Well, it goes against the description (as I read it) of the piece of bioawre, but it's an interesting theory. Though, I'm not sure how they re-wire your body to produce each of these specially designed pheromones at just the right moment.

I would assume the same way your body produces them. They just wire it to receive the same range of physiological clues to identify rage, pleasure, arousal, annoyance, distaste, etc. and release the appropriate pheremonal mix.
When I get home I'm going to check the description in M&M, but I don't remember it seeming to work some other way.

~J

Not to mention that laser surgery has drawbacks, including the fact that it almost certainly destroys your night vision? Do your research, people.

Also, Siege, I thought you meant you had really emotionally expressive eyes, for a moment. Which I thought was kind of sweet, but alas.

From what I've read and from reports of several people I know who've undergone it, halos at night and extreme difficulty seeing anything at dawn or dusk are not uncommon problems, thought most patients with these problems would say it was worth it not to have to wear glasses anymore. Yes, it varies; some people make it out with completely destroyed night vision, and others with no problems at all. And yes, I overstated; was 5am after a bad night. The fact remains that there are fairly significant dangers, and you should not jump quickly into something like this without being aware of the risks.

My dad went through it and couldn't drive at night for three months. He didn't feel comfortable driving still for another six months after that. I haven't asked him if he's felt like he's totally gotten his night vision back since then, but he doesn't seem to be suffering for it. That said, he got his operation done in Venezuela about 8 years ago.

Siege, you don't have to worry so much about your eyes getting burned out because you move. From what I understand, you're allowed to blink and look around. The laser is faster than you are, and it adjusts itself when you're moving. I also suspect that the older techniques may have had a higher chance of causing unwanted consequences (see the paragraph above). But the technology has been out for about a decade now and it's pretty well tested. You might want to consider just getting one eye done, and that way if the laser messes up and leaves you with a gaping socket, or cuts off an ear or something, you can still use the other one : )

Also, you can't go wrong with a story about losing the eye in a knife fight with a peg legged bandit in the hills of the Sierra Madre.

It wasn't until a few weeks ago that I realized that was Vin Diesel.

Man he's cool.

Actually, it hasn't happened _yet_.

Although they have had several static-charge fires at gas pumps in the States so it exists in the realm of technical possibility.

Just being difficult this morning.

-Siege

This tailored pheremones bit reminds me of a problem I had with nanoware. I can install a nanite hive to keep my nanite levels up indefinitely, but there are no stats for buying a hive to plug into my wall and leave on my desk for periodic refills. Not to mention how freaking profitable it'd be to sell the excess to other people.


Now, I do understand the difficulties of installing free-floating systems, but those difficulties should be easily overcome with the right equipment and expertise.

Introducing nanites was just a bad idea, in my opinion.

That bit of tech requires a lot more guidelines to limit creative thinkers on how they can create, alter and deploy these things.

Zaz just hit the tip of the iceberg.

-Siege

Not really. There are a lot of technical reasons why what Zazen suggested might be unfeasible. Nanoware is a fairly young science in Shadowrun, and as such the amount of good reasons why stuff shouldn't work vastly outweighs the reasons things should.

~J

If you can get a nano hive facility working in your body, having an external model should be pretty simple in comparison.

-Siege

Not necessarily. The cyberware to keep track of nanite levels and ensure that everything gets distributed properly and to provide a proper method of input might be just as invasive as the hive itself. Not that it won't be possible, just that it won't be done because there's little point.
As for selling the excess... also impractical, as the things will be designed to prevent that. Actually, that may be a reason for the lack of availability of an external hive.

~J

Free-floating systems don't need any kind of nano-related cyberware at all. You just inject, take a nap, and you're good to go. The other stuff is gravy.

They might be designed to prevent this kind of use, but that happens all the time in Shadowrun. How long is it until someone makes their electronics/nanotech B/R test? It's certainly worth the effort. It'd keep you rolling in nuyen for a very long time.

If it's a near-magical cure-all, I'd say ungodly expensive because of the overall benefit.

And I just find the idea of casual-use nanites to be just frightening.

-Siege