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Message no. 1
From: GT2150@*******
Subject: Program carriers
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 92 15:26:35 CST
The program carrier is a piece of hareware <cyberware>that allow a person t
o carry programs <chips> in them. These carriers allow the person to access a
terminal by directly plugging in the carrier prongs. They can be used for many
applications, such as a technician carring diagnostic programming, an executive
carrying search programming for his/her aera of work, etc. However the most co
mmon use for them in a campaign would be to let a decker access the matrix with
out a cyberdeck. In this case the carriers would carry the persona chips that w
ould normally be used in a deck. However if the decker were going to do serious
work( not just meet a buddy and swap files) he/she would have to have some cyb
er memory to store info in and to carry utils. If the decker were to try this w
ithout any memory any ICE he hit is gonna be soild.


Ka 'ge
Message no. 2
From: Ben Bernard <bcb@*******.EDU>
Subject: Program Carriers
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 00:32:00 -0400
Well, this is my first post, so here goes:

> > > So, how many of you miss program carriers? Don't ask; just wonderin'.

My question is what are program carriers?!? I've never heard of them before....


Ben


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Message no. 3
From: "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 18:40:33 -0500
> > > > So, how many of you miss program carriers? Don't ask; just
wonderin'.
>
> My question is what are program carriers?!? I've never heard of them
before....

Program carriers were essentially little cyberprongs that came out of a
deckers body that let him access that matirx without a deck.
"Going naked" as they call it.
These were phased out of SRII but for the life of me I can't recall why?

How does one go naked under SRII rules?
My memory fails me.

Anywho, If you check the picture of the elf on the SRII rulebook cover
you'll see these three prongs on the back of his hand.
While they might look like cyberspurs, they are in fact program carriers.

Steven A. Tinner
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Message no. 4
From: Vaughn Wright <VWright765@***.COM>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 19:31:53 -0500
Another good question is if you started playing a decker in 1st edition and
he had program carriers and you swithched to 2nd edition, what happens to the
program carriers? We let the decker choose new cyberware of the approximate
price and essence cost. What are some other opinions out there?
Message no. 5
From: Ray & Tamara <macey@*******.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 17:32:04 +1100
> Program carriers were essentially little cyberprongs that came out of a
> deckers body that let him access that matirx without a deck.
> "Going naked" as they call it.
> These were phased out of SRII but for the life of me I can't recall why?
>
> How does one go naked under SRII rules?
> My memory fails me.

They don't, unless of course they are Otaku.

Ray
Message no. 6
From: Ray & Tamara <macey@*******.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 17:31:14 +1100
> Well, this is my first post, so here goes:
>
> > > > So, how many of you miss program carriers? Don't ask; just
wonderin'.
>
> My question is what are program carriers?!? I've never heard of them
before....
>
>
> Ben

Welcome to the list. Have fun.

Anyway, program carriers are old 1st ed things that allow you to deck in
the Matrix without a deck. They were phased out in 2nd ed. (Dodger, the
elf decker on the cover of the main rulebook, has them extending out of the
back of his hand)

Ray
Message no. 7
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 06:05:02 -0500
> Well, this is my first post, so here goes:
>
KEYWORD DETECT: "first post"
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Hoi, Ben. Welcome to the list!

> > > > So, how many of you miss program carriers? Don't ask; just
wonderin'.
>
> My question is what are program carriers?!? I've never heard of them
before....
>
>
> Ben

I only have a vague Idea as I've only been playing 2nd edition. As far as
I can tell, they're designed to allow a decker to still use programs when
he decks "naked" (ie, without a deck). His MCPC and Bod, Sensors, etc. all
came off of either skills or natural attributes, and he either used the
progs in his prog carrier (Which was probably a limited amount), or had to
deck "on the fly", using his hacking pool to make the programs...

Do I have that right? As I said, I'm not familiar with the things, but
wouldn't mind getting some for my Decker (It might make Decking challenging
again, Tinner... What do ya say?)

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Message no. 8
From: Shawn Baumgartner <Breakdown@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 04:24:40 -0500
Okay, I started the bloody thread, so I guess I should help it out.
Program Carriers allow the character to deck using only them and a
datajack. Evasion, masking, and sensors are in the Carriers (No limit to
the rating AFAIK but I'd use the basic MPCP>=ratings rule). The
characters willpower is his MPCP. Any damage taken by the character in
the matrix goes directly to his mental damage. All programs are written
on-the-fly using the hacking pool. SR1 never got any more detailed. Oh,
and the essence cost is 0.2 (which seems reasonable, considering the
limits involved). Think C3 deck on quualudes. :) Dangerous to use except
by expert deckers or on really low security system, and should only be
used when there's NO alternative.

