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In article <1992Sep25.200338.16158@Veritas.COM>, jhk6@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu wri
   tes:
>       The cyberware also, in many places, seems to be just the list of
> advantages from Fantasy Folk and the Basic rules. For example, you can buy
> chips for Strong Will and Charisma! (although you have no reason to do so
> with points, since they costs the same as they would naturally).

        I'd agree that a Charisma chip, given how Charisma is defined,
seems not to make very much sense. The only way I can figure it out is
that it's an enhancement chip (copied from people with Charisma) that
boosts the effectiveness of the areas of the brain that have to do with
social interactions, etc.
        Strong Will, however, I can see. If it senses that you're trying
to overcome an emotion, for instance, and itself fires impulses that help
to inhibit the emotion, then it could do it. The stronger the inhibitory
signals, the more will. Now, one might ask why then it's cost per level in
cash rather than a flat-out cost for the maximum available. However, this
can be explained by that the more powerful the neural
stimulation/inhibition, the better the accuracy of firing needs to be for
proper functioning.
        In other words, one could probably get a strong will chip that
cost less, but it'd cause some side effects- such as damping out all
emotions in a group instead of just the one that one was trying to
overcome. A bit of a problem....
        -Allen