I guess I'm on a roll.
Enhance Firmware Target: Device
Duration: S
Fade Value: L + 1
Improving the preexisting software on a device, this complex form adds a number of dice equal to your hits when using it. A device can only benefit from this if it is also benefiting from a
wireless on effect of it. This only adds to rolls in which the
wireless on effect is being used.
Example:[spoiler]Jade Threads
Enhance Firmware on her Ares Predator V at Level 3. She rolls her Software 5 and her Resonance 6 and get 4 hits. Only three of the hits are kept because of the limit from the Complex Form's Level. She then rolls to resist Fade with her Willpower 5 and Resonance 6 only getting 3 hits. Ow, 1 Stun damage is lame, but she can make it. Once in a scuffle, she rolls her Pistols 3 + Agility 3 + 1 from smartgun + 3 from
Enhanced Firmware and a -2 for sustaining it, totaling a dice pool of 8. She may want to take a moment to aim up her shot.[/spoiler]
Thoughts:
[spoiler]I kind of want to name the above CF "AMP" (Augment Matrix Performance). Also I could see the argument for making it last [Level] minutes. I also kinda like the idea of a downside to this. If it is sustained for a number of hours equal to the Device's Rating, it suffers damage or gains gremlins... something.
I'm open to suggestions.[/spoiler]
Data SurgeTarget: Self
Duration: I
Fade Value: L + 2
All (wireless on, natch) devices within [Level] meters of you must win an Opposed Test with Willpower + Firewall or reboot. Only devices with a Device Rating less than or equal to the Level are affected. Devices that are slaved can use the Master's defense pool, however the device's rating still determines if it is affected. This has no effect in a host.
Cryptext Target: File
Duration: P
Fade Value: L - 1
By saturating a file with Resonance you can create a sort of subfile within the file. The data you place within the file is unviewable to those unaware of its existence. To
access the subfile you must first find it with a Matrix Perception text with a threshold equal to its hits; it is considered to be running silent. If/once you spot it, you'll need to decrypt it with an Opposed Test using Crack File against Level * 2. Alternatively you can simply
access it if your persona has permissions to use/read/write it (set up at the time of Threading). Still you must first find it before you can use it.
The Level of the Complex Form determines the size and complexity of the data that which is being hidden.
Example:
- About a paragraph of text
- A file such as song or document
- A folder containing some files
- An entire discography, entire building blueprints
- 3d blueprints, short clip of simsense, detailed autobiography, complicated formula
- A flatscreen movie, approx 10 minutes of trideo or simsense recording, a folder containing several files, etc
- Entire contents of a datachip
Resonance RealmCyberiaIn the far reaches of Resonance is the realm of Cyberia. An arctic landscape envelops the vast and perilous area. Vicious incarnations of the Matrix's IC prey upon those who venture out this far, taking form of nightmarish amalgamations of nature's predators. Know sightings include Moosewolves, Tigorillas, Spiderfoxes, Minnowtaurs, and Leopardowls. Aside from the deadly "fauna", the climate's conditions are just as ruthless with biting gales that shiver your bones and snowstorms which freeze the blood in your veins. "Why come here", you're probably thinking. Rumors speak of someone (or thing) that has existed since the beginning of the Matrix and resides here in seclusion. It's survived of both crashes and knows the most protected or forgotten secrets of the Matrix. Just be careful if you looking for it. Those that say they've seen it speak of it changing into any form at will.