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siMsense and skillware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 smell. PAB units vary in size and quality. There are low-rating, briefcase-sized units for the busy brainwasher on-the-go, while the high-rating, non-portable units utilize racks of equipment and are often built into clinic rooms with a controlled environment. PAB units are highly restricted and to legally acquire and use one requires a license typically reserved only for specialized therapists. The PAB unit does the heavy lifting in any brainwashing session, but the modified signal still needs to be fed into the subject’s brain. Because peak controls are disabled on certain pieces of the signal, the subject is often patched into a hotsim-modified simdeck during the brainwashing procedure. Then a direct neural interface or a set of trodes is used to feed the signal onto the subject’s brain. Tests have shown that the higher signal clarity of the playback gear, the easier the programming is, presumably because the ASIST sequences are more convincing. Unwired It is not necessary to drug the subject during a brainwashing session, but it is common for sedatives to be used. The sedatives serve a dual purpose: they help keep an unwilling subject controlled and they often make the subject’s brain more susceptible to the brainwashing. In the most extreme cases, gamma-scopolamine (p. 246, SR4) is used to assist in programming unwilling subjects. event reprograMMing Event reprogramming is the most common use of programmable ASIST biofeedback. It consists of inserting false memories and removing real ones. Though the experiences are fabricated, the memories of them created by the ASIST programming are real. The subject will truly believe they happened and even interrogation will not reveal the truth. Lie detectors, truth serums, even torture will indicate that the subject is being honest about his remembered experiences. Similarly, memories removed by event reprogramming cannot be recalled unless the subject undergoes deprogramming (see below). Even qualities such as Photographic Memory (p. 80, SR4) or adept abilities like Eidetic Sense Memory or Three-Dimensional Memory (p. 176, 180, Street Magic) will not allow for the retrieval of these removed memories. Event reprogramming cannot change the subject’s behavior, but the false memories can influence the subject to behave differently. For example, event reprogramming can’t make the subject hate a particular person, but implanting memories of the subject being repeatedly abused by a particular person can give the subject sufficient reason to hate them. To attempt an event reprogramming, the subject must first be connected to the PAB unit and then the programmer must make a Psychology + PAB Unit Rating (subject’s Willpower, 1 week) Extended Test. Threshold modifiers apply to the test depending on the nature of the reprogramming, as shown in the Event Reprogramming Modifiers Table (p. 191). Event reprogramming is methodical and demanding work; the programmer must devote at least eight hours a day every day of the interval week in order to attempt a test. If an interval is missed either because of interruptions or because the required eight hours was not put in, the event reprogramming test must be restarted. If the event reprogramming test is successful, the subject’s memories have been altered as intended. In addition, any recollection of the event reprogramming session itself will be removed and the programmer can insert false memories PAB Units Device Rating Availability Cost Sony 800AL Field PAB Unit 1 14R 6,000¥ DocWagon Cleansweep 2 14R 8,000¥ MCT MemEdit III Suite 3 14R 10,000¥ Interneurox G-Series Memory Master 4 16R 13,000¥ Transys-Neuronet MES Grand 5 18F 16,000¥ Renraku MR-X ASIST Reprogrammer 6 20F 20,000¥ Simon Wentworth (order #1132857) 9
to explain the missing time. Also, although the subject is exposed to hot-sim levels of ASIST during the programming, the process is carefully monitored so that the subject expresses no addiction to hot-sim after the programming. If the event reprogramming test fails, the altered memories are not correctly applied and do not hold. The GM may decide the actual effects, but the result should involve patchy and confusing memories that betray themselves to be false after a few days. Failure due to a critical glitch should be far more serious, with lasting damage done to the subject such as amnesia, schizophrenia, phobias, or severe BTL addiction. detecting reprograMMing Realizing that something is wrong with one’s memories may not be particularly difficult. The opinion of a witness or recorded evidence of an event differing from the subject’s recollection can be enough to tip off the subject that something is off about their memory. But actually determining that ASIST reprogramming is the reason for the discrepancy and targeting where the ASIST reprogramming was done in order to reverse it is far more difficult. Extended psychotherapy is often needed, including the use of deep regression hypnosis or PAB units to pinpoint the altered experiences. It is important to note that unless someone is specifically investigating the reprogrammed memories, it is very unlikely that it will be noticed accidentally. A reprogrammed subject could visit a therapist regularly for years and unless there is reason to look into the altered set of experiences, there would be no reason to question their programmed memories. In order to specifically examine a subject’s memories for signs of alteration, a Logic + Psychology (12, 1 day) Extended Test must be made. The threshold for this test is modified in two ways. If the original event reprogrammer modified his test using Concealed Reprogramming, then the number his threshold was increased by also increases the threshold of this test. The threshold can be lowered if the examiner uses a PAB unit of their own to monitor the subject during the psychological examination. In this case, lower the threshold by the rating of the PAB unit. event reprograMMing ModifierS Situation Modifier Altered memories span a period of: Less than a day –1 Threshold Less than a week 0 Less than a month +1 Threshold Less than six months +3 Threshold Less than a year +6 Threshold More than a year +8 Threshold Altered memories are insignificant to subject –1 Threshold Altered memories are very significant to subject +2 Threshold Subject is directly involved in altered memories +2 Threshold Altered memories involve a series of events +1 to +4 Threshold (GM’s discretion) Altered memories conflict with basic behavior* +1 to +4 Threshold (GM’s discretion) Concealed Reprogramming Variable† * Apply this modifier if the subject or well-known people in the altered memories behave uncharacteristically, conflicting with the subject’s own behavior or the other person’s behavior in other, unaltered memories. For instance, if the normally pacifistic subject lashes out violently at someone in the reprogrammed event, the modifier would be applied. Similarly, if a friend who the subject has known for years (and retains those memories) acts as if they don’t know the subject in the reprogrammed memory, apply the modifier. † The programmer can choose to conceal evidence of the reprogramming more thoroughly than usual. The programmer chooses the number to increase the threshold by and this same number acts as a modifier against detecting the event reprogramming (see Detecting Reprogramming, p. 191). Unwired This test should be rolled in secret and if the test fails, the gamemaster should simply report that no reprogramming was detected in the examination. If the test is successful, the examiner can determine that the subject was reprogrammed using programmable ASIST biofeedback and they also know which memories were altered. Actually undoing the reprogramming requires a separate step covered in Reversing Reprogramming, below. The Mind Probe spell may be used as an alternative way to detect ASIST reprogramming. Like the Psychology Test, this roll should be made in secret. The spellcaster must be specifically investigating a set of memories for this method to work. Three hits on the spellcasting test will determine that some ASIST reprogramming has taken place on the targeted memories. Five hits are necessary to determine the exact extent of the reprogramming so that it can be reversed. reverSing reprograMMing Reversing event programming works almost identically to the process that installed the original programming. In fact, the therapist attempting to reverse the programming must make the exact same extended test that the original programmer made, rolling Psychology + PAB unit dice against a threshold equal to the threshold of the original programming (see Event Reprogramming, p. 190) with the same interval of one week. Reversing reprogramming is not as strict a process as the original reprogramming, however. The weekly sessions are hours long and may take multiple days, but they do not require constant Simon Wentworth (order #1132857) 9 191 siMsense and skillware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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