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 Mar 26 2013, 07:15 PM
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#851
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Shooting Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,930 Joined: 9-April 05 From: Scandinavian Union Member No.: 7,310  |
Do you realise how hard it is to have a teaparty when you're 20 meters long and don't have opposable thumbs?
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Mar 26 2013, 07:17 PM
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#852
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 869 Joined: 8-March 02 Member No.: 2,252 |
*snrk* Well done. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)
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Mar 26 2013, 07:27 PM
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#853
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
QUOTE (Lionhearted @ Mar 26 2013, 02:15 PM)  Do you realise how hard it is to have a teaparty when you're 20 meters long and don't have opposable thumbs? Depends, telekinetic powers?Also, I'm reminded of Tiny Tina, who now strikes me as a completely valid Shadowrun Character build, horrible family history and all! |
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Mar 26 2013, 07:34 PM
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#854
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,930 Joined: 9-April 05 From: Scandinavian Union Member No.: 7,310 |
*quick google search later* Hey, she seems like my kind of crazy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Mar 26 2013, 08:08 PM
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#855
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
I'm currently trying to figure out how to build a viable Inquisitor Ravenor.
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Mar 26 2013, 08:25 PM
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#856
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Runner Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,801 Joined: 2-September 09 From: Moscow, Russia Member No.: 17,589 |
Yeah, but why an innate metahuman form? Not obsidimen, not any other? See the humanitycentric agenda of Shadowrun?!
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Mar 26 2013, 08:33 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,930 Joined: 9-April 05 From: Scandinavian Union Member No.: 7,310 |
It's a practical form in a world full of human items, for all we know it's just one of their forms. Dragon magic!
Also wasn't there some off hand comment somewhere about enjoying how metahuman sex feels? |
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Mar 26 2013, 08:37 PM
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#858
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Keeper of the Timeline Maps Group: Members Posts: 410 Joined: 21-December 10 Member No.: 19,243 |
QUOTE (Fatum @ Mar 26 2013, 09:25 PM) Yeah, but why an innate metahuman form? Not obsidimen, not any other? True, if they had all taken the form of pixies, they would probably fit into the bank's vault. Think about how much safer they would be in there! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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Mar 26 2013, 08:42 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,930 Joined: 9-April 05 From: Scandinavian Union Member No.: 7,310 |
If they turned into windlings I'd quit (IMG:style_emoticons/default/eek.gif)
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Mar 26 2013, 08:59 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,139 Joined: 31-March 10 From: UCAS Member No.: 18,391 |
Well not for nothing but that many greats in their natural forms would need a huuuge amount of space to get together and talk. They'd be vulnerable to a couple of corps going 'OOPS.. did we accidentally shoot off 10 Thor shots right there on all those giant Dragons? Our bad... Tee hee"
Metahuman form is the 'prominent and prolific' Sentient form on the planet. Turning into metahumans (( Well looking like them and the size)) Means that the greats could meet in any building that could hold 20 or 30 people in a room and talk. Really cuts down on orbital bombardment possibility. (( or other attack possibilities by anyone that could see 10 to 30 MASSIVE scaled creatures hanging around and arguing with one another. While they could take on pixie form, I imagine the chairs and what not are alot more comfortable if you fit in it. Clothes are a bit easier to find too. |
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Mar 26 2013, 09:21 PM
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#861
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
QUOTE (Pepsi Jedi @ Mar 26 2013, 09:59 PM) Well not for nothing but that many greats in their natural forms would need a huuuge amount of space to get together and talk. They'd be vulnerable to a couple of corps going 'OOPS.. did we accidentally shoot off 10 Thor shots right there on all those giant Dragons? Our bad... Tee hee" QUOTE The dragons remained in their lair and their astral forms met at the place of gathering. Could work too, don't you think? |
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Mar 26 2013, 09:28 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,930 Joined: 9-April 05 From: Scandinavian Union Member No.: 7,310 |
I wouldn't trust another dragon to not send someone to eliminate my body while he knows I'm out... Would you?
