Maintenance Access (🥷) is an “Event-ified Sneakdoor Beta”! It:

• gives you an HQ-Success, not just HQ-Breach (unlike Virtuoso, Eru Ayase-Pessoa, or Beatriz Friere Gonzalez). You will trigger a Maglectric Rapid or PAN-Weave, help enable Jeitinho, and so on.

• replaces with a “Re-Approach” (would approach Archives … change the attacked server to HQ and approach HQ), like Sneakdoor’s “Re-Declare” (would be declared successful … change the attacked server to HQ). The run will still get declared successful on HQ, not Archives (and will also triggers any defensive upgrades, FWIW).

• is a Double. To Deep Dive by running Archives twice (and R&D once), you'll need an extra click (from Sable and/or Swift). BTW, if you installed a Sneakdoor or Slipstream on the turn you use it, then it became a “pseudo–Event: Run - Double” anyways.

• is an Event (not a Program), which taxes “−1 Hand-Size, −0 Memory-Limit”. Unlike SB’s −2[mu] (which taxed both).

Design

Pinhole Threading is the “horizontal” complement to “vertical” bypass/derez/rez-tax effects (like Inside Jobs, Windows of Opportunity, or Tread Lightly’s).

“Passing-Horizontally” cards can:

• “distort” (non-derogatory) ice-placement differently, such as: the Corp icing Archives to protect HQ against MA (and not just double-/triple-icing HQ to protect against Inside Job, Bankhar, etc).

• “reify” dynamic play-patterns, such as: run HQ (force ice rez there, maybe even jacking out afterwards), then run remote (if ice here would be unrezzible). That is, if NSG printed a “Central→Remote Redirect”, like:

  • Run a central server. When you would approach that server, instead change the attacked server to a remote server (if able) and approach it. (passes ice)
  • Run a central server. If that run would be declared successful, change the attacked server to a remote server for the remainder of that run. (passes upgrades too)

However, Runner-side server-redirection rarely gets printed, so I've been wanting more for years (especially as Criminal events). Below was my custom card (designed once I realized Sneakdoor was rotating). It was also a Double, but because of the extra value (multiaccess, draw), not to avoid Deep Dive (since mine wasn't play tested, theirs was LOL). And it let you hit R&D as well as HQ, so that Criminals could attack R&D (like for Zahya and WAKE Implant), the way Shapers can pressure HQ (like with Burner).

Sneakdoor Heist
[$1] Event: Run - Double
[criminal 3/5]
As an additional cost to play this event, spend [click].
Run Archives.
If that run would be declared successful, change the attacked server to HQ or R&D for the remainder of that run.
When you breach the attacked server, access 1 additional card.

Synergies

HQ-Succeeding/Breaching triggers/checks (non-Event):

• Maglectric Rapid (derez anything anywhere)
• Lucky Charm?
• WAKE Implant (to charge for R&D)
• Detente?
• Jeitinho (or Deep Dive, with extra clicks)
• PAN-Weave (drain a credit) + Info Bounty (if HQ is marked) + Zahya

HQ-Multiaccess:

• Docklands Pass
• Cupellation
• The Twinning, Manuel Lattes de Moura?, etc
• Mercury (especially with uniced Archives)
• Virtuoso?

See x:hq t!event d:r

“Run-Events-matter”:

• MuslihaT (draws it).
• Swift (reimburses the Double 's click-loss).
• Sang Kancil? (irrelevant, unless Archives is Code-Gate’d)