| From: | Scott Wheelock iscottw@*****.nb.ca |
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| Subject: | The New Big Baddie |
| Date: | Tue, 27 Jul 1999 01:01:27 -0300 |
] > mmmmmmm. spoiler space.
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] Does it taste as good as organised crime?
(Or my favourite: Mmmmmm......sacri-licious.....)
Warning: Spoiler space now covers The Forever Drug, too. Watch it!
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] >10) Blood Mage Gestalt - ?
] > >Not exactly. IIRC, one of the gestalts has been destroyed - probably
] the most powerful. I also understand that there are multiple gestalts.
] Now, I could be wrong, but even if I was, and even if all the gestalts
] were destroyed in DHS, Aztechnology still knows how to set them up.
] <SnipMe(TM)>
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] > Ahhh, but if you have read Corporate Download (which you haven't
] ;P). Then you would know that there seems to be a new policy wrt blood
] mages. They are on the outs politically. My theory is that they were
] Darke's (Oscuro's) pet project, and when he cacked it, the new power
] players didn't want to continue them. This doesn't mean that they
] still are not a threat, just not quite as great of one.
Geez...I still don't know who wrote the above :P Shouldn't be so
quick with the 'Trash' button. But whoever it is, I've read Corporate
Download, and I just skimmed it...where is that reference? I could
only find something like it in the Game Information section: "With the
rise of Domingo Chavez and the fall of Oscuro, blood mages have lost
much of their support and privilege. They still remain, though they
are less public and active; some are hiding while others have
maintained their positions of power within Aztechnology by siding with
Chavez." (CD, pp 128)
I wouldn't say they're 'on the outs politically,' I'd say some
individuals that happen to be blood mages are on the outs. And I don't
think the new power players don't want to continue them, it's just they
are used for more mundane things (high-level security, rituals),
instead of bringing about the end of the world, a real downgrade in
status. They're there, but they aren't so galdarned important anymore
(which must tick some of them off, eh?)
] > >*Doc' sets up a tag team wrestling match between Lofwyr and the
] Atlantean Foundation vs. Mr. Darke's successor and the Blood Mage
] Gestalt...bets, anyone?*
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] > I say it's the Ordo Maximus with the pin after storming the ring. :)
] > Geoff Haacke
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] I'll give you 3 to 1 on that. I think the Black Lodge will take out the
] Ordo Maximus in the carpark before the match and drop Owen Hart's
] zombie into the ring to take out the survivors of the initial match.
Yet somehow an enterprising team of shadowrunners will make off with
the belt...you know it'll happen. And speaking of happy endings in
novels, I was pleased to find that the end of The Forever Drug produced
no such thing...a little Laes for what ails ya? (oh yeah, Doc'....you
were irritated by the near-constant use of the word 'Frig' in that
book...I think it was meant to inject a little Maritime flavour. Not
that we all go 'round spouting 'Frig' and 'aboot'....well, okay, we do
say 'aboot.' Anyway, I thought it was nice to see my neck of the woods
represented in a novel. Now we just need a SOURCEBOOK!)
-Murder of One
