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<blockquote>''Alright, here's the effortpost I promised on James Delany's movies with Brilliant Genesis.''</blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>'''''Chainsaw Reborn''' is remembered for one thing: Jacqueline Starlight's incredible performance doing emotion capture for the titular reborn Chainsaw. Basic plot summary: Chainsaw, seemingly dead at the end of the first movie, is resurrected as a mind-wiped cyber-zombie, with an upgraded chainsaw hand; the corp uses him to take on street gangs, he eventually stumbles across his former girlfriend, she reminds him who he was, he goes back to the corp and chainsaws his way through security to the executive responsible for wiping his mind. What makes this work is Starlight's ability to take you through Chainsaw whole journey, which ends up being surprisingly poignant. Delaney did the gore-effects on set, and they're good, but nothing that would stand out in the genre.''</blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>''So, I haven't experienced '''The Fifth Caballero''', but apparently neither did anybody else. It's a horribly-reviewed comedy set in Aztlan back when it used to be called Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution, though the revolution in the film apparently doesn't much match actually history, or apparently what Aztechnology wants remembered of history, leaving it banned in the only market that might care about it. Seems like a complete misfire. That said, I haven't read any complaints about Delany's work on the illusory sets they used to capture this in Chicago.''</blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>''I get that '''Alan Moore's Swamp Thing''' is an obnoxious title given how little similarity it has to the original novel. But I haven't read that so ultimately I'm just judging it as a sim, preconceptions aside. And from that perspective, it's great. You've got Delaney's illusions and Starlight's emotions again, but this time for a body-tripping plant monster that can feel an entire swamp through some kind of plant network instead of just a beefy guy murdering people with a chainsaw. The whole story: his birth, him being hunted by the Floronic fertilizer company, the big fight scene at the end, is all freaky sensations and body horror and it's great. Writer/director Mary McQuillen never recovered from this one, but it's what made Delaney someone to watch.''</blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>'''''Unjustified''' is a neo-western: a NaN peace officer hunts for his son's killer (though, spoiler, not really, he's still alive) in the farmland and wilderness outside the Denver Metroplex. Most of the attention for this went to Caron Brown's performance as Anna, the tracker companion to the main POV character. She's great, and brings the only warmth to what's otherwise a pretty cold sim. But Delaney's work on this movie is incredible, painting vast vistas entirely out of thin air, which didn't get much attention at the time as Brilliant Genesis didn't want to draw attention to the entirely artificial setting of a sim being praised for its realness. Incredible work, though, and what earned him the director's chair for his next movie.''</blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>''So, '''Angels of Saturn’s Rings''' has a bad reputation, but I actually kinda like it. I get that the juxtaposition of the horror stuff with the spiders and the more erotic stuff with the aliens doesn't totally work, but when the execution of both those elements is so strong, I don't really mind the tonal whiplash. And the sci-fi writing for the first contact storyline is surprisingly good. And I think anyone can appreciate the incredible visuals of the nano-replicators building out in Saturn's rings. It's a movie that clearly needed another pass at the scriptwriting stage, but as a freshman effort of James Delaney in the director's chair, as well as doing the illusory setting, I think it shows a lot of promise.''</blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>''But at the end of the day, he's a talented, but not all that accomplished illusionist/director whose career was cut short by the intervention of bugs from another dimension, and it's not clear to me what a great dragon's interest is in that. I guess maybe he's a fan? But at least for me, I hope someone gets him out and he gets back to work. His horror chops could only be improved by being stuck in a city filled with insect monsters, right? :D''<br>— SK</blockquote> | |||
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==The Rochus Braun Report (August 4, 2057)== | ==The Rochus Braun Report (August 4, 2057)== | ||
Revision as of 21:59, 5 November 2017
Dunkelzahn's Six
| James Delany | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 9, 2028 (age 29) |
| Spouse | Jeane Olson |
| Children | Robert Delany |
| Metahumanity Type | Dwarf |
| Employment | Illusionist Brilliant Genesis Studios Chicago, IL |
| Recent Productions |
Angels of Saturn’s Rings (2055) |
Alright, here's the effortpost I promised on James Delany's movies with Brilliant Genesis.
