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Who is this man with the sick stats!?
Is he sick with what I think he is.
Does he maybe hunt other sick?
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A) Martin de Vries, Vampire Hunter
B) Yes
C) Yes
;D
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Thank you FastJack, now I can reveal this Thread's TRUE NATURE!
A Poll. =D
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Martin de Vries is a mage who got turned into a vampire who hunts other vampires. He has an artifact that helps him in a way I forget. He's already been stated in the old book Prime Runners.
Edit- Where is he being stated?
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And chain smokes like a smelter.
I swear, those things are going to kill him.
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His Foci keeps his essence at 4
From the SR Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/shadowrun
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I was expecting this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piter_De_Vries).
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His Foci keeps his essence at 4
From the SR Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/shadowrun
It doesn't keep his essence at 4 as it can still lower below that. It's....complicated. Basically, de Vries is an attempt to make a Shadowrun version of Blade and Van Helsing (not the one from Stoker, but the pop culture version). He was a mage who was a vampire hunter, had his climactic battle with the master vampire he'd been chasing for years, yadda yadda yadda, now he's a vampire mate who is a vampire hunter. And no I'm not kidding, the "yadda yadda yadda" is canon. Or at least "no one knows what happened". I'm betting it's in one of the novels I don't have or it just hasn't come up yet...
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His Foci keeps his essence at 4
From the SR Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/shadowrun
It doesn't keep his essence at 4 as it can still lower below that. It's....complicated. Basically, de Vries is an attempt to make a Shadowrun version of Blade and Van Helsing (not the one from Stoker, but the pop culture version). He was a mage who was a vampire hunter, had his climactic battle with the master vampire he'd been chasing for years, yadda yadda yadda, now he's a vampire mate who is a vampire hunter. And no I'm not kidding, the "yadda yadda yadda" is canon. Or at least "no one knows what happened". I'm betting it's in one of the novels I don't have or it just hasn't come up yet...
Ah I was paraphrasing Uncle ancients description
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Martin was in at least one novel, but I don't know the name of it. He might have been in 2 or 3.
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Terminus Experiment?
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Yes, he was in Terminus Experiment. Also his wife and unborn child were turned into vampires, he ended up killing them and swearing vengence on vampiredom. Somewhere along the lines he became one himself. I don't remember much about his partner.
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Oh, yes, I remember that scene now. It's something that dredges up in my mind every now and then when I think I'm hard on my characters. I don't feel quite so bad.
Just finished a new one whose story begins with him getting shot in the head and dropped out of a helicopter.
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Yes, he was in Terminus Experiment. Also his wife and unborn child were turned into vampires, he ended up killing them and swearing vengence on vampiredom. Somewhere along the lines he became one himself. I don't remember much about his partner.
Is that bit about his wife and child in Terminus Experiment? I find myself tragically unschooled in the novels, so this is the first time I've ever actually heard this part of the story.
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The idea of PDF supplements introducing stats of famous NPC is very tempting
snif!
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Yes, he was in Terminus Experiment. Also his wife and unborn child were turned into vampires, he ended up killing them and swearing vengence on vampiredom. Somewhere along the lines he became one himself. I don't remember much about his partner.
Is that bit about his wife and child in Terminus Experiment? I find myself tragically unschooled in the novels, so this is the first time I've ever actually heard this part of the story.
Yes it is. He tells it to one of the vampire hunters who fear/hate him because he is a vampire. To get her to feel sorry for him. And of course, it works.
Also, there's vampires with cyberware and genetically altered vampires that can live under the sun and eat normal food in this book . . and elfish lesbian stripper vampire huntresses . .
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Vamps can use deltaware
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This was BEFORE that.
Also, these are genetically altered and remote-controlled(by chip) mass produced vampires who have lost several of their weaknesses . .
HUNDREDS of them. And one Mafia-Clan has been subverted or maybe even mostly changed into vampires . .
Someone went WAY over the Top with this Novel. Not that it's really bad . . it just does not portray Shadowrun propperly in my eyes . .
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I could easily see one Mafia family getting stuck with a spreading strain of HMHVV. I mean, hell, it's like Herpes. With biting. :P
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Someone went WAY over the Top with this Novel. Not that it's really bad . . it just does not portray Shadowrun propperly in my eyes . .
Which is in no way unique to this particular novel.
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I could easily see one Mafia family getting stuck with a spreading strain of HMHVV. I mean, hell, it's like Herpes. With biting. :P
The Mafia. Who is about as Xenophobic as possible?
Who if they have a choice STILL only want Male Humans of Italian/Sicilian Birth in their Ranks?
Who would look at Yomi and go:"That's a good idea, let's do that with some island around italy too!"
And those are now supposed to accept Vampires, who are not even accepted by Metahumans for the most Part?
i'll go to bed now, i'm tired.
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It wasn't the mafia it was the family running a security company called Fratezella(?) Inc. They did some security work for the mafia but weren't "made".
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The Fratellanza are the Alta Commissione's all-star company men. The people they call upon to send a Message with a capital "M". There's a whole write-up on them in Vice. The only corporations I can think of off hand actually run by the mafia are Franklin Associates (which has the fire services contract in Seattle) and Trans-Europa.
The Mafia is ripe with nepotism, but I don't they're particularly biased otherwise. There seem to be an awful lot of ork and troll soldati...
As an aside, there are the N’drangheta out of GeMiTo... aka, the insect mafia. Is it ever established whether the Alta Commissione is aware they are bugs? I can't remember.