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MY PCs muscle has been skipping sessions due to overtime and its at a point I need to create an NPC muscle to help out. I am toying with the idea of said NPC being a simsense star undercover, looking to record new experiences to feel what it is TRULY like to be a shadowrunner. I'm bouncing around an idea for a simsense star called Anna Kalishnikova (aka. AK) who is a street samurai often filling in for teams that need additional muscle.
After reading Unwired and getting an update on simsense, I was thinking -
Shadowrunners are obviously hot commodities when it comes to sims right? Suki Redflower and the like. Now the hard part of simsense is that the actor has to experience what its like to be a shadowrunner.
So, if that was the case, whats to stop a simsense star being sent undercover as a new addition to a runner crew with cybereyes, ears, commlink, MBW, etc and just having that actor tag along and record everything they say and do? Better yet, what if said star didn't know it? I was thinking what if someone volunteered to have their memories completely re-written to become a jaded, experienced street samurai and infiltrate the shadows, record their experiences and have them sent off to some simsense company for "post-prod" editing/touchups? I am wondering if this actor may or may not even know they are a simsense star.
I mean if the actor knows the runs are staged, that has to effect the emotional output of the sim recording. However, if the actor believes it is real (more importantly, it is real) that would have to heighten the emotional readings to create a truly sensational experience.
Obviously there are many logistical issues -
Fame for said sim actor making anonymity in the shadows night impossible (unless they get major surgery after every job/film release but that's common for especially paranoid runners I presume), compromising runner teams, reprisals against teams that would take on such a person from shadowrun targets, not being able to get sim recordings of other runners or enemies they encounter (footage could be edited post production I guess), etc.
After reading Unwired and getting an update on simsense, I was thinking -
Shadowrunners are obviously hot commodities when it comes to sims right? Suki Redflower and the like. Now the hard part of simsense is that the actor has to experience what its like to be a shadowrunner.
So, if that was the case, whats to stop a simsense star being sent undercover as a new addition to a runner crew with cybereyes, ears, commlink, MBW, etc and just having that actor tag along and record everything they say and do? Better yet, what if said star didn't know it? I was thinking what if someone volunteered to have their memories completely re-written to become a jaded, experienced street samurai and infiltrate the shadows, record their experiences and have them sent off to some simsense company for "post-prod" editing/touchups? I am wondering if this actor may or may not even know they are a simsense star.
I mean if the actor knows the runs are staged, that has to effect the emotional output of the sim recording. However, if the actor believes it is real (more importantly, it is real) that would have to heighten the emotional readings to create a truly sensational experience.
Obviously there are many logistical issues -
Fame for said sim actor making anonymity in the shadows night impossible (unless they get major surgery after every job/film release but that's common for especially paranoid runners I presume), compromising runner teams, reprisals against teams that would take on such a person from shadowrun targets, not being able to get sim recordings of other runners or enemies they encounter (footage could be edited post production I guess), etc.
I guess I'm just putting the idea out there to see if it was viable or find a way to make the story viable, if possible.
- J.