Chainsaw Reborn is remembered for one thing: Jacqueline Starlight's incredible performance doing emotion capture for the titular reborn Chainsaw. Basic plot summary: Chainsaw, seemingly dead at the end of the first movie, is resurrected as a mind-wiped cyber-zombie, with an upgraded chainsaw hand; the corp uses him to take on street gangs, he eventually stumbles across his former girlfriend, she reminds him who he was, he goes back to the corp and chainsaws his way through security to the executive responsible for wiping his mind. What makes this work is Starlight's ability to take you through Chainsaw whole journey, which ends up being surprisingly poignant. Delaney did the gore-effects on set, and they're good, but nothing that would stand out in the genre.
So, I haven't experienced The Fifth Caballero, but apparently neither did anybody else. It's a horribly-reviewed comedy set in Aztlan back when it used to be called Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution, though the revolution in the film apparently doesn't much match actually history, or apparently what Aztechnology wants remembered of history, leaving it banned in the only market that might care about it. Seems like a complete misfire. That said, I haven't read any complaints about Delany's work on the illusory sets they used to capture this in Chicago.
I get that Alan Moore's Swamp Thing is an obnoxious title given how little similarity it has to the original novel. But I haven't read that so ultimately I'm just judging it as a sim, preconceptions aside. And from that perspective, it's great. You've got Delaney's illusions and Starlight's emotions again, but this time for a body-tripping plant monster that can feel an entire swamp through some kind of plant network instead of just a beefy guy murdering people with a chainsaw. The whole story: his birth, him being hunted by the Floronic fertilizer company, the big fight scene at the end, is all freaky sensations and body horror and it's great. Writer/director Mary McQuillen never recovered from this one, but it's what made Delaney someone to watch.
Unjustified is a neo-western: a NaN peace officer hunts for his son's killer (though, spoiler, not really, he's still alive) in the farmland and wilderness outside the Denver Metroplex. Most of the attention for this went to Caron Brown's performance as Anna, the tracker companion to the main POV character. She's great, and brings the only warmth to what's otherwise a pretty cold sim. But Delaney's work on this movie is incredible, painting vast vistas entirely out of thin air, which didn't get much attention at the time as Brilliant Genesis didn't want to draw attention to the entirely artificial setting of a sim being praised for its realness. Incredible work, though, and what earned him the director's chair for his next movie.
So, Angels of Saturn’s Rings has a bad reputation, but I actually kinda like it. I get that the juxtaposition of the horror stuff with the spiders and the more erotic stuff with the aliens doesn't totally work, but when the execution of both those elements is so strong, I don't really mind the tonal whiplash. And the sci-fi writing for the first contact storyline is surprisingly good. And I think anyone can appreciate the incredible visuals of the nano-replicators building out in Saturn's rings. It's a movie that clearly needed another pass at the scriptwriting stage, but as a freshman effort of James Delaney in the director's chair, as well as doing the illusory setting, I think it shows a lot of promise.
