 Looking for Ghostwalker info, Trying to find where he first shows up. |
  |
 Feb 5 2006, 09:56 PM
Post
#1
|
|
|
Target  Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 14-January 04 Member No.: 5,981  |
I recently aquired Dragons of the 6th World after having been out of SR for several years. I've got Dunkelzahn's Will (otherwise known as Portfolio of a Dragon), so I know about the Astral Rift created by his death. From what I'm reading in the Dragons of the 6th World, Ghostwalker came out of that rift and essentially claimed Denver as his own turf.
I'm assuming this was probably covered a bit more in depth in a sourcebook/adventure/novel, but so far I haven't been able to figure out which one. Could someone please point me in the right direction? -Dwarf |
 |
 
|
|
Feb 5 2006, 10:04 PM
Post
#2
|
|
|
Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
Year of the Comet
|
|
|
|
| Guest_MK Ultra_* |
Feb 5 2006, 10:14 PM
Post
#3
|
|
Guests |
SL James is right, and youd probably find the most exhaustive info on him there besids dot6w.
If you´rstill looking for more, you´d find bits and pieces in Shadows of North America and in the Survival of the Fittest champaign. |
|
|
|
|
Feb 5 2006, 10:29 PM
Post
#4
|
|
|
ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Yup, YotC. And I highly recommend it. It's a great read, even if you're not running it specifically.
|
|
|
|
| Guest_MK Ultra_* |
Feb 5 2006, 10:53 PM
Post
#5
|
|
Guests |
second that! I never found the time to set a game in 61/62 but it was realy fun to read anyway. Than again, i´m reading sb 6 adventure moduls from different rpg´s just like other people would read novels.
And since I´ve got a flatrate, I´m surfing forums like others watch tv I´m afraid. I digressed, but YOTC is really recomandable :) . Edit: I´ll go offline now, and get my ling depraved fix of southpark now, and than a dose of sleap, I guess. |
|
|
|
|
Feb 5 2006, 11:26 PM
Post
#6
|
|
|
Target Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: 3-February 06 Member No.: 8,223 |
If you want deep backround, you might wanna check out The Ancient Files. If that aint enough for you, I can give you some of the ED Backround as well.
|
|
|
|
|
Feb 6 2006, 12:36 AM
Post
#7
|
|
|
ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
The campaign I'm running right now is YotC based. They started out by planting evidence that got Novatech's Lead Telemetry Control Technician arrested on charges of corporate espionage.
What they don't know, is that due to their actions, the Whipple will go off course and fail to reach the comet. (The guy that contracted the job was number two in line on the project, and he's secretly working for Ares from the inside. :D) Lots of awesome stuff to have the runners do. |
|
|
|
|
Feb 6 2006, 03:10 AM
Post
#8
|
|
|
Target Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 14-January 04 Member No.: 5,981 |
Thanks for the Ancient Files link Beaumis. I've spent most of the day perusing it and so far have only scratched the surface. Definately gives me some ideas on what books I need to complete my 'collection'. :)
-Dwarf |
|
|
|
|
Feb 6 2006, 04:13 AM
Post
#9
|
|
|
Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Heh.
|
|
|
|
|
Feb 6 2006, 04:14 AM
Post
#10
|
|
|
Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
Ya feeling all warm and fuzzy, Ancient? :-)
|
|
|
|
|
Feb 6 2006, 05:14 AM
Post
#11
|
|
|
Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Only when I can finally finish these verdamnt updates...
|
|
|
|
|
Feb 6 2006, 07:52 AM
Post
#12
|
|
|
Target Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: 3-February 06 Member No.: 8,223 |
Ancient files are among the best of RPG online resources I've ever seen. Keep that going. ;)
|
|
|
|
|
Feb 6 2006, 09:04 AM
Post
#13
|
|||
|
Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Make sure the runners get to know this. |
||
|
|
|
||
| Guest_MK Ultra_* |
Feb 6 2006, 10:20 PM
Post
#14
|
|
Guests |
Do your players ever get the story without free tickets? Maybe I´m just giving to little hints (to little pc experiance I guess).
Off topic: BTW, didn´t get much sleap after my southpark, ´cause I stumbled acros the super bowl 8) . Sad the Seahawks didn´t make it :( , had a good start. Ducks to escape beating by cybered steelers fans :rollin: |
|
|
|
|
Feb 6 2006, 10:25 PM
Post
#15
|
|
|
Running, running, running Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,220 Joined: 18-October 04 From: North Carolina Member No.: 6,769 |
MK Ultra Walks into a darkened room..
<purrsht, click, clack BRRREWP....> |
|
|
|
| Guest_MK Ultra_* |
Feb 6 2006, 10:36 PM
Post
#16
|
|
Guests |
All of my chars got IR-cybereyes! :P
|
|
|
|
|
Feb 7 2006, 03:29 AM
Post
#17
|
|||||||
|
ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
They already know that he has stepped into position as Lead Technician. It was all over the news. [ Spoiler ]
I'm trying to get them off their collective duffs and doing some actual work. To me, a huge part of SR is trying to put the pieces together. As a runner, why would you have access to any "real" information? How can you be a temporary and deniable asset if you know everything? Too many games of late (read: in which I was a player) involved the old "you're in too deep, sorry bout that, guess it's time to become a corp or syndicate stooge" routine, simply because the idea was to tell the story (although very well, and not in a railroading fashion at all), because of trying to "involve" the characters too much too soon. My GMing focus is the players/characters. This game is being run as if it were these character's real lives. Sure, it's the Year of the Comet, but they're just people. (That happen to get randomly involved with tons of comet-related work, but hey, in 2061, it's all comet related. :)) They haven't chased down the info, and the Johnsons and Fixers aren't giving it away for free. When the characters start getting nosy, they'll find out the whys and the whos. Until then, they know what they see. |
||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
Feb 7 2006, 04:49 AM
Post
#18
|
|
|
Target Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 14-January 04 Member No.: 5,981 |
OK, kinda but sorta not really along the lines of the original question, is there a website or resource anywhere that collects info on the various Personalities (with a capital P) that 'post' in the various sourcebooks?
