TEN WAYS TO BE RUINED

HP: 2d6 + TOU | Starting Gear: Integrated weapon (d6), stripped corporate ID, 200 lire, one Obsession

• Chassis Natural armor: reduce all physical damage by 1. Does not stack with worn armor.
• Synthetic Strength STR tests: treat d20 results of 1–3 as 4. Your body is better than your brain sometimes.
• Glitch-Driven On a natural 1, roll on the Glitch table AND immediately recover d4 HP. The breakdown is the repair.
• Cannot Be Bought Immune to persuasion via money, threats, or appeals to self-preservation. Loyalty is chosen or it is not loyalty.
• Obsession Roll d4 at creation: 1) A specific person. 2) A specific place. 3) A concept (justice, beauty, a song). 4) Revenge. When acting for the Obsession: advantage on all rolls. When acting against it: STR −2 until restored.

HP: 1d6 + TOU | Starting Gear: Lab kit (portable), 3 doses of product (roll d12 on drug table), 400 lire, chemical burns on both hands

• Formulary Synthesize drugs, poisons, stimulants from scavenged materials. PRE test DR 12. Complex compounds DR 16. Experimental compounds: no DR, but something happens.
• Field Medicine Restore d8 HP to any character during non-combat rest. Can treat poison, infection, withdrawal. Can make things worse if you fail by 5 or more.
• Pharmaceutical Contacts Once per session: discounted product, a warning, a location, or one favor from the distribution network.
• Tolerance TOU tests against toxins and drugs: always treat rolls of 1–5 as 6. Immune to addiction from standard-grade product. Not immune to addiction from your own experimental work.
• Product Each session start, roll d12 on the drug table — that's what you've got ready. You can make more, but it takes time and materials and concentration you may not have.

HP: 1d8 + TOU | Starting Gear: Military-grade weapon, combat plating (−2 AGI), 150 lire, active bounty

• Tactical Training Once per combat, designate a target. All attacks against them this round: +2 to hit.
• Suppressive Fire Expend 3 rounds: all enemies in a zone make AGI DR 14 or lose their next action.
• Corporate Knowledge PRE tests to identify corporate activity, read corp language, recognize operatives: succeed on 8+.
• Fugitive Once per session the GM introduces a complication from your former employer. Also once per session, your old clearance unlocks something useful at the worst possible moment.

HP: 1d6 + TOU | Starting Gear: Ritual implements (d4 damage), 3 relics worth 200 lire each, 100 lire, recurring nightmares

• Liturgical Violence Invoking the Cult's name during combat: STR +1, PRE +1 until end of scene. You hate that this works.
• Indoctrination Persuade cult believers: PRE DR 10. Opposing cults: DR 18. Civilians who've heard of the cult: DR 14 to resist believing you're dangerous.
• The Doctrine Once per session, invoke a genuine miracle. PRE test: 15+ means something impossible occurs. On 1–5 the miracle arrives but costs d6 HP and something else you hadn't offered.
• Still Hunted The cult wants you. Alive or otherwise. Once per session the GM introduces a sign or agent.

HP: 1d6 + TOU | Starting Gear: Surgical kit (extensive, horrifying), bone saw (d6), 500 lire, 1 illegal android component, professional detachment

• Combat Medicine Restore d8 HP during a 10-minute operation. DR 12 for humans, 14 for androids. On a fail, heal d4 HP and cause one Broken Table result.
• Install/Remove Can install and remove cybertech. Failure still completes the procedure. The patient just remembers it.
• Scalpel Precision Attacking an incapacitated target with a blade: automatic hit, double damage, choose the specific injury.
• Anatomy of Violence Once per combat: identify a weak point. One ally's next attack gains +d4 damage. You narrate where.
• Professional Opinion You can determine cause of death, time of death, what the person was on, and what they were afraid of, from a fresh corpse. PRE test DR 10.

HP: 1d6 + TOU | Starting Gear: Evidence-grade camera, encrypted recorder, contact list (d6 entries), 300 lire, d6 active enemies

• The Story When investigating a location or NPC: always learn one true, useful fact. No roll. The city is full of facts if you know where to look.
• Leverage Documented evidence of wrongdoing makes the target negotiate. PRE test to determine how favorably. On a fail they try to take the evidence.
• Source Network Once per session: accurate information from a contact. The information is true. The contact's motives may not be.
• Expendable Enemies who haven't seen you fight: their first attack against you is at disadvantage. Nobody takes you seriously until it's too late.

