Ok... I've got the books.. I've read bits and peaces of each. She was a huge mover and shaker. Dunks voice. Then VP. Leader of the Draco Foundation, voting block in Ares... Then I've come up to 'She disappeared in the second matrix crash"


I've NOT read every scrap of shadow talk from the books (( or many of the adventures at all))

What happened to Nadja Daviar? Where'd she go? Who did it? I know you guys out there have read alot more than me and have the clues. I'm jus' trying to figure it out.

Ha! Mover and shaker.

She vanished, along with Assets, Inc. Nobody knows where she is, though it's theorized she's off having hatchlings with Ryan Mercury.

OBLIGATORY NIPPLES REFERENCE.

She died, and is reincarnated as Hackbaby?

According to Running Wild, p. 73, the Draco Foundation is "Still ostensibly chaired by former UCAS Vice President Nadja Daviar".

Which means they never replaced her as the "Official" Head Chairwoman, and just have an "In Term" Chairperson. Stuff like that happens all the time.

Also, IIRC, President and Vice President are terms that are for life, right? I know President is a rank in the US Military ("Commander In Chief")...

nobody mentioned the nadjas yet? <.<

Like Kim Il-Sung in North Korea?

I love Google.

there's dozends of them.

Dozens of brown nipples? Where did that meme come from?

I don't know about dozens, but she was featured in a disputable-canon april fools adventure called Battlerun. I'm sure others will be able to provide a link.

I don't get it?

You have to read it.

Here you are. The nipple reference is at the end, but read the whole thing.

Lusty Brown Elven Nipples
They were in the Dragn Heart SR Novel Series.
Because she was the favourite lay of the MartyStue.
And she was not really featured in the 8th World BattleRun.
Just someone remarkably like her.
And yes, do read it, it's good fun.
And there are dozends of Lusty Brown Elven Nipples, because there are, rumor-wise, dozends of nadjas.

I thought the nipple thing came from Battlerun?

No no, that was before Battlerun.
But seeing how it became, basically, a dumpshock internal meme, it got picked up in the BattleRun.

Ok. So nipple jokes aside.

She dissapeared like 2 years ago and no one knows WTF she is? Seems.. kinda big.

Do you WANT to know what was planned for her?
It's pretty bad . . some of the stuff that got leaked . .

Here's what all that we got on Nadja Daviar whereabouts since System Failure.

Wow... so she's been missing for 7 years and nothin'.... lol that's pretty impressive. They're either going to bring her back in a big way or never bring her back again.

Wait.. wasn't the plan that Dunk left for her a 7 year plan?

Yes, a "seven year plan" for the management of Gavilan Ventures. I rather remarked if it started after Dunkelzahn death in 2057, it would have come to an end in 2064.

How do I get the pdf? I've gone through the checkout process four times, and still no download link. How do I fix this? Am I blind?

Leaked Design-Documents had plans for Nadja being her very own little Network with the real her as the Boss of a Network of fake Bunraku Nadja Puppets . . .

Last year's April Fool's Joke.

Grampa can't count. Battlerun was 2009.

Grampa can't remember which bad joke happened when. When you get to be my age, things start to blur together and...

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

"Don't worry, he's asleep. Just go up to the door and light the bag."

what is a "fake Bunraku Nadja Puppet" ?

She was a popular choice for Bunraku Parlors. I guess folks loved slotting the politicians rather than having them slot them.

Bunraku means puppet, it's typically used to mean a prostitute who's running a personafix that suppresses their will. They are also typically surgically modified to resemble celebrities with personafixes to act like them.

Ahhhhh. what book are THOSE in?

A large number.

Molly Millions of William Gibson fame started out in a similar fashion.

Ahhh I meant what shadowrun book. lol

Core. Somewhere in Life On The Edge.

They're a fixture of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk. Cyberware restricts memory (sometimes with a personafix attached, sometimes not) and the practitioner of the world's oldest profession gets a crapload of cred and doesn't remember a single thing the next morning (other than the bruises and teeth marks).

As for Nadja, it's probably another of those loose plot threads that they originally had plans for but never fully developed. I think I remember AH saying they was going to work in something where Nadja showed up to a DF board meeting with a little bitty dragon perched on her shoulder, but I'm not sure if he was kidding or not considering some of the silly ideas that apparently get thrown around on the writer's boards (Aliens? Really?).

And the seven year plan was just for the stocks for Ares. Apparently, the entirety of the plan was "Let Damien Knight do whatever he wants with the block" since she signed over proxies to him for two of those years. Allowed Knight to drum Leonard Aureluis out of the company. This, of course, backfired because Aureluis then went on to Cross and became a bigger thrown in Knight's side while at the same time set up Arthur Vogel to take his place becoming a bigger thorn than Aureluis was inside the company in the first place.

It's very possible that part of the documents that Big D left Nadja involved "GTFO of the public eye for a decade or so because things are about to go nuts around 2064 or so" since some of his bequests indicated he saw the Matrix crash coming at least somewhat due to his post-humous investment in wireless technology and a few other little things.

I think the alien thing was a crack at Conspiracy Nuts who think everything is run by T-H-E-M!

From what I heard, a managing editor who shall not be named (mainly because he's still in charge) thought it would be a BRILLIANT idea to have the next big Shadowrun event be an alien invasion. As in full sourcebook treatment similar to Emergence.

I thought that all these extraplanar threats were technically aliens?

If this happens, I'm out.

Just to be clear: I am firmly anti-alien. In SR, anyway.

Jason H.

And there is no Shadowrun movie.

My recollection of Nadja's bewbs is recalling a piece of the shadow-talk, from a 3rd ed. book. There was some reference to an hidden SAN on a RTG or some such that had the password "Nadja Davier has luscious gams", or some such. Matrix, or Shadowrun Companion of those?

The calendar says that I'm telling the truth!

Jason H.

I'm just reporting what I heard at the time and I'm reporting it as rumor and hearsay.


Yes, but the meme specifically comes from I believe the second book of the Dragonheart novel trilogy if not the third. I'm not sure if the password used later was a reference to that or just the fact that she's a high-charisma elf in the public eye with a password from the sort of people that hang out on the Matrix 24/7.

Oh, that old chestnut...

Here's the entry about Bunraku.

My calendar says it's March. . .
On a similar note, does Eclipse Phase have aliens?

It was April 1st when he LIED TO US.