Full Version: A Sanity-Bending Secret Revealed
| QUOTE (From My Site) |
To Dr. Alan Gordon, I leave my First Folio edition of Al Azif. Use it well, when and if you must. Dr. Alan Gordon was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thaumaturgy who specialized in astral space and the metaplanes. He also went insane and was confined in a mental institution for a time. When released from the institution, Gordon continued on an ambitious project to map the metaplanes...a project in which he was partially successful. Dr. Gordon died in 2060 after helping Talon, a former pupil of his, and most of his metaplanar map was destroyed. |
More on the Shadowrun edition of Al Azif.
And now...the dark and horrible secret I have discovered...the true identity of Dr. Alan Gordon.
There's only three words for this:
Dun dun DUUUN!
Dun dun DUUUN!
I should have it in my campaign.
If Dr. Gordon originates from the CthulhuPunk plane wouldn't that mean that he himself is, in fact, an alien?
Run away... far far away!!!
| QUOTE (hyzmarca) |
| If Dr. Gordon originates from the CthulhuPunk plane wouldn't that mean that he himself is, in fact, an alien? |
Not necessarily. The Mythos posits a multiverse set-up to reality where the same source-soul can be incarnated in any number of forms in an infinite number of universal planes with their own metaphysical laws (or consecutive instances in the same plane) - much like Moorecock's Eternal Champion. That the life of the SR universe's Alan Gordon took so similar a path to that of the one from the Cthulhupunk universe would be fairly typical, from a metafictional standpoint. The "Alan Gordon" being simply shares a fundamental connection to (or tendency towards it) with Al Azif/The Necronomicon - much like the Eternal Champion almost always has a relationship with some version of the Black Sword.
Soooo......now Talon is hard enough to take on Cthulu as well?
*cues disco music*
*cues disco music*
-Sorry,
I read that as Doctor Gordon Freeman.
Now, that's someone you want on your side versus the mythos....
-tir
I read that as Doctor Gordon Freeman.
Now, that's someone you want on your side versus the mythos....
-tir
| QUOTE (Wounded Ronin) |
| Soooo......now Talon is hard enough to take on Cthulu as well? *cues disco music* |
He may well have a tag-team partner if he ever needs to go against the Big C...
Actually, in canon, Doc Gordon and Talon have already met. In the novel Crossroads.
| QUOTE (Tiralee) |
| -Sorry, I read that as Doctor Gordon Freeman. Now, that's someone you want on your side versus the mythos.... -tir |
Face it...
Doctor Gordon Freeman is someone you want on your side, peroid.
Not when I play him. All thumbs. 
Doctor Gordon Freeman
- Bad ass Uber Nerd
- Have environment suit and crowbar, will travel.
OK, that's it, my next character will be based on him *
- Tir
* - ok, maybe I'll run out of build points before I can even get CLOSE to the gun-fu he has, but I think a couple of "l33test shad0wrunners EVAR!" will have a MAJOR problem if their extraction target turns out to be the good doctor.
God - that's an awful thought
"Here is your target - he's a graduate of MIT, having earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics"
-Runners: "Ok, we trank the geek, drag him back, natch."
-Later...
"Ohmy god - what in hell did he do to Dr Death?"
"Lookout, he's got a crowbar!"
"Ruuuuunnnn!"
- Bad ass Uber Nerd
- Have environment suit and crowbar, will travel.
OK, that's it, my next character will be based on him
*- Tir
* - ok, maybe I'll run out of build points before I can even get CLOSE to the gun-fu he has, but I think a couple of "l33test shad0wrunners EVAR!" will have a MAJOR problem if their extraction target turns out to be the good doctor.
God - that's an awful thought
"Here is your target - he's a graduate of MIT, having earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics"
-Runners: "Ok, we trank the geek, drag him back, natch."
-Later...
"Ohmy god - what in hell did he do to Dr Death?"
"Lookout, he's got a crowbar!"
"Ruuuuunnnn!"
| QUOTE (Ancient History @ May 29 2006, 07:44 PM) |
| And now...the dark and horrible secret I have discovered...the true identity of Dr. Alan Gordon. |
I'm really... REALLY not at all surprised. I can't quite put my finger on why.
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