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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #30 on: January 14, 2006, 12:58:29 PM »
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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #31 on: January 14, 2006, 02:11:30 PM »
So, have all otaku faded in 4th Edition? Or are new ones still being born?

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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #32 on: January 15, 2006, 08:07:13 PM »
I believe the Otaku have turned into Technomancers, they've come a whole lot closer to magicians now.

I wonder what happens when the Enemy discovers the humans creating their own "Astral Space" that they can't reach?
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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #33 on: January 15, 2006, 08:29:41 PM »
Well, since this isn't Earht Dawn, probably nothing. :P

But still, apparently enough people liked the Otaku to get them involved in the major story arcs of the shadowrun universe. Personally, I think the little fraggers should be lumped in with the "immortal elves" and aliens on Mars and thrown in the main microwave blast furnace at Bethlehem Steel.

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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #34 on: January 16, 2006, 02:33:37 AM »
No, but does anyone know official canon? Are otaku still being born?

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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #35 on: January 16, 2006, 03:12:54 PM »
Nope!
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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #36 on: January 17, 2006, 07:59:45 AM »
Actually; the 'technomancers' are people that are otaku-like, in that they can access the grid without the use of a cellphone, and they use their physical stats as their firewall, attack utilities, and the like.

you buy points in resonance just like you would buy points in 'magic', Otaku aren't being 'born', but there were a bunch of them created in the most recent crash, when the trix' wend offline for like a day and a half, and a whole buncha people were 'trapped' online. aparently that ordeal caused them to 'listen' to the matrix, and now there's no more fading or any of that jazz. they are just out there, talking on their cellphones, only without the phones.

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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #37 on: January 17, 2006, 07:53:46 PM »
Ooh- I kinda like the idea of that...

TIme to go read some rulebooks...
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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #38 on: January 18, 2006, 02:10:57 PM »
Hrm... Makes you wonder if you could trap someone in Astral space and see the same results?
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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #39 on: January 18, 2006, 03:20:15 PM »
but the people who were trapped in the matrix didn't have the power to see the matrix without the use of a cyberdeck before.

how are you going to show someone the astral plane and trap them there; without their own ability to see into that realm beforehand?

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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #40 on: January 18, 2006, 08:03:13 PM »
There are a variety of places you can do that:

The Nazca Lines in Peru

The Pueblo Village in PCC

The Valley of Kings in Egypt

There's a lake in Siberia that acts as an Astral gateway too.

Consequently, you can use an Astral gateway and take someone on a trip to a metaplane, imagine to that person's dismay when they find that their body is possessed and the only way to keep on living is to go on another astral quest. You'll find that it is actually impossible to go on those quests without learning something.


Personally, I think everyone is capable of becoming magically active, just some people manifest it in different ways. I've seen a number of people who are so adamant about disbelieving magic, that they've developed a natural Adept-like resistance to magic based on their disbelief of it. Interesting, considering that their resistance is actually just another form of magic.

Also note that some people develop a wellspring, that is, an adept-like ability that makes them a very powerful "natural focus" whereby they manifest into the equivalent of a rating 6+ power focus.

Perhaps you don't realize it yet, with the mana-level it is right now, that you might one day become an Idol-user that follows the ideal of the Pirate or Privateer? You never know...
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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #41 on: January 19, 2006, 12:19:11 AM »
You forgot Dunklezhan's Rift in DC.

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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #42 on: January 19, 2006, 08:25:55 AM »
*shrug* well, I didn't know about thoes places; but I'd imagine that the effect is about the same.

you'd have to be nuts to jump into one of thoes spots just to try to learn a bit of magic.

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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #43 on: January 19, 2006, 12:32:45 PM »
Well, you have to be a little nuts to be magical anyway, since magic defies all normal logic anyhow, right?
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Re:New security Detail.
« Reply #44 on: January 19, 2006, 01:54:53 PM »
and making your brain broadcast waves that can be picked up by a computer 40' away is the pinicle of sanity?

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