From:	Wafflemeisters <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject:	Re: Cyberware 2060/Jettware!
Date:	Mon, 4 May 1998 17:25:36 -0500

>
> Re: Cyberware 2060/Jettware! (Jessica Grota , Sat 23:59)

> > > Headware Radio (comm set) delta .25
> >
> > What is this item? Is it a "group" of items? A 2-way radio for .25 is
> > very nice...
>
> It's the CyberComm link unit out of I THINK Cybertechnology...the one
> that boils down to being roughly electronic telepathy?
>

Thats the "cybercomm link", which has a base essence cost of .4E. Also,
it's description contradicts the later rules, which say ALL it does is
translate thoughts, still requiring a radio (internal or datajack / DNI
linked) for transmission. That can get to be a real essence hog, but
otherwiase its LESS essence than a ordinary radio (which until this came
out, we assumed had at least subvocal / subaudibal function) which is
also odd.
GRRRR.... Its not just flimsy constuction that makes my books wear
out... flight related wall impact plays a part.


> Jett didn't have to stick around long: there was a mage on standby to
> heal her after surgery. :) More on that below. I didn't mess too much
> with the "additional reduction" rules, mostly because I didn't
> understand them at the time. I still don't have any of the real good
> cyber books, ie cybertechnology or Shadowtech. Ah, well. Maybe for
> Christmas...
>

They are complex, badly organized, un-colated, and a major impediment,
cost wise, to getting any big essence (E .5 +) cyber. You can do well
without. Shadowtech is worth it for the bioware and descriptions of
fairly common cyber. Cybertechnology is not as good, but still pretty
neat, just purely cyber oriented. You need to dig in it, SSC, AND
shadowtech to figure out how to do /charge for implant surgery.
Despite magic healing, I think you at least still require the normal
healing time be spent in a clinic to allow "cyber adjustment". Then
again, people check out of real hospitals against doctor advice all the
time.


> Jett was in fact healed right after surgery by another PC and went home
> soon after. Her magical powers, FWIW, Awakened well after she got all
> her cyber, which I neglected to mention. I just did the "adjustment"
> routine for kicks, really, since my GM needed Jett back in action ASAP.
> :) After all, if you can RP it, it isn't munchie! ;)
>

I just meant, there is a test for magic POTENTIAL. They might not have
done it, but in a clinic that (delta) good, they likely would. Coulda
been a cute scene: Doctor-"Miss, your SURE you want these procedures?
Your Gassenberg-Whitefeather test is not conclusively negative." Jett;
" Is that <whatever the frag it is> gonna stop the stuff from working?
No? Then just do it, already!"


-Mongoose