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Message no. 1
From: Blaze <Blaze@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:45:54 +0100
In article <m0vDUHC-0004weC@*******.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>, Sascha
Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE> writes
[snip]
>> (Pete's making coffe again so I'll see what his reaction is to me using
>> his computer is this time - I don't know why he gets so nervous when I'm
>> on it) :)
>So coffee you do know, do you? Gooooooood! :-) Well... now for...

Oh yeah, I know coffee, several different brands of instant, and a few
beans. :)

>(Yes, I do ride on dead topics for a long time, some necrophile in me :-)

Can't say *I'd* noticed that :)

[snip request for views on future UK - without Imago spoilers]
>I don't know Imago (one of the books still under lock and key by my fellow GM
>:-( ), but from what I do know about GB it's hell getting in there. They have
>nearly as tight controlls aon the [Air-]Ports as the Tirs, and want each
>magician registered (and give a ritual sample - Waaah!)

That's OK, there isn't a mage in the team. :) So we don't have to worry
about that...
as for tight controls on the airports, that sounds kinda worrying. So
what sort of "controls" did you encounter. Standard weapons gates that
sort of thing, or something more powerful, and sinister. ??

>As I understand it, weapons are rare inside, and automatic weapons near to
>unknown - if you are not belonging to the brit. Army. You'll need contacts
>inside to get the most neccessary things, since border control is quite tight.
>I wouldn't dare bringing in a firearm or cyberdeck through an airport or port.

No, cyberdeck!!!! That might have a governing influence on our decker.
Assuming that it would be difficult to get a custom deck like he's got,
inside the UK, this could make life really difficult, hmm, hope Pete's
forgotten about that :)

As for weapons, the team doesn't have any contacts in the UK at all, we
were kinda hoping to smuggle some weapons in. I assume that this would
be rather difficult then??

>Maybe you could get on that island by help of smugglers/pirates, possibly on
>board of an ACV. But then you should have someone who forges your IDs...

Apparently... We are arriving in Greenland and boarding a private
aircraft there due to touch down at an Airfield in Edinburgh. From
there, we have no idea where we're going. But knowing Pete, it'll be a
*very* strange visit.

We should have ID and papers waiting in Greenland for us.

Seeing as a couple of the team are quite heavily cybered, how would this
stand in customs/immigration. Should we consider have limiters fitted
to get through, or is this not something the Brits worry about.

>'Tis not easy, living in the shadows... :-(

No, it most certainly isn't, but that's acceptable, it's the *cost* of
living in the shadows that's high. :(

>> Sorry if I've confused anybody again, I've tried to make this one easier
>> to understand :)
>Haeh? What? Err... *puzzled look*

Hmmm.... I guess that's supposed to be a, oh what do they call them
(raise eyebrow, scratch tip of ear), oh yes... a joke???

>[snip ASCII-Graphic-Blaze]
>Wow... signed 3 times... you really must have a good selfesteem! *grin*

HUH????
3 times???
You jest <panics and looks desperately at sig thing on mailer, OH
FUDGE... Hey Pete!!!! Your mailers coughing again!!"! :(

Blaze
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Message no. 2
From: Shad Owens <shadow@******.LINFIELD.EDU>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:06:09 -0700
On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Blaze wrote:

> No, cyberdeck!!!! That might have a governing influence on our decker.
> Assuming that it would be difficult to get a custom deck like he's got,
> inside the UK, this could make life really difficult, hmm, hope Pete's
> forgotten about that :)

When we've travelled abroad, and it was inadvisable for my decker
to pack her deck in her suitcase, our fixer always arranged for it to get
to our destination safely. I guess you have to really trust your fixer
-- then again, if the Johnson wants our team to do the run, and our team
thinks
matrix support is necessary (and when isn't it?), we generally put that
clause in (that they'll get our equiptment there - safely) and things
work out. You could have your decker do that... if your decker isn't
paranoid about letting his deck out of sight.... :)
Jennie
Message no. 3
From: Mark Steedman <M.J.Steedman@***.RGU.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 13:45:06 GMT
Blaze writes

> as for tight controls on the airports, that sounds kinda worrying. So
> what sort of "controls" did you encounter. Standard weapons gates that
> sort of thing, or something more powerful, and sinister. ??
>
High rating weapon scanners, you might meet chem sniffers, advise its
internationally licensed or not on you!
Failure to have the paperwork when they find it, and they will is a
vist to the jail for a good long time.

