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Uncle Fisty  Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928  |
If the Emporer is 14 when he takes the throne at the beginning of 2062, this should place the marriage squarely in 2064. I don't have my SOTA 2064 handy at the moment, but I sure don't remember seeing that one in there. So what happened!? Incidentally, isn't Hitomi the young girl form the novel Psychotrope, meaning that the new Empress of Japan would be an Otaku? |
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Jul 27 2005, 10:28 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 527 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,118 |
If she marries him at all. I figure it's just as likely she'd vanish into the underworld, given her abilities, than consent to an arranged marriage from a father with whom her relationship is, as described in that bizarre and horrifying novel that I can never unread, not exactly the textbook example of strict conformity to parental mandates nor to parents having their childrens' best interests in mind. Of course, if technomancer powers are magical/cyberphobic in nature in SR4, Hitomi is supposed to have miraculously survived a near-total-drain by a vampire, which would leave her Essence hovering below 1.0. That'd make her irreconcilable with any technomancer potential and thus faded/burned-out come the Matrix 2.0.
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Jul 27 2005, 10:49 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 530 Joined: 11-June 05 Member No.: 7,441 |
At that age, she won't remain otaku very long...
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Jul 27 2005, 10:56 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
yeah, she'll fade until 2065-2070 then suddenly become a technomancer. ;) |
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Jul 27 2005, 11:00 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 527 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,118 |
Well, one of the wonderful absurdities of Psychotrope was that the otaku created by the aforementioned Psychotrope/Mirage entity were all adults and presumably somehow immune to the age-related degradation of ability associated with a standard otaku.
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Jul 27 2005, 11:05 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
Red Wraith is the oldest IIRC. Or is it Darkfather?
Thanks for bringing that up BTW WireKnight. It's been some years since I read that one, and I was beginning to wonder if I'd just imagined the AI being called Psychotrope (after the psychtropic conditioning it used to make them otaku I think). |
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Jul 27 2005, 11:40 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,453 |
Wasn't she also infected with HMHVV?
Though some heavy-duty medical procedures paid for by daddy kept the virus from breaking out entirely... |
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Jul 27 2005, 01:58 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
I suggest waiting for Shadows of Asia, which should be available pretty fragging soon.
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Jul 27 2005, 02:39 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 527 Joined: 30-January 04 Member No.: 6,043 |
Maybe she was infected, maybe not. Daddy allowed the vampire attack to happen so he could test a possible HMHVV vaccine.
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Jul 27 2005, 02:56 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,453 Joined: 17-September 04 From: St. Paul Member No.: 6,675 |
I love and hate it when you hint like that. :love: :( |
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Jul 27 2005, 03:24 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,314 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lisbon, Cidade do Pecado Member No.: 185 |
Then there's also the tidbit people seem to have missed about Hitomi being kidnapped in SOTA:64...
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Jul 27 2005, 03:38 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 639 Joined: 22-April 02 Member No.: 2,638 |
Kidnapped, or extracted?
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Jul 27 2005, 04:10 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,314 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lisbon, Cidade do Pecado Member No.: 185 |
Now that would be telling... anyway the truth will be revealed soon enough.
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Jul 27 2005, 04:10 PM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
Nevermind.
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Jul 27 2005, 05:21 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Bizzare and horrifying? Unhealthy familial relationships?
Hmmmmmm. This sounds like a book I may just need to read. |
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Jul 27 2005, 06:31 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,632 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Portland Oregon, USA Member No.: 1,304 |
I must say it's Smedmans best.
Of course I like all of her stuff, more or less. She's no Nigel Findley, but who is? |
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Jul 27 2005, 07:30 PM
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Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill. Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,545 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gloomy Boise Idaho Member No.: 2,006 |
Mel Odon was always my fav beside Nigel. Nigel had a habbit of refereing to old tech to get the job done. The main character in one of his books used a 50 year old Barret and a 100 year old Barracuda. Something about people in the future using old time tech to do things always rang wrong with me.
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Jul 27 2005, 10:01 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,512 Joined: 16-August 03 From: Northampton Member No.: 5,499 |
How many was there? Red Wraith, Oldest i think by a long shot Bloody guts. Troll, early twenties? Hitomi, i got the impression she was around the age of 14 or so... was there one or two more?? |
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Jul 28 2005, 03:54 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
there was also the teacher lady with the slashed wrists
Now that just isn't nice, tease. We've beenfraggin' waiting! :( |
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Jul 28 2005, 04:47 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
Took me a while to find it. Completely missed it the first time.
Now that there makes me wonder if perhaps Hitomi has been converted over to the dissonance, like they were trying w/ Sygzy or whoever in Threats 2. If so, I'll bet that'll have lots to do in System Failure, AI's duking it out with each other's pet Otaku and all. Edit: hehe, brought my book to work tonight! This post has been edited by fistandantilus3.0: Jul 28 2005, 04:58 AM |
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Jul 28 2005, 08:11 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,314 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lisbon, Cidade do Pecado Member No.: 185 |
Cool, the Dissonant Otaku Vampire Empress of Japan (seems like something Warren Ellis would have dreamt up along with Sumatran Robot Death Sluts)...
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Jul 28 2005, 08:24 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
Yeah, which I never would have worried about if you hadn't brought up the reference I completely missed. Now there's something else to fear for my runners. And just when the Emporer was getting so nice, gets a shrew "Dissonant Otaku Vampire Empress of Japan" .
I actually hope it doesn't swing this way though. I remember rooting for Hitomi after just the first section of that book. Got a bum deal to begin with, then gets screwed with by Pax? ouch. Good make a nice adversary for the slitch though if she wasn't converted. And JongWK, don't say "I suggest waiting for Shadows of Asia". I'll cry. :( |
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Jul 28 2005, 12:58 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,078 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 67 |
Hah, exactly. Hitomi used to bother me a lot because of the otaku/vampire stuff from Psychotrope. Being that it's there, I tend to look at it from a different point of view now, that she is a wonderful example of how truly fucked up Japan in SR is. :P |
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Jul 28 2005, 02:07 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
Sigged! :P |
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Jul 28 2005, 02:10 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
You think you're having it bad? Think about us. :( |
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