From:	"Dr. Bolthy von Schotz" <bolthy@**.com>
Subject:	RE: Metamagic
Date:	Sun, 12 May 1996 03:57:39 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 10 May 1996, Mike Broadwater wrote:

> >Oh, and Move-By-Wire Level 4 takes 6.35 essence, and 3 MILLION nuyen.
> >That means you need Cybermancy, which means you need a deltagrade
> >clinic...
> Excuse me, but what idiot would get a MBW4 at standard cost? If you're at a
> delta clinic, you get it as delta grade. Duh. In my game, thats as
> possible as being able to be a grade 10 initiate
>

Either a real idiot, who is having trouble just getting 3 million nuyen,
let alone three or four times that, or else someone who has very little
choice in the matter (ie: Aztechnology scraped you off the pavement, and
won't you look lovely with this new cyberware. =))

Okay, and in your campaign it's possible to have 30,000,000 nuyen on
hand, huh? If you can't _afford_ that much, you might be happy to get
just an alpha grade. Duh.

> >and an invoked memory stimulator... Which could be good,
> >because cyberzombies are a bit more immune to magic but could be bad
> >since cyberzombies have a lower damage overflow threshhold, and can
> >occasionally rot (ewww, stinky).
> Well, since he's not a cyberzombie, none of this applys. And you only rot
> if your dead. Cyberzombies are still alive.
>

Oh, I'm sorry... I guess I refered to the cancer that develops when you
are a cyberzombie. It tends to have about the same effect. And
cyberzombies are only alive by the loosest definition.


> >Either that, or you manage to lay your
> >grubby paws on close to 10 Mill and get Alpha grade... and if your fixer
> >can lay his grubby paws on an Alpha Clinic that has MBW 4, I'd be
> >impressed... Hell, if you could make 10 million nuyen, I'd be
> >impressed... =)
> If you can get enough karma to be a grade 10 initiate, as some people have
> mentioned, and then survived the actual initiation (unless of course, your
> just a munchkin who says "oh, I spend the karma and am now more powerful")
> then good for you, but it still doesn't change what I was talking about.

IOC, it's a hell of a lot easier to rake in karma than to horde up 10
million nuyen... Usually a lot of the high karma adventures end with
fairly expensive medical blls... one of our street sammies is learning
that the hard way as he hordes away for delta grade Wired Reflexes.


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