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Kerenshara
QUOTE (Snow_Fox @ Jun 14 2009, 11:57 AM) *
I follow the logic but I htink you're giving the geek too much credit. They would come up with a seduction spell. something like a control emotions to get the girl, but would then give the climax...naturally, not knowing any better.
Maybe the sim exec hears about that and see''s the application and sup's up the sedcution spell to full orgasm.

Hmmmmm.... now I am starting to work more around to yourline of thinking on this, but at a school like that, GETTING the girl isn't necessarily as important as KEEPING the girl, and if there is ANY place to find people with high INT and LOG but miserable BOD and AGi, it's there... maybe a way to help him in that particular department? *mimes arm and hand out straight and rigid, then lets the fingers and hand go limp from the wrist* If she's satisfied...
Snow_Fox
They're not going to think that far ahead. Just getting the girl in the first place will be the goal. "keeping" the wood-be studly's will assume they can get any girl that way once they have the attracvtion, use 'em and lose 'em. If they were really interested in a relatinosahip they wouldn't be using a seduction spell in the first place- it's for casual contact, and if they want casual contact again, they just use the spell that worked for them before, again.
Cabral
QUOTE (Snow_Fox @ Jun 2 2009, 09:40 PM) *
OK guys i am so not looking for crude jokes here. But I was owndering do you think it still exists? I mean you can get all sorts of male and felame enhancemnts. tailored pheromones, etc. Sure you can imagine porno BTL's but looking at the industry today would it survive?

Underworld Sourcebook from 2nd Edition goes fairly indepth into some of the darker aspects of the porn industry (such as bunraku parlors) and it's been elaborated since then. Not in every detail, like what would take the place of the typical T&A Mag, but you can just look at what's become of newspapers in SR.
HardSix
QUOTE (HardSix @ Jun 9 2009, 07:31 PM) *
Even better than P2.0, I expect the next big thing will be reality star full-sim. Take a star, male or female, say a vapid blond(e) from a billionaire family with no real talent except an uncanny knack for staying in the media spotlight. 80% of her fans would follow him/her through P2.0 with the occassional bonus special (part of their monthly fee) full-sim of a couple hours of highlights from his/her "real life." 18% could afford even more access, with full-sim of him/her on interview shows, public appearances, behind the scenes on her latest film set, the occasional exclusive restaurant meal or club outing, and a couple hours a week of his/her personal life. The top 2% of identity junkies could pay for full access, 4-8hrs of full-sim per day, including his/her most intimate experiences, all given only a basic quick same-day editing to crop out anything unpalatable to most fans and then a quick pass to level out the sensory tracks. Bam -- a major cash cow for the studio, and a far less risky gamble than some conventional big-budget 2 hr movie. As depressing as the Sixth World would be, almost everyone would pay for the escape, especially when they would never have the means and access to everything the star would.


QUOTE (Tiger Eyes @ Jun 11 2009, 12:10 AM) *
Hmmmm... gotta see if we can get that one in somewhere... ah, yes. Too bad your name doesn't lend itself to the image of a vapid blonde...


Hey, what's Karl Brackhaven's daughter up to these days? Last I heard (2064), she went Orc-poser and was dating that Orc rockstar. Maybe she got back into daddy's "good" graces (enough to get her hands on some of his cash), got some top-of-the-line LA/Chiba plastic surgery (maybe even partial-Leonization), and then went the reality-sim-starlet-with-orc-rocker-boyfriend route?

Yeah, I know it's a stretch wobble.gif , but I would love it if only because it would really embarrass & p*ss off ol' Pappy Brackhaven. grinbig.gif
Ravor
Hmm, assuming for a moment that my brain isn't playing tricks on me I seem to recall seeing a channel guide for a Sixth World Trid Station that included porn that was clearly meant for very young children.
Resplendent Fire
QUOTE (Ravor @ Jun 30 2009, 04:07 PM) *
Hmm, assuming for a moment that my brain isn't playing tricks on me I seem to recall seeing a channel guide for a Sixth World Trid Station that included porn that was clearly meant for very young children.


