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They collect his records and meet a human decker by the name of Blitz who can join the team as their new decker. There are two sides to that coin though, because the game also requires tedious character building and extensive game saving. In the year , Seattle has become a wasteland frequented by thugs and mercenaries. Nestled within the grimy confines of the city are the Corporations that run things.

These giant, powerful Corporations frequently hire members of the underworld to do their bidding. Good thing that could never really happen. Into the fray come the Shadowrunners, small-time mercenaries who take a job, or 'run,' for any amount of money.

They're kind of like the Teamsters of thugs, and they can put a hurtin' on you in a hurry. You play as a Shadowrunner who wants to know what happened to your brother.

He's been fragged by someone with connections to the upper echelons of power in the city, and you want that slag-head dead. You pick from three types of characters: a Samurai, a mercenary hunter skilled with weapons; a Decker, who's a computer whiz; or a Shaman, a mystical magic-user. Each character has his own set of skills and specialties. You can hire other 'runners to help you out, but they ain't cheap.

Running roadblocks in your path are the Corporations. Cal and I have been working at integration ever since we first started communicating. I understand his plight. Cal and I will find another woman after we are united. Karch was investigated and questioned but no evidence could ever be found. Cal must have done some serious intercepting to keep all that from reaching Karch. Shows the extent the PFs can go to in order to keep things from those they are invading.

Butch So far the process has been mostly painless. Cal apologized for the headaches early on and said they were comparatively mild, which meant we were extra compatible. Cal has been able to contact some of his siblings and mentioned that we are looking for more volunteers to be suitable hosts and hostesses.

That is one of the greatest things about working for Evo. The open-mindedness of so many of us. I wonder if Cal has a girlfriend, or whatever. Silly me, I just asked. Cal reads these logs too. To have another mind is to have another set of options to color the world in. I like operas; Cal said they bore him to tears. There are also the physical benefits. I went skydiving just last week, and I even got a pet tarantula though she is gene-modded for softer hairs and no poison glands.

All in all, the experience is amazingly rewarding, and if you are reading this little testimonial and not quite convinced, please give me a call or come visit. Cal or I would be happy to discuss further details.

The Universal Brotherhood got plenty of these sorts of people to join up and then made bugs out of them. The ones that came back came out all happy and shiny. Most of us never saw the rest. We might have a chance of talking to them. We never had that chance with the bugs.

Next up is a piece of a KE file from Manhattan. Theoretically any exchange of fluids could contain nanites, but they may not remain active once they are transmitted. The bad news is, if the virus stays viable even when nanites are inactive, it could resume its attack if and when the nanites connect to a new power source.

A handshake or even a pat on the back could do it if enough nanites can be moved to the outer layer of the epidermis. Thus far. Surface transmission would be a very long shot; not impossible, but not likely. Most nanobots need to be in constant contact with an energy source— like a light plugged into a wall socket.

Nanites in a body draw thermal and bioelectric energy directly from the bloodstream. True, some nanobots can store minute amounts of energy as an emergency backup— enough for a few seconds, but not enough to travel between hosts. This means that if the nanobots are outside the bloodstream or leave the electrical field of the body, they lose power.

He was fine just a few weeks ago when he went on that trip to the East Coast. He seemed fit, the stocks were back on the rise, and the Excaliber shakeup had paid off for him around the New Year. When management started getting shifted around, he picked up two new projects. I know he was looking at almost double his pay from last year and word was the higher-ups had their eye on him for Top Gun.

Every Ares manager wants that title. And he was excited about the HQ tour trip next week. He talked about it constantly. The worst thing he mentioned to me was some headaches a few weeks ago, but he just blamed it on too much sun and drinking during his trip. We were an open book.

And yes we had that kind of relationship too, but it was all consensual. He really did have an ideal life. The two women are still close and they are taking his death hard. But not probable. Nanobots are extremely fragile, susceptible to the slightest damage. Part of the energy they absorb is used to stabilize their structure. Though who knows how these things have been modified. This one was a little wacky. Elton Braumslich. They fought ferociously. The shamed captured alive by the shameless were delivered to the kami whole and the Maker destroyed each piece by piece.

With no ritual second to hide their shame with a quick death, many went to the darkness in shame. The house of the kami machine was a place of blood and darkness.

