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he cyberware implants presented in this the normal rules. In addition, the wearer becomes book and, at the GM’s discretion, all the im- subject to a high level version of Magical Affinity: Tplants of the Torg Basic Rules (Cyberware Any time she is in a zone with a Magic Axiom less and Occultech) as well as any items presented in than 24, any Fatigue result causes an extra point other sourcebooks, may be acquired by characters of Shock (see Torg Basic Rules, page 76). For elf of all cosms, by purchasing the appropriate Perk wearers, this effect replaces their normal Magical from the following list. Affinity. New Implants: This Perk may be taken more than HERMETIC IMPLANTS once. Each time after the first, it grants the user another $5,000 worth of implants. Prereq: Cosm Aysle At the bleeding edge of transformative Blood Magic, the “Hermetic Order of Haemal Haptics” DYNAMIC IMPLANTS (HHH), creates a special type of magic items that Prereq: Cosm Core Earth are fused with the wearer’s body, replacing organs This experimental cyberware from the laboratories and whole body parts. Forged from Elvish Silver, of the Dynamics Corporation are decades ahead of Meteoric Iron and other magic metals, and covered their competition, but not yet available on the open with glowing runes, these implants are rarely sub- market due to a large heap of legal issues and gov- tle, but always beautiful. Nevertheless, most elves ernmental red tape, as well as a very large catalog are disgusted by this kind of techno magic as they of potential malfunctions. Sometimes it is literally see it as an unforgivable intrusion into the “whole- enough to look these devices in the wrong way to ness of the body”, even though some of the best make them fail, resulting in a maintenance guide mage surgeons are in fact elves. with quasi-religious undertones. When this Perk is selected, the character may It has turned out that Reality-rated persons are choose up to $10,000 worth of implants. Instead more capable of preventing malfunctions, so the of their usual Tech Axiom value they have a Mag- Dynamics Corporation is eager to provide the Del- ic AxiomSample value of 24 and cause contradictions in file phi Council with new equipment and technicians zones with a Magic Axiom beyond that level, as per for “field-testing”.

3 When this Perk is selected, the character may implants look bizarre and out-of this world even choose up to $15,000 worth of implants. These next to the other oddities that can be found in a items have a Tech Axiom value of 23 and a Magic group of Storm Knights. Axiom value of 9 and are subject to the When this Perk is selected, normal rules for contradictions. In ad- the character may choose up dition, the following rules apply: to $15,000 worth of implants. Once per day at sunrise roll 1d20 for These items have a Tech Axiom each single Dynamic Implant. (This value of 27 and cause 7-case-con- roll is not subject to contradictions.) tradictions, meaning that the wearer On a result of 1-5, the implant ceases disconnects on rolling a 1-7, if she is to function for 24 hours. If it replaces in a zone with a Tech Axiom val- a natural function of the character’s ue below 27. All normal rules body like a cyber leg or a cyber for contradictions apply, but the eye, that body part works like a Wondrous Implants continue to normal body part for the duration. function even while the wearer is So the character does not go blind disconnected from her cosm. or becomes paralysed, but simply New Implants: This Perk may be taken doesn’t profit from the implant’s more than once. Each time after the first, usual special capabilities. it grants the user another $7,000 worth of In case of an emergency, a charac- implants. ter is allowed to make a Reality test (DN 14) to get a non-functional implant NANITE IMPLANTS working for an hour. Prereq: Cosm Pan Pacifica If the wearer of a Dynamics Implant is an ord, it fails on a result of 1-10 and Kanawa Corporation is well known she cannot try to get it working again for its large portfolio of high-tech before the 24 hours have passed. products, but they currently lack in the field of body enhancements and New Implants: This Perk may be tak- cyberware. In order to close this en more than once. Each time after gap, they have founded a variety of the first, it grants the user another subsidiaries, one of which $7,000 worth of implants. is the Tokyo based Do- demo Corporation. This WONDROUS little tech company is still IMPLANTS in its early research and devel- opment stages, with a large number of prototypes, Prereq: Cosm Living Land tech demos and promotional viral videos about These highly futuristic implants don’t originate their latest breakthroughs, but thus far without a from the Living Land, but from one of the lost civi- single commercial item on the market. lizations hidden within. They are as dead as “dead However, every once in a while, people with con- things” can be, but were made specifically to with- tacts to the crime syndicates and black markets of stand the effects of a low tech environment. the Greater Tokyo Metropolitan Area get a chance The character stumbled into one of these lost to lay their hands on the newest Dodemo experi- worlds and came in contact with an intelligent ma- mental hardware. Some of these people are Storm chine that grabbed her and turned her into a cyber- Knights, and some of these Storm Knights are play- neticSample super-human (or super-edeinos). Made from er characters—and so the circlefile is complete. crystals and a strange kind of “living” metal, these

