Editing Nex Machina (section)

== Variants ==
=== God in the Machine ===
A specific computer is "worshipped", possibly by its creators. Shorter-lived and immobile, but more powerful within their scope.<ref name=":10" />

One which had grown from a bit of abandoned [[Technomancy]] was defeated by the founders of the [[Blue Heron Institute]] in their youth. It was so powerful it's image was interfering with the [[Sight]] across the region, it had taken over the building, and it had created a sizeable pocket dimension within itself.<ref name=":11">“Years ago, there was something on the horizon that clouded my Sight.  It recurred as an image.  A teenage boy dressed as a king, sitting in a chair with water running over him, repeating the same nonsense phrases over and over again.  If I gutted a bird and pulled out its entrails for a simple fortune telling, I could find papers in the guts, with the phrases on it.  It was… obnoxious.  I traveled from Toronto to Winnipeg, met with other Practitioners who had run into the same problem, some of your parents, as a matter of fact.  A company that managed and experimented with server architecture had rented out three floors of its building to a startup and had unwittingly played host to a group of technomancers trying to get users to engage with rituals they’d programmed.  They abandoned their work, killed by Witch Hunters or run off by Others, and their work was deleted.  As Raymond Sunshine would be sure to tell you, however, deleted does not mean gone.  Just as you can pull something out of your trash bin on your desktop, their work was still there, gradually taking form, reaching out into the rest of the servers in the building until it could become a small god.  After that, it started expanding out, until it was interfering with my Sight. [...] It had taken over the building and the running of the company that managed the servers.  Within was a world of its own that would take a month to cross.  I went to deal with it, and ran into someone else who was doing the same.  A young lady who would be best described as being very interested in the most vast and uncontrolled parts of conventional practice,”  He indicated Mrs. Durocher.  “She had already contacted a colleague of hers from a previous errand, a man who was just then achieving notoriety for his first practitioner-facing website.”  He indicated Raymond Sunshine. [...] Together with Mr. Bristow and Mr. Musser, we annihilated the god, shared out its power, and we drank together that night.  For Mr. Sunshine, Mrs. Durocher, and myself, it sparked a close friendship that has lasted ever since.  One of the things I hold most important about that experience was the epiphany I had, during that night of conversation and light drinks.  It wasn’t the power that I was happiest with -and I was as power hungry as they come- but the moments I had been with other practitioners and felt purpose and felt like we were all better for those deals.  Better informed, and we all know having the right information makes us strong.  Dealing with other practitioners makes us safer, better equipped, stronger, and more capable of covering our weaknesses.  That epiphany would eventually lead to us starting the Blue Heron Institute alongside Mr. Bristow, Mr. Musser, and others.  We named it after one of the faces the god in the machine had worn.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/01 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.5]]</ref>

Another example that appears is [[Tenant 2603]]

=== Ghost in the Machine ===
A Nex Machina based around a [[Ghost]]. Likely weaker, limited more to operating via technology.<ref name=":10" />

=== Older Relatives ===
* Memetic Dancer - Based around a music box, record or similar containing a cursed piece of music.<ref name=":10" />
* Wrong Numbers<ref name=":10" />
* Voices in the Static<ref name=":10" /> - [[Zed]] has one; its a swarm of voices in radio static, which manifest as static-y figures when it's played loud enough.<ref>A radio from the car buzzed, ninety percent static, overlapping with the static from a smaller radio that sat on the hood of the car.  He reached over and adjusted the dial.  More television static than shadow, with very faint edges, a silhouette appeared by the car.  He adjusted again, and it became three.<br>[...]<br>Zed turned up the volume on the radio.  The static images clarified, the grey dots becoming stark white ones, the outlines firmer.  Now the static-y figures were making a static sound themselves.  In the midst of the static, Verona could hear murmurs, moans, and angry shouting, as if from far away, almost drowned out.<br>[...]<br>“That sounds ominous,” Zed told them. “Let’s say that if you try that, I’ll end up turning this volume knob up all the way.  And the voices in the static here will get agitated.”<br>[...]<br>Zed had grabbed the radio, and cranked up the volume.<br><br>A static figure manifested out of nowhere, bright, and ''loud'' with static.<br><br>“''Wartime, people everywhere scared, loss of life, and fear, panic-''” the static man whispered at her.<br><br>The figure grabbed her wrist.<br><br>“''We’re cut off from everyone, we’re surrounded by darkness, it’s hopeless, and this message can’t get out'',” it whispered. -  [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/01 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.6]]</ref> Immune to blinding lights, although loud noises can interfere with them.<ref>John and Avery both covered their eyes.  Zed and Brie didn’t.  The card flashed, lighting up the area.<br><br>It served to incapacitate the mullet man, giving John the opportunity to twist around and fire bullets into the hood of the car, apparently aiming at the cassette player from the outside.<br>[...]<br>The flash hadn’t affected the static figures, but it '''had''' affected the goblins.  They were being overwhelmed with the static radio at full volume, swamped and swallowed.<br>[...]<br>If the flash didn’t bother them… maybe the bang?<br><br>She threw a card, aiming to get it as far from her as possible.  The wind caught it, and it didn’t fly perfectly straight.<br><br>She threw herself sideways into the ditch.<br><br>The card exploded into a ball of flame.  Static figures flickered and paused.<br><br>Free of the interference of the static men, Avery had reached the car.  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/01/ Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.6]]</ref>
* [[Incarnation#Ritual Incarnate|Ritual Incarnates]] - generally artificial (made by [[Incarnation]]s) rather than naturally-occurring, and may or may not involve any technology.