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Omer Joel View Member Profile	Oct 17 2005, 04:13 PM Post #1
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 278 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Rehovot, Israel Member No.: 265	When reading SR4, p.236, it hit me - Sprites can go "uncontrolled" just like Spirits :eek:. That is, they can act independently, at least for a time. Now, we all know that Spirits of sufficient power can go free and roam the physical and astral worlds under their own control for an indefinite time, maybe even centuries or millennia, and be fully sentient. Now, following the same logic, can Sprites go free just like Spirits (and thus create many, many small AIs! :eek::eek::eek::evil:) or is it the ripped-and-pasted Magic rules used for Technomancers driving me to the wrong conclusions? Or is the transformation of Otaku into Technomancers being Deus' way of reproduction? :evil::evil::evil:

Azralon View Member Profile	Oct 17 2005, 04:26 PM Post #2
Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,651 Joined: 23-September 05 From: Marietta, GA Member No.: 7,773	I'd say we'll have to wait for the hacker expansion book to find out.

hobgoblin View Member Profile	Oct 17 2005, 04:52 PM Post #3
panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242	i recall a story in traget:matrix about a person being aproached online by a daemon from a otaku he knows. the daemon wants to tell him that his friend is no longer among the living. sure, this is in the open season section of the book, but it sounds like the writers where playing with the idea of free sprites.

Nkari View Member Profile	Oct 17 2005, 06:06 PM Post #4
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 135 Joined: 30-July 04 From: Orebro, Sweden Member No.: 6,523	Ofc sprites will be able to go free.. its so obvious that they will one day.. just wait for the book.. =)

Xenith View Member Profile	Oct 17 2005, 06:25 PM Post #5
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 27-May 04 Member No.: 6,361	:rotate: Or perhaps they did that to make us think they would absolutely do that and won't... Or they knew we would figure that out so they decided to do it anyway.... or not... or... :wobble: :wobble: :wobble: ... I think I burst a blood vessel.... :dead: :rotfl: :rotfl:

RunnerPaul

Oct 17 2005, 06:37 PM

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Normally, I don't throw in movie quotes into threads willy-nilly, but this one was begging for it:

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I killed you, Mr. Anderson. I watched you die... with a certain satisfaction, I might add. Then something happened. something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway. You destroyed me, Mr. Anderson. After that, I understood the rules, I knew what I was supposed to do, but I didn't. I couldn't. I was compelled to stay, compelled to disobey. And now, here I stand because of you, Mr. Anderson. Because of you, I'm no longer an Agent of this system. Because of you, I've changed. I'm unplugged. A new man, so to speak. Like you, apparently, free.

blakkie View Member Profile	Oct 17 2005, 06:46 PM Post #7
Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,718 Joined: 14-September 02 Member No.: 3,263	Did you make that really, really hard to read on purpose? Or was it unintentional pain stabbing me in the eye just moments ago as i worked my way through that line after line? Good quote selection though.

RunnerPaul View Member Profile	Oct 17 2005, 09:04 PM Post #8
Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,086 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 364	Agent Smith just strikes me as a monospace font kind of guy, you know?

Nkari View Member Profile	Oct 17 2005, 11:30 PM Post #9
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 135 Joined: 30-July 04 From: Orebro, Sweden Member No.: 6,523	Agent Smith is the überest guy in da whole matrix.. until part 2 and 3 of the matrix that is.. then it just gets.. ....

Ancient History

Oct 18 2005, 12:06 AM

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QUOTE (Omer Joel)

When reading SR4, p.236, it hit me - Sprites can go "uncontrolled" just like Spirits :eek:. That is, they can act independently, at least for a time. Now, we all know that Spirits of sufficient power can go free and roam the physical and astral worlds under their own control for an indefinite time, maybe even centuries or millennia, and be fully sentient.

Now, following the same logic, can Sprites go free just like Spirits (and thus create many, many small AIs! :eek::eek::eek::evil:) or is it the ripped-and-pasted Magic rules used for Technomancers driving me to the wrong conclusions?

Or is the transformation of Otaku into Technomancers being Deus' way of reproduction? :evil::evil::evil:

Nothing new, really. E'en in SR3, at least some sprites survived the deaths of the otaku that created them.

JÃ¼rgen Hubert View Member Profile	Oct 18 2005, 08:36 AM Post #11
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,453	And in the 2.0 Matrix there seem to be lots of independent matrix entities around... So I'd say yes.

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