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Message no. 1
From: d m <zenbudo@*******.COM>
Subject: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:55:37 PST
It's taken me two months to clear my inbox, but I did it. :)



Regarding the bugs, did anyone watch the X-Files episode (last season, I
believe) where that one guy working at a telemarketing place was
convinced that his boss was a bug and was converting employees? No one
else could see them and thought he was nuts.



Translated to SR...perhaps he had a little...astral insight?



*delurking*



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Message no. 2
From: "Christopher M. Coulter" <kamikaze@*********.EDU>
Subject: Re: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:16:29 +0000
Mulder a physical adept or an Aspected Mage? Maybe. . .

I thought that they had to see them in a certain light.


Christopher M. Coulter
Message no. 3
From: Adam J <adamj@*********.HTML.COM>
Subject: Re: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:18:25 -0700
At 12:55 10/26/98 -0800, d m wrote:
>It's taken me two months to clear my inbox, but I did it. :)

Mine still has stuff from early October.. <g>

>Regarding the bugs, did anyone watch the X-Files episode (last season, I
>believe) where that one guy working at a telemarketing place was
>convinced that his boss was a bug and was converting employees? No one
>else could see them and thought he was nuts.
>
>Translated to SR...perhaps he had a little...astral insight?

Hadn't thought of it this way. Actually, hadn't thought of it relating to
Shadowrun at all, but it's kind of a nifty idea.

Now if I just had a group.. and time..

-Adam
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Message no. 4
From: Jett <zmjett@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:49:47 -0500
d m wrote:

> It's taken me two months to clear my inbox, but I did it. :)

Hmm. My inbox is still under seige, alas...I'll get to it eventually.


As for buggies...Ever read a comic called The Invisibles? It's a DC Vertigo
title, and it's some trippy stuff. Has a VERY Shadowrun feel to it, if you
took Shadowrun and crossed it with X-Files and just about any conspiracy
theory on the planet. Very cool stuff...they also have a story arc that's
pretty much Bug City 1998. Worth checking out, although you'll have to get
most of the issues for the storyline to really make sense.


--Jett

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occasional advice or insult."
--Jett, on being an NPC

Behold the mighty sonic scream of the Jett!

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Message no. 5
From: Matt T Ork <steelclaw@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 23:49:13 -0500
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:55:37 PST d m <zenbudo@*******.COM> writes:
>Regarding the bugs, did anyone watch the X-Files episode (last season, I
>believe) where that one guy working at a telemarketing place was
>convinced that his boss was a bug and was converting employees? No one
>else could see them and thought he was nuts.

Oooh...yeah...and the "zombies" were hosts to become other bug spirits,
possibly fleshforms? Nifty idea as to how the bugs might adapt and
evolve. Cucoons? Thanks, but no. Much too imobile. But, people who
act more or less normal until you have a wonderfully gruesome explosive
manifestation? Right on!

>Translated to SR...perhaps he had a little...astral insight?

Could be, could be. 'Course, you'd need astral sight to see 'em
Shadowrun. Otherwise it's no fun when you can look cross-eyed at your
fixer and see he's harboring a wasp spirit.

>*delurking*

Hey! Me too.

-Matt, Homo Sapiens Robustus
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Message no. 6
From: "XaOs [David Goth]" <xaos@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 03:26:11 -0600
>
> Mulder a physical adept or an Aspected Mage? Maybe. . .
>
> I thought that they had to see them in a certain light.

Not that I recall. I think it started out as a 'corner of the eye' kinda
thing. Then the fruit converted Mulder over to his way of thinking. (I'm
reminded of various psionics thingies. AD&D's ability of some/all
psionicists to try to awaken psionic talents in people. Also, I think
Kathryn Kurtz's Deryni did something similar. Perhaps as the magic level
rises?)



-XaOs-
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-David Goth-
Message no. 7
From: K in the Shadows <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:29:52 EST
In a message dated 10/27/1998 4:43:40 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
xaos@*****.NET writes:

>
> Not that I recall. I think it started out as a 'corner of the eye' kinda
> thing. Then the fruit converted Mulder over to his way of thinking. (I'm
> reminded of various psionics thingies. AD&D's ability of some/all
> psionicists to try to awaken psionic talents in people. Also, I think
> Kathryn Kurtz's Deryni did something similar. Perhaps as the magic level
> rises?)

