Captain of an unimposing, but well-kept, fishing vessel, Odyssey, Joseph Carter "officially" made his living by taking tourists on sightseeing voyages, deep-see diving expeditions, or even taking rich businessmen, or college-girls on spring break, out for various off-shore recreational activities. While was is all true, his real income came from the fact that, for a price, Joseph Carter would take his client, and whatever luggage they brought with them, quietly out of the country, with few questions asked. He had even been known to bring anything, from guns to drugs to people, back in with him, and put them into the right hands. Carter developed connections with various criminal entities, and enjoyed his exciting adventurous lifestyle.

Through his illegal activities, he had made quite a bit of money, which he used to improve his ship, as well as buying a number of nautical drones, diving equipment, and to finance a number of treasure-hunts. His expeditions often resulted in little more than scraps of wrecked vehicles, which he repaired or sold for scrap, but he did occasionally recover valuable goods that had been lost to the sea. He also had a number of run-ins with pirates, smugglers, and similar threats that required he take on a small crew to protect him, his ship, and his cargo.

His most recent success had cost him a year of his life, unfortunately. After finding a cache of weapons on a sunken airplane, and selling them off before he knew who he was crossing, Carter had to lay low to avoid the attention of the arms dealer who came looking for them. During this time, "Carter" and his ship, had to disappear, so the profit he made went into modifications to his boat, a new name, and a new SIN to go with it. Certer spent the last year moving from place to place, living off of the grid, and taking up a number of jobs (both on and off of land) as a professional problem-solver or Shadowrunner - which taught him a number of new useful skills, made him a little more world-wise, as well as putting him in touch with a new network of contacts - specifically, the other PCs.

He still loves life on the sea, and spends a lot of time on his boat, working on modifications or drones, even when the team is resupplying on land - although, when he joins them, trouble is never far behind. He styles himself a robin-hood of pirates, a treasure-hunter extrordinare, and has still been known to compliment his Shadow-income with the occasional smuggling job.

Joseph Carter
Human (0)

Attributes (200)
STR 3
AGI 3
BOD 3
REA 5

CHA 4
INT 3
LOG 4
WIL 3

Edge 3
Essence 6
Magic 0
Initiative 8

Disadvantages (5)
- SINner (5)

Skills (172)
- Diving 3 (SCUBA 5) (14)
- Navigation 3 (Nautical 5) (14)
- Perception 3 (Visual 5) (14)
- Survival 1 (Nautical 3) (6)
- Swimming 3 (12)
- Tracking 1 (4)

- Instruction 1 (Physical 3) (6)
- Leadership 1 (4)
- Negotiation 1 (Bargaining 3) (6)

- Industrial Mechanic 1 (Salvage 3) (6)
- Nautical Mechanic 3 (12)
- Automotive Mechanic 1 (Anthroform 3) (6)
- Aeronautics Mechanic 1 (4)
- Armorer 1 (4)
- Computer 2 (8 )
- Hardware 1 (4)
- Electronic Warfare 2 (8 )
- Hacking 1 (4)
- Forgery 1 (4)
- Locksmith 1 (4)

- Gunnery 3 (12)
- Pilot Watercraft 2 (Remote Operation 4) (10)
- Pilot Anthroform 1 (Remote Operation 3) (6)

Knowledges (35 points free)
- Salvage Operations 4 (Prof)
- Smuggler Operations 4 (Prof)
- Harbor Security Procedures 4 (Prof)

- Famous Pirates 4 (Interest)
- Famous Treasures 6 (Interest)
- Nautical Drone Identification 4 (Interest)

- Russian 2 (maritime lingo)
- Spanish 2 (maritime lingo)
- French 2 (maritime lingo)
- English N Language

