comStar Firewall alert - PhaseThrough

intuitive Hacking
Cost: 5 BP
A character with this quality is highly intuitive about a single
aspect of the Matrix. The character may perform one specific type
of Matrix action without a program or Complex Form. The specific
Matrix action is chosen when this quality is taken. For example, a
hacker with Intuitive Hacking (Detect Hidden Node) may perform
that action in the Matrix without a Scan program, adding only the
Electronic Warfare skill to the dice pool. This quality may be taken
more than once, each time with a different Matrix action.
Latent technomancer
Cost: 5 BP
A character with this quality starts the game as a normal,
mundane character. When she starts the game, this character has
no Resonance attribute or related skills, and may not spend BP on
them. This quality may not be taken with any quality that confers
a Magic or Resonance attribute.
At some point during play, usually some time after the start
of the campaign, the gamemaster determines that the character’s
technomancer abilities manifest. This decision is entirely up to
the gamemaster, and should not be discussed with the player. The
gamemaster is encouraged to make the decision based on dramatic
license and a good story. Often the ability will manifest itself in
spurts, possibly leading the character to believe she is hallucinating
or going mad. Often, a budding technomancer will unconsciously
use her abilities before realizing that she has them.
Once the gamemaster had decided that the character’s abilities
have fully manifested, the character gains a Resonance attribute
of 1. If the character has an Essence of less than 6 at this point,
she still receives the Resonance attribute, although her maximum
Resonance is reduced accordingly. If her Essence has dropped
below 1, then she has no chance of ever being a technomancer.
When the ability manifests, the gamemaster also chooses three
Complex Forms that the character gains for free at Rating 1. The
gamemaster may also allow the player to choose additional qualities appropriate
to a technomancer, such as Paragon or Synthetic Sympathy,
but the character is then required to pay a Karma cost of twice the BP
value of these qualities. The gamemaster also chooses a stream for the
character that is appropriate to her beliefs and experiences.
Once the character becomes a full technomancer, she may
improve her Resonance and learn and improve Resonance skills
and Complex Forms normally.
More than Metahuman
Cost: 5 BP
When jumped into a drone, vehicle, or rigged device, the
character is completely comfortable, as though he had always had
a machine body. When jumping into or out of a drone, vehicle, or
rigged device, the character does so as a Free Action.
obscure
Cost: 5 BP
By a coincidence of bland statistics, average characteristics,
and dumb luck, the data left by the character’s life tends to get
erased or lost in the enormous quantities of similar data in the
Matrix. Any Data Search Test involving information about the
character is made at a –2 dice pool modifier.
Unwired
paragon
Cost: 5 BP
This quality is available only to those with the Technomancer
quality. The character has made contact with a mysterious and
powerful Matrix entity, which acts as a guide and grants certain
advantages and disadvantages, see Paragons, p. 149. A character
may only have one Paragon.
resonance Bond
Cost: Sprite’s Edge x 5 BP
A character with this quality has established a resonance bond
(see p. 160) with a free sprite that uses elements of its Resonance
to augment the character’s Matrix actions. The specific nature of
the bond should be discussed with the gamemaster and is subject
to his approval; see p. 160 for some possibilities.
Synthetic Sympathy
Cost: 10 BP
A character with Synthetic Sympathy has an instinct for the
cognitive processes of artificial intelligences of all kinds. The character
gains a +2 dice pool modifier for all Social Skill Tests with AIs.
negative QUaLitieS
By taking the following Negative qualities, the character gains
the Build Points listed for each.
aipS
Bonus: 5 BP/level
The character has Artificially Induced Psychotropic Schizophrenia
Syndrome, a psychological disorder most common to survivors of the
Matrix Crash of 2064. For each level of this quality taken (max. 3), the
character suffers a –1 dice pool penalty to Perception Tests while within
Signal range of a Matrix device (including her own). Additionally, the
gamemaster may require a successful Willpower Success Test with a
threshold equal to the level of this quality when the character must
focus her attention in a non-stressful situation.
data Shadow
Bonus: 5 Bp/level
The character has a prominent feature, history, style, name,
or other piece of information that makes him easy to locate in the
Matrix. Any Data Search Test involving information about the
character is made at a +2 dice pool modifier for each level of this
quality (max. 3). Additionally, the threshold for any Track Test is
reduced by one per level of this quality.
Media Junkie
Bonus: 5–30 Bp
This obsession with news, information, videos, forums, and social
networking sites is a form of the Addiction quality (p. 80, SR4),
and acts as a mental addiction. It requires that the character have
Matrix access, either via commlink or by virtue of being a technomancer.
The BP bonus of this quality is dependent on its severity:
Mild (5 BP): At this level, the obsession seems more like a hobby.
The character spends about two hours a day on the Matrix browsing
through various public nodes and sites, but can skip a day without
adverse effect. She also suffers a –2 dice pool penalty to Willpower
Tests to resist the urge to surf the Matrix and to Addiction Tests.
Simon Wentworth (order #1132857) 9
37
the Matrix user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .