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 May 4 2004, 06:01 AM
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Great Dragon  Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935  |
'sides, everyone knows that the Black Lodge hates /elves/.
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May 4 2004, 10:41 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,451 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 4,488 |
The epilog of the last Dragonheart Trilogy book says pretty much that the Billy/Burnout/Lethe/Dunkelzahn gestalt entity is just roaming the metaplane the Enemy is trying to come through and absorbing any spikes with the Dragonheart to prevent the Enemy from building another bridge, thus giving mankind a chance to prepare.
However, a few of the nasty little buggers got through before the bridge was destroyed... The Abstruse One |
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May 4 2004, 10:50 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 26-February 02 From: In the shadows of the SK Arcology Essen, ADL Member No.: 1,934 |
Azzie Bloodmages. They're still out there. Or take some of the unknown spirits that came through the rift. |
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May 4 2004, 01:05 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 30-March 04 Member No.: 6,206 |
Uh, spikes? Dragonheart? What's the dragonheart?
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May 4 2004, 01:10 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 223 Joined: 23-December 03 Member No.: 5,929 |
i'd put my money on alachia. she was always a dumb bitch and dunkie highly favored the dwarves of throal, so she probably hated him all the more. however, she should be secretly financing another crusade to go and kill alamaise again. i for some reason always got the idea she was behing the down cycle hunting, just a suspicion.
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May 4 2004, 01:15 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,965 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Edinburgh, Scotland Member No.: 2,032 |
@FXcalibur
It's nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with the metaplot that links Shadowrun to Earthdawn. You should probably just forget any stuff you hear about a scourge of hideous, terrifying, creatures called horrors that will be coming to destroy humanity in 3000 years or so. It's nothing important... ...yet. |
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May 4 2004, 01:16 PM
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Technomancer Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,638 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Champaign, IL Member No.: 3,374 |
The dragon heart was an imense oricalcum carving created by Dunklezahn to protect the world from the Enemy -- aka the Horrors. The spikes where places where high level ritual blood magic (i.e. the Great Ghost Dance specifically) created a "bridge" between out metaplanes and the plane of the Enemy which would have allowed them to come over and have a party using us as the pinatas. But, with the dragon heart, these spikes can be controlled and the bridges can be destroyed. For more information, read the Dragon Heart Trilogy. You're best bet to find it is probably Ebay. |
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May 4 2004, 01:47 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,451 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 4,488 |
You can get all three books for under $10 on eBay if you shop around. Someone posts the trilogy every other week it seems. But the Dragonheart was an incredibly powerful magical artifact that the Burnout/Billy/Dunk/Lethe hybrid is using to suck the mana out of the spikes, thus eliminating them.
From Dunkie's will with annotation from AH in brackets. Alachia would be a very good candidate given this little number...fortunately, no one in the entire Shadowrun universe with the exception of Lethe/Billy/Burnout/Dunk himself knows that Lethe was Dunkelzahn...not even Harlequin. But that doesn't mean someone can't find out somehow... The Abstruse One |
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May 4 2004, 02:08 PM
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Not Cameron Diaz Group: Retired Admins Posts: 472 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Newark, Delaware Member No.: 188 |
Actually, to be picky she was a blood mage. She was part of the gestalt under Darke's control, and when she was killed, he made her into a blood spirit. (And then she was later freed... yadda yadda yadda.) |
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May 4 2004, 02:11 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,451 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 4,488 |
She was the only blood mage who was immune to Thayla's song (see Harlequin's Back for more info on that), so they used her to get to Thayla.
The Abstruse One |
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May 4 2004, 02:57 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
Just use the dragon bones in Mars as a new host for Dunkie. I'm sure AH would love it. ;)
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May 4 2004, 03:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 379 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Earth Member No.: 1,274 |
Nah, there's a megacorp cloning dragons but using frog DNA for the missing bits down in Madagascar.
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May 4 2004, 03:10 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,759 Joined: 11-December 02 From: France Member No.: 3,723 |
Dunkelzahn in his will is specifically asking for people to gather a dragon skeleton and display it in the Smithsonian, not that far from the Rift ;) |
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May 4 2004, 05:48 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 214 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Wilton NH Member No.: 3,872 |
Using a dragon skull he provides too. |
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May 4 2004, 11:57 PM
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Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill. Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,545 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gloomy Boise Idaho Member No.: 2,006 |
Thanks everyone who posted. If my module doesn't get published in TSS I will see if I can make it available to you all elsewhere. Now, everyone cross your fingers and wish me luck!
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May 7 2004, 01:10 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,751 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Neighbor of the Beast Member No.: 5,375 |
@Pistons: no offense taken...or meant by my responce. :) I don't normally bite on these but I have to on this since I feel novel knowledge is my stylo...I know she was a blood mage. But at the end of the book she is a blood spirit. :P Just to be absolutely clear: this isn't meant as an attack or a challenge to a debate. Just me saying "I knew that" ;) |
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May 7 2004, 02:31 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: 30-April 04 Member No.: 6,294 |
Speaking of the Bossman's will, is there actually a version of that thing floating around IRL anywhere? Seemd like that sucker'd be the raw materiel for bloody hundreds of runs... |
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May 7 2004, 02:42 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 511 Joined: 30-May 03 From: Tulsa, OK Member No.: 4,652 |
The sourcebook Portrait of a Dragon: Dunklezahn's Secrets has his will and covers the surrounding events.
Ancient History's site also has a copy of the will with his thoughts and knowledge on each of the bequests he has info or speculation on... |
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May 7 2004, 02:46 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,049 Joined: 24-March 03 Member No.: 4,323 |
Theres also a copy of the will posted at http://www.srrpg.com
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May 7 2004, 03:01 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: 30-April 04 Member No.: 6,294 |
*Ponders* Didn't D's body get completely vaporised? How then do we get
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May 7 2004, 03:04 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,049 Joined: 24-March 03 Member No.: 4,323 |
Dunky wrote his Will in advance, and didn't get a chance to update it before his head a splode.
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May 7 2004, 03:06 AM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
Plus, he doesn't want to make it look obvious that he knew anything. Master of misdirection, old Dunk. Nobody would think he planned on Nuking himself if he's donating his body to science.
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May 7 2004, 03:27 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,759 Joined: 11-December 02 From: France Member No.: 3,723 |
Not that simple. Dunkelzahn included in his Will that Ryan Mercury was bequested his "Heart" and that he could find it at Lake Louise. So he obviously found the time to update his Will according to what could and did happen. |
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May 7 2004, 06:52 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 511 Joined: 30-May 03 From: Tulsa, OK Member No.: 4,652 |
Perhaps regardless of the time and circumstances of the ritual his "Heart" would always be able to be found at Lake Louise...?
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May 7 2004, 07:08 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 214 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Wilton NH Member No.: 3,872 |
Perhaps the reason his body is missing is that it had a sustained spell on it to deliver the various parts of it to the appropriate parties upon his death.
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