A place of dishonor but still the shameless followed. To this day they follow and the shamed fight on. Stealth and death are our allies. They are my allies. I will return to the fight again. I will face the kami machine and bring its end. I swear this to the good kami, the dark kami will be vanquished and honor shall be returned to my gumi. The shameless took fingers from it and thus got nanites in the fingers.

They were then infected. They were overwritten and then worked together. Dangerous to think there is a Yakuza gumi out there that is entirely made of head cases. The dishonor is not mine. Know this and I will talk to you. NOTE: He is speaking to no one. My gumi is a powerful gumi. Our success was obvious. Our honor was great. But our fall was the will of the kami. They spoke through the spoils of our success and told us it was their will. Let me have your ear so that I might tell you this tale.

Our great gumi was so powerful they earned a Maker. A device of such power it could make anything. We made the finest weapons and the finest clothes. We were blessed by the kami of the machine. But one day our greatness was tested. We were challenged by our enemies, and though we fought with honor our victory was costly.

In the end our failures had to be recognized. None was without dishonor and all gave the tip of their littlest finger to show our failure. Those who already bore the marks of dishonor lost more of the finger. Or the tip of the next. We gave our sacrifice and regained our honored status.

But the kami sent their message. The Maker created new fingers for us. Flesh and blood fingers. It was truly infused with the kami. It spoke that our shame should not be shown for it was not earned. Those who followed the kami gained their fingers back. Those who held to their shame did not. When the shamed spoke against the shameless, the war began. But the Maker was not sated. The kami of the Maker were not happy with the shamed refusing their gift and ordered them punished. The first captured shamed lost his hand.

The second, an arm. The shamed did not heed these warnings. Beaker This next one was recorded at a facility in Denver. Chances of those being their real names are slim to none, but I used them for the transcript. That same guard took a gel round to the throat the next night. Luckily, he was the only casualty. Lots of teams are starting to join this game.

It could be the future. Gordon Browne To: Cerberus The project is moving forward at anticipated pace. Data is being securely consolidated at the primary facility and operations are being contracted to minimize exposure at all other facilities. Highlighted facilities are those I believe will need staffing adjustments. On the subject of personnel, I would like to reiterate my concerns regarding Dr.

I know you consider the matter closed and have accepted Dr. Until my concerns, which I think quite reasonable, have been addressed I will not be fully comfortable with her position on this team.

Full updates on individual projects will be uploaded to the primary data storage for your perusal. Eric Hilliard : This project shows a lot of promise in developing enhanced recovery of lost data and unexplored aspects of electrokinetic research.

An allocation of additional funds to acquire additional EK assets could accelerate development of this promising avenue significantly. Nanoviral Identity Alteration Syndrome Dr. Varun Soni : Dr.

I believe an increase in the budget and staff to explore and develop these options would yield substantial long-term benefits. From: Dr. Creech, While I understand that you desire to stay fully apprised of this project and feel the need to receive your Oversight Reports every Monday by noon, neither I nor my staff work within the standard zero nine to seventeen office hours.

Your reports will get to you when they get to you. In fact I will provide you with your Oversight Report right now. Did Creech get eaten? But he has made Mondays interesting in the month since I got that chunk of data. One of them got shaken so badly DocWagon had to pick them up. This guy is a high-value target if he is getting all the Oversight Reports for this project and weekly face-to-face meetings with Celedyr, but other than this there is nothing special about this guy. Once it was clear Celedyr favored cooperative interactions, the recalcitrant Dr.

Xavier came around to the idea. She also alludes to an incident that raises a flag with me. Penelope Ann Xavier To: Celedyr I will admit that at first I was skeptical there would be any benefit to collaboration between our parent corporations, but I have come to see the advantages of joint operations these past weeks.

It is my understanding you are in the process of centralizing all your assets engaged in this current project. I would be honored if a tour of your completed facilities could be arranged.

If I may suggest, establishment of a secure connection between our respective databases could be mutually advantageous. Please accept my apologies for the incident when your coordination team visited my lab unannounced. The inability of one member to pass the retinal identification due to an eye infection triggered the automated defense system. Netcat He may have. Question is, was he deliberately manipulating the researchers or was he just encouraging his people to do exactly the wrong thing out of ignorance?

Aston was retiring from Ares Integrated Solutions where his job—as you may have gathered from his exit speech—was quality control. He was sent to investigate those nanotowers that collapsed in Africa and spent most of last January in country studying the wreckage. Took a week of sick leave when he came back— blamed it on some unknown African bug.

