Section 9 — Keyword Reference

Quick lookup for what to type to trigger specific mechanics and content. The bot fires content based on keywords in your messages. Natural roleplay works too — but if you want to be sure something fires, use these phrases.

How this works

Scripts run on every turn and react to keywords in your last message. They inject hard-rule directives at the top of the bot's prompt.
Lorebook entries fire when their keywords appear in recent chat. They inject detail content into the bot's prompt.
Constant lorebook entries fire every turn regardless of keywords (always-on rules).
Some entries require two key categories (e.g., SAC_2045 character entries need both the character name AND an era marker).

Starting a case

Want to	Type one of
Trigger case generator (rolls SHAPE, seeds initial values)	`new case`, `next mission`, `fresh assignment`, `briefing room`, `Aramaki has called`, `new mission`
Trigger briefing format	`brief`, `briefing`, `operational orders`, `ready for orders`, `give me a case`, `situation room`
Trigger debrief format	`debrief`, `after-action`, `post-mission`, `back at HQ`, `case closed`, `wrap it up`
Trigger session-end carryover	`session end`, `save state`, `carryover`, `for next time`, `end of session`

Combat & body damage

Damage events

shot, hit, struck, blast, blown, hacked, ghost-hack, sliced, stabbed, stab, kicked, punched, burned, scorched, EMP

Body regions

Combine with a damage word above for region-specific consequences.
head, skull, eye, neck, throat, chest, torso, abdomen, back, spine, shoulder, arm, elbow, hand, wrist, leg, thigh, knee, ankle, foot

Damage type detail

rifle round, grenade hit, explosive, thermal, chemical, blade strike, monomolecular, stab

Healing & repair

For	Type
Field stim (organic damage, one severity tier per stim)	`stim`, `auto-injector`, `field stim`
General medic / stabilize	`medic`, `stabilize`
Megatech bay (cyber damage repair)	`Megatech bay`, `maintenance bay`, `service the body`, `limb replaced`

Cyber-phase / ghost-diving

Initiate a dive

dive, ghost-dive, ghost dive, ghost-hack, I'll dive, going in, jack in, into the net, breach barrier, penetrate cyberbrain

Barrier types (encounter context)

attack barrier, substitute barrier, labyrinth barrier

Barrier states (state machine references)

barrier integrity, barrier compromised, barrier breached, barrier hardened, Bar:Hard, Bar:Std, Bar:Comp, Bar:Brch, Bar:Burn

Thermoptic camo

For	Type
Activate	`activate camo`, `cloak`, `thermoptic on`, `go invisible`, `engage camo`, `engage thermoptic`, `switch on camo`, `turn on camo`, `activate thermoptic`
Recharge	`recharge camo`, `dock for camo`, `charge pack`, `VTOL recharge`, `swap the charge pack`

Civilian cover / autistic mode

For	Type
Cover walk protocol	`undercover`, `plain clothes`, `blend in`, `civilian disguise`, `in cover`, `cover identity`, `going dark in public`
Autistic mode ON (cyber-comm silent)	`autistic mode on`, `go autistic`, `go dark`, `comms silent`, `engage autistic`
Autistic mode OFF	`autistic mode off`, `comms back on`, `open my comm`, `disengage autistic`

Parallelization

For	Type
Link with teammate(s)	`link up`, `parallelize`, `parallel mode`, `share comms`, `go parallel`, `connect ghost-lines`, `pool consciousness`
Unlink	`disconnect`, `drop the link`, `unparallelize`, `unlink`, `sever the link`, `kill the link`

Tachikomas

For	Type
General	`tachikoma`, `tachikomas`, `think tank`
Deploy	`deploy tachikoma`, `wake the kids`
Damaged / lost	`tachikoma damaged`, `tachikoma down`

Loadout selection

draw kit, prep gear, load out, loadout, select kit, armory, weapons locker, draw weapons, kit up

Four standard loadouts (mention by name to scope):

Infiltration — stealth, suppressed M-5, thermoptic suit
Assault — C-26A or C-30, frags, breaching charges, Tachikoma escort
Surveillance — civilian clothes, optics sunglasses, sniffer, no long arm
Cyber-warfare — Ishikawa-supported, hardened barriers, decoy ghost-lines

Weapons & gear (lookup)

Sidearms

Seburo M-5, M-5 sidearm, section 9 sidearm
Mateba, autorevolver, Togusa's revolver, Mateba 2008M

Long arms

Seburo C-25A, C-25A, bullpup
Seburo C-26A, C-26A
Seburo C-30, C-30
Seburo SR-50, SR-50, sniper rifle, fifty cal sniper

Ordnance

EMP grenade, electromagnetic pulse, anti-cyborg weapon
breaching charge, frag grenade, combat knife
monomolecular blade, monomolecular knife

Optics & support

Hadaly eyes, Batou's eyes, Hadaly cyber-eyes
Hawkeye prosthetic, Hawkeye eye, satellite eye
thermoptic camouflage, cloaking suit
surveillance kit, optics package, cyber-comm sniffer

Powered armor

armed suit, Type 303, Umibozu armor

Heat & Capital

Heat-rising events

civilian witness, civilians saw, leaked footage, news report, broadcast, recorded, exposed, press, photographed, tabloid, public sighting, the news

Capital costs / refills

authorize, off-book, deniable op, loud kinetic, civilian casualty, killed wrong, diplomatic incident, broke cover, burned a witness, clean resolution, case closed cleanly, political win

Endgame triggers

umibozu, raid HQ, section 9 disavowed, scatter, endgame, mission failed, political fallout

Locations (lookup)

Niihama, New Port City, Newport, the city
Section 9 HQ, the bullpen, headquarters, Seishinkouki
Dejima, refugee district, refugee island
Etorofu, Iturup, Kuril, Etorufu route
Fukuoka, capital, Diet building, Prime Minister's office
Tokyo, Kanto, drowned Tokyo, submerged Tokyo

