[FOCI]
Earth Codex
You've climbed the hill of popularity, making an empire for yourself of social media followers and fans. You might do so under a pseudonym, alternate persona, or just your plain old self. You're both beloved and despised, because that's the nature of the internet. You've got allies and enemies cheering and jeering from the digital sidelines. You're noticed and thereby influential, and that's all that matters.
Someone with whom you're interacting happens to be your follower.
Someone with whom you're interacting is a huge fan of yours.
Street clothes, a laptop, a smart- phone, an expensive video camera, and $350.
You have a following with expertise in two areas of knowledge or pop-culture, most likely relating to your own skills, background, and online persona. You should write these two groups down as your "Influence."
You contact one of your Influence areas via the internet and ask them for trivial information in their area of expertise.
There's a 50% chance they answer you in a decipherable way (otherwise there's too much noise to wade through). It takes one minute to complete this task but it re. quires no roll beyond the 50/50 chance of success.
You dig up background information on a person, providing you with an asset on your next Intellect task relating to them.
Takes one minute.
You set your followers against someone, utterly destroying their ability to function on the internet for 8 hours. All of their social media, bank, and other private accounts are compromised within an hour of using this ability. Even their personal computers are attacked.
You gain the Wealth long term benefit.
You gain an additional area of influence. Also, for each of your three Influence areas, you gain a Contact long term benefit.
You make someone internet famous for the next 72 hours. This can be quite burdensome for them, as they lose all privacy and become viciously attacked for seemingly meaningless reasons. However a savvy recipient of your favor can use their 15 minutes of fame for their own purposes if they choose their public statements and stunts wisely. PCs benefitting from this ability pay only 3xp for long term benefits, rather than the usual 4.
GM Intrusion: An irate "fan" hacks your identity and posts under your name for the next hour, removing your ability to use this focus during that time.