From that point until the day he retired he was all about figuring out what had gone wrong with the nanostructures and fixing it. No way this guy is not a head case. He has been an indefatigable finder and fixer of nanite problems since his first day at Ares Integrated Solutions. Along with a dozen other names from the same firm. As in hinky enough for me to pass on a substantial payout. Some of you know I suggested he be allowed to join us JackPointers, but Glitch made a solid case for his having at least a year in the real shadows—and seeing how he does—before we give him access.

Hope this tidbit gives him another check in the plus column. There have been too many irregularities and unexpected delays for it to be otherwise. What we did not anticipate was the scale and the nature of the something.

As you know, some fourteen agents who had targeted our employees at different times were captured; each was examined and interrogated. To a man these individuals display personality traits and behavioral quirks very similar to those of the involuntary subjects of the Dickens Program. Casilov says shortly thereafter the company contracted a hit on both him and Grey. They got clear, barely, then split up to make smaller targets. Grey disappeared into the shadows of Neo-Tokyo, where he runs under the moniker Dr.

Casilov is now the shadowrunner Arkon. Yes, Butch, this is a check in his plus column. Glitch That memo sounded mighty familiar. From friend to corporate foe in no time? In the meantime please be sure to transfer all your investigation materials over to the Dickens Program Security Director Sergei Kiretsky. The hit on Grey was supposed to be enough to plug that leak and AK was going to bring in Casilov to talk after that and reveal more insider stuff.

When the attack nearly killed Casilov he took it personally and followed Grey into the shadows. Probably helped that Grey was an even closer friend. Rumors though. Guess we know which faction of Evo is behind their piece of this. This place could become a major target for quiet ops if this gets out. Corps might start sending out assets to get as much intel as they can before they get assimilated.

This is going to be a serious clusterfrag. But the possibilities are going to make the megas issue some fat credsticks.

We are not simply anarchists but prophetic anarchists guided by the new Oracles of the modern day. We are directed, we strike, and the towers crumble. We are guided by the transformative, pushed forth by the cleansed minds of our leaders, and we seek to bring out the inner truth in all of us. Bring forth the you you have always been! Join us in bringing to an end the megacorporate machinations that make our world a bleak cesspool of greed and ignorance.

Anarchy is true freedom! Or, well, who knows. Whoever it is, it looks like they found a kindred sprit in their hatred for the corporations and might have begun subverting neo-anarchists. From what I can tell, not all of them—not even most of them— are CFD victims. Each group of ten to fifteen followers only seems to have one to three head cases among them, the rest are just dupes. When they get more they split the group. The new group recruits more members and then adds a few to the inner circle.

Or maybe they surround themselves with innocents as camouflage. Anything less than hyper-paranoia meant possible infection or finding some other way to make the problem worse. The best safety protocol is stay away. When my work required contact or close proximity, I modified a stun gun to run a steady current through my whole body—low enough to let me function but hot enough to fry any hard nanites that tried to make contact.

I used a full chemseal suit when soft nanites were involved. Some of the more clever CFD victims reprogrammed their nanites to destroy inorganic material—eat through the chemseal. Solution to that was a one-hundred-percent-natural cotton jumpsuit worn over the suit. The cotton jumpsuits cost as much as the chemsuits, but they worked. I also made good use of the faraday bags that MCT developed to snag technos— kept the nanos contained and prevented code from spreading wirelessly.

I got a few mage friends to help with containment protocols for the Awakened and dual-natured subjects. They also did a bit of their own research—CFD is just as new to them—and suggested a few spells that might be effective. The lab tests were all ended with strict limiting protocols. Those that posed too great a danger to themselves or other subjects as well as my limited staff were put down humanely and disposed of with zero chance of secondary Butch has the moderator stick.

Ask Butch what you want. Glitch How about I ask what makes her think she has the right to keep things from the rest of us? Clockwork I answered that in the beginning. Ask a real question or put in some actually useful data. Bull Seconding Bull. Keep things useful and relevant.

Ask questions, make observations, bounce speculations off the group—anything that might help us get a handle on this. Butch Speaking of funding, how are you getting the nuyen for this work? Bonds My retirement fund. My work. Spare change. Collecting favors. Owing favors. It all seems very worth it to me. Butch Anything corp-sponsored? Clockwork That was some quick digging, unless you were already keeping tabs on me.

