Feng Shui Purists, Will?
From: Sensei Posted on: 3/8/2004 5:08 pm
To: ALL
Message: 344.1
Hey, Will, any plans at Atlas to address the Purists of 2056 more in depth, as Z-Man has done in Shadowfist?

I was curious if there was a small sourcebook or anything in the works. Shadowfist CCG is treating the Purists as another viable separate faction at this point, but I don't know whether Atlas is going that way with them.

From: Bob the Dancing Monkey Posted on: 3/9/2004 9:56 am
To: Sensei
Message: 344.2
in reply to: 344.1
I get the sense that Shadowfist and Feng Shui diverged the moment that Z-Man and Atlas bought out Daedalus' intellectual property. I'm pretty sure that there's never been an actual mention of the Purists even in the Daedalus FS supplements.

If the 2nd Edition ever does come out, one thing that I'd adore is a slightly more in-depth history of recent ops that the Dragons have been involved with. Golden Comeback is really, really general about the background, and the story of Operation Killdeer has only been told in a Daedalus book. And quite frankly, that feels just about _it_ for backstory. Now, I love making up backstory as much as the next GM (more, most likely...I'm having a lot of fun with The Prof's backstory right now), but I think it'd kind of nice for new GMs to have a little more of a fabric to weave their own stories into.

However, I really doubt that we'll ever see Shadowfist's plots take shape in FS. You've got two completely different companies and line editors for this. 'Fist has to continue the cycle of CCGs by continuing to push the story of the Secret War forward. FS is much more concerned with giving us the tools to tell our own stories.

From: prophet118 Posted on: 3/12/2004 10:21 am
To: Bob the Dancing Monkey
Message: 344.3
in reply to: 344.2
id personally like to see a better explaination of the whole 2056 juncture... though i dont know if i want to know more about battlechimp


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From: Bob the Dancing Monkey Posted on: 3/12/2004 11:03 am
To: prophet118
Message: 344.4
in reply to: 344.3
Have you yet gotten ahold of Gorilla Warfare? There's a lot of excellent stuff in there on 2056.

Think of 2056 as two worlds; the world that the Consumers live in, and the world that the Consumers fear, that's just beyond the edge of rumor.

That niggling worry that someone is noting if they aren't listening to Bonengel's thirty-third lecture on vat food's utility to the greater world; that wonder what those dark shapes flying above the city really are and why they keep circling the poor neighborhoods. I love taking the overly-silly little things like Combat Shopping and Bouncer (Think The Running Man mixed with zero-g elevator grids...) that suffuse the 2056 juncture and paralleling with the unfeeling brutality of a police state ready to do _anything_ to keep the Consumers unhappily existing.

Kawai with a sledgehammer if you will; Hello Kitty with a Big, Friendly Gun.

From: Hindmarch Posted on: 3/16/2004 6:00 pm
To: Sensei
Message: 344.5
in reply to: 344.1
Hi there,

Sorry for making you wait on this answer (and for this answer). Right now, I don't have any plans that include the Purists. This isn't to say that such plans will never be made, but right now there's nothing involving them on the horizon or immediately beyond.

word,
Will Hindmarch
Feng Shui Guy
Atlas Games

From: Sensei Posted on: 3/16/2004 7:33 pm
To: Hindmarch
Message: 344.6
in reply to: 344.5
No need to apologize for either; I don't even like the Purists, I was just curious.
From: dwjohnston Posted on: 4/17/2004 5:24 pm
To: Sensei
Message: 344.8
in reply to: 344.6
The Purists are, what, a faction of future sorcerers opposed to the Architects because they've decided that arcanowave technology is bad?
From: Sensei Posted on: 4/18/2004 11:22 am
To: dwjohnston
Message: 344.9
in reply to: 344.8
Yep. The Purists were infiltrators and traitors in the Achitects' organization. They were secretly trained by the Lotus to use "pure" magic, and hate the arcanotech that they consider inferior. The problem is, using their magic causes them to occasionally go nuts.

They used to work secretly within the Buro and CDCA to sabotage and spy on the Architects for the Lotus, but now they've openly rebelled and work as a distinct faction for themselves.