From:	Manolis Skoulikas great_worm@*****.com
Subject:	Decker Mage was Re: A Van...
Date:	Fri, 02 Jun 2000 00:35:19 +0300

Gurth wrote:
>
> According to Alfredo B Alves, at 18:30 on 31 May 00, the word on the
> street was...
>
> > > Although virtually all deckers seem to have it (including mine), I have
> > > never actually found much use for headware memory in the game, except for
> > > copying the contents of skillsofts into... Am I missing something here?
> >
> > Otaku. By the book, unless they have headware memory, they can't download
> > data. What a load of crap ...
>
> The problem there is that a starting otaku almost can't have headware
> memory at all...
>
> Starting money: 5000 nuyen
> Datajack: 1000 nuyen
> ASIST converter: 50 nuyen
> Squatter lifestyle: 100 nuyen
>
> That leaves 3850 nuyen, enough for 25 Mp of headware memory and have 100
> nuyen left over. Without the squatter lifestyle, you can get a whopping 26
> Mp and have 50 nuyen to start with. Just enough for a set of clothes (I've
> long ruled that if you don't buy clothes for your character, he or she
> doesn't have any :)
>
> Of course, all this means you have to do without plenty of other
> essentials for at least your first run... Not sure you'd survive that,
> though.
>

So I hack into a private clinic (Green rating/2 acording to M&M) and
convince the system That my sceduled (with the 3500 nuyen as down
payment)implant surgery (of 600 mp of internal memory, encephalon1,math
spu3) this afternoon is going to be taken care of (moneywise) in two
months time according to the deal made with the oh so unavailable doctor
X who keeps getting those obsene phonecalls on his cellphone and beeper
from the commlink 1 smartframe I just created.

Man, you just give me an otaku and these problems are at the very least
postponed! :)

> It seems much handier to let otaku port data to an offline storage device
> through a second datajack or something. That way, the 2850 nuyen left over
> after buying another datajack can pay for 5600 Mp...
>
I was under the impression that otaku could download anything through
asist converter anyway...

the wiz