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Message no. 1
From: Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net>
Subject: SR: Critter Question
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 00:32:37 -0500
Hey BILL ASHE, don't read this thread. We're discussing some info for our
next game session. That means you too, LANDON GREGORY. Same goes for the wife.
Message no. 2
From: Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net>
Subject: SR: Critter Question
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 00:39:12 -0500
Well that was easy. It looks like nobody else would be able to read that
last message. Let's try again.

>Hey BILL ASHE, don't read this thread. We're discussing some info for our
next game session. That means you too, LANDON GREGORY. Same goes for the wife.
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>Now that I've gotten rid of my players...
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>Our next adventure involves ghouls. Does anyone have any info on what the
bounty is for ghouls (in the CAS, if there is a bounty)? Anyone know the
approximate fines and possible imprisonment time for assisting a pack of
ghouls? By pack, I mean about 16 or so.
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>[and is it just me, or are there about five different threads called
"Killing in Shadowrun"?]
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>Thanks!
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-Thomas Deeny
Cartoonist At Large

"Maybe, just maybe, my boys'll hold 'em off. And maybe I'm a Chinese test
pilot."
-Ash, _[Bruce Campbell vs.] The Army Of Darkness_
Message no. 3
From: melchar@****.darkside.com (Melchar)
Subject: Re: SR: Critter Question
Date: Wed, 22 May 96 11:58:39 PDT
Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net> writes:

> Well that was easy. It looks like nobody else would be able to read that
> last message. Let's try again.
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> >Hey BILL ASHE, don't read this thread. We're discussing some info for our
> next game session. That means you too, LANDON GREGORY. Same goes for the wi
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> >Our next adventure involves ghouls. Does anyone have any info on what the
> bounty is for ghouls (in the CAS, if there is a bounty)? Anyone know the
> approximate fines and possible imprisonment time for assisting a pack of
> ghouls? By pack, I mean about 16 or so.

The bounty I've assigned for ghouls is 50 nuyen per head (thus
making it worthwhile to turn them in for the 'deposuit'). As for fines,
etc for aiding ghouls, it's be on the lines of accesory to murder
Message no. 4
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: SR: Critter Question
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 21:01:26 -0400 (EDT)
At 12:39 AM 5/22/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Well that was easy. It looks like nobody else would be able to read that
>last message. Let's try again.
>
>>Hey BILL ASHE, don't read this thread. We're discussing some info for our
>next game session. That means you too, LANDON GREGORY. Same goes for the
wife.
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>Our next adventure involves ghouls. Does anyone have any info on what the
>bounty is for ghouls (in the CAS, if there is a bounty)? Anyone know the
>approximate fines and possible imprisonment time for assisting a pack of
>ghouls? By pack, I mean about 16 or so.

It's in the main rule book. Try looking under the entry for ghouls and the
chapter on Seattle near the back. I'm not certain, but the Eye Witness
adventure might have it too, unless that's what you're running and the
reason you're asking in the first place.


--
"I remember my first sexual encounter because I kept the recipe."
- Jeff Dahmer
Message no. 5
From: "Damion Milliken" <dam01@***.edu.au>
Subject: Re: SR: Critter Question
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 21:18:38 +1000 (EST)
Faux Pas writes:

> >Hey BILL ASHE, don't read this thread. We're discussing some info for our
> >next game session. That means you too, LANDON GREGORY. Same goes for the
> >wife.
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> >Our next adventure involves ghouls. Does anyone have any info on what the
> >bounty is for ghouls (in the CAS, if there is a bounty)? Anyone know the
> >approximate fines and possible imprisonment time for assisting a pack of
> >ghouls? By pack, I mean about 16 or so.

The SR module Eye Witness states that the bounties on ghouls are 100 nuyen
for males and 150 nuyen for females. The ghoul population in Eye witness
was about 30:70 female:male ratio. As for penalties for aiding and abetting
ghouls, I have no informayion sorry. But, in my view, if the runners are
going to get busted by the star, then the charge of aiding and abetting
ghouls will be the least of their worries, comapared to the charges for
weapon possession, illegal cyberware and focus possession and quite possibly
outstanding warrants for murder and other not so nice things (unless your
runners are squeaky clean, and assuming that the ghouls the runners were
aiding weren't planning on assasinating the president or something).

