A Chipper, or casually Chiphead/Chipped, has purchased a Mirrochip on the black market. While each person in Etheria is a node in the galactic ‘Net, each mind is blocked from accessing it directly by the thought barrier. Not the Chipper, they plug the Mirrochip into their port, and then can jack into the Matrix. This is a projection of the ‘Net as a virtual space a chipper can enter and exit. A serious Chipper also has a Sleeve, a device that wraps an arm, which can be loaded with caps containing single-use Matrix programs. Using these highly illegal tools, a Chipper can explore the ‘Net in ways no one else can.
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## Gig: Face
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A Face, or casually a Shill, is a particular type of confidence man with a focus on charisma and charm.
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A Face, or casually a Shill, is a particular type of confidence man with a focus on charisma and charm. A social tactician or merit, but unlike the Shark, the Face remains the same always. They embrace a charismatic persona and flex the power of a mighty Patron behind them. Building a web of support in all arenas as they go forth, the Face hides in plain sight.
**Tagline**: Baby you can trust me, I got you.
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**Props**: ?
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**Props**: Platinum Holocard.
**Quality list**:
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- **Carbon-Copy Cap**: A caplet that let's you duplicate into an Auto and your normal body falls into copy sleep for a few hours. Eventually your duplicate in the Auto burns out, generally within a day. Like many caps, these are single-use. It costs 1 Wealth (markdown) to buy 1 such cap on the black market.
- **Corepump**: Replacing a xenogene's heart is a Corepump that runs off ACE. It is also exposed to release heat and radiation waste (think Ironman's arc reactor kind of thing).
- **Mirrochip**: A small disc device that can be installed on a person's port, allowing them to link to their Sleeve and jack into the Matrix.
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- **Platinum Holocard**: A not quite unlimited line of holocred given to the Face from their patron.
- **Polycard**: At first glance a norrmal CommunoCard, but this one has software allowing it to open all normal security locks.
- **Simlet**: AKA Sim, or an extra intelligence living in the 'Net. Think of it like an AI helper with access to the 'Net streams of information, a little like a personal Chipper in some ways. Imagine something like the disembodied voice Jarvis from the Iron Man movies.
- **Simsuit**: A very advanced suit that gives the wearer the ability to alter their appearance. It's complexity field creates more than just illusion, changing both the look and tactile feel of the wearer. This does mean it has the downsides of a coplexity field though (touching fields completely disrupt each other, and so on). The other limitation is that changing the field is a complicated mental process that takes a full minute.