Shawn
Who likes 'em anyway.

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Message no. 9
From: Tim P Cooper <z-i-m@****.COM>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 05:28:15 EST
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997 19:31:53 -0500 Vaughn Wright <VWright765@***.COM>
writes:
>Another good question is if you started playing a decker in 1st edition
and
>he had program carriers and you swithched to 2nd edition, what happens
to the
>program carriers? We let the decker choose new cyberware of the
approximate
>price and essence cost. What are some other opinions out there?
>

Just let him continue to use them.... how hard could it be to whip up a
set of SRII rules for them? It was largely substituting your meat body
for the main persona and using only your skill and hacking pool for
programs..

~Tim
Message no. 10
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 11:56:38 +0100
Steven A. Tinner said on 18:40/28 Feb 97...

> Program carriers were essentially little cyberprongs that came out of a
> deckers body that let him access that matirx without a deck.
> "Going naked" as they call it.
> These were phased out of SRII but for the life of me I can't recall why?

I think Tom Dowd said they left them out because they decided it was a bit
silly that you either needed a very complex deck to access the matrix, or
hardly anything at all. Also, with Shadowtech there were implant decks,
another reason not to have program carriers anymore.

This was rationalized in the Denver sourcebook by saying they caused
cancer or something *sounds of someone flipping through a book* Here we
are, page 87: Perri says "Some of the otaku don't need a deck. I'm not
talking about program carriers either, those things that were all the rage
four or five years ago until we realized the cellular damage being done."

> How does one go naked under SRII rules?

One takes all ones clothes off :)

However, when you refer to decking, the rules in the Black Book don't
cover it at all. If you do want to do this anyway, you should be able to
use the rules from SR1 directly (see pages 111 and 128 for details).

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Message no. 11
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 11:56:39 +0100
Vaughn Wright said on 19:31/28 Feb 97...

> Another good question is if you started playing a decker in 1st edition
> and he had program carriers and you swithched to 2nd edition, what
> happens to the program carriers? We let the decker choose new cyberware
> of the approximate price and essence cost. What are some other opinions
> out there?

Let the decker keep it, and still run the matrix naked if he wants to. I'm
thinking of changing the rules to VR 2.0 and posting them on the list, if
I have the time and inclination...

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Message no. 12
From: Shawn Baumgartner <Breakdown@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 06:44:43 -0500
In response to Gurth's (it always seems to be his:)) post on Program
Carriers:

Yeah, I saw that little snippet in the Denver set about the cellular
damage, but that sounded like a cop out on FASA's part for not putting
'em in SR2nd. They've got crainial cyberdeck, wired reflexes; hell,
datajacks which plug directly into the brain, but some plugs in the hand
feeding info? Nope, nope, not gonna buy it. Wouldn't be prudent...

Shawn
Ah, just let him have 'em, I say.

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Message no. 13
From: Tim P Cooper <z-i-m@****.COM>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 18:55:04 EST
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997 06:44:43 -0500 Shawn Baumgartner <Breakdown@*****.NET>
writes:
>In response to Gurth's (it always seems to be his:)) post on Program
>Carriers:
>
>Yeah, I saw that little snippet in the Denver set about the cellular
>damage, but that sounded like a cop out on FASA's part for not putting
>'em in SR2nd. They've got crainial cyberdeck, wired reflexes; hell,
>datajacks which plug directly into the brain, but some plugs in the hand
>feeding info? Nope, nope, not gonna buy it. Wouldn't be prudent...
>

My impression (I don't own the Denver stuff, just what I read in the last
few posts..) is that it would be refering to the whole "running all that
feedback directly through the brain with out having a deck to run
interference" thing. Basically that it might have been too much for the
NORMAL brain to handle with out 'short circuiting'.

~Tim
Message no. 14
From: "Elfman(Sgt Pepper) & Danita" <elf-dani@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 19:47:45 -0700
: From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>

: > Well, this is my first post, so here goes:
: >
: KEYWORD DETECT: "first post"
: AOUTMATED BULL-BOT MESSAGE FOLLOWS:
:
: Hoi, Ben. Welcome to the list!
:
: Bull-the-"I'm-just-a-welcome-Bot"-Ork-Decker
:
My question is, how does the programming of all those off-topic,
thread-starting post work?