Ah yes, the magically awesome Deryni. Admittedly, I found Kurtz' material
nicely refreshing at the time, except for this -one- player who kept trying to
have absolutely everything that T$R did as their converted material
suggestions in an earlier edition of Dragon magazine.

On that topic, and on the above paragraph, does anyone recall the name of the
ability that "turned on" an individual. I know that "Severance" is
what
turned that person off, but I can't find my notes on what turned them on.

-K (who is considering some *very* nasty Metamagical talents)
Message no. 8
From: Michael vanHulst <Schizi@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:20:37 EST
In a message dated 10/27/98 9:31:20 PM Pacific Standard Time,
Ereskanti@***.COM writes:

> On that topic, and on the above paragraph, does anyone recall the name of
the
> ability that "turned on" an individual. I know that "Severance"
is what
> turned that person off, but I can't find my notes on what turned them on.
As I recall, it was a use of Psychic Surgery
Message no. 9
From: "XaOs [David Goth]" <xaos@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:10:27 -0600
> > On that topic, and on the above paragraph, does anyone recall
> the name of
> the
> > ability that "turned on" an individual. I know that
> "Severance" is what
> > turned that person off, but I can't find my notes on what
> turned them on.
> As I recall, it was a use of Psychic Surgery

Yep, that was the AD&D ability. But the Deryni ability? (I don't recall,
myself).



-XaOs-
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-David Goth-
Message no. 10
From: "O'Mordha, Michael" <michael.omordha@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:37:32 -0800
>> > On that topic, and on the above paragraph, does anyone recall
>> the name of
>> the
>> > ability that "turned on" an individual. I know that
>> "Severance" is what
>> > turned that person off, but I can't find my notes on what
>> turned them on.
>> As I recall, it was a use of Psychic Surgery
>
>Yep, that was the AD&D ability. But the Deryni ability? (I don't recall,
>myself).

Back in the dark ages, pre-SR, in Dragon Magazine #68 (I could be off on the
issue, it was a long time ago), they came out with a 'psionic' issue. in
that issue, they listed the Deryni race, along with a redesign of the
psionicist class. Essentially, they included as part of Psychic Surgery,
the ability to allow someone to show another person how to access their own
mental powers. This ability was also covered in some of Ms. Kurtz' books.
O'Mordha (scurrying back to his hovel, half-ashamed that he still remembers
the cover from the relevent issue....)
Message no. 11
From: Michael vanHulst <Schizi@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:08:43 EST
In a message dated 10/28/98 11:37:58 AM Pacific Standard Time,
michael.omordha@*****.COM writes:

> >> As I recall, it was a use of Psychic Surgery
> >
> >Yep, that was the AD&D ability. But the Deryni ability? (I don't recall,
> >myself).
>
> Back in the dark ages, pre-SR, in Dragon Magazine #68 (I could be off on
the
> issue, it was a long time ago), they came out with a 'psionic' issue. in
> that issue, they listed the Deryni race, along with a redesign of the
> psionicist class. Essentially, they included as part of Psychic Surgery,
> the ability to allow someone to show another person how to access their own
> mental powers. This ability was also covered in some of Ms. Kurtz' books.

Actually that is the only thing I knew about the Deryni was the article in
dragon, I never read the Deryni books. So, whatever ability they used in those
books, I dunno :-)

I think I may still have the issue, buried in the pile of unused stuff in
the closet. (with more RPG's than I can name :-)
Message no. 12
From: ZenBuDo ! <zenbudo@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:18:58 PST
>From: Matt T Ork <steelclaw@****.COM>

>Subject: Re: Spare a can of Raid, chummer?

>Oooh...yeah...and the "zombies" were hosts to become other bug

>spirits, possibly fleshforms? Nifty idea as to how the bugs might

>adapt and evolve. Cucoons? Thanks, but no. Much too imobile. But,

>people who act more or less normal until you have a wonderfully

>gruesome explosive manifestation? Right on!



That's cool...! I've been trying to find a way to reintroduce the horror
of the bugs...the thought that your next-door neighbor might be one. I
need to modify the bugs a little because one or two of the players know
a little *too* much. Yah, they can roleplay not knowing, but it still
isn't the same shocked expression which I so enjoy, y'know? :)



>Could be, could be. 'Course, you'd need astral sight to see 'em

>Shadowrun. Otherwise it's no fun when you can look cross-eyed at

>your fixer and see he's harboring a wasp spirit.



Great way to start out a run. Heh heh. :)



ZenBuDo

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