Thread: [Shadowrun] Dealing with Dragons

Anonymous Web Blog The Ouroboros Bites Its Tail Im not going to tell you who I am. If you need to know you already do. Im not going to barrage you with street jargon to give myself legitimacy. That stuff is all over the net. Im going to talk about snakes. Theyre an old symbol lodged deep in metahumanitys collective mythology reminding us that every life form exists by feeding upon something else alive. We have existed their way, in a sort of brutal harmony, since millennia before man first descended from the trees. But man isnt a harmonious animal. The same intelligence that makes a slow, thin skinned hominid with neither claws nor fangs an apex predator allows us to break that harmony. Many ancient cultures understood this well enough to predict that our own hungers might consume us. When the ancient Norse spoke of the end of the world they described the Midgard Serpent, a monster whoin its insatiable hunger would devour all the world and thenwith nothing else to devourswallow itself. The image of the snake biting its tail has other meanings. The Ouroborous is a purer representative of the serpent, an ancient alchemical symbol of renewal and resurrection on par with the fiery phoenix that is reborn from the ashes of its own funeral pyre. Hunger is natural. The Midgaurd Serpent is not a force for annihilation because it defies nature, but because it exercises its prerogatives from a position of vastly unequal power. Neither gods nor giants can reign it in, much less vanquish it. Today, in the 52nd year of the sixth world, a dozen Midgard Serpents threaten to devour us all. Their mass media devours our dreams. Their frivolous products devour our resources. Their unchecked pollution devours our environment. We sleep while they nibble at our toes. Unlike the Midgard Serpent, these apex predatorswhom neither gods nor giants can challengewar ceaselessly with one another. I am a shadowruner. I am a fang of the Ouroborus. Sleep in peace, little snakes, you need not rise up against your oppressors this night. They will bite their own tails. Cassandra KeislingFang of the Ouroborus Concept Runner Mage with a Code Metatype Human Age 22 Birthday April 29th Build Hard bodied and athletic with a full, generous bosom D cup. Height 510 Weight 130lbs Skin Like black coffee Hair Curly Raven Wing Eyes Liquid Night Style History Cassandra Kiesling was raised by her father, Professor Eric Kiesling. He's a fair skinned guy with light brown hair and beard. He and Cassandra's motherYali Adamawere never married. They separated when Cassandra was 5 and lost touch completely when she turned 13. She's 22 now. Eric was a professor of both Arcane Studies and Philosophy at University of California at Berkeley. Eric's blog aggravated a number of megacorp high ups. A little over a year ago Eric published an article, The Ouroboros Bites His Tail wherein he extensively described the self destructive nature of the megacorps and the society they sustain--going so far as to ponder if Shadowrunners would accelerate the self destruction to the point where the world serpent--the corporations--would devour themselves without taking the world with them. Two days later, he was abducted in the night and hasn't been seen since. Cassandra doesn't know if he is dead or not, but she suspects that if their purpose were to silence him they would have showed some sort of sign of his fate. Fearing she would vanish next, Cassandra snagged all the resources she could and disappeared to Seattle. In a part of town where the Yakuza had more power than the police--she got a job as an exotic dancer. Under the name Katrina Jackson, she set up a new life and prepared herself to become a fang of the Ouroboros herself. Cassandra now resides in The Old Redel House, a run down but remarkably spacious old pace down town. She lives with a friend and sometimes lover of her's from the dance club--Hikari, a japanese girl with neon purple hair. Her Yakuza contact is a grabby young man named Takahashi Kyou. She doesn't know a Johnson of her own yet, but is putting the word out that she'd like to run the shadows through Kyou, a student of her father's who is now a talismonger, and a gal friend who posts blogs. She is also preparing to post her own blog column--through a few layers of anonymity provided by her blogger friend, which she calls The Ouroboros Bites it's tail, both as a statement and to draw out those who may still have her father.