So you could spill then? Montevideo?

Well I suppose that depends on whether they're still holding out hope of it being used in future books or not.

Bingo.

But we have word from the official source


That seems pretty complete. unless they are planning a coup. And so...

I'm watching inherit the wind and feel litigous.

Word from the official source doesn't say "not a single word of this book will ever be published by us". As a matter of fact, the opposite is true, they're using bits and pieces of it for the Sixth World Almanac.

For reference. None of the verbiage in 6WA is taken whole and unaltered from the SoLA drafts.

Well, duh.

That's why "For reference"-like statements proliferate.

There's a number of reasons why you don't see us just posting SoLA. Some people held out hope of it being published as a PDF-only release. Others hoped that some pieces of it could be re-used elsewhere (and some parts were). Then there's the consideration that since the material belongs to the authors who wrote it, one author can't release the material another author wrote. And some of the original freelancers are hold to get in contact with these days.

But, seeing as how it's been five years since I wrote my SoLA material and I'm no longer even a Shadowrun freelancer, enjoy!

SoLA - Aztlan
SoLA - The Caribbean League
Other Info for Aztlan and The Carib League

Keep in mind that those are final drafts, but they are still drafts. They never underwent a final editorial pass and in the five years since I wrote them, there are definitely things I would have changed or revised.

TY though I'll admit I'm surprised Aztlan was inlcuded, after all that got it's own SB.

Yeah, though keep in mind that the Aztlan SB was released in 1995. It was already a decade old when I wrote that SoLA chapter!

And Shadows of Latin America without one of the two largest nations in Latin America would have been a bit strange.

Ah, hell, I can't let Jay do this alone. Here's my final draft for French Guiana - the first SR material I ever wrote!

http://www.box.net/shared/467shbmtzu

[/edit]BTW, there is a version of the story of how I got dragged into SoLA, and thus freelancing in the first place, in my Shadownotes

sweetness! TY both...

Thank you kindly, gentlemen.

Ok, that joke.. was so dry... no one is ever going to get it.

So the Azzie religion might be serving a guy who goes by the handle "The Enemy"...am I the only one feeling that pleasant creepiness of a sinister conspiracy?

Sag mir jetzt bitte nicht, dass du das grade eben erst gemerkt hast? O.o

Geben Sie dem Kind einen Bruch.

Aztech dealing with sinister forces for power with a devil-may-care attitude to the consequences is old news, but that the whole Aztec revival thing is (and possibly always was) nothing but a cover for a whole nation worshipping The Enemy would indeed be news to me.

I always figured that was the point.

Demonseed Elite I'm bummed to hear you're no longer freelancing SR at all.

Hmmm...my understanding always was that Aztech's magical "enterprises" are simply the equivalent to other corps' blantant disregard for environmental damages or their workers' safety - no sinister plans, they just don't give a damn. Did I seriously manage to be too naive about the corp/state I always played as the big, bad guys?

Well the old Aztalan Source Book and Threats (Blood Mage Gestalt) covered a lot of it plus implication/evidence in several novels. I've been reading sourcebooks since the early nineties and the Azzies have always had an air of something more than greed going on, I think Shadowbeat has hints in the sports section.

We need a score card for the evil that resides behind Aztec. Blood mages, corrupt dragons, Mr. Darke, the "enemy", etc.....
I wish someone would help us with a flow chart of command and level of evilness.
Oh and thanks for posts guys.

please, don't try to german again ._.

Wow.

GERMAN IS A VERB NOW!!!!

Neato.

Can I get translations please (or a linguasoft).

"Give to the child a break." Thats the translation my linguasoft gives me.

Fair enow. You'd think I'd learn my lesson after "Sprechen sie Drachen?"

Thanks for the material, Demonseed Elite & Ancient History

"Give the kid a break."

However, while "break" is used as "pause" in english, the direct translation into the german "Bruch" would mean "fracture" or "hernia" in context.

Well, maybe AH was just being a little kinky...

What Stahlseele said translates to "Don't say to me now please that you noticed degrees evenly only?".

Or not.

Aztlan Happiness. Much obliged.

The sourcebooks should definitly list corporate and individual evilness in Hitlers (which is the official unit for evilness)


And what Stahlseele said was "please dont tell me you only noticed that just now".

After reading the Aztec section I caught the tie in with the Smoke Mirror society in DotA II. I like stuff like that.

EDTI So many loose ends in SR history its nice to see snippets of info get some support & extension.

I remember being involved in SOLA back at the beginning, but I can't really say I was an actual contributor, as I dropped from the project after leaving a few suggestions, since I wasn't really good at working with the previous canon on the region. I'm glad they managed to turn my half-baked ideas into something awesome . Seeing mentions of M'Boi and Metrópole always brings a smile to my face .

You know, you could have just pinged me to translate

You weren't online!

You REALLY don't want to see Antarctica in my SR universe. It is home to some of the most Top Secret research and weapons development in the world.

Some highlights:

Background count of -6 in most outside areas. Some of the labs have greenhouse/zoos if they are doing magical research. (Similar to the Ares space station.) The stuff they are working on is so bleeding edge and dangerous they use the surrounding background count to keep the effects from going global.

Bio-warfare and retrovirus research. Some of it is for new plagues others are for doing genetic reconstruction of a person's chromosomes and DNA/RNA. Nasty stuff.

Nanotech research. I think we can all guess why.

So basically you have isolated research compounds that have visibility to the horizon, carte blanch to destroy anything they see (no lost tourists) and a background count that makes anyone who is not an Initiate powerless.

and it was already covered, in detail, in Target Wastelands.

"Geben sie dem Kind einen Bruch."
...


U just made my day. XD

Es regnet Hunde und Katzen.

actually, that's the correct translation of "it's raining cats and dogs" only with cats and dogs switched.
and i don't remember the "Sprechen sie Drachen?" bit, what's that all about?

A t-shirt slogan that was used for Shadowrun one year at the cons, underneath a Saeder-Krupp flag or something. I suggested it, a couple Germans starting foaming at the mouth, and supposedly they sold really well. I never got one though.

Ah.
Well, it's HORRIBLE german, but it's funny enough.
I would buy one ^^

Foaming in a good way or bad way?

A foaming german is usually the sign that someone is going to have a REALLY bad day.

Especially if that foaming german also speaks "Drachen".

Lars

*twitch twitch*
Well, the roaring is about right anyway . .

It's the kind of German that only makes sense if your native language is American.

I just thought adding lots of 'v's and 'd's to a word and shouting like :
"Vhere is dee vodka!"
Counted as German. Am I wrong? oh dear.

That sounds more like a polish/russian/generally that area east europe accent.

Jah, Germans are generally more concerned mit "ze microfilm."

Right. So does our English language wiki. Anybody still remembers we have one?

(kudos to FlakJacket for brining it up before I did )



That's what the wiki is for (category for countries on SR wiki).

Frankly, I books look nice on the shelves, but if you want usable reference, wikis are the way to go. Which reminds me, I need to go back to my Seattle gang project, now that I got Seattle 2072



Love that t-shirt. You guys should sell them online, if you haven't done that already. They seem to sell out quickly at all the cons I've seen them being offered at. What was offered after SK and Aztlan? I need to update my wardrobe