Sgt Pepper

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Message no. 15
From: Droopy <droopy@*******.NB.NET>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 22:40:28 +0000
> From: Shawn Baumgartner <Breakdown@*****.NET>
> Subject: Re: program carriers

> Yeah, I saw that little snippet in the Denver set about the cellular
> damage, but that sounded like a cop out on FASA's part for not putting

Heh, the cellular damage was that black ice doing a little dance
directly on your skull.


--Droopy
droopy@**.net
Message no. 16
From: Droopy <droopy@*******.NB.NET>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 22:40:28 +0000
> From: Ben Bernard <bcb@*******.EDU>
> Subject: Program Carriers

> > > > So, how many of you miss program carriers? Don't ask; just wonderin'.

I missed the original post so... <jumping up and down raising hand> I
do! I do! Me! Me!

> My question is what are program carriers?!? I've never heard of them before....

It was a cyber implant in1st edition that allowed a decker to deck
without a deck.


--Droopy
droopy@**.net
Message no. 17
From: Droopy <droopy@*******.NB.NET>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 22:40:28 +0000
> From: Vaughn Wright <VWright765@***.COM>
> Subject: Re: program carriers

> Another good question is if you started playing a decker in 1st edition and
> he had program carriers and you swithched to 2nd edition, what happens to the
> program carriers? We let the decker choose new cyberware of the approximate
> price and essence cost. What are some other opinions out there?

Why? I can't think of any reason why you couldn't deck naked in 2nd
edition using the 1st edition rules. Heck, I still have n old decker
character somewhere that exclusively ran naked.


--Droopy
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Message no. 18
From: MC23 <mc23@****.NET>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 03:53:20 -0500
Vaughn Wright wrote,
>Another good question is if you started playing a decker in 1st edition and
>he had program carriers and you swithched to 2nd edition, what happens to
>the program carriers? We let the decker choose new cyberware of the
>approximate price and essence cost. What are some other opinions out there?
>

That's what I'd do.


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Message no. 19
From: Shawn Baumgartner <Breakdown@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 03:53:57 -0500
In response to Tim's post on Carrier feed to the brain:

Hmm, a normal brain in a shadowrunner... I like it! I think I'll try
that concept with the next character I build. :)

Shawn
As twisted as the millenia are long.

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Message no. 20
From: MC23 <mc23@****.NET>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 03:59:36 -0500
Steven A. Tinner wrote,
>
>Program carriers were essentially little cyberprongs that came out of a
>deckers body that let him access that matirx without a deck.
>"Going naked" as they call it.
>These were phased out of SRII but for the life of me I can't recall why?

My guess is that they decided that while it was neat, it went
against the logic of how the matrix works.

>How does one go naked under SRII rules?
>My memory fails me.

Cranial Cyberdecks are close but Otaku are it.



<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

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Message no. 21
From: Shawn Baumgartner <Breakdown@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 04:25:39 -0500
In response to Droopy's naked decker (perverts reserve OT comments for
Blackjack's next random list):

So how many hours did you have him until he was flatlined? :)

Shawn
Advocating program carriers for library browsing and nova-hot deckers
only.

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Message no. 22
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 00:25:56 +0000
|
|Well, this is my first post, so here goes:
|
|> > > So, how many of you miss program carriers? Don't ask; just wonderin'.
|
|My question is what are program carriers?!? I've never heard of them before....

They've been explained in other threads, but basically, they allow a decker
to plug directly into the Matrix without the aid of a cyberdeck, and thus,
without the protection gained from it.

Grey IC can become deadly when decking "naked"...

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Message no. 23
From: Tim P Cooper <z-i-m@****.COM>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 20:23:54 EST
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997 03:53:57 -0500 Shawn Baumgartner writes:
>In response to Tim's post on Carrier feed to the brain:
>
>Hmm, a normal brain in a shadowrunner... I like it! I think I'll try
>that concept with the next character I build. :)
>
>Shawn
>As twisted as the millenia are long.
>

Just remember that "Normal Brain" is a 50 point Edge..

~Tim
Message no. 24
From: Droopy <droopy@*******.NB.NET>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 01:46:57 +0000
> From: Shawn Baumgartner <Breakdown@*****.NET>
> Subject: Re: program carriers

> In response to Droopy's naked decker (perverts reserve OT comments for
> Blackjack's next random list):
>
> So how many hours did you have him until he was flatlined? :)

Never happened. I miss the days of wide open constructs and
wrangling data out on the matrix. It didn't hurt that I had a major
hacking pool and built this character for one purpose.


