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ON THE EDGE©: THE COLD NUMBERS EXPANSION
Imaginative Cards by Steven A. StevenA197@AOL.COM
Elisabet Hapsbourg Duchess of the Grey Room Cost: 4 1/6/2* Human, Grey Room, Fringe +1 Pull to call Grey Rooms and Aliens. Flip to duplicate the effect of any Secret in play. Flip to Avoid Combat. "The legendary Swiss hacker who 'liberated' File MJ-13, Hapsbourg has recently set up shop in Traboc. However, her contacts online make her presence felt everywhere." ------------------------------ Michael Nasruddin Sneaky Hacker Cost: 2 0/3/- Human, Grey Room Flip to Avoid Combat. "His hacking skills keep him apprised of danger." ------------------------------ "Cyberkev" Grey Room Pawn Cost: 0 1/1/- Human, Grey Room, Fringe Martyr for any Grey Room. "He believes in the possibility of Artificial Intelligence, and hopes someday it becomes a reality" (n. b.: Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.) ------------------------------ Oil Pan Annie Gladstein Infiltrator Cost: 1 2/2/* Human, Gladstein, Grey Room, Cloak +2 Pull to call Gladstein, Fringe, or Sub-Random Gear. Can call (bullet)-cost cards as if she had these traits. Flip to Avoid Combat. "She's out of the labs and into the cloaking game." ------------------------------ Harambe Agent of Peace and Light Cost: 3 4/4/- Human, Trident, Grey Room, Cloak Surprise. Flip to Avoid Combat. "He uses the internet to promote peace, and a stilletto for a different agenda" ------------------------------ "The Technician" Neural Hacker Cost: 3 2/2/- Mutant, Psychic, Grey Room Flip to Avoid Combat. Crasoda machines find him irresistable." ------------------------------ Dmitri Vatsavos Repair Shop Magnate Cost: 3 1*/3*/* Glug, Fringe, Grey Room, Entrepreneur 2 Pull to call Cut-Ups, Fringe and Grey Room cards. Flip to Avoid Combat. Gains +1 Power if there is another Glug in the same Conspiracy. Immune: Astral, Control, Psychic. Cannot attack or be attacked by Cut-Ups. Exclude: Glorious Lords. "He didn't even know what a Glug _was_ until he found his long-lost brother, Horrors" ------------------------------ Monique D'Aubainne v4.0 Virtual Exaltedness Cost: 4 -/6/2* Machine, D'Aubainne, Fringe, Grey Room Cannot attack. Cannot use gear. +3 Pull to call Grey Rooms, Governments, and D'Aubainnes. Crank to flip any Law or Government. For purposes of Uniqueness, this card is Monique D'Aubainne. "With the exorcism of the spirit of Her Exaltedness, the island government was thrown into a panic. Grey Room contractors answered the crisis with this artificial intelligence. A shadow of the former Monique, it nonetheless continues her machinations." ------------------------------ tourism@alamarja.com Evil Travel Agent Cost: 2 -/4/1 Machine, Grey Room, Fringe, the Terminal Cannot attack. Cannot use gear. Crank to pop any Burger. "I'm sorry, Mr. Ruffo, but your luggage has been sent on to Alma Ata." ------------------------------ TRAFCOM Computer on the Blink Cost: 1 -/2/1 Machine, Grey Room, Fringe Cannot attack. Cannot use gear. Crank to add +1 to any Character's DP. "TRAFCOM controls all traffic signals in The Edge. Shortly after it became self-aware, it fell in love with Monique v4.0 and joined the Grey Room, using red lights and traffic jams to thwart would-be assassins." ------------------------------ Contacts at Dmitri's Fix-it Shop Resource Cost: 0 -/-/1* Grey Room, Fringe +1 Pull to Call Grey Rooms. Non-VInfluence Pull only. "The Grey Room is a secret society of computer hackers and Oppenheimers. Meeting at all hours in a secure room behind Dmitri's Fix-it Shop in Traboc, they use their technical know-how to penetrate government computer systems worldwide and further their shadowy agenda." ------------------------------ Cold Numbers Condition Cost: 1* -/-/- Grey Room Target Character loses trait "Registered" and is Immune: Government "They can't prosecute if you don't officially exist." ------------------------------ Frozen Assets Condition Cost: 1* -/-/- Grey Room Character's Pull =3D0. Any Grey Room can crank to pop this condition. "An empty bank account can really put a dent in your influence." ------------------------------ System Error Whammy Cost: - -/-/- Grey