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Message no. 1
From: Michael Orion Jackson <orion@****.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject: Nostalgia Time
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:16:01 -0500
Do any of y'all recall the Food Fight mini-scenario in 1st
Edition? I was reading rec.games.frp.cyber and someone mentioned it...
I think that was probably the silliest SR adventure I've ever run...
Too bad FASA left it out of 2nd Edition, I think it was a great learning
tool, both for me as a GM and for my players. (Ideal instruction being
both informative and funny... :) ).
Oh well, maybe FASA will revive it in some later incarnation. (I
still think the Exploding Food table is one of the funniest things in any
of the SR books.)

Peace,
mike

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Message no. 2
From: Nexx Many-Scars <Nexx3@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Nostalgia Time
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:28:16 EDT
In a message dated 98-06-12 15:26:44 EDT, you write:

> Do any of y'all recall the Food Fight mini-scenario in 1st
> Edition? I was reading rec.games.frp.cyber and someone mentioned it...
> I think that was probably the silliest SR adventure I've ever run...
> Too bad FASA left it out of 2nd Edition, I think it was a great learning
> tool, both for me as a GM and for my players. (Ideal instruction being
> both informative and funny... :) ).
> Oh well, maybe FASA will revive it in some later incarnation. (I
> still think the Exploding Food table is one of the funniest things in any
> of the SR books.)

I love that adventure! I wish my younger brother hadn't sold his BBlB (which
was, by the time he sold it, a BBB, as in Big Beige Binder).

Nexx
Message no. 3
From: Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Nostalgia Time
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 16:33:47 -0400
At 02:16 PM 6/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
> Do any of y'all recall the Food Fight mini-scenario in 1st
>Edition? I was reading rec.games.frp.cyber and someone mentioned it...
>I think that was probably the silliest SR adventure I've ever run...
>Too bad FASA left it out of 2nd Edition, I think it was a great learning
>tool, both for me as a GM and for my players. (Ideal instruction being
>both informative and funny... :) ).
> Oh well, maybe FASA will revive it in some later incarnation. (I
>still think the Exploding Food table is one of the funniest things in any
>of the SR books.)

Heh. That was a pretty cool way little scenario. I never actually *ran*
that silly thing, it served more like a "here's how an things like combat
and a SR adventure run."

Plus, didn't it have as the "Hand of God/PC butt-savers" the same folks
that were in the original short story? Sally Tsung and Dodger and
Ghost-Who-Walks?

Speaking of which, we all know about Dodger. And Sally Tusng *I*think* has
a SR:TCG card, but what about Ghost-Who-Walks?

I always thought he was one of the baddest street sams out there, including
Kid Stealth, Hatchetman and Argent. Kid Stealth is apparently still around
(according to Stackpole's new book), Hatchetmen was turned into a
cyberzombie, Arget still posts now and again and seems to have gone merc.
But Ghost-Who-Walks seems to have dropped off the face of the earth! I
WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM!!

Sorry. A fit of nostalgia.

I don't know where my old SR1 is anymore, but I'm sure I've got it
(softcover as I recall) packed away somewhere...

BTW, the cover art for SR3 in InQuest is pretty cool. It's that same sort
of forced perspective as in Cyberpirates, but it looks pretty cool. Still
partial to Sally, Dodger and Ghost though...

Erik J.


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and Director of Activities

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Message no. 4
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: Nostalgia Time
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:57:12 -0600
At 16:33 12/06/98 -0400, you wrote:

>Plus, didn't it have as the "Hand of God/PC butt-savers" the same folks
>that were in the original short story? Sally Tsung and Dodger and
>Ghost-Who-Walks?

Just Sally, in Food Fight. (Yes, even I have a SR1 book.)

>I always thought he was one of the baddest street sams out there, including
>Kid Stealth, Hatchetman and Argent. Kid Stealth is apparently still around
>(according to Stackpole's new book), Hatchetmen was turned into a
>cyberzombie, Arget still posts now and again and seems to have gone merc.
>But Ghost-Who-Walks seems to have dropped off the face of the earth! I
>WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM!!

Old runner syndrome. He got his ass kicked and lives back at home with
Mommy. <g>

Actually, since most of the early SR personalities were characters of the
FASA staff, it may be that he "belonged" to one of the staffers that
doesn't work with FASA anymore, so he just got gracefully retired.

-Adam
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Message no. 5
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Nostalgia Time
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 13:23:49 +0100
Michael Orion Jackson said on 14:16/12 Jun 98,...

> Do any of y'all recall the Food Fight mini-scenario in 1st
> Edition? I was reading rec.games.frp.cyber and someone mentioned it...
> I think that was probably the silliest SR adventure I've ever run...

Not only do I remember it, I used it in modified for as a demo
adventure at a small con last October. The modifications
consisted of letting the players choose whether to be
shadowrunners (hired to hold the stuffer shack hostage for a few
hours), the gangers, or a news crew responding to the hostage
situation.

> Too bad FASA left it out of 2nd Edition, I think it was a great learning
> tool, both for me as a GM and for my players. (Ideal instruction being
> both informative and funny... :) ).
> Oh well, maybe FASA will revive it in some later incarnation. (I
> still think the Exploding Food table is one of the funniest things in any
> of the SR books.)

An introductory adventure would be a good thing to have in SR3,
IMHO. Although if it's of the same kind as Food Fight it might not
be the best example of how SR adventures normally go...

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Message no. 6
From: Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject: Re: Nostalgia Time
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 11:46:03 -0700
Erik Jameson wrote:

> Speaking of which, we all know about Dodger. And Sally Tusng *I*think* has
> a SR:TCG card, but what about Ghost-Who-Walks?

Sally, Ghost, Dodger, and Fastjack all have their own SRTCG cards.
Hatchetman actually has two. A few more 'name-brand' runners may appear
in the next expansion set, Corp Wars. And supposedly Maria Mercurial is
going to be a promo in the Second Run release.


- Matt

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