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Message no. 1
From: Hobbes Patrol Headquarters <TYGER@****.WINONA.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Flygrams, decks, and other things
Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 23:47:36 -0500
Wait a minute, we've all missed the essence of deckers! Wiring your own
deck and creating your own programs. I mean, dosn't it say in 'Virtual
Realitys' somewhere that any real decker makes & writes their own?

Tyger does, it's the only way that a beginning character could afford
anything on the lines of shadowfurry. But, in the hands of a munchkin,
I've seen this go awry. I know of comeone who made their own monster deck
by using the 'roll your own' rules.

(I just heard a bunch of people cringe. No, I'm not resurecting the hyper-
deck arguments...)

I bring this up to show how much a decker has to think on their feet a lot.
Example : Tyger needs to get in through the maglocked door. So he jurry
rigs a way into the lock's slave-node. He see's a barrier IC, and sleazes
past it to the slave's control panel. Tyger can then unlock the door and
jack out.
Say Tyger didn't have a sleaze, then he could write a 'Flygram' to try and
cover it. I don't have the rules with me, but I know it allows to make
something in the fly that you just didn't have in the first place.

I know I'm missing something.... Oh yah.

Deckers also make for good signalers. If you need to tell the crew all's
clear, just flash the LED on the camera. Or turn out the lights. Or
autolok the doors. The possibilitys are endless.

Enough babble, off to do something really dumb...

-Tyger


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