R. K. Milholland's Something Positive, unlike other webcomics, actually contains references to Shadowrun. Whether this is a tribute to his geekiness or intelligence, I leave up to you. In particular, his current storyline (while not being exactly Shadowrun) bears merit by poking fun at a few time-honored gripings we known and love/loathe.

Anywho, I thought it worth pointing out to those of you who've never read Something Positive (both of you), mainly because I've almost never run across any other reference to Shadowrun in a webcomic.

Now we see why you are limited with essence in how much cyberware you can take.

hehehehe.

The sad thing is I've had players ask if they could have something like that before.....

Who remembers the Mr. Studd implant?

Wow, a mumified corpse still jacked into the system? That's hilarious. I guess the janitor never gets down there.

Smiley: The Mr. Studd™ implant is in R. Talsorian's Cyberpunk 2020 game.

And considering that I think S*P's current story thread takes place in Cyberpunk, not Shadowrun...it's appropriate. Using the terms "nethacking" kinda gives that impression.

I still die with laughter over the Redneck tree tho - and I have the Munchkin Redneck Tree card. *evil laugh*

DOn't be a pill. He's done SR before, and many of the subjects brought up are relevant.

I read that comic every day .

AH: but there're conversion tables for CP2020 gear on Plastic Warriors, IIRC. So he *could* if he clears that with his GM.

Anyway, "it's kinda like people buying really expensive trash cans for protecting their garbage" mad my day.

RKM definitely has an acid wit. And he's brief!

He has done Shadowrun LARP comics (aka Redneck Tree Series), and I think one reference to the PnP game in passing.

I practically got fired for reading that comic at work.

Oh I'm not saying that the plot line isn't relevant! Shadowrun is a cyberpunk genre, after all. Just being nitpicky. I'm well aware of the SR LARP game (hence the mention of the recurring Redneck Tree) and it strikes me that RKM knows the various gaming systems well enough to use the correct jargon for the game he is depicting.

Heh...I can hardly wait for tonights!

Heh, heh, heh. You bleed all sexy.

Sweet Jesus!!!!

I believe it was actually "Sweet Nipples of Christ".

Why? How do you know Jesus' nipples aren't sweet? He's in heaven now, and it occurs to me that just about everything is sweet in heaven.

Mm. Sacrilicious.

Mmmmmm. Heavenly sweet.

Thats not God. Thats just a waffle that Bart tossed up there.

Okay, okay, enough of this tomfoolery. You in your corner and you in your corner. Just chill.

'cause if you don't, they'll shut the thread down.

That reminds me - with the newest comic - is it possible to do that in SR? Create cybered versions of zombies without magic (cybermancy OR voodoo) where the technology takes over the body?

I know doing the personafix + data shunt can cause the body to be controlled by a chip, but can that be done via virus? And why hasn't Deus done this yet?

Well if it was a virus, the virus really wouldn't be caring if the body was "viable"...and wouldn't that add to the whole horror aspect? Heck...if the personality is still screaming in the background as more and more injuries are done to it...And shooting it in the heart doesn't stop it....just causes it to go gray and falter, then keep going.

Evil, evil concept. I can see a run where a certain shadow clinic which has a doc that either is experimenting or is a data shunted zombie already is doing surgery for 1/2 the cost...and adds in a data shunt to whoever gets surgery from him.

Then at a certain time the virus activates... And one member of the group (pick one that had surgery recently and is gone from the group that day) turns zombie, so the group had to track down what happened...and undo the damage.

As long as the creator is willing to re-make them every few weeks, could you not use the skeleton of a corpse as the frame of a anthro drone? The drone parts would be inside the body.

There was an issue of the old DC comic Suicide Squad (very good, by the way, I recommend trawling old comics boxes for it) which had a villain whose shtick was mind control via a chip. The chip was basically slapped onto the neck over the spinal column (I think it had induction needles) and robbed the victim of independent will, allowing the villain to make them do what he wanted. It also boosted the adrenaline output, making the "zombies" stronger, although they were quite slow for reasons I cannot bring to mind right now (it's been years since I read my issues of SS, gimme a break ).

Moving on to Shadowrun, something similar could theoretically be done, especially to anyone with a data/chipjack and wired reflexes of any kind (reflex triggers might make that interesting).