| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Insect Spirits (was Re: Who are YOUR bad guys?) |
| Date: | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 19:10:54 +0200 |
the street was...
> So it was published first...oh yeah, someone else said that too.
> Then how come UB's out-of-print, and Queen Euphoria's still in-print?
> I don't get it!
Neither do all the people seaching for a copy of the UB ;)
Joking aside, I think it may have to do with the UB being an outdated
thing in SR -- it was shut down by the UCAS government, after all -- while
QE can be run very much independent of the current date in a campaign.
Even after the great bug hunt, you can still use QE with a few minor
modifications. The UB becomes a lot harder to run in a late 2050s/early
2060s campaign.
> ] Ah yes, I've found it. Scroll down for the spoiler space:
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> ] Page 34, in one of the files the PC decker can retrieve from the UB
> ] system, it says Victoria Delling was initiated into the Inner Circle on 21
> ] August 2051 (hey, I'll turn 77 that day! :) which is a Monday in 2051.
> ] Missing Blood starts on the Wednesday after that, because Danial Simpson
> ] gives them three days to retrieve the necklace, before Friday evening
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> Cool...I kept looking for this, but could never find it, and put it
> down to it being a false memory.
It took me some browsing and digging in my memory to put the pieces
together again, I must say. What I find strange is that the adventure
nowhere says at what date (or even day) it begins, even though there are
dates in other sections -- you can fit everything together, but it'd have
been so much easier if FASA had done it for us :)
> ] Note that there is a mistake in the dates -- on page 35, in the right-hand
> ] column, it says "August 21 was last Sunday's date." but this would only
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> ] the case if the adventure is set in 2050. In 2051, it's a Monday.
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> Okay...not having read Queen Euphoria, which one do you think is a
> better introduction to bugs? I thought that from the way that UB was
> describing things, that no-one had seen Insect Spirits before. If they
> don't affect each other, I'd like to run whichever one has the better
> "Holy S%$#!!!" value.
Missing Blood (the adventure from the UB set) is definitely the one to run
first, I feel. Queen Euphoria is a good adventure to introduce insect
spirits with, but if you run the UB first the players will much more
gradually find out about them, and then they'll encounter some that will
take a _lot_ of power to beat (on both occasions that I ran it, the PCs
ended up running away). It also shows them that the insect spirits aren't
just an isolated nuissance (that's the impression QE leaves, IMHO) but
that they have a rather large power base -- the Universal Brotherhood --
that will make them rather difficult to get rid of.
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