Once you’re in, you’re in. The Bugman knows you. The Bugman knows you’re real and the Bugman knows you’re worth knowing. This is a coveted position. It’s also a precarious one. If a Carthian ends up bothering the Bugman too much, he will quickly grow frustrated and cut the cord.

At 3 dots, the hook-up is fairly basic. The character can email the Bugman up to three times a month and get an answer to something obscure, although not mad, bad or dangerous to know. In mechanical terms, this allows the character access to any piece of information covered by any Mental Skill, assuming it is capable for research to uncover such a thing.

The answers aren’t always simple. The Bugman could send a .PDF of a relatively obscure text or send the character a package of xeroxed pamphlets he thought might be interesting. In fact, sometimes even without asking, the Bugman may surprise the character with an odd book or packet of information, just because it seemed “what I know you’re into.”

At 5 dots, the Bugman can find just about anything for the character, even incredibly dangerous shit. He could provide a handbook written by Anoushka Tepes (written in mirror writing and copied in Greek) on how to learn the Coil of Banes, or a fifteenth-century textbook written in Persian about how to deal with a stranger from the wrong side of the sky. It’s hard to tell what he’ll come up with, except that, in some form, it’s an answer to the character’s question. The Bugman trusts his contacts not to misuse the information, and that trust can be revoked at any time.

Drawback:
While it seems as if the Bugman can get anything for a character, remember that he’s not infallible. Learning something from the Bugman might have disastrous consequences, especially if the information is flawed or inherently dangerous. He’s also not as discreet as he thinks he is; using the Bugman for government records, for instance, could be very dangerous.