> >As I understand it, weapons are rare inside, and automatic weapons near to
> >unknown - if you are not belonging to the brit. Army.
Yeah, the real world and what looks like irs about to happen on those
restrictions, thats tight.

> > You'll need contacts
> >inside to get the most neccessary things, since border control is quite tight.
> >I wouldn't dare bringing in a firearm or cyberdeck through an airport or port.
>
> No, cyberdeck!!!!
well it better not have masking, attack progs etc or the hardware to
fit them, it lists in one of the books what bits a legal cyber
terminal has out the the list (about half the SR decking stuff is not
needed for legal access).
Getting caught breaking this one is not funny.

> That might have a governing influence on our decker.
> Assuming that it would be difficult to get a custom deck like he's got,
> inside the UK, this could make life really difficult, hmm, hope Pete's
> forgotten about that :)
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, best mail him andremind him, like GM's
forget fun like that (well most of the time)

>
> As for weapons, the team doesn't have any contacts in the UK at all, we
> were kinda hoping to smuggle some weapons in. I assume that this would
> be rather difficult then??
Well i wouldn't advise visiting a port or airport or the chunnel :)
and if you try avoidance rember who'll get called out, you do like
the Royal Navy don't you :)

> Apparently... We are arriving in Greenland and boarding a private
> aircraft there due to touch down at an Airfield in Edinburgh. From
> there, we have no idea where we're going. But knowing Pete, it'll be a
> *very* strange visit.
the private plane might help a bit, but probably not much.

>
> We should have ID and papers waiting in Greenland for us.
>
i suggest ou find out what they will be before setting off so you
don't get nasty suprises later.

> Seeing as a couple of the team are quite heavily cybered, how would this
> stand in customs/immigration. Should we consider have limiters fitted
> to get through, or is this not something the Brits worry about.
>
Sorry but they will scan and if they find class C cyberware and no UK
valid security licence, like you can get one of those :) you're
fragged, try joining the diplomatic corp of someplace :)

Mark
Message no. 4
From: Marty <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 23:00:42 +1000
> Sorry but they will scan and if they find class C cyberware and no UK
> valid security licence, like you can get one of those :) you're
> fragged, try joining the diplomatic corp of someplace :)
>
In the case of Cyber....what about scamming the scurity officers by putting
some reference to legal cyberware in the ID you are supplied that closely
matches the ID profile of one of your pieces of cyberware....
ie, disguise a Smartlink as a Program Carrier, Reflex enhancements as
legal Rigger control gear, or a C3 cranial deck as a *whole* drek load of
headware memory and associated SPU's

The security system can't be omniscient... If your augmentation is probably
going to get detected, smoke and mirrors might do the trick when a permit
might not. If they get a response in the expected places and no responses
where they don't expect them, then you might get through

I had a friend who had an X-Ray after a car accident and the doctors spent
an hour asking her why she hadn't told them she had a pin in her arm, before
they finally figured out that it was the X-ray trace due to the drip which
was placed in that arm.

Obviously 2050 era security systems aren't that simple, but the
general concept should still work.
Message no. 5
From: Mark Steedman <M.J.Steedman@***.RGU.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:33:10 GMT
Marty writes
> To: Mark Steedman <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
> Copies to: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
can you not do that as expected i just got interupted by a second
copy of your message!

> > Sorry but they will scan and if they find class C cyberware and no UK
> > valid security licence, like you can get one of those :) you're
> > fragged, try joining the diplomatic corp of someplace :)
> >
> In the case of Cyber....what about scamming the scurity officers by putting
> some reference to legal cyberware in the ID you are supplied that closely
> matches the ID profile of one of your pieces of cyberware....
sensible idea, and yes i recon it would work.

> ie, disguise a Smartlink as a Program Carrier, Reflex enhancements as
> legal Rigger control gear,
i don't think those would.
but call them skill hardwires acrobatics and they might have trouble
proving you wrong if you have the skill (or enough quickness to fake
it)

> or a C3 cranial deck as a *whole* drek load of
> headware memory and associated SPU's
>
That should work, headware memory is common enough in SR secetary
types, and organisers.

