If you are burning essence for a finger tip compartment, you will also have a datajack and the monowhip will be wireless, so no cutting yourself.
So you get wireless bonus with a datajack? So I can get +2 smart link bonus with wireless off?
I'm not sure how one statement led to the other...
Overall, the writers did a piss poor job at explaining exactly what "Wireless Bonuses" entail. What they really needed was to elaborate which were
Network Bonuses and which were
Matrix Bonuses.
Monowhips have a
Network Bonus which allows them to instantly contract the moment your swing starts to go awry. So as soon as you think "Oh shit, I'm about to chop off my own arm", the command gets sent, and the whip retracts. Wired Reflexes working in conjunction with Reaction Enhancers, is a
Network Bonus. They don't need anything from the Matrix, just to talk with each other, which is why they are one of the only devices that benefit from an Internal Router. Throwing Daggers would also be a
Network Bonus, since they aren't going online, they're just talking to each other as they're thrown.
Smartguns on the other hand, have a
Matrix Bonus for contacting Weather.com and getting precise wind and temperature, as well as using cloud computing to process precise trajectories and whatnot, in order to grant you the bonus attack dice. But the Accuracy bonus is a
Network Bonus since it only requires the Gun talking to your Eyeware.
You could run a cable from your Datajack to your finger compartment Monowhip, but that's going to look really... odd. That would give you the
Network Bonus to control deployment. Just like you could run a cable from your Glasses to your Smartgun to get the +2 Accuracy
Network Bonus.
