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Subject: Flashlife   V3 #5
To: flashlife@kpc.com

From: Carl Rigney (moderator) <flashlife-request@kpc.com>


Flashlife  Tue, 5 May, 1992   Volume 3 : Issue 5

Today's topics:

  Administrivia			(Moderator)
  SRun Deck Questions		(Jason Yohn)
  Names List Offer		(pargwe)
  There's a new kid in town	(m484443r)
  SR combat system		(Joonas)

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Date: Tue,  5 May 92 11:11:11 PST
From: flashlife-request@kpc.com (Moderator)
Subject: Administrivia

The list continues to grow in membership but hardly anyone ever submits
anything.  Possibly this is because everyone's using rec.games.frp for
all their Shadowrun discussions, in which case that's fine.  But if the
list doesn't get enough activity to justify the overhead of maintaining
it then I suspect I'll institute minac to trim the list back to the size
I originally intended it to be, a list for Shadowrun GM's to trade ideas
on.

--
Carl Rigney
flashlife-request@kpc.com


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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 19:47:48 CST
From: Jason Yohn <jcy@cpu.com>
Subject: SRun Deck Questions

Hello, Got some questions.  Some complete answers would be greatly appreciated.

1. If a Hermetic mage builds a hermetic circle (For Example: a Rating 5
	circle for conjuring Fire Elementals) and pays the cost for the
	supplies (5 * 1000 = 5000 nuyen), does he have to pay or do
	anything else to uses it a second( at a later date), third, etc,
	time or can he just activate it and use it?

[You can reuse the circle but you have to buy new summoning materials
 for each summoning. --CDR]

2. How is the availability rating determine for decks?
	If a Fuchi Cyber-7 is built with Response Level-2, how does this
	effect its availability rating? How about other options (Hardening)?
	If a user builds a deck completly different from any of the standard
	decks, and wants to sell it, how would the availability rating be
	determined?

3. If a decker wants to build a deck to sell for profit, does he have to
	build the MPCP or is this something that the customer will supply
	for himself?  (As per pg. 32 of the Virtual Realities)
	So this would imply to build a Fuchi Cyber-7 for sell would take:

	Base Time  1272 days  -   800 days  (for the MPCP) = 472 days
	Cook Time    71 days  -    30 days  (for the MPCP) =  41 days
	Cost     101100 nuyen - 50000 nuyen (for the MPCP) = 51100 nuyen

	So a decker building a deck for himself would have to spend
	1272 days Base Time to build it.  But if he were building it
	to sell as a street deck, it would only take 472 days because
	the MPCP would not be included.
	And it would sell for a base price of 1,112,100 nuyen.

4. I need addtional explanations on computer skills.
	A. How are the concentrations under Computer, Computer B/R, and
	Computer Theory used?
	B. Which are used to Build a deck?
	C. Which are used to Write persona programs?
	D. Which are used to Write "flygram" programs?
	E. Are the Computer or Computer B/R skills ever used to build
	a program?
	F. Can someone list each of the concentrations and/or specializations
	under the three above skills, AND EXAMPLES OF HOW EACH IS USED.

5. What is happening in Tibet?  Is it still magically sealed off from the
	rest of the world?

	Thank You
	Jason (no net handle yet)

My e-mail address is: jcy@cpu.com



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Date: Mon, 23 March 1992 12:20:00
From: pargwe@morekypr.netcom.com
Subject: Names List Offer	

    Back in the Fall of '89, I began collecting names for use in stories and
games.  After 3 years of hard and and often painful work, I have collected
approximately 8,500 names for everyone to share and enjoy.

    Some of the names are real tongue-twisters.  Some are plain.
Some are interesting.  Many are unforgetable.  Here is an example of the first
6 lines of the B's.....

B'jan                Babette              Babs                 Babthorp
Bachylar             Bade                 Bader                Baduhildi
Baehloew             Baelraeth            Baeron               Baggins
Bagotby              Bagtruhe             Bahrair              Bailey
Bain                 Bairdo               Bairghith            Bakar
Baker                Bakster              Balain               Balbi

    The Names List is a _HUGE_ file.  It takes nearly 70K to store it.
It arrives in 7 parts, and will be labeled as to the order they go in.

    If you would like a copy, then write me at PARGWE@MOREKYPR.BITNET.
Please enclose alternative addresses (if possible).  I will try to send
the entire Names List within a week.  If you don't recieve the Names List,
then write me back.

    If you have any questions, --==**FLAMES**==--, or comments, feel free
to write me.

-- 
Earl Pargen
PARGWE@MOREKYPR.BITNET



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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 14:44:46 EDT
From: m484443r@edinboro.edu
Subject: There's a new kid in town

[I removed the insipid >>>> <<<< style of quoting; just give us the
words, flashie. --CDR]

I justculled of the Shadowland net an interesting bit of info. This
gets interesting, chummers!

Everybody knows that the Country of Aztlan is south of here, right?

Well, I'll bet nobody cares what's south of that, huh?

There is a rising star in the world called Incan (pronounced
IN'-KHAN).  It occupies what was once Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and part
of Brazil. This country is ruled by a man known only as The Inca. He
came into power in Peru in the year 2033 following a very bloody coup.
He is sweeping the country with reforms which, if successful, will
revert the country back to Ancient Incan times.

What I found on the public Datanet is even more interesting.

There is a very ancient myth concerning the return of the Inca. When
the conquistadores and Francisco Pizarro crossed the Isthmus of Panama
in the early 1500's they realized that they were runing out of money,
so they tried to cut back across, but they had sailed a little too far
south, so they would have been cutting across Ecuador.

As they travelled east, they also bent south (those crazy Spaniards) so
that they entered Peru.

Now you all know about how greedy the Spaniards were when it came to
gold, right? Then I don't need to explain that.

Well, in 1533 they killed the Inca, because he wouldn't convert to
Christianity (Funny story, but too long to put here. EMAIL me 4 it.) by
the conquistadores and his head severed was from his body. The
Spaniards took his head and buried it in Lima, the Capital of modern
day Incan. The body was buried in Macchu Pichu, some ways to the East.

The legend of the Inca is that the body, though dead, still was
growing. When the body grew to reach the head, the Inca would be
reborn, he would rule again, the `indios' would have their lives back,
and there would be major trouble for the rest of the world.

Scary stuff, huh chummer?



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Date: Mon, 4 May 92 19:07:23 EET DST
From: joonas@jytko.jyu.fi (Joonas)
Subject: SR combat system

What do you think about Shadowruns combat system? Me and my players
think it is little too easy, you have to wield machinegun if you want
to do any damage to anybody who has even little armour. We use weapons
power level for staging: if yo shoot someone with hvy pistol (4M2) you
would have to get FOUR succeses instead of two in the original
rules..Yes, they are more deadly, but that's ok due all the healing
magic and first aid. An other question is about the SR heling spells, I
think it's not 'right' that players can get up and walk after just one
spell even if they were just minutes before bleeding to death..What do
you think??

	[Its no surprise that you think its too easy if you use the
	power for staging; you make it nearly impossible to stage up.
	I require 2 successes to stage up any weapon, and their listed
	staging to stage down.  This makes the high-staging weapons
	much deadlier. --CDR]

-- 
Joonas Lyytinen
joonas@sh5.jyu.fi



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