shadowrun

• wyrm turns
  here a brief description of ye olde dragons at work and play:
  
  2012: the great dragon lofwyr appears in germany and makes his first moves toward becoming a major corporate player.
  
  2020: in response to a jihad declared against the emerging metahuman races by iran's ayatollah, the dragon aden demolished the city tehran ^*
  
  2039: the great dragon dunkelzahn's second interpreter resigns and is replaced by nadja daviar, an eastern european elf with no personal history in file. (and i mean nothing. lots of us have been looking.)
  
  2041: euroair flight 329 from london to atlanta is destroyed over the atlantic. a garbled last transmission and recovered tapes indicate that the aircraft was attacked by a dragon (later identified tentatively as sirrurg), and that one heroic passenger^* held the beast off for several minutes with sorcery before the flight's demise.
  
  2042: dunkelzahn launches "wyrm talk," a semi-annual vid programm. topics range from celebrity interviews to insightful commentaries on culture and society. (catch the reruns on channel 62 in seattle.)^*
  
  2053: tir tairngire attempt to capture shasta dam in northern california, but the great dragon hestaby forces the elven troops to withdraw. hestaby takes possesion of the dam and the surrounding land.