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Starfox's Blades in the Dark hack

Consensu humanum — the sphere of human accord.

Devices that mediate between minds: communication, identity, and persuasion. Com gear, Nemes, attire, symbols of authority, and instruments of leadership. Associated with: Resolve, presence, will, and the arts of cooperation and command.

Quality of Life

License

1 ■ License

A License always has to be added to your playbook, you cannot simply pick up a License if it is not on your playbook. You may need special connections or to show ability to get a License.

A permit to own or carry items tagged Regulated or Military. Physically it may be a signed document or sigil-stamped token, but what actually matters is the correct authorization code recorded in your Neme.

A license applies to all items of its type, either all Regulated or all Military. You can have separate licenses for both.

There are two permissions for each category:

Carry — allows you to carry and use the item in public spaces within local legal limits.

Possession — allows you to store and transport a disassembled item for use on ranges, private property, or beyond local jurisdictions such as aboard your ship, base, or in the wild.

Common allocations:

Bounty hunters, police, licensed bodyguards, and wilderness guides typically obtain a Carry authorization for Regulated items.

Mercenaries and military commonly hold Possession authorization for Military items.

Consequences: lacking the proper license risks confiscation, arrest, or prosecution. These consequences can be Resisted by rolling your Tier (representing legal assistance). You can suffer worse consequences if you continue to violate the rules.

Unreliable. Local recognition depends on Quality of the license and the Tier of the place of use. Make a Quality roll when you present the license in a jurisdiction: if any die equals the local Tier the license is accepted immediately. If any die is 4 or higher but no die matches Tier, expect delay — the license will clear in days but you may face temporary ban or confiscation. If the roll shows no dice ≥4, the license is invalid here.

Neme

Personal assistant systems — limited AI companions that manage communication, translation, scheduling, research, and routine administration. Every citizen in the System is expected to carry one, and a person without a Neme is considered unreachable, untrustworthy, or primitive. Models vary widely in discretion, processing power, and social personality, but all share the same fundamental architecture: a distributed mind embedded in personal hardware and mirrored across the network.

Originally NEME — Neural Executive & Memory Environment — the name comes from the Muse Mneme (Memory) of Greek mythology, but common usage dropped the initial “M.” Pronounced NEE-mee.

A standard Neme consists of a compact processor core, an audio interface or earpiece for conversation and real-time translation, and — for users who prefer visual augmentation — an optional visor or contact-lens display providing text, imagery, and situational overlays. The hardware contains the personality and memory in order to keep it private from the net. Users describe their Neme as an extension of thought rather than a tool.

Beyond its conversational and administrative roles, every Neme carries a full suite of personal-scale sensors, effectively replacing most handheld instruments of earlier centuries. These include passive monitoring of radio, optical, thermal, magnetic, radiation, and chemical environments within a few meters of the user, together with biometric and positional tracking. The Neme cross-references these inputs against personal health, atmospheric safety, and local navigation data, providing constant but unobtrusive situational awareness. The Neme also monitors the net, watching for certain news and accessible public sensors and cameras. These reports can be customized by a skilled user to a set of alerts perfectly adjusted to personal needs.

Neme sensors are passive and low-power, intended for proximity alerts, translation of environmental cues, and personal safety. They lack the range, resolution, and active scanning capability of specialized Belt and Pack sensors, but they ensure that every individual moves through the world surrounded by a bubble of awareness.

Advanced models can form ad-hoc networks, pooling data to map shared spaces or coordinate group activity, though doing so requires consent and carries the same privacy implications as any other datanet sharing. In many habitats, Nemes also serve as civic monitors, maintaining environmental records and validating public transactions.

To live in the System is to live with your Neme — your memory, interpreter, and witness.

