You say you'd like to buy Runner Havens? Step right this way young man. *cha-ching*

It sucks having to wait to see the offical update to Seattle. *shrug* Until then it seems like you could likely get by with the old stuff, if you have it. Though the bulk of that is starting to get quite dated. The last book that had significant info on Seattle was published about 4 years back, almost a decade in game time.

Our group instead is just going to run on a different continent for a change of scenery. We are starting all new PCs anyway, and Shadows of Asia sets out some new territory that we'd never been to before.

Another catalyst to going there was an inside joke in our group about deciding mid-adventure to just fly off to Hong Kong. It stemmed from the GM declaring than an NPC that we thought was key to unraveling the run out of reach by having his company fly him to Hong Kong. He thought it would convince us to go the way the adventure was laid out. He thought wrong, and ended up explaining to us OOC that we weren't suppose to go to Hong Kong.

Oh, and my personal OOC hatred of dealing with sneaky f-ing Russians. I had a character that bought, among other things, a pair of used cybereyes from a Russian NPC. The damn things kept fritzing out. So the current GM, and the GM then too, decided we just had to go there.

No, but at times i did consider pulling them out and using their notably hefty bulk to bludgen people....particularly the guy that sold them.

P.S. The gaming sessions actually pre-dated Snatch, but yes when i watched that movie i really could identify with Cousin Avi.

I'm glad he not only lives across an ocean from where we are, but also he should be well past retirement age. At the very least SOTA will have reduced him to the equivalent of an AIBO.

P.S. I didn't check my email late enough yesterday to catch that character sheet before we played. So we'll have to meet him up north, perhaps the way you initially envisioned? Oh, and i transfered him to the lastest sheet and used the extra Contact points to fix up the Connection levels. I put The Colonel at Connections 2 because that seems about right for after his career change to fisherman in some obscure little Vancouver Island port. The rest are higher than that; maybe not as high as they should be but close enough. I'll email it back to you. Let me know if you just want it printed out for whenever we get back to it.

EDIT: BTW i also reduced the Voice Control to level 1, since the die pool for it is based your Con+Charisma not on Power levels. I tossed the extra 0.5 PP into a 2nd level of Mystic Armor for now.

wouldn't be the first time he's ripped all his cyber out and had it replaced... Of course the last time was when he was still an active PC and I Was a R.B.G.M. (Rat Bastard Game Master) but our current DM can be just as evil

I personally kinda miss the focus on Seattle... 15 years of sourcebooks had really turned it into a city with personality.

Seattle and Hong Kong.

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Then one advice: Stop using that <censored> 1334 language!!!

The really sad part is that I know people who do that in normal conversation now.

Oh and 1337 5p34k doesn't have anything whatsoever to do with chatroom abbreviations like those.

That's not entirely accurate. The 1337 5p34k dialect comes primarily from two impetus found in internet communication:

1. The need to hide potentially criminal activities. Software pirates especially had to engage in a certain amount of obfuscation to protect themselves, hence the creation of "wares", "warez", and eventually "\/\/4r32" to prevent automated anti-piracy systems from catching them.

2. The need to type things quickly. Like the previous generations' use of "shorthand", the simple fact is that you can talk much faster than you can write, which means that people who engage in primarily written communication tend to produce simple codes that stand for much larger sections of commonly used communicated. Which is how "I defeated you" eventually got shortened to "owned".

The combination of these two trends has then been exposed to linguistic drift just like any othe dialect. So some pieces of 1337 are no longer subjectable to analysis as either being faster to write or being used to deliberately confound intent. The word "pwn3d", for instance, originally started as a joke to make fun of people who were typing too fast, but now it's the standard spelling of "I defeated you".

As such, the chatroom conventions, which were started exclusively to save space, are as much a part of 1337 as the word "j00". They are often essentially loan words from the chatroom/blog dialect, but are now as much a part of 1337 5p34k as "beef" is a part of the English language.

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