Robyo Sun Aug 16, 2015 12:40 am
"Only one more small task: bring me Catwalk's data card. Do this for me and I will consider the deal completed. Only the information is no good to me here. You must deliver it to my material form, housed deep inside the Renraku Corporate Pyriamid in Chiba, Japan.
"I have implanted your mind with a map of the building's location and design plans of it's layout. Obviously it's better if the company doesn't know we are involved together."
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"Perhaps you are wondering why I should trust that you will bring the data to me? Because if you don't, your own sanity will be at risk. While you were under, I took the liberty of re-calibrating your cerebral oscillation patterns. In effect, you've become smarter than you ever thought possible. This gift comes at a price however, since eventually you'll go mad. Such is the drawback of cognitive regulation, eventually it over-strains the mortal psyche. Another glaring limitation of organic specimens.
"Bring me the data stick and I will reverse the process, if madness hasn't already ensued."
*What this means in game terms, is that Nico will be allowed to add his Intelligence modifier to all Dexterity-based rolls. That includes attack rolls for ranged weapons and finesse weapons (and their damage rolls), and Dex skills like Acrobatics. He also adds the bonus to AC and Initiative modifier.
This bonus works in prime reality and the matrix. You still add the Int modifier on top of whatever the base ability modifier happens to be.
Whenever Nico makes a Dex-based roll, he must immediately follow with a Wisdom save (DC 12). If he fails the save, he gains 1 Taint Point. When a character's Taint equals their Wisdom score, they go insane.
"Kalyx can not accompany you on this next leg of your journey. While your body remains at his hideout in Neuvo Orleans, your consciousness will be injected into a mechanial construct in Sydney. That is where Catwalk has gone. She is with an ally."