Fashion

1 ■ Fashion

A fashionable outfit and personal grooming that allows you to appear several Tiers above your own. Generally requires a light Load, but circumstances may allow more as long as what you carry is appropriate to the situation; for example you can bring a gun and an environmental suit on a hunt. If you carry an outfit to change into, Load ☐. Conspicuous. Make a Quality roll if dressing 2 Tiers or more above your own: 1-3 Immediate attention and Heat. 4-5 Heat.

Colors

1 ■ Colors

Melts into in a subculture alien to you. You don't need this with familiar people. Conspicuous. When you draw attention, make a Quality roll: 1-3 Immediate attention and Heat. 4-5 Heat.

Stress Analyzer

3 ☐ Stress Analyzer

Helps you sense stress in others. Points out biological sings such as pupil dilation and facial blood flows. Helps detect lies and hostile intent, potential false positives from other emotions. Speeds up the process against untalented liars, not much use against professionals. Concealed as an accessory. Unreliable.: Pass a quality test to reveal lies and stress in untrained operatives and to speed up detection if you would otherwise sense deception after some time.

Media

Influencer Kit

3 ☐ Influencer Kit

A small recording drone, improved net communicator, mike, and other devices needed to create and broadcast as an influencer. Unreliable. Recording quality may not be top notch without an recording technician.

Spy Devices

Skinsuit Customizer

3 ■ Skinsuit Customizer

Use this to customize a skinsuit; it can change transparency, color, and luminosity, as well as pad itself where needed. It can even show animations or alter itself over time. Programs for fashionable patterns are hot commodities.

Automated Security Kit

3 ☐ Automated Security Kit

An Expert System packaged with a compact Security Tool Kit. Place the unit against a lock, terminal, or alarm and it works autonomously to probe, bypass, or jam simple security. Unreliable.: When used roll Quality and step the result down once on the usual outcome ladder (Critical → Success → Opposed Success → Failure → Fumble). Typical consequence of failure is lost time and a possible alarm.

Play note: Permits autonomous Security/Rig attempts where unassisted work would be impossible or absurd; it does not replace skill or eliminate opposition checks.

Disguise

1 ☐ Disguise

A disguise prepared in your base you don when needed; a minute does so securely, spending only a few seconds is possible but chancy.

Concealed Neme

1 ■ Concealed Neme

In certain circumstances you may be asked to leave your Neme behind; this allows you to appear to do so while still having access. Unreliable. Using your Neme to communicate risks being detected.

Disguise Kit Pack

1 ☐☐ Disguise Kit Pack

Allow on-site creation of a Disguise from records or direct observation. Matches the targets appearance when the data is collected, which gives an advantage to on-site observation.

Forgery Pen

1 ☐ Forgery Pen

Fakes your signature; you can write using another's handwriting. Many contracts and encoded documents are still hand-signed. Volatile. Its dangerous to get caught doing this.

Hand Forgery Kit

1 ☐ Hand Forgery Kit

A compact kit for producing convincing physical and electronic forgeries — seals, paper, glass IDs, and spoofed files. Unreliable.: Usually passes casual inspection automatically; cursory database or forensic checks frequently reveal defects, a forensic lab will automatically reveal the truth after some time Allows on-site forgeries, especially useful if you lacked information when preparing for an Operation.

Pack Forgery Kit

1 ☐☐ Pack Forgery Kit

An expanded version of the Hand Forgery Kit that can produce ■ items such as copies of small items that look like the original to casual observation, entire catalogues of data, and biometric identifiers such as faux retina, fingerprint, and blood samples.

Communication Spoof

1 ☐ Communication Spoof

A portable comms jammer/injector for listening to, rebroadcasting, or inserting short messages into unsecured civilian links and legacy networks. Includes a basic transmitter, protocol mimics, and a short-range directional antenna. Also provides you will quter-generated code protocols to secure your own communications. Active, Unreliable.: Effective against simple civilian and legacy channels; cannot break modern quter-level encryption without a separate quter or valid keys.

Use to intercept or inject brief transmissions in low-security channels. Active use has worse consequences and requires more rolls.