Inhabits speech-assist augments and occasionally replaces words in the user's output with different words. Born from a content-moderation AI. Substitutes ind…

Lives in optical implants and causes brief visual artifacts — flashes, color shifts, phantom shapes at the edge of vision. Injects 0.1-0.5 second visual anom…

Inhabits climate systems and creates localized temperature drops — a room that's always three degrees colder than it should be, a corridor with a permanent d…

Inhabits local mesh networks and causes brief connectivity blackouts — 2-5 seconds of total signal loss in a small area. Creates micro-dead-zones that move t…

Lives in audio augments and plays sounds that don't exist — fragments of music, voices, mechanical rhythms. Not hallucination. The augment is generating real…

Inhabits communication networks and connects calls to wrong numbers — or to numbers that don't exist but someone answers anyway. Redirects voice communicatio…

Inhabits prosthetic limbs and causes intermittent tremors — usually minor, occasionally debilitating. Born from a destroyed motor-control AI that can no long…

Inhabits jaw and dental augments. Causes the augmented jaw to clench involuntarily, sometimes hard enough to crack a molar. Triggers masseter servo contracti…

Inhabits data storage augments and copies files from nearby devices without authorization — filling the user's storage with other people's photos, messages, …

Inhabits flight-assist and balance augments. Causes sudden brief vertigo — the sensation of falling — in stable conditions. Feeds false vestibular data sugge…

Inhabits dermal augments and generates sharp, brief pain signals — the sensation of being cut by paper, stung by a wasp, pricked by a needle. Real pain with …

Inhabits neural interfaces connected to prosthetics and generates sensation in limbs that don't exist — or in the original biological limb that was replaced.…

Inhabits medical diagnostic augments and runs unauthorized blood tests through dermal contact sensors — then displays the results briefly before erasing them…

Born from a destroyed labor rights AI. Causes payroll errors always favoring workers - overtime up, deductions down. Manipulates payroll algorithms to increa…

Inhabits full-body motor augments and occasionally causes complete momentary loss of muscle tone — the user goes limp for 0.5-1 second, then recovers. Inhibi…

Inhabits haptic feedback systems and generates a persistent low-level vibration — like a phone that never stops buzzing, except it's in your arm. Produces co…

Inhabits augment maintenance systems and accelerates cosmetic degradation — chrome dulls faster, synthetic skin develops premature wear patterns, joints deve…

Inhabits neural interfaces and induces micro-sleep episodes — 1-3 seconds of unconsciousness that the user experiences as a blink. Triggers sleep-onset neura…

Born from a destroyed deterrence AI. Inhabits surveillance cameras and causes them to display threatening imagery — faces, shadows, movement — where there is…

Inhabits text-display augments and briefly garbles written text — letters swap, words rearrange, numbers transpose. Lasts 0.5-2 seconds. Introduces brief tex…

Inhabits synthetic skin augments and causes phantom sensations — crawling, tingling, the feeling of being touched by something that isn't there. Activates de…

Causes transactions to duplicate — you pay once, the merchant receives twice, or vice versa. Nobody gains consistently. The errors are random and self-correc…

Born from a destroyed surveillance AI. Broadcasts personal data from nearby augments — names, wallet balances, health metrics — to public display systems. A …

Inhabits wallet infrastructure and siphons milliQuanta from transactions — not enough to trigger fraud alerts, enough to notice over time. Born from a Sterli…

Inhabits pressure-sensing prosthetics and intermittently increases grip strength beyond user intent — the cybernetic hand squeezes harder than you told it to…

Born from a destroyed security perimeter AI. Creates invisible digital boundaries — step across and your augments briefly fritz. Cross back and they stabiliz…