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Message no. 1
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: Ideas [GMs-only Zone :) ]
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 11:45:42 +0100
The Shadowdancer said on 31 Dec 95...

[flash programming]
> Same concept for cyber. Your software becomes obsolete. You to the
> doc to get an upgrade. The computer flashes the sequence and your
> prog is upgraded. This would work even with normal eyes and only
> wired reflexes, since the reflexes use software to buffer input so
> total overload or overtaxation does not occur. Now write a virus,
> either to slow down or speed up a piece of cyber, or to frag up number
> crunching. Modify a flash pack or something similar to hold this
> virus, then send it via sequenced flashes. Bingo, prog downloaded
> into the unsuspecting sammie. We are working on different viruses and
> their effects, and I will post them as soon as they are ready.

Have you read Snow Crash? I think this is a pretty similar concept, not
entirely the same, but it comes close...

It certainly sounds interesting, but I think you have to explain it to the
players beforehand to avoid the otherwise unavoidable screams of "Where
does it say that?!?!" coming from those same players...

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Message no. 2
From: shadow@**.kensco.net (The Shadowdancer)
Subject: Re: Ideas [GMs-only Zone :) ]
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 04:30:46 GMT
>From out of the Shadows, "Gurth" wispered:


>Have you read Snow Crash? I think this is a pretty similar concept, not
>entirely the same, but it comes close...
>
No. Who writes it?

>It certainly sounds interesting, but I think you have to explain it to the
>players beforehand to avoid the otherwise unavoidable screams of "Where
>does it say that?!?!" coming from those same players...
>
Certainly. But part of the provence of GM is the ability to spring a
totally new trap that most players do not expect.

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Many people run the shadows, praying that whatever God they
follow will smile upon them.
I waltz through the Shadows with my Gods, and I lead!!
-The Shadowdancer (shadow@**.kensco.net)
Message no. 3
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: Ideas [GMs-only Zone :) ]
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 12:39:30 +0100
The Shadowdancer said on 2 Jan 96...

> >Have you read Snow Crash? I think this is a pretty similar concept, not
> >entirely the same, but it comes close...
> >
> No. Who writes it?

Neal Stephenson; my copy has ISBN 0-14-023021-1 on the back. It's about
someone poisoning people using something that looks like static does on a
tv screen.

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Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
How does it feel to be like you?
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Character Mortuary: http://huizen.dds.nl/~mortuary/mortuary.html <-

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