From:	dhinkley@***.org
Subject:	Re: Corp Revenge
Date:	Thu, 23 May 1996 00:36:14 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 23 May 1996, TopCat <topcat@******.net> wrote:
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>
>Hell no, I wouldn't want to run the shadows. Nobody in their right mind
>becomes a shadowrunner. It takes a special sort of person to become a
>criminal living on the fringes of society and taking corporate scraps for
>dirty work. Shadowrunning is an extremely dangerous job and no-one would
>take it if they didn't (feel like they) have to.
>
Shadowrunners are basicly criminals, some may be cut from the Raffles,
Robin Hood mold, highly skilled and well equiped but still criminals. While it
may be a valid to question the relitive sanity of criminals in general, I don't
think that it takes anything special to be a criminal, given the large number of
laws available to be broken, you don't even have to try. The only thing special
regarding Shadowrunners is that they have risen to the top of the heap. The
fringes of society are made up of the homeless, the unemployed, the substance
abusers, the SIN-less, the grey market worker and criminals of all types and
skill levels. From the point of view of the fringe, shadowrunning is a extremly
well paying job, the ticket out. For every good runner ther are a dozen
want-to-bes waiting in the wings. Some may even survive the big time. And all of
them would take the run, the first time it was offered, the second time (if they
survived) they would be more selective( and on the way to becoming Runners).

David Hinkley
dhinkley@***.org