I have other obligations to them in the future. They let me take the bulk of my payment up front and I applied it to CFD research. Such as it is. MCT has been throwing support at a lot of street-level docs lately. No reason to mention my CFD work—nothing innovative or streetsweeping they need to get their hands on. Snopes No. No way, no how. Plan 9 helpful? He could very likely be one of the earliest victims. Which is probably why he or it is even more crazy. The three of us will vote and you will all obey our decrees!!

I know some are closer than others, but how much does Fianchetto trust Slamm-0?! Right now we need info on CFD, and Plan 9 would be a perfect source. We have the resources to keep it honest. The risk is too great. I say yes. All on you, Glitch! Once we figure out where it came from, perhaps we can start figuring out how to combat it. Even if it was in poor taste. Patient zero might be a particular case that points backward to the root of the contagion.

Take Mary Mallon, for example, a. Typhoid Mary. Back in the early twentieth century, Mary seemed perfectly healthy, but she ended up infecting more than fifty people with typhoid fever over the years.

Took doctors and researchers a long time to figure out that she was an asymptomatic carrier: she could infect other people, but she never suffered from the disease herself. Once they figured this out, she was placed under quarantine for nearly thirty years. Her case was small—fifty-some people hardly constitutes an epidemic when you look at the crazy shit that would emerge less than a hundred years later. Other examples of famous index cases include people such as Mabalo Lokela, the first recorded victim of the Ebola virus in The list goes on.

Finding patient zero can help identify the infection vector for a disease— how it gets passed along. This comes in real handy when folks are confronted by a completely new disease or by a mutated strain of an existing disease that behaves or transmits in a completely different way. In the case of Typhoid Mary, for instance, all the Health Department knew was that people Mary cooked for got sick. Once doctors learned of this, they figured out that Mary was passing the contagion by not washing her hands while cooking.

What a Philistine. No wonder people got sick. But Mary was a healthy carrier, which made it that much easier for her to transmit the disease. And morbid curiosity. Depending on how a virus is first transmitted, patient zero can be one system, any number of systems, or a piece of a system. Back in the old days—before the Matrix, that is— computer viruses passed via physical media. You popped in a disk—a flat, flexible plastic square about the size of a printed book—that contained the virus.

When the computer turned on, it would read the disk and become infected. There are also hints of what we might expect from this swamp dragon. Enjoy reading and offering commentary. Take caution dealing with this New Orleans dragon. The Matrix began in earnest when, in the s, something called the internet took over two-way telecommunications.

Prior to the internet, telephones voices converted to electrical signals and transmitted through wires [example shown] were the dominant form of information exchange over long distances. Computers—complex calculating machines powered by electricity—were first operated by punching patterns of holes in paper cards, later by entering complex codes using keyboards, forearm-length devices with alphanumeric keys.

Computers became popularized when two corporations, Apple and IBM, adopted a graphic user interface to aid navigation and use. Humans began using a haptic device called a mouse, along with the a keyboard, for nearly unlimited aplications while the computers interpreted complex numbers and codes, and then displayed them on screens as easy-to-understand pictures and icons.

In time, nearly all computers worldwide began to connect and network together, and the worldwide internet was born.

By , over ninety-seven percent of long-distance communications were handled this way. With nearly unlimited information being transmitted instantaneously, individuals called hackers grew in influence.

Hackers exposed and exploited security flaws in the internet for their own purposes. As the internet grew, so did the malignancy and impact of these viruses. This technology was able to induce artificial sensations directly from electronics into metahuman brains. Of course, these sensations were crude, but they would not stay at that level for long.

Seeing an opportunity to gain an edge in the escalating cyber-warfare game, the United States government created a special cyber-security task force called Echo Mirage. These cyber-commandos were given the latest cyberterminal technology, but what they actually were created to accomplish remains vague. On February 8, , computer systems worldwide were attacked by a virus of unknown origin and unprecedented power. It crashed systems, wiped data, and destroyed hardware around the globe.

Using the still-experimental cyberterminals, Echo Mirage fought the Crash Virus on the internet, experiencing, through simsense, the electronic battle of warring code as if it were real; they felt pain when attacked, and when defeated in the cyber-realm, their bodies shut down.

Nearly all members of that first Echo Mirage team were killed in this manner. The Crash started with a corp called Acquisition Technologies. Roxborough had his sights set on taking over rival company Gossamer Threads, owned in part by the great dragon Dunkelzahn. Roxy tested his virus on a company called Effexx Studios, and after it was successful in destroying Effexx, it destroyed the internet.

