From:	chaos@*****.com (Steven Ratkovich)
Subject:	Re: A pair of Doubts
Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:44:59 -0500 (EST)

>OK, chummers, I've just joined the list and this is my first
>posting, so there it goes.
>
>I bought the adventures book 'Shadows of the Underworld'
>last week, and after reading the first one ('Excelsior'), there are
>two things which are not clear to me:
>
Ok, first of all, as a warning (friendly, of course) be careful mentioning
stuff from the modules as their are players as well as GM's on this list,
sometimes from the same game, and it can ruin a good build up if something
is let out too soon...:) Just letting you know.... And if you do want to
mention something, label it as a Spoiler, similar to what they're currently
doing with Bull (me, sigh), so that they know not to read it if they haven't
played it or whatever...:)

Ok, enough rambling on that...

>- The first one is what is the equivalence between UCAS dollars and
>nuyens, because the payment is mentioned to be in dollars and I don't
>know (or don't remember where it is) what the equivalence is.
>
Unfortunately, I haven't seen a conversion chart anywhere, but if it's
anywhere, it would possibly be in the Neo A's guide to Real Life, which I
don't own, so I can't check for you... Sorry...

I would hazard a guess, though, that the UCAS dollar is worth a little less
than a Nuyen... Not by much, but a little... Of course, this is a guess...
The reasoning is that the Japanese economy, In the future, is a bit more
stable than the UCAS economy, thus lessining the value of the dollar.

Oh well, anyone else want to try, that's my inane ramblings...:)

>- The second one: At a point in the adventure, the book says that the
>charachters with illegal cyberware are applied 'Taser Restraints'.
>What are exactly those restraints and how do they work?. Also, In
>which sourcebook do they appear?
>
Ummm, I can give you a rough guess at how I percieve them to work. The
attach to the Cyberlimb, or whatever, and administer a nice bit of
electrical juice if that bit o' cyber is activated. There's something
similar listed in "Dragon Hunt" that releases a small, directed explosion
that blows off cyberlimbs if they are activated, and I believe something
like that was mentioned in Paradise Lost... As for source books, once again
look to the Neo A's Guide to RL.... They had a lot of day to day infor in
there that I can't recall off hand...:)




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