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Message no. 1
From: Dave Mowbray dave_mowbray@*****.com
Subject: Renraku ark and chicago
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:32:53 -0500
Can anyone tell me a good source to get info on the Renraku arcology and the
night it went down?

Any information regarding bug spirits would also be helpful. For instance,
can a bug spirit be harmed with normal weapons? I'm not too clear on that...

If anyone has a particularly nasty bug spirit that they'd let me use in a
game I'd apprecaite that too...

Thanks!
-Dave
Message no. 2
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Renraku ark and chicago
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:34:35 -0500
Dave Mowbray wrote:

> Can anyone tell me a good source to get info on the Renraku arcology and the
> night it went down?
>

Well, besides the Renraku Arcology: Shutdown sourcebook? :^P I don't know. I
think that the SR3 has some info. If you need more, send me a private mail and
I'll answer any specific questions you might have.

>
> Any information regarding bug spirits would also be helpful. For instance,
> can a bug spirit be harmed with normal weapons? I'm not too clear on that...
>

According to MITS, True-Form Insect Spirits (the ones that aren't in a host) are
just like normal spirits, which have protection against normal weapons.
Flesh-form Insect Spirits (the ones in a host) do not have armor, but may wear
regular armor. And Flesh-Form Soldier spirits (one of the two types) have mental
attributes equal to the Force of the spirit, and physical Attributes equal to
the host body's attributes plus the spirit's Force (page 128, MITS). So yes,
they can be killed by normal weapons.

>
> If anyone has a particularly nasty bug spirit that they'd let me use in a
> game I'd apprecaite that too...
>

Ant Spirits are the worst, they don't work alone. Four or Five Ant soldier
spirits would be nasty to have to deal with.

>
> Thanks!
> -Dave

Glad I'm not around and going to miss this game, :^)
--
--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. 3
From: Archimage4@***.com Archimage4@***.com
Subject: Renraku ark and chicago
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:31:56 EST
Dave spake thusly:

>Can anyone tell me a good source to get info on the Renraku arcology and
>the night it went down?
>Any information regarding bug spirits would also be helpful. For instance,
>can a bug spirit be harmed with normal weapons? I'm not too clear on that...
>If anyone has a particularly nasty bug spirit that they'd let me use in
>a game I'd apprecaite that too...
>

Wuh?! Arcology? Bug spirits?! NOOOOOOO! BAD GM! BAD GM!

PLEEEEASE don't incinerate your poor, helpless players! :-(

-- The Archimage
Message no. 4
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: Renraku ark and chicago
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:40:54 -0500
Archimage4@***.com wrote:

> Dave spake thusly:
>
> >Can anyone tell me a good source to get info on the Renraku arcology and
> >the night it went down?
> >Any information regarding bug spirits would also be helpful. For instance,
> >can a bug spirit be harmed with normal weapons? I'm not too clear on that...
> >If anyone has a particularly nasty bug spirit that they'd let me use in
> >a game I'd apprecaite that too...
> >
>
> Wuh?! Arcology? Bug spirits?! NOOOOOOO! BAD GM! BAD GM!
>
> PLEEEEASE don't incinerate your poor, helpless players! :-(
>
> -- The Archimage

Oh don't worry Squints. I know all about it. Just sit there and repeat the words
"this isn't happening . . . this isn't happening. . . it's just a game . . . "
while rocking back and forth. And might I remind you of that fragging little girl
who could Mind Rape people? Remember another thing as well: how many times has
one of our characters died? Huh? Even the "Super Squints" incident didn't result
in death (those three times or so, IIRC) even though they SHOULD (all three
times).
Message no. 5
From: Archimage4@***.com Archimage4@***.com
Subject: Renraku ark and chicago
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:49:33 EST
Strago spake thusly:

>Oh don't worry Squints. I know all about it. Just sit there and repeat
>the words "this isn't happening . . . this isn't happening. . . it's just a
game
>. . . " while rocking back and forth. And might I remind you of that
fragging little
>girl who could Mind Rape people? Remember another thing as well: how many
times
>has one of our characters died? Huh? Even the "Super Squints" incident
didn't
>result in death (those three times or so, IIRC) even though they SHOULD (all
three
>times).

Oh, you don't know if a Mind Rape is what she did. And I'm not telling you
what she did (MWAHAHA). And my comments were meant as a joke. True, he's
never killed any of us. He just makes our character WANT to die! :-)

And I admit the "Super Squints" incidents (getting hit by napalm while flying
down an alley in a motorbike, getting 7 blasts of full auto in the chest, and
getting another 6 blasts of full auto in the chest, all to the same character
in the same campaign!) should have killed the character many times over. I
have never underestimated "the Hand of the GM" since.

--The Archimage
Message no. 6
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Renraku ark and chicago
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:05:52 +0100
According to Dave Mowbray, at 9:32 on 16 Mar 00, the word on the street
was...

> Can anyone tell me a good source to get info on the Renraku arcology and the
> night it went down?

The FASA-published book Renraku Arcology: Shutdown (#7328) should provide
the information you're after...

> Any information regarding bug spirits would also be helpful. For instance,
> can a bug spirit be harmed with normal weapons? I'm not too clear on that...

As they are spirits, true forms have Immunity to Normal Weapons power when
materialized, which means they get armor equal to twice their Essence
against attacks, and attacks with a Power Level less than twice the
Essence cause no damage at all... As if that's not bad enough, they get
physical armor, too.

Take, for instance, a Force 4 male or mother beetle spirit. This nice
little critter will get 8 points of armor from its shell, and 8 points
from its ItNW power. Net result: ballistic/impact armor 16/16, and any
attack with a Power Level of less than 8 will bounce off with no effect
whatsoever.

> If anyone has a particularly nasty bug spirit that they'd let me use in a
> game I'd apprecaite that too...

Just look in Bug City or MITS and choose an insect spirit with a Force of
4 to 6. Inexperienced players can get absolutely slaughtered by a single
Force 4 mantid female, for example (experienced players will know to run
away when they encounter one :) so you may want to be careful exactly what
you inflict on your PCs...

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