> The security system can't be omniscient... If your augmentation is probably
> going to get detected, smoke and mirrors might do the trick when a permit
> might not. If they get a response in the expected places and no responses
> where they don't expect them, then you might get through
Yeah and read awakenings before replying the astral scan will gey
you, it wont :)

> Obviously 2050 era security systems aren't that simple, but the
> general concept should still work.
>
especially as to get sensible customs they have maybe 30 second to
check you tops unless they have a tipoff you're trouble.

Mark
Message no. 6
From: Blaze <Blaze@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:50:46 +0100
In article <Pine.3.89.9610171920.A12701-0100000@******>, Shad Owens
<shadow@******.LINFIELD.EDU> writes

[snip re: cyberdeck's abroad]
> When we've travelled abroad, and it was inadvisable for my decker
>to pack her deck in her suitcase, our fixer always arranged for it to get
>to our destination safely. I guess you have to really trust your fixer
>-- then again, if the Johnson wants our team to do the run, and our team
>thinks
>matrix support is necessary (and when isn't it?), we generally put that
>clause in (that they'll get our equiptment there - safely) and things
>work out. You could have your decker do that... if your decker isn't
>paranoid about letting his deck out of sight.... :)
>Jennie

We usually arrange through the hirer to transport equipment, but the
present contract didn't allow for our normal gear, and we are travelling
very light. :(

As for the Decker being paranoid, yes he is, very, the deck he's got is
of sentimental value, and he will *not* let it out of his sight. As for
giving it to out Fixer, we would, but he won't. :(

We're all kind of loath to let our Gm take the team into the UK, without
allowing us the Matrix support we feel would be essential over there, we
are alread y limited to sidearms only as the import laws into the UK
seem to be horrific. The handguns are coming by special courier, and we
hope they'll get there when we do. But the deck is going to be vital.
:(

Somebody else mentioned that Mages have to give a sample at the
border/customs... Anyone know whether there is a way around this. ??


Blaze
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Message no. 7
From: Marty <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 12:34:01 +1000
> We usually arrange through the hirer to transport equipment, but the
> present contract didn't allow for our normal gear, and we are travelling
> very light. :(
>

This sounds a lot like the adventure Celtic Doublecross. So help you
god if it is; I hope you make it out without a cortex bomb.


> Somebody else mentioned that Mages have to give a sample at the
> border/customs... Anyone know whether there is a way around this. ??
>
Don't tell them you are a mage. Of course, that only works if you are
initiated and masking *grin*

It also depends on what kind of sample. You can get a DNA sample from
hair, and it would count as a ritual sample almost as well as blood would.

So that implies that in most cases you'd be asked to put your hair under
the knife, so they can take a sample.... It's less invasive than a blood
sample, which could piss off important people if they were subjected to it.

What you do then, is cut your hair short, and weave in strands of
somebody else's hair..... They'll take the hair from the end of the
strands, and hopefully you've given them a ritual and DNA sample from
somebody else. Just make sure you don't like the person who owns the hair.

This idea originally courtesy of William Gibson, in his newest book; Idoru.

Good luck.

Bleach.

(I'd want a karma point for a good idea if i'd came up with that myself)
Message no. 8
From: Pete Sims <petesims@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 06:05:44 +0100
In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.961019122651.28491A-100000@*****.student.gu.ed
u.au>, Marty <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU> writes
>> We usually arrange through the hirer to transport equipment, but the
>> present contract didn't allow for our normal gear, and we are travelling
>> very light. :(
>
>This sounds a lot like the adventure Celtic Doublecross. So help you
>god if it is; I hope you make it out without a cortex bomb.
>
No that's next, it's Imago at the moment, and our GM is keeping *real*
quiet about what he's done to England.. I know he wasn't too happy about
a lot of the sourcebook, and has changed it somewhat... So I figured
seeing as the sourcebook is useless to me, I'd ask here, where at least
some of the infomration I get will be relevant. So far so good :)

>Don't tell them you are a mage. Of course, that only works if you are
>initiated and masking *grin*
>
<smile> Yes... OUr Mage is initiated but I don't think he'll be happy
about hanging a mask and maintaining it while travelling though
customs/immigration, he doesn't handle that kind of pressure too well,
least of all if some blighter is standing nearby with needles and
things.