--
Damion Milliken University of Wollongong E-mail: dam01@***.edu.au

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Message no. 6
From: Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net>
Subject: Re: SR: Critter Question
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 15:22:20 -0500
At 09:01 PM 5/22/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Hey BILL ASHE, don't read this thread. We're discussing some info for our
>>next game session. That means you too, LANDON GREGORY. Same goes for the
>wife.
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>>>Now that I've gotten rid of my players...
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>>Our next adventure involves ghouls. Does anyone have any info on what the
>>bounty is for ghouls (in the CAS, if there is a bounty)? Anyone know the
>>approximate fines and possible imprisonment time for assisting a pack of
>>ghouls? By pack, I mean about 16 or so.
>
>It's in the main rule book. Try looking under the entry for ghouls and the
>chapter on Seattle near the back. I'm not certain, but the Eye Witness
>adventure might have it too, unless that's what you're running and the
>reason you're asking in the first place.

Just scanned the three page Seattle piece and it's not in there. Under
Ghouls in the Critters section, it only says: "Most governments offer a
bounty on ghouls. Many jurisdictions also make any commerce with or aid to
a ghoul punishable by fine, imprisonment, re-education, or even death."

What's Eye Witness about?

-Thomas Deeny
Cartoonist At Large

"Maybe, just maybe, my boys'll hold 'em off. And maybe I'm a Chinese test
pilot."
-Ash, _[Bruce Campbell vs.] The Army Of Darkness_
Message no. 7
From: mbroadwa@*******.glenayre.com (Mike Broadwater)
Subject: Re: SR: Critter Question
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 15:29:56 -0500
>At 09:01 PM 5/22/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>>>Hey BILL ASHE, don't read this thread. We're discussing some info for our
>>>next game session. That means you too, LANDON GREGORY. Same goes for the
>>wife.
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>Many jurisdictions also make any commerce with or aid to
>a ghoul punishable by fine, imprisonment, re-education, or even death."
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oh my god, they'll send you back to highschool! Run for the hills!
Message no. 8
From: seb@***.ripco.com (Sebastian Wiers)
Subject: Re: SR: Critter Question
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 19:28:46 -0500 (CDT)
>
> At 12:39 AM 5/22/96 -0500, you wrote:
> >Well that was easy. It looks like nobody else would be able to read that
> >last message. Let's try again.
> >
> >>Hey BILL ASHE, don't read this thread. We're discussing some info for our
> >next game session. That means you too, LANDON GREGORY. Same goes for the
> wife.
> >>.
> >>.
> >>.
> >>.
> >>.
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> >>.
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> >>.
> >>.
> >>.
> >>.
> >>.
> >>Now that I've gotten rid of my players...
> >>
> >Our next adventure involves ghouls. Does anyone have any info on what the
> >bounty is for ghouls (in the CAS, if there is a bounty)? Anyone know the
> >approximate fines and possible imprisonment time for assisting a pack of
> >ghouls? By pack, I mean about 16 or so.
>
> It's in the main rule book. Try looking under the entry for ghouls and the
> chapter on Seattle near the back. I'm not certain, but the Eye Witness
> adventure might have it too, unless that's what you're running and the
> reason you're asking in the first place.
>

Yes, it is in Eye witness, and it varies; I don't think the UCAS offers a
bounty- it is a local matter. What do you meen "assisisting"? Helping Ghouls
is legally no different from helping animals, as far as i know. Not all
places offer ghoul bounties. Sometimes Humanis does, some places ghouls have
a quaisi protected status.
>
> --
> "I remember my first sexual encounter because I kept the recipe."
> - Jeff Dahmer
>
>


--
--Seb
Message no. 9
From: Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net>
Subject: Re: SR: Critter Question
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 20:41:47 -0500
Standard "My gamers better not read this thread" warning applies.















