 Technomancers and AI, Home Node in the Brain Node |
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 Aug 11 2009, 01:12 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 317 Joined: 7-June 09 From: Scotland Member No.: 17,249  |
Say I have a Technomancer. That Technomancer, for all purposes has a Node in their head. Is there anything stopping a DI PC making his Home Node within the Technomancers Brain Node? I cannot find anything in the RAW that suggets they cannot. I am aware a GM Fiat might say no, and I don't really intend to ever try it but I am curious on peoples thoughts.
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Aug 11 2009, 01:14 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 745 Joined: 13-April 07 From: Houston, Texas Member No.: 11,448 |
QUOTE (CodeBreaker @ Aug 10 2009, 08:12 PM)  Say I have a Technomancer. That Technomancer, for all purposes has a Node in their head. Is there anything stopping a DI PC making his Home Node within the Technomancers Brain Node? I cannot find anything in the RAW that suggets they cannot. I am aware a GM Fiat might say no, and I don't really intend to ever try it but I am curious on peoples thoughts. Only other technomancers can access their Brain-Node. |
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Aug 11 2009, 01:18 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 317 Joined: 7-June 09 From: Scotland Member No.: 17,249 |
QUOTE (Starmage21 @ Aug 11 2009, 02:14 AM) Only other technomancers can access their Brain-Node. Is that ever declared? I know it is shown that normal Hackers cannot Hack into the Bio-Node, but is it stated that the Technomancer cannot let them in? |
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Aug 11 2009, 01:46 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 209 Joined: 7-June 09 Member No.: 17,251 |
QUOTE (CodeBreaker @ Aug 10 2009, 05:18 PM) Is that ever declared? I know it is shown that normal Hackers cannot Hack into the Bio-Node, but is it stated that the Technomancer cannot let them in? QUOTE Unwired, p. 135 While the biological node is impenetrable to hackers, it is vulnerable to technomancers and sprites, who are “on the same wavelength,” wirelessly speaking. That's all Unwired says on the subject. |
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Aug 11 2009, 04:14 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 16-June 09 Member No.: 17,282 |
I think it might be a problem that the biological node has no capacity to store data, since data is all an AI is. I reckon an AI could visit, but how would it live there?
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Aug 11 2009, 05:35 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,290 Joined: 23-January 07 From: Seattle, USA Member No.: 10,749 |
I've taken what it says in Unwired about the brain node to mean only resonance beings can hack into a techno, and since AI's have no resonance...
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Aug 11 2009, 06:20 AM
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Runner Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,946 Joined: 1-June 09 From: Omaha Member No.: 17,234 |
AI's for all their mystery are creatures of bits and bites, Technomancers and Sprites are creatures of "mag....resonance" the two are not compatible.
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Aug 12 2009, 03:34 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,542 Joined: 30-September 08 From: D/FW Megaplex Member No.: 16,387 |
QUOTE (Unwired, page 135; The Biological PAN) Unlike peripherals, standard nodes, and nexi (Nodes, p. 55), biological nodes are not "places of the Matrix" with adresses and access ID numbers, and can neither run programs nor store data. Emphasis added.AIs are either programs (due to the fact that they were once Pilot/Agent Programs), a lot of data (since they have to realign and make a home node), or a combination of the two. |
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Aug 12 2009, 04:10 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 317 Joined: 7-June 09 From: Scotland Member No.: 17,249 |
CodeBreaker should stop posting when it is so early in the morning for him. Even I can see that that was a silly suggestion in the light of day (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
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Aug 12 2009, 05:13 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,542 Joined: 30-September 08 From: D/FW Megaplex Member No.: 16,387 |
QUOTE (CodeBreaker @ Aug 12 2009, 10:10 AM) CodeBreaker should stop posting when it is so early in the morning for him. Even I can see that that was a silly suggestion in the light of day (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) Of course, you could tailor a Free Sprite after an AI, have it make it's Resonance Node in a Elven Technomancer's Brain-PAN (bu-dum bum) a-la Posession, and use that super-character as a BBEG for a runner's group... That warrants some looking in to. And just to have fun, make it a Dissonance TM/Sprite. Because we all know that GMs are allowed to bend/pretzel/break rules whenever they want. |
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Aug 13 2009, 07:23 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,290 Joined: 23-January 07 From: Seattle, USA Member No.: 10,749 |
QUOTE (Neraph @ Aug 12 2009, 01:13 PM) Of course, you could tailor a Free Sprite after an AI, have it make it's Resonance Node in a Elven Technomancer's Brain-PAN (bu-dum bum) a-la Posession, and use that super-character as a BBEG for a runner's group... That warrants some looking in to. And just to have fun, make it a Dissonance TM/Sprite. Because we all know that GMs are allowed to bend/pretzel/break rules whenever they want. Yup, I've done a spellcasting AI once as an NPC. |
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Aug 13 2009, 02:44 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,542 Joined: 30-September 08 From: D/FW Megaplex Member No.: 16,387 |
QUOTE (TheOOB @ Aug 13 2009, 01:23 AM) Yup, I've done a spellcasting AI once as an NPC. Since when coul Technomancers cast spells? EDIT: Oh, the "Because we all know that GMs are allowed to bend/pretzel/break rules whenever they want." part. Got it. |
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