Medicine... it's a crazy thing. One day we will be like SR considering we can pretty much bring people back from the dead.

well the medical definition of death keeps changing imo. i guess thats why i liked how cp2020 had x stages of "death", each a bit harder to bring someone back from then the previous.

technically, as long as we can keep the nerve cells from running out of oxygen, a person will "live".

Aztech apparently exists - although not the blood magic variety.

Well, that just takes all the fun out of booing them.

We had a thread on that topic for some years on a French forum. I think the worst that happened to me, by far, was going through a whole document only to realize at the end that I typed for every sum it mentioned the yen sign [¥] instead of the euro [€]. Really, alt-0165 is so much more obvious than altgr-e...

Like they'd advertise their use of blood magic right there on their web site...

yeah aztech isn't the only mega-corp running around right now Nova Tech, and Neonet are both around as well.

Totally. Been playing the game since late 2nd Edition, and I watch the news all the time going "Yup, about time THAT happened!" The recent US/global credit crunch being the latest YIKES moment.

I also treated my local bar here in Lakewood, Washington (South of Tacoma) like a runner bar, and operated as a small-time fixer for my friends. Helped 'em get jobs, helped 'em get some fancy clothes or swag when necessary, listened to problems/rumors, passed along hot gossip, and pretty much cemented myself into the establishment in the course of a year. Almost never asked for anything except the odd small favor or a pint o' beer once in a while. ^_^

Sucks I have to leave town for a couple of years to work overseas, but then again, Tokyo IS my old neighborhood. I should be on a plane out of Japan around Christmas 2011, headed back to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. ^_^

Look out 6th World, here we come!!

better not take a plane with the flight number 1118, even if the year does not fit.
i think we had a list of those corp names somehwere around a german board i frequent from time to time.
there were a few others allready present . .

There's a bar in Paris where you can ask for M. Johnson to be shown the tables where Shadowrun players are. You can also order a Shadowrun there. It's not in the menu, but it's very good, especially after a Guiness.

That is awesome! I don't speak French but now I have to go to Paris.

unless dingus turn out to be the mage fending the dragon off (if i got the hint right )

Ares does exist... As a weapon manufacturer. So basically Ares Arms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARES_Incorporated

He still dies.

It is rumored that the 'mage' in question was one of the IE downtime hunters, and the actual target of the Dragon's wrath.

A variety of places. Shadowrun only helped push it further. Recently, I've been sitting with my back against the wall, looking at all the ways out, and carrying ten throwing knives.

And Bookwyrm.... I've done the one with the Troll and the Elf. Doesn't help that one of the hot bi chicks I know has pointy ears, or that my tallest player played a Giant.

I don't know the history of Knight Errant, but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_Armament_Company

"The Diary of Anne Tank."

Not a day goes by that I don't wish I had AR, optical magnification, and a datajack.

and not a day goes by that I don't wish I had a Defiance Ex Shocker.

Dealing with the public tends to bring out the sadistic side in me...

Working for a large Japanacorp, I take the opposite side a little bit. I wonder who the Johnson in the company would be, why does this facility have such penetrable security, and why the heck should we worry about acquisitioning this company when we can smash them to pieces in 2-4 runs?

I know the feeling. I'm waiting for cybereyes and good biosculpting as well.

And freeze foam, i could certainly use several barrels of freeze foam.

If I absolutely have to wear glasses by damn I want to be able to see in the dark and watch porn on them.

Oh and cerebral boosters, that would be fucking awesome.

I could definitely give simsense a miss though... call me old fashion but I don't really want to have people cramming emotions down my brain stem.

Yeah if your Bill Gates. I swear if you modeled a Johnson after that man it would be the ultimate Johnson. He would have you go on a run, and then betray you. If you live from being betrayed he would just incorporate you into his corporate structure by blackmailing you then eventually disposing of you when he saw fit.

Mr. G: "We are moving towards synergy in the upwards revenue stream dynamics to create a positive condensing flow aura."

Shadowrunner: "What the drek does that even mean." *shadowrunner takes a bullet to the brainpan*

"It means your worth more dead to me then alive." says Mr. G (and his glasses have to reflect in that odd way like that crazy killer in SIN CITY)

That's an excellent idea.
As a matter of fact, make him a Johnson that only appears as an AR hologram in monochrome based on that character.
It'd be a great one to upset the players.

I wouldn't mind leaning back in an easy chair, donning some shades and waving my hands around in the air to build a website. No datajacks for me though, that would squick me out. I'd be picking at it or sticking my finger in the hole.

I suppose that looking at my baby daughter's ear and thinking, "Hey her ear is pointed. Is she a spike baby elf?" qualifies does it not?

On the personal side, I wouldn't mind the datajack and would love to have AR and VR. (Unless I Awaken of course.)

