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sprites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 credit A sprite with the Credit power can generate electronic cred linked to a black account. It is not clear whether the sprite actually creates this wealth as fake electronic nuyen (or any other currency including corpscript) or if it diverts very small sums (rounding sums) from all over the world. Every month, the sprite may make a Rating + Edge Test. Every hit generates 10,000 nuyen of electronic cash in an arbitrary account. These sums are permanent, but carry the sprite’s Matrix signature. The sprite can produce a similar amount of cred every day, but this money counts as counterfeit currency (The Forger’s Art, p. 84) with a rating equal to the sprite’s rating ÷ 2 (round up). When this money is to be transferred, make an Opposed Test between the rating of the counterfeit nuyen and the rating of the verification system. In any case, the generated or transferred money vanishes electronically after 8 hours of existence. denial For purposes of decompiling (Decompiling, p. 236, SR4), treat the sprite as if it has a number of tasks equal to its Edge that refresh every 8 hours. These are cumulative with any task that the sprite may actually owe a technomancer. doorstop This power enables the free sprite to jam open the connection of a Matrix user (similar to Black IC) even when the user is not unconscious, literally trapping the user online. To do so, the sprite must succeed in an Opposed Test of its Rating + Response vs. the user’s Willpower + Resonance (if available). If the free sprite achieves more hits, the targeted user remains online as long as the sprite sustains the power. If the user is disconnected from the Matrix from the outside (for instance, by shutting down the commlink) while trapped, she will immediately suffer dumpshock (p. 231, SR4). resonance Bond The free sprite gains the ability to enter into one or more resonance bonds (p. 160). The gamemaster has final say about which bonds a sprite can enter into. resonance rift Free sprites with this power have the ability to create their own resonance rifts (see p. 172), allowing them to transport others to the resonance realms. reSonance Bond Sprites with the resonance bond power can establish a connection to the icon of a voluntary sapient, normally a technomancer or other metahuman, although AIs and e-ghosts are also possible (albeit rare). Usually the resonance bond is contracted because of the mutual interest of both parties. The technomancer often wants to achieve something with the help of a free sprite, learning or improving his complex forms by the abilities of the sprite. The motives of free sprites are equally self-serving, since they are dependent on technomancers for reassembling. However, free sprites, especially simulacrums, sometimes join into a resonance bond just out of curiosity, or because they want to learn more about metahumanity, which they can better understand through the resonance link of a technomancer (giving them data they can process). Anytime a character and a sprite are bonded, either party may be used as a resonance link (p. 238, SR4) and datatrail to track the other in the Matrix. possible resonance Bonds The gamemaster should consider game balance carefully before introducing resonance bonds into her game or allowing a character to take the Resonance Bond quality (p. 160). The following are some examples of resonance bonds; gamemasters should also feel free to create their own. Allocation Bond: The sprite ties its own Resonance to the technomancer, allowing him to use Resonance less stressfully. For as long as the bond is maintained, the technomancer gains a positive dice pool modifier on all Fading Tests equal to half the sprite’s Resonance. Echo Bond: The sprite links its Resonance powers to the technomancer. She may use one of the sprite’s powers and it may use one of the technomancer’s complex forms, echoes, or widgets. These abilities are still retained by the sharer while sharing. Networking Bond: The free sprite links its complex forms to the technomancer. He may use one of the sprite’s complex forms and it may use one of his complex forms. wiLd SpriteS Similar to wild spirits of the Awakened World, wild sprites, native code-beings, are rumored to roam the infinite spaces of the Matrix. Since the knowledge about “normal” sprites was only very recently acquired and made public during the emergence of AIs and the unveiling of the technomancer phenomenon (see the Emergence campaign), wild sprites are often mistaken for normal or free sprites when encountered. Although they can indeed rise and assemble spontaneously from the ever-present noise of the digital world, wild sprites do not conform to metahuman thinking or technomancer streams. Nobody knows for sure why and how they form in certain nodes, although they tend to assume a form based on their environment or the data that led to their creation. Sprites formed from so-called cruft (programmer speak for redundant or unnecessary code) seems more chaotic and formless, similar in many ways to protosapient AIs (p. 167), for example, while wild sprites born from archives appear ordered in iconography and behavior, resembling xenosapient AIs (p. 168). What motivates wild sprites remains elusive. Some seem to focus on tasks that involve creating, acquiring, protecting, or destroying data or virtual spots (such as UV hosts) in the Matrix, but beyond that, their motivations seem to be beyond the grasp even of technomancers. On very rare occasions, wild sprites have shown interest in personas, icons, programs, and environments programmed by metahumans, interacting with them curiously. For game purposes, wild sprites are handled as free sprites (p. 157), though their unique statistics, abilities, and personalities are left to the gamemaster. Though all have a rating and various powers, wild sprites can possess any form or any combination of powers the gamemaster deems appropriate and balanced. Wild sprites are always uncontrolled and exhibit a remarkable resistance to decompiling. All possess the Denial power (p. 160). A wild sprite may not be compiled and controlled unless the compiler possesses its source code … assuming that wild sprites even have source code, which is an open question. Unwired Simon Wentworth (order #1132857) 9
. . . Matrix phenoMena . . . It’s not real. You’ve worked too hard the past few days, she thought, her hands searching for the tranquilizers she had bought that morning. She fought the desire to turn and stare at the security cam in the corner of the room. She felt the digital eye focused on the back of her neck. It had started two months ago: cameras switching to her when she was passing by, electronic devices behaving strangely when she used them. The autocook in her apartment had started cooking dinner for two every day, resisting her every attempt to reset it. Even so, these were not the strangest things she’d experienced. Every time she switched to full VR mode during her work, she had a feeling somebody was hiding in the nodes she visited, following her from one to the next. Her fingers began to shiver while she struggled to open the tranquilizer bottle. “It’s not real.” She felt the staring of the motionless lens behind her. When the feeling that somebody was stalking her hadn’t stopped, she had asked Jonathan, an MCT Matrix Security Officer, to check the system. Maybe there were traces she could use to get rid of that bastard. But Jonathan hadn’t found anything. She couldn’t open the bottle. Sweat ran down her face. The silence in the office seemed insufferable. When Jonathan hadn’t found anything, she started to believe that the problem was a result of the last months’ stress. She’d booked a holiday trip to the Caribbean League, but her flight was canceled a few hours before takeoff. The navigation system of her plane had crashed and couldn’t be restarted. The airline claimed it was some kind of sabotage … Two days ago it had gotten worse. She woke up that night convinced that somebody was sitting in her bedroom, but no one had been there. Nobody had entered her apartment, but someone had hacked her PAN and modified her Virtual Kitty TM program to generate a faceless human male. For the first time she hated the Matrix and her cybereyes that she couldn’t just switch off. The next day, she had asked Jonathan again if he could help her. Maybe he had the right programs to fry this fucking bastard. He installed an IC program on her PAN. “Next time,” he said with an evil grin, “he’ll find a nasty surprise.” Those words had been his last: On his way home, his car was hacked. It crashed into a truck, killing him instantly. A cold breeze from the air conditioner touched her. Her whole body shivered as she stared at the monitor in front of her. She winced when a small icon flickered up and signaled an incoming message. Nervously she opened it, tears filling her eyes as she read the single sentence and the signature: “You belong to me. David” “No!” she screamed. “It can’t be you! It just can’t be you! You died! You died during the Crash …” Unwired Simon Wentworth (order #1132857) 9 161
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