Downtime Stuff

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Downtime
     This is where you can post the activities you plan on doing during your character's downtime.  Any activities you do here will run their course during any free time your character has.  If they are interrupted by a job or something significant they will be put on pause and resumed when you next have free time to spend on them.  Edge refreshes completely the day after you finish a job.  Edge may be spent on downtime activities but any edge spent on downtime activities will not be refreshed until the start of your next main run.
     Your lifestyle expenditures are due at the start of the month.  Failure to pay them knocks you down to the highest possible lifestyle you can afford and nets you 1 Public Awareness and 1 Notoriety (it doesn't look good on your rep when you can't manage your own money).  You also lose possession of anything that was tied to your previous lifestyle (Fake SINs/Licenses, Magical Lodge, any guns/equipment you can't fit in your car, etc).



Special activities

Networking
     You can network to unlock additional contacts from the starting contacts list (an other contacts when you know some), doing so is a CHA+Etiquette extended test with an interval of 1 day and a threshold equal to the Connection rating of the desired contact.  You can also ask one of your contacts to do this for you and they will do the networking with a bonus or penalty depending on their relationship with the contact they are trying to get you into contact with.  Most contacts can't/won't network you with enemies/rivals.

Side Jobs
     If you know a contact with the Side Jobs specialty you can work with them to net you some extra nuyen in between major jobs.  Depending on who you work for and how long you work with them will determine how much money you make.  This will entail a test of some kind and success will net you some additional cash.  These will not pay a whole lot of money but can supplement your income and work you towards increasing you contact's Loyalty.  Taking side jobs with rivals/enemies can potentially harm your relationship with other contacts.

Laying Low
     Higher public awareness will make you a less desirable contract and may get you into trouble with the local authorities and corps.  To get the heat off your character there are two things you can do.  First, you can burn 2 points of Street Cred to instantly lower your public awareness by 1.  Alternatively, you can Lay Low.  Laying low is considered taking any amount of time without taking on any work (side jobs included, free RP stuff will depend on how flamboyant your activities are).  Laying low for a period of weeks equal to your current Public Awareness score will decrease it by 1 (e.g. If your current Public Awareness is 3, you need to lay low for 3 weeks to decrease it  to 2.)  For the purposes of this mechanic, jobs are considered anything that earns you Money or Karma.  This process can be sped up  if you happen to know someone with a Safe House that you can crash in and disappear into for a while.  Your primary lifestyle can't be a Safe House (Even if you live in a Bolt Hole as in Run Faster, see Bolt Hole, Run Faster p 216 for rules on having a Safe House of your very own).  A Safe House reduces the amount of time needed to Lay Low to decrease your public awareness by 1 week (to a minimum of 1 week)

Other Stuff
     Want to do something else not covered?  Go for it in the Free RP section.  If it elevates itself to full mission status then it will get moved around.  If it just takes a lot of time/effort it will just put a pause on your downtime activities for its duration.