>It also depends on what kind of sample. You can get a DNA sample from
>hair, and it would count as a ritual sample almost as well as blood would.
>
>So that implies that in most cases you'd be asked to put your hair under
>the knife, so they can take a sample.... It's less invasive than a blood
>sample, which could piss off important people if they were subjected to it.
>
>What you do then, is cut your hair short, and weave in strands of
>somebody else's hair..... They'll take the hair from the end of the
>strands, and hopefully you've given them a ritual and DNA sample from
>somebody else. Just make sure you don't like the person who owns the hair.

Hmmmm... I'll mention this to the guy who plays the Mage, he might like
this... :)
>
>This idea originally courtesy of William Gibson, in his newest book; Idoru.

When did this come out... I've not seen anything in my local bookstore
about it... ????

>
>Good luck.

Thanks, I think we're going to need it. :(

>(I'd want a karma point for a good idea if i'd came up with that myself)

OK, I'll have a word with our GM about it :)


Blaze
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Message no. 9
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 08:30:49 -0600
Blaze wrote:
|
|As for the Decker being paranoid, yes he is, very, the deck he's got is
|of sentimental value, and he will *not* let it out of his sight. As for
|giving it to out Fixer, we would, but he won't. :(
|
|We're all kind of loath to let our Gm take the team into the UK, without
|allowing us the Matrix support we feel would be essential over there, we
|are alread y limited to sidearms only as the import laws into the UK
|seem to be horrific. The handguns are coming by special courier, and we
|hope they'll get there when we do. But the deck is going to be vital.
|:(

Try doing some research (via contacts) about where to go in
the UK to find a good decker. Then take along a lot of
cash and buy some matrix help when you get there.

|Somebody else mentioned that Mages have to give a sample at the
|border/customs... Anyone know whether there is a way around this. ??

If your mage is an initiate he can try to Shield his aura
and pass as for a normal. If he's got a lot of foci, it
aint gonna be easy.

-David

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Message no. 10
From: Blaze <Blaze@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 16:30:54 +0100
In article <199610191430.IAA21732@******>, David Buehrer
<dbuehrer@****.ORG> writes

[snip Decker in the UK]
>Try doing some research (via contacts) about where to go in
>the UK to find a good decker. Then take along a lot of
>cash and buy some matrix help when you get there.

We've tried this, but have been fragged over before by European Deckers.
It's kind of a touchy matter with the team, and there's doesn't seem to
be the same kind of insurance available like we get in Seattle... If a
Decker mucks us about in Seattle, we can always shot him, but in the UK,
with the way that country apeears to be, it's difficult to know wether
or not the Decker has been *got at*.

Unfortunately, with what people have been saying about the laws and
regulations in the UK, it looks like we are not only going to have a
problem getting our own gear in, but even more trouble finding reliable
contacts in the UK, that haven't been tagged by the UK gov'm't

>
>|Somebody else mentioned that Mages have to give a sample at the
>|border/customs... Anyone know whether there is a way around this. ??
>
>If your mage is an initiate he can try to Shield his aura
>and pass as for a normal. If he's got a lot of foci, it
>aint gonna be easy.

No, he doesn't, he used to have a lot of Foci, but found out the hard
way how dangerous this can be. So now he only uses them when absolutely
necessary and rarely carries any around with him.

Oh, the wonders of paranoia. :)

Blaze
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Message no. 11
From: Marty <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:29:27 +1000
> |We're all kind of loath to let our Gm take the team into the UK, without
> |allowing us the Matrix support we feel would be essential over there, we
> |are alread y limited to sidearms only as the import laws into the UK
> |seem to be horrific. The handguns are coming by special courier, and we
> |hope they'll get there when we do. But the deck is going to be vital.
> |:(
>
> Try doing some research (via contacts) about where to go in
> the UK to find a good decker. Then take along a lot of
> cash and buy some matrix help when you get there.
>
And can you trust the guy??? Imago is a decker based adventure from what
I recall..... You're going to need a party decker of some kind.

Talk to your GM about this.

