I heard he's Nadja Daviar's lover and close friend. He's the leader of Acquisitions, Inc. and a drake. I've also heard he's a Mary Sue type, and I believe it, judging by these facts.

It's Assets, Inc.

Edited. And who the hell is he, besides what I just said? I can't take him seriously, because I keep thinking of Freddie Mercury and Cromartie high school.

He's someone that dumpshockers love to hate, partially because he has a Ally spirit shaped like a motorcycle.

A Mary Sue is someone who lives out the author's or maybe even the consumer's fantasies.

Thanks, where is that from?

It's a fairly common occurence with bad authors - Steven King is notorious for it, for example.

I honestly can't say whether Ryan Mercury qualifies as a Mary Sue, because I haven't gotten that vibe from Jak Koke's other writing.

Now, Talon on the other hand...

What's "~]"?

I'm not sure about tilde-close-bracket, but "~J" is the shortened form of my signature—"~Jonathan R. Woodworth" (sometimes sans tilde, particularly on legal documents and copyright notices).

~J

Oh... that's a J. Sorry.

Doesn't he have the late big D's freespirit soul trapped in his cyberzombie body? Or is that someone else?

That was Billy Burnout.

He had altogether too much to do with that, though.

~J

Oh, and he's a sneaky snake too. Silent way adept, that is.

It's not that Ryan Mercury was a really, really powerful adept...it's that he was raised and personally trained by Dunkelzahn, was banging the hot-elf-chick who happened to be VP of the UCAS and head of the Draco Foundation, and subsequently discovered he was actually a physical magician and a drake while saving the world.

If a player had made the same character, they'd be declared a munchkin, and so Ryan Mercury is a munchkin. But a Mary Sue? Eh. Jury's still out.

What does Adam have to do with anything?


HA! I kill me!

It isn't that Ryan Mercury was banging the VP of the UCAS it is that he forcibly subjected us poor readers to her dark brown nipples.

Thanks, I was blocking sooooo much, and you all dredged it back up!

In case you haven't guessed emo, Ryan is a bit of a twink, and his mother dresses him funny.

Why do I have the image of Nadia Daviars legs in my mind?

Mmm… luscious gams…

~J

That's still a good one.

Because she has nice gams?

nigel findley was the man. the way house of the sun ended...good god that guy could write (IMHO).


so, does anyone like anything about the munchkin's fantasy that mercury is?


also, are the details of the silent way in any sourcebooks? (sr3, i mean)

I thought Mercury was following some special path, which he learned from Dunkelzahn, that is not available to player characters....

Path of the Power-Trip PC?

Thought I thought Neko wasnt an adept at all, from what I understood from Never Trust an Elf.

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Ryan Mercury (Never read anything with him, gladly I guess) reminds me of why I cant read anymore Drizzt Do'Urden books .... That guy is just too good at his thing.

the last few Drizzt books were lacking anyways, so you didn't miss much.

I never got to the 2nd and 3rd 'secrets of power' books, so I didin't een know that Neko was in them silly me. I was commenting on the write up on SOTA 64 and how he was portayed off of that in our games.

The Path of the Power-Tripping PC?

Here I would have to say, if a player had a character like that, it would not be a cut and dried case of twink-o-licious power tripping, rather, the issue would be decided on the circumstances, the context and intent.

If a player just out of the blue said-I want to make a character like R. "Q" M., when everyone else was playing normal Shadowrun characters, then it would not make since in the context of the game, and the player probably just wants to hijack the game for his own personal power trip.

But if the situation were different, if say, the player's last character had mastered all of the Elven Magic Pathways, and s/he knew that her next character was going to be a Great Dragon that awakens late and is trying to play catch up with the other established Great Wyrms in the Sixth World-then a character like Quicksilver would make since as a fun transition character to help the player get ready for his next big serious character.

So, as I am sure you can all see, it realy is just a matter of context and intent.

well for one, Dunk was not trying to catch up, he was one of the first few dragons to awaken, jsut a few months after Ryumyo.

Two, it was a joke (mostly)

If my post was misread, I am sorry. It was meant as a joke-I do not think that a character who has mastered all of the Elven Pathways of Magic is a suitable PC, nor do I think that a just awakened Great Dragon is a suitable PC, but I do think that a character like Quicksilver falls in the middle of that pack.

And I agree with your post, if there was a path that allowed a player to follow in Quicksilvers footsteps, then it would be best called the Path of Power-Tripping.

sorry, wasn't meaning to be testy. no prob

Thanks for clearing that up Critias. i agree on the names it can be a bit of a pain. Our group has gotten a bit of a kick seeing character names we've had pop up in source books though.

We have tried getting away from the "GI Joe" names a bit though , and go towards something you wouldn't feel quite as akward saying in a normal conversation. Not that "50 cent" really flows though, but we're going for more street name, less super hero. It says something to me that the (IMO) coolest 'runner' I've seen in any of the books was just called by his regular name.

Dirk hoser!

besides that, I don't recall any appearances by Jack in any of the books I've read.

Although the short that AH did with him was awesome

he was in Into the Shadows.

ah, well , see, never read that one. Hafta go pick up up now at my friendly local used book store.

Ah another Ryan mercury thread.
God some needs to write up a short story on how he dies, cause the fans hate him.

I am inspired !!

And, yeah, Fistandantilus. I keep telling myself that the SOTA:64 guy isn't good old Neko from the books (and, the street name being as common as it no-doubt is, it's easy to believe). It'd really suck if it was him, and they turned him into an Adept, etc, etc. It's weird, but it would kind of take away from the character, for him to get that sort of thing from powers instead of just being that badass innately.

yeah, that makes sense. I'll have to pick up that book too I guess. We've been putting out more mundane, cybered down characters lately too. It's great ot be able to play them and have them survive, and even better to watch them thrive, beuase you know that it's mostly coming from smarts, not dice and tweeking rules.

In SR3, since there's no skill cap, they can keep improving (albeit very slowly), to the point they've just got ridiculous dice to throw, etc, etc. And without foci or cyberware or decks or whatever to eat up all their cash, once they've got a few nice toys to get jobs done, every penny they earn can go into Lifestyles.

Bling bling!

What's wrong with Nadja Daviar's brown nipples?

That some tan brown, omnipotent and irritating porn-star hunk is the one touching them when you read about them?