[Dragons6thW] "Dragons" thoughts, possible spoilers Options

[Tanka]

[Fortune]

[Voran]

[Ancient History]

Killing Glare is where Morgan has been told kill two Urban Brawl stars (ex-Shadowrunners who are hinted at having run through DNA/DOA). Runners get to find and stop him.

This is his and Peri's last appearence before it's announced in Dragons that Morgan died and Peri bought his club.

[Bull]

Actually, Peri is mentioned in Dunkie's Will, after A Killing Glare, as is mentioend in Dot6W. Kyle, hoever, is not.

As the author of the Peri piece in Dragons, here's my own thoughts about what actually happened. Keep in mind though that unless this sees print somewhere in an official publication, it's just my own personal backstory, and not what "really" happened :]

It's obvious from the fiction in Mercurial that neither Kyle nor Peri were all that happy with the assignment. Kyle's a smooth but ruthless bastard, so I think part of this was because of Peri. Peri's into music and art, much mroeso than his human partner. But Peri owes Kyle what amounts to a Wookie Lifedebt, so he works with him faithfully. But they also have an emotional bond, possibly put in place by Peri (It's never really stated how in depth this bond is, how it came to be, or even what it actually entails), so Peri's distaste for the mission is being reflected by Kyle.

At the end of the mission, Kyle takes a dive, possibly faking his death to the runners (Assuming you play it and killed him). He slinks back to Aztechnologyh with his first major failure, and Mecuririal's survival leads to a major public scandal to the Azzies, hurting them in their most vulnerable spot: Their bottem line. Stock prices fall a bit, Azzie's suffer some losses, and Kyle ends up on his bosses shitlist.

A couple years later, Kyle and Peri have been doing drudge work for Aztechnology. Low rent jobs because the Az doesn;t trust them. Then finally they get a break and are given a big assignment: Recover a pair of runners for Aztechnology, who are now posing as Urban Brawl players. During A KillinG Glare, the big showdown comes during a game of Urban Brawl, which is internationally televised. Kyle and Peri not only fail and are beaten, but are beaten on live TV.

At this point, Kyle has to make a decision. Live up to his failure to his coprorate masters, or go underground. The pair go on the lam, and Kyle begins working again as a freelance assassin, which is what he did prior to being hired exclusively by Aztechnology.

Kyle is successful, but always keeping his head down. Inevitably though, he's going to meet his match. The comments in Dragons are something of a joke based loosely on events from my old Shadowrun campaign, when I was playing Bull. Kyle was a major reoccuring foil for us, and at one point he used us as a distraction in an airport while he blew up a plane. There was also a running storyline about Kyle being an assassin, and that whole concept of "To become the #1 assassin, you have to kill the current #1."

So Kyle meets his end, leaving Peri free to persue his own agenda's again. After the Year of the Comet, Peri goes to Denver and swears allegiance to Ghostwalker in exchange for protection from the Azzie's, who would still like him brought down. I can see a corp that trafficks in blood magic being very vengeful. They rank #2 in that department, right under Lofwyr and Saeder Krupp.

In reality, though, I basically killed Kyle because there wasn't a whole lot to do with him. Peri was, unfortunatly, defined by two things: Being Kyles Sidekick and getting some music in Dunky's will. Not a lot to go on. But I have always had a soft spot in my heart for him due to the role he played first in Bull's old SR game, then later as a reoccuring character in one of the SR campaigns I GMed. I liked Kyle, but he was a bit limited, pigeonholed. And I couldn;t really do anything with Peri because of that.

Plus, I originally only had 1000 words to work with, and Kyle's story took way too much of that space. As it is, I managed to trim and prune trhe piece to 1500 words, and still had stuff to say.

I liked Peri because in the end, he gave me a dragon that is has some pwoer, has his own motivations, but is a dragon that players and characters can possibly relate to, and who can be used in an SR game without throwing things off too much. Lofwyr or Aden or whoever shows up,a nd things get wonky and deadly. Peri (Or Damon, as Wild also had a fun, down to earth Dragon in the book) show up, and they throw a party :] It's a good hook that GM's can easily use, even in a low power game, and they won;t have to scare the pants off their runners :]

The Weekday Eclipse, BTW, was originally a boat. Gahbardi, the author of the piece, was my friend Steve's Wayakambi Houngan of Ghede, and they ended up playing "Cyberpirates" for a while on the Eclipse. Blitzkrieg was the name of a band that two of our characters were in at one point (Blitz was a Phoenix Shaman Guitarist/Singer, and Krieg was a Henehune cyberfreak drummer with wired reflexes). Psychadelic Phlemm was the band of another rocker character of mine, Johnny Fever (, aka Johnny Dylan, Great-great grandson of Bob Dylan).

Consider this your DVD Extra Behind THe Scenes look at the Perianwyr section of Dragons ;)

Bull

[Dax]

*claps*

Excellent work Bull. I have to admit, Peri did strike me as a kinda fun dragon to play around with (talking from a DM standpoint mind you), and he would prbably get along great with this one member of my SR group. :D

[Nath]