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From: Blade Hunter <bladehnt@*********.NET>
Subject: Re: Take a nap in cyberspace
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:10:54 -0500
>If I understand the Decking rules properly: if a Decker is knocked
>unconscious by IC, he is dumped from the system. When a person is asleep,
>he is usually in an unconscious state, although not stunned like above.
>Therefore if you must be conscious to stay in the system, you could fall
>asleep in the system; but as soon as you did, you would get dumped.

Because of the above reason, I let my deckers modify their decks to bypass
that. That option and a flip-switch-type modification that allows the decker
to flip to real-world, disconnect himself from the deck, get a quick bite to
eat, and come back hoping there isn't black IC latched onto his icon.

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