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Sift<br />
Technomancers who possess this echo can intuitively sift<br />
through massive amounts of data to find the appropriate information<br />
they are looking for. In game terms, the threshold for Data<br />
Search Tests is reduced by the technomancer’s submersion grade.<br />
Skinlink<br />
A technomancer with this echo gains the ability to use his skin<br />
as connection to other devices, similar to an integral skinlink (p. 318,<br />
SR4). The technomancer can use this link to hack any device he touches,<br />
even if wireless signals are jammed. Note that the device does not<br />
need to have skinlink adaptation. Two technomancers with this echo<br />
may mentally communicate with each other simply by touching.<br />
Sparky<br />
This echo allows the technomancer to zap a non-technomancer<br />
persona he has hit in cybercombat with a jolt of Resonance<br />
that creates a range of electrical malfunctions, hampering the<br />
functionality of the persona’s originating node. Symptoms might<br />
include power fluctuations, miscolored optical lasers, forged<br />
error codes, component and subroutine deactivation, and so on.<br />
Whenever the technomancer damages a hacker’s icon, make an<br />
Opposed Test pitting the technomancer’s Response + Willpower<br />
against the target’s Response + System. For each net success the<br />
technomancer achieves, reduce the target’s Response by 1. If<br />
Response is reduced to 0, the node fails (some electronics and<br />
extreme cases have been known to burst into flame from power<br />
surges and overheating). Devices may be repaired with a Hardware<br />
+ Logic (8, 1 hour) Extended Test. This echo is not effective<br />
against other technomancers, sprites, agents, AIs, or e-ghosts.<br />
Sprite Link<br />
By choosing this echo, the technomancer gains the ability to<br />
compile and register one additional species of sprite (beyond the five<br />
basic sprites of his stream). This echo can be chosen multiple times.<br />
Swap<br />
Swap reduces the sustaining modifier for threading by one.<br />
This echo can be taken twice, for a cumulative effect.<br />
widget crafting<br />
Technomancers with this echo can create icons called widgets<br />
out of pure Resonance. Widgets act as virtual glyphs of power that<br />
a technomancer can draw upon to help accomplish tasks in the<br />
Matrix (Crafting Widgets, p. 148).<br />
advanced ecHoeS<br />
Advanced echoes require the submerged technomancer to<br />
master a basic echo before being able to unscramble its advanced<br />
form. All advanced echoes note their prerequisite in their descriptions.<br />
At the gamemaster’s discretion, advanced echoes may only<br />
be learned from an enlightened technomancer or powerful free<br />
sprite that is already acquainted with them.<br />
acceleration<br />
Prerequisite: Biowire<br />
This advanced echo reinforces the technomancer’s neural<br />
structures to accelerate his neural pulse rate, decreasing the amount<br />
Unwired<br />
of time required for an electric signal to traverse the distance. This<br />
acceleration confers a bonus of +1 Reaction (counts as an augmentation<br />
bonus) and +1 Initiative Pass for real-world actions. This<br />
echo can be taken up to three times for a cumulative effect.<br />
advanced overclocking<br />
Prerequisite: Overclocking<br />
Advanced Overclocking has the same effect as taking<br />
Overclocking twice (counting the prerequisite echo). Together with<br />
the Overclocking echo, the technomancer receives a total bonus of<br />
+2 Response and +2 Initiative Passes while operating in full-sim VR<br />
(with the 2 extra Initiative Passes from hot-sim VR, this grants the<br />
technomancer an IP of 5; this is an exception to the rule that normally<br />
limits IPs to 4).<br />
enhanced resonance Link<br />
Prerequisite: Resonance Link<br />
The Enhanced Resonance Link upgrades the otherwise lowlevel,<br />
one-way empathic link to a real telepathic link, similar to the<br />
Mind Link spell (including exchange of conversation, emotions, and<br />
mental images). An enhanced resonance link works in both directions<br />
and allows the exchange of data and information (suspected<br />
to occur via the resonance realms) as long as both technomancers<br />
are online in the Matrix.<br />
This enhanced resonance link may only be used with one<br />
other character at a time, even if the technomancer is part of a<br />
resonance mesh (p. 143).<br />
Mesh reality<br />
Prerequisite: Multiprocessing<br />
A technomancer who fine-tunes her understanding of multiprocessing<br />
with this echo can surrender her body to slip into a<br />
Simon Wentworth (order #1132857) 9<br />
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technoMancers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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