Author: Vincent Quigley

Hamish Cameron in the Dowtown Dataheist you talk about players framing flashbacks and revealing their secrets. Should framing a flashback be a direct result of a 6- roll or should the GM ask as the mission progress? I’m not sure I understand that part of the setup.

I fail to find the info in the book:

If I own three programs but my cyberdeck can only have 2 loaded because of a processor of 2, is there a move or anything that tells me how to switch between programs mid-Matrix run or do I have to logout of the Matrix and manually/physically switch programs?

How tight do you frame your get the job scene. Do you allow players to do other moves than the Get the job move? Do you allow you players to get all paranoid and go chasing red hearings or possible interlopers to the mission? Or is it more like a vignette/flashback where it’s already agree upon that they took the job and it’s just a matter of discussing the terms of employment?

Intel and Gear: if I red correctly, they are individual per player but have tried to have a communal pool of ressources for the mission?

I will soon start a small campaign with only 2 players and I was wondering about links and the countdown clock for Corporations. I feel that the stakes will not be high enough if we do links with only the two players.

Here’s how I think I will solve the situation. When it will come time to do links. I will describe an NPC who was the third wheel of this crew. We will go through the link process as if this NPC was a 3rd PC. I/He will be the last to describe a mission in which the other PCs will be involves and then at the end of the descriptions, I will ask my players the hard question:

*How did you fuck up and let NPC X die on that mission?

Why is Corporation X still after you even after NPC X took the entire blame for the operation?*

What are your thoughts? Do you think it will work?