Goblinization Day

Today, April 30th 2021, is the day when 10% of us will change into orks, and trolls.

In Shadowrun lore, this day is known as the start of Goblinization. With no apparent cause, vast swathes of humanity changed into metahumans in front of terrified onlookers.

Goblinization

Goblinization began on 30 April 2021. On this day many humans (approximately 10% of the world's population), without any evident reason, transformed into Orks and Trolls. In most cases, those humans started changing en masse before the very eyes of horrified spectators, causing much panic and...

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Goblinization began on 30 April 2021. On this day many humans (approximately 10% of the world's population), without any evident reason, transformed into Orks and Trolls. In most cases, those humans started changing en masse before the very eyes of horrified spectators, causing much panic and alarm. This event made the population fearful and discriminatory, much more than UGE, meeting metahumanity with hostility and sometimes force.

Riots as a result of Goblinization escalated, especially after the 14th amendment of the UCAS constitution gave the same rights to metahumans, culminated into the Night of Rage in 2039. It has had a negative influence on Japan's metahuman policy, and goblinization is indirectly responsible for the formation of the Humanis Policlub. This event caused the Coffee Famine of 2022.

How many posts before jokes about internet trolls? My bet is 2!

 

[Stacie GmrGrl]

Getting turned into an Ork without the magic has been a bit disappointing. Bring on the magic now.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

It's 2021, where is the cannibalism?

 

[Dioltach]

Some quick fun facts about Goblinization:

• Goblinization is a days-long painful process where bones grow and rearrange, jaws realign as tusks are grown, horns sprout, bone deposits form under the skin. The most common cause of death related to Goblinization was shock from the pain.

That explains this then.

 

[Caedrus]

The first edition of Cyberpunk was set in 2013.

Yup played that too!

 

[Eltab]

... and next year is Soylent Green.

 

[Henry]

The funny thing is, if you were to write up all the things that DID happen in 2020 and present it to someone from 2010, they’d probably tell you it was a cool alt-history story, but that you had too many things going on at once and to tone it back a bit.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

"Okay George RR Martin, do you know how you are going to wrap up all the different plot lines you've written for 2020?"

The funny thing is, if you were to write up all the things that DID happen in 2020 and present it to someone from 2010, they’d probably tell you it was a cool alt-history story, but that you had too many things going on at once and to tone it back a bit.