Re: [[BNW] Fluke Package]

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>> > BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA......... I wonder how many actually GOT that one?
>> >  I've got a Primer adventure in the works based on the "Typhiod Croyd"
>> >  storyline.    What'ya think?
>> >
>>
>>Sounds tres' cool....one of the best set of novels ever :)
>
>For the clueless among us, can you enlighten?  Might just be
>something for me to check out.
>

Wild Cards was a series of (mostly) anthology novels compiled and supervised 
by George R.R. Martin. Basically the stories dealt with what might happen if 
an alien virus that shapes people to their subconscious was unleashed 
worldwide back just after the end of World War II. A lot of folks exposed 
simply died, many mutated into "Jokers", and a rare few became super-heroic 
"Aces." The various books after the first were modern-day. The books roughly 
go in "trilogies."

The Ace in question, Croyd the Sleeper (created by Roger Zelazny), gained a 
form of the virus back in the 40's that caused him to go into comas 
periodically and emerge with a new face and (typically) a new Ace power (and 
also making him essentially ageless, and leaving him amphetamine addicted 
due to a pathological fear of going back into a coma).  In the...fifth book, 
the power he gained was the ability to cause others to become infected (or 
reinfected) with the virus, causing another "Wild Card" outbreak. He's been 
pretty much the one constant character through the original series of books, 
and the three-book Card Sharks series that came after.

>Jennifer
>
>The White Crow
>FUDGE Deryni and Brave New World stuff:
>http://www.io.com/~whytcrow/
>"I'm telling you right now -- if you come out here and euthanize me,
>I'm going to be *very* pissed."
>(Your random gaming quote of the day)
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Steve Crow

"Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority."

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