Message no. 1

From:	Strago strago@***.com
Subject:	Shadowrun movie - My idea
Date:	Mon, 22 May 2000 11:26:18 -0400

Allen Versfeld wrote:

> <SNIP>
> A reason (assuming you're talking about a reason for the awakening)
> should be simple enough - just go on about ancient prophecies predicting
> the ebb and fall of magic, chuck in a reference to the (insert ancient
> civilisation - mayan, wasn't it?). Perhaps it could start in a lecture
> room at MIT&M, with professor-by-day-shadowrunner-by-night type
> explaining history of the awakened world to bored students.
>

OK, so, here we go. Picking apart all of these points. Yippee! I feel like Doc'.
I thought he (Simon) was talking about the reason for goblinization. Wasn't there
a virus of some sort which struck? A magical virus, maybe? My book's at home so I
can't check.
As for the magic, Yes, it was Mayan. Here's what I'm thinking about for the fade
in shot:

FADE IN ON:
Black screen. Words appear in the center as if by magic [Really, they just are not
on the frames and then they are on the frames]:
The Mayan Civilization believed that every five thousand years a new Age of
Mankind would begin.
2011 was the year everything started to change. The Fifth Age was ended. Now
it is the Sixth Age.
The words shimmer and reform and multiply:
The year is 2060. [And here's the paragraph with the Magic has returned . . .
speech]
The words disappear [Same trick as before].

FADE IN ON:
It is nighttime. There is a building, an apartment complex it looks like, lit up
in front of the camera. There is a sign on the door: Yametesu. The camera travels
into the building to a security desk. An OFFICER is observing the monitors in the
desk. There are five shadows climbing out of a van. The OFFICER stands.

And we go from there. It's your standard action sequence/first run (I usually
start the campaign off with an easy run just to get the players fired up.) Go in,
get the scientist, get his data, get out. THEN the movie starts. I haven't got a
plot yet, though. I'm working on it.
<SNIP>
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--Strago

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