| From: | Jordan findlerman@*****.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Breeder definition |
| Date: | Thu, 18 Feb 1999 06:58:01 -0800 (PST) |
> >> with?
> >
> >Nope..they are born that way..or existed prior to the awakening..
> >This is an old one ..But I'm recovered now..
>
> Okay. Now give me chapter and verse, since your answer didn't help
me or
> the discussion I'm having a bit, and it's not very convincing as
stated.
>
*Clears his throat with an ausible 'Ahem.'*
From FASA Shadowrun Rulebook, Third edition (#7001), page 25, Article
title: 2011--The Year Of Chaos. And I quote,
"...Then things got really strange, real fast. All over the world,
"normal" parents started producing apparently mutant children--elves
and dwarfs, the first metahumans. The scientists called this
frightening phenomenon Unexplained Genetic Expression, or UGE. I
guess they figured giving it a clinical-sounding name might calm
people down ("Your kid's not a freak, he's just a UGE baby"), or at
least a distract people from the unsettling fact that the medical
community had no fragging idea what was causing it. Nobody realized
that UGE was the first manifestation of magic in the world; no one
knew then what magic looked like.
[snip paragraph on Ryumyo and Great Ghost Dance, and the rest of the
article.]
[SNIP also Articles: If It's Tuesday, This must be the UCAS
(2012-2018), The Indian War tnd the Great Ghost Dance, The Treaty of
Denver, Welcome to Our World (2018-2029) {though, in that last
article, it mentions more about "[people] dealing with the strangeness
of having a kid who looked like something out of a Tolkien novel..."}]
Article: "Goblinization," page 28
*clears his troat again*
"On April 30, 2021, all over the world, one out of every ten adults
suddenly metamorphosized into hideous humanoid shapes. Soon the
phenomenon started to afflict children; some were born "monsters,"
while others changed soon after puberty. The media, with its unerring
instinct for sensational buzzwords, dubbed the process
"goblinization." Before long, the afflicted were called "orks" and
"trolls" after creatures from fantasy that they resembled.
"The earlier wave of UGE had been frightening enough;
goblinization reduced just about everyone to gibbering terror or
vicious fits of hatefulness tward the victims. Fearing that it might
be contagious, governments all over the world...."
[SNIP the rest of the article, which deals with gov'ts dealing with
(meta) humanity, and the rest of the book, which deals with everything
else, and you should go buy, if you haven't already. *stern look at
the gentleman who asked for this*]
There....is the rulebook Canon enough, and is this versed enough for
you? I don't mind doing this, but the meaty part of my left hand is
now cramped. Please look these things up on your own.
Now then, with that said, that is all that I found on metahumanity in
the history section of the book, and it mentioned nothing about
dwarves of elves transforming at puberty, or anything of the kind.
FASA may have the demographics wrong, but who cares? They've done
enough already.
Your answer to the argument in your group: *SMACK* the person in your
group who said that they goblinized over the head with this
email....and a carp, just for the fun of it :)
That's all for now...gonna go find some Tiger Balm.
FASA Shadowrun articles "2011--The Year of Chaos," and "Goblinization"
are used without expressed permission of the authors, and this author
doesn't much care.
--Fin
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