Social networking is all well and good but it gets particularly exciting in 2072, especially if all your friends are professional criminals. A contact just been burned and broadcasted his predicament via local Matrix ping. The cops, the yaks, and possibly a major corps are gunning for his butt, not 10 blocks from where you just settled into a nice cup of soykaf. Can you bail him out and get him to safety before it all comes crashing down?
Social networking is all well and good but it gets particularly exciting in 2072, especially if all your friends are professional criminals. A contact just been burned and broadcasted his predicament via local Matrix ping. The cops, the yaks, and possibly a major corps are gunning for his butt, not 10 blocks from where you just settled into a nice cup of soykaf. Can you bail him out and get him to safety before it all comes crashing down?
Not only did some poor slob get arrested, he also angered someone with nuyen to burn and a taste for a dish of ice cold revenge. The bad news is the slob's death must look accidental and prison-like. Course, that makes sense since he's currently in prison. The good news is that the prison is out in the boondocks, so we're not talking about a full-frontal on a maximum security installation.
A high speed cross country rally from Dakar to Iskandariyah? Sure, what’s the worse that could happen? Apart from the five thousand kilometers of brutal desert terrain, don’t forget you’ll be dealing with the usual cutthroat competition and corporate subversion.