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Message no. 1
From: Max Rible <slothman@*********.ORG>
Subject: Re: NERPS (was Re: I LOVE FASA!)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:09:19 -0800
At 11:21 12/11/97 -0800, Matb wrote:
>> What is a NERPS in this case? Is there a picture? (I've always figured that
>> NERPS is a massage oil and lubricant with a sweet taste that contains some
>> mild mood elevation drugs...)

>NERPS in this case refers to a specific card for the Shadowrun Trading
>Card Game (a promotional card previously only given away at Gencon).

Cool. Could someone E-mail me or post information about the card (any
descriptive text or descriptions of pictures), or where I could find such info?
I've been curious for some time as to what FASA thinks NERPS are (other than
Nothing Ever Really Pleases Steve/Scott).

>"Mild" mood drugs? I always assumed they were more powerful than
>that...

They seemed closer to "soma" than to some of the moer powerful euphorics...
given the advertising (and the fact that a child has one in one of the modules--
the kidnap-the-kid-in-Denver one...).

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Message no. 2
From: Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject: Re: NERPS (was Re: I LOVE FASA!)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 12:00:01 -0800
> >> What is a NERPS in this case? Is there a picture? (I've always figured
that
> >> NERPS is a massage oil and lubricant with a sweet taste that contains some
> >> mild mood elevation drugs...)

> >NERPS in this case refers to a specific card for the Shadowrun Trading
> >Card Game (a promotional card previously only given away at Gencon).

> Cool. Could someone E-mail me or post information about the card (any
> descriptive text or descriptions of pictures), or where I could find such info?
> I've been curious for some time as to what FASA thinks NERPS are (other than
> Nothing Ever Really Pleases Steve/Scott).

Well, the card itself isn't very helpful -- a silver-purplish disk in
front of a blazing, sun-like corona; emblazoned on the disk itself is a
big green-blue "N". More like a corporate logo than anything else.

Hmm. Weren't NERPS mentioned in the London sourcebook?



-Mb

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