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 Jul 28 2007, 11:08 AM
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Shooting Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,598 Joined: 24-May 03 Member No.: 4,629  |
Where did he first pop up? I know that he was turned from an offhanded comment to an actual character thanks to Europe, but, where did he first get mentioned?
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Jul 28 2007, 11:28 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,314 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lisbon, Cidade do Pecado Member No.: 185 |
Now there's a story... to the best of my knowledge the first references to Spinrad actually appeared in Shadowtech (see the colour plates). There were also a couple of mentions in the Seattle Intelligencer handouts at the back of two first edition adventures - the most famous of which had him "buying" Monaco. Then he vanished from canon.
During the development of SoE, one of our french authors came up with the idea of reintroducing Johnny and being a bit of a fan of obscure characters I kind of got carried away. The Lofwyr chapter of DotSW reintroduced the character and updated his backstory, Shadows of Europe built on that, and there's been developments since hidden away in a bunch of books from Loose Alliances to Augmentation. We also had a biography posted on the official website for a while but I haven't seen it for a while. |
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Jul 28 2007, 11:55 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,598 Joined: 24-May 03 Member No.: 4,629 |
I rmemebered that he'd gone from a rather obscure background guy to a modern fully fleshed-out sort, but I didn't have the details.
I'm going to have to go back and take a peek at a few things, it seems. Mmm, research! |
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Jul 28 2007, 08:26 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
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