i probably left out a few good ideas, but it only allows 10, so, fire away

Wouldn't this be better in the Lounge since this isn't really Shadowrun? And just be careful you don't fall into the spamming category.

If it allows 10 choices, why did you include only 9?

He's a number-crunching algorithm that runs on screensavers on millions of people's computers across the globe.

You forgot: An AI

I think he is Ehran...

Which makes me Harlequin.... im almost insane enough.

So, only one of you thinks I'm a genius, four think I'm a myth, and the bast majority appear to believe I'm a room full of monkeys (regards History of the Awakening Page) Okay, I can see the reasoning behind the last one.

I think your big D, man!Go for it, run for office, but don't die!

Hey, if he is Big "D" he had better die, or I'll kill him myself.

Other: a sentient memory crystal acting as an MPCP in
a heavily modified Fairlight, linked to the matrix through an
illegal jackpoint, and located physically in a storage cabinet
in the basement of the Atlantean Foundation.

Or so i've heard.

If that last one from warcraft had been an option I woulda gone with it, otherwise I think he's the Big D. Who else would disclose as much information about the 6th world as he does?

Ancient History is a free spirit, created out of something librarians like to call "Bookspace." It's difficult to explain, but have you ever shaken some really old books and little pieces of matter fall out from between the pages? Some people'll tell you that's dust, but this is false: that matter is actually the intellectual glomp from the gaps in-between the words - without that intellectual "glomp," Bookspace, all you'd have are a bunch of lines of barely intelligible letters shoveled into a series of pages.

So that's AH. It's either that, or a free spirit summons by a bunch of college students on pot who decided it'd be a right laugh to summon a spirit using instructions gleamed from some mail-in sex letter from the pages of Hustler.

I voted for the boring old human, because IEs and GDs can't be responsible for everything.

How about a free spirit possessing a think tank?

*cough* Actually, while I may be a Big 'D', I'm not the Big 'D.'

Me and some chummers were doing some smuggling out of Nairobi when an unexpected fuel problem made us set down on Madagascar's northeast coast. For the next four days, as my team wandered into the bush in search of food, they came stumbling back glassy eyed, whispering of dark secrets and conspiracies. I couldn't take it, and decided to risk it all by rigging a raft out of the fuselage. As I set off, a dark figure stepped out of the shadows and watched me from the shore. In the setting sun, I could just make him out before the ocean swells enveloped my raft. He spoke, and it was as though he was standing next to me: Filling my head with knowledge of an ancient "fourth world". The real force running cybermantic dragon deckers in the Madagascan interior. I swear, I SAW ANCIENT HISTORY!!!!!!

No way, Dog. AH can't be in Madagascar. I saw him in a 7-11 on 14th and Pine. He was getting a big slurpie and a coupla packs of those Snoball thingys. (the pink, coconut covered ones) I swear.

Since we know Arcanum V is an AI.

And AH seems to be a scholar about all that is DSF, I'm betting he's IE.

He's a Semiautonomous Knowbot programmed by Leonardo, whose intent is to expose all the inmortal elves conspiracies.

Its all about the monkeys.

The poly-monkey entity that comprises AH should thusly be feared.

Think of all the feces throwing!

I posted here...mostly so I don't have 100% posts in the lounge.
And to point out AH is a myth. An urban legend. Everyone knows that.

Not 'everyone', judging by the poll results.

AH is the sum possibility of the universe, all that is, all that was, and all that never can be, or even ever can be, he's just that good.

A hundred people voted, a third of whom think I'm a roomful of monkeys and one of whom thinks I'm a genius.

I just love y'all to bits sometimes.

It could be an AI that thinks it's a roomful of monkeys, you know.

(Relax, it's only a model.)

I swear he is the One... behind it all. All that metaplot...

Remember, people, knowledge is sexy.

~J

So logicaly, he is a room full of GENIUS monkeys

Edit : Or maybe he the slave of the GENIUS monkey ruler

Do they get the little hats with the red lights on top? Do I have to make a module where some shadowrunners have to capture all of AH armed with little more than a net?

maybe they monkeys are IEs dressed up like monkeys to make us feel safe...

That's what the monkeys are wanting you to think.

Actually, all the monkeys Awakened into woodwoses, which are immortal and survied the Downcycle.

I put an intelligent person on the poll, but reading the replies I just realised - AH is TUTOR.

I'd say David Galivan, a poor guy who keep being disturbed by the most powerful beings in the SR-verse, who all want to talk to David Gavilan. He always manage to grab some info before they realize the mistake.

Another poll.

Oh please. The powers exerted by AH are clearly explained by the "info sortilage" echo. He's an otaku.

Just imagine what would happen if he used his powers for GOOD, instead of leisure!

Does AH use his powers for good or for awesome?

~J

Uh, someone with too much free time????

You ALL have it wrong! He is a NINJA! Is that not explanation enough?

Hmm. Let's compare him to the Ninja mandate.

Actually, he's the guy from the Germany sourcebook; the one who's hardwired into his deck and is more or less a brain in a nutrient tank. That and he's hooked up to a cybernetic page turner and scanning eye to lock those books into his sub-zero headware memory. The webpage is just an excuse to put some things conviently online so they don't take up space on the onboard memory chips.

Don