Playing the Technomancer
Everything needs to be just so for the Technomancer: they depend on knowing their
place in the world and understanding all the rules that need to be followed.
Unwritten rules bother them, so they probably have them all written down
somewhere. They don’t like doubt or uncertainty and will do their best to make
everything conform to the rules they know.
It takes a steady hand and a lot of undisturbed concentration to peel away all
obfuscation and cut to the pure heart of matters (Cold 2, Volatile 1) but they could
rely on getting their inspiration from somewhere else and letting instinct guide
their hands (Dark 2, Cold 1.) Either way, their obsessively narrow viewpoint isn’t
going to be a big turn on for others and their lack of experience in matters of the
heart leaves them vulnerable to cruel manipulation.
Their Workshop is their haven and sanctuary, a place where they feel secure and in
control, where everything is known, defined and in the right place at all times, even
intruders. It’s here that they work on their secret projects, pushing the boundaries
of what is known and colonising territory in the impossible. The things they do
here blur the lines between the physical and the paranormal, but they hypocritically
ignore the contradiction in their pursuit of a scientific breakthrough. Then it breaks
out of the lab and stomps the town flat.
Finally, what is the Daedalus Cabal? Who are their representatives? What is their
agenda and why are they funding the Technomancer? These and other questions
need to be answered through play, but you can bet their support comes with a
hidden price tag.
The Technomancer
There are rules to be followed and there are rules governing the rules; knowing the rules
makes you smart, but bending them makes you powerful. Everything which is not
forbidden is allowed; everything is or is not, black & white, clear as day and night.
Whatever is not one thing must be the other, so all unknowns must be categorised.
Studied. Analysed. Dissected.
Credits
This is a skin for Monsterhearts 2, available at [Link]
This Skin designed by James Mullen
Identity Technomancer Moves Projects
Eyes: electrifying eyes, probing eyes,
Name: Bertram, Egon, Francesca, Ivanna, Jin, disinterested eyes, questioning eyes, You get Workshop and then choose You get one project; you can change your
Ksenia, Laurence, Qiang, Symon, Vicente faraway eyes one more: project in your Workshop if you keep your
Workshop cool:
Look: nerdy, dishevelled, super neat, retro, Origin: prodigal genius, inheritor of Robotics
You have a secret, secure space
business-like knowledge, on medication, bitter
where you can pursue your Spend 3 Strings on someone to create an
social outcast, hears voices
projects; choose one project you android duplicate of them in your
are working on. When anyone Workshop; it looks identical to them and
Your Backstory Strings enters your Workshop, give them obeys your orders, but it’s personality is
You saw them do the impossible; you must a Condition; if they are invited, dominated by the conditions the original
understand how. Gain a String on each other. take a String on them; if not, they had when you made the duplicate.
take a String on you.
They are part of the routine you feel most Alchemy
secure with. Give them a String on you. Hacker Sacrifice 1 harm’s worth of human or
Spend 1 String on someone to monstrous blood to create 1 dose of a
infect their phone or other device potion that gives you a 10+ on a specific
Darkest Self Harm with spyware that lets you access basic move instead of rolling.
all their data.
Unveil your greatest work and let it loose
Parapsychology
upon the world; describe to the MC and
other players what it is that comes bursting
Experience Taxonomical Gather 2 weird or rare components to
out of your Workshop and how it threatens Add +1 to one of your stats. When you give someone a build a device that makes a move from
everything in its path. To stop it, you must Take another Technomancer move. Condition, spend 1 String to lock it; another skin. Whoever holds the device
first escape your Darkest Self by admitting to Take another project. they can’t act opposite to a locked can make the move; the device is fragile
someone else that they were right and you Take a move from any Skin. Condition. When they embrace a and breaks easily.
were wrong when confronted with the Take a move from any Skin, locked Condition, they take a miss
evidence. The Daedalus Cabal funds you.
instead of rolling and unlock it. Pet Project
Design another project with the MC and
Conditions Experimental Data write it in here.
When you provoke an already
dangerous situation, mark
experience.
Hot-1 Cold 2 Volatile 1 Dark-1 Sex When you have sex with someone, you become obsessed with
them; give them all the Strings you have on them as Strings
Hot-1 Cold 1 Volatile-1 Dark 2 Move they have on you; if they reject you, become your Darkest Self.
