This is really rough…pretty much just written up quite quickly and probably needs a lot of reworking. Plus I didn’t do the gear section yet.
Cyborg
Your Implants
Choose two features describing your implants:
Flawless Operation
Low Maintenance
Subtle Modifications
Tactile Sensation
Fully Functional Reproductive Organs
Impressive Looking
Choose two flaws describign your implants:
Glitchy Prototypes
High Maintenance
Obvious Prostheses
No Sense of Touch
More Machine than Person
Kludge-y Appearance
Drama Move: When you bury your emotions, mark corruption.
Intimacy Move: When you share a moment of intimacy – physical or emotional – with someone else both you and the other person may either mark Corruption, or erase one Corruption mark depending on whether you felt the moment of intimacy reconnected either of you with humanity or drove you further away.
End Move: When you die, you can choose to trigger a self-destruct sequence and anybody who does not vacate the area quickly will be caught in the blast.
Corruption Moves:
Feel No Pain: Mark a Corruption to reduce the Harm you suffer by 1 for the rest of the scene.
Electronic Possession: Mark Corruption to temporarily shift your consciousness into a computerized device and control it.
Killing Machine: Mark Corruption to turn a missed Unleash roll into a success once per scene.
Backups: When you die and self-destruct, Mark Corruption to be downloaded into a new body. All Faction marks you had built up will be lost.
Character Creation
Name: (the examples are drawn from film, TV, video games and anime)
Adam, Alex, Armitage, Barrett, Denton, Ed, Eighteen, Federova, Ginga, Jaime, Jenson, Mike, Murphy, Namir, Nove, Steve, Subaru, Victor
Look:
Ambiguous, Female, Male, Transgressing, Robotic
Asian or South Asian, Black, Caucasian, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous, Middle Eastern, _________________
Trench Coat, Expensive Suit, Military Fatigues, Casual Clothing, No Clothing
Starting Character Stats (Add 1 to one of these)
Blood 1, Heart -1, Mind 1, Spirit 0
Starting Factions (Add 1 to one of these)
Mortality 1, Night 0, Power 1, Wild -1
Intro:
Who are you?
How and why did you become a cyborg?
Why are you in the city?
How long have you been in the city?
Gear
Debts
Someone is connected to how you became a cyborg one of you is fine with the results, one of you regrets the circumstances. You each owe the other a debt.
Someone knows one of your secrets but hasn’t confronted you yet. Decide if you know they know (and the rest of the predictable joke.) You owe them 2 debts.
You did a favor for someone recently, they owe you 1 debt.
Moves:
Weapon Configuration: Whether via having multiple versions of the same implanted weapon, nanomachines rebuilding the weapon from the molecule on up or a bizarre blend of science and magic, you can change the material of your implanted melee weapon. Roll +Mind, on a hit you successfully change the weapon’s material to something else. On a 7-9 choose one of the following as well:
The strain of the change was painful, take 1 Harm (ap).
The weapon is weakened and may break in the course of use.
It takes longer than normal for the weapon to change.
Defensive Measures: You can activate some sort of defense. Roll +Mind.
On a hit choose one:
+1 Armor
+1 Ongoing to resist attacks.
Immunity to one energy type.
On a 7-9 also choose one:
Activating the defense was painful, take 1 Harm (ap).
The defense only lasts for a short time.
The defense attracts unwanted attention.
Social Enhancements: Via expression and biometric readers, pheromone production and other methods, you have an easier time talking to people. Use Mind when Persuading or Figuring someone out.
Flattering Imitation: You can mimic the voice and biometric readings of another person. Mark Corruption in order to alter your physical appearance as well.
Wireless Interface: You can interact with any other computer that has the ability to receive wireless communication. Mark Corruption in order to be able to interface with computers in sight that don’t have a wireless hook up.
Mobility Enhancements: You have a +1 ongoing to any escape attempt.
The First Step: You suffer no damage from falls.
Heads-Up Display: You have a lot of information always posted to your sight. Roll +Mind. On a 10+ you hold 2, on a 7-9 you hold 1. Spend the hold at any time during the scene to do one of the following:
Ask one of the following questions:
Is there any threat that’s not obvious?
Is there anything out of place in the environment?
Who’s likely to attack first?
Create/Discover an opportunity to escape.
Give yourself or someone else +1 Forward on an action.
Basic Advances:
+1 Blood (Max +3)
+1 Spirit (Max +3)
+1 Mind (Max +3)
Add one feature to your cybernetics.
A new Cyborg Move
A new Cyborg Move
A move from another archetype
Change your Faction
Gain a Workshop
Upgraded Advances:
+1 to any stat (Max +3)
+1 to any Faction (Max +3)
Erase a Scar
Remove a downside to your cybernetics
Advance 3 basic moves
Advance 3 basic moves
Add another implanted weapon.
Erase a Corruption Advance
Retire your character to safety
Change to a new archetype.
Looks fun! Almost all of the “features” seem like a lack of flaws. Is that section supposed to let you do something a person couldn’t normally do? Or just fill out the color of them?
think just color…started out with them as actual abilities, but figured that would be better in the moves section.
That and Fate-style justifications for things.
For example I figure the appearance issue could range from blatantly obvious cybernetics like the spec-ops bosses in Deus Ex Human Revolution to the obvious but concealable like Jensen in the same and on toward characters like Bishop from Aliens or Armitage from Armitage III both of whom are highly advanced androids who look perfectly human unless enough damage is done.
All of which presents different story options and complications.
Also might just go with “Fully Functional”. I was mostly thinking of Armitage there again. While she was very combat capable, she was an oddity for her line which were created to address a population growth crisis in a Mars colony. The original plan to mass produce the “Thirds” when Mars and Earth started getting along better (Mars didn’t want to offend the matriarchal Earth and risk losing the treaty and resources) the thirds that had been created quietly slipped into human society passing as human for years before someone decided to kill them all.