Money
Revolutionary duty: wages are only one payoff.
Chair: Comrades’ chair (the operator cell). You manage where the hire’s pay goes and how it leaves. Remember that wages are one payoff of the case and not the main one: some cases are about data or keys, and then Money supports instead of leading.
Verbs are DEFAULT playtest parameters. The role is RULED. The IM calls every roll and states the target first (Easy 8, Standard 12, Hard 16). You have 2 actions per round.
“The payroll is a pipe. I only care where it comes out.”
Your three verbs
Route-wage
What it does: Send the hire’s pay to a payee the cell controls, rather than to the hire named on the card.
Roll it when: a pay run is due and the mission includes wages. A scoring success lifts Payoff.
Swap-payee
What it does: Change the bank details on the hire’s file, in the fiction of the case.
Roll it when: the payee needs to change before a pay run, and a Company check (Check-payee) could notice.
Cash-out
What it does: Move funds out of the route the Company can see.
Roll it when: funds have landed and the cell wants them away before a Hold-payment or a cut.
Free actions
Ask, Look and Hold are free for anyone and never roll. Ask the IM or a teammate a question, Look at the card or the file and read it aloud, or Hold an action for a better moment.
Tips
- A late bank change is also a decoy oddity on innocent hires, so a Swap-payee is more believable early.
- Time Route-wage for a pay run, not before.
- Expect Finance & Legal to Check-payee: roll with cover when you can.
- Say which mission you are serving: wages, data or IP, or keys.
What this role watches
- The pay date on the hire card.
- Finance & Legal’s Hold-payment and Check-payee moves.
- Exposure: it rises when the Company misjudges, and tells you the Company is stretched.
What you never do
Never give real banking or laundering steps. Everything is fiction at the table. Never claim real workers are coerced or name a country behind the money. Never play a payee with a nationality or accent.
Judge the process, not the person.
Short on players?
Money pairs well with Persona. Any player may borrow another role’s verb for one action. Say aloud which verb and whose it is. See Chairs and Roles.