Rulings for Proteus Corporation Cards

• If Dr. Dreff forces the Runner to encounter Bug Zapper, the ice is not installed anywhere and therefore there is no ice "installed outside" it; Bug Zapper will do zero net damage. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/11/96)

• All rezzing bonuses and penalties are based on the card's keywords at the time the Corp rezzes it; rez it and then immediately change its keyword string. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/11/96)

• Note that while the first ability mimics brain damage, it is not actually brain damage, so ignores effects that would prevent, remove, or otherwise interact with brain damage. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• For notes on morphing ice, see Caryatid.

• Though it is not explicit on the card, this ability is used after a source of meat damage is used, to increase the damage dealt by that source. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• Note that this operation can be played regardless of how or why the Runner trashed the node(s). (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• If an effect (e.g., Rio de Janeiro City Grid) ends the run after the Runner has passed Datacomb but before the Corp deals with the "pay or uninstall" effect, the Corp does not have to deal with the effect. (Tom Wylie via Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/27/96)

• Digiconda's strength can be modified by other effects, such as Antiquated Interface Routines. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/11/95)

• If Dr. Dreff forces the Runner to encounter Dog Pile, the ice is not installed anywhere and therefore there is no ice "installed outside" it; Dog Pile will do zero net damage and will receive no bonuses to its strength from the number of layers of ice installed on the fort in which it is encountered. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/11/96)

• If Doppelganger Antibody has been installed and is accessed from a subsidiary data fort, the Corp must rez it for it to take effect (as a result, the Runner may activate Speed Trap in response and escape its effects). (Tom Wylie, Pacificon, 9/1/96)
• You can pay the 2 bits only once each time the Runner accesses Doppelganger Antibody. (Sparky on Pattel Antibody, Netrunner-L, 9/27/96)
• Doppelganger counters are not removed when the Corp forgoes actions to remove Virus counters. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/2/96) According to R&D, the Corp viruses aren't removed when the Corp forgoes actions because that text isn't on the Corp virus cards. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/11/96)

• You can play a second Emergency Rig on a piece of ice that already has Kludge counters on it to extend the number of turns it can remain in play. When the last Kludge counter is removed, each Rig's effect trashes the ice, so saving the ice would require using more than one prevention effect. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/18/97)
• The Kludge counters stay on the ice even if it is derezzed. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/25/97)
• You can play Emergency Rig on a piece of non-Kludged ice that is already rezzed; the ice will be trashed when the last Kludge Counter is removed. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/28/97)

• You may not use the bits gained from Executive Boot Camp to pay for effects which must occur "at the start" of a run (e.g., Siren). (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 2/14/97)

• The Runner may choose not to pay the 2 bits and not steal Fetal AI; Fetal AI is still considered to be accessed. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/2/96)

• For notes on morphing ice, see Caryatid.

• Bits gained from Government Contract cannot be used to pay a cost noted as being "above the rez cost." (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 5/14/98)
• Since Dr. Dreff does not rez ice, you cannot use Government Contract bits to pay for Dreffing ice. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner- L, 5/14/98)

• Homing Missile's strength can be modified by other effects, such as Antiquated Interface Routines. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/11/95) Effects that modify Homing Missile's strength do not modify the trace limit. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/11/95)

• If Dr. Dreff forces the Runner to encounter Hunting Pack, the ice is not installed anywhere and therefore there is no ice "installed outside" it; Hunting Pack will not have any subroutines. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/11/96)

• The Corp may purchase as many subroutines as it wishes and can afford. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/13/96)

• For notes on morphing ice, see Caryatid.

• Cards are trashed face-down. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/20/96)

• Cards are trashed face-down. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/20/96)

• If an effect (e.g., Rio de Janeiro City Grid) ends the run after the Runner has passed Marionette but before the Corp deals with the "pay or uninstall" effect, the Corp does not have to deal with the effect. (Tom Wylie via Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/27/96)

• If Dr. Dreff forces the Runner to encounter Mastermind, the ice is not installed anywhere and therefore there is no ice "installed outside" it; Mastermind will do zero brain damage and will receive no bonuses to its strength from the number of layers of ice installed on the fort in which it is encountered. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/11/96)

• If Dr. Dreff forces the Runner to encounter Minotaur, the ice is not installed anywhere and therefore there is no ice "installed outside" it; Minotaur will not have any "*End the run" subroutines. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/11/96)

• See notes on Artificial Security Directors.