After training, this new group was armed with a new generation of cyberterminals small enough to fit on desks and sent into the internet to combat the virus. When Big D learned Gavilan helped create the virus, he urged him to join Echo Mirage to redeem himself. Also, in the time between the deaths of the first team and the next thirty-two, Echo Mirage discovered how to weaponize Psychotrope and use it as an antivirus against the Crash Virus.

Always wondered. But nailing down the seven has proven tricky. Gavilan survived and founded Gavilan Ventures. She went by the name Static. She confirmed Buddy and Hannigan as Echo Mirage colleagues. She was killed fighting the Crash Virus, or so it was thought. Her body was revived and kept in a coma, but her consciousness was separated from her body by the Crash Virus. Rumor was she continued to exist in the Matrix as an e-ghost, dwelling in some creepy virtual Matrix space called Wonderland.

Are you going to cite sources this time? The rest is mostly from FastJack. Before he left JackPoint due to his condition, he slotted me a huge file with everything from theories on Saeletra to real names and locations of old Shadowland posters; stuff corps would level mountains for. But the above is ancient history by now. You forgot Johnny Clean. Way to go! Did the unholy offspring of a Resonance-infused monad and the e-ghost of Dunkelzahn tell you this? I met someone who was pretty sure they heard him talking about it in Hong Kong.

Or was it Berlin? No, Seattle! In , the Corporate Court spearheaded a plan to rebuild the worldwide information network that was shattered by the Crash Virus. Using immersive virtual-reality technologies, this new network incorporated a three-dimensional graphic user interface, much like the old internet used a two-dimensional interface.

The network was fully compatible with emerging cyberterminal technology, and it became known as the Matrix. Matrix -friendly, third-generation cyberterminals, fitting easily on desktops, became available to consumers in Just a few years later, Fuchi Incorporated hosted the Universal Matrix Specifications Conference, meeting for three months to determine a set of standards for Matrix programming.

By , cyberterminals were available as small as keyboards and were dubbed cyberdecks. The portability of these cyberterminals posed security issues for corporations. First, rumors of Ultraviolet hosts persisted. Hosts are virtual places on the Matrix , and Ultraviolet hosts were so lifelike that when someone experienced them in virtual reality, it was impossible to tell cyberspace from reality, causing many to go insane. However, the amount of processing power required to maintain these hosts was prohibitive for all but the most dedicated of corporations.

The ability to turn off safety measures while on the Matrix also became a problem in many ways. The Matrix protocols dictated that certain bottlenecks be put in place to protect the metahuman mind from experiencing the 3D nature of the Matrix too vividly. Even more nefarious activities continued to emerge as the Matrix developed. In , Dr. Ronald Halberstam, previously of ESP, was found to be isolating the brains of children from their bodies and raising them completely in the virtual world of the Matrix.

Also during the s, the first true artificial intelligences AI were created. Or born. Depends on who you talk to. Anyway, AI exist without any physical bodies as self-aware and intelligent entities, dwelling only in the electronic worlds of corporate network hosts or the Matrix itself.

Children called Otaku appeared, who could access the Matrix without a cyberdeck, using only datajacks linked to their brains. Soon, corporations began working on the next steps for the worldwide Matrix. In time, the Corporate Court gathered Matrix security personnel from each AAA megacorp and founded the Grid Overwatch Division, typically referred to as GOD, tasked with executing law enforcement for this confederation of corporate fiefdoms.

Renraku went on to slice up and utilize parts of her code to autonomously run their Seattle Arcology, which housed more than 90, people.

This new program gained its own form of autonomy and began calling itself Deus. In , Deus took control of the Renraku Arcology and closed it off from the outside world. Eventually, Deus was defeated, and the Arcology shutdown was lifted. The legacy of Deus did not end there, however. In the early years of the s, former servants of Deus formed a strange alliance with a doomsday cult known as Winternight.

This partnership culminated in a worldwide attack on November 2, , aimed to destroy the world in its current form. While much of the physical damage was contained worldwide, the damage to the Matrix , called Crash 2. Early in , the Second Universal Matrix Conference introduced the wireless Matrix , which became the new standard. It was not long after this that the world was introduced to technomancers, or virtuakinetic metahumans, who could access the wireless Matrix with only their brains, not unlike the earlier Otaku, but without their wired connection.

In some ways, they are like dual-natured creatures. Technomancers view the world in augmented reality by default, with Matrix data overlaying their vision similar to the way the Awakened perceive astrally.