>Yes, it is in Eye witness, and it varies; I don't think the UCAS offers a
>bounty- it is a local matter. What do you meen "assisisting"? Helping
Ghouls
>is legally no different from helping animals, as far as i know. Not all
>places offer ghoul bounties. Sometimes Humanis does, some places ghouls have
>a quasi protected status.

Basically, a metahuman rights activist is going to ask the players to help
protect the ghouls from someone or someones who are hunting the ghouls down.
Ghouls are just another goblinized race after all. I just want some idea of
the penalties assisting a pack of ghouls would carry, something for the
runners to think about.

They're not squeaky clean; they're a bit soiled (b&e, kidnapping, assault,
reckless endangerment, blackmail, criminal trespass, etc.). I don't think
any of them would have a murder charge brought against them. Well, maybe one.

-Thomas Deeny
Cartoonist At Large

"Maybe, just maybe, my boys'll hold 'em off. And maybe I'm a Chinese test
pilot."
-Ash, _[Bruce Campbell vs.] The Army Of Darkness_
Message no. 10
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: SR: Critter Question
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 22:58:24 -0400 (EDT)
At 03:22 PM 5/23/96 -0500, Faux Pas wrote:
>At 09:01 PM 5/22/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>>>Hey BILL ASHE, don't read this thread. We're discussing some info for our
>>>next game session. That means you too, LANDON GREGORY. Same goes for the
>>wife.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>>>Now that I've gotten rid of my players...
>>>>
>>>Our next adventure involves ghouls. Does anyone have any info on what the
>>>bounty is for ghouls (in the CAS, if there is a bounty)? Anyone know the
>>>approximate fines and possible imprisonment time for assisting a pack of
>>>ghouls?
>>
>>It's in the main rule book. Try looking under the entry for ghouls and the
>>chapter on Seattle near the back. I'm not certain, but the Eye Witness
>>adventure might have it too, unless that's what you're running and the
>>reason you're asking in the first place.
>
>Just scanned the three page Seattle piece and it's not in there. Under
>Ghouls in the Critters section, it only says: "Most governments offer a
>bounty on ghouls. Many jurisdictions also make any commerce with or aid to
>a ghoul punishable by fine, imprisonment, re-education, or even death."

Hmm, I could have _sworn_ it was there, but I don't see it either. I
definitely recall seeing two conflicting prices for ghouls' heads.

>What's Eye Witness about?

Something to do with a missing cybereye, but that's not important. The
important thing is, the team at one point meets a ghoul community and has to
choose whether or not to go head-hunting or be nice guys. Unfortunately, my
players chose the former and had a Hellblast grounded thru the sorceress's
spelllock by a ghoul mage.

--
"I remember my first sexual encounter because I kept the recipe."
- Jeff Dahmer
Message no. 11
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: SR: Critter Question
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 23:11:17 -0400 (EDT)
At 07:28 PM 5/23/96 -0500, you wrote:
>> At 12:39 AM 5/22/96 -0500, you wrote:
>> >Well that was easy. It looks like nobody else would be able to read that
>> >last message. Let's try again.
>> >
>> >>Hey BILL ASHE, don't read this thread. We're discussing some info for
our
>> >next game session. That means you too, LANDON GREGORY. Same goes for the
>> wife.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>.
>> >>Now that I've gotten rid of my players...
>> >>
>> >Our next adventure involves ghouls. Does anyone have any info on what the
>> >bounty is for ghouls (in the CAS, if there is a bounty)? Anyone know the
>> >approximate fines and possible imprisonment time for assisting a pack of
>> >ghouls? By pack, I mean about 16 or so.
>>
>> It's in the main rule book. Try looking under the entry for ghouls and the
>> chapter on Seattle near the back. I'm not certain, but the Eye Witness
>> adventure might have it too, unless that's what you're running and the
>> reason you're asking in the first place.
>>
>
>Yes, it is in Eye witness, and it varies; I don't think the UCAS offers a
>bounty- it is a local matter. What do you meen "assisisting"? Helping
Ghouls
>is legally no different from helping animals, as far as i know.

Not exactly, since ghouls eat humans.

--
"I remember my first sexual encounter because I kept the recipe."
- Jeff Dahmer

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