[H:tR] Another RL Hunter (slightly sad)

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I was over at CNN.com checking out the news when I came upon this
article, a follow up to the Colorado bulldozer rampage that happened
recently:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/06/09/bulldozer.rampage.ap/index.html

While the article doesn't get too specific, it does talk about how the
man who went on the rampage believed that three "premature" deaths
(including the former mayor, the daughter of the plant owner, and his
own son) were linked to the expansion of a cement factory he was
having a dispute with. Sad story? Yes, but those that have played
Hunter might find some interesting correlations in it.

 

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There's only a correlation because Hunter is the game of the common
man. It takes the 'common man' enemies and imposes a supernatural
taint to them that justifies, condones, and sanctifies essentially
horrible actions that people wouldn't otherwise understand (of course,
the sleepers usually don't understand. As a Quaker working on his
True Faith rating, I still tend to disagree with it knowing the
circumstances; good thing I don't play myself as a character.)

Take a scenario from the Hunter storytellers guide, remove all
supernatural elements, and you have a pretty pedestrian if rather
liberal fairy tale of the precursor to a school shooting, dead loved
ones being exploited by identity thieves, or corporations screwing
people out of house and home.

I think my favorite thing about Hunter in ToJ was the realization, if
only briefly touched upon, that the biggest monster of all just might
be humanity. Of course, the hunter hubris would prevent most of them
from applying that thought to themselves.

Clogar <clogarnot@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<40C88A9D.1B78@nospam.com>...
> I was over at CNN.com checking out the news when I came upon this
> article, a follow up to the Colorado bulldozer rampage that happened
> recently:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/06/09/bulldozer.rampage.ap/index.html
>
> While the article doesn't get too specific, it does talk about how the
> man who went on the rampage believed that three "premature" deaths
> (including the former mayor, the daughter of the plant owner, and his
> own son) were linked to the expansion of a cement factory he was
> having a dispute with. Sad story? Yes, but those that have played
> Hunter might find some interesting correlations in it.