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She is lobotomized and loses only the ability to hack computers. Making her the second most successful brain extraction known. Maybe--other successes were not noticed, or were forgotten. Maybe her brain was taken by Mobius too, and now it sits in a vat of mentats laced gel, being all snarky...

Somehow Old World Blues just gets more confusing the closer you look at it. One might assume that it's what happens when a story centers around senile mad scientists, whose memories and senses were altered to confuse them. However, the weirdest part of OWB has nothing to do with such handwaves...