Yeah, a few years back, we were making a few threads like "Fifty Fixers" and "Fifty Deckers", creating personas for NPCs that you could run into, making a nice archive for people. One of mine was a fellow known as Mr Fuchi. Mr FUchi was a decent decker but, as can be expected, he specialized in Fuchi designs. Trying to go deeper than ever before, he ran into what was, at the time, a new breed of psycotropic IC that rewrote his brain to be a loyal customer and an addiction to Fuchi products. The damage cost him a step, of course, and he became more of a data merchant than a decker at that stage, but when Fuchi collapsed, things got interesting.
He couldn't scratch that itch.
The consumer protocols were etched into his brain. He *had* to get more Fuchi stuff.
But the company didn't exist.
So, over time, he's gotten somewhat feral, his brain tearing itself up as he obsessively quests for the fewer and fewer Fuchi tidbits out there, trying to hoard a collection. *Nobody* knows Fuchi stuff like he does now, and if you discover an old server or data archive, he can thread through it with unequaled ease, but every day that passes is one more day that he needs his Fuchi fix. He'll work for lunch boxes, tie clips, tickets from an old Fuchi corporate retreat ... anything.
He's a great example of the risks from going in, but he's also an amazing resource in the right area.
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I'm terribly off topic, aren't I?
