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[SR5] Question about matrix actions

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« Reply #15 on: <08-22-13/0504:59> »
yeah....
as long as you are link locked then you can't go AR and you cant use a graceful log out. or exit host. or reboot your cyberdeck. only option is to pull the plug (by you or someone else - if you want to do it yourself you need to do a jack out action)

So...  What's a technomancer to do?
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« Reply #16 on: <08-22-13/0525:07> »
Die. Alone. In the rain.
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« Reply #17 on: <08-22-13/0535:48> »
Technomancers can use all matrix actions that a decker can use
(plus their techno magic resonance mumbo jumbo).

so...
A technomancer would use the normal jack out action
(like most deckers would use as well).

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« Reply #18 on: <08-22-13/0537:45> »
Die. Alone. In the rain.

I am so quoting you during a game next Sunday.  :)
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« Reply #19 on: <08-22-13/0544:06> »
Technomancers can use all matrix actions that a decker can use
(plus their techno magic resonance mumbo jumbo).

so...
A technomancer would use the normal jack out action
(like most deckers would use as well).

My point was more that, as they have no plug to pull, there are two possibilities:

1) The action does not have to be the physical pulling of a plug
2) Technomancers do not have access to it
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« Reply #20 on: <08-22-13/0545:08> »
Die. Alone. In the rain.

I am so quoting you during a game next Sunday.  :)
Make sure to credit a fictional version of Hemingway who said that's why the chicken crossed the road.
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« Reply #21 on: <08-22-13/0550:40> »
Technomancers can use all matrix actions that a decker can use
(plus their techno magic resonance mumbo jumbo).

so...
A technomancer would use the normal jack out action
(like most deckers would use as well).

My point was more that, as they have no plug to pull, there are two possibilities:

1) The action does not have to be the physical pulling of a plug
2) Technomancers do not have access to it

I guess we could return to the SR4 fluff of mentally severing their connection to the Matrix.
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« Reply #22 on: <08-22-13/0711:27> »
Ah. Yes.  Deckers don't "pull the plug" on a cyberdeck either since in SR5 you hack wireless....

Jack out is rebooting your living persona.

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« Reply #23 on: <08-22-13/1054:10> »
Would putting a headjammer with higher rating than the Technomancer's Resonance on the Technomancer's head work? :p

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« Reply #24 on: <08-22-13/1116:00> »
haha. someone is being creative today :D

i was thinking if knocking him unconscious would cause his persona to reboot, but no. Technomancers can be online in their sleep it seems (and link-locking does not let you go just because you went unconscious and no longer can jack out while the black IC fry your brain).

Lights out.

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« Reply #25 on: <08-22-13/1640:33> »
haha. someone is being creative today :D

i was thinking if knocking him unconscious would cause his persona to reboot, but no. Technomancers can be online in their sleep it seems (and link-locking does not let you go just because you went unconscious and no longer can jack out while the black IC fry your brain).

Lights out.

Well, that would be a change - in SR4, becoming unconscious causes the bionode to go offline.
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« Reply #26 on: <08-22-13/1734:47> »
Use a headjammer wired to a biomonitor. Maybe also a medkit / trauma patch?

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« Reply #27 on: <08-22-13/2302:45> »
haha. someone is being creative today :D

i was thinking if knocking him unconscious would cause his persona to reboot, but no. Technomancers can be online in their sleep it seems (and link-locking does not let you go just because you went unconscious and no longer can jack out while the black IC fry your brain).

Lights out.

Well, that would be a change - in SR4, becoming unconscious causes the bionode to go offline.

Actually, in one place a technomancer's node went offline when becoming unconscious, and in another place it didn't. It was kinda weird.

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« Reply #28 on: <08-22-13/2323:03> »
So...  What's a technomancer to do?

Portable faraday cage...

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« Reply #29 on: <08-23-13/0141:20> »
If you don't want the device to be wireless.go wireless OFF. Easier than a portable cage I think