> |Somebody else mentioned that Mages have to give a sample at the
> |border/customs... Anyone know whether there is a way around this. ??
>
> If your mage is an initiate he can try to Shield his aura
> and pass as for a normal. If he's got a lot of foci, it
> aint gonna be easy.
>
Don't take your foci, it's that easy.... Sometimes carrying foci is like
trying to get in the front door of Renraku Chiba carrying an assault
rifle.
Message no. 12
From: Blaze <Blaze@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 03:36:25 +0100
In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.961020112727.15794E-100000@*****.student.gu.ed
u.au>, Marty <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU> writes

[snip getting a deck into the UK]
>> Try doing some research (via contacts) about where to go in
>> the UK to find a good decker. Then take along a lot of
>> cash and buy some matrix help when you get there.
>>
>And can you trust the guy??? Imago is a decker based adventure from what
>I recall..... You're going to need a party decker of some kind.

That''s the problem we had.. trusting another decker... :( Not good,
especially with UK security as heavy as it seems. I recall correctly
they expect any cyberdecks to be registered, which seems to imply some
sort of Matrix Security Patrol, similar to what we met in Germany :(

>Talk to your GM about this.

We did, and the scheme we came up with was to dismantle the deck,
completely, hide all the parts in a few cases with other electronic
gizmos, like toys and stuff for *relatives*, and try to sneak it over,
buying a new case and bits once we arrive.

>> |Somebody else mentioned that Mages have to give a sample at the
>> |border/customs... Anyone know whether there is a way around this. ??
>>
>> If your mage is an initiate he can try to Shield his aura
>> and pass as for a normal. If he's got a lot of foci, it
>> aint gonna be easy.
>>
>Don't take your foci, it's that easy.... Sometimes carrying foci is like
>trying to get in the front door of Renraku Chiba carrying an assault
>rifle.

Our Mage doesn't carry Foci andywhere if he can avoid it, he had a *bad*
experience once... One thing that was suggested by Bleach was to use
hair extentions... We had a word with the GM about it, and he agreed...
He said that as long as the decker was able to match his hair colour and
was prepared to pay about 25K nuyen to have it done properly, then he
would let it work (yippee - we got the Mage in). Now to hope the ploy
with the deck works :)

Blaze
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Message no. 13
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 17:50:26 +0000
On 19 Oct 96 at 0:50, Blaze wrote:
[snip]
> As for the Decker being paranoid, yes he is, very, the deck he's got is
> of sentimental value, and he will *not* let it out of his sight. As for
> giving it to out Fixer, we would, but he won't. :(
[snip]
> The handguns are coming by special courier, and we
> hope they'll get there when we do. But the deck is going to be vital.
> :(
maybe you can send in your decker along with his deck using this "special
courier"? ("What? I have to travel in a CARGO BOX?" :-)

> Somebody else mentioned that Mages have to give a sample at the
> border/customs... Anyone know whether there is a way around this. ??
Initate. Really high, really fast. :-) And hope the scanning magician is
either not initated, or at a lower level (and he hasn't just got out his
"lucky dice" :-)

Sascha
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Message no. 14
From: Paolo Marcucci <paolo@*********.IT>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:39:32 +0200
Sascha Pabst wrote:
>
> On 19 Oct 96 at 0:50, Blaze wrote:
> [snip]
> > The handguns are coming by special courier, and we
> > hope they'll get there when we do. But the deck is going to be vital.
> > :(
> maybe you can send in your decker along with his deck using this "special
> courier"? ("What? I have to travel in a CARGO BOX?" :-)

I've visited an armorer and made him build a custom deck carrying case,
specially padded and armored and concealed inside a regular business
suitcase. Conc 16. I paid a lot :)

NOTE: The above post was made in character. Now you're warned ::)))))
_________________________________________________________________
Paolo Marcucci paolo@*********.it
Message no. 15
From: Marty <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Visiting 205* UK - was Blaze
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:51:31 +1000
> NOTE: The above post was made in character. Now you're warned ::)))))
> _________________________________________________________________
> Paolo Marcucci paolo@*********.it
>
Arrghhhh!!! Horror smiley.

BTW, Paolo... who is John Maniha; He wrote the SR timeline used in the
Explorer

????

Bleach

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