So, I've been playing quite a bit of Shadowrun lately so I can review it. I spent a chunk of time earlier this week playing, before it came out, in rooms peopled entirely by FASA studio developers who took great pleasure in grenading my body around the map.

Something struck me as odd though, right when a match started someone would say: You got the fever? I got the fever. And this would go on as we ran to the relic or toward each other. It seemed odd, but I didn't know what it was about... until now.

Apparently, one of Shadowrun's achievements is the Shadowrun Fever, something you get, I've been told, by tea-bagging someone who already has the fever. That's right, it's an achievement and a venereal disease, but unlike the kind that blinds you or slowly drives you insane this one just awards a batch of points, 25 I suspect.

I don't know this for a fact, but I suspect the only people who currently have the fever are the developers. I'd like to add that I am a great big idiot, because despite playing with them for hours over several days, I never managed to dip my coin purse. Brian Crecente

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