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From:	Wyrmy elfman@******.com
Subject:	Some questions from Wyrmy about Technobabel (spoilers included)
Date:	Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:59:59 -0600

Message no. 1 well, I finished technobabel the other day and I have some questions
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I think that was long enuogh.
Question number one: Can anyone become an otaku? or are you born with
that ability but it then awaken later in life, ala magical awakening?
Numero Dos: Did he lose his otaku abilities when he wouldnt die for that
tree of life thingy-ma-bod-structure?
And finaly:If Leonardo was an immortal Elf, why did he die(?) when
lofwyr poisioned him? and what would be the cost and availibility of
some such poison for a samurai to get from his fixer.Or was it just
Tobasco sauce? }}}}}}:::::::^^^^^^^^]]]]]]

From:	TalonMail@*.com TalonMail@*.com
Subject:	Some questions from Wyrmy about Technobabel (spoilers included)
Date:	Thu, 1 Apr 1999 12:07:22 EST

Message no. 2 SPOILER SPACE

Wyrmy <elfman@******.com> wrote:
>Question number one: Can anyone become an otaku? or are you born with
>that ability but it then awaken later in life, ala magical awakening?

Becoming an oktau is apparently dependent on an experience in the Matrix
called the Deep Ressonance, in which certain people undergo a neurological
alteration that allows them to deck with nothing more than their biological
wetware (their brain, in other words). It appears that the DR takes place more
commonly in people predisposed towards it in some way, the factors may be
biological, neurological, social, or some combination of the three.

>Numero Dos: Did he lose his otaku abilities when he wouldnt die for that
>tree of life thingy-ma-bod-structure?

No. Ronin still has his otaku abilities.

>And finaly:If Leonardo was an immortal Elf, why did he die(?) when
>lofwyr poisioned him?

Who said Leonardo was dead? <grin> That's not a definite fact as yet. As for
why he was affected by the poison, immortals are immune to normal toxins
Lofwyr's venom isn't exactly a normal toxin.

>and what would be the cost and availibility of
>some such poison for a samurai to get from his fixer.

You'd have to take that up with Lofwyr <evil grin>

Steve Kenson

Kenson's Cranial Collection
http://members.aol.com/talonmail

From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	Some questions from Wyrmy about Technobabel (spoilers included)
Date:	Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:36:29 +0200

Message no. 3 According to TalonMail@***.com, at 12:07 on 1 Apr 99, the word on
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> >Question number one: Can anyone become an otaku? or are you born with
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> Becoming an oktau is apparently dependent on an experience in the Matrix
> called the Deep Ressonance, in which certain people undergo a neurological
> alteration that allows them to deck with nothing more than their biological
> wetware (their brain, in other words). It appears that the DR takes place more
> commonly in people predisposed towards it in some way, the factors may be
> biological, neurological, social, or some combination of the three.

So you could say becoming an otaku is to normal deckers what initiation is
to magicians? Somehow they "see the light" and realize they don't actually
need a cyberdeck to manipulate the Matrix.

I would have liked some rules for how a normal decker can become an otaku.
Rules like those for initiation seem a good starting point to me; at least
it should involve quite a bit of Karma...

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From:	Schizi@*.com Schizi@*.com
Subject:	Some questions from Wyrmy about Technobabel (spoilers included)
Date:	Fri, 2 Apr 1999 22:17:16 EST

Message no. 4 In a message dated 4/2/99 1:36:53 AM Pacific Standard Time, gurth@******.nl
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> > >Question number one: Can anyone become an otaku? or are you born with
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> > called the Deep Ressonance, in which certain people undergo a
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> So you could say becoming an otaku is to normal deckers what initiation is
> to magicians? Somehow they "see the light" and realize they don't actually

> need a cyberdeck to manipulate the Matrix.

I think of it like the event in Technobabel, where Ronin decked the guys
head. Combine that with psychotropic IC as a concept.

basically with sufficiently advanced tech (such as a UV host whcih always
comes with an AI) the mind is programmed suffiectly to directly manipulate
the matrix, under certain circumstances. The circumstances depend on how
receptive the person is (that is why more children are chosen) and probably a
few other random factors.

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