[MijRai]

I was thinking nightmare-fuel, actually.

You know, ghosts and faces where there shouldn't be, bloodstains on walls, eyes, esoteric messages, etc.  Basically, material to make the people who run those drones check their records and start getting weirded out.  The more use, the more often it shows up. 

[Sendaz]

I was thinking nightmare-fuel, actually.

You know, ghosts and faces where there shouldn't be, bloodstains on walls, eyes, esoteric messages, etc.  Basically, material to make the people who run those drones check their records and start getting weirded out.  The more use, the more often it shows up.

Indeed, especially as you can have astral echoes going both backwards and forwards in time.
Imagine the guys running the drone seeing some warning of something to come (like they see a black skull hovering over a target up to 24 hours before they die then see on one of their own with the same skull floating overhead) and are scrambling to undo/avoid it.

While not as unsettling,  the astral spam that comes through can also be quite annoying....

Root Chakra Enlargement ads,

Those ads for  "Are you Lonely, Silfs (Spirits I'd Like to .. you know the rest) in your area want to meet you NOW!"

1-666 summoning numbers (calls charged at 0.006 Essence per minute-you have been warned)

[BetaCAV]

Those ads for  "Are you Lonely, Silfs (Spirits I'd Like to .. you know the rest) in your area want to meet you NOW!"

And that's (one way) how you get the Spirit Bane NQ, boys and girls; summon a spirit, command it to materialize, and go do a remote "service" for the client.
Run a Lucifer Lamp in the room with them, and in short order everybody is in trouble.

The problems with Excalibur will soon seem minor in comparison.

I wonder what the equivalent of the quicksilver camera would be for capturing images of sprites and technomancers in the matrix, though...

[Aryeonos]

I'd say a regular old simsense recording unit, coupled with whatever anyone uses to log events on the matrix. FRAPS 2?

[Herr Brackhaus]

I wonder what the equivalent of the quicksilver camera would be for capturing images of sprites and technomancers in the matrix, though...

Yep, simsense unit will take care of that. They might be using resonance so capturing how they do things might be tricky, but they still use the matrix so the results of their actions would be capturable.

[DeathStrobe]

I don't think I like that idea of being able to record resonance sensing. It should be like astral assensing, in that it's a 6th sense that is impossible for mundane tech to be able to detect.

[Herr Brackhaus]

Oh, I don't think you could, DeathStrobe. You could record the results of resonance actions, but not the usage of the resonance action itself. So someone using the Resonance to compile a sprite wouldn't show up, but the sprite appearing would show up because while it may be a Resonance based matrix entity it's still a matrix entity.

[cantrip]

One of my favorite parts of Shadowrun is how Magic and Technology do not get along.

But at least they play fairly nice around each other so long as they do not go stepping too much on each other's toes, we are not Dresden levels of Magic vs Tech, though we have been toying with a few ideas on that one.

That's what the Gremlins (rating 4) negative quality is for... 

[Wakshaani]

The Lucifer Lamp is kind of horrifying, personally.

It's oen thing to go through life, thinking, "Yeah, magic thingies are out there. Neat, but not my thing."

It's quite another to get one of those, flick it on, and see, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that everywhere you go is chock full of invisible Things that are doing who knows what, watching you when you sleep.

Gah.

*heebie-jeebies*

(On the plus side, astral security firms must have made a killing in ward sales!)

[BetaCAV]

The Lucifer Lamp is kind of horrifying, personally.

It's oen thing to go through life, thinking, "Yeah, magic thingies are out there. Neat, but not my thing."

It's quite another to get one of those, flick it on, and see, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that everywhere you go is chock full of invisible Things that are doing who knows what, watching you when you sleep.

Not only that, but when you do, they all stop and turn to look at you. Ooga-booga.

[Reaver]

But there is so many kind, cuddly spirits out there!

Shedim,
Insect,
Shadow,

And they think you look SOOOO cute when you're asleep!

[Sendaz]

Which is why the Lucifer NightLight did not do so well during market research.

All the test groups just couldn't go to sleep and just proved that yes there WAS something under the bed.

[farfromnice]

How do you think ares is salvaging the Excalibur Fiasco ?

I mean they do have intel and other data they might use in a new weapon for 2080 right ?

[Reaver]

How do you think ares is salvaging the Excalibur Fiasco ?

I mean they do have intel and other data they might use in a new weapon for 2080 right ?

I think you salvage this the same way Atari salvaged the E.T game..... you bury it in a deep hole in the New Mexico desert!

Considering that  'salvaging' on this project has already included 'release this cluster fuck of a project to the general market so it can tank our reputation as it explodes in their faces' - I don't there is any salvaging for the Excaliber - the gun that shoots magic.

And is actually a good reminder that tech and magic don't play well with each other.

[Rift_0f_Bladz]

Besides that one odd drone in Rigger 5, yeah magic and tech don't work well together (not Dresden level of bad though). As for what little I know of Excalibur, nope, no hope.