--Droopy
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Message no. 25
From: Shawn Baumgartner <Breakdown@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: program carriers
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 03:26:09 -0500
In response to Tim's comment on the "Normal Brain" edge:

Gee, I don't yet have the Companion (MUCH to my dismay; I've been
looking forward to it for so long and when it finally comes out, I'm at
the point where I have to put my guitar in hock just to pay the power
bill:(...),; I guess I'll just have to design it as a bioware item...
Let's see, 4.5 BI seems reasonable. :)

Shawn
Tired of the requests from psych students to help in their thesis
creation.

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Message no. 26
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 11:08:08 +0000
On 1 Mar 97 at 19:47, Elfman(Sgt Pepper) & Danita wrote:
[snip]
> : Bull-the-"I'm-just-a-welcome-Bot"-Ork-Decker
> :
> My question is, how does the programming of all those off-topic,
> thread-starting post work?
That's simple, one doesn't even need cyberware (<-see? I did mention
SR, it's not really OT! :-) top do it. Extract news/stories/nonsense
into a database (probably from alt.*.*), add lots of smilesy and
"<grin>"s, a random timer (anything from 30 secs to 12 hours) and
there you are... better then TSH *grin*


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Message no. 27
From: The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 14:26:03 +0000
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Shawn Baumgartner wrote:

> datajack. Evasion, masking, and sensors are in the Carriers (No limit to
> the rating AFAIK but I'd use the basic MPCP>=ratings rule). The
> characters willpower is his MPCP.
I changed this slightly so that Intelligence was MPCP (it seemed a little
more logical as the MPCP controls and organises everything else - more a
thinking task than a matter of strong will. Bod I said was usually
Willpower except in cases of Black IC where Body was used as normal.

And I upped the Essence cost to .5 which is still very cheap considering
tahts teh same esence cost as a smartlink.

The Digital Mage aka Grant Erswell - mn3rge@****.ac.uk
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-Rush, Losing It
Message no. 28
From: "Kruse, Denny" <dkruse@***.AZ05.BULL.COM>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 14:48:00 MST
I always thought running naked in the matrix was just plugging directly in
through a datajack. Somebody mentioned the Otaku, but I think they don't
even use a datajack, or a deck. Somebody else mentioned a cranial cyberdeck
as running naked, but that is just a cyberdeck that is implanted, I thought
(same for the cyberarm cyberdeck).

Denzil Kruse
d.kruse@****.com
Message no. 29
From: NightLife <habenir@******.SAN.UC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 17:31:32 -0500
At 02:48 PM 3/6/97 MST, you wrote:
>I always thought running naked in the matrix was just plugging directly in
>through a datajack. Somebody mentioned the Otaku, but I think they don't
>even use a datajack, or a deck.

They do require a datajack.

>Somebody else mentioned a cranial cyberdeck
>as running naked, but that is just a cyberdeck that is implanted, I thought
>(same for the cyberarm cyberdeck).

Yes they efficetively duplicate the normal deck funtions so you aren't
running naked. BTW I missed the reason for getting rid of program carriers
what was it?



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Message no. 30
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 06:31:58 -0500
At 02:48 PM 3/6/97 MST, Kruse, Denny wrote these timeless words:
>I always thought running naked in the matrix was just plugging directly in
>through a datajack.
>
Correct...

> Somebody mentioned the Otaku, but I think they don't
>even use a datajack, or a deck.
>
They do need a Datajack, but don't (or can't) use a deck... But they don't
need a deck or programs, they use their natural attributes and skills as
there deck stats...

This is different from running naked in the matrix, though... It's less
dangerous for the Otaku to do this than for a normal decker...

> Somebody else mentioned a cranial cyberdeck
>as running naked, but that is just a cyberdeck that is implanted, I thought
>(same for the cyberarm cyberdeck).
>
It is just an internal cyberdeck... This also is NOT running naked...

Decking naked is something for a decker to do only in the most dire
circumstances, as a last resort for when he couldn't use his deck for some
reason (It was stolen/broke/confiscated/etc)...

Bull-the-Ork-Decker-who-has-never-decker-nude-but-is-getting-a-program-carri
er...:]
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Message no. 31
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Program Carriers
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 11:53:25 +0000
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|I always thought running naked in the matrix was just plugging directly in
|through a datajack. Somebody mentioned the Otaku, but I think they don't
|even use a datajack, or a deck. Somebody else mentioned a cranial cyberdeck
|as running naked, but that is just a cyberdeck that is implanted, I thought
|(same for the cyberarm cyberdeck).

In order to run "Naked", you need program carriers.
This is a pretty pointless topic however, because you never have had that
option in ShRII....
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