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Message no. 1
From: Nexx <nexx@********.NET>
Subject: Shadowrun Math
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 11:11:15 -0500
Given that I'm likely to fail algebra this semester, I find it hard to
believe that I'm doing this post but:

X = Shadowrun
Y = Fantasy Elements (Magic, Dragons, Trolls, etc.)
Z = Cyberpunk Elements (Cyberware, Gritty Future)
A = Realism

A+Y+Z=X
A+Z=/=X

Or, to put it in ecological terms, if you take an environment and take
away all the caterpillars, you can't come back in a year and have the same
environment minus caterpillars. Everything would have to adapt to not
having its food source or what fed on it, and this would change the
environment. Would it be really similar? Most likely. Would it be the
same? No.

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Rev. Mark Hall, Bardagh
"Death by a sword lasts but a moment, but a bard's scorn lasts
forever"
aka Pope Nexx Many-Scars, PML FAQ Cop
"Discretion is the better part of honor.... and innuendo the
better part of humor."
aka Ellegon, Working at making Cannon canon
"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, mortal, for you are crunchy
and good with ketchup."
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Message no. 2
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Shadowrun Math
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 23:03:46 +0100
And verily, did Nexx hastily scribble thusly...
|X = Shadowrun
|Y = Fantasy Elements (Magic, Dragons, Trolls, etc.)
|Z = Cyberpunk Elements (Cyberware, Gritty Future)
|A = Realism
|
|A+Y+Z=X
|A+Z=/=X

You've been messing with PROLOG!
STOP IT!
:)

It can seriously damage your will to live.
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