March Release – 10 Jackpointers
It’s the first of the month, that means I spend the day uploading PDFs.
This week, we take a deeper look into the people behind the shadowtalk and get more hints into the true purpose of Horizon’s Dawkins Group and the Consensus.
Everyone’s Watching Everyone
The problem with keeping files about ne’er-do-wells is they’re a curious and clever lot. Curious and clever enough to pilfer those files from the corporate compiler, repost them, and add their own commentary-providing a level of meta-information like you’ve never seen before. Get the scoop on Jackpoint-posters like Kay St. Irregular, Ecotope, Man-of-Many-Names, and Turbo Bunny.
Remember: not everything you read is true. When the two sources of information are Horizon and Jackpoint … all bets are off.
The Jackpointers presented in this download are: Baka Dabora, Ecotope, Fianchetto, Kay St. Irreggular, Lei Kung, Lyran, Man-of-Many-Names, Orbital DK, Riser, and Turbo Bunny. Each has a 2 or 3 page profile.
See you in a couple of weeks!
March 2nd, 2010 at 08:20:23
The Preview (Jackpoint-Login and Baka Deborah’s File) looks interesting. – I hope, the eBook doesn’t contain definite game-profiles with point-vallues for the Jackpointers presented there. I thought it was a bad idea, to make those for all those prominent shadow citizens in the old “Prime Runners” by FASA, and I hope, you wouldn’t make the same mistake.
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:00:37
Kathe: 10 Jackpointers doesn’t contain game stats. (And the awesome thing is… even if it did, you could change them! ;-) )
March 2nd, 2010 at 15:23:57
I didn’t realize the JackPoint was so well hidden, can you provide an idea or rough estimate of how many users actually have been given access to it? I had always assumed it was like the 3rd edition Shadow forums and you just needed a clever hack and you were on.
March 3rd, 2010 at 07:50:04
SDaries–
There are sixty regular members plus a few friends that get invited, but all told fewer than a hundred people know about Jackpoint. That is one of the differences between Fastjack’s VPN which is a collection of his friends and acquaintances and the older style with Captain Chaos where everyone and their brother could come to post.
-Stephen
March 3rd, 2010 at 09:42:13
I love this world stuff, and PDF releases make this, 10 gangs, etc. way more viable as books that can be sold for an acceptable price. Buying this to read on my way to game tonight.
March 4th, 2010 at 22:06:37
I just read this, and I was laughing out loud at Turbo Bunny’s writeup (I’m glad one of the current news networks here in Vegas still exists in 50 years, and apparently “Pics or it never happened” is still the 1st rule of the Matrix ^_^)
March 9th, 2010 at 04:37:57
Thanks for the information Stephen!