The Forms are my tools in the Matrix, my magical weapons and charms in the electron world. Deckers make use of programs with names like Black Hammer, Squeeze-It, Aegis-IV, and Shoggoth to do things in the Matrix. The programs run on a cyberdeck interfaced with the decker’s brain. The decker thinks of what he wants, and the program does the work to make it happen, translating the task into the appropriate image in the Matrix. An attack program can look like a gun, a sword, a blazing energy blast, a spiked mace, or anything else the decker wants, but it is just what it is programmed to be. It isn’t really any of those things, it’s just a program. A tool.