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From: arcady@***.net arcady@***.net
Subject: Dwarves in Shadowrun
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 99 09:28:40 +700
>Um Gurth, where I come from 2% of 3,000,000 is only 60,000.
>That aside I agree with you that generally speaking they would
>group together in ethnic neighbourhoods. I would also imagine
>that these neighbourhoods would likely be closer to the Remond
>& Puyallup Barrens that expected. In any case it would likely be
>nearly suicidal for a corp suit human to set foot in that area
>without a nice SWAT team backup.

No more so than say a white business man in today's world walking into Watts
in LA or West Oakland. You could do it, and 90% of the time be perfectly safe
as they have no interest in you. But the white guy's going be self conscious
and popular myth will make him think that 90% is reversed from what it actually
is.

Those trolls will no there's no benifit in messing with the suit. Unless he's
there to do business or meet someone; he'll get ignored. And the people he's
there to meet will likely be the only ones who'll bother with him. Now it's
up to his behavoir to determine if those people are safe or dangerous. And like
as not he doesn't know the rules behind the local ettiquite. And that's where
the danger lies.
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