But at the end of the day, he's a talented, but not all that accomplished illusionist/director whose career was cut short by the intervention of bugs from another dimension, and it's not clear to me what a great dragon's interest is in that. I guess maybe he's a fan? But at least for me, I hope someone gets him out and he gets back to work. His horror chops could only be improved by being stuck in a city filled with insect monsters, right? :D
— SK
| Dr. Edward Fenwick Oden | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 2, 2010 (age 47) |
| Spouse | Dr. Gilbert I. Williams |
| Children | none |
| Metahumanity Type | Human |
| Employment | Full Professor Department of Thaumaturgy University of Chicago Chicago, IL |
| Recent Published Works | A Meta-analysis of Spirit-Based Far-Metaplane Exploration (2055) An Alternative Runic System for Astral Projection Monitoring Circles (2054) Metaplane Permeability in the Saar-Lorraine-Luxembourg Special Administrative Zone (2053) |
| Gregory Armtwister | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 13, 2028 (age 28) |
| Spouse | none |
| Children | none |
| Metahumanity Type | Ork |
| Employment | Security The Big Rhino Seattle, WA |
| Matrix Rumors | 1) He’s a major player in the Ork underground. Dunkelzahn wants him brought out to get back to that. 2) He’s a Shadowrunner who Dunkelzahn sent into the CZ but couldn’t get out, and he’s got something Dunkelzahn wants for his foundation. 3) He’s a high-level off-books Renraku operator who was sent into Chicago within an hour of the outbreak, before the wall went up. Dunkelzahn wants his foundation to find out why. |
| Protacio Corcoran | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 13, 2023 (age 33) |
| Spouse | none |
| Children | none |
| Metahumanity Type | Human |
| Employment | Handyman Chicago, IL |
| Matrix Rumors | 1) He’s a Sky Shaman who possesses the Seal of the Blue Gloves, which the Dunkelzahn Foundation will need after giving away the green ones. 2) He’s secretly Basilisk, a Chicago-area holo-vandal of whom Dunkelzahn was a fan. 3) He’s a high-level off-books Ares operator who was activated within an hour of the outbreak, before the wall went up. Dunkelzahn wants his foundation to find out why. |
| Katherine Sitsu | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 5, 2033 (age 24) |
| Spouse | none |
| Children | none |
| Metahumanity Type | Elf |
| Employment | PhD Student University of Chicago Chicago, IL |
| Published Works | Brain Abnormalities in Procyon Latri (Bandit Raccoons) |
| Sissel McCarthy | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 2, 2021 (age 35) |
| Spouse | John Robles |
| Children | Daisy McCarthy Dianne Robles |
| Metahumanity Type | Human |
| Employment | Journalist Chicago NewsNet-Sun-Tribune Chicago, IL |
| CZ BBS Bulk Download Articles | Bugs on Buses: Transportation in Crisis A Fragile Peace in the Ghoul Enclave Fast-Flesh Infested: Super Soldier Insects? Last Month Was the Deadliest Yet from Faulty BTLs Beside the Wall: Life on the Fringes |
The Rochus Braun Report (August 4, 2057)
| Personal Details | |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Rochus Orwell Braun III |
| Nickname(s) | none |
| SIN | 000001-38bf44-fb5087-eb6086-6b5ac7-9318b2 |
| Born | March 6, 2012 (age 45) Renton, SSAR |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Alanis Rosaire (married 2038) |
| Children | Rochus Orwell Braun IV (born 2040) John Francis Braun (born 2042) Mary Margaret Braun (born 2044) |
| Parents | Rochus Orwell Braun II (born 1991) Maggie Noelle McKenzie (born 1992) |
| Education | Renraku Educational Primary (Renton, SSAR) Renraku Educational Secondary (Renton, SSAR) B.A. in Management, Northwest University (Bellevue, SSAR) Lone Star Academy (Austin, TX) |
Parents both come from serious money. Their personal matrix chat with the other kids, all mid-level Renraku execs, is brutal. Roch is just some bigot cop to them. They’ve got no serious contact, they say he’s all in on Lone Star and his church.
— RaverD
| Physical Characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Height | 1.65 m (5’5”) |
| Weight | 86 kg (190 pounds) |
| Metahumanity Type | Human |
| Eye Color | Hazel |
| Hair Color | Dark Brown |
| Blood Type | AB- |
Lone Star physical requirements aren’t much at his rank, and he takes advantage of it.
— RaverD
| Employment | |
|---|---|
| Employer | Lone Star Security Services |
| Title | Captain, Crime Suppression Division |
| Hired | June 03, 2037 |
| Salary | $337,000 (~87,000¥) 60,000 LSS (~8,000¥) |
He’s got a clean record, though he might have come in with enough profile to keep it that way no matter what. Lone Star knows their system leaks.
— RaverD
| Residence | |
|---|---|
| Address | 1015 North 31st St Renton, SSAR 98056 |
| Geo-coordinates | 47.519031, -122.204926 |
This is a two-story house in a low-crime middle-class neighborhood. Looks like he mostly walks places, except to work, and church once a week in Bellevue.
— RaverD
| Contact Info | |
|---|---|
| Phone | 1-206-727-2143 |
| robraun@lonestar.ucas | |
Again, no access to internal Lone Star communications.
