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Message no. 1
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Random stuff (was Re: Hokus Focus!)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:31:31 -0500
> <SCHNIPP>

> -K
> -"Just a Bastard"
> -Hoosier Hacker House
> "Children of the Kernel"
> [http://members.aol.com/hhackerh/index.html]

WOW! K, are you stressed? In just a few short minutes you've destroyed the poor
guy TWICE! But anyway, I think I've got to agree with you on this one. A
Talismongering level 15 skillsoft is kinda outta wack. If any of my players tried
to slip a level 15 skillsoft past me, I really don't know what I'd do to them.
I'd probably beat them. But then again, one of my players from my first group
tried to slip something like 10 million nuyen past me at one point (or was it 5?
Either way, it was obscene). And all I did was look at him. Serves me right for
not looking carefully at the character sheet...

--
--Strago

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder,
bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly
love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The
cuckoo clock!
-Orson Welles

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Message no. 2
From: HHackerH@***.com HHackerH@***.com
Subject: Random stuff (was Re: Hokus Focus!)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:58:00 EST
In a message dated 3/21/00 12:29:59 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
strago@***.com writes:

> WOW! K, are you stressed?

Stressed??? Me Stressed (hands shaking, voice quivering)??? What makes you
think I'm stressed??? (eyes wide open staring empty)... ;-P

>In just a few short minutes you've destroyed the
> poor
> guy TWICE! But anyway, I think I've got to agree with you on this one. A
> Talismongering level 15 skillsoft is kinda outta wack. If any of my
players
> tried
> to slip a level 15 skillsoft past me, I really don't know what I'd do to
> them.

I know what happened when one of the players here tried that on me. It was
great. I asked him where and how he got it, he explained (pointed out the
same table in the book that was used here) and I read the paragraph, bit my
tongue, and said nothing and said "Okay, you got me there."

I later had the chip functioning along the lines of a "Buy Our Products" sort
of thing. But only when his character was sleeping. He kept wondering where
all the cash was going until one of his other friends caught him doing it on
Mbay.... ;-)

> I'd probably beat them. But then again, one of my players from my first
> group
> tried to slip something like 10 million nuyen past me at one point (or was
> it 5?
> Either way, it was obscene). And all I did was look at him. Serves me
right
> for
> not looking carefully at the character sheet...

Yeah, that is the one thing I have developed a very severe distaste for.
Player alterations without GM approval is annoying. Just imagine what it is
like with up to 4 GM's though and one says "sure", and the others know
nothing of what is happening....

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-K
-"Just a Bastard"
-Hoosier Hacker House
"Children of the Kernel"
[http://members.aol.com/hhackerh/index.html]
Message no. 3
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Random stuff (was Re: Hokus Focus!)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:22:11 -0500
HHackerH@***.com wrote:

> <SNIP>

> > I'd probably beat them. But then again, one of my players from my first
> > group
> > tried to slip something like 10 million nuyen past me at one point (or was
> > it 5?
> > Either way, it was obscene). And all I did was look at him. Serves me
> right
> > for
> > not looking carefully at the character sheet...
>
> Yeah, that is the one thing I have developed a very severe distaste for.
> Player alterations without GM approval is annoying. Just imagine what it is
> like with up to 4 GM's though and one says "sure", and the others know
> nothing of what is happening....
>

That's what happened. This character had been paid by a dragon something like 15
thousand small gems for a job. Those 15.000 small gems, after converted to nuyen,
came to the 10 million nuyen. Damn Dave! Damn you to heck! ;^)

>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> -K
> -"Just a Bastard"
> -Hoosier Hacker House
> "Children of the Kernel"
> [http://members.aol.com/hhackerh/index.html]

--
--Strago

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder,
bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly
love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The
cuckoo clock!
-Orson Welles

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Message no. 4
From: Dave Mowbray dave_mowbray@*****.com
Subject: Random stuff (was Re: Hokus Focus!)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:22:32 -0500
<snip>
Strago wrote:
>
> That's what happened. This character had been paid by a
> dragon something like 15
> thousand small gems for a job. Those 15.000 small gems, after
> converted to nuyen,
> came to the 10 million nuyen. Damn Dave! Damn you to heck! ;^)

Actually, as I recall, it was a lump of solid gold wasn't it?
-Dave

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