WISE Chips

*Posted by User: RealRaceRunner 2.12.2076 1430*

Hey, its ya lizardboi Race, the river lizard with the truth in his gizzard, here and we’re going to skip the bulldrek they’re pouring out here and get wise about WISE. ‘Cause that’s what they’re trying really, really hard to not be talking about here.

Pretty sure you’ve heard of WISE chips by now, right? They’re everywhere in chippin’ (chipper? Chippie?) circles. The biggest thing to hit the BTL scene since Cali got HOT. I got an omae tells me WISE stands for “White-matter Integration State Enhancement” and if you don’t know what the frag that stands for, yeah, I didn’t go to a lot of school either. But what it MEANS is that this is the wildest high you get on a chip. Everything a Cali Hot has and more, I’ve heard omaes comparing it to everything from astral projection to ‘being a god’ (whatever the frag that means, amirite?). But there’s always a feeling of POWER, of being more than you are, like it gives you superpowers and drek.

But the chip-truth about these chips’ truth is even weirder than that. Your boi has contacts, omae and your boi is TIGHT with all kinds of people, including the best technomancer information tap-dancer with all the answers, who tells me that inside each and every one of these little beauties is a little spark of Dissonance. They don’t know how the people making it do that but they wish they wouldn’t.

See for those of you who aren’t in the Know about the Flow, ‘Dissonance’ is what our Technomancer friends call all the bad stuff on the ‘Trix (and I don’t just mean in the comments). Its the Dark Side of what ‘mancers do when they strain their brain riding that information train. It corrupts data, degrades hardware, destroys connections (and isn’t ‘connecting’ about the only thing that matters in a Matrix?) So while Race isn’t here to tell you what to do, know that WISE chips actively take a little chip out of the Matrix we all rely on to thrive, strive and survive out here is this most Sixth of Worlds, *so ka*?

Don’t want to hear it? Too bad, ‘cause that ain’t the biz this liz iz in.

**LowCost** 2.12.76 1442> Hey @RealRaceRunner, read the 'news' and what was all that the KE was saying about WISE chips coming down from Winniduck? Thought the flow went the other way?

**Mr. Business** 2.12.76 1445> Hey, Race, mind if I take this one? So, most of the time you'd be right, kid. What we call the 'Long Weekend' route leads Cali Hots and other BTL's up through Denver to Fargo, then from Fargo up to Winnipeg and east to the MSPlex. Sure.

Except now with the martial law and all the other *[vague gesture to Fargo drekstorm]*, the Family has decided to reroute it through Winnipeg for the time being. A little longer but a lot less bulldrek.

**Iktomi** 2.12.76 1447> LESS bulldrek? Have you been seeing what's going on up there? Those WISE chips are like a gold rush on the streets. Everybody's scrambling to get their slice before the bubble bursts. Its like Tempo 2.0, dawg.

**Mr. Business** 2.12.76 1448> Hey! I AM 'up there' right now. And I've got the straight drek. First off, while that WISE drek ain't us, we got it handled. Or we will soon, no matter what you're hearing, a'ight, chummer?

**LincX36** 2.12.76 1501> we got a rehab program for this shit yet?  Does the same stuff that works for regular BTLs still work?  For that matter, is BTL rehab the same as it was 15-20 years ago?  Ain't needed it since then.  And finally, if I happened to have, in a safe, some unlabeled shit a kid checked in with me, is there anybody who can safely come by and check whether it's going to completely ruin his brain?  I don't have shit against somebody getting high, but you don't fuck with Dissonance.

**DocGreen** 2.12.76 1514> BTL Rehab is a very different thing than it was pre-Crash. We've made a lot of technical steps forward in the last ten years. Which is good, because our culture has become WAY more toxic around BTL use in that same time, but that's a whole different dissertation...this WISE business is pretty new to me, so I can't give conclusions yet. Seems to be a heightened version of the usual BTL experience. Any input?

**Gurkha** 2.12.76 1516> My contacts are telling me that some aren't responding to the usual methods, but then they warn me that this is early days yet, so it might just take longer to snap out of. They're also telling me that WISE trips can linger on in the brain for awhile after the chip has burnt itself out, so that probably ain't great for the wetware.

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