On January 1, , the current version of the Matrix was revealed. Jolene is most definitely afraid, given what happened to her predecessor. At its most basic, the Matrix is the network formed by every wired and wireless device on the planet. This network draws computing power from all of these devices and is thus capable of processing nearly unlimited amounts of data almost instantaneously.

The connected nature of the Matrix allows users to read messages, pay bills, and communicate over any distance. It handles utilities, manages traffic on city streets, helps guns shoot more accurately, gives medkits access to medical records, and even detects wear and tear on clothing. It dominates nearly every facet of everyday life, no matter who you are. But this is only the surface. Just as magic can affect everyday life but is a different experience from entering the astral realm, entering the Matrix itself through virtual reality is entirely different from using a Matrix -connected device.

Entering the Matrix plunges you into a virtual universe, a shared consensual hallucination with every other entity inside.

Everything is rendered in incredible detail powered by a century of digital graphics innovation. Most of the time, users can tell the difference between the Matrix world and the real one, but not always—such is the sophistication of the experience. It may be helpful to think of the Matrix as a great ocean planet. The Matrix proper is the water that defines the world. It touches everything and connects the world together.

It is the medium through which we move from one place to another. Users can fly, walk, or even swim within it, travelling at nearly unlimited speed. While inside, all interactions will be with icons, 3D digital representations of the persons personas , places hosts , and things files and devices of the Matrix.

Persons in the Matrix take a virtual form called a persona. All around you are the personas of other Matrix users. These could be physical users of devices like legitimate users or illegitimate deckers, the living personas of technomancers, semi-autonomous servants called sprites or agents created by other users, or even AI.

Due to the protocols which govern the Matrix , personas can be customized, but they can only appear as metahuman-sized objects, ranging in size between a dwarf and a troll. Floating alongside personas in the Matrix are devices. Any real-world devices connected to the Matrix , which in is nearly all of them, also appear as icons.

Regardless of their actual physical size, devices in the Matrix almost always appear smaller than personas. Looming large over the vast ocean of the Matrix are islands called hosts. In the Matrix , hosts hover far above everything else. Just like climbing out of the water onto land, climbing out of the true Matrix into a host is a transition.

Inside hosts, physics are experienced however they are programed to behave. Most mimic real-world physics for the sake of ease of use, but this is not always the case. When the term was first coined, a host was the illusion of a 3D place within any network. Files can be as simple as raw data like electronic mail or accounting details, but they may also be as sophisticated as programs that perform incredibly complex functions.

GOD has physical servers located on a satellite orbiting the Earth, and in the Matrix , they are unseen, and keep watch far above even the hosts, only making their presence known when necessary to wield their power against a rule-breaker. Yes, great one—they are very much like dragons flying high over their domains. Most users do not know this Foundation exists, let alone know what it is. Access to the Foundation is no small feat. Pushing our ocean metaphor, the Foundation is the ground on which the ocean of the Matrix lies and the stuff of which hosts are made.

In this way, hosts are a bit like continents. This information is not common knowledge, however. Most corporations desire the populace to believe GOD is in complete control over the Matrix and is able to control it. This belief is dubious. They may have got the ball rolling, but it is definitely beyond their control.

It is a bit unsettling, but it appears the Foundation of the Matrix is far more than we thought it was. When the new Matrix first hit, no one knew about the Foundation. All they knew is that Danielle de la Mar and her team created something special, it worked, and it was very good at protecting corporate assets.

They were willing to look past anything else. When she was given the contract to oversee the creation of the new Matrix , she had her fingers in more than just the protocol pie. But de la Mar made it happen. The building blocks she used to create hosts and data trails were the souls being sucked out of those hundred.

When she presented a proof of concept to GOD and the rest of the Corporate Court, they were impressed and all pretended like they understood it, so as not to admit a virtual nobody like de la Mar was sharing knowledge that was beyond them.

Those are potentially damning charges. That drek-hole is probably getting off now at the thought that using the Matrix hurts technomancers. Instead, she discovered that all the technomancers who acted as the foundation for her beloved Matrix were dead. Follow me. You know how Resonance and Dissonance wells have been popping up, seemingly at random, throughout the Matrix for years now?

Price eaten. Their connection to the Resonance established a permanent link to the Resonance realms, permeating the Foundation. Once established, the link provided unlimited processing and storage power for the Foundation, and thus, the Matrix.

