blech, Dragon-Trodes™ work just fine (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

If you're planning to be a for-reals, serious hacker, none of that shit need apply. You have to get your ass cybered, that's just that. Even if it's just a datajack, implanted commlink and some visual/audio mods, you have to.


Well, unless you're a technomancer, but (for now at least, thank god,) there's no such thing as an Emergent Dragon.

No, just an e-ghost one (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

Poor Eliohan. Damn the Crash 2.0... Frankly, I would've thought if anyone had the physical and mental stats to survive the dumpshock to end all dumpshocks, it would've been a Dragon.

Poor Eliohan. Damn the Crash 2.0... Frankly, I would've thought if anyone had the physical and mental stats to survive the dumpshock to end all dumpshocks, it would've been a Dragon.

Oh, definitely.


But eating dumpshock is a hell of a lot better than eating Black Hammer, especially if you're a dragon with the condition monitor boxes and the stats to say "pffft" to the dumpshock.

And it probably beats being turned into a ghost in the machine; if you go astral, you can go and find an ally, or a friend, and ask them to avenge you, even if your body got toasted. If you happen to be a dragon, I'm sure pretty much any Dragon (or even Great Dragon) would be receptive to your warning that something out there is killing Dragons, and probably be willing to throw some resources into avenging you. And, at Astral speeds, anyone you can name is within range of your final warning.

Ah, yes as a way of keeping alive for a few hours to get revenge I think it's quite valid.

If you just project and let your body stay hooked up, your icon will keep getting pummeled though.

Even without doing anything fancy you're still left with making a judgement call on how long such links last too. Once something decomposes/dries out or has been chemically preserved it ceases being applicable as a material link, although the time it takes for that to happen is anyone's guess, particularly considering that they included hair as a tissue sample, and keratin is so stable that the poultry industry is often looking for cheaper ways to dispose of all those pesky feathers. So, at my table the way I handle links is that you need reasonably fresh blood for it to be material link. A fleshy bit is fine but toe nails, teeth or hair are not, although such objects make such top-notch sympathetic links that you can perform ritual magic through them without any penalty as opposed to having the -2 dice penalty or more with other objects. So it's still a dangerous practice to leave your toe nails lying around, but at least people'd have to realize whose nails they are AND get them to a magician with the right metamagic.

And it probably beats being turned into a ghost in the machine; if you go astral, you can go and find an ally, or a friend, and ask them to avenge you, even if your body got toasted. If you happen to be a dragon, I'm sure pretty much any Dragon (or even Great Dragon) would be receptive to your warning that something out there is killing Dragons, and probably be willing to throw some resources into avenging you. And, at Astral speeds, anyone you can name is within range of your final warning.

Don't forget that if you're Initiated your Astral Timer stops when you go to the Metaplanes. And you can summon spirits to take messages to the Physical Plane for you.

No, he grabbed his body back a-la Sahloknir. And Dunkie is still hanging out in the Astral because everyone knows only a dovahkiin can properly kill dragons.