[Crimsondude]

This is true.  It's gone down in (absolute) price, though its (relative) cost is still excruciatingly high.  400,000¥ + (6 x 50,000¥) = 700,000¥ total, the latter 300k over three years' time.  Be interesting; Fastjack 74(?), looking and feeling 25 ...

I've always assumed he was the guy celebrating his birthday on page 82 of Augmentation.

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

Oh, hell.  Now we have to figure out who everyone ELSE in that photo is ...

[Xzylvador]

It does seem to fit the timeline.

[Mirikon]

Clue the rest of us in?

[FastJack]

It's a picture of a guy that looks 25 in an office birthday party. It accompanies the section of the book discussing Leonization.

[CanRay]

What, you think 'Jack can't afford a bit of Leonization?

This is true.  It's gone down in (absolute) price, though its (relative) cost is still excruciatingly high.  400,000¥ + (6 x 50,000¥) = 700,000¥ total, the latter 300k over three years' time.  Be interesting; Fastjack 74(?), looking and feeling 25 ...

Doesn't explain why Bull hasn't had the same (Although he's quite younger).  Also, 'Jack complains about his age quite often.

...

Of course, I'm 32 and have done the same damned thing since I was half that.

[Bull]

Well, just because you Leonize doesn't mean you mentally feel any younger.  I've been doing the "Damn kids, I feel old, get off my lawn" bit since I was about 25 myself. 

As for Bull the Ork Decker, well...  He's comfortable in the skin he's got, lets just say.  I can't really see him going that route without a damn good reason. 

Bull

[CanRay]

Well, just because you Leonize doesn't mean you mentally feel any younger.  I've been doing the "Damn kids, I feel old, get off my lawn" bit since I was about 25 myself. 

As for Bull the Ork Decker, well...  He's comfortable in the skin he's got, lets just say.  I can't really see him going that route without a damn good reason. 

Bull

That's only 'cause he Goblinized.  In "real" ork years, he'd be dead. 

[Crimsondude]

Let me rephrase. I've tended to assume FastJack was the guy in the photo, or if not, that he's definitely had work done (I think he could deal with living in a vat for several months). That said, I didn't actually describe FastJack in that opening story of CT for a reason. Well, no one really gets described. That was all intentional.

[ARC]

Yes, if a dragon asks nicely, it is usually a good idea to give him what he wants.

Couldn't that be considered making a deal with a dragon though?

[Sichr]

Well, just because you Leonize doesn't mean you mentally feel any younger.  I've been doing the "Damn kids, I feel old, get off my lawn" bit since I was about 25 myself. 

As for Bull the Ork Decker, well...  He's comfortable in the skin he's got, lets just say.  I can't really see him going that route without a damn good reason. 

Bull

That's only 'cause he Goblinized.  In "real" ork years, he'd be dead. 

So you telling me that the only reason Leonization was invented was to keep "good old" NPCs to reappear for another 150 years, telling us how to deal with the world we are living in...confident that they are able to understand it better? 

[Mirikon]

'Deal' implies some kind of negotiation, and an attempt to get one over on the dragon, or trying to share power with a dragon. The second Treaty of Denver, bringing Lofwyr in as a Prince of Tir Tairngir, and that poor slot Dunkelzhan stripped of his SIN and worldly possessions for a week in his will are prime examples.

[CanRay]

Well, just because you Leonize doesn't mean you mentally feel any younger.  I've been doing the "Damn kids, I feel old, get off my lawn" bit since I was about 25 myself. 

As for Bull the Ork Decker, well...  He's comfortable in the skin he's got, lets just say.  I can't really see him going that route without a damn good reason. 

Bull

That's only 'cause he Goblinized.  In "real" ork years, he'd be dead. 

So you telling me that the only reason Leonization was invented was to keep "good old" NPCs to reappear for another 150 years, telling us how to deal with the world we are living in...confident that they are able to understand it better? 

No, just pulling Bull's datacable about him being "The Best Ork Decker You Never Met Who Was Actually Born Human". 

Thing is, his son was born an ork, right? 

[Longshot23]

The thing about Bull, his datacable might well be mono-edged  . . .

[CanRay]

The thing about Bull, his datacable might well be mono-edged  . . .

He's old enough that it might be dikoted.