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Message no. 1
From: Lady Jestyr <nholmes@***.edu.au>
Subject: Re: School Quality
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 96 05:12:07 -1000
>>> BTW, has anyone wondered what schools in 2055 are like, any armed guards or
>>> cyberware checkpoints? (just decided to make this relevant to the list)
>I would imagine the corporate owned ones are, for nothing else to make
>sure that some executive's ankle biter doesn't get kidnapped.
>>
>> ---Sedah Drol > > --
>> There is a FASA example in the recent Denver adventure, though i've
>> forgotten the name, picture of a kit and 4 very varied runners on the
>> front.
>It's called Divided Assaets. The kid's parents work for Ares and he gets
>lost in the shuffle of a corporate extraction and the runners have t
>figure out what to do with him. Someone hmade a list of some amusing
>things to do with him such as flat out killing him, and roasting and
>eating him. It was really sick.

That was one of the first runs our current group did - our GM hated the kid on first
reading the module, and instead of doing all th=
e mushy bits that were meant to convince us PCs to love the kids and take him along, we
kept him drugged and tied up the entire time=
!

There was one bit where there were news stories about the kid's "kidnapping" and
one reporter wanted to interview whoever was respon=
sible. We all got dressed up in balaclavas and jumpsuits (a bit like the Australian group
TISM, if anyone knows of them) and went on=
air, along with various groups of crazies that wanted to claim the credit for the crime
we'd committed. No-one took us seriously an=
d we got off scot-free! (And then we dumped the kid on the reporter at the end of the
adventure... tee hee)

Lady J
Message no. 2
From: h_laws@**********.utas.edu.au (Mad Hamish)
Subject: Re: School Quality
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 08:50:55 +1100
>There was one bit where there were news stories about the kid's
"kidnapping" and one reporter wanted to interview whoever was respon=
>sible. We all got dressed up in balaclavas and jumpsuits (a bit like the
Australian group TISM, if anyone knows of them)

Yep, a truly inspired piece of silliness. Could you imagine something
similar in Shadowrun?

> and went on=
> air, along with various groups of crazies that wanted to claim the credit
for the crime we'd committed. No-one took us seriously an=
>d we got off scot-free! (And then we dumped the kid on the reporter at the
end of the adventure... tee hee)

That is truly ridiculous

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The Politician's Slogan
'You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all
of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Fortunately only a simple majority is required.'
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Mad Hamish

Hamish Laws
h_laws@**********.sandybay.utas.edu.au
Message no. 3
From: nholmes@***.edu.au (Lady Jestyr)
Subject: Re: School Quality
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:43:22 +1000
>>There was one bit where there were news stories about the kid's
>"kidnapping" and one reporter wanted to interview whoever was respon=
>>sible. We all got dressed up in balaclavas and jumpsuits (a bit like the
>Australian group TISM, if anyone knows of them)
>
>Yep, a truly inspired piece of silliness. Could you imagine something
>similar in Shadowrun?

We do it all the time. I think it's why our GM gets a lot of migraines :)

>> and went on=
>> air, along with various groups of crazies that wanted to claim the credit
>for the crime we'd committed. No-one took us seriously an=
>>d we got off scot-free! (And then we dumped the kid on the reporter at the
>end of the adventure... tee hee)
>
>That is truly ridiculous

Hey, it worked! Compared with all the terrorist and activist groups keen to
take the credit/blame, we looked like a bunch of publicity hungry monkeys,
nothing more... (we even recorded our statement, fuzzed the voices, and
played it back at the actual interview to avoid identification... but we
played all the predicted answers in the wrong order, to the wrong
questions. I've never seen a reported so frazzled :)

____
Lady J
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1503/ The Crypt!

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