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  1. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    I will freely admit that was a source of inspiration, yes. :)
  2. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    I've written fanfics before that I needed no dopamine hits to continue, but... ehh, I don't know, I suppose this is a bad summer or something.
  3. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    Maybe. I was posting here out of respect for the 'keep non-NSFW stories off of NSFW' thing... but apparently SFW is dead, so fuck it. Granted, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the only reason I was getting little traffic. Someone on SB quite cogently pointed out that most Shadowrun readers come...
  4. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)
    Threadmarks: What Could Have Been

    Someone on the SB thread asked me what, if anything, I had already planned out for the future story. I answered that there, so I'll also mirror it here. I suppose. There was going to be an incident in Denver that split the team. They'd be ordered to do something grotty, or see something...
  5. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    Oh, one amusing thing I could mention - the character of Corporal Rebecca Mierson? While her name and appearance in this are non-canonical and chosen by me, because canon didn't specify, she is a character you've seen before - in Shadowrun canon. Because what decker do we know who went into...
  6. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)
    Threadmarks: Fic Abandoned

    Well, it's time to face the music - this story is going nowhere. The muse is dead. I originally did just stop to take a video game break, but the problem is that after I broke I just couldn't get into it again. And so I considered various things but they never got off the scratchpad, wrote...
  7. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    They're basically Ares' equivalent of Delta Force.
  8. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    IIRC, it is. And yeah, our MCs are reacting emotionally and not logically. Of course, that's called 'character development'. As to the delay in the update, blame Todd Howard. A few days ago I went 'Hey, I haven't played Skyrim in years, let's see if it's still fun' and the next thing I...
  9. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    Fortunately, Aztechnology will not be the main villains of the story... which is a good thing, both for the MCs and for the readers. :) In fact, I only mentioned them because it's a part of Mitchell's character background. As well as an illustration that even if you don't work for a corp you...
  10. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    To put it another way, the Azzies knew the truth about the Universal Brotherhood years before anyone else did... and didn't tell anyone. Oh,not because they liked the bugs. They don't. But their own agenda was best served by letting horrible things happen to other people, so they did.
  11. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 6

    Glenview Naval Air Station, Ares Extraterritorial Compound 6 March 2058 The brass made the first official announcement several days after we'd cleaned up the Nasty Grrls turf. Our main guess had been right on the money - Strain-III Beta was indeed an anti-magical bioweapon. Of course that was...
  12. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    I'm going to leave it in anyway because it's IC for Sergeant Sinclair to actually make sure everybody within hearing distance has been recapped on the relevant tactical data, even if they likely already know it. They knew.
  13. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    Ah. Okay, this would show up notably later in the story but I might as well tell it now because the plausible limitations of the MC's knowledge and experience (after all, none of the main cast are Awakened) is that Beta is somewhat more controllable than that.. and because it's becoming a major...
  14. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    Honestly? They were getting kinda desperate for a solution to the problem that wasn't "vaporize the entire city".
  15. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 5

    Chicago Containment Zone, UCAS February 22, 2058 "Did he have a family?" I asked the team as we sat outside our tent in the dark of late evening, It had taken the repair techs only a couple of hours to replace the power supply and control chip that had shorted out, as well as swap out the...
  16. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    More simply he uses his dead arm to hold the pistol between the forearm and his body, then uses his free hand to slap in the fresh magazine. The real problem would be trying to simultaneously hold the weapon and chamber the slide with only one working hand, but in the cyberpunk future he's got...
  17. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    Dunkelzahn does not return in canon. His assassination was in August 2057, several months before the start of this story.
  18. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 4

    Chicago Containment Zone, UCAS February 22, 2058 Whenever they did a big battle scene in the action sims they opened with a radio voice-over of a whole lot of guys frantically yelling over each other on some wide-open frequency in the clear. Callouts from units under fire simultaneous with...
  19. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)

    It actually was unintentional this time, honest. :)
  20. cliffc999

    The Sharp End (Shadowrun)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 3

    O'Hare Subsprawl, Ares Extraterritorial Compound January 13th, 2058 "You wanted to see me, sir?" I braced to attention in front of Lieutenant Menendez' desk. He looked up at me over the several floating holodisplays of data being projected in front of him, and tapped a command into the...
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