• All bits that you spend during the run count against your limit, regardless of the source of those bits. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
• At the start of a run on an Obfuscated Fortress, the Runner may "announce" a number of bits greater than the amount currently in his or her bit pool. During this run, the Runner may spend bits from sources other than the Runner's bit pool (e.g., he or she may use bits from Stealth sources or from Hidden resources). When the run is complete, if the Runner did not spend all of the bits that were previously announced, Obfuscated Fortress will cause the Runner to lose only bits that are in his or her bit pool; bits on his or her installed cards cannot be lost in this manner. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 9/12/98)
• Obfuscated Fortress generates a start-of-run effect that can be processed with other start-of-run effects. In the event that an Obfuscation takes place at the beginning of a run on a fort containing Obfuscated Fortress, and the run on that fort is then redirected (i.e., by Siren), then the Obfuscation remains in effect. However, if the run continues on another fort that contains an Obfuscated Fortress (and it is still the start of the run), the Runner may redeclare the number of bits he or she will spend on the run, and the previous declaration is no longer in effect. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 9/12/98)

• If Pattel Antibody has been installed and is accessed from a subsidiary data fort, the Corp must rez it for it to take effect (as a result, the Runner may activate Speed Trap in response and escape its effects). (Tom Wylie, Pacificon, 9/1/96)
• You can pay the 3 bits only once each time the Runner accesses Pattel Antibody. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/27/96)
• Pattel counters are not removed when the Corp forgoes actions to remove Virus counters. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/2/96) According to R&D, the Corp viruses aren't removed when the Corp forgoes actions because that text isn't on the Corp virus cards. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/11/96)
• Remember that the strength of ice and icebreakers does not bottom out at 0; it can go negative. For example, if the strength of an icebreaker is reduced to less than 0, the Runner will indeed have to pay to increase its strength to use it on 0-strength ice. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• Yes, Pavit Bharat uninstalls himself too. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/13/96)

• When any effect owned by the Corp does preventable damage, Please Don't Choke Anyone can prevent that damage to gain a PDCA counter (e.g., the Corp could prevent the damage done by a Mastiff counter to gain a PDCA counter). (Tom Wylie, 8/26/97)
• The Runner has the opportunity to prevent damage before the Corp can use Please Don't Choke Anyone to prevent that damage to gain a PDCA counter. If the Runner prevents it, then it is not successful and no counter is given. (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 8/26/98)

• The effect ends when the last counter is removed; this should be considered errata for Rent-to-Own Contract. (Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/13/97)

• See notes on Artificial Security Directors.

• The Corp may purchase as many subroutines as it wishes and can afford. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/13/96)

• If a 6 is rolled, the Runner ignores Roadblock's subroutines. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)

• ERRATA: Should read "When accessing cards in this data fort, access one less card stored in this data fort." The ability is not triggered by accessing Simon. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/11/96)
• Simon Francisco does not prohibit you from accessing installed cards. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/3/97)

• Siren can reroute a run that was initially specified as being on one fort, but can't route you into making an illegal run, such as running on Roving Sub illegally. This means that you will run on the Siren fort regardless of what your prep, resource, or program says you're going to run on. (Tom Wylie via Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/6/96)
• If the Runner plays an effect, such as Custodial Position, that allows the Runner some bonus based on a successful run on a particular fort, and Siren reroutes that run to a different fort, the Runner does not gain the bonus. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/2/96)

• For notes on morphing ice, see Caryatid.

• For notes on morphing ice, see Caryatid.

• ERRATA: "A[ction], trash a piece of rezzed ice: Gain 4" (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 11/6/96)

• If an effect (e.g., Rio de Janeiro City Grid) ends the run after the Runner has passed Twisty Passages but before the Corp deals with the "pay or uninstall" effect, the Corp does not have to deal with the effect. (Tom Wylie via Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/27/96)

• The resource is trashed before the tag is given; if the Corp trashes a tag prevention resource (e.g., Fall Guy) with Underworld Mole, that resource cannot be used to prevent the tag. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 2/11/97)

• If Viral Breeding Ground returns a daemon to the Runner's hand, the programs installed inside it are trashed; there is currently no effect in the game that will prevent the trashing of these programs. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 9/5/96)
• Any advancement counters on Viral Breeding Ground are not considered Virus counters; they're just advancement counters that happen to be on a Virus card. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 10/2/96)

• See notes on Artificial Security Directors.

• The Runner only scores 3 agenda points for stealing World Domination, regardless of the number of advancement counters on it. (Sparky on Project Babylon, Netrunner-L, 5/22/96)

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