From:	Peter Coxon <coxoff@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: Matrix awakening
Date:	Mon, 16 Dec 1996 22:52:31 UT

<<SNIP!!!>>
>>
>> Guess you haven't read Awakenings and seen the Enhanced Aim spell >>yet.
;o)

>>Seen Awakenings, and remember seeing the Enhanced Aim spell, but >>don't
>>remember exactly what it did.

>Never the less I was refering to a spell that would let a mage tap into
>a smart-linked weapon and recieve the targeting data that the link
>provided with out actually having the cyber-ware or goggles.

>>
>> > ~Tim
>>
>> @>--'--,--- Loki
>
>~Tim

Okay, I might go on in this bit.
1. AI I ran AI kind of like free spirits but in the matrix, the two that I had
one was based on a player (possed as a fixer) and the other was an anima (my
decker still hasn't worked it out he thought it was a Otaku :-) ).

2. err Teleportation...I do A-level physics so I could be wrong on this, but I
would have thought you could do something similar to worm holes just pulling
two bits of astral space close together open a door in reality and then step
through. also there is the free spirits power that allow it to open astral
gateways, mundanes can go into astral (not sure on this coz it is from memory)
so theorectically free spirit opens gateway X people go through and so does
the spirit, they move (fly) through astral to corresponding exit point and
leave astral so basically they can travel through astral for the price set by
the spirit. (note: the speed on astral is magic* 1000km/something isn't it?
therefore Mund. could get onto astral but would be able to move at high speed)


3. Just to really annoy people, I saw this program the other day explain who
time travel might be possible, It works a bit like worm holes, you need two
machine one in each time period then they open gateways to each other and you
can step through. However there was one problem as soon as the gate ways
touched they would explode....Could magic prevent this? the other problem with
this is that you could only go back as far as the earliest time machine. this
could lead to intersting adventures with people come back to kill there
grandparents and such.... and then you get the annoying time discussions. all
of the stuff on this was theorectical but so is most of the advanced physics
today.

4. Matrix awakening...imagined world...what a load of CR*P! to be imagined it
would have to only exist in our minds. The trix is graphical representation of
millions of optical chips aound the world. saying it is imagined is like
saying that the contents of your hard drive are just imagined. as to magic in
the matrix, you have a mind probe spell right? that works by interpretating a
bunch of electrical impulse in a load of grey mush. You could quite easily
develope a magical spell to see who light move in fiber optic cables and then
convert it into read/viewable data/whatever. A quick run on a slightly
inadequite spell generator came up with it having a drain around the f/2 -1 D
(ouch) but it is okay as far as I can tell. this might not work as you need
light amplifications at points along the cable. as to affecting the trix you
would need a sperate illusion spell. which would work just like programs....

5. the enchance aim spell basically just allow you to shot better, has nothing
to do with smartlinks, but theoretically you could (two spells) see the + of
the SL and you could tell it to shoot.

*Tim Braces himeslef for flying carp, flames, fire/snow balls and chewed
keyboards*
tim ntoo
ps. does anyone know the max hand size for netrunner?