Tools
Vision Enhancers
Flare
Compensation: This protects the user
from blinding flashes of light as well as simple glare. Flare compensation also
protects users with thermographic vision from heat
flashes and glare from infrared lighting. It eliminates the vision modifiers
for glare.
Image Link: The image link either displays visual information
(text, pictures, movies) in the field of vision or
projects it onto the user’s retina with a laser. Visual data is typically AR
data received by the user’s PAN, but other input is also accepted.
Low-Light
Vision: This accessory allows the user
to see normally in light levels as low as starlight. Total darkness still
renders the user as blind as an unmodified person.
Smartlink: This accessory interacts with a smartgun
system to project the weapon’s angle of fire into the user’s vision, centering
red crosshairs where the user is pointing and highlighting perceived targets.
The smartgun’s laser rangefinder also calculates and
displays the distance to the target. Additional data from the weapon, such as
the ammunition level, heat buildup, and stress can also be displayed. Requires an image link.
Thermographic Vision: This enhancement enables vision in the infrared portion
of the spectrum, enabling the user to see heat patterns. Thermographic
vision is a very practical way to spot living beings in areas of total darkness
(even though it’s difficult to fully determine their type and appearance), to
check if a motor or machine has been running lately, and to track heat
footprints.
Ultrasound: The ultrasound accessory consists of an emitter that
sends out continuous ultrasonic pulses and a receiver that picks up the echoes
of these pulses to create a topographic ultrasound “map” that is laid over (or
replaces) the user’s normal visual sensory input. While ultrasound vision is
perfect to “see” textures, calculate exact distances, and pick up things
otherwise invisible to the naked eye (like people cloaked by an Invisibility
spell), it is less adept at other tasks like perceiving colors and brightness.
It cannot penetrate materials like glass that would be transparent to optical
sensors. The ultrasound sensor can be set to a passive mode, in which it does
not emit ultrasonic pulses but still picks up ultrasound from outside sources
(such as motion sensors or someone else’s ultrasound sensors on active mode)
Vision
Enhancement: Vision enhancement gives
the character sharper vision. It adds its rating as a positive dice pool
modifier to the user’s visual Perception Tests.
Vision
Magnification: This zoom function
magnifies vision by up to 50 times, allowing distant targets to be seen
clearly. It is available as both an optical (ideal for spellcasting
at distant targets) or electronic (with real-time image correction)
enhancement.
Optical Devices
Endoscope: This is a 1-meter fiberoptic
cable, of which the first 20 centimeters are made up of myomeric
rope and an optical lens on each side. Allows the user to
look around corners, through door slits, or into narrow spaces.
Mage Sight
Goggles: These heavy goggles are
connected to a myomeric rope wrapped around a fiberoptic cable that ends in an optical lens. The rope is
available in lengths of 10, 20, or 30 meters.
Periscope: An L-shaped tube with two mirrors, the
periscope allows the user to look (or shoot) around corners.
Audio Enhancements
Audio
Enhancement: Audio enhancement allows
the user to receive a broader spectrum of audio frequencies (including those outside
the user’s normal audible spectrum, like high and low frequencies) while
experiencing finer discrimination of nuances and blocking out distracting
background noise. Audio enhancement adds its Rating as a positive modifier to
the user’s Listening Perception Tests.
Select Sound
Filter: This filter allows the user to
block out background noise and focus on specific sounds or patterns of sounds
(including sound, word, or speech pattern recognition). Each rating point
allows the user to select a single sound group (such as a conversation or the
breathing of a guard dog) and focus on it. The user can only actively listen to
one group at a time, but she may choose to record the others for later playback
or set them to triggered monitoring (such as sounding an alert if there is a
variation in the breathing pattern of the dog, or if
the conversation brings up a certain topic).
Spatial
Recognizer: This accessory pinpoints the
direction from which a sound is coming. The user receives a bonus of +2 dice
pool modifier on all Perception Tests to find the source of a specific sound.
Sensors
Atmosphere
Sensor: Weather forecasts are
notoriously untrustworthy (thanks to pollution, the Awakening, and other
factors), but atmospheric sensors can keep you from getting caught in the rain.
Camera: The most common sensor, cameras can capture still
photos, video, or trideo (including sound). Cameras
may also be upgraded with vision enhancements.
Cyberware Scanner: This millimeter-wave scanner is primarily intended to
detect cyber-implants, but can be used to identify other contraband as well. Maximum range 15 meters.
Directional
Microphone: Allows the user to listen in
on distant conversations. Solid objects as well as loud sounds outside the line
of eavesdropping block the reception. Maximum range is 100 meters.
Geiger Counter: This sensor
picks up the amount of radioactivity surrounding it.
Laser
Microphone: This sensor bounces a laser
beam against a solid object like a windowpane, reads the vibrational
variations of the surface, and translates them into the sounds that are
occurring on the other side of the surface. Use Perception + Device rating for
the listener’s Perception Test. Maximum range is 100 meters.
MAD Scanner: The MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detection) scanner is used to
detect weapons and concentrations of metal. It has a maximum range of 5 meters.
Microphone: A standard omnidirectional
audio pick-up that can be upgraded with audio enhancements
Motion Sensor: This sensor uses ultrasound to detect drastic changes
in the ambient temperature caused by movement.
Olfactory
Scanner: The olfactory sensor picks up
and analyzes the molecules in the air. It works in the same way as the
olfactory booster.
Radio Signal
Scanner: The radio signal scanner
locates and locks in on radio traffic from RFID tags, wireless networks, and
other transmitters, and is especially useful at capturing signals originating
from nearby. The scanner can also measure a signal’s strength and pinpoint its
location. Treat the scanner as if it were a Sniffer
program equal to its rating.