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Re:History
« Reply #135 on: March 04, 2005, 08:03:35 AM »
i know there are the underwater cities that were attempting to do the same thing,... only with keeping water out instead of poluted air and fallout...

wasn't there a failed experament like that in the land down under? they were trying to protect themselves from manastorms or something... anyways, either they didn't get it up in time, or it didn't work... one of the two.

i think it's one of the 'lost cities' that shows up from time to time.

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Re:History
« Reply #136 on: March 04, 2005, 08:30:30 PM »
That depends on how good you are at what you do... *sharpens his cyberspurs*
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Re:History
« Reply #137 on: March 07, 2005, 07:51:59 AM »
well, i'm sure that your sharpening cyberspurs ability is good enough to get you a 9-5 job at any of thoes places in the mall that sell pocket knives, however i was thinking more about the ability to find a missing city.

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Re:History
« Reply #138 on: March 07, 2005, 09:23:59 AM »
I think I crossed threads somewhere... Anyhow, it would have to be a city on the coast (since in Oz there's very few if any interior cities)

Didn't Yametetsu develop a fully functioning Aquacology? Or was it someone else?
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« Reply #139 on: March 07, 2005, 10:23:43 AM »
well, it originally was on the cost, but it got hit by a manastorm, and has appeared in the middle of the outback several times, although always in diffrent locations.

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Re:History
« Reply #140 on: March 07, 2005, 10:51:42 AM »
REALLY???? Could you get me the references for that?? That soundcs really wiz. As for Yamatetsu, check out the novel Shadowboxer, it has a fully funtcional underwater facility, although I forget who ran it. That novel is what happens when you take the games you've played and try to make a book out of them. Kind of strange. But it does show the difference between a rigger and a decker quite well.

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Re:History
« Reply #141 on: March 07, 2005, 02:14:39 PM »
Gabe's gonna hate me for this, but that City you're talking about sounds a lot like Parlainth from Earthdawn... there's also a city in Australia called Perth... hrm...
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Re:History
« Reply #142 on: March 07, 2005, 03:45:10 PM »
no, Perth is still there. it's a diffrent city though... i forget it's name though... the book i got it from? errr... it's ... uh... i can almost picture the cover...
nope. no idea. sory. *shrug* but take it how it is and run with it.

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Re:History
« Reply #143 on: March 07, 2005, 04:36:27 PM »
Perth is still Perth in every reference to Oz in Shadowrun, including Target: Awakened Lands and the Second book of the Secrets of Power trilogy.
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Re:History
« Reply #144 on: March 07, 2005, 09:27:27 PM »
Eh, it was a guess.


Regardless, Parlainth was a city that attempted to escape the Horrors by transporting itself to a distant metaplane or rather a metaplane between metaplanes. Problem was, as spirits, Horrors could go to metaplanes easier than on the physical plane. So the city was basically slaughtered and the ruins constantly shift in and out of reality.
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Re:History
« Reply #145 on: March 08, 2005, 06:35:10 AM »
Quote from: Retread on March 07, 2005, 02:14:39 PM
Gabe's gonna hate me for this, but that City you're talking about sounds a lot like Parlainth from Earthdawn... there's also a city in Australia called Perth... hrm...

You know, you are at -1 karma, so I won't smite you for that. ;) Seriously though, does anyone have any clue which city Ruski is talking about???? It sounds wiz. If not, no biggy.

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Re:History
« Reply #146 on: March 08, 2005, 11:50:55 AM »
perhaps it was a hacked up version of the story of his city i read somewhere... *shrug*

it's whiz enough though, you could just make up your own stats to put into a game.

(LOL Fanpro wouldn't give any hard numbers for it anyways)

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Re:History
« Reply #147 on: March 08, 2005, 12:40:30 PM »
So... Ruski, what kind of Stats do cities have again?
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Re:History
« Reply #148 on: March 08, 2005, 01:30:43 PM »
Actually, if I was going to pick a city in Australia to do that to, it would be Adeliade or Darwin. Both are still more "costal" than anything, but are more to the interior of the continent.

I think it's Darwin they're talking about, because Darwin has issues even in our day and age- much more in SR world.

I'll have to get that book back from my brother and read over it.

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Re:History
« Reply #149 on: March 08, 2005, 02:35:42 PM »
Quote from: Kid_Vid on March 08, 2005, 01:30:43 PM
Actually, if I was going to pick a city in Australia to do that to, it would be Adeliade or Darwin. Both are still more "costal" than anything, but are more to the interior of the continent.

I have no clue what you mean by that. Both cities you mention are right on the coastline. The only non-coastal big(gish) scity in Oz is Alice Springs, which is prett much right in the center of the continent. It is also mentioned in Shadowrun canon as being still acive as a city.

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I think it's Darwin they're talking about, because Darwin has issues even in our day and age- much more in SR world.

What issues do you think Darwin has in our day-and-age?
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