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Mar 26 2013, 09:30 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
If I were a dragon, I'd trust in the safety of my lair more than anything else. Besides, Dragons have customs. It's probably bad form to murder other dragons in their laur while holding a council of dragons.
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Mar 26 2013, 09:39 PM
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Runner Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,801 Joined: 2-September 09 From: Moscow, Russia Member No.: 17,589 |
If anything, being in metahuman form when you're all gathered together makes you more vulnerable to a Thor shot. Simply because metahumans are more frail.
Also, hermit, modern-day dragons don't secure their lairs. Ragtag gangs of terrorists or runner teams can easily penetrate if the dragon's not home. |
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Mar 26 2013, 09:42 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
Yeah, because reasons. I forgot. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Mar 26 2013, 09:55 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,139 Joined: 31-March 10 From: UCAS Member No.: 18,391 |
QUOTE (Fatum @ Mar 26 2013, 05:39 PM) If anything, being in metahuman form when you're all gathered together makes you more vulnerable to a Thor shot. Simply because metahumans are more frail. Also, hermit, modern-day dragons don't secure their lairs. Ragtag gangs of terrorists or runner teams can easily penetrate if the dragon's not home. Only if it's known where you are to shoot. Huge dragons in their natural form that can be seen from space, grouped up 10 to 20 of them sitting around stand out alot more than people meeting in some building in some city that can't be seen into. As we've seen from the party hopping Dragon (Damon?) They can change what they look like in metahuman form. Even their sex. They could all show up at a random building in any city in the world looking like Janitors or harmless teen girls or something, then change to their 'usual' Metahuman forms inside. |
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Mar 26 2013, 10:58 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Dude, you got the idea about dragons meeting in their astral bodies?
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Mar 26 2013, 11:16 PM
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Runner Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,801 Joined: 2-September 09 From: Moscow, Russia Member No.: 17,589 |
If you believe major players like the Greats aren't under surveillance with any means possible 24/7, I guess yeah, it's possible pretending to be a metahuman might work for hiding for a while for them.
There's just no reason to believe anything like that. |
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Mar 26 2013, 11:20 PM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
They COULD just go to some metaplane that humanity can't reach . .
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Mar 26 2013, 11:23 PM
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#870
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
You're such a heretic, Stahl.
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Mar 26 2013, 11:28 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,962 Joined: 27-February 13 Member No.: 76,875 |
Let's not forget that the Black Lodge had already hit Lofwyr. Seems like they're being forced to come to the realization that metahumanity is capable of posing a threat to them, and so you can expect them to take that into account.
As for Thor Shots, by taking metahuman form in the middle of a city and keeping people from knowing who you are or what's going on, you radically decrease the chances that they'll even try. |
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Mar 26 2013, 11:30 PM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
QUOTE (hermit @ Mar 27 2013, 12:23 AM) You're such a heretic, Stahl. Kharn is a pretty nice guy. |
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Mar 26 2013, 11:31 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
QUOTE Seems like they're being forced to come to the realization that metahumanity is capable of posing a threat to them, and so you can expect them to take that into account. Because Feuerschwinge being downed by the German Air Force wasn't enough of a wake-up call. It needed a thoroughly senseless attack by the New World Order. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) QUOTE Kharn is a pretty nice guy. Worst babysitting gig. EVER. No wonder he snapped. |
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Mar 27 2013, 12:10 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,962 Joined: 27-February 13 Member No.: 76,875 |
QUOTE (hermit @ Mar 26 2013, 05:31 PM) Because Feuerschwinge being downed by the German Air Force wasn't enough of a wake-up call. It needed a thoroughly senseless attack by the New World Order. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Add to that the fact that they have anti-dragon weapons, downed the Destroyer, and that the Black Lodge is gunning for, at the very least, Lofwyr? |
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Mar 27 2013, 12:16 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,647 Joined: 22-April 12 From: somewhere far beyond sanity Member No.: 51,886 |
His point was, that the attack of pointlessness perpetrated by the Black Lodge wasn't really the wake up call to tell the dragons that mortals are dangerous. That happened years earlier when a few jets downed a great.
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