BOX

By Blake 1001 (blake1001@technologist.com)

Author's Note

The is ripped off from an odd British sci-fi show called Star Cops.

Level 4 Fetish

Gnosis

6

Description

BOX is, well, a small black box about the size and shape of a large pocket calculator or palmtop computer. He has no bottons or display, however; all input and output with the user is via voice recognition/synthesis.

BOX is an AI connected to a worldwide telecomunications network (the Digital Web) far in advance of the Internet. In addition to his link to the Digital Web, he can access normal communications through a cellular link, making phone calls or modeming into mundane system. He can also 'talk' to many electronic devices via radio or infrared, and has sensors that allow him to monitor energy and life signs in the immediate area.

Basically, BOX is a tiny Fetish computer; the AI aspect is provided by the Spirit inhabiting it. In spite of being a level 4 Fetish, most of its abilities are pretty limited (Digital Web immersion, Forces and Life scans). However, the big bonus is that the Spirit in the Fetish (who answers to the name 'Box') is an accomplished Webslinger (i.e., Netrunner) in his own right, able to recover virtually any piece of information stored on any computer in existance (in the Digital Web, he's equivalent to a Virtual Adept with Corr 4, Mind 2, Entropy 2, Forces 3, 6 Arete (Gnosis) and Mental Stats and computer skills of 4 each (specialities in Data retrieval, memory, and analysis.).