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Message no. 1
From: Jacamus <CUENOJF@*********.EDU>
Subject: CyberSpur Upgrades
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 12:41:59 GMT-500
>>>>>[Has anybody got any suggestions on things they've can do to make
cyber spurs just a little more exciting? I'd like things that people
have actually tried (read: don't tell me to wire a taser into my
spurs just so you can watch me fry myself the first time I hit
somebody). Thanks for the help in advance.

Oh, yeah, if your listening Forge, I'm not to sure of what the hell a
ki is, but have you thought about maybe enchanted cyberspurs?]<<<<<
-- Jacamus (12:40:13/02-21-55)
Message no. 2
From: Oswald was framed <krobar@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: CyberSpur Upgrades
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 16:29:28 -0500
>>>>>[ Sure Jacamus, no problem; try learning how to use'em right.
]<<<<<
-- Crane <16:40:31/2-21-55>
Message no. 3
From: Randy Barron <rbarron@*****.CS.DU.EDU>
Subject: Re: CyberSpur Upgrades
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 14:42:45 -0700
>>>>>[ Any designer extant has probably addedsome
little upgrades to any designs they built. For
instance, I have a cyberspur that I had 'enhanced'
with a replaceable poison well. Well, replaceable
only iff it's in a cyberarm. Then there are... well,
anyway, there are probably some interesting designs
out there. ]<<<<<
-- Silverflame (00:)0:)0/10-10-10)
Message no. 4
From: Dave Sanborn <dasanbor@*******.SYR.EDU>
Subject: Re: CyberSpur Upgrades
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 14:39:38 -0500
>>>>>[ Enchanted Cyberspurs?!? Gah... Cyber-ANYTHING on a mage can take
away the oneness that a mage has with the magic, chummer!!! I'll just
pretend you didn't suggest that, Jac...
]<<<<< -- Warped Warlock <14:37:00/02-22-55>
Message no. 5
From: Timothy Skirvin <tskirvin@********.UNI.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Re: CyberSpur Upgrades
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 16:34:04 -0600
>>>>>[Hey, don't knock the mage-cyber combination. I've known quite a few
GOOD mages that had some cber...they just had it a little bit. Some cyber
eyes here, some of the better newest cyberware (a datajack is pretty good
for making new spells, you can get to the stuff faster), especially one of
those Encaph-a-whatever things. Being smarter never hurts...

Of course, I have a hard time believing that some physical adepts would be
so dumb as to chrome up...

Oh, and be warned, I'm uncybered. I've considered it before,
though...]<<<<<
- Solonus <16:33:33/02-22-55>
Message no. 6
From: Randy Barron <rbarron@*****.CS.DU.EDU>
Subject: Re: CyberSpur Upgrades
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 17:19:34 -0700
>>>>>[ Should we be quivering in our little booties? *snort*
]<<<<<
-- Stormfalcon (00:00:00/10-10-10)
Message no. 7
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: CyberSpur Upgrades
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 18:14:03 -0700
***** Much more is possible with magic than is possible with cyberware. Further
more, magic does not have the drawback of destroying your connection to magic,
when it is done correctly of course. Also, why would an Adept want to have
cybernetic spurs when his ability to focus his magic into highly damaging
attacks is much more effective. Magic has been in the sixth world for over 40
years now, but as of yet, no person that I know of has implanted what would be
termed orichalium cyber-implant spurs. "Why?", one might ask; possibly because
it is not magically feasible or because it has some unknown consequences, then
again, maybe no-one has had the money, incentive, time and knowledge to do this
act. Consider though that anchoring a sustained manipulation spell on a set of
"Forearm Snap Blades" would be much less costly and almost as effective. Given
the added bonus that one can anchor a series of different spells for different
occasions, this might be the more effective method.*****
-- Nightfox <N'Ralan Filox>


>>>>>[ And if you understood all that, your one up on
me.]<<<<<
-- Dimitri <18:13:45/02-22-55>
Message no. 8
From: Randy Barron <rbarron@*****.CS.DU.EDU>
Subject: Re: CyberSpur Upgrades
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 18:45:07 -0700
>>>>>[ I both understood and have designed such.
The anchored version that is. As Nightfox pointed
out and I learned, to a waste of plenty of money
and time, mostly money, unfortunately, it is not
a good thing to design "orichalium cyber-implant
spurs", to steal a phrase. My favored, and most
profitable, was... never mind, No need to give
you other designers any help. *grin* ]<<<<<
-- Silverflame (00:00:00/10-10-10)
Message no. 9
From: "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: CyberSpur Upgrades
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 17:59:59 -0800
>>>>>[ I understood it, Dimitri, but my girlfriend is an expert in Magical
Theory. ]<<<<,
-- Nightstalker <18:09:11/02-22-55>
Message no. 10
From: Egil Geir Brautaset <egilbra@***.UNIT.NO>
Subject: Re: CyberSpur Upgrades
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 14:50:31 +0100
>>>>>[ In reference to Warped Warlock's concern
about the oneness of the mage I must say that
although I forgot to mention it, that would indeed
be the case. Have anybody stopped to wonder
why this is the case? I am starting to believe
that there are some implications to this that
might reach far beyond the Kano-White Eagle theory
of magic. Of course that theory never mentioned
anything of any real importance about enchanting at all,
beyond the obvious about power foci et.al.]<<<<<
-- Forge <GMT 13:53:22/23-FEB-55>
Message no. 11
From: Jacamus <CUENOJF@*********.EDU>
Subject: CyberSpur Upgrades
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 10:02:45 GMT-500
>>>>>[Geeze, no imagination whatsoever....

And to all of the mages / shamans / voodoo hoodoos / druids / witches
/ elementals / master chefs / warlocks / ad nauseum that I may have
offended with my simple mortal lack of knowledge of "oneness" and
"kis" - ppppllllttt! It was just a suggestion (albeit a pretty
stupid one I gather).

Waitaminnit, strike mages and warlocks from that list, I'm gonna need
one to save my butt here sometime.

Thanks for the suggestion...]<<<<<
-- Jacamus (10:00:10 / 2-23-55)
Message no. 12
From: "Silly puppy...." <MHILLIARD@******.BITNET>
Subject: Re: CyberSpur Upgrades
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 13:00:47 -0500
>>>>[Kids, this is Shadowland. The technical forum is one node over.
Coyote: No, nothing new on the ICE-bitch. I've been watching AI day and
night, and the only thing that's come out is a coded-burst message to
DOA.]<<<<<
-- Raven <**:**:**/**-**-**>

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