| From: | Max Rible slothman@*********.org |
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| Subject: | Big Bag O' Questions |
| Date: | Tue, 06 Jul 1999 16:07:24 -0700 |
>1) Unless I'm mistaken, the physical damage done to a decker from black IC
>is done through an energy feedback through the decker's connection.
No. It's done by inducing physiological feedback through the
simsense interface. There is a form of IC that's supposed to do
this stunt, and in my campaign it got eaten by the SOTA long ago--
it's too easy to just isolate your deck's power supply from the rest
of its circuitry.
>Wouldn't it be simple to create a sort of fuse or circut breaker on the
>line to prevent damage from black IC?
Yes. Frankly, I don't think anyone sane would allow a wire to go
into their head; they'd use a fiber optic connection, which is much
more difficult to fry. (This is why I don't believe in some of the
rigger rules that suggest that you can fry a rigger directly with
a zapper warhead, among other things. Crude stunts like frying your
brain would never survive the SOTA, and frying your electronics is
likely to produce dump shock as the systems cut out, not excruciating
pain from the feedback mechanisms that are letting you know that your
vehicle has been damaged.)
The reason you can't produce a filter to keep out the harmful simsense
is that it would also block the signals that make you get enough of an
adrenaline rush to function at accelerated speeds.
>2) Datasofts can be utilized with either a datasoft link or a display
>link. Does this mean that the two pieces of cyberware are functionally
>interchangeable? Sure, one lets you "know" info while the other makes you
>read it, but is that it?
A display link is actually an overlay on your vision, so you can do other
nifty heads-up display things with it...
>3) About how big is a standard medkit? Could it be installed in a
>cyberarm?
I see them as about half the size of a shoebox-- easy enough to keep
on your motorcycle, but not sized for a cyberarm. A specialized
cyberarm could have the expert system built in and some specialized
fingers for administering drugs, a bandage dispenser in the arm, and
so on, and probably be of higher quality than your standard medkit,
but I don't see a regular cyberarm as being able to hide one.
>4) What is the barrier rating of 1 inch of orichalum?
Who cares? If you have a chunk of orichalcum one inch thick
and wide enough to stop a 9mm round, you can just sell it and retire.
>7) How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Aren't you going to be embarrassed when you have to file the claim
with your health insurance company for carp-inflicted trauma? :-)
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