OOC

[Mr. Handy]

Happy New Year! Of course, it's still 2008 here for almost four more hours.

For my skill chips I'll take a level 1 in the programming language Bio-Basic and the other level 1 in Martial Arts (Tai Chi Chuan).

By the way, Tangerine, I wasn't sure if you were aware that Zombie Apocalypse Chapter 4 is starting soon. The character sheets went up on Saturday, so you might want to choose your characters. There are still a lot left to pick from.

[Tangerine]

I'm back! Sorry for no-postings - there was an internet Cafe at Woodford, but I just couldn't drag myself away from the music and the food (oh gawd, the FOOD)! Plus it cost money, and that would mean I'd miss out on another orgasmic chocolate-filled doughnut or the best damn Thai noodles in the world... Incidentally, Mr Handy, there were three morning workshops on Tai Ch'i Chuan at Woodford- awesome!

Anyway, I'd prefer to grab me a Level 1 Chip in Language (NewJava) (30%) and another for Drive Auto (50%), assuming I can add to the basic 20% for that skill.

[Mr. Handy]

Welcome back! You made the right call spending your money on the food!

Kabukiman said that you can't add to the base skill. The chip would give you 30% instead of whatever the base skill is, so that would only give you Drive Auto at 30% instead of 20%. You should probably pick a different one in that case. You can get 50% in a single skill if you get the level 1 and 2 chips for it.

I've never learned Tai Chi Chuan myself. I first heard about it in an interactive gamebook in the 1980's, the first one in the Sniper! series published by TSR. The character you play uses it to good effect, and not just in combat. He also engages in a sort of verbal form of it to manipulate other people.

[Tangerine]

Ah whoops - I read that as it wouldn't accumulate on points added (only). Coolio - if that's the case, I'll swap Auto for Good old Bargain.

[kabukiman]

"Secondly, Patrick has a sort of all-phone (and a net link, which strikes me as slightly redundant). I assumed everyone would have something like that, or else the game wouldn't really be Cyberpunk. So what I'm really saying is...shouldn't I have one?"
Actually, no. The all-phone is a small device that can be used as Tv/radio, etc (you can have on of those if you want); the net link is incorporated in his own body, so he may emerge in the Net in a faster way, in any place he wants (and not forced to seek a lace with a modem). Not everyone accepts to have lot's of wired and plugs in it's body. When a person who doesn't have those devices, want's to enter in the net (and not just seeying like we do in our time from a screen), it uses a kind of helmet, that is very slow (speed -4), but since all they want is see legal information, the speed is not vital; for a true runner, it would be suicide.
About the different visions, well, I think it's very realistic of having characters who have such different perspectives.
Mr Handy is correct about the skills.
And my first day of the year was spent in bed with stomach problems (I eated Indian food and then payed the price...).

[Tangerine]

Is that helmet a tin-foil one, by any chance?


"Ug access 'net now." - puts on foil helmet.

Waits.

"Aaaany moment now..."

[Tangerine]

Is Channel 54 just an info-related topic, or a place to start? I'm guessing a living-room type scene if it's the beginning.

[kabukiman]

It's just a info-related topic. It will give you a feeling of the universe, and ocasionally some useful information (to understand that there is a real universe outside and not a void).

[Tangerine]

Wait - what?

[zielonobrody]

hey kabukiman! I can see your English has greatly improved in the last few months since we finished LA Skinner. Good job on that! Sorry to barge in on your game good luck guys'n'gals

[kabukiman]

"Wait - what? "
Well, in real world you heard news about what happens in politics, sports, so I have decide to imitate that.

Thanks! Nothing that a good dictionary doesn't help. And feel free to lurk, it's good to have audience.

[Tangerine]

I'm not sure what equipment I've got - or what genre-specific gear a techie would have. I should probably organise that with you, Kabukiman, before I find I forgot to bring a gun (or my pants!)

[kabukiman]

I have already included the material in you sheet. 1 Pistol, night googles, and the cyber-equipement

[welsh]

I always thought pandora's box was a sexual reference.

I mean I know the mythological story, but... really... its about sex right?

[kabukiman]

You can see with different perspectives. There are lot's of books about the subject (loss of paradise like with the story of the fruit in Genesis, the guilty of women, a mysogenist story from homossexuals/machos, etc, etc), but the ancient greeks were probably thinking in something more simple. Well, if you get a girlfriend/wife/any serious relationship, you lose a lot of good things in life. But you earn safe and regular sex. Thats the problems of alegoria, you can use to whateaver you want.

[Mi-Go Agent]

Pandora's Box has always had nuclear connotations to me, not to mention the obvious Mythos relevance (Don't open the box of horrors! But the horrors also hold hope...)

[kabukiman]

See? That's the beauty of greek mythology, it can be use to anything.

[Tangerine]

Including a functional sandwich maker!

[kabukiman]

This weekend I'm in a small trip with my family and should only return monday.

[kabukiman]

What do you think of the campaign for now? To slow/fast, thrilling/boring?