— RaverD
| Financial | |
|---|---|
| Visa | 4018 1694 4999 4528 CVV4 5726 Expires 4/2060 |
| Chase Ares | $502,450.08 (~135,000¥) |
| Lone Star Scrip | ~45,908 (~6,000¥) |
I think he’s got another ~200,000¥ hidden in the CAS, but haven’t been able to confirm. I can take another run at that for another 1k¥.
— RaverD
| Vehicle | |
|---|---|
| Make & Model | Buick Park Avenue |
| Year | 2054 |
| Color | Pearl White |
| Registration | SSAR |
| Plate | 1738 SGJD |
Rarely uses this, GRID only when he does.
— RaverD
The Bull Report (July 6, 2057)
| Personal Details | |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Irene Allen Turnbull |
| Nickname(s) | The Bull |
| SIN | 4174fa-9d3571-c51d5a-fd8b9f-1e4f97 |
| Born | December 6, 2022 (age 34) Puyallup, SSAR |
| Spouse(s) | Daniel Y. Vanmeter (2046-2048) |
| Children | None |
| Parents | George Turnbull (2001-2039) Terry Allen (2004-2039) |
| Education | McAlister Elementary (Puyallup, SSAR) Knight High (Puyallup, SSAR) Lone Star Academy (Austin, TX) |
Her parents both died the Night of Rage during one of the riots. Couldn't find anything on just how they were involved, bystanders, instigators, or what. The ex works at Sea-Tac, ground crew.
— RaverD
| Physical Characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Height | 1.73 m (5'8") |
| Weight | 84.1 kg (185.5 pounds) |
| Metahumanity Type | Human |
| Eye Color | Dark Brown |
| Hair Color | Dark Brown |
| Blood Type | A+ |
She's a seven-day-a-week weightlifter, either a facility in the basement of her apartment building, or Lone Star's staff gym.
— RaverD
| Employment | |
|---|---|
| Employer | Lone Star Security Services |
| Title | Lieutenant, Crime Suppression Division |
| Hired | June 5, 2041 |
| Salary | $232,000 (~60,000¥) 37,500 LSS (~5,000¥) |
She spent five years patrolling Puyallup. A few citizen complaints, excessive violence, but nothing that stuck. Then a few of years in anti-terrorism before being recruited into CSD as a lieutenant, where she's been for the last seven.
— RaverD
| Residence | |
|---|---|
| Address | 938 110th Ave NE Apt. 312 Bellevue, SSAR 98004 |
| Geo-coordinates | 47.618867, -122.193417 |
Buncha other Star in this building. Looks like the owner discounts their rent.
— RaverD
| Contact Info | |
|---|---|
| Phone | 1-296-772-5542 |
| iturnbull@lonestar.ucas | |
She's gonna also have internal corp text/voice/video comms, but you'd need to break heavy ice to use them anyways.
— RaverD
| Financial | |
|---|---|
| Visa | 4929 3458 0114 2984 CVV4 0118 Expires 6/2059 |
| Chase Ares | $30,447.04 (~7,600¥) |
| Lone Star Scrip | ~4,174 (~550¥) |
Up-to-date scrip amounts are tough to pull from corp servers. And I think I would have found any covert accounts, but you can never be sure.
— RaverD
| Vehicle | |
|---|---|
| Make & Model | Land Rover Model 2067 |
| Year | 2056 |
| Color | Midnight Black |
| Registration | SSAR |
| Plate | 7798 ADRX |
Her car's got a bit of custom up-armoring she bought with Star scrip. Shouldn't be any mounted weapons, though.
— RaverD
| Lone Star Application Psych Summary | May 14, 2041 |
|---|---|
| A tendency to binary social identification – leading to openness to in-groups and distrust of out-groups – may make for an excellent recruit if loyalties can be directed to Lone Star and against extra-agency threats. Skill with rapid situational assessment and quick decision-making should prove valuable both in field work and in potential direct-command roles. However, an inherent impulsiveness limits aptitude with long-term planning, such that any rank advancement should retain subordination beneath a more strategic leader to set goals. | |
Proud of this pull. Found a leak of these from the early 40s on ShadowNet.
— RaverD