12 thoughts on “I’m curious what people have done with the inaccessible partition tag.”

  3. One thing you could do if the character is owned is fictionally describe it as a storage device that the owner uses to record everything seen or heard through the character’s cyberwear…for later collection.

  4. I thought of that. What about installing black ICE in the hacker’s neural interface? “Oh you hacked the wrong system. Now your brain is melting from the other end of your matrix connection.”

  6. It might not always be a choice. Wake up in that corporate recovery room after getting shot and find (or don’t find) some new modifications. Maybe you roll a 6- or a 7-9 acquiring or installing the cyberware, so you don’t get to choose all or possibly any of the tags.

    If your explanation for how your cyberware was paid for was that a corp installed it against your will or that it was while you worked for a corporation then inaccessible partition may be what the fiction demands.

    Or instead of futilely trying to pick things the MC can’t turn against you and not knowing where the screw will come from, you could give them interesting things to play with and steer the story in fun directions that you both want it to go.

  8. True. It doesn’t have to be something they don’t control. Maybe you’re a courier. Maybe you’ve got something there as an insurance policy.

    Maybe the NPC has one.

    Maybe that guy you’re extracting isn’t as important as the data in his skull, but it has a deadman switch so you need to get him out alive and transported to an operating room where it can be accessed.

  9. Just so we are clear: the tag as written is a boon to the character. They got owned for that cyberwear, and chose that tag in place of something else.

    Not to say you can’t do vile things with /an/ inaccessible partition, but that’s not the default for the one the PC chooses to install themselves, unless they so opt.

  10. J Stein If you want to limit your contributions to the thread to beneficial ways a player could use an inaccessible partition they chose to install because they wanted one then rock on. This thread could use more of those suggestions.

  11. I’ve only seen it used in the same fashion as Johnny Mnemonic. Courier transporting secret data that he doesn’t even have access to. I like the other ideas in this thread.

  12. Here is an idea:

    The implant has various information that can only be unlocked if certain conditions are met. This has various applications:

    1) characters in some type of running man style race or competition, all the info they need about the next waypoints is already locked in their heads but they have to get to certain nodes before their minds let them “know where to go next”

    2) a player choose one as a failsafe in case things really hit the fan. Think Bourne Identity with the laser pointer in his arm they had a secret safety deposit box in case things got really nasty. Maybe the PC has a crazy stash or backup plan that they don’t want to let themselves remember unless they really need to.

    3) the partition could house various personality profiles that the PC needs to assume you do certain jobs: think paycheck or dollhouse.

    4) PCs boss has one installed in case the player ever decides to turn on him. Remember the new robo cop and how he like: can’t point his gun at his boss when he gets all salty about not having free will?

    5) PC uses it as a memory edit technique to remove really bad psychological trauma, but like maybe they need those memories down the road so they stash them away.

    6) Maybe the PCs have a friend who was a construct inside a full Borg conversion but their body got blown up so they got their friend’s back up conciousness riding shotgun in their own skull, but it gets too noisy if they don’t keep them blocked.

    7) maybe the main antagonist of the game is this elusive entity who no one can find (perhaps because he/she/it lives in the heads of the people trying to find it. What if the person you were up against lived inside your partition?

    These are my initial ideas.

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