Kurabokko Okyu Shochi-Weave Jumpsuit

Written by: Ripshot

It's been mentioned a dozen times before, but Kurabokko's singing and dancing about ergonomics and monitoring of worker-health is one of the smartest scams of its time. Sure, it might look like it costs them a pretty penny to make sure everyone can see when they're at their limit, but what it really means is that as soon as you actually get hurt, you're frag outa luck: The corp can just point at all your physical-monitoring hardware and put responsibility on you for not paying attention to the warnings, even if they only came up a couple of miliseconds before your spine got pulped by a falling container full of NERPs. No injury-compensation for you, chummer.
Nothing emphasizes this idea more than the Okyu Shochi-Weave, which is becoming a standard piece of kit in any warehouse that buys from Kurabokko. It's a breathable, full-body (hands and feet included) inner layer of smart-materials fitted underneath a jumpsuit that monitors the level of stress applied to different areas and passively scans for surface-level anomalies. As soon as it picks up something out the ordinary, it notifies the worker's commlink (and his supervisor's commlink) and overlays the relevant info on AR, or as visual information displayed on electrochromatic threads. It also acts like a compression-stocking for your body, if you want that too.
What this set-up is for depends on who you ask: For your Joe-Schmoe warehouse worker or stevador, it's a good way to keep tabs on where your job's straining you the most. For Joe-Schmoe's employers, it lets them keep better tabs on their employees and reduces liability for injuries. For everyone else, including you and I, it's all about cutting off the precious seconds spent figuring out where an injured buddy needs attention the most, and those seconds can make all the difference.

One very convenient aspect of the inner-layer's design is that it can be easily disconnected at key-joints, letting you wear certain portions as desired and letting doctors simply slide a section away instead of having to tear or cut through it to get at a wound underneath.

— Frangelico

The first line of Shochi-Weave jumpsuits were released as part of a electrochromatic jumpsuit (reinforced at the usual key-spots), which made logistics on Kurabokko's end a little easier since they just had to program in a logo instead of making a whole new jumpsuit for every corp and warehouse that wanted a set, but ultimately didn't see many sales because of how costly the whole thing was. A few years later, Kurabokko began selling the inner-layer as a stand-alone modification that can be fitted under just about any kind of clothing, something that's renewed interest in the concept by corpsec and military buyers.

Item type

Clothing / Accessory

Manufacturer

Kurabokko Metahuman Technologies

Rarity

8

Base Price

1150¥

Armor-Rating

6

Capacity

6

Features

Electrochromatic Clothing, Okyu Shochi-Weave (See below)

When worn by an individual of roughly corresponding size to the outer-clothing, the smart-layer begins monitoring the wearer's physical conditions and reporting back to connected devices. As soon as an injury is detected, relevant information (location/severity of injury, wearer's blood-type/pernitent medical information, information from any biomonitor in the same PAN/WAN is transmitted to the wearer's commlink and displayed on electrochromatic clothing (if applicable), giving the wearer and others +2 to their mental limit for the purposes of diagnosing injury.

Wireless Bonus: The smart-layer applies minute electrical stimulation to key spots in the wearer's musculature, relieving muscle-tension and applying a +1 Dicepool bonus to resisting fatigue.

The Okyu Shochi-Weave can be purchased seperately as a modification for clothing that covers at least half of the body. This modification costs 550¥, has an availability of +2 and takes up 4 Capacity.