So I read the latest release of fiction on the Shadowrun website and I noticed the claim that "This story ties in with some events mentioned in State of the Art: 2064." I whipped out my SOTA:64 and browsed through it, but I'll be damned if I manage to find that story reference.

Anyone know what it is?

In the last section under "most wanted Scientists"

Absolutely disregard me. I am clueless...

Indeed. Top 10 Most Wanted Suits/Scientists, 9. Dr. Kristine Martin (p.153).

It also ties with SoLA, but I can't give you a page reference yet.

I'm shocked.

Any chance of that book coming out before Gencon, anyway? I mean, there are now 63 days (45 business days) until Gencon and Fanpro's supposed to be releasing five (4 SR3, plus SR4 core) books. I would have preferred to have at least 1 book released in hardcopy in the nine months between SOTA64 and whenever the next one is released, but meh. I guess that's too hard to do.

Especially since FanPro has no control over the distributors and how quickly they decide to ship to stores.

So LA, SoA, SoLA, and SF were done back in November, and they've just been languishing in a warehouse since then?

Right. It's all the distributor's fault. Fanpro can do no wrong. Sing me another one.

No Loose Alliances and SoA were written in November and December and have been going through post-development since. Loose Alliances was coming back from the printers the day the pdf. version shipped.

So is there an update on the others' release dates? And will they be available in PDF format?

Man, Im gonna be MORE poor this year after book buying day then I was last year. Provided they all make it this year (unlike SotA64 which got 'lost' in shipping).

@ Lindt: But did you get the book in the end?

good story, I liked it. cept now I have all these sneaky suspiciouns of who the 'mistress' is.

lately any type of 'mistress' involvement has been Hestaby, but KAM doesn't really seem her area of expertise....

well, the few obvious types are Hestaby, although it doesn't really seem her field, same with The Duchess (or Lady or whatever ) of Snowdonia, but same problem.

Someone that might acutally have lines of interests could be Daviar, but they don't really seem to have the power to jsut waltz in to a maximum security prison.

There's Buttercup, but she doesn't really come across as the 'mistress' type to me.

Other major movers like Ms. King don't really seem in the same league either, so I think there' s someone that I'm missing. Probably smack my slef inthe head and go "of course!" when I finally get SoLA.

Thanks for giving me something to look forward to.

Hestaby.

Why? Because she has interests in Phoenix Biotech, which is a competitor of UO's.

But, don't forget Arleesh. If anyone has assets who can break into secure Aztech facilities, and have done so, it'd be her.

Is she?

I'm just tossing out the name.

from what I know of her, from the appearences she's made (DoSW, appears and demands a dagger from a team in the fluff text, one of the earlier adventures as well, shows up and demands the PC's fix what they broke - not elaborationg because my players are going to play thisgame, and don't realize it yet ). Then there's Dunkelzhan's bequest giving her the aid of the Foundation if she wants it in her search/hunt/task/quest/whatever.

Basically she goes around destroying old magic items that are corrupted. Bet she hates imps.

By the way, if anyone has comments or suggestions regarding the style, I'm all ears (or eyes, in this case).

Good story, though I would have thought that a regular to a bar would be able to pick out the barkeep a lot quicker. Maybe she was just after the tekillya

couple of the things I liked about it was the open dialog, instead of spending endless paragraphs going into miniscule detail about the quality of the air , and the crumbs on the bar to set he scene. Gets old after a while.

I also liked that the dialog felt more natural than most, like things people would actually say in a conversation.

my two

psh, this is easy. it's obviously TSB... who was secretly a girl the whole time!

Having read this Play-by-Post thread, I wonder if I was too obscure with the identity of KAM's husband?

Hint: Martin = unmarried last name

You couldn't have been any more clear if you smacked us over the head with a two by four screaming his name at the top of your lungs.

So who is the husband so I can go edit that stuff?

Look at the big picture. Stand back and take a glance.

A member of the ATZ board (a king of the hill), not Chavez (uncle), strong ties to Universal Omnitech (KAMs workplace)...

Now who might that be?

Roxy for 5,000

Which makes me wonder...... could the 'mistress' possibly be Alice?
She loves screwing him over

But what does she need a biogeneticist for?

Maybe just to screw Roxborough over. It would be a big change from her normal MO. And probably pretty difficult ,since the runner said that she came to him in prison, although there are differnet ways to mean it. Just a thought.

I doubt it was Alice.

She posts in State of the Art that "They should have killed him while they were at it." Don't you think that if she was behind it, they would have? I mean, they break into a Delta clinic to extract Martin, and extract her daughter from Tenochtitlán from Chavez's control.

Second, I imagine it has something to do with, "A once in a lifetime opportunity." Just a hunch.

Third, somehow or another Roxy wasn't there when she was extracted, which leads to all sorts of questions. Questions we'll never get the answers to without some heavy re-editing to account for the five/six years between Third Edition and Fourth.

ok ok, damn it wasn't Alice! just a thought, geez
That post from Alice still makes me wonder why she never killed Roxborough when she had him on Wonderland

Anyways, CD's reference to pheonix Biotech does make me lean more to Hestaby, since they've been trying to slug it out for years with UO. And the have been doing a lot with Hestab lately. I'd like to lean away from her for just that reason though. Didn't they say they were trying to move away from dragon plots a bit, down to more street level? My preference would be someone a bit more mundane. or heck, even Buttercup. Just not hestaby again.

I'd like to say "I guess we'll see". But since it's been put on hold "indefinitely"....

I didn't know Phoenix Biotech had any ties to Hestaby.

Ask Crimson for a source, he seems to think she does.

But otherwise, who do you suspect?

Beats me.

I actually liked "French Touch" quite a bit.

Yes, Lackluster.

But is it a synonym for "nauseating?" No? Didn't think so.

I'm not saying that Alice is the one behind it (yeah, keep guessing ), but whoever contacted Manuel at Gorgon Island might have used an agent (like Manuel with KAM).


Here's hoping that SoLA sees the light one day.

damn you and your lack of easy answers! Instant gratification now!




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