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Message no. 1
From: Duncan McNeill-Burton <dmcneill@************.EDU>
Subject: Re: The Big Hit ( includes spoilers ) [ Was Re: Technophile
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:05:13 -0400
Bryan Covington didst sayeth:
>> Just tweak the parameters on the Addiction flaw a bit. When looking
>> over
>> the Shadowrun Companion for the first time, it occurred to me that a
>> character that was heavily stressed out by shadowrunning could have
>> an Addiction to antacids, as the paranoia could give him a permanently
>> upset stomach...
>>
> Look at Mark Walberg (sp?) in The Big Hit. He was a
>hired gun and pounded Maalox like it was goin out of style.

But that wasn't job stress, that was...

Ooo...more spoiler space...

















This is fun...














I ought to do this more often...














That was fun.

Ok...Melvin's stress came form his psychotic fiancée, his gold digging,
two-timing girlfriend, his terminally disloyal and hideously stupid friends,
and his own inability to cope with rejection. In fact, I'd say killing
people was the most relaxing part of Melvin's life.

But steering this back towards SR, I'd say it was still an excellent example
of how stressful a runner's life can be. Most runners are working with
people they probably shouldn't trust fully, living among neighbors who would
rather that they weren't there, have really long hours, have to keep track
of multiple fake IDs, and tend to have quite a few people pissed off at
them. Perhaps this is the reason that runners don't run very long.

Later-

Duncan McNeill-Burton
-Tech Priest in Training
-Violent Felon for Hire
-Pipe-wielding Sociopath for Fun
http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~dmcneill
"Your eyes shiver and you grit your teeth,
You've sold you soul now cold blood's how you get relief."
-Ice-T, The Syndicate

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