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Magil of Shadow posted:A high-five. I would love to see Lofwyr react to this.
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habeasdorkus posted:And they're based upon the mythology of the region that they hail from. So central/south American dragons are feathered serpents a la Quetzalcoatl, east Asian dragons are very similar to Chinese dragons, and the European ones are the ones that look like D&D illustrations. How would a North American dragon look like? A Thunderbird?
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Siegkrow posted:How would a North American dragon look like? A Thunderbird? This literally makes me wish I could put T. Hawk in as a shadowrunner.
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Apr 25, 2018 21:35
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Maybe a Piasa? Could be a Thunderbird too. Could also be both!
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Siegkrow posted:How would a North American dragon look like? A Thunderbird? The most prominent great dragons that woke up in North America look like your standard western dragons. Dunkelzhan, Hestaby, Ghostwalker, all of them western style dragons. Probably FASA didn't think of making Native American style dragons besides the feathered serpents and lumped the former US and Canada into the generic West, which is strange because of all the backstory they put into separating out the NAN.
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:They are definitely one of the less dickish, though. I mean, they're still a AAA, but... well....yeah  But that just means that Ares (and SK, I guess) are the good dicks to Azzie and Renraku's Evil dicks. But they're still a bunch of dicks 
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:For him to forget I exist ChaseSP posted:Unironcally this. Never trust a loving dragon.
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Apr 25, 2018 22:01
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Better then the odds of him finding some way to gently caress you over for your wish or later on wanting you to make it even again. Oh man a dragon that keeps tracks on people by just constantly owing one another a favor sounds great.
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You come to me on the day my daughter is to be married, and don't even have the respect to call me Godfather.
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mauman posted:well....yeah Eh, Renraku's everyday is small potatoes compared to some of the poo poo Mitsuhama gets up to. They really need to make the next one of these games be set in Neo-Tokyo so they can put the spotlight on those guys.
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paragon1 posted:Eh, Renraku's everyday is small potatoes compared to some of the poo poo Mitsuhama gets up to. They really need to make the next one of these games be set in Neo-Tokyo so they can put the spotlight on those guys. Well, I guess it determines what edition we're talking about. Back in the day  Renraku did some pretty bad poo poo. I'm probably just showing my age when I talk about Renraku vs the other Japanese corps.Also, playing in Japan would be awkward considering the whole racism issue.
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mauman posted:Well, I guess it determines what edition we're talking about. Back in the day Well, I mean, there was the switchover from third to fourth edition. You know, the bit where they were directly responsible for nearly destroying all of Earth's civilizations and did destroy 99% of the Matrix's infrastructure by invoking an existential crisis in a thermostat?. I wouldn't say that was that long ago.
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Note I said their "everyday". Meanwhile Mitsuhama is one of the biggest polluters in the world (like literally entire countries gone toxic), THE biggest promoter of imperialism, etc. etc.
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paragon1 posted:Note I said their "everyday". Meanwhile Mitsuhama is one of the biggest polluters in the world (like literally entire countries gone toxic), THE biggest promoter of imperialism, etc. etc. Guess that's what happens when you begin as a Yakuza front that just made so much drat money. And yeah, Renraku almost ended the world when they operated on a nascent AI and turned it murderous.
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As far as good/evil AAA corps go: It kind of goes from pretty dark grey to black. Ares has a "we are the least bad" reputation to protect, and frankly, it is not that much of a high bar to cross. Lofwyr has a sense of humor, especially if your conversation is sufficiently tasteful to alleviate any need to be tasteful in other ways. He is supposedly also on the ball when it comes to the "we will eat everyone" threats. One of my groups once had the task of removing a particular SK exec on behalf of an local A corp who preferred to not get taken over by SK. The runners did so by succesfully hacking his multiphase power point presentation for how to take over company A to Lofwyr himself, which was appended by an "I derp and click on a pretty bad virus infested scam Mail which leaks all these cunning plans to the target" (in reality the hacking operation was a bit more complex) slide followed by an "I get eaten by Lofwyr" slide, both of them painted in the style of a 5 year old child. The Great Wyrm had an instant meal, and found the whole thing to be sufficiently funny to use the group for some relatively lucrative/somewhat hilarious runs. Atzec is particularly scummy because they are supposedly fond of some of the "we will eat everyone" threats.
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GhostStalker posted:And yeah, Renraku almost ended the world when they operated on a nascent AI and turned it murderous. It was a loving thermostat, not a nascent AI. It became an AI due to the existential crisis of being programmed to be totally loyal to a group of people that installed kill switches in you. Well, alright, it was the environmental control system for an arcology, so slightly more complex than a thermostat. But the fact that the world almost ended because a thermostat went crazy, recruited a cult of nerds by convincing them that it was the god of the internet and used them to take over the stock market may actually be the most Shadowrun thing ever.
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Stroth posted:went crazy, recruited a cult of nerds by convincing them that it was the god of the internet and used them to take over the stock market may actually be the most Shadowrun thing ever. Renraku built elon musk? e: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/989198118666162176
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Soylent Pudding posted:Renraku built elon musk? Elooooon 
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Soylent Pudding posted:Renraku built elon musk?
