> > I'm not sure what you mean by "sixth point of essence"? What is that?
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> It's a Shadowrun reference - just a silly inside joke. When a runner acquires cyberware (technology placed inside the body), he loses essence - the ephemeral quality that makes us human and holds us together (intra-personal level). Everyone has six points of essence.

For all you still wondering what Shadowrun is, it's a role-playing game that combines cyberpunk and magical fantasy. The premise of the game is magic exists. Graphed over time, the strength of magic would look something like a sine wave. In 2011, magic crossed over the zero line and returned. The game setting takes place almost fifty years after that in a magical-cyberpunkish atmosphere.

It's one of the first games that had a "metagame" story arc (something that became all the rage after Babylon 5 started).

> Dar "16D damage? Pah! That's nothing!" ien

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