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Message no. 1
From: Alfredo B Alves <dghost@****.COM>
Subject: Simchips and bodily functions
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 20:20:30 -0500
Can Simchips affect bodily functions? I would think that they could at
least in so far as the neurological aspect is concerned ... (ie a medical
simchip tells the heart to keep pumping, but is useless if some
physiological problem is preventing it ...) ...if so what nifty
non-runner uses for simchips can you think of?

D.Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, and RuPixel)
"Let he who is without SIN cast the first stone"

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Message no. 2
From: K is the Symbol <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Simchips and bodily functions
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 08:17:57 EDT
In a message dated 6/7/98 8:22:11 PM US Eastern Standard Time, dghost@****.COM
writes:

> Can Simchips affect bodily functions? I would think that they could at
> least in so far as the neurological aspect is concerned ... (ie a medical
> simchip tells the heart to keep pumping, but is useless if some
> physiological problem is preventing it ...) ...if so what nifty
> non-runner uses for simchips can you think of?
>
A "SimChip" can effect bodily functions, but only a lower end scale (mostly
for heightening a given entertainment's pleasure.

A "Better-Than-Life" (BTL) can do any number of things to the user. In the
"Threats" Book, the BTL's used by Winternight have vastly terrifying
possibilities, including how to make a mob of killers all at one time.

We've had people get into these chips and others as -very- temporary methods
of controlling and/or augmenting various attributes in order to win in combat
situations. We even had one guy who took the Winternight Chip and rewrote it
(took a while) and used Psychology (Hypnosis) on himself in order to fight off
the negative effects and make himself better at fighting for one fight (a
fight he knew was coming).

-K

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