Tasking

Key facts

Attribute

resonance

Overview

Tasking is the technomancer's version of summoning. Compiling calls a sprite into being for a few tasks, registering binds one for longer service, and decompiling tears apart a sprite somebody else is running. Sprites do the work a decker would need hardware and time for: attacking icons, masking traces, hunting data, and standing between you and a counter-intrusion. They are also proof of what you are, which is why every use is a risk in a world where corporations pay bounties for Emerged talent.

How it works

Linked Attribute: Resonance Dice Pool: Resonance plus Tasking, counting 5s and 6s as hits. Requires Resonance: Technomancers only. Resonance runs 0 to 6 and sits at 0 for everyone else. Cost: Compiling and registering push back at the technomancer, the Resonance counterpart to a magician's drain.

Tips and playstyle

Best for: Technomancers exclusively. No other path can roll it at all. Character concepts: An Emerged teenager hiding from corporate recruiters, a data broker whose sprites do the searching, a technomancer raised inside a research program. Synergies: Cracking is the intrusion work sprites assist with, and Electronics keeps the mundane gear around you working.

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