Instant Netrunning A Fuzion Plug-In by Christian Conkle (
[email protected], http://www.europa.com/~conkle) Introduction All computers connected to the Net are assigned LDL. This LDL serves as a kind of telephone number for This is a system of rules expanding the hacking rules that computer, to which other computers know where for Fuzion and Interlock. These rules draw heavily on to send information. In a futuristic setting, a Virtual Cyberpunk 2020's Netrunning rules and are intended Construct or Icon may substitute for the LDL. The Net to be native in a Cyberpunk environment where neural User connects their computer to a Virtual Reality Inter- cyber-interfaces are standard, though they are written face, within which companies pay for space and create generically enough to be useable in a modern setting as elaborate virtual constructs to represent their LDL, the well. VR equivalent of Internet Portal Sites such as Infos- eek or Yahoo! today. The Net User may now tour the These rules were designed to use existing Cyberpunk bustling 3D Virtual City regardless of gravity or speed. 2020 equipment and software with little modication. Corporate virtual constructs are like giant 3D advertise- There are several dierences from the original rules, how- ments, attempting to entice the average Net User into ever, that are intended to speed play and optimize sim- their Virtual Realities to sell products or services. Some plicity. First, these rules lack a grid. Movement within Virtual Realities actually provide useful services such the virtual environment of cyberspace is conceptual. To as information or online software applications.