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Message no. 1
From: Oliver Mathes <drizzt@**.TU-BERLIN.DE>
Subject: New Novel out in Germany "The Torn Country"
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 21:07:28 +0200
Hi everyone
I just picked up a copy of the new SR novel "The Torn Country" by Hans Joachim
Alpers. It is from the triology Germany in the Shadows. He is the same guy who
wrote the story in the German Sourcebook, I think.

The story for anyone interested:
Pandur a out of luck Decker is hired to steal data from Renraku.
To ensure his cooperation he is given a drug that will drive him crazy.
He pulls the run of but now someone trys to geek him. He has to escape
and stumbles over a dvarven kingdom under Germany.

Hope they translate it to english.

The Berlin Decker
Message no. 2
From: Unix_Kurs7044 <c7044@*****.RZ.UNI-REGENSBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: New Novel out in Germany "The Torn Country"
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 13:48:05 +0200
I finished reading "Das Zerrissene Land" yesterday and I have to
admit, it was better than I expected.
There are some interesting topics in it:
This decker has to flee some elven killers. The only secure place
he can think of are the long ago abandonned mining shafts where
dwarfes are living now, because everywhere he went so far the elves could track him. He
gets lucky and two dwarven mages (an old and a young one)
pick him and his friend up and they hover down the shaft in a blue
magical sphere. After descending some hundreds of meters they come
into a huge valley (underground!). The old dwarves explains this is
the dwarven Kingdom that is here since thousends of years.
Maybe we can expect some background on other metahumans and their
states (not only about elves).
Finally Walez learns he could be tracked so easily because he
was magically marked! The strings (of the spell) are cut for now,
but he does not know who played tricks on him and for what reason.
He chooses to take a new name (Pandur) and starts over again.

I don't want to bring up a new EarthDawn discussion, but seems to
me Pandur was marked by a Horror. This would also explain why he
had so much bad luck on his last four/five runs (cursed luck power
of Horrors).
The books leaves a lot of open ends, and it is just vol.1 of a
trilogy. The story continues. I guess they will translate it to
English and publish it in the US (and UK, ...), they did publish
the GermanySourceBook, too.

Mephisto, ==St.Willkofer
Message no. 3
From: Christopher Higgins <as812@*******.CARLETON.CA>
Subject: Re: New Novel out in Germany "The Torn Country"
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 12:27:02 -0400
>
>I finished reading "Das Zerrissene Land" yesterday and I have to
>admit, it was better than I expected.
Do you know if I can expect a translated edition in Canada soon?

>magical sphere. After descending some hundreds of meters they come
>into a huge valley (underground!). The old dwarves explains this is
>the dwarven Kingdom that is here since thousends of years.
>Maybe we can expect some background on other metahumans and their
>states (not only about elves).
Hear! Hear! As a regular player of elves, I must say that I'm getting
tired of these Fascist elven states! Let's see some other Metahuman
enclaves/kingdoms/countries, etc

>
>I don't want to bring up a new EarthDawn discussion, but seems to
>me Pandur was marked by a Horror. This would also explain why he
>had so much bad luck on his last four/five runs (cursed luck power
>of Horrors).
>
>Mephisto, ==St.Willkofer==
>
Although I'm certain that FASA is desperate to link its two fantasy
games, I personally would like the SR world to develop on its own without
Earthdawn influence. If I as an elf mage were attempting to produce that
marking effect, I would first design a bad luck spell (possibly Control
Manipulation or Illusion so the victim acts slightly differently or
perceives things differently in order to indirectly produce these bad
situations), bond it to a spell lock and attach it to the victim. The
spell lock should be an anklet or something because an anklet would not
only be invisible to mundanes but the victim's pant leg would cover it so
that it couldn't be seen in astral space. Finally, since a focus has an
astral link to the mage who is bonded to it, I would be able to track down my
own focus.
What do you think?
Christopher Higgins
Message no. 4
From: Ivy Ryan <ivyryan@***.ORG>
Subject: Re: New Novel out in Germany "The Torn Country"
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 16:10:42 -0700
Pandur, magical strings, and Earthdawn

Pretty obvious to me (I've read all the ED stuff, except modules) that ED
is about the 4th world. Also obvious that the Horrors are coming to the
6th world.

This book sounds like a preview. I might break my rule and buy it, if it
ever comes out in english.

Ivy

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