I got through reading Emergence last night, and it mentioned that Technomancers would be required to register, just like mages already were. Already were?! When and where (what book) did that happen? I found nothing on that in the 4e Core Rules or Street Magic. Should I be looking in my 3e collection? If so, where? And are mandatory cell samples also part of that? My current character's a SINner with a double life, so I need to know what countries to watch out for on this (I've given her PCC citizenship - they sell legal SINs to anyone who wants to buy them along with citizenship stock certificates).

BTW - wasn't there a power/technique somewhere in some book(s) where you could spend Karma to sever the links to all existing body samples that existed out there of yourself? Anyone know where that is?

EDIT: Ok, I know the UK and Tir na Og are pissy about that, but North America?

I remember in the Tir na nOg (fuck capitalization anyway) sourcebook they talked about magicians being required to register.
Is it possible that the speaker isn't in the UCAS, but is sort of assuming that the whole world should live by their home country's legal system and standards of right and wrong? 'Cause that never happens on the internet.

edit: saw your edit, my point still stands.

Actually, I had my edit in before I saw your post, but I believe it was a UCAS poster talking about UCAS in the book.

In that case I have no idea.

in the UCAS, as far as i recall, mages have never been required to actually register, but as Mr. Unpronounceable said, you needed a license for any spell over force 3. by contrast, in the UK, all mages have been required to register since the London SB.

my interpretation of that is that technomancers need a license for any complex form over rating 3.

Well, from a quick search from Sprawl Survival Guide:

OK, so it was instead of the metamagic. Like I said, it's been a while since I needed to worry about it.

@JanessaVR

For 4th Edition (no book handy while traveling, sorry) I know there's two metamagics called Flexible Signature and Flux which can mess up a character's connection to a ritual link. They're in either SR4 or Street Magic.

They are in Street Magic -a book that I own but can't find at the moment- I have the fuzzy memory that I lent it to one of my players, but who?

Cheers,

Max the oblivious

Flux is in Street Magic, but Flexible Signature is in the SR4 Core book.

It's like being an organ donor, you want the fact that you're magically capable on your medical records so the EMTs don't decide to just cut off your defective body parts and stick in cyber versions.

Emergence is actually a 3rd edition book, but it was erroneously marked as 4th edition. Most of the references within the book are to 3rd edition books, which really confused me because I never read the 3rd edition stuff. IIRC, the timetable in Emergence is even set before the 4th edition core book. I guess the new company figured they'd make more money by calling it 4th edition instead. <shrug>.