From: axg20@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashwath Ganesan)
Subject: Gencon and the Comaghaz
Reply-To: axg20@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashwath Ganesan)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 05:46:28 GMT




Ok, Jimbo... here's the scoop on the Comaghaz.

While we were chatting with Greg Farshtey, I asked him if it would
be possible for someone to issolate the Comaghaz virus, and innoculate
himself with it... thus enabling himself to fight Sarila WITHIN
the mind of the virus... sort of battle for control of the group mind.
He sort of looked stunned, and said, "Y'know that could work!"

In addition... rumor has it that it already has.  A Lorbaat psychic
warrior got hit by the plague, apparently, but managed to resist it,
and, wrest control from sarila!  So, we've gone from bad to worse!
Instead of psycho but still Aka person, we've Lorbaat hell-bug 
running things.  Please remember that this IS a rumor.

About the starwars/Shaterzone foo.  The new space game from
WEG is to be calle Shatterzone.  It is an entirely different
concept from star wars.  Basically, a bunch of earth folk
take off in the far future, having had it with megacorps and 
abysmal living conditions.  They set up colonies in space,
have good times with aliens, and other such spacey things.
So, in effect, the game is divided into three realms.  You have
the areas near or on Earth... these are run by huge megacorps,
and populated by the impoverished masses.  (those who could
afford to leave ... did).  It has a VERY cyberpunk tone to it...
Blade Runner, the whole nine yards.  Most of the rest of populated
space is much like any science-fiction/fantasy type realm 
with spaceships, laser photon super-iono blasters and such.
And then, there's the fringe... which is borderlands on the
Shatterzone.  The actual Shatterzone is a HUGE asteroid
belt which is sort of mildly an area where anitmatter and matter
collide... funky, eh?  Anyway, it promises to be a cool system.
I'll let you know more when I find out. ;)

A note here, Greg Farshtey, senior editor, is a really cool guy, 
as is the guy <Sean something> writing the Tokyo citybook.  For
all of you who HATED the l.a. citybook, and I know there are lots..
you should be happy with Tokyo (if Jim hasn't already told you so).
Greg admits that the l.a. book was a LOT of filler... it was
meant to be atmosphere... but Tokyo is lots of maps, detailed
city information, power structures, gang structure, and other
really really cool stuff.  Sean has divided Tokyo into 20 
sections... this meaning geographically.  For each section, he
is writing up who controls it, important landmarks, etc. etc. and
at the bottom of the page is a corner map.  Each section takes up
a page... so that's 20 pages of good solid info.  Anyway, look
forward to this book.  Also, again, if Jim didn't already say it,
when the module 'Revenge' comes out... GET IT... that's all I have
to say.... it's post GM's return.

Oh well, I'm done babbling... it's almost 2am... what am I doing up?!
Oh yeah, spewing text onto alt.torg... help, I've fallen into Torg,
and I can't get up!

Hasta!

-Ashwath
aka Dr. Mobius, soon to be ally of Pluto, of the soon to be Torgmush.
-- 
I really don't mind, if you sit this one out...    | <= Jethro Tull
My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.     | -Ashwath Ganesan-
I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.   | -among others-
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