Lower layer description

writeup.rb

@@ -211,6 +211,15 @@ class Awakened2069
 
 		end
 
+		start_chapter "The Upper & Lower Layers"
+		pdf.column_box([0, pdf.cursor], :columns => 2, :width => pdf.bounds.width) do
+			pdf.text "The Internet had been taken down completely, and for a long while Internet access was limited. In this decade, the nature of the Internet was transformed. TCP/IP was abandoned completely and several competing protocols replaced it. They came one after the other, in such rapid succession that keeping up seemed useless. There was no longer one Internet, but many, and interoperability between them was quite limited to say the least. The limitations of TCP/IP and the protocols built on top of it were transcended in some ways, but many vestigial elements of the old Internet persist even in 2069.", :inline_format => true, :indent_paragraphs => INDENT_SIZE
+
+			start_section "The Lower Layer"
+
+			pdf.text "Awakened society views the post-Internet computer networks as a bifurcate structure. The aforementioned disparate computer networks, with some of the problems and benefits of the now-antiquituous Internet, along with their mundane improvements, are typically referred to as the Lower Layer. Sometimes this is called the Fallen Layer, although that is not as popular. While it is definitely possible for someone to transmit their written or spoken thoughts, their full body motion, and even their mundane consciousness outright into these Fallen networks, can a person transmit the contents of their <i>soul</i> through it. Simply put: not really.\nThe lower layer has many systems in place. Users can communicate but cannot do so freely; government and corporate controls abound restrict who can speak to who. Ridiculous fees have been added to adding people to contact lists, so as to control who people speak to more than how much they do so. Adding someone to your contacts list is a Resources 1 expenditure. Creating a network connection where many people may speak freely to each other, like a chat room or web forum, is a Resources 2 expenditure. Naturally, this can be bypassed, either with a successful Intelligence + Computer roll (at a -2 penalty for a group chat) or a successful casting of the Forces 2 spell \"Control Computer.\" For a group setting, the willworker must use +1 Reach to create a group chat. Finally, to give these group chats plot armor, one can also purchase the Secure Forum Merit.", :inline_format => true, :indent_paragraphs => INDENT_SIZE
+		end
+
 		pdf.render_file("writeup.pdf")
 	end
 end