Bling (💎) “quickdraws” whenever you creditlessly install. For example:

  • Gachapon can double-trigger Bling, by installing a ≤2[$]-drop (and costing 0[$] itself).
  • Topan can trigger Bling each turn, it being their Console.

Design:

  • It has “turn-length momentum”. Thus, its unbounded Whenever you … trigger (vs. a bounded The first time each turn you …) has a safety-valve. Even if you trigger it four times in a turn, you might only get one benefit. CF. a “complementary” effect like Whenever you …, look at the top card of your stack. If it has printed install or play cost 0[$], you may reveal it and add it to your grip..
  • At best, it can draw every installation (including the hosted cards). At worst, it just mills you every installation.
  • as if they were in your grip: The hosted cards can be cheapened by Topan.
  • trash all hosted cards: If you've “quickdrawn” a Steelskin Scarring or Strike Fund, then you can clicklessly “play” them at EoT (which add them to the bottom of your stack wouldn't trigger). In particular, because it tastes Steelskin when your discard phase ends (not action phase), you can pass the turn with a seven-card hand.
  • install a card without spending credits: It doesn't trigger off Paladin Poemu (not reading from your pool), which I like; it (not reading from your grip) does still trigger off heap-installs like The Price or set-aside-installs like Gachapon.

Synergies:

See o:0 t:resource|program|hardware d:r z:standard b:active and x:paying|reduc|lower|ignor x:credit|cost s!console d:r z:standard b:active .

Aggressive Trendsetting (🐟👗) is “purple AR-Enhanced Security”. But:

  • It triggers off installed-only, not anywhere. (In particular, you can still R&D-lock them with Stargate.)

  • It costs [click] (if you don't allot them), which is less than 2[$], [click] (if you detag immediately).


AT (like ARES):

  • protects assets with a “click-tax” (dragging the Runner down to three-click turns like the Corp, all else equal).
  • is “self”-Fast-Advancing. Being a 3/Y (and being in decks with fast-advance/asset-spam cards): you can FA it with a single Nanomanagement; you can NA it, spamming it out with a single Top-Down Solutions. In particular, once the 1st is scored, the 2nd/3rd copies get easier and easier to score.

PS. While AT is no ARES, I wish NSG printed more agendas that explicitly incentivized “rectangularity” (IE. single-iced servers, like Fully Operational does). Not just “horizontality” (like Trendsetting) or “verticality” (like Sisyphus Protocol). But maybe you'll want to ice your spam with a single Bioroid, to pinch their clicks? (IDK yet, but that'd be cool.)

Flavor-wise, the Runner must constantly follow/purchase new trends (like the aquarium-suit in the artwork) for social-engineering and/or counter-propaganda, which wastes their time.

Touch-Ups (🎭) is like “Shipment from SanSan + Salem's Hospitality”. It:

  • compresses advancement (costing the same clicks/credits as taking the basic advancement-action twice) with disruption (taking out two of your choice).
  • deals “pseudo-damage”. The cards: get reshuffled, not trashed (the Runner can redraw them, but SS / SF don't trigger); and aren't random (by default, just choose event for the widest choice).
  • is an Operation (triggering Nebula/etc, unlike the basic-action.)
  • has an implicit Play this operation only if there is an installed card you can advance.. But advanceables need not be accessible.

For example:

  • You can IAA a 5/3 while “burning” two cards that could steal the agenda. Like pushing a Next Big Thing, while taking out some run-event that would help them breach it (or even an icebreaker if you chose program)? Or in Jinteki, for Fujii Asset Retrieval, while “softening up” the grip? (IDK.)
  • You can also just “touch-up” a Mestnichestvo, if you want to shuffle away two cards (EG. Steelskin Scarring) and then kill them (EG. End of the Line).

If the Runner is already tagged, Doomscroll will do 3 net damage (CF. Hydra). Even if untagged, it's still an $3/3s/“↳2” (with a 1 tag plus 1 net facecheck); and if they were to run through it unbroken twice (without detagging), they'd take 4 damage (1 then 3).

Blank subs (like an offline ↳ If the Runner has at least 2 tags, …) are mostly upside (taxing Bankhar or Physarum an extra card or credit), but could be downside too (like enabling Phoenix).

Gourmand (😈) is the “new Imp”. But:

  • It trashes a non-agenda only.
  • It trashes only one card.
  • There are fewer trashcan/sacrifice synergies (like Boi-tatá/The Back) than virus synergies (like Cookbook).
  • It's “self-Geist’ing” (and 0[$]-cost): you spend a click and a card, you get back an effect and a card.

Flavor: a gourmand “likes good food and drink”.

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