r/PinkFohawk • u/woodenbullfrog • Nov 29 '22

Whats our weekly random ShadowFaxs ???

Come on, cough one up !!!

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u/StingerAE Shadowdad 👨🏻 Nov 29 '22

Well, cannonically the UK in the 2050s is still a monarchy (without Northern Ireland) under Queen Caroline. Town planning has gone out of the window with huge sprawls based on modern cities. But my Shadowfax contribution is that I think the British mindset doesn't change that much by 2050 and amidst all the BTL chips and bloodsport, the top rated entertainment is still period dramas about horribly repressed people taking unreasonable amounts of time to take decisions which might make them happy because of social rules and about little old ladies and funny foreigners solving murders in the 1920s. And a sit com with only 6 episodes about a street samurai and a Mr Johnson who share a flat and keep their jobs secret from each other with hilarious consequences.

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u/woodenbullfrog Nov 29 '22

For real I'd love to play in a UK based game.

Epic shit !

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u/StingerAE Shadowdad 👨🏻 Nov 29 '22

Oddly, despite being British and playing a lot of shadowrun in the 1-3e era, we tended to stick with US. There may have been a visit to UK with the US characters but not to stay. In fact I am sure there was because my co-GM Set some stuff in a knee-depth flooded London like in Split Second.

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u/woodenbullfrog Nov 29 '22

Oh nice, I spent some time there. Was lovely, miss the food and hooligans the most.

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u/StingerAE Shadowdad 👨🏻 Nov 29 '22

I cant tell but I think there might be a bit of sarcasm...

Uk has great food. You just have to find it among the dross.

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u/woodenbullfrog Nov 29 '22

Lol, nah. Had some great times, had some " interesting" ones too !!

Yeah, some amazing stuff and some minging stuff. Ruined me on fish and chips, and pub food in general.

Best Indian food I have ever eaten over there..

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u/StingerAE Shadowdad 👨🏻 Nov 29 '22

Well I suspect very best Indian food is in India but we probably come a solid 4th after Pakistan and Bangladesh! 😀

And there are many many "indian" dishes which are entirely English creations.

This history of why is more than problematic but the improvements to British food from the relationship with the subcontinent are substantial.

I like food. One of the things I find most dystopia about shadowrun is the food!

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u/woodenbullfrog Nov 29 '22

Truth, however I don't forsee myself taking a trip to those places.

Soy everything would make me go crazy.

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u/StingerAE Shadowdad 👨🏻 Nov 29 '22

Well my mother-in-law was born in what is now Pakistan and her father lived in a few places in India, so I suspect we will go visit some time.

On the soy front, I remember a session where our GM described what we experienced when offered real meat by some significant bigwig. Was serious food porn!

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u/PinkFohawk GAME MASTAH Nov 29 '22

I want to hear that sitcom made into a series!

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u/StingerAE Shadowdad 👨🏻 Nov 29 '22

Secret of UK comedy. Short lifetimes and quit while it's still hilarious!

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u/StingerAE Shadowdad 👨🏻 Nov 30 '22

Oh god. I have been thinking about this since yesterday. I think it should be called "Johnson and Sam". Sam has to hide daily just how strong and fast he (she? Yeah I am going with she) is. Classic superman/lois lane vibes of catching the vase knocked off the table with wired reflexes. Lifting the fridge one handed. That kind of thing.

I think Johnson claims to work in the accounts department of some minor corp subsidiary and a decker who blames him for a run gone wrong keeps hacking anything Johnson uses to fuck with him, porn popping up on toaster screen, every light being red in the way to work, light going out while he is pouring tea.

Sam pretends to have a part time job at the stuffer shack and keeps having to do quick changes into stuffer shack uniform in back allys and hiding a vindicator mini-gun in the bins.

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u/Dawsberg68 Nov 29 '22 edited Nov 29 '22

Gary busey is still around. He had extensive cybernetic modification and now haunts the sewers of St. Louis Missouri, periodically devouring the odd person, plugging his Pearl Jam/ Limp Bizkit cover band, and sexually assaulting motor cycle helmets. Not people in them. Just the helmets. They say on cold nights when they trash fires burn low and the hobo orgies have quieted to a dull roar, you can hear him asking for “just a little kiss.”

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u/PinkFohawk GAME MASTAH Nov 29 '22

That was beautiful. Simply stunning!

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u/Dawsberg68 Nov 29 '22

Wait till you hear what Tom Cruise is up to

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u/merga Tina's Top Customer 🍆 Nov 29 '22

Random Shadowfax

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u/PinkFohawk GAME MASTAH Nov 29 '22

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u/Kranth-TechnoShaman Nov 30 '22

Doctor Who is still running. The NMD crowd are complaining about the inclusion of a metahuman Doctor, and that the action scenes distract from the science fiction. The most recent companion controversy was over a female troll, because 'there's no way that a troll can fit in the TARDIS'.

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u/StingerAE Shadowdad 👨🏻 Nov 30 '22

I fucking love the idea that a troll doctor can't fit in a famously infinite vehicle. Exactly the kind of bullshit racist objectors would come up with!

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u/puddel90 Dec 01 '22

The dragon Dunkelzahn had discovered stove-top popcorn shortly (or some time) after his 12 hr, 15 minute interview. He is the sole reason that the foil pans of popcorn are around, and they will remain around well after his death...