| From: | "Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Prison in Shadowrun |
| Date: | Sun, 14 Dec 1997 02:20:19 +0000 |
<gurth@******.NL> writes
>Zixx said on 22:14/10 Dec 97...
>
>> Something that just came to my mind, concerning prisons and police:
>>
>> In William Gibsons "Mona Lisa Overdrive" one guy (Slick Henry) had
>> something in his brain, that would kill his short-time memorys if he got
>> excited. He got that as a good-bye-present in prison. I think it had a
>> russian name, but I can't remember (And I don't want to read through the
>> whole book right now)
Chemically-induced Korsakov's Syndrome. It wasn't a good-bye present, he
did most of his sentence in that mode, and still flashed back to it
under stress after his release.
>> What it does is just the same as the thing from the book: it erases the
>> short-time memorys.So if someone has a lot of adrenaline in his blood (like
>> during fights, while decking/rigging or casting non-trivial spells) he
>> forgets what he did...say for the last two hours (Does anyone know how long
>> the STM lasts?).
>
>Not all that long, in the case of Slick Henry. I don't think it's two
>hours, unless Gentry is in the matrix for a very long time.
It's minutes at most. The book says he was trained to assemble a small
gearbox: when he could do it in less than the Korsakov interval (seemed
to be only a few minutes) that was it, a few years vanished into a blur
of fear and blurred memory.
--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...
Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
