Quickening, Retarded. Options

[Badmoodguy88]

Mad Alchemist:good news everbody, I just invented smishon.
Mundane:cool. Is that like a combination of smell and vision?
Mad Alchemist:Exactly! Smell and vision, and touch, and sound, and emotions, and a memory of the past; what you did and where you were and what you touched and what touched you and what you felt and how well you felt. That and how good you might be at casting a fire ball, and also whether or not you are so full of metal that you are barely alive, or so full of metal that you are not alive, in a way.
Mundane: I don't see any of that. It just looks like a photograph to me.
Mad Alchemist: Indeed it is also a photograph.
Mundane: It is not even in color.
Mad Alchemist: It is in color, lots of colors it is just that you can not see them.
Mundane: Well allright... Hey, do you mind if I fax this to my grand mother?
Mad alchemist: I don't see why not.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

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I am just basing things on off what I'd do. If I could take a picture of someone and then his magical defenses become vary penetrable with just masking, I'd sell it to people who'd use it and I'd try to buy similar images. I suspect after a while there would be a fairly complete collection of security mage signatures on file for the criminal community. And for corporations and cops like I said the issue becomes there is virtually 0 investment on there end for the purposes of mass dissemination for if and when they want revenge. Normally the only thing stopping corps is a cost benefit ratio, in this case the only cost is possible loss of future use of the runner. And using the copies as links is expressly stated in the section on the quicksilver camera, so a single photo can royally screw you in the they can track you anywhere, no matter how many identities you burn or cosmetic surgeries you receive they can always find you. Though in the case of copies it is just a symbolic link, so it is harder.

If the copies are physical there is a realistic limit on how wide spread this information can be, which keeps it sane. I also just don't think you can have a digital copy of this due to how assensing works, but it isn't described so who knows.

I do get where you are coming from, don't get me wrong...
And yes, I could see using the Copy as a Symbolic Link to the Caster... after all, it represents them in some fashion (and works a whole lot better than the Hamburger wrapper they use during lunch, in my opinion)... But the thing is, there is absolutely no lack of opportunities to obtain a link to someone (physical or symbolic).. I mean really, it is so easy it is not even funny... so I really do not see the issue here... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif)

But you are right... they do not describe how it works, but they do describe duplication and archiving... I guess they did that so that the tables can structure it the way that they see fit... who knows... I know how I am going to use it, and I know how you are going to use it... and the cool thing is that neither of us are wrong...

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