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// Gang Profile :: The Halloweeners //

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The Halloweeners are a vicious gang from Downtown Seattle.  Known for their cruel, psychotic natures, and their absolute hatred for corporate security forces.  Constantly at war with them, they often come under intense fire from their enemies.  The current boss, Nightmare, is a man who loves nothing more than to cut his enemies and to enhance his grisly visage with some well placed Little Chiba Cosmetic Enhancement Surgery™.  The effect is usually well worth the Nuyen.

 

"There's nothing a good blade and a smiling face won't get you in this world." 

// originally posted by Bryce Cook //

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// Tech Update:: Cyberlimbs //

// Tech Update :: Cyberlimbs //

Cyberlimbs are an easy way to get increased attributes for active skills involving dexterity, motor skills, hand coordination, or weapons. A person armed with a Pistols skill of 6 and a cyberlimb with Agility 6 would roll a total of 12 die for the weapons test. In addition, cyberlimbs add additional condition boxes (one extra box per limb), allowing users to absorb more damage before succumbing to shock. Cyberlimbs can be outfitted with a variety of options, ranging from small smuggling compartments to AR tattoos to integrated cyberweaponry. Cyberlimbs can be upgraded beyond the natural limits imposed by the metahuman body, consult page 343 of SR4A to view all the vital statistics. In addition to arms and legs, a patient can recieve partial limbs, or even cyberskulls or cybertorsos.

 

Cyberskulls can provide added protection to vulnerable sections of the face and cranium.

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// Tech Update: BTL Chips //

 

BTL

Stands for 'Better Than Life', a simsense virtual reality chip.

The high of choice for many an idiot lush. BTL technology is ironically one of the fastest developing and growing areas of Simsense technology. The term BTL can refer to any simsense recording where the ASSIST feedback exceeds recognized safety limits. There are many different types of BTL at the bottom end of the market are the so called "California hots" Cal Free has a far higher accepted ASSIST threshold than either CAS or UCAS. making many "Standard" Simsenses originating in Cal Free illegal in other countries. Needless to say California editions of popular Simsense are a common smuggled item. This form of BTL is relatively harmless, comparable to Strong alcohol or Cannabis, in terms of danger and social acceptability. There is also the possibility of low level subliminal conditioning through the ASSIST Feedback. This is why many Extraterritorial Mega corps uses this as the default level for company cinemas and training chips. True BTLS come in three distinctive types: Moodchips, Fantasy Chips and Persona Fix Chips.

• Moodchips work by stimulating specific moods and sensation, typically euphoria and the pleasure centers of the brain.

• Fantasychips work much like a normal simsense, in that they have a "Story" However unlike a normal simsense recording the emotional and sensation feedback has been elevated beyond all safe limits.

• Personafix chips are the most complicated, strangest and potentially most dangerous of all BTLS. They work by overriding the user’s personality and replacing it with an artifcal matrix. You to can be The Blackwood Sniper, Mc Bain, Dracula, Holly Brighton or any other individual you want to be. Like all BTLS they are addictive, more expensive personafix chips come with optically clustered skillsofts, so that the user gains some of the skill of the Persona. These chips lead to all kinds on incidents and extortion rackets as rouge users become convinced that all bystanders are vampires, or that they are a a superfast martial artist who can take down those bad mouthing troll gangers etc. Rumors abound of megacorps and organized crime using long life Personafix chips as a method of slavery. By crafting Personachips with personalities that want to be henchmen, prostitutes, unprotected toxic waste disposal workers etc, they get there victims in a double bind. When the chips running they want to work for them, when its not, all the poor victim wants another chip.

P2.0 Profile: Nukelas Ferrari

// upload P2.0 personality profile :: incompatible device :: commlink disconnect msg Ζζ.G //

// unregistered device //

// buffer reset :: reloading security suite... //

"Hell, I've seen all kinds in my days as a runner. Shell-heads, nightwalkers, corporate suits, full-on tube-grown vatjobs. Hell, I even seen an albino stargazer try to eat his own foot at a hockey game. Whatever gremlin bit that one bit hard and didn't let go!"

// upload Uniformat text file :: user Nukelas Ferrari //

// unregistered user tag //

// upload aborted :: anomaly recorded //