I read you on Cerebral Boosters. Attention Coprocessors, Math SPUs, Orientation Systems and Synaptic Boosters would be cool as well.

AR is, as always, totally awesome.

Y'know, I wouldn't have much of a problem with simsense. I'm not exactly into new fangled stuff but I wouldn't mind having feeling-on-demand. What I'm surprised is that someone has apparently not managed to appropriately tie some kind of simsense mood track set into software to help social bunnies with their jobs. As a quick houserule, that could be necessary for getting the bonus dice from empathy software.

When you compare your SR map to a RL map and wonder in what year the city will move the road.

BULLDREK BINGO!!!

sorry, i could not help myself

I have a friend, whom I've known for ten years, since high school, and I have never once heard him swear, using regular profanities. He always uses "Frag" and "Drek."

Or likewise try to figure out when they will tear down the current buildings and put up ones that are worthy of cyberpunk fashion in your local downtown...

Don't forget Ares Technology as well. I can just see them merging with the aforementioned ARES Incorporated to form Macrotech, bringing the Firearms/Defense Contractor/Telecommunications & Infrastructure Management all under the same roof. Scary thought, that one...

then they buy blackwater or something similar...

Scary that I'm not the only one who does this. I also wonder when the rich suburbs I grew up in are going to start throwing up barb-wired walls with semi-auto toting private security firms patrolling the perimeter. Or when my local police force will become IPD Inc.

several of these rich suburbs are putting up walls, electrified fences, armed guards, etc. I havent seen barbwire yet but that is just coming. It is hear already... just have to look. Now is it at the SR level? not even close. Now most of these guards carry guns, they are not allowed to shoot unless they are shot at or the bad guy is trying to harm someone.

as for cops becoming incorp... it just just time.. here in GA, most cops work a second/third job in uniform privately patrolling a business (like movie theatre lobby) or playing traffic cop for a church or sitting in their squad car in a construction zone with their lights on. they have taken the steps in that direction...

on the topic of rent-a-cop's, here in norway there have recently been a bunch of noise in the press about there being more "mall security" then cops, and that cops quit as they find their workday and pay is better at said security firms.

hell, there was a story maybe a year ago about a person being slammed to be pavement and put into a questionable grappling hold that could have choked him. again it was security, not cops, and it was done because the person walked out of a store without paying for a 2$ salad.

I changed residences so when FDC finally expands to include most of Maryland, I won't be caught under that umbrella.

...when you resurrect a thread in hopes of more cool SR geek stories ^_^

...then there's ThyssenKrupp AG.

When you've continued to look for a game since 1992, despite everything working hard against the chances of playing...

My first thought was "ohcrapohcrapohcrap"

My second thought was "that guys's kinda young - might be a dragon in disguise"

Hmm, how about watching Slayers: TRY and listening to the dumb, weepy "gold Dragon-blooded" character go on and on and saying to the lovely, "Just slap a trank patch on her"...
...and having the lovely agree.

-Tir

...when you refer to your notebook computer as your "deck" and a wireless phone as a "commlink".

...when (like several mentioned here) find that shadowspeak has become a part of your normal vocabulary.

...when (even more serious) you find that UK shadowspeak has become a part of your normal vocabulary.

...when you live In Portland (OR) and find yourself occasionally looking at tall slender people to see if they have pointed ears.

...when you refer to Portland's West Hills as "Royal Hill" (the West Hills are the "high rent" district in RL).

...when you call any large city a "Metroplex" (I've even done that on news forums)

...when, as it is now 2011, you look at current events and wonder if the original authors at FASA knew more than we think they did.

What's UK shadowspeak like?

So glad I'm not the only person checking hipster ears.

I've done all of these and more than a few of the others mentioned in this thread.

Recently got a cell phone and it HAS been named my commlink and has been called such more than once in the 2 weeks I've had it.

What rating?

Oh the lowest possible I assure you. Maybe one level above lowest. It's a Walmart tracfone. The 'nicer" of the walmart tracfones but yeah. lol

*wince*

I use a Samsung Seek with Boost Mobile, so probably 3ish.

...there is a small dictionary of UK Shadowspeak in the old London Sourcebook along with a small translation table between UCAS and "King's English".

For example:

Baldric: Orc (Derogatory)
Box (v.): Geek
(the) Box: (n.): the Telly or a Computer
Ken: Corporate Wageslave (Derogatory)
Pixie: Elf (Derogatory)
Sep: UCAS Citizen (Derogatory)
Squid: Troll (Derogatory)
Swiss: Expensive

The Polish Shadowrun Wiki site has a fairly large lexicon of Shadowspeak including slang from other nations.

Shadowrun Slang


...yeah I'm an SR geek I guess.