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

Access

Source: Digital Web 2.0 page 110 ('Web Systems' charts) and 35 onward

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

• Basic creation: Intelligence + Computer vs 6
• Changing faces: Manipulation + Computer vs 5
• Appearance / Intimidation: One dot per success (both start at zero)

Travel

• Finding your way: Perception + Computer vs variable difficulty
• Popping: Correspondence 3 (+2 difficulty to cross sectors, +2 difficulty for unfamiliar areas)
• Hacking restricted sectors: Extended Wits + Computer Hacking vs (7 to 10), accumulate 10 to 20 successes

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	Effect
1	Mage who caused crash (hereafter 'offender') suffers soft de-rez
2	Offender suffers hard de-rez
3	Offender and all within 20 feet are booted into another Sector and suffer soft de-rez
4	Offender and all within 50 feet suffer hard de-rez
5	Offender suffers hard de-rez, all others in same Sector suffer soft de-rez
6	Sector fuzzes and goes offline for several seconds, all suffer hard de-rez, offender may be booted into a Lost Sector (Junkland, Trash Sector) or chaos dumped
7+	Sector crashes and goes offline for a while (see table below) and takes long-term damage, all suffer hard de-rez, offender may be chaos dumped
10+	Sector trashed permanently, all suffer hard de-rez, offender disappears

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