We'll see if I can do this OTOH. Fortune doesn't wanna play 'cause he's a curmudgeon.



Man that was terrible.

/me puts on his dunce cap

Unless you're still playing 3rd edition, it was.

No, I didn't answer because I wasn't really sure what the point of the thread was, and didn't want to spoil things for others? Besides, they were pretty easy, 'second grade' type questions, after all.

Second Crash was in '64, so it couldn't have been before that.

Hey, I had 5 of them.

And I got them pre-coffee sans-research.

I can't blame you. "Fun" is a pretty absent concept around here a lot of the time.

True, and I didn't want to spoil anyone else's 'fun' inadvertently.

Makes you a much better person.

Uh, the members of the Court are corporations, right?

So, Shiawase is family-oriented; Horizon flirts with everyone; Wuxing knows tantra; Evo has a thing for nonhumans; Neonet is the result of necrophilia by Erika and Transys on the body of Fuchi. BBB says "Ares is sitting pretty after swallowing a big chunk of former AAA Cross Applied Technologies", so the shorthand rumor is that Ares swallows. Knight Errant plays rough; so does Saeder-Krupp.

As for Aztech, I cast "Protection Against Rule 34". DO NOT WANT!

I don't want to search Google for blood spirit porn.

Suffice to say, there are no exceptions to rule 34.


Edited because I forgot to mention that the "members of the corporate court" might refer to the actual reps, and if I remember my Corporate Shadowfiles correctly, there were rumors of people fooling around up on Zurich Orbital. But we all know rich people don't get lonely like the rest of us.

I searched Google for you. Top hit is on Time magazine, an article titled "Of Spirit and Blood", about gambling on "Indian reservations". A few hits down is spiritwaterblood.com, which I find scarier than porn: "We represent the Christians of the world who refuse to allow their people to be destroyed and their faith to be hijacked by race queers and sex queers. We call our brothers and sisters in blood to return to the faith of our fathers and rebuild Western civilization. View the Principles of Kinism in the right margin."

Rich people do indeed get lonely in a manner different than the rest of us. They know that their money can always get them company; they can reasonably assume that their money is part of any partner's interest, unless they can pull off the "Prince and the Pauper" route. They also can reasonably assume far less privacy; if they so much as flirt, let alone visit someone overnight, it will be noticed by paparazzi and those watching them for opportunity.

Corporate Corp reps would, I imagine, generally have high CHA and INT; each rep has a staff including several assistants with high CHA and INT; put a lot of them together and biochemistry will happen. Also, parathyroid and other metabolism boosters might affect desire, and the bodyguards (eg assistants doubling as bodyguards) will all be well-groomed if not actually pretty. Conflicts of interest, multiple agendas, secrecy and misdirection ensue.

As far as I'm willing to derail this thread: I imagine that attraction to butch/macho Orks is a hot taboo among the Tir, and that pictures of scantily-clad elves are vehemently denied among Sons of Sauron. Hmm, what *do* elves think of Orlando Bloom as Legolas? "Still the prettiest"?