"Mission impossible"-style latex masks in Cyberpunk 2020?

I have a lot of books from the R.Talsorian CP2020 collection and I don't remember anything like that mentioned. Here's how I'd approach that if it came up. This comes from about a decade of running CP2020 games, mostly without pre-planning "adventures".

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Doing that today takes a whole day of painstaking work by a team of skilled artists. And it still doesn't hold up to close scurtiny. Plus, the mask/makeup doesn't come off that cleanly. Removing it leaves behind a lot of adhesive/gunk that needs cleaning up with (hopefully skin-friendly) solvents.

I believe that (now that we are here) in an alternate 2020, there would be some advanced robotic setup that could do the same, but much faster than what the holywood-pro makeup team could manage today. So in 10-15 minutes, you could walk away with a new disposable face.

Being Mike's version of 2020, I'm sure there would be walk-in booths in malls where you could get a new face for 50 Eb and more upscale establishments that turn out tailor-made faces for around 500 Eb. With posergangs around, this could be an cheaper point of entry before laying down the thousands of eurobucks needed for full transformation surgery.

Most regular people would be probably be using this to look like a more "perfect" version of themselves though. Still, you wouldn't get weird looks just by walking around in a latex face. Ordinary people could see the latex but they wouldn't mind, and they certainly couldn't tell easily if that's just regular makeup for yourself or an entirely different face.

If you are imitating someone else though, you would have a hard time fooling people who know them. You probably couldn't get their input/output to go along with you. They would notice the fishiness right away, unless you support it with some voice alteration and very accurate acting.

It would be so prevalent that any sort of biometric identification would be designed to see through it. Fooling scanners requires other stuff as you mentioned.

It would still be good for ditching someone on your tail. You could easily get lost in a crowd. Just hope they don't have any olfactory enhancement installed.

Maybe you need a bit of house ruling, I didn't remember anything specific for this, but maybe a version of the RealSkin stuff used to hide cyberlimbs combined with a some surgery (to make the realskin facade another face) and you put a difficulty based on the job done, or maybe a price:

Method 1 - Do it yourself:

• Roll skill/stat of the surgeon (1D10+INT/TECH+Skill appropiate+bonus for equipment) = Diff to Awareness/Notice

Method 2 - Go buy it:

• Base Diff to Awareness/Notice 15 = 10000 eb
• Each extra point = 2000 eb

So a high-end 30 Diff mask of RealSkin = 10000 (base 15) + 30000 (+15) = 40000 eb

You can add some electronics of cyber skill related to the roll as for adding some cybers of voice modulator and eyes (to bypass retinal scans) and the like...

NOTE: Sometimes I use the rule that the equipment really limits your skill roll besides giving some bonus (+1 to +3), so you can be a INT 10 Surgery 10 guy who can make a great mask... but if you only have some cardboard and news papers...