Teleport
Ghostware
Doors are a suggestion filed by people who trust walls.
What it is
In the dev build The line runs in the development build.
- Kind
- Weave. The Clinic installs it at the First Splice.
- Terrain
- Interiors, low ceilings, dense geometry. Corners do not exist for you.
- Opens at
- Operator 10, at the First Splice.
- Cost to master
- 22 points.
You do not travel the distance between two points; you decline it.
The cost
Bursts, never a cruise. The line's few charges and its recharge mean unskilled Ghostware is slower than sprinting, and the speed only exists if you keep hitting the chain window. Every departure leaves a brief shimmer, the loudest tell in the game, and the chain dies the moment a fight starts.
The tree
In the dev build The Operator 30 node also asks for this line's story, which is designed.
Seven tiers, from Operator 10 to Operator 50. The choices come at Operator 15 (A second charge or Fast Reload) and Operator 40 (The trailing blink or Thin Places), and taking one closes the other.
- Operator 10
Wake
Blink. A blink along the aim ray, a long recharge, and a shimmer at the origin that tells the street where you were.
- Operator 15
Form fork
Take one. A second charge. Blink twice back to back, then the wait. Fast Reload. Each charge comes back sooner.
- Operator 20
Reach
Long Cut. Longer blinks, and a clearer shimmer at the origin.
- Operator 25
Cadence
Phase Skate. Hold the travel verb to skate without friction, just off the deck.
- Operator 30
Questline node
Standing Reservation. A momentum chain between blinks, a mark-and-return anchor, and the blink-strike.
- Operator 40
Apex fork
Take one. The trailing blink. The blink path leaves a damaging trail behind it. Thin Places. Blink through thin walls and floors.
- Operator 50
Capstone
No Fixed Address. A longer chain window, and the chain survives one hit.
Twelve metres is the width of every service alley in the Wick. That is not a coincidence.
A place the city keeps for you whether the city agrees or not.
The Lattice bled through the Stacks in '79 and never fully drained.
The registry has your name, your alloy and your face. It has never once had your location.
Culture
Exemplar. The courier the Sweep logged eleven times and caught none.
Ghostware splicers run quieter, with a private language of shimmer-trails.