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Message no. 1
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: SR/ED ties (The Rant Explained)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 20:05:50 -0400
In a message dated 97-07-07 13:17:58 EDT, u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK (Spike)
writes:

>
> I wouldn't worry too much.
> Those kinds of magics are still centuries away in the Shadowrun
> timeline.....
>
> (Apart from our old buddies the IE....)
>
Okay, I'll tell everyone why they -SHOULD- worry. The IE's are the basis for
many of the stories in the book. They have this attitude about "the mortals
don't need to know that yet", but at the same time they are mentioning how
"that shouldn't be yet..." has anyone woken up to the fact that things are
going to be different? And I mean really different. There are some (horrors
and allies) coming through and the "time" isn't right yet, at least that what
a few of the IE's have mentioned to -us- the SR Players (third party
omniscient is such a way to read and interpret things huh?).

I'm sorry, I'm a Problem's Analyst by trade, part of my management degree
actually...I've been paying really close attention to FASA's storylines that
they publish, and a few connections have been made.

I also have noticed, and conformed things in the games here to match, the
fact that FASA has been really great at matching a "game year" with the
"real
year", most of the time. And they don't HAVE a thousand or two-thousand
years to unveil a story line (though THAT would be great if they could).

-K
Message no. 2
From: "Faux Pas (Thomas)" <thomas@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: SR/ED ties (The Rant Explained)
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 08:52:36 -0500
At 08:05 PM 7/8/97 -0400, J. Keith Henry whispered:
>In a message dated 97-07-07 13:17:58 EDT, u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK (Spike)
>writes:
>> I wouldn't worry too much.
>> Those kinds of magics are still centuries away in the Shadowrun
>> timeline.....

>Okay, I'll tell everyone why they -SHOULD- worry. The IE's are the basis for
>many of the stories in the book. They have this attitude about "the mortals
>don't need to know that yet", but at the same time they are mentioning how
>"that shouldn't be yet..." has anyone woken up to the fact that things are
>going to be different? And I mean really different. There are some (horrors
>and allies) coming through and the "time" isn't right yet, at least that
what
>a few of the IE's have mentioned to -us- the SR Players (third party
>omniscient is such a way to read and interpret things huh?).

And when you take into account Mike Mulvihill's comments that the Enemy
won't come through anytime soon (and that events are proceeding at much the
same pace as they did at the dawn of the Fourth Age), we don't have to
worry about a sudden influx of Horrors into Shadowrun. At least, not until
the 5600s.



-Thomas Deeny
Your Guide to Shadowrun -- http://shadowrun.miningco.com -- updated every
Wednesday!
Thomas's World is http://telltale.hart.org -- come visit!

"First I'm going to bother every one I meet, and then I'll go home and get
drunk."
-Tippy Turtle
Message no. 3
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: SR/ED ties (The Rant Explained)
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:17:16 +0100
|I also have noticed, and conformed things in the games here to match, the
|fact that FASA has been really great at matching a "game year" with the
"real
|year", most of the time. And they don't HAVE a thousand or two-thousand
|years to unveil a story line (though THAT would be great if they could).

The FASA shadowrun developement has passed on from the days of the EI and
Horrors now. The occasional one might slip through once in a while, when
Mike gets distracted, but there won't be a deluge of Horrors and God like
magic while Mike is in charge.

(He hates the EI, almost as much as he hates people calling the game
ShadowRun....)

:)
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