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From:	Christopher Maley <cmaley@******.LINFIELD.EDU>
Subject:	More stuff
Date:	Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:55:56 -0700

Message no. 1 Thanks to all who answered my question about fetishes it helped. I have
several others, but a few pressing ones. First of all, how does one
communicate with an on-site team during matrix overwatch? Does the decker
use a commlink like everyone else, or do they use whatever is available
in the building? I'm sure it says somewhere in a book but since I'm an
airhead music major it's hard for anything to get pounded into my head
outside of Handel, and Mussourgsky.

Secondly, if a decker has two seperate programs on a run, one with a
higher rating than the other, and she runs one, it fails, than tries the
other, is their a +2 tn? For instance, if a decker runs a Sleaze 4 on
Barrier IC and fails, then tries a Sleaze 5 is there a +2? I know they
are two different programs, but isn't the overall effect the same?

Tercero, has anyone done a write-up for Dingo as a totem? If so could
someone tell me what it is? If not I was thinking it would be sort of a
cross between a Coyote, and Wolf. What do ya think? Oh, and Dingo isn't
on Wigley's list of Totems.

Thanx,
C.M.

From:	Blade Hunter <bladehnt@*********.NET>
Subject:	Re: More stuff
Date:	Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:58:09 -0500

Message no. 2 At 15:55 9/18/95, Christopher Maley wrote:>Thanks to all who answered my
question about fetishes it helped. I have
>several others, but a few pressing ones. First of all, how does one
>communicate with an on-site team during matrix overwatch? Does the decker

Well, here's the options I thought up for the decker running via cyber-link:
1) signallying real-world runners via slave modules (turning lights on/off,
etc.) or by i/o ports
2) use a normal or cyber radio (but this gives a +2 TN mod. to all actions and
one subsequent action due to actively concentrating on the real-world)
3) use that electronics(b/r) and fix up a radio connection to a hitcherjack
port (no more +2 TN mod.)

>Secondly, if a decker has two seperate programs on a run, one with a
>higher rating than the other, and she runs one, it fails, than tries the
>other, is their a +2 tn? For instance, if a decker runs a Sleaze 4 on

In a word, yes. So when ya see that IC, go for the big guns! Unless, of
course, you're getting into some load problems and all those other tricky
situations from the VR sourcebook.

From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: More stuff
Date:	Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:22:33 +0200

Message no. 3 >First of all, how does one
>communicate with an on-site team during matrix overwatch? Does the decker
>use a commlink like everyone else, or do they use whatever is available
>in the building?

This is up to the decker. They can interact with the outside world while
jacked in, but have a hard time at it (+8 TN to notice outside stimuli, for
example). Perhaps a way to do it is wire a commlink into the cyberdeck and
let the decker run some or another utility to use it?

>Secondly, if a decker has two seperate programs on a run, one with a
>higher rating than the other, and she runs one, it fails, than tries the
>other, is their a +2 tn?

I'd say this would not use the +2 modifier. You're executing two different
programs as far as the game is concerned.

>Tercero, has anyone done a write-up for Dingo as a totem?

I think there is one in NERPS: ShadowLore, but I'm not sure.

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