From:	grendel@*****.org (Grendel)
Subject:	How to lessen Background Count?
Date:	Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:04:46 -0700

On Aug 28, 2005, at 3:57 PM, Jeffrey Dougherty wrote:

> There's some information in the Magic in the Shadows book on how to
> eliminate background count. This is all IIRC, as I don't have the
> book right with me.

Magic in the Shadows, p. 74.

Cleansing
Cleansing is used to clear away temporary background count (see
Background Count, p. 83). For cleansing to be effective, the cause
of the background count must first be removed. For example,
attempting to cleanse the background count from a poisoned river will
have no effect until the waters are cleaned of the physical
pollution. Cleansing cannot affect lasting, long-term background
counts such as those found in sites like the Great Pyramids or
Auschwitz.

GrendelFrom Toubrouk@*********.ca Mon Aug 29 01:58:29 2005
From: Toubrouk@*********.ca (Toubrouk)
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:58:29 -0400
Subject: Aggresion cyberware
Message-ID: <43125DB5.6070400@*********.ca>

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:34:57, Lone Eagle Wrote


>
>At 04:28 AM 8/28/2005, Toubrouk wrote:
>
>>>In all honesty i don't see the upside of a Shadowrunner with this set-up.
>>>It seems more fitting on a CyberZombie. I just can't imagine the mess a
>>>berserk chip and a Invoked memory stimulator can do together...
>
>
>I would suggest that making one's cyberzombie Berserk would probably be
>counterproductive - if you make it want to fight it's quite likely to fight
>the enchantments which hold it into the husk which was once its body when
>it isn't fighting anything else. Cybermancy is hard enough as it is -
>without added complications.
>

Yes, you got a point there. You don't want to make a cyberzombie feel bad about itself.

The bottom line is; any "Berserk" auguementation is not productive on a
battlefield or in the streets unless the victim is used as a decoy or if you just don't
care about the soldier you send fighting.