But yeah, I know right where his Magic score is at, and it’s awful low compared to most anyone else with “mage” in their name…but I don’t wanna give away anything about what he goes through, and (partially) why, in Shaken. In it, I say just how many times he’s initiated, which some folks can use to work up what his Magic attribute COULD be, along with the ‘ware I’ve documented he’s got, etc, etc. The mage question I’ve gotta answer a little carefully, ’cause Shaken (NJTS) is pretty heavily focused on his magic, and I don’t wanna spoil anything. He gets by as an investigator day-to-day, and even though he can more than hold his own in a fight (along with his friends, for sure), he’s not your go-to illegal freelancer shadowrun type. Jimmy doesn’t take a contract gig to break into a factory and steal protoypes, he has a contract to put wards on places, all above-board and legal. As a burned-out mage, what are his capabilities? They’re hard-working folks with a skill-set awful similar to a shadowrunner’s, maybe, but who try to use it for different stuff. He, Skip, and Trace (bounty hunter girlfriends, and his best friends) are all really stubborn about not being shadowrunners. Is Jimmy considered a shadowrunner himself? I like to have a sort of cohesive feel to the Shadowrun-verse, so it feels like the shadowrunner community should be small enough that sometimes people show up, at least on the fringes, of other folks’ stories, y’know? So I try to cram in canon stuff whenever possible. A few OTHER npcs that started off in some adventures (the “Elven Blood” 5-adventure pack) show up in this one, though (and pretty early in the book, in fact). For Shaken (NJTS) it was all the old Seattle sourcebooks, three old magic sourcebooks, two monster sourcebooks (had to look up the Latin names for stuff), all kinds of stuff. Jimmy appeared in any published adventures? Not counting (nigh-infinite) pdfs I have access to, I generally have a stack about a foot thick perched around my computer desk, looking stuff up in old books so I can name-drop as many correct details as possible, so I can use canon settings whenever possible, stuff like that.
As much of it as I can cram in without mucking up the story I’m trying to tell.
So how much of the setting comes into play in your works? *** KJ has quit IRC: Ping timeout: 484 seconds Jimmy’s first big story was the e-novella “Neat,” which has been out for a couple years now. Well, the Shaken trilogy is going to be the continuing (mis?)adventures of one Jimmy Kincaid, burnt-out mage turned paranormal investigator, and his various friends, contacts, partners, and work buddies. So I guess the obvious place to start is: what’s Shaken? (Pardon the pun.) Thanks, RussellZee! The floor is open to questions! (Oh, please give us a (done) when you’re ready for questions. Howdy folks! I’m Russell “Critias” Zimmerman, freelancer for assorted other stuff and regular Shadowrun contributor fella, and a little bit ago my new novel “Shaken (No Job Too Small)” launched, so I figured I’d swing by and chat with folks about it, my other SR stuff, and whatever else pops up.
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