Can we beatt he Horrors?, It needed its own thread. Options

[kevyn668]

The seeping will continue for a day or so depending on..well, a bunch of mundane things like alcohol intake, cigarettes, movement, etc. Don't be worried about that, either.

So, how'd ya do it?

[Kagetenshi]

Well, in my spare time I sharpen knives. I take pride in keeping all of the knives in this house obscenely sharp. Earlier today, I was somewhat distracted cutting something, and just sorta swiped it across the upper part of my forearm by accident. I look down, expecting to have a little scratch, and there's this big hole in my arm that is colours that aren't found on the surface layers of skin. It was... a tad unnerving.
Nonsmoker, nondrinker, probably not moving much, and with the temperature supposed to hit 20 below tonight. I think those are good conditions for reduced bloodflow :)

~J

[kevyn668]

yeah, you'll be fine. I've had several experiences with similar results due to "poor judgement calls". Its gonna smart for few weeks though. :)

[Joker9125]

if you want my .02 :nuyen: go see a doctor

[Kagetenshi]

I might just do that tomorrow, depending on the degree, if any, to which it appears to have healed.

~J

[Kagetenshi]

I think my mutant healing factor must be kicking into play. The tissue damage beneath the skin layer had sealed up by the time I took the bandage off last night, there hasn't been enough blood seeping out to get past the edges of the wound, and now it just looks like a rather nasty surface cut rather than the creepy gaping hole it was yesterday. Thank you all for the well-wishes and advice, and I now return you to your regularly scheduled topic (if it hasn't sorta naturally died out, as it seems to have).

~J

[northern lights]

yeah, you hijacked it pretty thouroughly, though i don't think you needed to inflicy any bodily harm...

[toturi]

Somebody call a topic doctor! 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5... Breathe, thread, breathe!

GO HUMANS!

[Kagetenshi]

Topic doctor? Can he fix my arm? ;)

~J

[GunnerJ]

I'm interested to hear about what happened to Chantrel.

[Kagetenshi]

Me too...

~J

[danbot37]

You're telling me it took blood magic to hijack the thread? Little severe, don't ya think?
lol

[Phaeton]

[toturi]

Oh god, Kage's one of them! Blood magic! Quick! Someone get Kege's scalp, there's a bounty on it!

[Phaeton]

Shocklock and load, baby! *whips out a chrome-plated SPAS-22 loaded with monowire bola rounds* I'MA ROUND ME UP DAT VARMINT!

[Kagetenshi]

Phaeton's remains have been sent to his next-of-kin in a very small box. Have a nice day :)

~J

[Phaeton]

:dead:

[Doomdspair]

So, aren't toxic shamans and all the other stuff listed in the threats stuff alive and kicking? From my own readings, the world of Shadowrun isn't exactly a model of <meta>human dominance over magic and a magical world. Humans have had their asses handed to them and they've not exactly made great strides towards civilizing the world again.

Horrors <boy has it been a while> never came across to me as the types of things that ever attacked in armies. They're the stuff of horror movies and nightmares. There would be some physical fighty type horrors, but there would be a lot more that attacked humanity from within, and they'd infiltrate humanity long before we could mount a world wide defense. It would be a great bug hunt apocalyptic game setting. (if that kind of depressing setting is your bag).

Now I was never an Earthdawn fanatic, but from what little I can remember about the high level book, Earthdawn armies were easily as powerful as anything SR armies could manage short of nukes. <Heck, and even there I'm not so sure, I think some of the upper level spells/talents were basically tactical nukes>. The talents in ED are incredibly powerful....and the horrors still kick their asses.

I doubt either side can convince the other in this debate. I'd have to say that if the Horrors were ever brought into shadowrun, that they'd of course be unbeatable <not to say that individual horrors can't be beaten, just as a whole they cannot>. If they are something a group of twinkies can chew up and spit out, then they aren't exactly horrors.

[Kagetenshi]

I believe that by the time they cross over, defeating the Horrors will be well within the capability of humanity.
Whether or not they will actually pull it off is an entirely different matter, and very much in question.

~J

[Phaeton]

My summary of the possible outcomes:

A) We'll have the technology, we'll just be too corrupted and/or stupid to use it.

B) We'll have the will and the drive, but not the equipment.

C) We will have both and will kick some monstrous ass.

[Rattler]

D) We will have neither and get creamed.

[kevyn668]

[northern lights]

ok

this is ALL from memory cause i am moving and everything is packed away

if i recall the entry in the horrors sourcebook was from chantrell's point of view. she proceeded to tell of her time with the horror and it's mutilation of her loved ones and also (i think) the part where she tried to kill herself to get away from it.

i have only read this entry once, and it was about 4 years ago, but i think that she is doing well and recollecting all this in some little village somewhere. she tells her story, then goes back home and the horror has another of her loved ones strung up mid-flaying after it's 15 year abscence or whatever. i THINK that is how the entry ends. rather open ended if you ask me.

again, THIS IS ALL FROM MEMORY, so it could be like the 4th age artificer nuke and a total error on my part, but no one else answered, so...

[Req]

Yup, something like that. C'sH chewed up everyone Chantrel ever loved, and in the end she tried to kill herself and failed. Then the Horror took like a fifteen year break, so Chantrel could heal up. Then she told her story. And then she went home and found her husband and son strewn about the living room. I know that one of them had had all their organs removed, thinly sliced, and laid out around their wholly-intact body (astral slice for dissection!).

[GoldenAri]

I imagine C'sH just kept torturing her until if was forced to leave because falling tide of mana. At which point Chantrell lived out the rest of her life. Which means when it can finally return it's going to be looking for a new meal.