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From: Timothy P Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Matrix awakening
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:32:55 -0800
> On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Brian W Allison wrote:
> >
> > > That's why all the hot deckers own filters.
> >
> > Deckers are soon to be the way of the past - when the Matrix is done
> > Awakening.
> >
> > We dance, we laugh, we live - where it matters.
>
>
> Hey! Don't *say* that sort of thing! *shudders*
> How have your games reflected the idea of magic mixing with the 'trix?
> The idea of the Matrix Awakening? I don't really mean the Otaku,
> although they are a part of it. (I'm just looking for Ideas, 'cause my
> GM has occasionally mentioned the idea of magic in the 'trix while
> grinning evilly towards me... I think he just likes to see me cringe...)
> Jennie

I, personally, as a rule have declared that the Matrix and Magic are at opposite
ends of the spectrum and have (and can have) nothing to do with each other. I
remember one comment in the rule book that supported this...I forget where it
was or exactly what it said...I'll look it up.

~Tim

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