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From:	Callisto bginc@**********.nl
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:37:20 +0200

Message no. 1 Okay, here's a new question for you all to enjoy.

I was wondering if I had acchieved a record, point is: I have a
character which I created about a year and a half ago, since the
time of creation this character has died of unnatural causes FIVE
times, and he's still walking around (who says Fate sucks?).

number of times dead: 5
causes of death, in no particular order:

-critter power attack
-dragon burning
-bug attack
-gang shoot out in small hallway
-force ten spirit summoning at magic rating 6.

anyone care to best me at this, or should I consider the record
mine? ;-)

Angel "Flatline" Archer

former quote: "Nobody calls me ugly"
new quote: "Death, I laugh at death, hahahahaha *BANG* *BANG*
................. see?"

aka

Callisto

"Love is a trick that nature plays to get us to reproduce,
I want no part of it."

bginc@**********.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/bginc

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"Initiated" and thought that didn't sound cool enough :)

From:	Kevin Langevin kevinl@******.com
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:09:10 -0400

Message no. 2 Ummmm...and so how are you walking around if you've died?

-Kev

Kevin Langevin
Test Engineer
Citrix Systems, Inc.

Web www.citrix.com
e-mail kevinl@******.com
Tel 954-267-2990
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Callisto [mailto:bginc@**********.nl]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 1:37 PM
> To: shadowrn@*********.org
> Subject: Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
>
>
> Okay, here's a new question for you all to enjoy.
>
> I was wondering if I had acchieved a record, point is: I have a
> character which I created about a year and a half ago, since the
> time of creation this character has died of unnatural causes FIVE
> times, and he's still walking around (who says Fate sucks?).
>
> number of times dead: 5
> causes of death, in no particular order:
>
> -critter power attack
> -dragon burning
> -bug attack
> -gang shoot out in small hallway
> -force ten spirit summoning at magic rating 6.
>
> anyone care to best me at this, or should I consider the record
> mine? ;-)
>
> Angel "Flatline" Archer
>
> former quote: "Nobody calls me ugly"
> new quote: "Death, I laugh at death, hahahahaha *BANG* *BANG*
> ................. see?"
>
> aka
>
>
> Callisto
>
> "Love is a trick that nature plays to get us to reproduce,
> I want no part of it."
>
> bginc@**********.nl
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/bginc
>
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> INCUBATED INTO THE FIRST CHURCH OF THE SCWOOSHY BALL
> ON 21/5/1998.
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> Also responsible for people getting "Incubated" into the
> first church since I made up the term when I was being
> "Initiated" and thought that didn't sound cool enough :)
>
>

From:	Josh grimlakin@****.com
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:38:06 -0500

Message no. 3 Callisto wrote:

> Okay, here's a new question for you all to enjoy.
>
> I was wondering if I had acchieved a record, point is: I have a
> character which I created about a year and a half ago, since the
> time of creation this character has died of unnatural causes FIVE
> times, and he's still walking around (who says Fate sucks?).
>
> number of times dead: 5
> causes of death, in no particular order:
>
> -critter power attack
> -dragon burning
> -bug attack
> -gang shoot out in small hallway
> -force ten spirit summoning at magic rating 6.

I am betting my Physad would be a good runner aginst that.- Team
running aginst on extraction.. 2 6rd bursts from ingram to chest.
- True form warrior ant. <no foci for me at this point.>
- Sniper one shot to chest.

That is all for now. sigh.

<snip>

> Callisto

Grimlakin

From:	Scott Wheelock iscottw@*****.nb.ca
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:07:59 -0300

Message no. 4 "And now, a Channel 6 editorial reply to Callisto."
] I was wondering if I had acchieved a record, point is: I have a
] character which I created about a year and a half ago, since the
] time of creation this character has died of unnatural causes FIVE
] times, and he's still walking around (who says Fate sucks?).

<snip everything else>

How do you define dead? I get the sense our
definitions might differ...none of my dead characters are
still walking around...(except maybe that ghoul initiate!!
Mwahahaha!!! :)

If you mean "have taken deadly wounds and recovered,"
then you've beaten my PCs out. If you mean "have taken
damage beyond their overflow boxes and been brought
back to life by a miracle (read: brow-beaten GM)", then
you still win.

-Murder of One

From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:25:50 +0200

Message no. 5 According to Kevin Langevin, at 14:09 on 20 Apr 99, the word on
the street was...

> Ummmm...and so how are you walking around if you've died?

