1990d (oWOD)
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[edit] Events
- Cerebral Conditioning System Weaver Devices are developed. [1]
- Black Furies travel to Bosnia/Herzegovina, determined to put an end to the rape camps there. [2]
- Anarch Wars rage across the West Coast.[3]
- The violence experienced among the tongs in the 1920s makes a return this decade in the form of street warfare.[4]
- The Cali Colombian drug cartel dominates the cocaine trade.[5]
- The cyberpunk revolution gets carried into the '90s, thanks to writers like Pat Cadigan, Melissa Scott, Spider Robinson and Michael Swanwick lead the way.[6]
- Maria Anna Vasquez, Chorister, vanishes during a raid against a Mexican factory. Most Choristers contend she's dead, while some few believe she'll return at the Reconciliation.[7]
- The "Information Boom" turns the Digital Web into all that is best and worst about humanity.[8]
- Lizard-people are the fad in Genegineer labs early this decade.[9]
- The Progenitors' "mad scientist" phase of the 1800s affects their cloned leaders as late as this decade.[10]
- Tensions grow between North and South Korea when it's revealed that North Korea has over 100 nuclear weapons and has been conducting ballistic missile tests through South Korean airspace.[11]
- Throughout this decade, the Chou yan of the Wu-Keng begin training shamans in the Spirit Arts with which to fight the Juk Ak.[12]
- Four agents of the New World Order feel compelled to leave China, although they can't give a satisfactory explanation for why.[13]
- Some of the Knights Templar are liberal enough to consider working with those who might accept religions other than Christianity.[14]
- By this time, Tasygan is one of the foremost Dreamspeakers and a strong proponent of Canadian environmentalism and native rights.[15]
[edit] Early 90s
- Tom "Laughing Eagle" Smithson accepts the post as Dreamspeaker representative to the Council of Nine. He claims it's because he's the only one interested.[16]
- Virtual Adept "Terpsichore" uses commercially available soundboards to create the first prototype 3-Dim Sonographic Sense Factory.[17]
- The Golden Dragon Society investigates the Syndicate, and finds that it has ties to a corporation called Pentex, itself a front for a hitherto-unknown magical society which subscribes to an unknown paradigm. They're dubbed the "followers of the Centipede."[18]
- First Persian Gulf War. Filmmaker Werner Herzog may have destroyed footage of Thurifurge that was filmed on Gulf Coast. [19]
[edit] Mid-1990s
- Horatio pulls his Horatio's House of Horrors into a small town early so he can investigate the legend of a ghost named Jack Dresden in a local retirement home. He decides to stop his investigation after realizing there's probably nothing to the stories.[20]
[edit] Late 1990s
- The Asian economy collapses. The Shi-Ren are hit particularly hard.[21] The collapse may have been masterminded by Choe Yo'ng.[22]
- By this time, many Iterators quietly wonder if the Comptrollers in charge of the Convention are merely puppets of the Computer.[23]
- In 1998-2000, at least two Canadian Wendigo caerns come under attack from military-style helicopters, but are successfully defended. It is uncertain who funded the assault.[24]
[edit] References
- ↑ WTA:Book of the Weaver, p.46
- ↑ WTA:Werewolf Player's guide, 2nd edition, p.51
- ↑ MTA: Destiny's Price, p. 42
- ↑ MTA: Destiny's Price, p. 44
- ↑ MTA: Book of Mirrors: The Mage Storytellers Guide, p. 137
- ↑ MTA: Celestial Chorus Tradition Book, p. 61
- ↑ MTA: Digital Web 2.0, p. 10
- ↑ MTA: Guide to the Technocracy, p. 113
- ↑ MTA: The Bitter Road, p. 61
- ↑ MTA: Dragons of the East, p. 21
- ↑ MTA: Dragons of the East, p. 64
- ↑ MTA: Dragons of the East, p. 104
- ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Celestial Chorus, p. 23
- ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers, p. 76
- ↑ MTA: Horizon: Stronghold of Hope, p. 99
- ↑ MTA: Technomancer's Toybox, p. 24
- ↑ MTA: Dragons of the East, p. 44
- ↑ WTA: Book of the Wyrm, 2nd ed p.33
- ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Hollow Ones, p. 81
- ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Akashic Brotherhood, p. 40
- ↑ MTA: Guide to the Technocracy, p. 117
- ↑ MTA: The Book of Madness Revised, p. 78
- ↑ WTA:A World of Rage
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