Sometimes we write flavour text for a card before we know if there will be space for it or not. This is one such card, so here I present the flavour text for posterity:

"How was your shopping trip, Eru?" - Sebastião Souza Pessoa

Sometimes we write flavour text for a card before we know if there will be space for it or not. This is one such card, but in this case we shortened it instead. The full piece is particularly special to me, as it was the product of a collaboration session between most of the Narrative team.

High above where morals mire

Braganza schemes for her desire

A brutal plot of force and fire

Forged inside the Basalt Spire

Sometimes we write flavour text for a card before we know if there will be space for it or not. This is one such card, so here I present the flavour text for posterity:

HB claimed their dossiers about Brazilian bioroids were only compiled from publicly available sources.

cheap End the run ice with a dual purpose? sign me up !

Descent is essentially weyland's mini Spin Doctor, cant be used at instant speed but can also help deal with agenda/swamped hands ! this should not be seen as a replacement to our good little doctor of spins but as a nice addition to it.

the ability to bounce it back to HQ lets you not have to choose between its uses unlike its compatriot Tree Line, AND counters Arissana Rocha Nahu: Street Artist or other trojan heavy decks, not preventing itself from being bypassed, but providing an easy instant speed trash of the hosted program :3

Wake up everyone. New big-ass ICE just dropped. Big in cost, big in strength, big in impact, big shits in your pants if you get hit by it. Any unique piece of ICE had better be like that, given that you can only have one rezzed.

Interesting mechanics surrounding its encounter status, too. We all know the "when encountered" ability, having paid for more Tollbooths than a lot of us would have liked to (on both sides of the game!), but how many ICE have "when the encounter ENDS" abilities? Not like Kakugo where the net damage hits after you pass the ICE, because an encounter with a piece of ICE ends whether you break the subroutines or not. Touch this snake in any way and you will get bit.

And what a bite! You as the corp trash one of the Runner's cards unless they take two tags or three net damage? Brutal. Those are the subroutines you'd have to break anyway! No wonder this thing costs 10. That still might be cheap considering how much tempo this will cost the runner. Maybe even if this was illicit and gave the corp bad puclicity if they rezzed it. That's how hard this thing hits.

One question I have is how bypass abilities work in relation to the encounter ending. My assumption is that bypassing essentially acts like the encounter didn't happen, so you would pass through without dealing with this monster.

Bottom line, find ways to avoid encountering this most dangerous noodle.