In return, all data from the Matrix bled through into the Resonance realms. When the technos died, whether they had a hand in their own demise or not, the foundation persisted, and it is now a hybrid space between the sum of all metahuman digital data, the Resonance realms, and Dissonance realms as well. No one controls it, although GOD is still able to manipulate the top layers. The Matrix depths can only be accessed through grids. Grids, to conclude our nautical metaphor, function a bit like patrons for long voyages.

Grids function much the same. In order to reach the Matrix , you must choose a grid through which to access it, much like cell phone carriers in the Fifth World. No grid, no Matrix access. There is a public grid, but using it means you have slow speeds, noise, and other built-in hurdles to overcome when trying to access information.

Yes, the corporations planned it that way. Most major cities also have their own local grids, offering access only in that location, while the ten major megacorporations have their own, worldwide grids. Aside from the public grid, whichever grid is chosen, the difference in experience is largely cosmetic. Accessing the Matrix through the Ares grid will flood your vision with promotions of the newest Ares-produced items, while using the Seattle Grid would likely do the same with political advertisements or local restaurant ads.

There is one large difference between the grids, however. Glorious Terasca, it is my understanding that through your commlink and eyepiece, you have already experienced the Matrix to some extent. While the visual overlays provided by your eyepiece give you some hint of what is possible through the Matrix , it is a limited experience, akin to astral perception versus actually entering astral space and exploring the metaplanes.

Many times, physical locations like taverns and dance clubs appear in the Matrix as exact replicas of their real-world counterparts.

Other hosts, like those for online shopping, may appear as an endless vertical shopping mall where users are given shopping bags of endless capacity and are allowed to fly from storefront to storefront. Default VR settings filter out other visual stimuli as well, such as data trails, marks, and files, unless a user has a particular reason for wanting to see them.

Data trails are visual representations of files, programs, and other data that move constantly through the Matrix. If filters did not turn these streams off, nothing else would be visible except for an all-encompassing data stream. Files in the Matrix are small and most often take a form that suggests their function. A collection of stories for example may appear as a book, while a song file may appear as a music note or music instrument. A mark is a Matrix Authentication Recognition Key.

It is a sort of virtual brand that identifies legitimate users. When I was a child, my mother used to write the names of her children on the toys we were allowed to play with. If we were caught playing with a toy that did not have our name somewhere on it, we were punished. That is similar to how marks function. If a user does not have their unique marks on a device, they are denied access to the device. Users customize the look of their own marks, but they are invisible to other users by default.

More crudely, it is similar to how certain animals mark territory with urine. Yes, of course. No, no, no, great one, that is not a problem at all. That is just not the first question I anticipated. Yes, of course it is because I am a lesser being. The answer is yes, you can steal things, and yes, the Matrix is where most people keep their wealth.

I see. Well, as I mentioned, marks are necessary to perform any action on a device in the Matrix. In order to interact with a device, the user must have from one to three marks on the device.

Once marks exist, users can interact with devices in all manner of ways, such as editing, copying, deleting, or sending files, controlling a device, or sending a message. Like my mother in the example above, the owner writes marks onto devices—one mark for a guest user, two for a user, three for an administrator. To now directly address your questions, attempting to write your own mark on a device without being invited to do so is considered an illegal and hostile action, and therefore garners the attention of GOD.

This is where hackers come in. So-called deckers and lawless technomancers ply their trade by illegally marking devices through stealthy or brutish means, manipulating the device for their whims, and jacking out before the authorities are able to converge on them.

Yes, there are groups of hackers, although the most successful either work alone or are part of larger organized crime syndicates. There are a few more things worth mentioning before I begin research on those items. First, when accessing information or otherwise using the Matrix across different grids, Matrix protocols enforce automatic and arbitrary throttling of data speeds.

This can be frustrating for hackers who wish to hop across grids regularly. Thankfully, there has been a recent development within the decker community that helps alleviate this. Exploits and backdoors of unknown origin have been slowly leaking into the hands of hackers. The most common backdoor discovered this way is the virtual collapse of cross-grid throttling. Only the poorest deckers operating on the public grid are slowed down anymore by cross-grid throttling.

The public grid remains inefficient and full of noise by design, and none but the most desperate deckers use it. Other exploits include being able to access certain devices with fewer marks than normally required, or bypassing marks completely when attempting specific hacks. You all know that near-legendary decker called Dodger, right? I know it is counterintuitive, but he worked closely with the Corporate Court to implement the new Matrix protocols. Lots of chummers called him a sellout.

