Imbue Tech (Action Powers)

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Main article: Powers (Action)

Behavior Chip

Finisher

A popular device, with many applications in psychology and crime prevention, but also the perfect tool for an autocratic regime, the Behavior Chip is an AI personality that overrides the user's motivations.

You can install a Behavior Chip in Melee, and it takes a Melee vs. Create roll to do successfully. If it is surgically installed, it is so well concealed and hard to remove that it is considered a Curse.

The Behavior Chip contains a set of goals and objectives for the individual and his behavior, that he will normally obey with enthusiasm. Through a concerted effort of will the victim can fight the chip, but this is very difficult. They can make a Mind roll with a difficulty of 10. For each point of negative outcome, the chip is in total control for one round . For each point of positive outcome, the character has control of himself for one round. If the target manages an outcome matching your Mind, the Behavior Chip burns itself out.

Certain behavior chips trigger only under certain circumstances, such as a mole chip that makes you report on you activities each day or a traitor chip that makes you turn on your comrades in a particular situation. A Behavior Chip can be programmed prevent short-term memories from being recorded in long-term memory, creating periods of lost time, but it must delete a minute within five minutes of the event, or it will be in long-term memory.

Black Box

Finisher

Often fitted in operatives who are considered unreliable, untrustworthy or expendable, the Black Box is a recording device that records everything. Every movement, every emotion, every word, every pang of lust or jealousy is recorded and subject to later study and evaluation.

You can install a Black Box in Melee, and it takes a Melee vs. Create roll to do successfully. If it is surgically installed, it is so well concealed and hard to remove that it is considered a Curse. The black box will upload its data by radio on demand or whenever the user connects to an open network. If the target is also fitted with Bug, the updates are constant. People with access to the victim's files know all his personal weaknesses, and can thus use social interaction directly against his Mind rather than against his Charm or Impress.

Bug

Basic Action

Technologiocal surveilance devices gain more and more complexity and stealth capabilities. The first ones were large and had to be mounted in rooms or cars, but sophisticated ones are not only small, but actively disguise themselves, deploy decoys, and move if their internal logic realizes they are spotted. You can install a Bug in Melee, and it takes a Melee vs. Dodge roll to do successfully. If it is surgically installed, it is so well concealed and hard to remove that it is considered a Curse. These are bugs which are installed in the target's body. They broadcast homing and listening signals up to 5 kilometers which can be picked up with a receiver with the proper encoding. In a networked environment, this means the target can be kept track of and listened to almost anywhere.

Cortex Bomb

Finisher

It takes very little to kill you if explosives are placed inside your body.

You can install a Cortex Bomb in Melee. If it is surgically installed, it is so well concealed and hard to remove that it is considered a Curse. If the right stimuli, such as an encoded radio signal or a set time limit expires, the bomb explodes. A Behavior Chip can be given control over the Cortex Bomb, a particularly nasty situation. An exploding cortex bomb inflicts a [Wound] with a damage value equal to the installer's Melee skill. A Cortex Bomb explosion can be set to be grossly obvious by exploding the head or neck, or to be barely noticeable, looking like a natural medical event to all but an autopsy.

Cyberknucks

Inherent

You have reinforced fist bones that can be used in melee and does Body +4 blunt damage. This is not a damage-boosting stance; it is a weapon that can be used with damage-boosting stances like Razor Fangs.

Cybernetic Pile-driver

Limit Break or Basic Action

You have a cybernetic limb of vast strength you can use to inflict damage equal to your Melee. This is an arm, leg, head, or other large limb such as a pile-driver tail or it can even be mounted along the spine to strike straight up or down. Used against an opponent, this is a Limit Break. Used against a stationary object such as a door or wall, it is a Basic Action.

Impact Touch

Stance (Damage Boost)

You can imbue a Melee or Shoot attack with an additional type of damage. The damage of the attack increases by +2. Against a target that has different soak values against the two types of damage, use the lesser soak value but decrease the damage by 2. This is Impact damage.

Override Plug

Finisher

Your sponsor might want you to be a psychopathic killer, but they still want some control. With an override, this control is easily achievable; they can remotely shut you down at the flip of a switch. So can anyone else with the proper access code.

You can install an Override Plug in Melee. If it is instead surgically installed, it is so well concealed and hard to remove that it is considered a Curse. Anyone with the proper access code can automatically paralyze a body with an Override Plug installed as a Basic Action; the target loses all Hits.

Rippers

Stance

You can extend a concealed cybernetic weapon that can be used in melee and does Body +6 slashing or piercing damage (your choice on getting the power). This is not a damage boost; it creates a weapon that can be used with damage-boosting stances like Razor Fangs.

Slicers

Inherent

You have sharp nails that can be used in melee and does Body +3 slashing damage. Slicers will pass even close examination. This is not a boost; it is a weapon that can be used with damage-boosting stances like Razor Fangs.