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Epilogue
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So now it ends.
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-Kurgan
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Well, it's finished. That's my first comment.
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I've enjoyed Highlander since I first saw it in the theaters in 1986.
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I was running an immortal of my own design in a Champions campaign at the
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time, a man named Infinity who had been struck down on the field of
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battle in 184 AD, and had refused to die (Death appeared to him, and
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Infinity beat Death in a contest of wills). He carried a sword,
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couldn't die... I was hooked from minute one of the movie. (Queen and
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Sean Connery didn't hurt, either).
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Highlander touches at the heart of one of our most powerful desires:
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immortality. It was a classic good vs. evil story, happening in the
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"real world". In that respect, it has a lot of the same appeal as the
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Storyteller games, in that it happens in the same world we live in, or
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at least the one we hope (or fear) we live in, with magick living in
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all the cracks the evening news miss.
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I'm something of a Highlander expert, having all the episodes of the
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series on tape, having both the American and European versions of the
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first movie, and completely ignoring the second. (center smiley here).
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Visitors to my home are greeted with the original poster on a wall,
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and a katana standing in the corner. With three or four others, I
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helped start a simple Highlander mailing list. The list became a real
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mailing list (HIGHLA-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU) on the Internet, and it's now
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grown humongous... thanks, Debbie, for making the list, and Jeff, for
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making us think about what Quickening really might be.
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I'm also a minor Storyteller expert. I started with the Vampire
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mailing list (now vampire-l@wizards.com) soon after the game came out,
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and have been with it ever since. I worked with the other mailing list
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folks on the first edition Player's Guide, my one time in print on a game
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(yes, I brag, so what). I've run two Vampire campaign, and currently run a
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Vampire, Mage, Werewolf, Highlander crossover campaign once a week. I also
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run a Vampire PBeM on the Internet, which boasts fourteen of y'all as
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members.
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Still, nothing I've written here is canon. This is just my attempt to
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merge two of my interests (as well as the two mailing lists that swell
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my mailbox daily) into a whole, because it felt like it should be
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done. Hope y'all enjoy it. Any questions/comments/bitching can be
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done to me... driskill@cs.utah.edu is where I live.
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Hank.
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Quick Aside: To subscribe to the Highlander mailing list, send mail to
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listserv@psuvm.psu.edu with a message body that says simply sub highla-l
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yourname@yoursite. Likewise, you can subscribe to the vampire mailing list
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by sending mail to listserv@wizards.com, the same way. For more info on
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the Highlander mailing list, contact Debbie_Douglass@DL5000.bc.edu...
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However old you think you are... you're right.
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