| From: | James Lindsay <jlindsay@******.CA> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Prison in Shadowrun - Cyberia |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Dec 1997 05:14:43 GMT |
> At 10:54 12/9/97 -0500, you wrote:
> > Here's an idea I'm use for an experimental prison in my game world.
> >
> > All inmates upon incarceration, are placed in a isolated Matrix
> >simulation of a prison, a virtual machine. Depending on the severity of
>
> I can't remember where I originally heard this idea.. I'm pretty sure it
> wasn't in a FASA book (Maybe it was in some shadowtalk..). It might have
> been NAGEE, or another net.book, or it might have been a post either to
> rec.games.frp.cyber or here, but, anyways:
>
> Upon imprisoment, you're given a simsense chip that makes you *think*
> you've been in prison for X number of years, when really you've only been
> in for a few days, depending on how long the simsense lasts.. then, you're
> released. So you feel like you've been in prison 10 years, or 25, but you
> haven't actually aged, or cost the goverment or corp the several hundred
> thousand it would have normally cost.
>
> If this is your idea, please, er, well, 'claim' it, as I would like to
> thank you :)
Sounds more like something from Star Trek, except that they used a funky
memory alteration technique instead of a piece of implanted hardware like a
simsense chip (Miles O'Brien from a DS:9 episode, I believe).
James W. Lindsay Vancouver, British Columbia
"http://www.prosperoimaging.com/ground_zero";
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