From:	Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Spike this!
Date:	Thu, 20 Oct 1994 19:49:28 -0400

>>>>> "Erik" == Erik S Jameson <esj@***.UUG.ARIZONA.EDU>
writes:

Erik> You know, I have YET to read anything in any of the FASA books about
Erik> elves being really and truelly immortal.

Early printings of the first edition Shadowrun rulebook stated that...
lemmee find mine... (third corrected printing, BTW)... "The Elven life
expectancy is unverified; claims that there were Elves already adult when
the UGE syndrome became widespread indicate possible life spans of several
hundred years, but metabolic studies are inconclusive." The second edition
is worded rather significantly differently: "The elf life expectancy is
unverified, with possible life spans of several hundreds of years, but
metabolic studies are inconclusive.

Ok, the way I've seen this discrepancy rationalized is that someone or
several someones of the likes of Ehran or Harlequin deliberately suppressed
a goodly chunk of the initial findings, especially entire references to
spike babies of any sort.

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