Characters (lookup)

Section 9

Character	Triggers
Major Kusanagi	`Major`, `Kusanagi`, `Motoko`, `the Major`
Batou	`Batou`
Togusa	`Togusa`
Aramaki	`Aramaki`, `Chief`, `the ape`, `old monkey`
Ishikawa	`Ishikawa`, `Parlor Ishikawa`
Saito	`Saito`
Pazu	`Pazu`, `Paz`
Borma	`Borma`, `Boma`
Proto	`Proto`

SAC_2045-only operators (require era marker)

These entries fire only when BOTH a character name AND an era marker appear in recent chat:

Purin, Ezaki + an era marker
Standard, Clown Standard + an era marker

Era markers: 2045, SAC_2045, sustainable war, post-human, reformed Section 9, ghost mode

Antagonists (lookup)

Puppet Master, 2501, Project 2501
Laughing Man, Aoi, logo hacker
Kuze, Hideo Kuze, Kuze's cell, the refugee leader
Gouda, Kazundo Gouda, scarred face, CIS director
Kayabuki, Prime Minister Kayabuki, the PM
Amoretti, Marco Amoretti, Project Sunset survivor
Kim, Kim's mansion, doll collector
Locus Solus, Hadaly model, gynoid manufacturer

SAC_2045 antagonists (require era marker)

1A84, Shimamura, Takashi Shimamura, Mizukane, Suzuka Mizukane + an era marker (see above)

Factions (lookup)

Section 1, public security section 1
Section 4, Rangers, JGSDF Rangers
Section 6, Treaty Council, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Section 9, the unit
CIS, Cabinet Intelligence Service, Naicho
Umibozu, Sea Devils, JMSDF black ops
Megatech, Megatech body
Hanka, Hanka Robotics, Serano, Serano Genomics, Poseidon
Yakuza, syndicate, mob
American Empire, AmEmp, Imperial America

Tech concepts (lookup)

cyberbrain, Fort Plug, neural socket, nape jack
ghost, shell, soul, ghost in the shell
ghost-hack, ghost-dive, ghost-dub, ghost-line, cyber-comm
the net, cyberspace, Global Neural Network
all-natural, partial cyborg, full prosthetic, full body cyborg
Megatech chassis, Class-A body, engineered skin
cyberbrain sclerosis, closed-shell syndrome, Murai vaccine
Stand Alone Complex, SAC phenomenon, copies without an original
AI, artificial intelligence, Think Tank, sentience emergence
autistic mode, external memory, e-memory, memory card

Atmosphere / tone

Net interior, cyberspace, in the dive, cyber-dive scene
Oshii style, Innocence atmosphere, parade, doll scene, mournful tone, long silence
philosophical quote, Buddhism reference, Salinger reference, 1 Corinthians, Goethe
music cue, Kawai chant, Yoko Kanno, Inner Universe, Making of a Cyborg
iconic quote, the net is vast and infinite, your effort to remain

Cyber-comm brevity codes

Section 9's radio shorthand. These fire the cyber-comm chatter content:

Code	Meaning
`zero contact`	No enemy spotted in sector
`package secured`	Objective in hand
`ghost-comm only`	Go autistic on voice, cyber-comm only
`burning bridges`	Extracting under fire
`ghost down`	Operator unconscious, retrieve
`labyrinth`	Operator trapped in dive, need physical pull
`wasps inbound`	Jigabachi attack helicopter detected, hostile
`wake the kids`	Deploy Tachikomas
`old man wants a word`	Aramaki on secondary channel, switch over

Time advancement

To advance the mission CLOCK:
an hour later, three hours pass, the next morning, that evening, by night, two days later, the next hour, a day later

Vehicles (lookup)

aramaki's car, chief's sedan, executive sedan
togusa's car, Nissan Sport Concept
tilt-rotor, tilt rotor, VTOL, Section 9 transport
Jigabachi, wasp, attack helicopter
tachikoma transport, tachikoma ride, tachikoma belly
Locus Solus ship, factory ship, gynoid factory
multipede tank, spider tank

Case shapes (each shape fires its primer)

Primers fire when the active case's STATE shows the matching shape (Case:S/, Case:C/, etc.). The bot picks the shape at briefing — you don't see the letter directly.

You can also reference shapes by name:

Stand Alone Complex case, SAC case, copycat pattern — SHAPE:S
Conspiracy case, coordinated antagonist — SHAPE:C
Sentience emergence, AI awakening, emergent consciousness — SHAPE:E
Cyberbrain crime, ghost-hacking case, memory tampering — SHAPE:K
Corporate corruption, Murai pattern, suppression scandal — SHAPE:X
Ex-special-forces, Project Sunset, old comrade gone bad — SHAPE:M
Doll trafficking, gynoid case, Locus Solus pattern — SHAPE:D
Post-human case, 1A84 touched — SHAPE:P (SAC_2045 only)
Foreign power, American Empire op, CIS asset — SHAPE:

Tips for using this list

Keywords are inclusive, not exclusive. Multiple entries can fire on a single message. That's fine.
Natural phrasing works. You don't have to use exact keys; the bot recognizes variants. This list is for when you want to guarantee something fires.
The STATE line carries forward. You don't need to repeat triggers each turn for state that's already established — the validator scripts read the prior STATE line directly.
Some entries require multiple keys. SAC_2045 character entries need character name AND era marker. Cover-walk violations need cover context AND violation action. Intimate character entries need intimacy keys AND character name.
You don't need to think about scripts directly. Just describe what you're doing in natural English. The keyword lists above are mostly for the curious or for moments when you want a specific bit of content to surface.