From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: SHADOWRUN, 3rd EDITION!
Date:	Sat, 5 Jul 1997 01:13:19 +0100

In message <8830100D79@********.uibk.ac.at>, "Simon T. Sailer"
<Simon.Sailer@****.AC.AT> writes
>Good Idea, but the cost's are way too high... 250k nuyen is a joke
>even for drastic invasive surgery.

For the cost of delicate neural interfacing, it sounds about right.
They're spinning gold thread into the most delicate parts of your brain,
you're pinching pennies when the cost of a mistake is - for you - a
lifetime as a vegetable?

>And no player could ever hope to
>pay this for delta-grade sugery. Maybe i'ts intended to be that way,
>but 50 millions just for the surgery....

As things stand, if you have access to delta-grade cyber, whoever is
letting you get it is probably covering the surgery costs in exchange
for reports about its performance in the field (remember, delta-grade is
cutting edge, available in only a dozen clinics...)

It's a plot hook rather than a "I have =Y%,000, I want a deltaware
smartlink" decision.

--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk