Digital Web

For Royce inhabits a sci-fi universe where his every transaction and correspondence occurs at lightning speed across the vast electronic data-stream known as "cyberspace."

"I usually check a couple news sites first thing in the morning," Royce says as he instantaneously uplinks current events from across the globe on his brightly illuminated view-screen. "CNN.com and Huffington Post are pretty good."

The Digital Web is a zone within the Umbra based entirely within virtual reality, unusual in that many mortals have (limited) access to it (think Second Life and you're on the right track). It's also the unofficial home of the Virtual Adepts as a whole.

PCs merely accessing the Internet without any sort of VR interface don't need to worry about any of this.

• High-level overview

Primary reference is Digital Web 2.0 page 110 ('Web Systems' charts). Additional references are listed below.

Access

Reference: DW2.0 pages 35-37

Sensory visitation Requires VR equipment +2 to all difficulties (including but not limited to magic) Pretty much anything except uploading/downloading data or moving around requires magic (including 'physically' attacking someone else's icon) For 'Strength' rolls, use Intelligence instead For 'Dexterity' rolls, use Wits instead Remain aware of normalspace, but distracted

Astral immersion Requires Correspondence 2 (coincidental) and complex VR setup (Intelligence + Computer, 3+ successes) Substitute attributes as with sensory visitation Lose awareness of normalspace for the duration (some Virtual Adepts set up their system to scan for physical intrusion and pull them out)

Holistic immersion Requires Life 4 Forces 2 Correspondence 2 (vulgar) and more complex VR setup (Intelligence + Computer, 5+ successes) Alternatively, you can travel into the Middle Umbra and then further (Dexterity + Athletics or Cosmology vs 7), but this takes a 'long time' and staff has not yet determined how long Do not substitute attributes 'Physical' damage to your body remains in effect after you leave, same as if you had suffered that damage in normalspace

Icons

Reference: DW2.0 page 99

• Basic creation: Intelligence + Computer vs 6, base is Appearance 1 Intimidation 0, each success gives +1 to one of those stats
  • House rule: No minimum number of successes for new icons
  • House rule: Can be extended, but each additional roll is +1 difficulty (cumulative)
  • Each roll takes 3 to 5 minutes
• Changing faces:
  • Adjusting details of appearance (e.g. hair color): Quick and automatically successful
  • Adjusting traits: Manipulation + Computer vs 5, each success lets you adjust Appearance or Intimidation by 1

Travel

Reference: DW2.0 pages 100-102

• Finding your way (walking): Perception + Computer vs variable difficulty
  • Hot Links (apart from the rare Restricted ones) are quick, easy, and painless, but sometimes one-way
• Popping (direct teleportation): Correspondence 3 (+2 difficulty to go to another Sector, +2 difficulty for unfamiliar areas, +2 difficulty if destination is Restricted)
  • Normally takes at least two turns (one to scan, one to go); skipping the scan counts as 'unfamiliar areas'
  • Fail = unknown Sector, or Restricted or occupied area (de-rezzed and booted out of the Net)
  • Botch = Junkland, Haunt, etc. or painful crash

Sectors

Reference: DW2.0 pages 102-103

Restricted Sector

Hacking:

• Extended Wits + Computer Hacking vs (7 to 10), accumulate 10 to 20 successes
• May be resisted by security systems, typically 5 to 10 dice vs 5
• May include puzzles or other challenges, e.g. (Perception or Intelligence) + (Cryptography or Enigmas or Linguistics or Psychology or Occult or Science)
• Faking an ID badge: Perception + Cryptography vs (7 to 10), typically requires an existing valid ID badge and a compatible fake icon created with 5+ successes

Corrupted Web

• ST discretion
• Nothing works normally, not even magic
• Getting out is harder than getting in
• Wits + Technology may occasionally help

Junklands

• Easy to enter and leave
• Spending time in one causes disorientation or loss of temporary Willpower (Willpower vs 7 or higher to resist)

Constraint Realms

• Any icon not fitting the 'dress code' is dumped
• Functionally Restricted for purpose of teleporting in or out

Haunts

• Junklands with some wraiths, and possibly some links to the Shadowlands
• Resonance of death (Jhor) seeps into everything

Trash Sectors

• Inaccessible unless you get dumped so badly that your body and mind become separated

Hung Sector

• Stuck in a time loop, requires Time magic to escape

Damage

Type	Description	Roll	Success	Failure	Botch
Net fatigue	Weariness	Willpower vs 6	No effect	Neurosis / depression / nightmares	Nervous breakdown / Quiet
Virus infection	Varies
Soft de-rez	Teleported elsewhere	No lasting harm unless you were dumped out of a restricted area (-1 to a mental attribute for one day)
Hard de-rez	Pain	Stamina vs 7	Disoriented	1 level of lethal damage, -1 to a mental attribute	2 levels, -2
Icon death	Intense pain, harm, possible death Restricted area: Permanent -2 to each mental attribute	Stamina vs 7	Disorientation, damage (-1 level per success)	Coma, damage	Instant death
Chaos dump	Death	Arete vs 8	Survive	Death	Death

Gauntlet ratings

Rating	Successes	Area
2	2	Virgin Web
4	2	Haunt Sectors, Corrupted Web
5	2	Junklands
6	3	Webspace between Sectors
7	4	Average Sectors
8	4	Grid Sectors, Conduits
9	5	Constraint Realms
10	5	Restricted Sectors

Umbral magic here opens gateways into Hellholes or the Shadowlands.

Whiteout severity

Successes	Mage who caused crash	Others	Sector
1	Soft de-rez
2	Hard de-rez
3	Booted into another Sector, soft de-rez	Same (within 20 feet)
4	Hard de-rez	Same (within 50 feet)
5	Hard de-rez	Soft de-rez
6	May be booted into Lost Sector (Junkland, Trash Sector) or chaos dumped	Hard de-rez	Fuzzes, offline for several seconds
7+	May be chaos dumped	Hard de-rez	Crashes, offline (duration depends on mage's Paradox), long-term damage
10+	Disappears	Hard de-rez	Trashed permanently

Paradox pool	Duration of Sector crash
1-3	Less than a minute
4-6	One to five minutes
7-10	One to six hours
11-13	One day
14-16	One week
17-20	One month or more, ST discretion
20+	Permanent