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Message no. 1
From: "Mark C. Farrington" <alareth@*****.DWEBS.NET>
Subject: The Shadowrun Horror Picture Show
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:58:47 -0400
I was thinking about what kind od "cult entertianment was around in the
2060's. By "cult" I mean things like going to see the Rocky Horror Picture
Show for the umpteenth jillion time. (A troll wearing lingere pretending to
be Dr. Frankenfurter is a scary thought)
What kind of things would attract that kind of following in an Awakened
society?

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Message no. 2
From: Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET>
Subject: Re: The Shadowrun Horror Picture Show
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:15:23 -0500
> I was thinking about what kind od "cult entertianment was around
in the
>2060's. By "cult" I mean things like going to see the Rocky Horror
Picture
>Show for the umpteenth jillion time. (A troll wearing lingere
pretending to
>be Dr. Frankenfurter is a scary thought)

In our game...well, the Rocky Horror Picture Show is still going strong.
Scary, huh?

---
(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
Message no. 3
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject: Re: The Shadowrun Horror Picture Show
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:20:08 -0600
Patrick Goodman wrote:
/
/ > I was thinking about what kind od "cult entertianment was around
/ in the
/ >2060's. By "cult" I mean things like going to see the Rocky Horror
/ Picture
/ >Show for the umpteenth jillion time. (A troll wearing lingere
/ pretending to
/ >be Dr. Frankenfurter is a scary thought)
/
/ In our game...well, the Rocky Horror Picture Show is still going strong.
/ Scary, huh?

Did they convert it to Trideo? Now *that* would be scary :)

Or, a simsense reproduction (actors and actresses play the parts and
then the effects wizards step in to make Frank look like the orginal)
with the option to view it from any character's perspective.

Or does that idea cross the line of good taste? ;)

-David
--
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Message no. 4
From: Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET>
Subject: Re: The Shadowrun Horror Picture Show
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:36:45 -0500
>/ In our game...well, the Rocky Horror Picture Show is still going
strong.
>/ Scary, huh?
>
>Did they convert it to Trideo? Now *that* would be scary :)

They might have, but there's a flatscreen revival house in the area
where our team is holed up at the moment...it causes a major brownout
when everything is kicked into gear every night at midnight. Thomas has
not partaken of this particular theater, but he's not a virgin.

>Or, a simsense reproduction (actors and actresses play the parts and
>then the effects wizards step in to make Frank look like the orginal)
>with the option to view it from any character's perspective.

That's spooky, but the ability to get that close to Susan Sarandon has
some appeal. <g>

>Or does that idea cross the line of good taste? ;)

The very notion of it in the first place crosses that line. I thought
that was kinda the point....

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(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
Message no. 5
From: Paul Gettle <RunnerPaul@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: The Shadowrun Horror Picture Show
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:50:23 -0400
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At 12:20 PM 9/2/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Patrick Goodman wrote:
>/
>/ > I was thinking about what kind od "cult entertianment was
around
>/ in the
>/ >2060's. By "cult" I mean things like going to see the Rocky
Horror
>/ Picture
>/ >Show for the umpteenth jillion time. (A troll wearing lingere
>/ pretending to
>/ >be Dr. Frankenfurter is a scary thought)
>/
>/ In our game...well, the Rocky Horror Picture Show is still going
strong.
>/ Scary, huh?
>
>Did they convert it to Trideo? Now *that* would be scary :)
>
>Or, a simsense reproduction (actors and actresses play the parts and
>then the effects wizards step in to make Frank look like the orginal)
>with the option to view it from any character's perspective.
>
>Or does that idea cross the line of good taste? ;)

Actually, a long while back in one of my games, there was a plot
element that involved the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I'd figured that
by that time, some very ambitous Rocky Horror fans had developed an
interactive simsense version of the whole Rocky Horror experience.
(Yes, I know interactive simsense is very tricky for an amateur to
implement, but have you ever had to clean up after Rocky Horror? Doing
the simsense would be less effort, trust me.)

Unfortunately, a sick, twisted serial killer type person had hacked
the code on the interactive simsense, and modified it into a
personafix BTL. I won't go into the full gory details, but in the
middle of the Rocky Horror Picture Show's plot, one of the characters,
Eddie (played by rocker Meat Loaf), is killed, and later eaten for
supper. Now imagine what that would be like with a room full of people
jacked into a personafix BTL, acting that out.

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Message no. 6
From: Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET>
Subject: Re: The Shadowrun Horror Picture Show
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 23:00:01 -0500
<snip most of the Rocky Horror Picture Show>

>Unfortunately, a sick, twisted serial killer type person had hacked
>the code on the interactive simsense, and modified it into a
>personafix BTL.

You are a sick, sick, sick individual.

I deeply regret not thinking this up myself....

---
(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
Message no. 7
From: "<Alfredo B Alves>" <dghost@****.COM>
Subject: Re: The Shadowrun Horror Picture Show
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 01:07:28 EDT
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 23:00:01 -0500 Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET> writes:
><snip most of the Rocky Horror Picture Show>
>
>>Unfortunately, a sick, twisted serial killer type person had hacked
>>the code on the interactive simsense, and modified it into a
>>personafix BTL.

>You are a sick, sick, sick individual.
>
>I deeply regret not thinking this up myself....
>
>---
>(>) Texas 2-Step
<SNIP Sig>

Ooo ... I like this ... I wish I'd thought of this a couple of weeks ago
when I had one of the PC's *MALE* contacts accidentally slot a Maria
Mercurial bunraku p-fix chip ... Hey, waitasec ... that kind of sounds
Rocky Horrorish, doesn't it? :)

D. Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, RuPixel)
o/` Trideo killed the Video Star ... o/`

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Message no. 8
From: David Foster <fixer@*******.TLH.FL.US>
Subject: Re: The Shadowrun Horror Picture Show
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:41:41 -0400
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, David Buehrer wrote:

->Patrick Goodman wrote:
<Snip RHPS details>
->Did they convert it to Trideo? Now *that* would be scary :)
->
->Or, a simsense reproduction (actors and actresses play the parts and
->then the effects wizards step in to make Frank look like the orginal)
->with the option to view it from any character's perspective.
->
->Or does that idea cross the line of good taste? ;)

Rocky Horror Picture Show crossed the line of good taste a long
time ago. I'd say a producer who wanted to keep the risque nature would
sure as hell make said changes.

Fixer --------------} The easy I do before breakfast,
the difficult I do all day long,
the impossible only during the week,
and miracles performed on an as-needed basis....

Now tell me, what was your problem?
Message no. 9
From: Paul Gettle <RunnerPaul@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: The Shadowrun Horror Picture Show
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:20:42 -0400
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At 11:00 PM 9/2/98 -0500, Patrick wrote:
><snip most of the Rocky Horror Picture Show>
>
>>Unfortunately, a sick, twisted serial killer type person had hacked
>>the code on the interactive simsense, and modified it into a
>>personafix BTL.
>
>You are a sick, sick, sick individual.
>
>I deeply regret not thinking this up myself....

The worst part of this was that I came up with the idea while I was
still very much a Rocky Horror Virgin...I didn't actually attend a
screening until years after I'd come up with this particular idea.

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