[JimJungle]

what if you have a cyber skull and torso? couldnt that make it able to reroute the connection to another port?

[beowulf_of_wa]

temple, behind ears, base of the skull, down the spine and within larger more obvious cyber ( assuming the char has some headware) have been common in my games.

[CanRay]

Wasn't there a datajack that was built into a cybereye?

[FastJack]

Wasn't there a datajack that was built into a cybereye?

Yes, yes there was.

[CanRay]

Good, thought I was having an old man moment the...

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

[Mäx]

They have to be near the major nervous system, IIRC.

I don't know about that, considering that you can get one into your cyber leg or hand, can't see why that would n'twork for a natural arm or leg.

[beowulf_of_wa]

that more falls under a "same essence, alpha cost" custom location sort of thing.

[Lacynth40]

And really, with some of the gamers I know, you do not want them to have custom locations for where they want to "interface" with the computer....

[beowulf_of_wa]

i think i know that guy,,, grrr he gets around.

[JoeNapalm]

And really, with some of the gamers I know, you do not want them to have custom locations for where they want to "interface" with the computer....

Yeah, just wait until the first time they run into some Black IC...

...they'll rethink that.


-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist

[CanRay]

Practice safe Matrix Interfacing!

[Stahlseele]

Yeah, put a condom over your plug.

[CanRay]

Funny story, if I can go off topic...  (Yeah, like that never happens here!).

Back in the day, there used to be things called "Floppy Disks".  They were 3½-inch in size (or 5¼-inch for the older model), and came with a nice plastic dust cover.  We got our shiny new floppy disks on the first day I was in High School and it was supposed to hold all the data for our projects for the semester (1.44 Megabytes!).  But we had to format them.  So, a group at a time, we went to the old Apple Mac Classic-II computers, and did just that.

About halfway through the class, we all smell smoke and everyone goes silent, and we can hear crackling.  One of the girls in the class was staring in horror at an error message (Which had a *BOMB* on it!).  After a lot of work (And a paperclip) the teacher finally got the disk out, and found the dust cover melted to it, and it peeling out of the integrated disk drive (Yes, the whole computer had to be sent in to be repaired!).

Her only explanation:  "I thought it was a condom for the disk, to keep it from getting viruses."

[CanRay]

Back on topic:  With the proliferation of Commlinks, people like the girl in my story are now online in Shadowrun.

It's no wonder Bull and FastJack are getting crankier by the nanoclick.

[Weldûn]

My feeling is that datajacks have one large advantage over a trode-net or non-wireless nano-paste trodes. When you're hacking in full VR and your meat get's jostled, the connection is a lot less likely to sever. Basically, it's not just more electronically secure than a wireless connection, it's also more secure, physically. It's the basic problem with using an induction signal instead of a direct shunt. Yeah, the nano-paste might reconnect you in a second or two, if the connector doesn't come loose, but that dumpshock's still going to hurt like a mother-f-----.