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Message no. 1
From: Max Rible <slothman@*****.COM>
Subject: Yomi
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:59:14 -0800
Well, I got to wondering about Yomi, the island where Japan keeps all its
metahumans, and decided to see where in Japan the island happened to be.
It wasn't in the Encyclopedia Britannica atlas, so I went and hit my SR
books to see where I could turn up references; it wasn't in the "And So
It Came To Pass..." section of SRI or SRII (at least when doing a cursory
scan), and I couldn't recall any other places in the sourcebooks it might
be mentioned. It gets referred to in the "Secrets of Power" trilogy, but
not with any details. I finally tried looking it up in the encyclopedia
and found out that it's yet another Japanese hell, along with Makai and
Jigoku; this suggests that the island only acquired that name after the
Awakening.

I got the impression from glancing through the trilogy again that Yomi
is something like Manhattan in "Escape from New York", only in Japan and
full of metahumans. Has anyone found any more details on it? (I'd
be especially interested in knowing *which* island it is...) FASAMike,
is the reference buried anywhere over at FASA?

Thanks,
Max

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Message no. 2
From: "Fisher, Victor" <Victor-Fisher@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Yomi
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:54:38 -0500
>Max Rible Said:
>Well, I got to wondering about Yomi, the island where Japan keeps all its
metahumans...<snip>


You might want to try our fellow Shadowrunners in Japan. See if they
pegged the place yet. I've been doing a little digging also, and came up
with the same amount of info. I think the guys who are putting together
the Japan [net?]sourcebook can be reached thru Paolo's page.
There's a reference [in the 2nd Shadowrun novel by Charette] to it being
Hong Kong's Forbidden City [on the mainland, in the New Territories],
>but later reading seemed to place it as an actual island.
Message no. 3
From: Skye Comstock <bilbo@****.NWLINK.COM>
Subject: Re: Yomi
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:21:14 -0800
>You might want to try our fellow Shadowrunners in Japan. See if they
>pegged the place yet. I've been doing a little digging also, and came up
>with the same amount of info. I think the guys who are putting together
>the Japan [net?]sourcebook can be reached thru Paolo's page.
>There's a reference [in the 2nd Shadowrun novel by Charette] to it being
>Hong Kong's Forbidden City [on the mainland, in the New Territories],
>>but later reading seemed to place it as an actual island.

Just for the people that don't want to look through Paolo's stuff, or
the Shadowrun Webring, the URL for the Shadowrun JIS (Japan in Shadowrun)
Project is:

http://www.sainet.or.jp/~fatcat/index-e.html

I can't remember offhand about where they put the metahumans, but it's
pretty well done. Be warned, in some places the English is kind of choppy.
Within a week or two, I'm going to be editing the grammar/spelling of
the JIS pages so it'll be a tad easier to read.

-Skye-who-is-still-looking-for-a-group-in-Seattle
Message no. 4
From: "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Yomi
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:49:00 -0500
Don't they mention somewhere that Yomi means "Garbage?"
Maybe I'm mixing my Gibson with my Charette here, but didn't the Japanese
supposedly run out of dumps for their solid waste and decide to build an
island out of it?

I could be way off base here, but that concept sounds so familiar.
I know Gibson wrote about that in "Lords of Sleep", but I thought the
concept had carried over to SR ...

Steven A. Tinner
bluewizard@*****.com
http://www.ncweb.com/users/bluewizard
"Hoo-Hah! Thrown to the weasels again!"

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