But whatever his reasons for working with the corps, he must have been keeping his roots in mind. Recently, some of those have been seeing widespread use. In broad strokes, personas are Matrix people, hosts are Matrix places, and devices and files are Matrix things.

PANs and marks also technically have icons, but only ever appear on other icons. It draws on vital statistics, biological records, and brainwave and usage patterns, and it is constantly updated with global metadata collected from every Matrix device worldwide.

Without a dangerous dive into the Matrix Foundation, personas are impossible to counterfeit. A persona is logged in whenever the user is online with a device capable of running a persona. Global positioning data, incredibly advanced passkeys, biorhythm data, and past Matrix history all combine to virtually eliminate false logins.

Technomancers do not need devices to engage the Matrix. They have icons called living personas that are also registered with the Foundation. Agents, sprites, and other autonomous and semi-autonomous icons, like AI, are also present as personas. But, no. Dodger spends too much of his time on other pursuits to be the best. I will return shortly with the information you requested. It was my great honor to have been in your presence. Hackers are more valuable than gold.

Not that people in the Sixth World use gold as much as they used to, but you get the point. Everyone, everyone, is more effective with a good hacker watching their back, no matter who they are. Hackers bust through corp firewalls to get you the paydata. Hackers track down that fugitive Mr. Johnson is paying you to retrieve. Hackers eject the clips from the guns pointed at your face.

Hackers make all the street lights turn green for the getaway car. More importantly, they make their opposition miserable while doing so. But how does a hacker make that happen? Far more detail on hacking, such as how to create a hacker character, purchasing gear, and expanded explanations of rules and terms can be found in the Matrix section of the SR5 core rulebook p. But to get into the action as quick as possible, read on. This section has a large number of sidebars to make it easy to find information on a particular topic.

With ownership comes privileges. A Matrix object can only have one owner, but there is no limit to the number of Matrix objects you can own. The owner can always spot its property in the Matrix. Owning an icon is basically like having four marks on it.

Ownership of a Matrix device is registered with both the device and the Matrix grids, so changing ownership is a bit complicated. The owner of an icon can legally transfer ownership to another person in less than a minute. Performing this test requires access to the Matrix ; a glitch results in the authorities being notified.

I am Estaban, brother of Armand. Hit me with a PM for any orders; I can fill them in most major runner sprawls in a day or two, smaller spots usually take a week or so, and anywhere else looks like a week minimum, possibly up to a month. Shop and enjoy! Most of the rounds listed have limits based on the slug size.

Glad you asked, because early models were useless once you shut the wireless off on your device. Use these on someone actively connected, hidden or not, and you can pretty much hit anywhere on their person and something is gonna get popped. The coding latches onto the first device it can break through and then folds and repeats inside, using its limited power to pull off its effect. More than one decker has been unprepared for one of these hitting their deck. Most decks have better protection than your average armored jacket and they might be able to take the hit, but get tagged while you were planning to sleaze in rather than take on IC and you just might be taking pointers from the street sam about how to stay useful in the fight.

Of course, he might be slowed down to your speed, because his wires got tagged too. Send in one member of the team with a light machine gun or something equally ammo abundant, and just lay down fire.

Enough rounds hitting, even just sprayed in general, cuts comms, disarms weapons, kills cyber, and frags their tech hard. Barely even enough damage to blind an eye on a direct hit.

Headware and medical cyber, like artificial hearts, that get bricked can cause brain damage and death. No one is legally responsible if a device installed within the cranial cavity causes brain damage or death. They control everything. The standard ranged attack roll is made with damage increased by net hits and applied to a single device possessed, worn, carried, or implanted in the targeted individual. The device receiving the damage is selected at random by the gamemaster, or by the attacking player if they succeed in a Called Shot.

Devices can only be targeted by a Called Shot if they are visible to the attacker. Burst Fire and Full Auto have an alternate option. The coding came from a local hacker known as 3D, while the round modification came from his pal Byom. On their first mission after the player joins them the team attempts to raid a data vault inside the Harfeld Mansion outside Berlin.

The mission goes seriously wrong when the team discovers a military compound underneath the Manor and Monika is killed attempting to hack in and access the door controls. Monika mentions something called the 'Feuerschwinge' before dying. The team fights off the base's security, encountering a heavily armed and armored Ork named Audran before they manage to escape.