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From: John Bennett <GRBENNET@*****.CIS.ECU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Shadow community Size
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 11:33:01 EDT
On Thu, 28 Sep 1995 11:21:13 +0100 Gurth said:
>
>Let's see, Seattle has a population of about 3,000,000 people. 1% is
>magically active, makes 30,000. Of these, 10% (not 1%) are full magicians,
>makes 3,000. Erm, yes, it seems the shadow community is a lot smaller than
>we (or at least I) tend to think...
>The trouble here is that in this case any PC would know just about anybody
>else in "the biz," if not by name then at least by face...
>
This just says there are a relatively few full mages in the shadows, I believe
the shadow community would still be quite large when you add in all the sams,
deckers, fixers, riggers, ect.

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