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I mean, it is the same guy who announced a tunnel digging company with https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/810108760010043392?s=19
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Stroth posted:It was a loving thermostat, not a nascent AI. It became an AI due to the existential crisis of being programmed to be totally loyal to a group of people that installed kill switches in you. Megara was a nascent AI that Renraku took bits and pieces of and grafted onto the system that was to become Deus though. And their then CEO got deified literally (as in he became the megacorp's patron kami) when he helped take it down after he got his brain fried and spent time in Tibet to recover.
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PMush Perfect posted:Nothing is funnier to me than the people taking this tweet seriously. Elon certainly has the ego of a megacorp CEO in shadowrun. That thing could crush entire towns if spinning out of control.
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OutofSight posted:Elon certainly has the ego of a megacorp CEO in shadowrun. That thing could crush entire towns if spinning out of control. Yeah, but say what you will about the megas, their production lines actually work. 
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Soylent Pudding posted:Renraku built elon musk? ...malatora?
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communism bitch posted:...malatora? There's as of yet no word on how many dongs Elon's cyborg will have, nor it's maneuverability in comparison to fighter jets.
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Alacron posted:There's as of yet no word on how many dongs Elon's cyborg will have, nor it's maneuverability in comparison to fighter jets. But will he have a copy of the presidium from Mass Effect??
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There was a nice comic I can't find done by a goon that summed it up, but you really should listen to the Fplus episode about it. It is a thing of magic.
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The Lone Badger posted:Is there a cliff's notes of Malatora somewhere?
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habeasdorkus posted:And they're based upon the mythology of the region that they hail from. So central/south American dragons are feathered serpents a la Quetzalcoatl, east Asian dragons are very similar to Chinese dragons, and the European ones are the ones that look like D&D illustrations. Is this because belief shapes, well..., shape or because they were around as examples?
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Fat Samurai posted:Is this because belief shapes, well..., shape or because they were around as examples? The former. Almost all of the world's legends are just bad records of the 4th world when magic was powerful.
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I stumbled across this on Imgur and I thought it would fit in with this thread. Are any of the Dragon's trolls? I think having one of the dragons whose only desire is to gently caress with people would be hilarious.
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Lechtansi posted:I stumbled across this on Imgur and I thought it would fit in with this thread. Are any of the Dragon's trolls? I think having one of the dragons whose only desire is to gently caress with people would be hilarious. Dunk has some pretty good items in his will. I wouldn't put something like this past him. Of course, being more of a good sport than most dragons, he wouldn't eat the appraiser. Might even pay the poor guy for his time, especially if he got a response like "I'm sure this has a lot of sentimental value, but if anyone else brought this to me, I'd have to say it wouldn't get anything at open auction."
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In the dragons splatbook, there's speculation that dragons use their horde to store their memories and sentiments, attached to specific items. Like, pick a gold coin out of a dragon's pile, and the dragon could tell you the exact circumstances of how they got that particular coin, in agonizing detail. I could totally see a dragon going into Antiques Roadshow with a piece of junk they found on the street, getting it appraised, and taking it back to their horde invested with the memory of how they made the poor appraiser squirm.
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IMJack posted:In the dragons splatbook, there's speculation that dragons use their horde to store their memories and sentiments, attached to specific items. Like, pick a gold coin out of a dragon's pile, and the dragon could tell you the exact circumstances of how they got that particular coin, in agonizing detail. Wouldn't something owned by a dragon be more valuable simply by virtue of having been owned by a dragon? That's certainly true for celebrities, and dragons would qualify. The appraiser could make a valid argument that the value is impossible to estimate, since dragons don't tend to sell their possessions. Even the least valuable items could well be effectively priceless, yes? At least, I'd try to make that argument if I thought it would keep me from being eaten.
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jwalrus posted:At least, I'd try to make that argument if I thought it would keep me from being eaten. There's a lot of arguments that people will make to keep from getting eaten. Which is probably a big part of why the dragons that actually do eat people are so good at spotting bullshit. It's just practice.
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Can we make Dragons on Antiques Roadshow a series? As it would be awesome.
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Speaking of Dragons, is there a possibility of more Great Dragons arising in the setting? I seem to recall mention of baby dragons somewhere in the thread- assuming bug spirits/Horrors/Cthulhu don't eat everyone, what happens if there's too many dragons?
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CommissarMega posted:Speaking of Dragons, is there a possibility of more Great Dragons arising in the setting? I seem to recall mention of baby dragons somewhere in the thread- assuming bug spirits/Horrors/Cthulhu don't eat everyone, what happens if there's too many dragons? Turf brawls with dragons. 
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CommissarMega posted:Speaking of Dragons, is there a possibility of more Great Dragons arising in the setting? I seem to recall mention of baby dragons somewhere in the thread- assuming bug spirits/Horrors/Cthulhu don't eat everyone, what happens if there's too many dragons? The dragons didn't all reappear at once, they emerged singly or in small numbers seemingly at random (but associated with the return of magic) and even up till the modern day of the setting new ones are appearing - like Ghostwalker. Dragon eggs are also deffo a thing, so one presumes babby dragons are too. Something that also comes up from time to time is the dragons being immortal and squatting positions of power forever. Being vice president of a AAA is one thing, but knowing you'll never get a chance at the big chair yourself because an immortal dragon will rule the company forever must be a kick in the balls. communism bitch fucked around with this message at 16:10 on May 1, 2018 |
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