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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  |
He lacks the blood on his mouth. But that has propably been washed away while he was swimming.
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Nov 2 2005, 03:13 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
You are confusing different Brackhavens. Kenneth Brackhaven: Head of Brackhaven Industries, former presidential candidate. Karl Brackhaven: Head of Humanis Seattle, grandfather of Tiffany Brackhaven, uncle of Kenneth Brackhaven. |
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Nov 2 2005, 03:35 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 |
That Tiffany who was supposed to ran away from home to hook up with ork rappers?
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Nov 2 2005, 04:48 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
Aye. She is. :grinbig: 'Who let the trogs out?' edit: Once you go ork... |
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Nov 2 2005, 04:52 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,718 Joined: 14-September 02 Member No.: 3,263 |
...you get the taste for...?
EDIT: DON'T HIT THE NEXT BUTTON FROM THIS LINKED PICTURE IF YOU ARE AT WORK!!! Those crazy euros and their s3x toy containing ads. 8) Thanks for the heads up Trax, apologies if anyone got curious and got burnt on that. :( P.S. Human civilization really did run out of new literary plots some time back, didn't we. ;) |
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Nov 2 2005, 06:11 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
Is that image safe for work? Just wondering since, well, I'm at work. :P |
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Nov 2 2005, 06:17 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
I would say so, unless you work for a church group or an extreme animal-rights group.
~J |
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Nov 2 2005, 06:24 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,718 Joined: 14-September 02 Member No.: 3,263 |
Hrmmm, i can't vouch for the the site in general. It's one of those funny picture ad sites, things that you'd see in public anyway. But i guess it could include european print ads which tend to be a bit racier.
The specific picture i linked was an actual billboard put up by a the pork marketing council in Saskatchewan (Canada). Although G on the surface, it had [likely intentionally] sly wording that made it more PG like subtle stuff in Shrek (an overall PG rated movie). It created a bit of a stir there with the Bible Belt types ( like my Mom :P ) and got taken down shortly after launch. |
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Nov 2 2005, 06:33 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
Awww... it's a nice little ad. Very funny.
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Nov 2 2005, 07:03 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 2-January 05 From: Quebec Member No.: 6,924 |
Don't hit next to see the next ad, that is definately NSFW.
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Nov 2 2005, 09:53 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 123 Joined: 7-October 05 From: Glow City Safehouse Member No.: 7,821 |
oops. Wires got crossed somewhere with the names (Too simular I guess.) Still, the initial point is valid. Kenneth was doing the 'kinder, gentler' version of humanis, but really wasn't hiding his views on metahumans aka 'mutations'. |
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Nov 3 2005, 07:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 7-February 03 Member No.: 4,025 |
Yeah, Saskatchewan is a hotbed of controversy. ;)
Another often overlooked aspect of dealing with Humanis is the number of sympathizers who are not foaming at the mouth racists, but looking for some way to cut down on a) crime, which they are told is most often committed by metas and b) taxes, which they are told is funding metahuman special interest groups. I know I'm just echoing here, but the power of the policlub is in its influence. You really have to figure that most of your human contacts may have bought into humanis's message to some degree. And in the shadows, who's ear can they bend? Here's an example. Your fixer has a favourite nephew who disappeared in a race riot in another city just a couple of weeks ago. He's miffed, but doesn't know who to be miffed with. Coupla days later, a source 'suggests' that the nephew was raped and flayed to death by orcs 'cause "everybody knows they do that." Now, the fixer is a smart guy, and probably isn't gonna put together a run to bomb an ophanage for orcs. He probably even still deals with metas, but are his orc contacts gonna get the cushy, lucrative jobs, or the crappy ones? What kinda gear is he gonna sell them? What if his helpful source wants to know what Mr. orc is up to "because we think they might be planning another riot." |
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Nov 3 2005, 07:49 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Or, alternatively, being well-aquainted with orks, he knows that that is the ultimate stupidity, and replaces the Fixer hat with the Mr. Johnson hat for a while, and pays some of his brightest Shadowrunners to find his nephew. It's probably an easy thing to do - he can pay them in :nuyen:, he can arrange for something they want to fall off the back of the hovercraft, he can arrange for any Lone Star evidence about their wrongdoings to go bye-bye...
In short, Fixers make the best Johnsons. |
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Nov 3 2005, 09:00 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
No. No they do not. That is a really awesome way for a fixer to get a Hung Out to Dry flaw, though.
Individual agendas scare people. I know I would think twice and then walk from a fixer who parleyed his fixering skills too far into Johnson territory. ~J |
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Nov 3 2005, 09:44 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 |
If the 6th World would be so easy (or so black vs. white), how much fun would it offer? ;) |
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Nov 3 2005, 10:00 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
with frickn' laser beams... |
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Nov 3 2005, 10:07 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
Nice one. :-D
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Nov 3 2005, 11:40 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,219 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lofwyr's stomach. Member No.: 1,320 |
Come on people, it's called a favor for a friend run, and it's an integral part of any good game. Sometimes people do things for reasons other than money. Sometimes some things are more important than your business. I could easily see a fixer doing either of those things. Be careful of having your NPCs do the smart or logical thing every time. Look around you. When was the last time humanity behaved reasonably? Have your NPcs do stuff that doesn't make sense to do. Real pepole do little else. :) |
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Nov 4 2005, 06:13 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 745 Joined: 26-July 03 From: Montréal, QC, Canada Member No.: 5,029 |
Karl Brackhaven heads up the Seattle chapter of the Humanis. His nephew Kenneth ran for president. |
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Nov 4 2005, 01:25 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
*taps Velocity's shoulder, and points at JongWK's previous post* ;)
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Nov 4 2005, 05:44 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 745 Joined: 26-July 03 From: Montréal, QC, Canada Member No.: 5,029 |
D'oh! :oops:
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Nov 4 2005, 05:51 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
*hands Velocity a Drop Bear Dunce Cap... w/ frickn' laser beams...*
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Nov 7 2005, 02:53 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
dog brought up a really good point. The mouth foaming redneck bigots are cannon fodder but the real risk come from the oh so polite ones who almost sound logical. these are more likely to get followers behind them because it isn't so bad and maybe just might make a little snese. DLN has a IC thread in the gamer's corner along those lines over at underworld93.
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