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These Digital Monitors are a type of guardian spirit which are incorporated into many of the Technocracy's secure systems. Their purpose is not perimeter defense, but the defense of the data the systems contain.

Any time guarded information is accessed, the transaction is monitored. If an unusual or unauthorized use of the data occurs, the monitors acts to apprehend the culprit. Because these precise-minded spirits can be an annoyance to any operator besides the equally precise Iteration X mages, they are only used to defend data that is either very important or seldom accessed.

Restriction Monitors appear as faceless humanoid Technocratic icons. Their icons carry unusual pistols which shoot metallic rays. If sensed with the Spirit Sphere, they appear as man-sized metal spiders.

STR 2, DEX 3, STA 4
CHA 1, MAN 3, APP 1
PER 5, INT 3, WIT 4
Abilities: Computer 5, Investigation 4, Research 4
Spheres: Corr. 4, Forces 2, Mind 4, Spirit 4
Willpower: 6, Rage 4, Arete 6, Quint. 3
Health Levels: As human

Magick

Monitor Data Flow (Corr. 3, Forces 1, Mind 3)

This allows the Restriction Monitor to watch over its assigned data in technomancer computer systems. Any use of the data brings its attention. Unusual manipulations begin investigation, unauthorized ones bring attacks.

Relocate Data (Corr. 4, Mind 1)

When data is accessed, the Restriction maintains an unadulterated copy in its files, as well as a running log of alterations made. This allows these files to instantly be sent to a "vault" computer, one that is not otherwise connected to the Web or Technocracy machinery. Such files can then be consulted by skilled mages. This prevents most VA program-traps and isolates computer viruses for study.

Data Scan (Forces 1, Mind 3)

An apprehended Cybernaut is scanned with this rote to determine what information he has taken and where this information is located.

Data Wipe (Corr. 4, Forces 2, Mind 4, Spirit 3)

Armed with a victim's knowledge of where information has been moved to, this effect allows the Monitor to immediately attempt to delete it from computer files and make people forget it. The second application is vulgar and incurs paradox.

Icon Suppression (Corr. 4, Forces 2, Spirit 4)

This is a technomancer version of the classic spirit charm Calcify. With it, the Restriction Monitor attempts to anchor an icon firmly to its present location in the Digital Web. A Willpower roll is made against the target's own Willpower. Each success decreases the victim's effective physical attributes (or Willpower in the case of spirits) by one and establishes 1 die of countermagick against Correspondence or Spirit attempts to move. When the successes decrease the abilities to zero and countermagick dice exceed the mage's Arete the victim can no longer move.

Icon Ejection

Restriction Monitors can activate the icon-dump parameter of Technocracy controlled areas of the Digital Web. They roll their Arete (difficulty 6) against the victim's Willpower to send icons offline.