1. What is your character's Sex?
Male

2. What is your character's physical size?
Ferret is small for a dwarf, barely scraping in at 4 feet tall. Unlike most dwarves, he is also lean and wiry rather than broad and stocky. A large, sharp nose, slightly buck teeth and a weak chin earned him his nickname.

3. What is the color of the character's hair, eyes, and skin?
His tangled mop of brown hair is about shoulder length, concealing his dark brown eyes. His skin is pale skin from lack of sunshine and his complexion is poor from a junk food diet.

4. What is the character's general appearance (i.e., How does she dress, etc.)?
Scruffy about covers it. Cheep street clothes, typically jogging pants, a dirty t-shirt and sneakers. When he is out and about he wears his biker helmet and a hoodie over his armor vest.

5. Where was the character born (City, State, Hospital Name)?
Ferret is a native of Seattle. He was born in a corporate enclave and grew up there.

6. What is the character's date of birth?
11 August (current year minus 40)

7. What was the character's family life like?
Ferret is a spike baby. Although he didn’t goblinize until puberty, he was always short for his age. His family cared for him, but as a small kid in a corporate enclave, he was bullied a lot and became rather withdrawn.

8. Has the character begun her own family?
‘Ferret’ is too easily distracted by shiny things to have a lasting relationship.

9. Where or how was the character educated?
Corporate schooling. Ferret showed an aptitude for science and technology at a young age and was quickly streamed into a training program for deckers. While he didn’t exactly flunk out, because he gets distracted so easily, neither did he excel.

10. Has the character ever done anything else for a living?
A B-list decker at best, Ferret spent his early corp career in mostly mundane data processing tasks. A job he performed adequately at best.

11. What are the character's political and religious beliefs?
He is pretty liberal in his beliefs. The matrix is his religion.

12. Describe the character's moral code. Include how mercenary she is, whether or not she'll kill innocents, etc.
He will not kill unless he has to. In fact, he doesn’t like fighting and will avoid it if he can. This extends to matrix combat, which was never his strong point (codeblock: attack).

13. What are the character's goals?
Ferret dreams of being a great decker. He also has a long term goal of rebuilding his SIN and works on it in his spare time. However, his only goals at the moment are to earn enough cash to afford more gadgets and food, in that order.

14. Why does the character run the shadows? (Why does she run the shadows still, rather than getting a "real" job?)
The crash wiped Ferret’s SIN and messed up his head (AIPS). He mainly runs the shadows because it pays better than running drugs.

15. What kind of personality does your character have? This should not necessarily be obviously stated in the background, as it is more important for actually playing the character, but it may color or add mood to the history.
Ferret is matrix-addicted, 40-year old student. He loves technology and likes to tinker with electronics. He can also cook up some pretty decent cram or other drugs, but doesn’t use. The matrix is his addiction (media junky). He is pretty smart, but easily distracted by the next new shiny gizmo or program. He can be confusing to deal with as he tends to jump from one topic to another or just zone out completely into the matrix.

16. What special qualities does the character possess? This does not refer to skills, but rather to other things, such as how she gets along with people, whether she plans ahead, etc.
Being small, Ferret can more easily avoid being noticed while still watching what is going on around him. When he is focused on something he does good work, but if he gets distracted it might never get finished. While he is a bit introverted and even anti-social, his drug dealing days have taught him how to handle himself in tricky negotiations.

17. Are there certain things that the character can't or won't do? Why?
While he is trying to rebuild his SIN, he would never go back to his old corp life. Way too restrictive. He also can’t swim, so avoids boats.

18. What things, people, or ideas does the character hate?
Ferret has a hate on for the corp that abandoned him.

19. What things, people, or ideas does the character love?
Ferret’s parents are still drones for the corp that wrote him off. He occasionally gets messages to/from them through the matrix

20. What is the character's name? Give both full birth name, as well as nicknames, street names, etc.
Ferret was born Ferdinand Dobson. His SIN was wiped in the crash, but his fake SIN is in this name.

21. Determine what your character used to do, before becoming a shadowrunner (very important).
B-list decker for a corp.

22. Decide why your character left her old job, if she had one (also important).
Ferret lost his SIN and his memories in the crash. While his memory eventually came back, by that time he had become a non-person.

23. Come up with a reason for why the character became a shadowrunner. (This very often will tie in with #22. This is not the same as #14, but rather why she started running the shadows originally. What led her to it?)
With no SIN or job, and his head messed up from the crash (AIPS) Ferret did what he could to survive. He fell in with an orc chip/drug dealer (Beetle), initially doing courier runs for him and later helping with the manufacturing of BTLs and designer drugs. He used the proceeds to set himself up with a new wireless rig and a place to stay (his van). He then went into the electronics repair business, fixing stuff for the ork underground. With his new headware, he was able to get back online and has slowly been making contacts and starting to build a name within the shadow community.

24. How did your character come to know her contacts? Contacts are an important part of Shadowrun, decide how and why you know them.
Beetle is an ork BTL/drug dealer. Ferret used to be one of his bag men, later helping the ork with manufacturing. Although he rarely works for him these days (unless he is broke), he keeps in contact with Beetle as the ork has lots of shady contacts in the ork underground.

Throgg is a big, tough and not so smart ork. Ferret got to know him when he worked for Beetle. When you are small, it pays to have some muscle to call on, in case a deal goes bad.

Mikey is a grunt in the Russian mafia, and also a dwarf. For a while, Ferret acted as middleman between Beetle and the mob. The stocky Russian dwarf took a shine to the skinny rat-faced dwarf and they became drinking buddies. Ferret learned most of his Russian from Mikey.

