Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: Grahamdrew mnemonic25@*********.com
Subject: Total Eclipse
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 17:18:29 -0500
I'm trying to get as much info on bugs as I can, as I'm gearing up for a
real bug-intensive Chicago campaign. I was checking out Amazon.com the
other day, trying to get some reviews on modules like Queen Euphoria and
one of the reviewers mentioned it was best used in conjunction with
Total Eclipse. Anybody know if Total Eclipse involves bug activity or
if the reviewer was just drunk?
Message no. 2
From: David Fallon dfallon@****.edu
Subject: Total Eclipse
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 15:40:37 -0800
>I'm trying to get as much info on bugs as I can, as I'm gearing up for a
>real bug-intensive Chicago campaign. I was checking out Amazon.com the
>other day, trying to get some reviews on modules like Queen Euphoria and
>one of the reviewers mentioned it was best used in conjunction with
>Total Eclipse. Anybody know if Total Eclipse involves bug activity or
>if the reviewer was just drunk?


No idea about total eclipse, but be warned, Queen Euphoria is pretty much
background info only. The whole insect spirit thing either first appeared in
QE, or not too much before QE, 'cause the rules for spirits there are very
rough. I'd recommend Threats and Bug City waaaay before QE. If you're going
for the sake of completeness, then go for it, but even still there are some
wacky things in there... For example, the main bad guy was forcibly
converted from being a Coyote shaman to an Ant shaman. (the only bugs
mentioned, btw, are Ants). Weird stuff like that.
Message no. 3
From: Steven McCormick stardust@***.net
Subject: Total Eclipse
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 21:38:47 -0600
At 05:18 PM 2/5/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm trying to get as much info on bugs as I can, as I'm gearing up for a
>real bug-intensive Chicago campaign. I was checking out Amazon.com the
>other day, trying to get some reviews on modules like Queen Euphoria and
>one of the reviewers mentioned it was best used in conjunction with
>Total Eclipse. Anybody know if Total Eclipse involves bug activity or
>if the reviewer was just drunk?


Total Eclipse involves involves a spider shaman and an evil spider spirit.
This adventure takes place back when Spider was not yet a totem and "spider
spirits" were colectively included in the same class as insects. If I
recall without looking at the book, Total Eclipse is an SR1 adventure.

BlueMule
Message no. 4
From: HHackerH@***.com HHackerH@***.com
Subject: Total Eclipse
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:35:34 EST
In a message dated 2/5/1999 6:33:00 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
mnemonic25@*********.com writes:

> Anybody know if Total Eclipse involves bug activity or
> if the reviewer was just drunk?

Spoilers!!!!!!!!!



































Total Eclipse is a moderately good adventure IMO, except for the concept of a
Vampire with an absolutely unthinkable attribute or two for a hitman/assassin
type. Eclipse, the name of the Spider Shaman that is one of the primary
characters (ignoring the band), isn't too bad, but his background story sparks
massive amounts of discussion on whether or not a "shaman" ever has to be
magically active in the same manner as a Hermetic magician.

On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the best, I'd put it somewhere in the 3-4 range.
But then, we used Eclipse and the Free Spirit pal of his as enemies later on
down the road because the game didn't go anywhere near *close* to the book by
the time the players were done with it.

-K
Message no. 5
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Total Eclipse
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:33:18 +0100
According to Grahamdrew, at 17:18 on 5 Feb 99, the word on
the street was...

> I'm trying to get as much info on bugs as I can, as I'm gearing up for a
> real bug-intensive Chicago campaign. I was checking out Amazon.com the
> other day, trying to get some reviews on modules like Queen Euphoria and
> one of the reviewers mentioned it was best used in conjunction with
> Total Eclipse. Anybody know if Total Eclipse involves bug activity or
> if the reviewer was just drunk?

Spoiler space follows:









Are you sure you're a GM? Scroll on then...








The reviewer was probably drunk. Total Eclipse has no insect spirits in
it. The shaman who hires the PCs and then screws them over in TE follows
some kind of weird, evil-like spider totem (quite unlike the Spider totem
from Bug City) but has no connection to insect spirits whatsoever. He's in
league with an ancient and powerful spirit that was set free in the
Secrets Of Power trilogy, but that's it.

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
If it's no use pretending, then I don't want to know.
-> NERPS Project Leader * ShadowRN GridSec * Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
->The Plastic Warriors Page: http://shadowrun.html.com/plasticwarriors/<-
-> The New Character Mortuary: http://www.electricferret.com/mortuary/ <-

GC3.1: GAT/! d-(dpu) s:- !a>? C+(++)@ U P L E? W(++) N o? K- w+ O V? PS+
PE Y PGP- t(+) 5++ X++ R+++>$ tv+(++) b++@ DI? D+ G(++) e h! !r(---) y?
Incubated into the First Church of the Sqooshy Ball, 21-05-1998

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about Total Eclipse, you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.

Thwap!