:10 PM 4/2/2004, zebulingod wrote:
>Timothy J. Lanza wrote on Friday, April 02, 2004 11:03 AM:
>
> > In the cyberpunk context, it is a particular type of
> > prostitution and/or sexual slavery. In Shadowrun, it is
> > accomplished via personafix BTLs. For the duration of the
> > "session" the woman /is/ somebody else - schoolgirl, athlete,
> > wild animal, dominatrix, whatever.
>
>Now this sounds interesting. Hmmm... Anyone use this in their games to form
>the basis of a run? I'm not sure I can come up with something that isn't
>just a "sideline" element using it. Maybe, though, I just need more coffee.
>Any ideas?

Not as a run, no... I based an entire character around it.

She escaped from the a bunraku parlour in CFS during a police action, and
ran to Denver. She fell in with the shadow community there, eventually
becoming a decker. They found her there and torched her apartment complex,
causing her to move on to Seattle.

This particular bunraku parlour was real mean-spiritied, as they put in a
Full-X simrig and recorded your body-impressions with the personafix's
emotional track... Then played it back at you. Real gut wrenching,
psyche-busting stuff.

Anyway, she had the Hunted Flaw because she sold off the simrig in Denver.
It's a very expensive piece of hardware, and they wanted it "paid for"...
with or without one of their star performers alive.

--
Timothy J. Lanza
"When we can't dream any longer, we die." - Emma Goldman

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