Unmarketable Extracurriculars
Unmarketable Extracurriculars
All religions are not only legal, The grind stops for no one. In this
but encouraged in Cy, as long as age of transhuman potential,
their teachings reinforce loyalty allowing your biological limits to
to the Corps. Your sect has been interfere with your productivity is
outlawed and on the fringes for grounds for a disciplinary. Sleep
too long. Time to make them pay is a distant memory, dreams cast
for the raids and the altar aside for the corp.
burnings.
---You do not need to sleep and can
---Spend 10 minutes creating a spend time you would use resting
small shrine to the terrible entity to perform simple, mind-numbing
you worship. If this shrine is in a tasks. You can never regain more
public or dangerous place, or than D4 HP from resting,
includes an offering of blood regardless of the length when
(1D4 HP) or ¤ (1D10x10), regain a doing so.
Glitch.
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---If discovered by agents of the
35. Arcology Brat
lawful authorities, or their
sympathizers, you will likely face a You grew up relatively safe and
manhunt. sheltered from the chaos of the
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of a Corp arcology. Relatively.
33. Insipid Influencer The rich folks from the upper
floors would periodically
First it was just for fun. Then you
descend upon you in whooping
got hooked on the attention. Then
blood hunts. You got good at
you had nothing else left. The hiding.
fans love you like a fire loves
kindling. ---You automatically sense any vent
or maintenance duct access point
---Use a Glitch to reveal that a
that is not hidden via expensive or
minor NPC is a superfan willing to
advanced security systems, as
put their livelihood at risk for
well as a sense for where it might
your attention or a shoutout.
lead.
---If you do anything to disrupt
---You can squeeze through any
their idealistic, parasocial hole the size of your head, taking
version of you, immediately lose
1D3 damage as your joints pop and
their trust and roll to see if a yield.
miserable headline triggers.
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36. Str33t Samurai 42. Collateral Damage Concord
You studied the blade. Not out of You hate this city. Every part of it,
any particular philosophical bent, from its towering architecture to
mostly just because it looks its pathetic inhabitants. When you
cool. fight, any destruction is a victory,
no matter what gets broken.
---While wielding a melee weapon
and targeted by a ranged attack, ---When using explosives, deal
you may test defence at DR+2 to double damage to machines or
reflect the projectile towards inanimate structures.
the attacker or another nearby
---Additionally, add +1 to the total
target. On a success, make an
damage roll per each creature
Agility based attack, dealing
caught in the blast, +2 for allies.
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41. Lost in the Crowd Most people are likely to get in a
few high-speed accidents given
Sure, there’s no end of places to
hide in Cy. But that’s nothing Cy’s lax traffic enforcements.
You’ve made a lifestyle from it.
compared to the amount of
Probably not a particularly long
people. You know how to turn
one.
yourself into another dead-eyed
face in the morass when it suits ---While driving a vehicle, floor it
you. at max speed into an unlucky
---DR-2 Agility when trying to hide target, dealing 4D10 damage to
in a crowd. the vehicle, them and you. Test
Agility DR14 to bail out, taking
---You have a habit of just going only 1D10 damage.
with the mass consensus. DR+2
---Damage may increase or decrease
for Presence tests when
based on vehicle size.
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Sick of getting beat down and They say chrome peels away at
with more money than sense, you what makes a person human, but
let them slice you open and stitch you’re not convinced. You’re
this throbbing cyber-organ stronger, harder, better all
somewhere deep inside. You got round. Perhaps you’re a little
hooked on the thrill of winning, colder than you used to be, but
and the cocktail of chems. The only because the company of
money’s all gone now, and you fools with too much flesh makes
take whatever jobs keep it your sockets ache.
running.
---Gain one piece of Cyberware. Do
---Modify damage done to or by you not increase the DR of Cy-Rage
by up to three points. For each tests based on your current
point you alter the total, pay 100 Cyberware.
¤ to an anonymous ripperdoc.
---Decrease the DR of Presence
--If you are unable or unwilling to tests to intimidate opponents with
pay, instead add double the cost little or no chrome by the amount
to your debt. of cyberware you currently have
installed (Max -4). Increase the DR
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of tests involving making an
46. Card Carrying Corpo emotional connection by a
corresponding amount.
You’ve no love for the Corps, of
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work for them once. Yeah, maybe 52. Digital Ghost
you still get some kickbacks once
in a while. But you’re no dog. Could be its an old-world curse
Right? lingering in your family blood.
Could be even machines find you
---Choose one of the organisations
uninteresting. More likely it’s the
from the Corp Index. Gain +4 to
blind-code constantly streaming
reaction rolls when interacting
from your RCD or QR stitched
with their lackeys, so long as you
into your jacket patterns. You’ll
can plausibly seem to be acting in
never be a TV star, but you prefer
the company’s interests.
to go unnoticed anyway.
---Spend a Glitch to call in a favour ---You do not show up on CCTV or
from your benefactors, relating
similar electronic recording
to their particular investments or
devices. The effects of your
specialties. Add 1D10x100 to your actions may still be observed.
debt to them afterwards.
---Defend at DR-2 against
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opponents that rely on
mechanical sight.
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53. Street Sermon Spitfire 55. Pride Comes Before
You used to be one for pretty It hurts every time. In the quiet
words. All utopian dreams, no nights after a scrap, you shake
bosses, no borders but achieved and whimper and ache to the bone.
through the proper channels, no But while the bloods up and
one having to get hurt. Then the coursing, you have a rep to hold
Secops bashed your teeth in and up. No-one gets the satisfaction
locked you down for a while. Now of seeing you break.
your words are like broken glass.
When you speak, people bleed. ---Once per fight, when you would
otherwise be Battered or killed,
---Launch into a caustic, spite- you may delay the effects by
filled rant to incite violence. 2D6 1D6+Constiution rounds. When
randomly selected listeners must you crash, you suffer for your
test Morale (Presence DR12 for defiance. If Battered, add +2 to
PC’s) or become aggressive. The the effect roll. If dead, no
outcomes or targets of this urge Emergency Response Team or
depend on the outlook and other method will be able to
personality of the affected. revive you., no matter how deep
your pockets.
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54. Thrash Unreal
56. Knucklebreaker
It’s easy to let Cy get you down.
You always know where to find You never knew when to stop. A
something to get you back up or defeated foe is just a chance to
keep you distracted. Drug-haze, teach a lesson. Your gang used to
grinding music, the sweat of a pull you away from your students,
dancefloor- if there’s one thing until you taught them too.
not artificially scarce in this city
it’s a good party. ---Take 1D3 damage working over a
downed foe for a round. Any
---You always know where the best viewing the violent excess must
and most depraved gatherings are test morale, including followers.
occurring, and can always find a The victim will not survive.
way to slip on to a guestlist.
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---When at a party or in a club, 10
minutes or so of elbow-rubbing
will find someone willing to sell
full dose drugs at half price, or
provide some other small favour,
if you can convince them that it
will make the night more
interesting.
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61. Nanosurge 64. Faceless Fleshmould