25. Does the character have a SIN? Does the character actually use it? Or is the character one of the SINless masses? This may be affected by the character's previous employment.
No SIN. Lost in the crash, although his fake ID uses his real name and as much of his past as Ferret has been able to rebuild.

26. Is the character a full-time shadowrunner? Or does the character lead a Batman-like double existence?
Full time, except when surfing the matrix for shiny stuff.

27. Which person(s) or group(s) do you love the most?
His folks, his buddies in the ork underground and a few online friends.

28. Which person(s) or group(s) do you hate the most?
Wageslaves, especially the corp execs that keep them in line.

29. Which person(s) or group(s) do you respect the most?
Deckers, especially his hero: FastJack

30. Which person(s) or group(s) do you fear the most?
Street samurai: they only seem to be interested in violence.
Corp security personnel: they might try to force him back into his old life.
People bigger than him – yes that is a lot of people.

31. What is your favorite colour?
Silver (chrome)

32. What is your favorite food and/or drink?
Ferret mainly lives off soypizza and soykaf, heavy on the kaf. Real coffee is nirvana.

33. What place would you most like to visit?
Ferret spends most of his free time in the matrix. He loves visiting electronics stores.

34. Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to?
After the crash, Ferret somehow ended up in the ork underground. Even though they had nothing themselves, some of the orks looked out for him. He still feels he owes them, so often helps them out by fixing their electronic gear on the cheap.

35. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the most enjoyment?
Matrix games.

36. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the least enjoyment?
Remembering to eat. Tidying up his van.

37. What annoys you the most?
Lack of matrix access. He also gets angry at himself for not being focused enough to be a great decker.

38. What (if any) is your favorite form of art?
Digital online art

39. What is your greatest goal?
To become a better decker.

40. What do you think is your characters best quality?
When he is working on a project, he gets totally into it, forgetting to eat/sleep until it’s done.

41. What do you think is your characters worst quality?
Easily distracted by shiny things (hardware/software).

42. What is the most important thing you have ever done?
Getting his head back together and getting back in touch with his parents to let them know he was still alive.

43. Which religion (if any) do you follow?
Not religious except about the matrix

44. What is your most treasured possession (and why)?
His fake SIN. It contains all the data he has managed to restore on his real identity.
His pimped scooter.
The latest shiny gadget/program

45. What are your three most common dreams?
Meeting FastJack and showing him a thing or two about decking.
Being dragged away from his parents and thrown out onto the street (memory)

46. What is the Character's current relationship with her family?
He still tries to keep in contact with them through occasional messages and online chat sessions to let them know he’s okay.

47. If the character's family is still alive, what do they do, and where do they live?
Still working for the man in the corporate enclave. Both are scientists so they are pretty much prisoners. However, they are getting towards retirement, so he hopes one day to be able to see them again.

48. Where did the character learn her Skills?
Ferret learned his technical schools in the corporate enclave. Being small, he was always fairly sneaky and he further refined his stealth skills on the street. His combat and negotiation skills were picked up in more recent years, mainly while working for Beetle.

49. Does the character have a good luck charm? What is it, and why?
His fake SIN. It reminds of him of who he really is/was.

50. What type of music does the character like?
Anything electronic, but particularly the old classics like Jean-Michel Jarre.

(170 BP + 10 BP edge + 25 BP dwarf)
Body: 3
Agility: 5
Reaction: 4
Strength: 3
Charisma: 3
Intuition: 4
Logic: 4(6)
Will: 3
Edge: 2
Initiative: 8
IP: 1
Essence: 4.8/6

Active – (184 BP)
Biotech (group): 1
Cracking (group): 4
Electronics (group): 4
Infiltration: 4
Perception: 4
Dodge: 2
Etiquette – Street: 3/5
Automatics – Machine pistols: 2/4
Unarmed combat – Cyber-implants: 2/4
Pilot ground craft – Bike: 2/4
Negotiation – Bargaining: 2/4

Knowledge/Language - (24 skill pts free)
English: N
Russian: 3
Italian: 1
Seattle street gangs: 4
Matrix games: 4
Street drugs: 4
Engineering – Electrical: 2/4
Chemistry – Pharmaceuticals 2/4
Security design - Matrix: 1/3

(10 Free)
Throgg 2/2
Mikey 1/1
Beetle 1/3

(-10 BP)
Juryrigger
Media Junky (mild)
Codeblock (attack)
AIPS 1
Incompetent (swimming)

(102426/105000 : 21 BP)

Cyber/Bio:
Commlink (Hermes Ikon + Novatech Navi, Response 4, Signal 3, Firewall 3(6), System 4)
Datajack
Sim module (Hot Sim enabled)
Flare compensation
Smartlink
Cerebral booster 2
Spur (retractable)

Clothing/Armor:
Cheap clothing *5
Armor vest (6/4)
Bike helmet (1/2)

Regular Gear:
VR games *3
Fake SIN (rating 3, Ferdinand Dobson)
Toolkits (electronics, chemistry)
Medkit (rating 3)
Plastic restraints *8
Micro-transceiver (rating 3)

Programs:
Analyze 3
Browse 3
Command 3
Edit 3
Encrypt 3
Reality filter 3
Scan 3

Armor 3
Attack 3
Biofeedback filter 3
Decrypt 3
Exploit 3
Medic 3
Stealth 3
Spoof 3
Sniffer 3
Track 3

Firewall 6

Vehicles:
Dodge scoot, metahuman adjustment, pimped ride (chrome wheels and custom paint job)
Bulldog step-van, metahuman adjustment

Weapons:
Steyr TMP, smartlink, gas vent-2 and suppressor
3 clips regular
1 clip gel

Lifestyle:
Squatter (1 month)

Starting cred:
1d6+3 → [5,3] = 8 x 50 = 400 - I did use invisible castle for this but didn't save the link.