LOL...

Let's finish this one first before signing on for another... ;)

Yeah, that's a given. Not going to put any serious effort into a sequel before this is "released"

Though the idea of doing something where you don't have to stick to a script is appealing, isn't it? Felt the same way after doing both Mercurial and DMS:VP...

Its been much too long since I've written anything... My writing practice lately has pretty much been limited to playing grammar cop...
I had meant to write the epilogues but got off track

Nice. Look forward into it.

Vegas!

spoilers maybe?


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EPILOGUE ; the vtol that saved the runners from the wreckage of the Aneki run - drops off the runners on top of a hill on the northern outskirts of the Seattle 'burbs'.

Akimi:

"This is where we part - as Aneki and Renraku are likely posting bounties in the 6 figures for each of your heads right now - and I guess what remains of the myraid of merc groups and gangs you encountered will be holding a grudge - I suggest you dissapear.... Fortunately, my boss has provided a means for that said escape - a few minor favors - plus a sizeable pile of Nuyen."

player responds = tries to get information unsuccessfully

Akimi points at the van:

"Congratulations on you career-change everyone! You are now officially experts in pest-control! - all the paperwork, uniforms, and gear is there. I suggest you change quickly before any stray drones spot you - pick a direction and drive! Actually, one caveat - don't go anywhere near Chicago. That isn't a dare, or some 'runner' code - that is real advice ”

player responds - in total agreement "...Yeah... Chicago is a drekhole anyways - easy advice to follow from our /new Johnson/"

"Indeed - but my Boss is NOT your employer just yet - survive the next 6-months or so as professional Shadowrunners - you may get on the books 'part-time'. For now be thankful you were not liquidated as soon as your purpose was fulfiled. By being a source of entertainment and real power gain - you now have some powerful 'eyes on' - You have pleased my boss - but be warned - one step wrong - one tiny teeny leak of anything that happened over the last week - will be met by deadly force - in the matrix - in the astral realms - and in meatspace. Best of luck! Nite nite!"

with a grin, Akimi dissapears into thin air - the runners turn to each other all thoroughly disturbed

"what the drek was that?"

"more's the point - who is her boss?"

"what is SHE? - a frakking free-spirit or something?"

"yeah i heard of them - though it was all made up?"

– the last line of dialogue from player;

“I think I've decided I really don't want to know... Let’s get started with this business of dissapearing!”

- "Frag it! Let's go to Vegas - set up shop - and stay on the winning streak"

2 'Pest Control' vans drive of towards Las Vegas... credits roll


Whatever SR2 is - its blatant that 'Steelflight' changes his name to 'Dodger' - which brings in several canon things that we can research - and a very direct tie-in to Dragonfall itself. Dodger may well be mates with Lofwyr already by this time? Why not?

Akimi is not mentioned out of the SNES game - so we can have her as a 'free spirit' do some stuff that could oneday be regarded as canon - this isn't Marvel comics eh?

A thing to consider here with a sequel is that Jake Armitage - isn't really a goofball - like HBS played it a bit in SRR. Amnesia aside - in SNES - Jake gets clues - goes underground when he needs to - and eventually becomes strong enough to defeat the Rust Stilettos, The Rat Shaman, The Dark Blade, The Jester Spirit, Drake's whole operation and then Aneki's killer AI. A goofball can't do that.

We /can/ allow Jake to be an idiot and a compulsive gambler though :D. That's enough drama to have Kitsune run away back to the Salish or something. His ultimate decision to have a mage wipe his brain of the journey to protect Kitsune from his bs - may then be a satistfying - but teary choice.

I did a bit of research for this game - almost nothing is canon. - so i went a looking - Renraku were a big deal in AI at the time - hence Aneki were a decent (maybe) sub-company to do experiments on AI at the time. Lofwyr was mad that this was going on or something.

Steelflight is definitely reborn as thge decker 'Dodger'

Thats all for canon folks :).

maybe's

Jester Spirit - could well be a plain representation of Harlequinn - and as the SNES story goes - knowing his 'real' name at the time and competing the 'spirit contract' - may have well unlocked him from whatever sleep or curse he was in at the time.

My choice = 'Spatter' ends up renaming himself "Blue Night' - but it never sticks - Runners all call him 'Blight' - he's a complete bastard and nobody ever like working with him. He ends up betraying a crew of runners who are trying to save Maria Mercurial from the Aztek assassins. Gets killed by a dragon by mistake.
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Have you shared part of that epilogue before? It feels familiar...

My thoughts on the sequel are more closely tied to the original than running off to vegas.
It focuses more on the immediate effect in Seattle and aside from the beginning and end, Jake is off camera.

Its more of an extensive epilogue to show that no matter how things change, they still stay the same... You can blow up a building, clear out some gangers, but still, sooner or later, Jake wakes up in the morgue.

Originally posted by Geeked:

Jester Spirit - could well be a plain representation of Harlequinn - and as the SNES story goes - knowing his 'real' name at the time and competing the 'spirit contract' - may have well unlocked him from whatever sleep or curse he was in at the time.

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Jester Spirit is actually a free spirit of machines based on the SNES and Harlequinn is an elf so they can't really be combined. Depending on how you view it, Jester may actually be a toxic spirit even.

Agreed! - i did present that in a form - travelling can be the illusion of change, i've heard say - karma is everywhere.

mm - well if any of the runners stay in seattle - they will be hunted down by Renraku mercs imo.

look i'm just pissing around here - so many ways to make a sequel it's silly- if you want to make it a romance between Jake and Kitsune - maybe lock down the first game - as a Jake Armitage game first yeh? ♥♥♥♥ the options.

Originally posted by Geeked:

mm - well if any of the runners stay in seattle - they will be hunted down by Renraku mercs imo.

If it was MCT instead of Renraku, I'd agree with you. They are brutal.
Renraku was going through some reorganization during this period though, so it wouldn't be unheard of for them to simply write off a failed project. After all, they can pretty much pin all the blame on Drake!

That being said... Any clue which of Seattle's volcanos was his lair?
Rainier is controlled how the elves... So it wouldn't make sense for Drake...
That leaves Mount Saint Helens, Mount Adams, Glacier Peak, and Mount Baker.
I was trying to figure that out the other day.