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”.

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

It's a nearprint of Nyashia, costing one credit less but starting with one less power counter. Nothing more, nothing less.

Synergies:

It can also be sacked to Knickknack