Room Flip any Machine. Play any time to pop any Machine as it is called. "Please hang up and dial again. Thank you." ------------------------------ File MJ-13 Resource Cost: 4 -/-/* Grey Room, Government, Alien Crank for 2 Pull to call Alien and Government cards. Crank any time to control or to cancel the action of any Quisling or Government. While this resource is in play, Aliens may be called as if they had the trait Government, and vice versa. Unique. "This top-secret file was pirated from the 'blackest' computers of the U.S. government. It details contacts between aliens and the governments of the U.S., the (former) Soviet Union, and Al Amarja over a period of 50 years. For some reason, the Quislings have an abiding interest in it as well." ------------------------------ Gyula Fischhof Master of Thule Cost: 4 3/5/2* Human, Thule, Fringe, Control +2 Pull to call Thules. +1 Pull to call Fringe conditions. Crank to Control any Thule. Immune: Control. "His bid for power involves recreating the conditions of Hitler's beer-hall putsch, in Al Amarja. So far, he's not very close." ------------------------------ Josip Dea'k Weird Weather Expert Human, Thule, Fringe, Control Cost: 2 4/3/- Immune: Rain of Walrus "Forewarned is forearmed." ------------------------------ Anton von Gentz Master of Manipulation Cost: 3 1/6/* Human, Thule, Psychic, Control +2 Pull to call Psychic gear. Crank to flip any Low-life. "He manages psychic screening for Fischhof. So far, he hasn't found many 'assets,' but has made some friends in low places." ------------------------------ August Hasner Obsessed Eugenicist Human, Thule, Fringe, Control Cost: 1 1/3/- +5 Power vs. Glugs. Crank to add +1 to any attack against a Glug. "'The master race must not be polluted with inferior genes!'" ------------------------------ Otto Hohenwart Petty Fascist Human, Thule, Fringe, Control Cost: 0 2/2/=3D0 +1 AP vs. Chaos. Touchy Explosives may be called on him at no cost. "Too much beer has made him fat, but his rage still burns against the unpredictable." ------------------------------ Leopold Jelac^ic Gladstein Mole Human, Gladstein, Thule, Fringe, Control Cost: 1 1/4/* Crank to allow a Gladstein to bypass to attack a Thule. +2 pull to call Fringe gear. "He keeps tabs on a minor threat for the Gladsteins." ------------------------------ Friederich Kossuth Worshipful Fascist Human, Thule, Quisling, Fringe, Control Cost: 1 3/2/- Martyr for Jaganath Adhi. "He thinks he's found the U"bermensch." ------------------------------ Franz Lueger Thule Adept Cost: 1 1/5/1* Human, Thule, Hermetic, Astral, Control +1 Pull to call Thules or Astral conditions. Any Astral Hermetic can control him. "Every fascist conspiracy needs its resident magician. Too bad this one is compromised." ------------------------------ Emil Mazzini Sicilian Tourist Cost: 1 2/3/- Human, Thule, Burger, Control Martyr for any Thule. "He came seeking adventure, and is about to find it." ------------------------------ Franz Josef Moltke Science Major Human, Thule, Gladstein, Fringe, Academic Cost: 1 3/3/- +3 AP vs. Academics "He's having trouble passing physics, because he knows things the faculty doesn't. This makes him angry." ------------------------------ Adolf Palacky Fascist Muscle Human, Thule, Fringe, Control Cost: 3 6/2/* +1 Pull to call Lurkers "He doesn't believe in Deroes, although he thinks he may have found them." ------------------------------ Lajos Rieger Vornite Liaison Cost: 1 2/2/* Human, Thule, Vornite, Psychic, Control Gains 1 Pull if there is at least one other Vornite and one other Thule in your conspiracy. "He co-ordinates operations between the Vornites and the Thule Society. It's anyone's guess who _really_ controls him." ------------------------------ Schmankerl Stube Resource Cost: 0 -/-/* 2 Pull to call Thules. Flip to call any number of 0-cost Control cards. Unique. "Nazi wannabes, the Thule Society meets at the Schmankerl Stube, the Edge's premier bierhaus, on Monday nights. They have no real historical connection to the society that brought Hitler to power, but Hohenwart's grandfather flew with the Luftwaffe." ------------------------------ Called In for Questioning Whammy Cost: -* -/-/- Law, DBI