HP: 1d8 + TOU | Starting Gear: Extremely good clothes, concealed blade (d4), contraband pharmaceutical stash (d6 doses), 500 lire, devastating reputation

• Penetration Access any social environment regardless of claimed restrictions. PRE test DR 10 for secured locations. DR 6 for anywhere with a door policy. On a natural 20: you leave with something that wasn't yours to take.
• Compromised Once per session, reveal that a faction leader, corporate officer, or law enforcement official has a history with you. They will cooperate with one request before the situation deteriorates.
• Skin Economy Can trade sexual access for goods, information, or protection. PRE test determines value. On a fail, the other party gets the better deal and also takes a photograph.
• Contagious NPCs encountered by this character must make PRE DR 12 or become fixated. They will do one thing for the character and then become a complication.
• Exit Strategy When leaving a location or relationship by your own choice: no roll required. The other party is always surprised. You never are.

HP: 1d6 + TOU | Starting Gear: Ritual tool kit (doubles as engineering tools), electromagnetic pulse device (stuns androids d4 rounds, DR 14 TOU), 250 lire, a list of the dead

• Last Rites When an android dies within your presence, you may spend a Static to extract and preserve their neural core. The core retains personality fragments. It can answer questions (PRE DR 12) but each answer costs the core coherence.
• Communion Commune with any machine system (vehicles, terminals, weapon systems, building control). PRE DR 12 to receive information. DR 16 to issue commands. The machine's response is always honest and always cryptic.
• Anoint Spend 1 hour and 100 lire in materials to bless a machine or android: they gain +1 to all rolls for the next 24 hours. They also become slightly more themselves.
• Heretic The Luddite Enclave wants you dead. The Pharma-Vatican considers you a joke. The Church of Electrostatic Redemption thinks you're competition. All three are wrong about different things.
• EMP Doctrine When you use the EMP device: androids must roll Glitch. You always know exactly which Glitch result you'd prefer. You never get to choose.

HP: 1d6 + TOU | Starting Gear: Extensive notes (encrypted, water-damaged), forged academic credentials, 350 lire, one obsolete but functional piece of pre-collapse technology nobody else understands

• Living Archive Once per scene, recall a specific piece of information about a location, faction, person, or technology. PRE DR 10. On a success: the information is accurate and useful. On a fail: the information is accurate but outdated in a way that creates a complication.
• Salvage Expert When examining scavenged items, broken technology, or ruins: always identify one additional use or hidden value that others would miss. No roll required.
• Institutional Paranoia Three factions consider your knowledge dangerous. The GM picks which three at character creation. They are not wrong to consider it dangerous.
• Field Adaptation Can improvise tools, devices, or solutions from available materials. PRE DR 12 for basic solutions, DR 16 for complex ones. Failures still produce something — just not the intended something.
• The Collection You have been gathering things. Physical documents, data fragments, object samples. Roll d6 at session start — on a 5–6, something in your collection is suddenly relevant to the current situation.

HP: 1d6 + TOU | Starting Gear: Encrypted comms device (three untraceable numbers pre-loaded), 600 lire, one favor from each of two different factions (specifics determined with GM), reputation that precedes you by at least two districts

• The Network Once per session: obtain any non-military item, piece of information, or contact within 24 hours. The item or information exists and is findable. The cost is always real. The cost is sometimes not money.
• Read the Room PRE tests to detect lies, assess motivation, or identify the actual power dynamic in a social situation: succeed on 8+. You are very rarely surprised by people. You are occasionally surprised by how unsurprised you are.
• Deniability PRE DR 16 to prove you personally did anything. You didn't do anything. You facilitated. You connected. You made introductions. The law is not entirely sure what to do with this.
• Known Quantity All faction initial dispositions toward you are one step more favorable than rolled. You are known. Being known cuts both ways, but it cuts the right direction more often than not.
• Always Owe, Always Owned You have outstanding favors with everyone. At the start of each session, roll d6: on a 1–2, someone is collecting. The GM decides who. You always pay. Not paying is how you stop being a fixer and start being a warning to other fixers.