 Adepts and Cyber, gee, I wonder |
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  Sep 10 2003, 01:33 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 107 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 75  |
OK, stupid questions time. An adept goes out and has ultrasound sight and an internal GPS installed. He has the enhanced sense of spatial recognition and high-frequency hearing. Does this lower the essence cost of ultrasound? Normally these cybernetic items would be routed to each other; how do I make them work together now, since the enhanced senses are magical in nature (and hence, there's nothing to connect the cyber to)?
Also, an adept get a pair of cyber eyes with optical magnification and a cybercamera and later on opts for the enhanced sense of thermographic vision. Will that vision show up as magical or cybernetic? Can he even opt to have that enhanced sense? |
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Sep 10 2003, 02:27 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 15-April 03 From: My own personal purgatory Member No.: 4,453 |
My opinions:
No, since the ultrasound system is designed to be compatible with a certain piece of cyberware, not with a magical feature of his natural ears.
You can't.
Yes, he can have it; it's a magical power and will "show up" as such. I would rule that he can't take thermographic images with the camera, though, and if he had electronic rather than optical magnification, he couldn't use the magnification with the thermovision. |
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Sep 10 2003, 02:32 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 596 Joined: 18-February 03 Member No.: 4,112 |
To answer your first question, no, you wouldn't be able to link the two together.
To answer your last question, no, he wouldn't be able to use the adept power of thermographic vision if he were to replace his normal eyes. Just like meta-races can't use their special vision when they remove their meat eyes. |
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Sep 10 2003, 03:47 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,685 Joined: 17-August 02 Member No.: 3,123 |
Are your adepts allowed to use killing hands with cyberarms? Or mystic armor with dermal sheathing? Or traceless walk with cyberlegs? |
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Sep 10 2003, 03:59 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
I'd say no on the reduced essence cost because it's that some items needed by one system are already installed as part of the other system and thus need not be added. Kinda like leaving an eye display out of a Smartlink because you've already got an Image Link.
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Sep 10 2003, 06:07 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,222 Joined: 11-October 02 From: Netherlands and Belgium Member No.: 3,437 |
No, on the mixing Magic Ultrasound to HF Hearing (Why not just get the Adept power of Enhanced Sense : Ultrasound?
Yes on the having Thermographic with Cybereyes. You paid Essence for those eyes and can use Adept powers with them. Unlike racial vision, which are based on physical properties that are physically removed, Adept Power is a Magical property. Sphynx |
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