Debbie "Downtown" Moreira

♦ Debbie "Downtown" Moreira 1[credit]

Resource: Connection
Influence: 2

Threat 4 → When you install this resource, place 2[credit] on it. (This ability is active if any player has 4 or more agenda points.)

Whenever you play a run event, place 1[credit] on this resource.

[click]: Run any server. You can spend hosted credits during that run.

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The Automata Initiative (tai)

#19 • English
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Downtown Deb earns credits when you play run's, and can spend those credits during her own “pseudo-basic” run any server ability.

Compare: Ken "Express" Tenma: Disappeared Clone, crossed with a Trickster Taka or Fencer Fueno.

For example, if Ken installs Deb, you'll earn $2 a turn by playing a run event and then “Debbie-running”.


EDIT: Design-wise, Debbie’s Whenever …, place 1[$] on this. trigger (differing from Ken’s The first time each turn …, gain 1[$].) alongside her [click]: … spend hosted credits … action (similar to Pennyshaver’s [click]: … take hosted credits …) does two main things:

  • Lets a trigger be unlimited without being unbalanced (like Desperado was): You might play three run events in a turn, but those three hosted credits aren't spendable until you first spend a click. But, you still get rewarded for playing as many run events as you can (not just "enough to play one run event a turn on almost every turn").
  • Sets up an interesting tension: The longer you wait to “withdraw”, the more efficient the “withdrawal” becomes. But the longer you wait, the more “unsubsidized” basic-runs you might be doing; and for a resource (unlike a hardware), the more vulnerable those credits get.

I really like this.


Synergies (here's some standard-legal criminal/neutral run-events):

(The Automata Initiative era)