Message no. 1

From:	"J. Earl Williams" <IH46@****.BITNET>
Subject:	Mages, Magic, Deckers, and a book.
Date:	Fri, 23 Oct 92 19:01:07 MDT

>>>>>[ Hello, again. Some thoughts, NOT based on any of Brodie's
observations in his "Mage Shit" book. This is my personal experience
(though I do get a chuckle out of sage remarks like "mages like
stimpatches". bTW: does anyone know what happened to them lately? Some
of them, depending on who I run with, have pretty putzy stims! Any idea
what's going on? Too much call for them by the underground market?)
Anyways...
> ---------->
> Anybody want to explain to me the abudance of Decker/Mages? How the heck
> could a Decker/Mage possibly exist? Ever read pps 52-53 of Virtual
> Realities?
> ---------->
It's pretty simple. Ever read the quaint novel 2XS, published some
years ago by a company called FASA? (I wonder what happened to them...
they had some pretty good predictions... and a decent game to boot!)
The guy in the book (if I remember, it's been some time since I've read
that type of novel) had no cyberware, but accompanied a decker into the
matrix. He wore some type of high tech hairnet. Could this help some
deckers get in here? I'm a rigger personally, and it was no great
shakes to find out about this place. Heck, I even alerted our team's
decker about this place. Now I can't seem to keep him quiet... *grin*
]<<<<<
--Jew <6:50:03/10-23/53>