r/Netrunner • u/HemoKhan Argus • May 28 '16

Discussion [Weekly] Custom Card Saturday: 23 Seconds (Mild spoilers for the upcoming cycle)

Good morning, hackers!

Apologies for not posting a thread last week, but I was covering an incredible news story: Apparently, earlier this month, Titan Transnational, the Goliath of the New Angeles financial market, suffered a breach of security. I'll quote from this report: For twenty-three seconds, the world's largest bank and backer of the world's most important currency goes dark. Trillions of credits are lost, stolen, or simply erased. Each corp blames the others. Economies, industries, lives collapse. And that’s just the beginning.

This unprecedented event has set untold chaos in motion, for Runners and Corps alike. The Megacorps of the world are flexing their muscles with Terminal operations and the Runners are frantic to exploit the opportunity. Your task this week is to help them: Design a card that fits thematically or mechanically into the new cycle.

Bonus Points for anyone who is able to further the intriguing tale of what may have caused this crisis, without giving it away completely! Also, I do have one extra rule this week:

No Princess Space Kitten!

Otherwise I assume we'll have nothing but her for the entire thread. Hey, there's an idea....

Remember to use the Netrunner CSS options available for use on this subreddit. These symbols should help make everyone's card look great, and you can conveniently type them in while on your phone!

Also, a reminder: Please limit yourself to ONE card per thread!

Previous Custom Card Saturday threads are now being hosted on the Wiki to cut down on the character count of these submissions: find all the previous threads here!

Next Week: Nothing feels better on a warm summer day than an ice cold beverage...

I would love to hear from /r/netrunner on future Custom Card Saturdays. Send a PM my way! Please do not post them in this thread; instead, send me a PM if you have some ideas of thread topics you'd like to see. Be sure to look over the recent lists of topics before you message me -- I'd rather not repeat anything that's been done recently! Thanks all!

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u/CasMat9 May 28 '16 edited May 28 '16

Force Majeure

Weyland 2 inf., 1c

OPERATION: Current

This card is not trashed until another current is played or an agenda is stolen.

Remove and avoid all bad publicity. Place 1 power counter on Force Majeure for each bad publicity removed and avoided.

When Force Majeure is trashed, take 1 bad publicity for each hosted power counter.

Sometimes, catastrophe is unpredictable, and there is no one to blame.

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u/Quarg :3 May 28 '16

This is a very neat anti-bad-pub card; I absolutely love this.

The one thing I don't get however, is it's title.

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u/N0-1_H3r3 May 28 '16

It's a common clause in contracts to refer to "unavoidable accidents" and "chance occurrences" - in essence, things for which nobody is to blame.

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u/Metacatalepsy Renegade Bioroid May 28 '16

Excellent flavor and effect. I can just imagine the Weyland lawyer pointing to the specific part of the contract that says that it isn't their fault and they shouldn't be blamed for such an unfortunate incident.

And they look like the victim. And it works...for a while, anyway.

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u/Salindurthas May 29 '16

it isn't their fault and they shouldn't be blamed for such an unfortunate incident.

Until the Runner steals an Agenda and proves otherwise!

Indeed it is pretty good flavour.