I know a number of them are supposedly legendary names in the Shadowrun world (Fastjack, Steel Lynx, Hatchetman, Nightfire to name a few), but it's difficult to figure out much of their stories from the books I've got (Hatchetman was handled in Cybertechnology, but the rest are a lot more vague). I did check the Ancient History, but the closest I could come there was the list of Great Dragons and Immortal Elves. -Dwarf |
|
|
|
|
Feb 7 2006, 08:02 PM
Post
#19
|
|||
|
Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,095 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Ontari-airee-o Member No.: 1,115 |
If this was done anywhere ... it should be done on the Shadowrun Wiki under personalities or something. |
||
|
|
|
||
|
Feb 8 2006, 05:27 AM
Post
#20
|
|
|
Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
If you want to know the details of GW's return, pick up the novel The Burning Time by Steve Kenson.
|
|
|
|
|
Feb 8 2006, 12:52 PM
Post
#21
|
|
|
Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
What are you on, 3.0? It might be tangentially related, but, and I feel I must pop this bubble for the rest of you...
...TALON DID NOT BRING BACK GHOSTWALKER. |
|
|
|
|
Feb 8 2006, 02:37 PM
Post
#22
|
|
|
Target Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: 3-February 06 Member No.: 8,223 |
About the famous runners, they are supposed to be enigmas. People like fastjack never appeared in any book for a reason. The only places they used to appear in was the runner talk they used to have un sourcebooks in 2nd ED when they started to give the books a shadowland flavor. (Basically every book had it except the primary rule concered ones.)
If there is info to gather, it is not much. I recall legends about Fastjack beeing a former member of echo mirrage. I also know that severall statements from Shadowtech, Fields of Fire and I believe cybertechnology suggest that he is a "pure" decker, as in, not really running the shadows. He's a king in the matrix but he never actually goes out to get in the thick. (Multiple comments in the former mentioned books suggest that he has no cyberware beyond matrixware and little to no bioware. They also suggest he is not too fond of guns.) Hangfire, I cant recall exactly if it was him, but I do remeber an argument between him and the neon samurai (I believe in fields of fire, on the page with the Ares Laser) about the murder or Neons father. The basic story was that Neon claims that Ares killed his father and Hangfire uploaded a video showing Neon killing him. This would suggest he works for Ares. An always welcome commentaor was Winter Rat, who is not a runner but works for Winter Systems. I know Steel Lynx does have info somewhere, but I cannot recall where I read it. Im pretty sure he was an average samurai. Other people of note would be Captain Chaos who basically runs shadowland and is a close friend of Hatchetman. Of course the crowd around Twist, but I dont think I need to tell anybody about those. Then there would be Argent and the wrecking crew, you can read about them in several novels (2XS & The one with Rick Larson undercover, cant recall the title). Ignore anything that makes mention of them and doesnt have Nigel Findley on its cover. Some other guy used Argent as a character in one of his novels and poor Nigel would turn in his grave if he knew. That's all that comes to mind right now. @Ancient. Your damn right he didnt. And Talon is by definition one of the shadowrun unwortiest characters around. |
|
|
|
| Guest_MK Ultra_* |
Feb 8 2006, 03:39 PM
Post
#23
|
|
Guests |
Well Fast Jack actually does apear in a short story presented in way into the shadows!
EDIT: Allso, ther is info on him in Target Matrix. |
|
|
|
|
Feb 8 2006, 08:08 PM
Post
#24
|
|
|
Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
As far as I know/am concerned Fastjack was Tom Dowd's baby, but Nigel Findley made him the uber-decker he is now through various things he wrote about Fastjack in First and early Second Edition sourcebooks - specifically NAN vol. 1 and culminating in the Nexus chapter of the Denver boxed set. Even though there was an entry for him in Target: Matrix, the only person who really did him justice to what Findley built up was Dave Hyatt's writing of the cybercombat with the Banded in Shutdown.
|
|
|
|
|
Feb 17 2006, 11:31 AM
Post
#25
|
|||
|
Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
sorry, didn't see this post before. AH, I didn't say he did, just bringing it up because it happened in the same book. I'd only seen the reference somewhere, then picked up the book myself to see. It was interesting, but as you said, it happened in the book, but nothing says Talon did it. Beaumis: I believe it was Nightfire, the Ares company man, not Hangfire. |
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 3rd July 2026 - 11:37 AM |
Topps, Inc has sole ownership of the names, logo, artwork, marks, photographs, sounds, audio, video and/or any proprietary material used in connection with the game Shadowrun. Topps, Inc has granted permission to the Dumpshock Forums to use such names, logos, artwork, marks and/or any proprietary materials for promotional and informational purposes on its website but does not endorse, and is not affiliated with the Dumpshock Forums in any official capacity whatsoever.