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post May 30 2006, 01:44 AM
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To Dr. Alan Gordon, I leave my First Folio edition of Al Azif. Use it well, when and if you must.

Dr. Alan Gordon was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thaumaturgy who specialized in astral space and the metaplanes. He also went insane and was confined in a mental institution for a time. When released from the institution, Gordon continued on an ambitious project to map the metaplanes...a project in which he was partially successful. Dr. Gordon died in 2060 after helping Talon, a former pupil of his, and most of his metaplanar map was destroyed.


More on the Shadowrun edition of Al Azif.

And now...the dark and horrible secret I have discovered...the true identity of Dr. Alan Gordon.
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post May 30 2006, 02:24 AM
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post May 30 2006, 02:25 AM
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I should have it in my campaign.
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post May 30 2006, 02:42 AM
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If Dr. Gordon originates from the CthulhuPunk plane wouldn't that mean that he himself is, in fact, an alien?
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post May 30 2006, 02:47 PM
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post May 30 2006, 10:53 PM
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If Dr. Gordon originates from the CthulhuPunk plane wouldn't that mean that he himself is, in fact, an alien?

Not necessarily. The Mythos posits a multiverse set-up to reality where the same source-soul can be incarnated in any number of forms in an infinite number of universal planes with their own metaphysical laws (or consecutive instances in the same plane) - much like Moorecock's Eternal Champion. That the life of the SR universe's Alan Gordon took so similar a path to that of the one from the Cthulhupunk universe would be fairly typical, from a metafictional standpoint. The "Alan Gordon" being simply shares a fundamental connection to (or tendency towards it) with Al Azif/The Necronomicon - much like the Eternal Champion almost always has a relationship with some version of the Black Sword.
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post May 31 2006, 04:42 AM
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Soooo......now Talon is hard enough to take on Cthulu as well?

*cues disco music*
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post May 31 2006, 10:42 AM
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-Sorry,

I read that as Doctor Gordon Freeman. :)

Now, that's someone you want on your side versus the mythos....

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post May 31 2006, 11:03 AM
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Soooo......now Talon is hard enough to take on Cthulu as well?

*cues disco music*

He may well have a tag-team partner if he ever needs to go against the Big C...

Actually, in canon, Doc Gordon and Talon have already met. In the novel Crossroads.
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post May 31 2006, 11:55 AM
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QUOTE (Tiralee)
-Sorry,

I read that as Doctor Gordon Freeman. :)

Now, that's someone you want on your side versus the mythos....

-tir

Face it...

Doctor Gordon Freeman is someone you want on your side, peroid.
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post May 31 2006, 02:40 PM
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Not when I play him. All thumbs. ;)
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post Jun 1 2006, 10:13 AM
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Doctor Gordon Freeman

- Bad ass Uber Nerd
- Have environment suit and crowbar, will travel.

OK, that's it, my next character will be based on him :) *



- Tir

* - ok, maybe I'll run out of build points before I can even get CLOSE to the gun-fu he has, but I think a couple of "l33test shad0wrunners EVAR!" will have a MAJOR problem if their extraction target turns out to be the good doctor.

God - that's an awful thought

"Here is your target - he's a graduate of MIT, having earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics"
-Runners: "Ok, we trank the geek, drag him back, natch."

-Later...
"Ohmy god - what in hell did he do to Dr Death?"
"Lookout, he's got a crowbar!"
"Ruuuuunnnn!"
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post Jun 1 2006, 11:10 AM
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QUOTE (Ancient History @ May 29 2006, 07:44 PM)
And now...the dark and horrible secret I have discovered...the true identity of Dr. Alan Gordon.

I'm really... REALLY not at all surprised. I can't quite put my finger on why.
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