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From: "Fisher, Victor" <Victor-Fisher@******.COM>
Subject: Re: 1st Ed. and Out Of Print Modules
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:00:05 -0400
Tim Cooper commented:

>>>NOT >*gasp*< "The Thing" by any chance?????
>
> Hey! was that the movie about the one they find frozen in the
>icecap...then things run amok when they thaw it? or was it called "It"?
> Either way it'd make a good springboard for a run... especially if you
>manage to work with one of the PC's (who may not be terribly attached to his
>current character).
>
>Victor replys:
>
> 4 PCs were the Runners, and I had a friend play the head of the Spec
>Forces Team. One PC shot another because she THOUGHT the other had been
>infected [he wasn't :-], and they left him for dead. He managed to drag
>himself away from SOMETHING coming, od'd on a couple stims and happy combat
>drugs, then, when he encountered the female runner again, proceeded to
>demonstrate for her the rate of fire of an FN Har!
> <insert shocked GM's face, as campaign rages out of control!!!>
> Meanwhile, one of the spec forces team was laying C~12 charges all over
>the base, setting the timer for 3 hours [they'd been there 4]. One of the
>runners, after making a SHOCKING discovery, found the timer, and upped the
>detonation to 1 hour! But before he could tell anyone [he HAD rejoined the
>group by then, but for reason of his own, neglected to say anything], he ,
>err, was 'invited' to lunch! [BLLEECH!!!]
><insert GM pulling downward on face with left hand>
> There's MUCH more, as the run quickly began to resemble The Keystone
>Cops meets John Woo, but it was a fun way to kill a Saturday afternoon!
>
>Kohl, whose REAL glad he passed up on this job!

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