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Message no. 1
From: William Ashe <wmashe@***.NET>
Subject: New evil things to do to deckers
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 01:09:10 -0700
I just got done loading up Douglas Adams "Starship Titanic" game (what me
sleep?)

and I had an Evil GM (tm) idea. Instead of whacking your decker with stun
ice have the ice suck him into a virtual machine that is running a game.
Only when the decker entered the game it got corrupted and now he can't get
out, and the game is malfunctioning. If you really want to get mean have
the game take images of the other runners and put them into the game (this
works only in PBeM or in a group that is truly Evil (tm) as a whole. Don't
forget the lunatic parrot, the suave door-bot, and the succ-u-bus (haven't
figured out what that's for yet). See how long it takes for the decker to
yell "I don't care what happens to me just rip the cable from my head".


Regards
Bright-Light
http://freeweb.pdq.net/wmashe/shadowrun.html
Message no. 2
From: David Foster <fixer@*******.TLH.FL.US>
Subject: Re: New evil things to do to deckers
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 07:05:06 -0400
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, William Ashe wrote:

->I just got done loading up Douglas Adams "Starship Titanic" game (what me
->sleep?)
->
->and I had an Evil GM (tm) idea. Instead of whacking your decker with stun
->ice have the ice suck him into a virtual machine that is running a game.
->Only when the decker entered the game it got corrupted and now he can't get
->out, and the game is malfunctioning. If you really want to get mean have
->the game take images of the other runners and put them into the game (this
->works only in PBeM or in a group that is truly Evil (tm) as a whole. Don't
->forget the lunatic parrot, the suave door-bot, and the succ-u-bus (haven't
->figured out what that's for yet). See how long it takes for the decker to
->yell "I don't care what happens to me just rip the cable from my head".

A truly EvilGM (tm) would set it up like BlackIC and make the
decker roll a test (make the TN a 12 if you REALLY want to have some fun)
to see if s/he can jack out.

Fixer --------------} The easy I do before breakfast,
the difficult I do all day long,
the impossible only during the week,
and miracles performed on an as-needed basis....

Now tell me, what was your problem?
Message no. 3
From: bryan.covington@****.COM
Subject: Re: New evil things to do to deckers
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:52:59 -0400
> ->I just got done loading up Douglas Adams "Starship Titanic" game
> (what me
> ->sleep?)
> ->
> ->and I had an Evil GM (tm) idea. Instead of whacking your decker
> with stun
> ->ice have the ice suck him into a virtual machine that is running a
> game.
> ->Only when the decker entered the game it got corrupted and now he
> can't get
> ->out, and the game is malfunctioning. If you really want to get mean
> have
> ->the game take images of the other runners and put them into the game
> (this
> ->works only in PBeM or in a group that is truly Evil (tm) as a whole.
> Don't
> ->forget the lunatic parrot, the suave door-bot, and the succ-u-bus
> (haven't
> ->figured out what that's for yet). See how long it takes for the
> decker to
> ->yell "I don't care what happens to me just rip the cable from my
> head".
>
> A truly EvilGM (tm) would set it up like BlackIC and make the
> decker roll a test (make the TN a 12 if you REALLY want to have some
> fun)
> to see if s/he can jack out.
>
Or try emulating the scenes from Neuromancer where Case
is talking to Wintermute. He flatlines. Only takes a few seconds in the
realworld but seems like hours to the decker. Be neat to do if everyone
but the decker player was out of town or something.
Message no. 4
From: Razor Girl <sprawlg@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: New evil things to do to deckers
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 08:15:36 PDT
> Or try emulating the scenes from Neuromancer where Case
>is talking to Wintermute. He flatlines. Only takes a few seconds in the
>realworld but seems like hours to the decker. Be neat to do if everyone
>but the decker player was out of town or something.
>
I thought Fasa had decided that you couldn't "speed up time" via
simsense or BTL as per Lone Star book. Some thing about the RAS of the
brain not allowing it. Has this changed?

I like the above idea. Who knows what effect an AI could have on humans
when communicating via a Direct Neural Link. Or how about UV hosts? That
much processing power where players use physical stats instead of
decking (VR2) must change the brians normal running patterns.

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