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 Mar 29 2007, 09:20 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 6-August 02 From: Kiel, Germany Member No.: 3,071  |
What time of the year, and what year ist Emergence taking place?
I'm starting a new campaign, and don't want to start to early or too late to later incorporate that events... |
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Mar 29 2007, 12:16 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,314 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lisbon, Cidade do Pecado Member No.: 185 |
Emergence is both an event book and a campaign - it includes several "campaign tracks". The timeline runs from late 2069 (Nov-Dec) to early 2071 (Jan-Feb) with the big events and shockwaves starting in June 2070 and unfolding during the latter half of the year. This should be full compatible with minimal adjustment for most group using the 2070 setting (just advance or rewind the dates a month or two to fit). Note that public awareness of technomancers blooms during the campaign, and that at the start (late-2069) Joe Q. Public thinks technomancers are urban legends on par with otaku and vampiric rockstars who fake their own deaths. What the shadows and the corps know is a whole other story...
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Mar 29 2007, 12:51 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,180 Joined: 22-January 07 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 10,737 |
So we're talking something on par with System Failure in terms of size, information and time covered?
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Mar 29 2007, 04:56 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 |
Seems so.
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Mar 29 2007, 06:05 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,180 Joined: 22-January 07 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 10,737 |
Well, if that's the case, I just hope it comes out within the next month and a half--I'm getting together a campaign for the summer, and that would work out perfectly.
Edit: Oh, and I have just one interesting thought that's actually in relation to the book itself: So, Synner, we're talking a year-and-a-half span or so that the metaplot takes place over? And this is when everyone starts finding out about technomancers? But the Crash was almost five years previously--what had been happening in the interim? Hmmm... Anyone have any speculation on why, in the hyperconnected world of 2070, where a rumor can reach the other side of the planet before you have closed your mouth, it took so long for the existence of technomancers to become semi-common knowledge? Or, looking at it another way, what was it that, after five years, suddenly brought the the technomancers to the public eye? Personally? My bet is on Pax and her friends--that metaplot line hasn't been closed like others were. This post has been edited by bibliophile20: Mar 29 2007, 06:12 PM |
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Mar 29 2007, 06:28 PM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
That's true, there was all that talk about the Dissonance vs The Resonance, without a whole lot of detail about what that entailed, bsides, 'making realms and pools' for each, what ever that means.
Also looking forward to more explanation on Submergance. |
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Mar 29 2007, 09:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 858 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Braunschweig, North German League, Allied German States Member No.: 5,537 |
Maybe that's one of the elements of Emergence that would've been spoiled by Unwired had it been released first... |
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Mar 30 2007, 08:07 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,314 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lisbon, Cidade do Pecado Member No.: 185 |
Some clues as to why technomancy hasn't come to the fore are actually seeded in System Failure. These "circumstancial" reasons are coupled with the rarity of this particular expression worldwide... note that otaku were around for the better part of a decade before the corps and shadows really caught on; to Joe Q. Public they were still something of an urban legend when the Crash 2 rolled round. As to what would catalyzes the situation and places technomancers squarely in the sights of the media and the public... well, that is indeed one of the many surprises in Emergence. And yes, it is also one of the reasons, though not the only one, it made more sense to release Unwired after all the surprises in Emergence unfold - after all the campaign promises to involve the characters in pivotal events that may "change the way they view the world and the Matrix—and each other." |
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Mar 30 2007, 07:35 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 170 Joined: 18-September 06 Member No.: 9,412 |
Oh no... The entire Shadowrun universe is just a computer construct a'la the movie the Matrix. And all our characters have been living in a simulated reality. Does your character take the Red Pill or the Blue? What will the real shadowrun universe be like? |
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Mar 30 2007, 08:36 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 834 Joined: 30-June 03 Member No.: 4,832 |
it's a romantic comedy? :eek: Ah, I'm just joking. Thanks for the info though, I'm looking forward to seeing it when it comes out! |
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Mar 30 2007, 09:14 PM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
Starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock |
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Mar 30 2007, 09:47 PM
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Shadow Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 3,737 Joined: 2-June 06 From: Secret Tunnels under the UK (South West) Member No.: 8,636 |
As Damien Knight and Nadja Daviers. |
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Mar 30 2007, 09:48 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 |
Chased by Drop Bears in a bus. 8) |
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Mar 31 2007, 12:04 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,665 Joined: 26-April 03 From: Sweden Member No.: 4,516 |
Hmm - are the Drop Bears in the bus? If so, are they driving it or is the bus an Ally Spirit? :grinbig: |
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Mar 31 2007, 12:06 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 524 Joined: 12-April 06 Member No.: 8,455 |
With a very special performance by Chow Yun Fat as Agent #4.
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Mar 31 2007, 12:20 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
*Grabs steering wheel of bus and tries to steer derailed "bus" back on to topic* One of Synner's comments
has me wondering , are there more technomancers in areas like Seattle and Korea than in other areas? Or is there more concentraion in places that were hit directly like SF or Boston. Kind of goes in with the origins of them I guess. As in, could it be the weird modified nuke/EMPs hitting people while they were jacked in that makes the technomancers express as such? |
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Mar 31 2007, 01:02 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
You'll have to read Emergence and find out, natch.
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Mar 31 2007, 02:05 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,180 Joined: 22-January 07 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 10,737 |
And--asking honestly, not being sarcastic--what is the current estimated time of publication? And from Fisty's comments, I have to add this: remember that fluff page in the BBB at the beginning of the "Building a Shadowrunner" chapter? Shiwase was trying to activate her apparently latent technomantic abilities--and she was on the exchange floor when Deus decided to crash the party. |
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Mar 31 2007, 03:06 AM
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Cybernetic Blood Mage Group: Members Posts: 3,472 Joined: 11-March 06 From: Northeastern Wyoming Member No.: 8,361 |
Well for playablity I certainly hope that they don't force Technomancers to have been jacked-in during Crash 2.0.
But then again I'm also hoping against hope that they don't rule that Technos are just another type of Magic. |
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Mar 31 2007, 03:17 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. I am but a lowly freelancer, when my wee part is submitted, that's all I really know until I hear it from Those Who Sit Above In Shadow. |
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Mar 31 2007, 03:27 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,180 Joined: 22-January 07 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 10,737 |
*sigh* fair enough; I guess I'll just spend the time before it gets published getting my group acclimated to the Shadowrun universe. |
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Mar 31 2007, 04:28 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
Did you do any writing for that one AH? I know you've got your NDA and all that, just curious to see if your name's going to be in those writing credits along with some of the others I expect to see there (DE,WH, so many fun little abbreviations). |
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Mar 31 2007, 05:14 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
I did contribute a bit of writing for Emergence.
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Mar 31 2007, 07:09 AM
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Shadow Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 3,737 Joined: 2-June 06 From: Secret Tunnels under the UK (South West) Member No.: 8,636 |
How can it be anything else? I don't have technomancers in my game as it throws out one of the basic themes of Shadowrun which has been going since 1st edition, which is the rivalry / exclusivity of Magic and Technology. FanPro's explanation of how Technomancers are not magical is going to have to be astounding to convince me to use them, I'm afraid. |
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Mar 31 2007, 12:16 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,078 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 67 |
AH was a writer for it (as he mentioned), but I was not. |
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