That reminds me of Transmetropolitan's sex puppets.
Chrysalis
QUOTE (HardSix @ Jun 17 2009, 11:25 PM) *
Hey, what's Karl Brackhaven's daughter up to these days? Last I heard (2064), she went Orc-poser and was dating that Orc rockstar. Maybe she got back into daddy's "good" graces (enough to get her hands on some of his cash), got some top-of-the-line LA/Chiba plastic surgery (maybe even partial-Leonization), and then went the reality-sim-starlet-with-orc-rocker-boyfriend route?

Yeah, I know it's a stretch wobble.gif , but I would love it if only because it would really embarrass & p*ss off ol' Pappy Brackhaven. grinbig.gif


[cough]Pamela Anderson[/cough]
Wounded Ronin
QUOTE (Chrysalis @ Jul 1 2009, 09:31 AM) *
[cough]Pamela Anderson[/cough]


LOL stretch.
HappyDaze
In my last game, the PCs tracked down a Vory operation that had young 'recruiters' luring in college-aged men and women. These were then drugged out and implanted with Simrigs (typically second-hand) by a Street Doc known to the runners. After a few days of healing, these new simlets were put into all kinds of torturous sexual situations ending with their sim-recorded deaths. The bodies went back to the doc for reclamation of the simrigs and the bodies went to Tamnous. The PCs figured out what was happening and quietly walked away...
Snow_Fox
Properly sick. you said the pc's walked away. What role were they playing in it?
HappyDaze
The PCs were pulled in to help after one of their contacts (a DocWagon paramedic) reported that her teenaged sister and some of her sister's friends had gone missing after attending a party. Eventually, they discovered that the street doc performing the operations for the Vory was a contact of another of the PCs...
Snow_Fox
They just walked?
We'd get the moral outrage going- after all it's pretty bad and either way you're playing off contacts- street doc vs Paramedic. if nothing else drop a dime on the doc and let Lone star 'find' him. Prersonally i think we'd arrange for the doctorto end up in one of the flicks himself.
HappyDaze
The street doc is in quite tight with the Vory and the PCs didn't want to bring that kind of heat down on themselves - especially since the paramedic didn't have too much payment to offer. It was a lose/lose situation, and they figured the safest thing to do was to just tell the paramedic that the missing people were dead.

As for moral outrage... that's just not my group. No hooders here - they're pretty cut-throat mercenary all the way through. They're ruthlessly efficient, and when the effciency starts to lag, they just add another layer of ruthless.

As an example, there was a target that they needed to extract that was unknowingly carrying paydata. The paydata was encoded onto nanites and suspended in a signal-shielding gel that was used as the filling of her breast implants. Rather than getting her to a street doc to extract the info safely, they threw freeze foam into the car she was in (through a window they had taken down) to immobilize her and her bodyguards. Next they used monofilament chainsaws to open the vehicle and cut the foam away until they reached her (by RAW, monofilament chainsaws can eat through just about anything in a few seconds). Then they used the monofilament chainsaws to cut her upper torso away sans head and arms and carried her chest off in a bag!
Wounded Ronin
QUOTE (Snow_Fox @ Jun 14 2009, 07:41 PM) *
If they were really interested in a relatinosahip they wouldn't be using a seduction spell in the first place



I can imagine a situation where someone lacks confidence and plans to use the spell to "get things started".
Ravor
And I'd say HappyDaze wins the thread. cyber.gif
Snow_Fox
QUOTE (Wounded Ronin @ Jul 5 2009, 10:34 AM) *
I can imagine a situation where someone lacks confidence and plans to use the spell to "get things started".

You're a guy and you're a nice guy. We were talknig about dweebs just thinking about getting some, and not worryinmg about a relationship.
Ravor
You know, I'd imagine that various spells that enhance people's love life would have been researched by so many different mages on their own that no-one really knows who did it first or why, and I doubt that even in the jaded Sixth World very many mojo slingers would want to have a record showing they bought the formula.
HappyDaze
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And I'd say HappyDaze wins the thread.

I'd like to thank my twisted sick-fuck players for making it all happen...
Wounded Ronin
QUOTE (Snow_Fox @ Jul 5 2009, 04:44 PM) *
You're a guy and you're a nice guy. We were talknig about dweebs just thinking about getting some, and not worryinmg about a relationship.


That's very sweet of you to say. Thank you.
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