I recently read a Batty+Wormhole deck description where the author described trashing Batty on a run, only to use it (as a joke) to trigger an Architect install of Batty from archives, to trash again for an end-the-run sub on the second time around.

I had insomnia that night and wondered, "is it possible to make money off of repeatedly firing this"? We need Marcus Batty and Architect to both be somewhere that the runner wants to run, like HQ or R&D. Clearly we need to be playing Nisei Trek: The Next Generation, to get a discount on our psi games. But this leaves us in the position of each Batty game costing us 1 , breaking even, or making 1 , which means the runner will always bet 0 since that way we'd never make any money by repeating the loop.

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But then I remembered Alix Talbot, who nets us 2 for each install. If you have spare credits, you can start off betting 2. One comes back to you from your ID effect, and you get to put a power counter on Alix for a net gain of 1 even on a bet of 2... and you can keep the runner locked in this infinite loop until they win the psi game.

Of course, they'll just run on Alix next, but that's what Caprice is for. Interns are employed for recurring Batty, Caprice, or Alix, and Reclamation Order gets more interns back to HQ if necessary. The rest is just kind of a thrown together Nisei shell.