From:	"Faux Pas (Thomas)" <thomas@*******.COM>
Subject:	Re: SR/ED ties (The Rant Explained)
Date:	Wed, 9 Jul 1997 08:52:36 -0500

At 08:05 PM 7/8/97 -0400, J. Keith Henry whispered:
>In a message dated 97-07-07 13:17:58 EDT, u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK (Spike)
>writes:
>> I wouldn't worry too much.
>> Those kinds of magics are still centuries away in the Shadowrun
>> timeline.....

>Okay, I'll tell everyone why they -SHOULD- worry. The IE's are the basis for
>many of the stories in the book. They have this attitude about "the mortals
>don't need to know that yet", but at the same time they are mentioning how
>"that shouldn't be yet..." has anyone woken up to the fact that things are
>going to be different? And I mean really different. There are some (horrors
>and allies) coming through and the "time" isn't right yet, at least that
what
>a few of the IE's have mentioned to -us- the SR Players (third party
>omniscient is such a way to read and interpret things huh?).

And when you take into account Mike Mulvihill's comments that the Enemy
won't come through anytime soon (and that events are proceeding at much the
same pace as they did at the dawn of the Fourth Age), we don't have to
worry about a sudden influx of Horrors into Shadowrun. At least, not until
the 5600s.



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