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Dumpshock Forums _ Shadowrun _ TM drugs

Posted by: Radical-B Oct 23 2009, 03:09 PM

I know there's drugs that let you astral project, but are there any drugs that can let you "see" the matrix like TM's?

Posted by: Prime Mover Oct 23 2009, 03:15 PM

None that I recall seeing. But theres been a few mentions of drugs that suppress TM abilities.

Edit: Technically you could get an AR or simsense feed from the TM to "tag" along in the matrix. I do know that it is specifically stated that doesn't work when the TM is in a resonance realm,no tagging along for that.

Posted by: AndyZ Oct 26 2009, 10:37 PM

Would make an interesting storyline if you made one up.

Posted by: WyldKnight Oct 26 2009, 10:42 PM

But would it be a drug or some sort of hardware/software combination? Maybe both? The tech feeds the information while the drug modifies your brain to understand it?

Posted by: EvilP Oct 26 2009, 11:21 PM

Awakened drugs can grant magical effects to mundanes, but how do you create a resonance drug? I don't think it would be a chemical.

Perhaps there is a BTL hot sim cooked up by a technomancer sitting at a Tokyo core router that can temporarily let a person see and feel the matrix like a technomancer while the sim runs? Hacking your brain so to speak.

Posted by: Ayeohx Oct 27 2009, 03:37 AM

Nanites baby! Instead of a drug use an injection of nanites that creates temporary pathways in the subjects brain to emulate a TM's capabilities. Seriously though, corporations are still trying to figure out what makes a TM tick; creating drugs and nanites would probably require that to happen first. Course that's a whole 'nother run.

Now, if you wanted to use the nanite injection idea to create a very low level commlink in someone's head I don't see why not. It wouldn't be too far fetched give the tech so far in SR.

Posted by: Udoshi Oct 27 2009, 03:45 AM

A TM with the Simrig complex for from unwired could probably export what he's seeing for his teammates to ride along, so to speak.

Posted by: Xahn Borealis Oct 27 2009, 05:14 PM

I can see some corp trying to copypaste a TM's genes and make it into a genetic infusion like in Augmentation. I can definitely see some idiot trying this and ending up with AIPS or something.

Posted by: Prime Mover Oct 27 2009, 06:05 PM

IRC There is a mention of a corp (several corps) attempting to create TM hitcher jack of some kind.