[quote=@Naril]In this world, few things are certain - other than someone’s getting rich, but it sure isn’t you. Your characters, at least at the start, will be members of the “lower class” - people living hand to mouth, or with only the tiniest cushion for when the contract runs out or you manage to damage an artificial eye so badly you need to have it repaired. You may have been working in a field, using enhanced endurance to help repair irrigation systems. You might be a hacker, using the computer wired into your brain to attack the gleaming corporate citadels, stealing information, damaging equipment, or doing whatever you’ve been paid for. You might even be a normal human, living in a world where those with genuinely superhuman abilities are around you every day.[/quote]

[quote=@Naril]At the start of our story, your characters will all be together, having been hired by a figure who offered you enough money to buy a whole lot of no questions. The job has been to infiltrate a huge building that’s under construction for the last year in the decaying neighborhood you call home, with further instructions to come once you’re inside. . .

Your characters have snuck past the usually well-guarded fence around the site. . .[/quote]

These parameters do not appear to be compatible. Requesting refined requisite statement.

Elaboration: One thing that DE, GitS, and Neuromancer make clear is that personal augmentation is expensive both to procure and to maintain, but even Case on his worst day was still running at a level above 'destitute.' The context of this job suggests either a degree of professionalism and sophistication upon the agent party, or else the envisioned necessity for disposable, second-hand coffin stuffing.

I.E., the job it pitched in a way that suggests that our characters are equivalent to commandos, or perhaps shadow-runners - but a state of destitution as required would necessarily be understood to preclude the possession of the appropriate materiel and tools necessary for the job (beyond mere integral augmentation). Similar deficiencies in personal reputation and reliable contacts (as an extension of absent resources) could be reasonably expected to be a cause of hesitation for potential employers, making the described scenario apparently unlikely. However, it is also clear from the stated level of security that random Coghead Bums picked up off the street would not have been able to infiltrate the perimeter.

What scale of personal efficacy are we working with?