| From: | chaos@*****.com (Steven Ratkovich) |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Space - The Final Frontier |
| Date: | Mon, 23 Sep 1996 01:12:23 -0500 (EST) |
>>Theories! Ok, that's it then... All you can talk about is conspiracies!
>>It's all we do anyways...:)
>>
>Ah rubbish, there are other conversations other than conspiracies, but,
>and I hate to mention it to you, but the above is not a theory - it's
>fact. On several occassions, an immortal elf, has saved the sixth world
>from a fate worse than death - Harlequin's Back for instance. The
>experimentation that is occurring in Tir Tairngire at the moment, is
>shrouded in secrecy, but I know what it is. There's also the rumours of
>Atlantis/Thera - another elven plot, and the gods only know what Tir
>NanOg is doing. Oh, no, it's not a theory, it's a FACT. :-0
>
I know that, I was just joking a bit, but it does seem like the first time
something odd happens, everyone immediately goes it's a horror/immortal elf
plot. I don't hear (at least not often enough in my opinion) that it's a
Humanis Policlub plot. Everyone seriously underestimates them. They're a
makor player, and a new thought that came into my head was the possiblity of
some of the hire ups in the org. to be allying themselves, if not controlled
by, Aztecnology and Atzlan... No eveidence, but it wouldn't surprise me...
>>Bull shudders slightly and hides in the corner...
>>
>That's not an answer....
>
No it's not. <sigh> Ok, here ya go... Bull has really been through hell,
as I'm sure most of you can relate. Bull lived in Chicago, and found out
about the bugs very gradually, which of course, culminated into Bug City.
And although I read everything I can about Shadowrun, I was not allowed to
read anything about the bugs (ie, Burning Bright, Bug City, or even the
newer printing of Into the Shadows with the mantis story.) Steven Tinner
really did a good job of making that whole plotline very realistic and very
terrifying. It was a wonderful exggperience, but has left Bull more than a
little emotionally scarred.
Also, we've broken rule number 1 of shadowrunning at least four times,
although the first time has been repeated several other timesm sort of.
We've gotten the pleasure of dealing with Perryanwyr from Mecurial, two
dragons in Bottled Demon, and the feathered serpent in Paradise Lost. We've
actually turned Perry into a contact, once he got over the fact that we shot
him with a rocket...Twice..., but fortunately, he doesn't hold a grudge, at
least not for too long...:) Bull's sort of got problems with dragons too,
due to this. Of couurse, he now fits Wyverns into this catagory, ever since
one tried to use his son for a light snack... Fortunately, Billy's a tough
ork kid, so he lived...
Bull's personal life is exgtensive and highly detailed. At least one out of
every three game sessions has been a personal life thing, exgploring that
facet of our lives. Let me tell you, it gets really wierd, but a little
strange. And also why I tend to make oddball comments from time to time...
After all, have you ever played with an NPC who was losing his mind and
spent half the time looking for his gum? He was an older character from
Tinner's college days who became an NPC in our game. He'd done a run where
they went back in time like 20 years, and his character was always chewing
gum. Well, he got hit in that back of the head, and lost his gum, along
with some teeth. He thought nothing of it when theyg went back to the
future, but things ggot tough when a mage in the past started casting ritual
magic through the saliva in the gum... Time warped the spell, and it was
driving him insane... Needless to say, we had to fixg this...
Well, like I said, this is a character that has been played quite
extensively for three years, and I've gotten to know him VERGY well, and
unfortunately, I tend to think like him somedays as well, which mayg not be
all bad, but...:)
I've posted quite a bit of Bull's historygg here and there, and I
apologggize about the SPAM... Unfortunatelgy, I have to exgplain mgy
idiotic comments...:) Thanks for putting up with it...:)
>>Champions... <shudder> Gero System... <cringe> Way too many
numbers...:)
>>There's a reason I was an english Major, although it wasn't because of my
>>wonderful typing skils...;-)
>>
>Hated math myself, but the GM for chanpions was an accountant, so he
>added all the figures up for us, made the game a lot faster too. Used
>him extensively when I GM'd Rolemaster (spit spit barf) :-)
>
Well, our campaign was brief and painful. We lost an average of a char a
night, sometimes two... And everything was tougher than us, includingg the
fragin' animals...
And roll master... my condolences to ya, man...
>>>The Brotherhood, ah what a wonderful organisation that is, so innocent,
>>>so helpful, so *dark*. The mere mention of the Brotherhood sends
>>>shivers up my players spines, though I don't know why, there's no
>>>conclusive evidence that "all" of the Bortherhood is *bugged*.
>>>
>>
>>Bull shudders again and closes his eyes, praying to never hear that name
>>again...:)
>>
>My players do that a lot. What you people don't realise is that the
>Brotherhood are perfectly innocent. What is happening is that other
>forces are taking advantage of the facilities provided by assorted
>chapterhouses. :-)
>
Do you still have them around? I know officially the brotherhood was shut
down by the government about the time bug city hit... Although we've been
hearing rumors that something similar has been set up by the bugs outside
the containment zone, and that this time theyg are ALL working together...
Except Mantis...
>>Nahh, much as I like King, he gets boring after a while... Besides, Horrors
>>the one genrte I can't quite do well...:)
>>
>OK, Gibson then... Asimov... Piers Anthony.... ??? No, not E.E.Doc
>Smith??? :-/
>
>
Actually Eddings, Weis and Hickman, a bit of Star Wars, a bit of
Shadowrun... Ginson and Asimov were alwayggs too hard core sci fi for me...
I like low sci fi... a space opera or mixg in some fantasy:) I like Piers
Anthony, but can't quite get that off the cuff humor down...:) Ah well...:)
Just don't ask me to do Poetry, in that area, I am full blooded Vogon...:)
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# -Bull, aka Chaos, aka Rak, aka Steven Ratkovich #
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"You do more damage out of simple irritation than most
men can do in a towering rage."
-David Eddings, "Demon Lord of Karanda
