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Message no. 1
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: [SR2] Some questions
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 22:15:16 -0400 (EDT)
At 12:48 AM 7/8/96 -0500, Mark wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Wynd wrote:

>What I meant by this was doing the legwork and spending the cash to
>'befriend' people, essentially making them contacts. Our gaming group's
>really into this; being real friendly to everyone (except those Humanis
>scum) to nurture them as fonts of information later. Also, when you use
>contacts in the game, do they give you information for free? I make the
>PCs pay for information they get from them. Buddies are a different
>story, but everyone else is looking out for number uno, not the PCs.

That's how I try to do it. It's hard having to give your reporter
contact exclusives on your run whenever I try to get info from her...

>Introducing the The Dry cleaning Contact! Slip him an extra few
>(accidentally leaving a credstick in the pocket works great) and he'll
>forget all about those metal plates.

Isn't that what fixers are for?
(Pulp Fiction joke)

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