Hallo
Wondered what Juan Azcapotzalco is since reading the Aztlan SB some 10y or so ago. Wondered what became of Juan ever since the Big D went up in smoke. Wondert where he went after taking Big D´s gift since I read Corporate DL.

So Juan Azcapotzalco, CEO of Aztechnology Corporation since 2044 or so. No history before that. Public appearances declined since 48. Last appearance on corp-internal trid in 54.
Presumably has the mojo of an Immortal Elve, but appears to be human (physically at least, but since you can become a pig by mundane PC magic...).
Ancient Files say, he may be a horror construct.
In 57 Big D bequests him a bank peposite box to be opened on the next Festival de Muertos, swearing on his name thet its contents pose no danger to Azcapotzalco, nor Aztech and warning, that most unfortunate consequences shell arrise if his instructions where to be disobeyed.
Juan follows suite and than vanishes again, to be seen by some people in some places, (kinde of like elvis I guess, maybe the chupa chabra took him to mars or something).
According to the not jet released Shadows of Latin America, he participates in peace talks with the Yucatan Rebells in 64 and is assassinated with a bomb by the fethered serpent Dzitbalchén.

So what was he, is he realy dead or did the Azzis just burn a dummy for the vanished CEO, to officially get rid of him (and Dzidbalchén btw)?

My personal favorite allways was Juan being the possessed great western dragon Vestrivan from ED (thoug I know he sacrificed himselfe in the official ED canon. was his corps ever retrived from this cloud of horrors or whatwasit?). Maybe Far Scholar and Vestrivans Brother Vasdenjas finaly found a cure?

So, what do you think?

Since Juan had Karma Hazing going on and Aztechnology could make Cyberzombies, I always assumed that Juan was just a Cyberzombie. That Dunkelzahn would deal with him at all indicates to me that he was not a Horror Construct. We know how the big D interacts with Horror Constructs.

As such, if Shadows of Latin America says that he's dead, he's probably dead. He seems to have been living on borrowed time for a long time, it wouldn't be odd for that time to run out.

However, with Aztechnology having access to blood magic and cybermancy, it is equally likely that that Aztechnology could bring him back. If they aren't doing it, it's because there is a substantial amount of shareholder votes blocking the action. So the real question becomes: which side of that argument is Oliver McClure on?

-Frank

where'd you get that info? Feel like sharing the wealth?

As for Cyberzombie, I don't think so, because Ehran said that his aura looked ocmpletely mundane, but he sensed power from him, on a scale equal to an IE's. Could he possibly be another immortal? The idea I always favored was that he was a hidden life receptacle for a very powerful spirit. THat would explain why he sensed so much power off of an otherwise normal guy. The box that Big D gave him? Possibly something that he could use against that spirit, like the amulet that D gave to that guy that had been possesed by Buttercup, or something like a ghost/spectre's chain.

hey is'nt that the guy from the Dragon heart Tril?

Yet another reason why not selling an English translation to SR's home market is a stupid fucking move.

I am with You on that. Back in the FASA days, it was ok, they did not translate every book from the regional license holders, since they were not very well balanced with the FASA mainstream. But since Wizkids and Fanpro started working coser together, they should just do all the books together and in both languages. Same goes for the american SR novels (burning time & born to run) wich were published in german but not in englich (until recently in the lettes case, which is a bit late, since the book is set in the 60s or somthing).

no way, james. we wouldn't understand it, and it wouldn't interest us anyway.

I sure as hell am not dead!

But is hiding in Quebec that much better?

so that's what happened to the real Juan!

Grinder: Thor Drop-Bear Shots before he gets away!

Yeah, he would be a worthy target for our special commandos.

It's funny. We're upset that there's a product out there we can't give the company money for, and the dev team's getting sarcastic at us over complaining about it. Ironic.

Strange things happen every day

Wonder how good the book is selling. I know only two people who actually bought it and i know a lot of SR plays who usually buy every new SR-book (like myself).

Tja, mein Dealer hat mich gewarnt, aber ich wollt nicht auf ihn hören

But it is quiet usefull to new players, just starting with the 4th Edition, to get an overview of the SR-world. So if You did not read all the old sbs, are interested in this whole background and trivia stuff and a german text is not by default useless to You, because your Language Filter isn´t on par, then it is still worth buying iguess. Has not so much to offer for us old dinosaures except of nostalgic fealings, a small preview on SoLA and some "Ha, I allways sayed X was Y and I was right"-moments (mostly regarding things you can pick up on AH´s hp).

as much as I hate to say it, what about the costs of translating to PDF only for books that were inteded for German audiences only (like Shockwaves, T:AGS, or the expanded Runner Havens). Is the cost of translation still more than they believe they would make off of it? Honest question, no jibes, just so we're clear.

I really don't know much about the business, but I find it really hard to believe that there wouldn't be enough fans to translate the stuff from german to english, granted, it might not be as easy as I think it would. I can read and speak german well enough, so the german-books ain't such a big deal, but it would be cool to get them in english.

I think the last one is the important point! There are simply many more pressing issues to tend to and FanPro can allso only do so much at atime (guess how pissed some of my friends were, when SoA was not going to be translated to german).

To put it simple, what would even the hardcore fans want more, Runner Heavans or The 6th World?

Sometimes you just can´t have both, life is like that, ther is no "authormancy" yet!

Edit: wait 5 years and we may have some technomagical ritual to instantly translate any e-book

Edit #2:
@Frank below: I know, does make for some funny phrases though

Heh. We have that now, it just doesn't really work.