4 Dodemo cyberware is said to be nanite based, ject to the normal rules for contradictions. In addi- while other sources talk about some kind of “exot- tion, the following rules apply: ic matter”. In any case, it is sleek and elegant and Once per day, when the character is standing close at the same time robust and reliable, so those who to a machine of appropriate size (vending machine, equip their bodies with it show a high degree of ATM, car, ...), the GM may decide that she has to customer satisfaction. Until they find out the hard roll a d20 and add the result to her current Gremlin way, why this technology is not yet available on Threat Level (GTL). If this results in a GTL of 20 or the open market. higher, the GTL is reduced to 0 and the machine When this Perk is selected, the character may becomes infected by mischievous Gremlin Nanites, choose up to $15,000 worth of implants. These turning it into a Gremlin Machine (see box below), items have a Tech Axiom value of 24 and are sub- which immediately starts to attack.

Gremlin Machine to the surrounding area as possible. Again a player character can choose to take the blow, Attributes: Charisma 8, Dexterity 10, Mind 8, Spirit 10, Strength 13 as described above, but might not feel as much inclined to do so as if a human being Skills: Dodge 13, energy weapons 13, find 12, intimidation 12, maneuver 12, stealth 12, taunt were in danger. If nobody stops the machine, (10), tracking 12, trick (10), unarmed combat 15 it causes damage to the environment as the GM sees fit. Instead of causing a wound it Move: 15; Tough: 15 (2); Shock: 10; Wounds: 3 could also decide to spray the area with sticky Possibilities: Never machine oil or cause other kinds of havoc. Special Abilities: • If nobody • Armor: Metal skin +2. Priority Three: Kill the Heroes: and nothing other than the Storm Knights • Adaptive: The Gremlin Machine’s climbing speed and swimming speed is also 15, and is currently within its reach, the Gremlin sometimes it has the ability to fly or glide. Machine has to “bite the bullet” and attack one of them instead, with an unarmed • Machine: The Gremlin Machine is immune to poison and other effects that require combat or ranged attack (Damage 15). breathing, eating, or other “living“ processes. • Priority One: Harm the Innocent: The Gremlin Nanite’s first priority is not to attack the player characters, but to cause as much grief as possible. If an innocent bystander is within reach, the Gremlin Machine attacks that person. One of the player characters has to jump in front of the machine and take the blow, automatically losing her next action and suffering 1 wound, unless she has a special ability that allows her to protect others, like “Bodyguard”, or a “Force Field” (Torg Rulebook, page 96 and 100). If nobody protects the innocent bystander, then that person suffers the wound, with potentially tragic consequences. • Priority Two: Cause Heavy Property SampleDamage: If no innocent bystanders are close file by, the Gremlins try to cause as much damage

5 STEAM POWERED a penalty applies in a given situation. The implants are also loud and extrude large quantities of oily IMPLANTS black smoke. Prereq: Orrorsh Additionally, once every 24 hours the character The ancient technological branch of the Gaean must “feed” her Steam Powered Implants with 5 kg Alchemists, sometimes called “Techno Druids”, of coal and 1 liter of water per 1,000 $ of implants. If have devised wondrous contraptions, powered these requirements are not met, the implants cease by coal and steam, and a little bit of “extra”, to to function until they are fed with the required be permanently implanted into a recipient’s resources—as usual, the character simply body and enhance her physical and doesn’t benefit from the special capabilities mental capabilities. These steam age but is still able to use her limbs and senses cyborgs are large, hulking figures in the natural way. with clattering engines and black The “little extra” means that this Perk smoke pouring from their funnels, counts as a Darkness Perk. but in return they are stronger and more robust than their flesh-and- blood compatriots. GADGET IMPLANTS Over time it turned out that Prereq: Nile Empire the “little extra” was actu- Many pulp villains and also some ally the twisting influence of of the heroes have a gruesome ori- the Gaunt Man, so many of the gin story, with hacked off body parts steam cyborgs are now a part or a bath in horrible acid. The result- of the treacherous Victorian ing monstrosity is then stitched legions under his command. together and equipped with But there are still some of them left to powerful pieces of experimen- defy the High Lord and fight for all tal technology. Wrap him in a that is good in the world. cape, and he will make for an When this Perk is selected, the adequate superhero. character may choose implants For the sake of inclusion and di- with a total worth of her Strength versity, most superhero teams x 1,000 $. If her Strength is will have such a cyborg in permanently increased, their ranks, and some- she may choose addition- times he is even called al implants in accordance that, but most times with her new Strength. If her those types are referred Strength is lowered (regardless of it being tempo- to as “Gadget Heroes”. This is because unlike the rary or permanently), this has no negative effect. others, who usually sport one specific power that Unlike the other Perks in this list, this one only be defines who they are and what they do, a team’s taken once. “living toolbox” is the one who always has a new The Steam Powered Implants have a Tech Axiom trick up her sleeve, to surprise the villain and save value of 18 and are subject to the normal rules for the day at the last moment. (AKA “Lazy Writing”) contradictions. In addition, the character’s weight When this Perk is selected, the character gains a increases by 10 kg per 1,000 $ of implants and suf- Gadget Pool of $10,000. As long as she has still $ in fers 2 additional points of Shock in case of a Fatigue that pool, she may at any time during an adventure result. The character is accordingly large and mas- decide on one or more implants which require- sive,Sample but suffers no penalty on Dexterity or other ments she fulfills to actuallyfile have them “already tests because of it, unless the GM decides that such build in beforehand”. Those implants become part

