From:	Wafflemeisters <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject:	Re: Munchkinism at it's finest
Date:	Sat, 9 May 1998 16:44:11 -0500

>
> Re: Munchkinism at it's finest (MgkellyMP5 , 21:15)

> << I believe it's BOOSTED reflexes that's a one-time deal, not Wired
> reflexes. However, since I don't have any of the cyber books (the
> closest I have is FoF), I couldn't tell ya...
> >>
>
> IIRC, Jettgirl is right. Boosted Reflexes are a one-time chemical and
> neurological procedure. BR works on adrenaline and other natural chemicals,
> while MBW and WR use superconductors (IIIRC) to speed up neural impulses.
> Also, characters with Boosted Reflexes can never use Wired Reflexes or a
> Vehicle Control Rig. In Cybertech, one of the posters talks about having his
> wires removed and re-installed with a Reflex Trigger.

Wired reflexes: These are implanted neural boosters and adrenaline
stimulators.(BBB2, 249). Thats about all ever gets said about the
"specs" of wired reflexes. Sounds to me like they DON'T replace your
nerves, or even pervade much of your body- they just hop up adrenal
production and juice up your reflex junctions (mostly spinal) with
electrcal stimulators.

Reaction enhancers DO replace portions of your spine with
supeconductors, probably the long nuerons to your legs and such. This
only works if other systems its campatble with DO'T mess with the nurons
to much thmeselves. It sounds like "treknology" to me, however..

MBW is "all in your head"- the peripheral nervous system is not changed
at all. Instead, HOW the body controls that system is changed. Hence
its odd compatablity issues.

Boosted reflexes sound more like a permanant drug or some such that
changes nueral chemistry to make ion transport and such occur more
quickly. Synaptic function is proabably also altered, perhaps
nuerotransmitter "reuptake" channles are blocked / altered.

Synaptic Acclerators, despite the name, don't seem to concentrate on
synpses, as the description says the nueral axons are thickened.
Synaptic growth is probaly also encouraged, which would make reflexes
more "reflexive" (as occurs withtraining), despit CT's contention that
synaptic AC's are not prone to "misfires".

-Mongoose (this message was brought to you courtesy of the medula
oblongata, and is sponsered by the nuerotransmiters dopamine and
acytal-choline)