OK, I know I'm asking for a proverbial thwaking here, but wait until I'm finished.
With SR4 arriving (sometime), I was looking over one of my old charater sheets, and found an old post-it note written to myself. "Surge=revival?" it read, which brought an old idea back.
When the SURGE rules made it's debut, I had an idea on 're-creating' myself as a character in SR. Not at my current age, but adding the 61+years to it (which would put me at my early 90's). Already a capable mage, but by the time Haley's Comet returned, I'd be more or less in the Old Mage's Home, waiting for the inevitable. To make the long story short, my character-self lapsed into a coma when the Comet made it's inbound return, then re-awakened upon it's way out....this time, in a younger form (not someone else's, younger chronicologically, effectively jumping back almost half my 90+ age to mid-40's). I had shelved this idea & forgotten about it until just recently.
My question is this; even with all the effects SURGE produced, would this be possible, or just a bad idea even as a small footnote in the personal history?
(prepares for the worst)