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Part 4 - International Comm Call

To say long distance commcall:

say "[paragraph break]The loud speaker says: 'Welcome to [The Location]. Please proceed to your destination in an orderly fashion:[line break][available neighbors][line break]Thank you for using [The Location]'";

Seattle SAN is up from My Commlink. It is a node. It is revealed. "For a relatively small civil SAN, there is a lot of traffic here.[long distance commcall]."

[For ease of use, we will define just one set of node stats for the regional sans, then simply have all the regional nodes look up their values from the same list.]

Table of Regional SAN Node Stats

When play begins:

initialize Table of Regional SAN Node Stats for Seattle SAN at rating 2;

Give Seattle SAN a rating 0 in "firewall";

Deactivate the "firewall" stat of Seattle SAN;

UCAS Western Regional SAN is east of Seattle SAN. It is a node. It is revealed. "There's a good amount of traffic here. It is a civil SAN.[long distance commcall]." The stat table of UCAS Western Regional SAN is the Table of Regional SAN Node Stats.

UCAS National SAN is east of UCAS Western Regional SAN. It is a node. It is revealed. "There's an overwhelming amount of traffic in this civil SAN.[long distance commcall]." The stat table of UCAS National SAN is the Table of Regional SAN Node Stats.

Western Satellite SAN is up from UCAS National SAN. It is a node. It is revealed. "There's an overwhelming amount of traffic in this international Satellite SAN.[long distance commcall]." The stat table of Western Satellite SAN is the Table of Regional SAN Node Stats.

Eastern Satellite SAN is west of Western Satellite SAN. It is a node. It is revealed. "You hop a beam over to the Eastern Satellite... again, it's very crowded here. Strange that it's west of the Eastern Satellite...[long distance commcall]." The stat table of Eastern Satellite SAN is the Table of Regional SAN Node Stats.

Japan SAN is down from Eastern Satellite SAN. It is a node. It is revealed. "Japanese markets must be open, because this national SAN looks like a stock exchange trading floor...[long distance commcall]." The stat table of Japan SAN is the Table of Regional SAN Node Stats.

Tokyo SAN is east of Japan SAN. It is a node. It is revealed. "The variety of icons flowing through this regional SAN is dazzling.[long distance commcall]." The stat table of Tokyo SAN is the Table of Regional SAN Node Stats.

Chiba SAN is east of Tokyo SAN. It is a node. It is revealed. "The icons of the traffic flowing through Chiba make even the best matrix clubs in Seattle look like off-the-shelf newb default icon slums. This is the hottest place on Planet Earth for tech, and the icons here make you self-conscious about your own icon's quality. You soak up the inspiration, ready to hit the sculpting programs when you get back.[long distance commcall]." The stat table of Chiba SAN is the Table of Regional SAN Node Stats.