6 of the character’s equipment for the remainder WRAITH IMPLANTS of the adventure and the Gadget Pool is reduced accordingly. Only when the adventure has ended Prereq: Cosm Tharkhold and a new one begins are all the Gadget Implants The Wraith were a powerful chapter of the Thark- removed again and the Gadget Pool reset to its holdu army that gained fame and infamy during original value—ready for a new surprise! many earlier invasions. When the Maelstrom Gadget Implants have a Tech Axiom value of 20 Bridge over Moscow was nuked, they were among and count as Weird Science. All relevant rules for the unlucky demons who go caught during their contradictions apply. In comparison with most descent. Only a few of them survived the explo- other implants, they are 20th century low tech version, while the rest was blown to pieces and scat- sions with an appropriately rugged look. tered all over the Blasted Land. New Implants: This Perk may be taken more than Now their cursed Occultech is littering the ground, once. Each time after the first, it raises the user’s waiting for hapless scavengers to pick it up and Gadget Pool by another $5,000. put it back together, not knowing about the terrible curse of the Wraith. ANABAPTIST IMPLANTS When this Perk is selected, the character may choose up to $15,000 worth of implants. These Prereq: Cosm Cyberpapacy items have a Tech Axiom value of 25 and are sub- The Anabaptists are a splinter group of the Cy- ject to the normal rules for contradictions. In addi- berchurch, hellbent on breaking the Cyberpope’s tion, the following rules apply: power from within. To stay under the radar, they A character with one or more Wraith Implants use cyberware that isn’t completely purged of all suffers 1 special “drain wound” per day. These GodNet malware. Instead, they “anabaptise” the wounds can only be healed by draining 1 wound implant by overwriting the code with their own from another intelligent living being. This process ideology of protestant faith. This is a much cheaper requires touching the victim’ head for 5 minutes method than hacking an entire OS, but requires a without interruption, so it is only possible with high degree of faith in “The One Really True Way”. unconscious or otherwise helpless beings. The vic- When this Perk is selected, the character may tim’s wound maximum is permanently reduced by choose up to $15,000 worth of implants. These 1. If it already had Wounds “–”, then it is killed in items have a Tech Axiom value of 26 and are sub- the process. ject to the normal rules for contradictions. In addi- As an alternative, the character can drain an an- tion, the following rules apply: imal, but this requires draining 2 wounds per Once per day at sundown the character must make wound healed, so a large animal of at least horse a Faith test (DN 14 in a zone that is at least partially size is required and the process always results in Cyberpapacy, DN 10 in any other zone with Tech the death of the animal. Axiom 23 or higher, DN 8 in all zones with a low- If a character with at least 1 “drain wound” is er Tech Axiom). A failure means that the GodNet killed, she transforms into a Wight, a terrible un- becomes instantly aware of the character’s current dead creature controlled by the GM, with no oth- location and everything she did within the last 24 er goal in mind than to follow the “call”, that will hours, with varying consequences. lead it to a gathering of other Wights, merging with The advantage of Anabaptist Implants is that in an each other to usher in the rebirth of one of the origi- examination by the Cyberpolice they are very easy nal Wraiths, to continue the conquest of Earth. to mistake with regular Cyberpapacy cyberware New Implants: This Perk may be taken more than (DN 16 on a Find test to spot the difference). once. Each time after the first, it grants the user an- NewSample Implants: This Perk may be taken more than other $7,000 worth of implants. file once. Each time after the first, it grants the user another $7,000 worth of implants.