Flip any Criminal. "We'd like to talk to you. Downtown." ------------------------------ Manhole Access Condition Cost: 1* +1/+1/=3D0 Lurker Play on Non-Lurker only. Character gains trait Lurker and ability: "Surprise." Non-cumulative. "If the Lurkers take a liking to you, they just might invite you home; but the aroma of the underworld is hard to pass in polite society." ------------------------------ Reorganization Whammy Cost: - -/-/- Cloak Rearrange all Characters in your conspiracy. Rearranged cards are not cranked, but you may not score any Influence this turn. No more than one Reorganization may be played per game. ------------------------------ Mineral Oil Gear Cost: 1 -/-/- Control User may crank to flip any Media or Academic. "Mussolini's Brownshirts liked to share a drink with hostile reporters..." ------------------------------ Sturm und Drang Condition Cost: 1* +1/+1/- Control Target Control character is immune: Blackmail, but may be controlled by any Control character with pull. "The only thing worse than a Fascist is a Fascist with a sense of destiny." ------------------------------ Civil Disorder Environmental Cost: 4* -/-/- Control, Criminal Any Resource which is cranked is flipped. Any Law or D'Aubainne may flip to pop this card. "When the phone lines are down and every building houses a sniper, it can take time to get through to your Friends in Broken Wings Barrio." ------------------------------ Bad Mojo Whammy Cost: - */*/- Compton, Nekros, Astral, Chaos. Play on Compton or Nekros in combat only. Flip a coin. Heads: Target character gains +3 Power, and is flipped after combat. Tails: Target character gains -1 Power. =20 "Black Magic is sometimes unpredictable." ------------------------------ Silicon Price War Environmental Cost: 0 -/-/- Fringe The cost of all Fringe gear is reduced by 1, to a minimum of 0. Not Unique. "Wow! Look at the deal I got at Dmitri's!" (The rules on this one may need some fine tuning.) ------------------------------ Ruthless Inquiry Condition Cost: 1 -/-/- Academic Target Fringe card loses trait Fringe and gains trait Academic. Target Academic can call (bullet)-cost Fringe cards. "It isn't Fringe if it's in the textbooks." ------------------------------ Security Leak Environmental Cost: 0 -/-/- Fringe All Kergillian, Pharaoh, and Quisling gear gains the trait Fringe. "When alien technology gets onto the arms market, anything is possible." ------------------------------ Alien Abduction Whammy Cost: -* -/-/- Alien, Fringe Target character is flipped. When it unflips, you may call a Robot Duplicate condition onto it. Play any time except during combat. "One little UFO can ruin your whole day." ------------------------------ Stefano Turolli Cursed Singer Cost: 0 0/1/- Mutant, Glorious Lord, Artist Martyr for any Glorious Lord. +3 AP vs. Karla Sommers. "He thought Nachtmeister was offering him some cocaine." (Artwork: Raw Steamer with a microphone) ------------------------------ Ahenodorus al-Malik Agara Hunter Cost: 1 1/2/- Human, Neutralizer, Intuit Crank any time to pop any Agara. "There's a reason the 'furry people' are so scarce." ------------------------------ Michael Ghent ICE specialist Cost: 3 5/3/- Human, Law, Intuit Crank to pop any Grey Room or Matrix gear or condition. Crank to add +2 to any attack against a Grey Room, Matrix, or Fringe. "He has a grudge against hackers." ------------------------------ U"ber-Brownshirt Rising Fanatic Cost: 1 3/3/- Human, Control, Fringe Not unique. Each player may have only one U"ber-Brownshirt in play; all others are popped. "Brownshirts of the Inner Circle know all about the Welt Eis Lehre, and count Deroes in their sleep." ------------------------------ Dr. Susan Miller Crusading Debunker Cost: 0 1/1/- Human, Neutralizer, Astral, Academic While Dr. Susan Miller is in play, Fringe cards cannot crank. +4 AP vs. Fringe. Immune: Fringe "She believes that fringe science threatens our way of life, and means to stomp it out. She is not aware of the little Nekroi that follow her around, sucking up any stray weird radiation and turning off nanotech machines. If she was, she wouldn't believe in them."
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