Shadowrun
Shadowrun General => The Secret History => Topic started by: ScytheKnight on <04-27-15/0202:59>
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So thanks to the Shadowrun: Hong Kong I'd managed to get a copy of The Universal Brotherhood... felt that since my game is doing Missions play in Chicago might be an idea to see where many of the cities woes began.
Just had to say, and can't really think of anyplace else to state it on this forum... wow. That was one hell of a read, even having played SR:Returns and reading Feral Cities on Chicago and knowing everything going on, some seriously great writing and well and truly worth the time spent reading it.
Kinda makes me wonder what happened when this hit the game back in 1990...
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Indeed a nice catch. Though it seems they only delivered the UB-sourcebook, not the in-time story booklet that belonged to the boxed set.
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The Wanderly/Davitt report was incredible. Oh, we'd known Insect spirits were out there, but a) I read the UB doc straight through, and then b) had four or five bad nights' sleep in a row.
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Indeed a nice catch. Though it seems they only delivered the UB-sourcebook, not the in-time story booklet that belonged to the boxed set.
It does also come with Missing Blood.
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The Wanderly/Davitt report was incredible. Oh, we'd known Insect spirits were out there, but a) I read the UB doc straight through, and then b) had four or five bad nights' sleep in a row.
That was the one! Oh my, the chills!
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If there was ever a Shadowrun Movie, doing it based on the Wanderly/Davitt report would be awesome and creepy as hell.
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My first "contact" with the bug spirits was with the novel "2XS" (by Nigel D. Findley). Really great read.
The Universal Brotherhood document (by the same author) is also a great read : there is a deep feel of hopelessness the more we dwelve into the Wanderly/Davitt report.
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I was first introduced to Shadowrun in 4th edition. I KNEW what the deal was from reading the history blurb at the start of the core book. And I still felt like I got creeped right the hell out by the Universal Brotherhood and Bug City books. I get twitchy just remembering.
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Read some of the early stuff in Bug City... jeepers that's some good writing.
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Mmmm. I do have to say that we sure as hell didn't expect it, even running through the Queen Euphoria and Missing Blood adventures. Wreck an entire (major!) city?
Strangely enough, I still don't think of Bug City as being 'early' Shadowrun ...
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Mmmm. I do have to say that we sure as hell didn't expect it, even running through the Queen Euphoria and Missing Blood adventures. Wreck an entire (major!) city?
Strangely enough, I still don't think of Bug City as being 'early' Shadowrun ...
Agreed Bug City is not "early " Shadowrun still one of my favorites though.
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I started in 2nd ed so I didn't get to read the Universal Brotherhood until after I read Bug City but I do remember getting the chills when I read Bug City the first time.
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The UB adventure was one of the few adventures that out-did Call of Cthulhu in sheer horror. My group freaked out (in character...mostly) going through it.
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You should have had your first time through "Missing Blood" be after sitting with your friends through a double-feature of Alien and Aliens, with perhaps slightly too much bourbon in your system before all was said and done.
Sleep was not my friend for some time after that....
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Sleep was not my friend for some time after that....
When is it ever? When is it ever. ;)
The Wanderly/Davitt report was incredible. Oh, we'd known Insect spirits were out there, but a) I read the UB doc straight through, and then b) had four or five bad nights' sleep in a row.
Mmmm. I do have to say that we sure as hell didn't expect it, even running through the Queen Euphoria and Missing Blood adventures. Wreck an entire (major!) city?
The scale of it all was insane - sure there was some big bads early on. But as it turns out, the insect spirits are just doing their thing. Ah, nature, you fickle <censored with a :)>!
Queen Euphoria was my first exposure to insect spirits and at that point, it was a "Oh, man - that's weird." UB came out and it was that moment when you are in a dark place and the floor is moving. You don't want to turn on the light. You really don't. But you do anyway. Then the screaming starts. ;)
UB to Chicago, at least for me, was kind of like the difference between Alien and Aliens (to borrow from your story Mr. Goodman). The first was all horror and the unknown - and the second was an all out action packed 'Game over Man! Game over!' :)
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That's a good analogy, cantrip. Alien was a horror movie with sci-fi trappings, while Aliens was a sci-fi movie with horror trappings. The UB document was definitely horror, while bug city was definitely more action.
And now you've got me wondering what happens when a Wasp spirit inhabits a Xenomorph. Damnit.
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So thanks to the Shadowrun: Hong Kong I'd managed to get a copy of The Universal Brotherhood... felt that since my game is doing Missions play in Chicago might be an idea to see where many of the cities woes began.
Just had to say, and can't really think of anyplace else to state it on this forum... wow. That was one hell of a read, even having played SR:Returns and reading Feral Cities on Chicago and knowing everything going on, some seriously great writing and well and truly worth the time spent reading it.
Kinda makes me wonder what happened when this hit the game back in 1990...
Had huge shock value back then. Since the timeline has moved up greatly, folks take the knowledge of Bugs for granted(players and characters). Back then it was a rather startling revelation.