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The switchboard model is going to make it a lot worse than telepathy. Consider the action flow:

• Alice wants to send a message to Bob.
• Alice uses her action to send her message to Switch (who, let's assume is paid to give this job his sole attention.)
• Switch must then spend their action to send to Bob. Bob can freely reply.
• Switch must then spend another action to relay the reply back to Alice.

Switch at any point may need a message repeated costing another action for the sender, and is more likely to need a repeat when messages are sent in stressful situations.

If Switch has other duties, the party might need to arrange ahead of time that they are going to need the service. The service also lacks efficient broadcast capabilities. Each stone needs to be activated sequentially, and Switch can reasonably only be expected to understand one person talking at once.

I think it sits closer to telegraph than a moble phone. Depending on the kind of campaign it might represent a vulnerability that can be exploited.

That better be an ice cream sandwich with vanilla and wafer. I understand in some countries other things are OK, but here ice cream sandwiches are with vanilla and wafer as god intended.

As an addendum, if you think other workers are getting after deal than you, that's a problem with your union, not theirs. Get organised, get involved, fight for what you deserve.

I do enjoy seeing the 'oh, this is why' feeling in people. I got much the same reading Dracula, and I recommend it if you have yet to have the pleasure. You might think you know it, but trust me, give it a go.

2050s for 1st edition, I think current edition is 2070s. Dragons started waking up in the early 2010s though. There has also been significant geopolitical upheaval, especially in the Americas and Europe. The general assumption is that a nuyen being about 1 modern dollar is about the right ballpark.

Shadowrun probably throws these assumptions off a bit. Dunkelzahn's net worth is hard to pin down but I think the listed cash dispursements in his will exceeded 1 billion nuyen, plus all the real estate and the establishment of several foundations, several items of extreme power and a number of 'wishes'.

Lofwyr owns a AAA megacorp that he assembled out of purchases made within about 30 years of waking up. My personal he'd cannon is that he ate Musk at some point in this process.

Even the less well known ones have serious stock portfolios and including multiple point shares in megacorps. Dragons took to business rather well as soon as they worked out what share certificates were.

"Greed is not the issue here" - actual dragon sitting on literal pile of gold.

Unfortunately that is more a symptom than a root cause. Even if we could the infection would remain.

But if I don't have American politics to distract me I have to confront how generally fucked the UK is.

I wish you were further from the truth.

Man, I can't even agree with myself most days.

Sounds more like a Yu-Gi-Oh thing...