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]
- Virtual Adepts' factions are known as "legions" at this time.[16]
[edit] Early 90s
- First Persian Gulf War. Filmmaker Werner Herzog may have destroyed footage of Thurifurge that was filmed on Gulf Coast. [17]
- 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.[18]
- Virtual Adept "Terpsichore" uses commercially available soundboards to create the first prototype 3-Dim Sonographic Sense Factory.[19]
- 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."[20]
- After witnessing the Hellraiser movies, a talented Hollow One creates the Chains of Leviathan after those cool chains Pinhead uses.[21]
- "Bolshevik Scientists" begin returning to the Utopian League, raving about Russian "witches" and a psychic barrier that hinders their work.[22]
- Psychic Arlene P. Dietrich defects from the New World Order to the Sons of Ether.[23]
- A group of Cryptogramics] steal and decode a set of unreleased documents from the defunct MK-Ultra project, looking for a way to protect Virtual Adepts from telepathy.[24]
- Catherine Blass emerges as a performance artist.[25]
- Dark Vengeance begins pumping destructive computer viruses out of Eastern Europe.[26]
[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.[27]
- Daira Kashaf bani Shaea runs an Ambassador Chantry near Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[28]
- Teague O'Connel contracts HIV and develops AIDS.[29]
- Bernhardt Mueller loses all professional status — including much of his reputation among the Sons of Ether — for publicly predicting that a "hyperdimensional supercomet" he calls Mirzaba will pass close enough to Earth to be a collision risk toward the end of the year 2012.[30]
[edit] Late 1990s
- The Asian economy collapses. The Shi-Ren are hit particularly hard.[31] The collapse may have been masterminded by Choe Yo'ng.[32]
- By this time, many Iterators quietly wonder if the Comptrollers in charge of the Convention are merely puppets of the Computer.[33]
- 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.[34]
[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: Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts, p. 45
- ↑ WTA: Book of the Wyrm, 2nd ed p.33
- ↑ MTA: Horizon: Stronghold of Hope, p. 99
- ↑ MTA: Technomancer's Toybox, p. 24
- ↑ MTA: Dragons of the East, p. 44
- ↑ MTA: Forged by Dragon's Fire, p. 21
- ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Sons of Ether, p. 46
- ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Sons of Ether, p. 72
- ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts, p. 48
- ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts, p. 72
- ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts, p. 75
- ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Hollow Ones, p. 81
- ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Order of Hermes, p. 57
- ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Verbena, p. 84
- ↑ MTA: Ascension, p. 130
- ↑ 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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