Remain At Your Desk

You have two jobs. The first is fake. You click through tasks, file reports, sync databases, and collect a paycheck. Nobody knows what you actually do. You just need to look busy enough to get promoted. The second job is the real one. After hours, you break into the corporate network to pull data that isn't yours. You route through systems, crack firewalls, stay ahead of whoever's paying attention. ORIGIN Before your first shift you fill out RAYND's intake form and choose who you were: a twenty-year lifer who knows the building, a planted infiltrator with a handler, or a debtor working off what the company owns. Each origin changes how you start, how you play and how CONDUIT speaks to you. RISK Every hack raises suspicion. Push too far and security starts paying attention. An audit lands on your desk and then an interrogation follows. If your story doesn’t hold, you’re back to Intern with nothing. TWO ECONOMIES Credits come from the day job. They buy upgrades, automation, and time. Intel comes from hacks. Intel only drops on hacks, so there's less of it than credits and you have to take more risk to get it. It feeds its own upgrade tree, and those upgrades make every hack after faster and deadlier. Climb a rank and the Black Market opens. Intel buys permanent edges there, the kind that survive every reset. COVER Personas let you hack as someone else. The janitor, the IT admin, the consultant nobody questions. Each one has its own bonuses but burns out if you rely on it too much. If suspicion creeps up, you file a fake report, wipe the logs, or pay someone to forget they saw you. LEVERAGE Not everything is worth selling. Hack the same target enough times and you build a dossier. This creates permanent leverage that survives resets. The email server shows you who hates who. The security network shows you where the cameras are not. Executive files show you how the system really works. PRESTIGE Get promoted and you start over with stronger multipliers and personas that stick. Get caught and you start over with nothing.