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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 6874966" data-attributes="member: 4936">Also, the IC spawns in the host and lives there. Just leaving the host should be enough I think, right?Exiting the host would be fine, yes, assuming her Overwatch Score isn't convergeable, which it shouldn't be. The problem is, as you say, that it's a complex action. I used my 'spare' complex action on a Matrix Perception check to find the surveillance file, so now I only have a Simple action to get the frak out before the IC finishes loading.Edit to add: To exit a host takes a complex action and is totally different from jacking out. It just means you leave the train station network and return to the broader Matrix, where you're not currently being chased by spawning ICYep, it is different. One of the differences is that jacking out is a simple action. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If I had a full init pass to work with, as I thought I did, I could simply switch to AR (simple) and jack out harmlessly (also simple). Or, as you suggest, just exit the host. But I don't have a full init pass. I have one simple action.As I see it, I can either just jack out and soak some dumpshock, or I can take my chances with the IC. That just feels like a -really- bad idea to me, given that there's two programs, and -both- of them can link lock.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 6874966, member: 4936"] [I]Also, the IC spawns in the host and lives there. Just leaving the host should be enough I think, right?[/I] Exiting the host would be fine, yes, assuming her Overwatch Score isn't convergeable, which it shouldn't be. The problem is, as you say, that it's a complex action. I used my 'spare' complex action on a Matrix Perception check to find the surveillance file, so now I only have a Simple action to get the frak out before the IC finishes loading. [I]Edit to add: To exit a host takes a complex action and is totally different from jacking out. It just means you leave the train station network and return to the broader Matrix, where you're not currently being chased by spawning IC[/I] Yep, it is different. One of the differences is that jacking out is a simple action. :) If I had a full init pass to work with, as I thought I did, I could simply switch to AR (simple) and jack out harmlessly (also simple). Or, as you suggest, just exit the host. But I don't have a full init pass. I have one simple action. As I see it, I can either just jack out and soak some dumpshock, or I can take my chances with the IC. That just feels like a -really- bad idea to me, given that there's two programs, and -both- of them can link lock. [/QUOTE]

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