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This piece of artwork from Ian King in the new SR6 book is just amazing and chock full of references and Easter Eggs. Can you spot them all?
(https://i.imgur.com/whk2pMx.jpg)
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Super Tuesday is obvious, but I also see New Seattle. Looks like a spectral Big D in the window curtain, but its not a one for one from Dunkelzahn's Secrets...
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Don't forget to scroll the image. It's a double page spread, so it's wide. :)
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Heh, yes I failed to scroll. Many, many more. Special <3 for the formerly ubiquitous Queensryche logo,
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I remember when we were doing Missions Season 4 and i was using Mecurial, one of my art notes was to have the tri-ryche logo somewhere on the cover :)
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I love that the Troll on the shelf is build like a Shadowrun troll with his horns and tusks. Also the stash of Karl Kombotmage media
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I just got the book yesterday. This piece immediately caught my eye.
The 1E/2E cover artwork is on the calendar at the top-right.
The figurines on the center bookshelves are from the 3E/4E/5E cover artworks. (The samurai is from the original 4E cover. I actually haven't found anything from the 20th Anniversary Edition cover yet.)
Lots more. I'll let some others pick them out.
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"F GODWIRE" on the refrigerator magnets on the top right.
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Would that old Fuchi merch be worth anything? Also, there's a rat (I think) in the McGuffins box!
Also, I know I've seen that statuette atop the NERPS box, but I forget where...
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I checked, thinking it might have been the idol from Bottled Demon, but it's not.
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Some definitely benefit from zooming in, like the "Neil the Orc Barbarian" graffiti on the seat of one of the chairs. Kudos to the artist for including things big and small, obvious and more subtle. It even has me asking myself "Is that just a generic SMG, or does it match up to the drawing of something in an earlier edition?"
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I enjoyed the 1st Edition cover on the calendar; and of course there is Taco Temple. 8)
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I don't recognize the symbol on the fridge magnet that is beside the Space Needle one (black and white outline that isn't the Space Needle).
I also liked the choice of Horizon and Stuffer Shack on the other fridge magnets -- they seem like the sort of companies that would hand out that sort of thing :)
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I don't recognize the symbol on the fridge magnet that is beside the Space Needle one (black and white outline that isn't the Space Needle).
:sad face:
We are living in a post Queensryche world.
P.S. the reason it's an Easter egg is 1st ed Shadowrun artwork often included it somewhere.
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I don't recognize the symbol on the fridge magnet that is beside the Space Needle one (black and white outline that isn't the Space Needle).
:sad face:
We are living in a post Queensryche world.
P.S. the reason it's an Easter egg is 1st ed Shadowrun artwork often included it somewhere.
They were a band, I think? I guess that as the symbol wasn't meaningful to me I'd never noticed it in older art.
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They were a band, I think?
:sadface again:
What do the kids today listen to!?!
I guess that as the symbol wasn't meaningful to me I'd never noticed it in older art.
Just one example of many... literally the first one I found on a google search. The band logo is not so subtly "hidden" right over the middle character's head.
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/shadowrun/images/f/f6/New_York_City_%28Neo-Anarchist%27s_Guide_to_North_America%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20181203053822&path-prefix=en)
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Pretty cool
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Would that old Fuchi merch be worth anything? Also, there's a rat (I think) in the McGuffins box!
Also, I know I've seen that statuette atop the NERPS box, but I forget where...
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/shadowrun/images/f/f5/Source_cover_en_Target_Matrix.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130112135445&path-prefix=en)
Just one example of many... literally the first one I found on a google search. The band logo is not so subtly "hidden" right over the middle character's head.
Most of the 1st ed authors were big fans, so they put the logo in everywhere. YOu can also see song lyrics scrawled as graffiti in some art.
Also, if you're a fan of cyberpunk at all, you have to listen to their concept album Operation: Mind Crime. YOu need to get the whole album, as there's a lot of little Voice Acting story bits in between the songs.
I'd also recommend the song Empire off their album of the same name. Honestly, that whole album is also worth listening to, a lot of great songs with sometrhing of a cyberpunk/shadowrunny vibe to them.
There's a reason I have a Queensryche Pandora station set up that I play in the background when I write Shadowrun. Puts me in the right mood. :)
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The purple toy in the box (lower left) was on the cover of 3E New Seattle.
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I admit I had to look up Queensryche on wikipedia ... I was vaguely aware of them, but was living in some musical deserts during the height of their success and had never really picked up on them. Anyway, cool to see that they are from Bellevue, and started out before the timelines diverged. In other words, their symbol showing up in Seattle area art decades later is actually pretty conceivable.
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...interesting nobody mentioned the Harlequin clock on the wall by the loo.
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I thought we were all trying to dance around it. (I can't help but think it's the sort of thing Ehran would've made as a subtle insult)