Medkits, Treat spells, and DocWagon contracts. What Callisto was saying is
that Angel has so far taken a Deadly wound five times, and has been
revived five times as well. Currently he's in a DocWagon clinic after a
run-in with a flesh-form insect spirit when he'd already taken a Serious
wound. What he forgot to mention is that this "death" was within 45
minutes of the one before (a shootout, that left him with the Serious)...

And no, the GM isn't out to kill as many PCs as possible :)

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From:	Jett zmjett@*********.com
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 1999 01:48:10 -0400

Message no. 6 Callisto wrote:

> Okay, here's a new question for you all to enjoy.
>
> I was wondering if I had acchieved a record, point is: I have a
> character which I created about a year and a half ago, since the
> time of creation this character has died of unnatural causes FIVE
> times, and he's still walking around (who says Fate sucks?).
>
> number of times dead: 5
> causes of death, in no particular order:
>
> -critter power attack
> -dragon burning
> -bug attack
> -gang shoot out in small hallway
> -force ten spirit summoning at magic rating 6.

That would have to be Jett...

--eviscerated and nearly died of blood loss (way overdamage: 2 months in
a coma)
--Shot in the back with a shotgun at close range
--Shot in the chest with a shotgun at point blank range
--torn to shreds by ghost-birds
--slashed to death with barbed monowire
--stabbed through a lot of vital things by a guy with a big-ass scythe
and a bad attitude

There's more, actually, but those are the major ones I remember...of
course, she tends to come back from the absolute limit of death (her
body actually got healed from lots of little tiny pieces, none of which
bigger than a finger or toe) by way of a NASTY astral quest... House
rules are nice. :) But except for the ghost-birds, all were mundane
damage that put her overdamage and she survived. :)
Next in line would have to be Snookums. He's survived seven major plane
crashes to date. Kamikaze missions. :)

--Jett

"You will die!"
"Been there, done that, didn't bother with the t-shirt."

<*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*>

The new improved Shadowrun page: Shadow's Edge.
http://www.scifi-fantasy.com/~zmjett/shadow/

Jett's Elfwood page
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"This is the worst place in the world. You shouldn't have come here.
You'll die here."
"Stay in the best place in the world, darling, and you'll die there,
too."
-Lord Fanny, to Quimper, The Invisibles

From:	Iridios iridios@*********.com
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 1999 21:31:11 -0400

Message no. 7 Jett wrote:

> That would have to be Jett...
>
> --eviscerated and nearly died of blood loss (way overdamage: 2 months in
> a coma)
> --Shot in the back with a shotgun at close range
> --Shot in the chest with a shotgun at point blank range
> --torn to shreds by ghost-birds
> --slashed to death with barbed monowire

OK, I just gotta ask. How do you barb monowire?

--
Iridios
"God does not roll dice"
-Albert Einstein

From:	Scott Wheelock iscottw@*****.nb.ca
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Sat, 24 Apr 1999 01:41:35 -0300

Message no. 8 "And now, a Channel 6 editorial reply to Iridios."
] OK, I just gotta ask. How do you barb monowire?

Eeeverybody now....<singsong chant> "Very carefully."

-Murder of One

From:	Mongoose m0ng005e@*********.com
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Sat, 24 Apr 1999 22:49:10 -0500

Message no. 9 :> I was wondering if I had acchieved a record, point is: I have a
:> character which I created about a year and a half ago, since the
:> time of creation this character has died of unnatural causes FIVE
:> times, and he's still walking around (who says Fate sucks?).

Well, thats an interesting question, but a more interesting one:

Does anybody have a SR character who died ONCE of NATURAL causes?

Mongoose

P.S - Is essence lost as a vampiric pawn is a natural cause?

From:	Ereskanti@*.com Ereskanti@*.com
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:12:45 EDT

Message no. 10 In a message dated 4/24/1999 10:53:45 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
m0ng005e@*********.com writes:

> Does anybody have a SR character who died ONCE of NATURAL causes?

Yes...of old Age (45).

> Mongoose
> P.S - Is essence lost as a vampiric pawn is a natural cause?

You can answer that one yourself and you know...(*minor thwap*)... ;)

-K

From:	Steve Collins einan@*********.net
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Sun, 25 Apr 99 15:55:34 -0400

Message no. 11 On 4/25/99 2:12 pm, Ereskanti@***.com said:

>In a message dated 4/24/1999 10:53:45 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
>m0ng005e@*********.com writes:
>
>> Does anybody have a SR character who died ONCE of NATURAL causes?
>
>Yes...of old Age (45).
>
>> Mongoose
>> P.S - Is essence lost as a vampiric pawn is a natural cause?
>
>
>You can answer that one yourself and you know...(*minor thwap*)... ;)
>
>-K
>
>
>

I don't know a bullet through the brain seems like a quite natural cause
of death.

