Shadowrun

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Chapter1_Issue 011

Senretsu

on Nov. 12, 2008

Important FYI: I just got my 'net back after over a month of downtime. I seriously didn't abandon this comic yet. ^^;
(Copied and pasted from my Sheezyart.)

Ahoy! I can't tell you how many FAILED attempt's were made and how many floppy discs were lost trying to bring this issue to sheezyart. Much trouble! But, it's been made for 2 weeks, AT LEAST, and now that my internets reconnected I'm ready to plug myself back into the matrix and get started on some new issues!

Anywho, I've been playing shadowrun since I've been disconnected and I'm going to run a real campaign with the pixelpunks that I can pick up the story with once the pre-written storyline has climaxed into Vin & Gabe's current life.

Also, I'm getting my terms and the universe of Shadowrun more correct. I almost called a headset a "Commlink" the other day. That would be a horrible mistake to any true fan of the series, for reasons you don't really care to know. [XD]

Also, I must apologize for my banana-boat japanese. Anyone who can read/speak fluently will notice at least one mistake in Senretsu's speech, but in the least, there's rock-solid evidence I don't speak with my nose buried in a Jap-English dictionary. [^^;]

I mean, c'mon, even Megatokyo has fudged it's Japanese before.

So, in this issue, two subtle (I love being subtle with my storylines, if you hadn't noticed) things this issue teaches you:
One - Gabriel's deck has it's language interface set to Japanese as a default.
Two - Decker's use online persona's, which are customizable, from the image to the tools they can employ while flying through cyberspace.
Three - Deckers operate in hot or cold ASIST. Hot ASIST makes no effort to control the flow of data to the deckers brain, basically opening a beaver dam of information to flow into the datajack. Deckers operate MUCH faster this way, much more fluently and easily. However, a cyberdeck's ability to activate hot ASIST is precisely what makes it illegal, and possibly lethal; a decker's brain can get overloaded by ICE and fried, flatlining the decker.
Four - To connect the characters in the readers mind a little, I've decided that Vinnie uses Senretsu as his persona, which, more or less he's stolen a custom persona written by Gabe. =D

Anyway, already tl;dr. Peace, seeya next issue.
-Senretsu

PS:
One last important note, I've changed the font to more closely resemble the font used in the official shadowrun rulebooks. Enjoy the taste of Authenticity!