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She had run through the gauntlet of airport security two hours of waiting from Moscow International for a four hour flight to Amsterdam and another two hour customs inspection as they poked, probed and interrogated her and her luggage. But Vera had landed and a first order was getting a new commlink. Friends had recommended that she use a cheap disposable Meta Link while she was in the country. Of course it ended up being woefully ineffective as it could barely get a signal on a rooftop.
Now she was standing with her luggage neatly piled next to her in a large commlink shop, with every type of commlink imaginable. A young and eager salesman with his corporate tie, sales shirt, and smile greeted her across the shop and smoothly guided himself to her.
"How can I help you miss?" He said with a practiced smile that told he had looked her over, decided how much she was willing to spend and that she was a buying customer.
Vera returned the polite smile "I am looking for a commlink."
"We have a wide variety of commlinks, what particular type might interest you?"
"I want a commlink that run rating 6 empathy and lie detector sensor software, able for me to use AR and basic commlink functions."
"Of course, what we have is..."
Now she was standing with her luggage neatly piled next to her in a large commlink shop, with every type of commlink imaginable. A young and eager salesman with his corporate tie, sales shirt, and smile greeted her across the shop and smoothly guided himself to her.
"How can I help you miss?" He said with a practiced smile that told he had looked her over, decided how much she was willing to spend and that she was a buying customer.
Vera returned the polite smile "I am looking for a commlink."
"We have a wide variety of commlinks, what particular type might interest you?"
"I want a commlink that run rating 6 empathy and lie detector sensor software, able for me to use AR and basic commlink functions."
"Of course, what we have is..."
This is the point where my patience ran out. I wanted a small jewellery looking commlink that could be discarded when need be. I want it to be able to run my rating 6 empathy software and lie detection sensor software. I want it to have a decent protection so that not every hacker can read my email or look up and edit my adultfriendfinder profile.
According to what I am reading I pick a commlink with a response rating which is important, but I have no idea what it even means, I then have to pick out an OS for it, then I have to buy software for it so it will be safer.
Simrig module makes no sense. I have to buy a simrig module so I can use Altered Reality (AR), despite in the beginning differentiating between AR and Virtual Reality (VR), which in the VR section specifically mentions the simrig module and then the simrig module text says different.
You mean I can't just use my commlink in AR mode by datajack? It comes with no preset software but I have to buy them all separate?
The skin link accessory is the only thing that makes sense until I realise it has a device rating, what's a device rating and what does it have to do with a commlink?
I mean I have read the chapter not once, but several times and still makes no sense.
All I want is a fancy cellphone with AR that I can throw away, not the ultra customised God's gift to the wireless world.
Please. Help.