Message no. 1

From:	Technomancer <arvanit@***.UCH.GR>
Subject:	Deckers raiding party...
Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:25:40 +0300

I am thinking of running my decker through a massive attack on a VERY hot
host. He will just be one of the many deckers hired there, but there is
just a slight 8) problem...

Nowhere in the SR or the VR 2.0 is an explicit rule about deckers running
together in the same host. There is just a statement of a decker going
into a system alerted, having the same security tally with the system.

From this, and a discussion with my decker player, I have come upon the
following rules:

Deckers co-existance (version 1.0b)
o It is every man for himself, as long as the system doesn't notice.
If the system is not in an alerted mode (passive or active), the security
tally for each decker is personal.

o When the drek hits the fan, all should take cover.
When the system becomes alerted (from nothing to passive, from passive to
active alert) the security talies of all the illegal icons in the system
are set to the minimum required to set off this alert, except of the
triggering decker's, which is as normal.

o It is a brave new world...
If a decker's security tally raises due to a state change caused by
another, no events from the previous states are triggered, but what was
active remains so. The only trigger that activates is the one in this new
security tally, those jumped over remains inert.


What do you think? Is this close to how you solved the problem?
Also, related:
If a decker fights an IC, can others help him?
And whom will the IC attack then?

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