Steve

From:	Ryan W. Bolduan emeottrw@***.umn.edu
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:18:16 -0500 (CDT)

Message no. 12 > Well, thats an interesting question, but a more interesting one:
>
> Does anybody have a SR character who died ONCE of NATURAL causes?

Depends on what you call natural and what you call a runner. I had a
runner that reached his main goal in life so I retired him. I guess you
could say that he died of natural causes.

I also had a runner that died by falling off a mountain. Is that natural?

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A person concerned with such important matters as I, need not, and should
not, attend to spelling.
--Napolean
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From:	Jester jester@**********.nl
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:19:10 +0200

Message no. 13 At 15:55, 25 Apr 99, Jester was told by Steve Collins:

Subject: Re: Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date sent: Sun, 25 Apr 99 15:55:34 -0400
From: Steve Collins <einan@*********.net>
To: "Shadowrun List" <shadowrn@*********.org>
Send reply to: shadowrn@*********.org

> On 4/25/99 2:12 pm, Ereskanti@***.com said:
>
> >In a message dated 4/24/1999 10:53:45 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
> >m0ng005e@*********.com writes:
> >
> >> Does anybody have a SR character who died ONCE of NATURAL causes?
> >
> >Yes...of old Age (45).
> >
> >> Mongoose
> >> P.S - Is essence lost as a vampiric pawn is a natural cause?
> >
> >
> >You can answer that one yourself and you know...(*minor thwap*)... ;)
> >
> >-K
> >
> >
> >
>
> I don't know a bullet through the brain seems like a quite natural cause
> of death.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
Sure, being shot through the head, eaten alive by insect spirits,
killed (fireballed) by teammates and blown to bits because your
grenades exploded to close to you, all count as natural causes for a
shadowrunner:)

--
As soon as friendship between a man and a woman passes
a certain point, some secret boundary, a woman always
quite automatically becomes overwhelmed by a compulsion
to complicate matters.

Jester
<jester@**********.nl>

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From:	Lehlan Decker DeckerL@******.com
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:28:03 -0400

Message no. 14 >Sure, being shot through the head, eaten alive by insect spirits,
>killed (fireballed) by teammates and blown to bits because your
>grenades exploded to close to you, all count as natural causes for a
>shadowrunner:)

This goes back to quote from a book whose title escapes me.
"One died in the middle of the night from natural causes, since a knife in
the ribs, naturally ends one's life"

From:	Jett zmjett@*********.com
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:06:44 -0400

Message no. 15 Ereskanti@***.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/24/1999 10:53:45 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
> m0ng005e@*********.com writes:
>
> > Does anybody have a SR character who died ONCE of NATURAL causes?
>

Brain tumor. Certain death within three months unless he can find a large
amount of money to pay for gene therapy.

--Jett
<*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*>

The new improved Shadowrun page: Shadow's Edge.
http://www.scifi-fantasy.com/~zmjett/shadow/

Jett's Elfwood page
http://www.elfwood.com/zone47/artists/jesgrota/jesgrota.html

"This is the worst place in the world. You shouldn't have come here. You'll
die here."
"Stay in the best place in the world, darling, and you'll die there, too."
-Lord Fanny, to Quimper, The Invisibles

From:	Strago strago@***.com
Subject:	Things to do in Seattle when you're dead
Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 1999 01:42:04 -0400

Message no. 16 Jett wrote:

> Ereskanti@***.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 4/24/1999 10:53:45 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
> > m0ng005e@*********.com writes:
> >
> > > Does anybody have a SR character who died ONCE of NATURAL causes?
> >
>
> Brain tumor. Certain death within three months unless he can find a large
> amount of money to pay for gene therapy.
>
> --Jett
>
<*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*>
>
> The new improved Shadowrun page: Shadow's Edge.
> http://www.scifi-fantasy.com/~zmjett/shadow/
>
> Jett's Elfwood page
> http://www.elfwood.com/zone47/artists/jesgrota/jesgrota.html
>
> "This is the worst place in the world. You shouldn't have come here. You'll
> die here."
> "Stay in the best place in the world, darling, and you'll die there, too."
> -Lord Fanny, to Quimper, The Invisibles

How did the character get the brain tumor? Was it naturally occuring, or was it
an act by someone else?

--
--Strago

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