Cat!cat!cat!cat! Like those kittens?

Hey, throwing a cat you've just shot full of a cocktail of Cram and Longhaul into the back seat of your target's car has always been a time-honored opening to a vehicular extraction effort.

Emo have you ever seen thunderCats before?

Tahnk god he won't reply for some days...

Blackberry Cats. They look like normal black housecats but they certainly aren't. Their powers include but are not limited to Desire Reflection, Compulsion, Hypnotic Song, Blindness, Accident, Adaptive Coloration, and Enhanced Reflexes.

Some cultures consider them to be good luck. Others kill all black cats on sight just to be sure.

According to shadowtalk in Paranormal Animals of Europe a blackberry can successfully ran a popular religious cult known as the Children of Uranus before being found out.
In one mentioned case a clan of irate Scotts tried to burn a blackberry cat to death but it got the upper hand and forced half of them to commit suidice by walking into the fire themselves.

Blackberry cats can be great allies if you get on one's good side and are the most dangerous of foes if you make one of them angry. However, one should take great care when trusting a blackberry cat. They always look out for #1 and take great pleasure in manipulating people.

They can't resist catnip.

Don't forget about the Essence Kittens from TSS. Their basically vampire Blackberry kittens.

Thanks so much. Knowing Emo, he'll probably consider the blackberry kittens just awesome enough to not need altering. However, he'll also probably read this and feel obligated to change his plans just so I don't have the jump on him.

Just remember to pack that catnip in your equipment bag.

Oh yeah, especially in case it's the vampiric kitty... Then the NPC would get eaten first you'd hope...

My bad.

April 12, 2006
(continued)

I followed a couple of friends to the meeting of our school’s Anime club tonight, and Emo was there along with one of the guys in the campaign. Emo had talked to this guy about his character earlier, and it had been decided that he would be our PhysAd. After Anime club was over, I walked part of the way back to my dorm with Emo. I told him about Fangirl’s motivation for becoming a runner: she literally cannot recall any aspect of her experience in the Crash 2.0., and she hopes to gain some sense of what happened through exploring the more secretive areas of the Matrix (like highly-classified databases, for instance). Emo stated that I had given him a brilliant idea for the campaign, and then forbade me from reading System Failure. “You can read anything before that,” he said, “but not System Failure.” Just as he was threatening to sic Deus on me if I didn't comply with this command, our paths diverged, so we said good night to each other. I went back to my dorm, took a shower, and am now typing this up. I expect I'll go to bed soon.

You mean Emo's finally picking up some of the other sourcebooks instead of creating things up out of the blue? I think we're having an influence on him...

What sort of encoding scheme is that, fisty?

He got booted for a week. I'm not sure why, since I've seen others do a lot worse than what he did, but I probably don't have the whole story.

OK, now I wanna know, too...

FanGirl, I have never met Emo, but I can tell you how to run succesfully in his games in three easy steps.

1. Obtain elemental rock mecha suit.
2. Cast mana doughnut of obliterate.
3. Profit.

Nah, it was in a thread where he and a guy were going back and forth insulting each other.

Besides, someone else saying it isn't exactly "self-proclaimed."

Check out the Master Shake thread. And it's not like it's his first performance either.

I think my favorite thing about Emo is that I have a friend from college who is/was JUST like him.

So resurrecting a thread that people don't like is grounds for being booted? I read the later pages (post revival) and I've seen other folks toss insults back and forth with no problems. It's also not like it's the first time he's been attacked (sometimes with reason, sometimes without). When you get assaulted you tend to assault back.

it isn't that he ressurrected the thread. It was the fact that he spammed that thread with a series of meaningless attention-getting posts after he ressurrected it.

Ah, because nothing else on DS is meaningless and attention getting?

*shrug* A week off from a forum is more of a "dude, chill" than a "you are a horrible person and we hate you." It's gonna be kind of quiet around here for a week, tho

But read the last few posts he did, with the multiple posts over and over. If that's not spamming in combination with resurrecting the dead thread that had little to do with anything in regards to anything within the thread itself other than to say it's been revived, threadomancy or somesuch. Really, it doesn't have to be one particular thing but a combination that combined that can 'break the camel's back' so to speak.

Sure some of us might once in a while throw a meaningless attention getting post, but we don't try to exacerbate the situation by piling it on. And most of us do use the 'edit' command...

edit: That too, the week off was basically saying, chill out dude. This is the forums, take it easy and simmer down. ya hear?

Emo has to learn the limits, so the secret plan to turn him into a RAW abiding mindless rules lawyer within 6 months can succeed.

I thought that's what all the subliminals I keep catching during page loads were for?

*shrug* Technically, it's copyright violation. It doesn't seem likely that it's the thing he got suspended for, though.

Yep, it's illegal. But with any luck you'll like the game enough to go buy a hardback copy.

Also, as soon as people start condoning the free distribution of RPGs, the sooner they'll all start listening to devil music and playing violent videogames!!!!

Acutally, I would imagine that freely giving out the SR4 core rules could only HELP revive Shadowrun as a roleplaying game/system... the idea there being that if more people play it and like it, they might be willing to ACTUALLY pay for good splat-books... Problem being that there are none at the moment (cept some chinsy adventure and maybe a GM screen) and at the rate these books are coming out, they wouldn't be able to pay their employees for years.

I do like WotC's "OpenGaming SRD" model for this reason... I am not equally thrilled about the d20 system.

The decision to make the SR3 Quickstart rules available for free as a PDF was a good marketing decision by Fanpro. Hopefully there is a similar product/concept in the works for SR4.

FanGirl - I'd recommend getting the actual book. In my group, I am currently the only one with an actual book. Even my GM is working off of a .pdf. On average, they ask to use my book (instead of whatever they printed out) at least 2-3 times per game, more often if we're doing something new/unusual.

It's just easier to flip through (even if the diehards here all agree it's not optimally organized). Me, in my über-geeky excitement over finally playing SR again (plus, I had all these flags lying around from work) flagged sections of the book (Combat, Magic, Programs, etc), so my GM loves to steal my book to look stuff up quickly....

Most groups of casual gamers only have one core book, in my experience. By sharing ebooks, the hope is in spreading SR love, and when that happens more books are always sold.

I've never played with a group of people that liked a game and only had a single book available (at least not since high school).

Right, which is why I said "liked a game." If we don't like it, we don't play it, so nobody buys one.

I had a lot more money for gaming supplies while in college, but was also less of a shoplifter, so my actual gaming supplies dwindled rather than grew.

I bought the book! My soul is now cleansed!

Ah gibberish. The one true unbreakable code.

I don't think you can say "I bought [SR4]" and "my soul is cleansed" in the same lifetime.

At least, not with a straight face.