| From: | Robert Hayden <rahayden@*****.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Essense Question and SPOILER: Read carefully (fwd) |
| Date: | Mon, 5 Oct 92 06:13:31 CET |
>> If you cut here, you will damage your monitor <<
On xxx, 5 Oct 1992, Like, dude, where's the firefight? wrote:
> Dear Robert;
> I have been reading your posts and I must say that I do not agree
> with you. I am sorry to start out a letter this way, but I wish to keep it
> short and sweet. I do think that you have a bit of validity to your point
> though, so I would like to give you some credit.
> The spoiler concerning your proposed main character is novel and
> rather interesting. Unfortunately I found the premise a little far out for
> reality IMHO. The cyber limbs are quite rational, but when you start
> throwing in wired reflexes and various other assorted nasties, you get a
> "person" more like Robo-cop and less like a person.
> My suggestion would be to make him less like a street sam and more
> like a fixer/team leader, something akin to Quato in the movie Total
> Recall. Quato himself did not do any fighting, he just led his group. (I
> realize the body he occupied did fight, I am differentiating the 2.) This
> would give your main character a more personal feel and let another main
> character be the main muscle, allowing for more interpersonal communication
> and possible further plot developement.
> Just suggestions. Please don't take anything I have said
> personally. Plus, if you are interested, I can give you a character or 2
> that I have developed for Srun. My first one was a decker/sam that was a
> bit cyberpsyched, had no qualms with shooting people, and was striving to
> be a one man shadowrun team. The second is a Wolf Shaman Adept that was a
> machine gunner in the UCAS Army. He escaped from Fort Lewis stockade w/
> equipment after being jailed for manabolting his LT. The third is a
> straight mage.
> Thank you for your time in reading my letter. I hope what I said
> interests you and you will be able to use what I have said. Please reply
> if you interested in background concerning Fort Lewis. I was there for
> over a month for ROTC Advanced Camp. (Not many people know that Fort Lewis
> is divided into two sections, the main post and the "North Post.")
>
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> * Matt: You shot him!!!! | Matt Murray at the University of Dayton *
> * Chris: No I didn't. It | MURRAYMD@******.BITNET *
> * was a gunfight. | MURRAYMD@******.OCA.UDAYTON.EDU *
> * He forgot his gun.| "Like, Dude, where's the firefight?" *
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>
Thanks for your response.
As for this guy. He is NOT a leader. He gets thrust into that position.
This guy is a decker. He loves tech, almost to the point of being an
obsession.
For the most part, his mechanical additions are to combat his handicap.
Eyes and limbs. His love for computers drove him to the additional
headware.
Lets look at the equipment he has that isn't related to his handicap (the
stuff that would get added later instead of at birth or soon after):
In Cyberarms:
2 Smartgun links
Program Carriers
Cyberdeck
Ok, the links are kind of a "might as well, I have the eyes for them"
The Program Carries are 'iffy', I might lose them as having the
deck built into his arms kinda makes them redundant
They cyberdeck in his arm is kinda "this way I don't have to carry
around a briefcase."
Level 2 Wired Reflexes
This is another I debated about for quite a while, and I might
still get rid of them. My justification is that as this guy grew and his
love of the machines manifested itm he would do what he could to make
himself faster. As I said, iffy.
Cyberears
Essentially allow you to record sound with the video link. Cheap
implant in terms of both $$$ and essence. I'd do it.
Level 3 Skillwires
If I was a mommy and daddy, and I was about to do major surgey on
my baby, I'd want to make sure that if the surgery failed or was only
partially successful, a way to give your child skills was still there.
Level 3 was because that was the highest level legal skillwires.
Everything else is pretty much decking related.
Well, that is this guy. I think the Program Carries can go, the Wired
Reflexes I have to think about some more. But I think everything else is
justified for this person in his condition.
I didn't mean to present a "robocop" type person. Far from it (at least I
didn't give him a targeting computer). What I wanted to present was a guy
who overcame the limitations of his natural body by using the machines
available to him. New limbs and eyes. And the headware to interface with
the machines around him.
Comments?
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