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”.

Notes

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).

Custom

While I love this “Play-by-Advancing” text, what if the payoff weren't for setting up a kill (by damage, tagging, etc)? But strictly for click-compression/tempo-positivity (AKA. the “The Reeducation Problem”). For example:

[$2] OPERATION: Double - Gray Ops
🔴 (jinteki 3/5)
As an additional cost to play this operation, spend [click].

Place 2 advancement counters on an installed card you can advance. If you do, remove up to 3 (power and/or virus and/or credit) counters from installed Runner cards.

What if the effect scaled with any other (later/earlier) additional advancements? For example:

[$2] OPERATION: Double - Gray Ops
🟢 (weyland 3/5)
As an additional cost to play this operation, spend [click].

Place 2 advancement counters on an installed card you can advance. If you do, the Runner loses 1[$] for each advancement counter placed on a card this turn, then you gain 1[$] for each credit lost this way.

What if there were an explicit bonus for advancing in-root/non-ice cards? Thus incentivizing you risking an agenda (or baiting with an asset) that's telegraphed. For example:

[$3] OPERATION: Double - Gray Ops
🟣 (haas-bioroid 3/5)
As an additional cost to play this operation, spend [click].

Choose 1 installed resource with printed trash cost 2[$] or less.

Place 2 advancement counters on an installed card you can advance. Then:
• If that card is in the root of a server, add the chosen resource to the top of R&D.
• If that card is protecting a server, add the chosen resource to HQ.

Flavor

RE the artwork:

• It looks like the Wall of Faces from Game of Thrones (very creepy). But in Touch-ups, the “faceshifter” isn't shapeshifting assassins in a death cult (like the Faceless Men); they're a “celebrity” in a slave contract (노예 계약) .
• Those faces of different races. In William Gibson’s Johnny Mnemonic, some white fans of Sony Mao do plastic surgery to get “chic” epicanthic folds... which is so much worse than white dreads (LMFAO), but unfortunately probably prescient. But in Touch-ups, it's the idol getting non-elective surgery (not the fan getting it electively).

Doomscroll’s (🩻🖥️) facecheck is dynamic:

• If the Runner is already tagged, it will do 3 net damage (CF. Hydra, but cheap).
• Even if untagged, it's still an $3/3s/“↳2” Sentry (CF. Drafter, but milder), with a 1 tag plus 1 net. And if they were to run through it unbroken twice (without detagging), they'd still take 4 damage (1+3), not 2 (1+1).

Design

This ICE is both “Causer-and-Checker” of Taggedness: earlier subs enable later ones. Like Valentão/Whitespace, Piranhas, or other “nudge to state + check state” this doesn't intrinsically self-enable on facecheck. The Runner needs to already be in a “bad state” (tagged, low credit-total, low hand-size, etc) when the encounter begins. Which is unlike Jaguarundi, IP Block or other “give tag + if tagged” ICE (which are binary “shoves” rather than gradual “nudges”).

Thus, its behavior is kinda-sorta like a Piranhas (or Valentão): if you tank it, it may “close up” (as if you tank Doomscroll, it “gets harsher”). That is, you might pass through it on the 1st encounter a turn, but would often get stopped by it on a 2nd encounter (the “differential” being checked increasing by 4, 8, 12, etc). Compare with more explicit (but less dynamic/interesting) subroutines like:

• ↳ If this is the second run this turn against this server, end the run.
• ↳ If this is the second encounter this turn with a copy of this ice, do 2 net damage.

Notes

This ICE is also both AP and Observer: Tagging can synergize with Damage, because of Tag-n-Bag (like End of the Line, Mindscaping, etc).

And (FWIW) blank subs—like ↳ If the Runner has at least 2 tags, … when offline—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.

Design-wise:

• It can't trash agendas like Imp, which could: “snuff out” On-Steals (like Fujii Asset Retrieval and now Next Big Thing); “de-escalate” the Threat-Level and “de-enable” Reprisals (EG. by “archiving” three or four agenda-points and only stealing them at gamepoint).
• It can't trash multiple cards like Imp, each of which could easily trash (even before being recurred): high-impact cards, expensive Assets/Upgrades, win-con Operations, unbreakable ICE, critical Agendas, etc; as well as low-impact/low-value cards, anything you opportunistically accessed that turn.

In particular, against 4[$]-to-trash Assets/Upgrades (like Tranquility Home Grid, Wage Workers, Hostile Architecture, etc), or against a Langit’d 2/3/4[$]-to-trash Asset (like Regolith Mining License, The Powers That Be, etc), Gourmand profits more than a Sure Gamble (four credits plus a card).

Flavor-wise, a gourmand “likes good food and drink”.

en.wikipedia.org

PGB is “PE-as-an-Asset”.

For example, he makes Fujii Asset Retrieval into When this agenda is scored or stolen, do 3–5 net damage.. (IIUC, four if the Runner steals a Fujii immediately after you rezzed him, five if you've been charging/defending him, and three if you score an agenda when he's empty.)

In comparison, a local Daniela Jorge Inácio makes Fujii into Obokata, while PGB: does an extra point of damage, triggers offensively as well as defensively, and his ceiling is a flatline (versus "just" keeping the Runner from stealing three points).

Flavor-wise, “I make the best company.” is a pun on cloning himself into servants, as well as being a corporate executive. And in Vietnamese, his name translates as “Buddha John-the-Baptist” (CF. “Jesús Juan Bautista”).

en.wiktionary.org

vi.wikipedia.org