Editing MTH:Cyberkinesis (section)

===FOOL (* or **)===

Prerequisite: Shadow User

Effect: While manipulating a device, the character can plant complex false images and readings in surveillance equipment or communications devices. In order to use this technique, the character must succeed on an activation roll, with a negative modifier based on the complexity and reliability of the device in question: a typical security camera would probably not impose any modifier, while a multi-spectrum surveillance system and motion tracker powered by its own AI might impose a penalty of –4 or –5.  Success on this roll allows the character to control the information recorded or transmitted by the device. For example, a security camera might be made to transmit a false image, a tape recorder could record a conversation that never happened, or either of these machines could be made to record nothing but static. Another character examining such altered information may attempt to see through this illusion; to do so, the opposing character must roll Wits + Resolve and score more successes on the roll than the cyberkinetic scored on the activation roll.

Interactive real-time deceptions, such as having a telephone conversation using someone else's voice, or using someone else's face while using Skype, require the second dot in this merit. The ST may want to impose penalties for complex deceptions. Skype with someone else's face and voice might impose a -1 penalty for instance. Adding a crowd in the background might lead to a total -2 penalty. Additional penalties are levied the longer the charade goes on; assume these penalties are cumulative each minute. Assume failure means the dupe get's wise. A dramatic failure will let the mark know who they are really talking to, at least.