Contacts (16 free + 23)
"Harold Davis" (C5/L2)
Concept: SeaCop (Harbor Patrol Capitan)
Relationship: Works in the area. Carter has had to deal with him, on occasion, so has built up a relationship.
Usefulness: Keeps an eye on a percentage of people and goods that come and go. Corrupt enough to look the other way for a friend, if paid, or useful if Carter wants to know who is in town.
Contacts: Usually contacts him via phone. Sometimes meets on the Sea.
"Doc" (C3/L3)
Concept: Nautical Mechanic
Relationship: Owner/operator of a nautical supply store. Willing to work off the books.
Usefulness: Specializes in the repair and resale of diving equipment, drones, and even ships.
Contacts: Meets at store
"Scurvy Pete" (C1/L6)
Concept: Pirate. Doesn't actually have Scurvy.
Relationship: Carter saved his life, once. Pete is looking to repay the favor.
Usefulness: Good man on a ship, or in a fight. Sails with a pirate crew, who owe him no favors, but other than that, he's not too connected.
Contacts: Meets at pirate bars. Occasionally contacts through the matrix (although Pete rarely has connectivity).
"Johnny" (C3/L3)
Concept: Smuggler.
Relationship: Payment always in cash, both ways.
Usefulness: Can get ahold of guns, drugs, or anything else smuggled in from other places. Is willing to take those same things off of Carter's hands, too.
Contacts: Meets on the Sea, in international waters. Generally very professional, although the guy looks like a pirate.
"Capitan J" (C6/L1)
Concept: Johnson for at-sea missions.
Relationship: Took a number of jobs through him in the last year. Payment mostly in cash, occasionally in gear.
Usefulness: Very connected on the High Sea. Good for finding work that needs to be done there, if one is not too picky.
Contacts: Meets up occasionally at a certain bar, or digitally on a few "pirate" matrix nodes.
"Scraps" (C1/L3)
Concept: Junkyard Operator. Fence
Relationship: Scraps doesn't pull a lot of business, these days, but the junk that Carter used to pull up was right up his alley. He also tended to have a lot of pieces of ships and drones and whatnot laying about his junkyard - which was convenient for Carter, who liked to work on drones and equipment in his spare time.
Usefulness: Selling just about anything (sunken treasure), and buying mechanic parts (rarely has working devices on hand).
Contacts: Meets him at his junkyard.

Gear (50) $250,000

Blohm & Voss Wellenkraft 3 (Small Cargo Ship): Measuring about 75 meters in length the Wellenkraft 3 is a sturdy ocean-going vessel that is popular with smaller shipping operations all over the world. It has seen an up swing in popularity in recent years with the advent of desk-top manufacturing and smaller �€œmicro-industry�€� factories that have reduced the demand for large-scale shipping. It is also popular with some pirates and smugglers who use heavily modified Wellenkrafts as mobile bases of operation.


B&V Wellenkraft 3 (Cargo)
H: -1
Ac: 10/20
Sp: 40
P: 1
B: 25
Ar: 10
Sn: 2
Standard Upgrades: Improved Amenities (Middle x 12), Satellite Communication, Heavy Winch (non-canon and really big)
{4} Large Drone Rack (4,000)
{2} Ducted Waterjet (3,200)
{1} Smuggling Compartment, Shielded (wifi negating) (3,000)
{1} Torpedo Launcher (2000)
{1} Workshop, Nautical Mechanic (10,000)
{1} Normal Weapon Mount (1,500)
-{2} Internal Visibility (1000)
-{0} Fixed Flexibility (0)
-{0} Remote Control (500)
{1} Extra Exit/Entry Points (Moon Pool) (5,000)
{2} Storage for Lamprey (Often just lifted up on the main winch, but it could be put in heavy storage)
{2} Amenities (High x1) (1,000) (Make the capitan's area of the ship very comfortable on the inside, even if most of us don't pay to make use of it. I'm imagining empty minibars, awesome TVs with no Satellite subscriptions, etc)
--- 12000 nuyen worth of optical cabling in a MageSight security system ($8000)

Sensor Package (Cap12, Sig5)
{3} Active Sonar 6 (1,200)
{5} Radar 6 (1,200)
{1} Atmospheric Sensor 3 (75)
{1} Radio Signal Scanner 6 (150)
{1} Camera (forward) (standard)
-{4} Vision Enhancement 2 (standard)
{1} Camera (underneith) (standard)
-{4} Vision Enhancement 2 (standard)

AquaDyne HookRider (Renraku Manservant-3) [8,350 total, x2 = 16,700]
0 5/15 15 3 3 0 2 - (2,500)
{4} Amphibious Operation 2 (3000)
Sensor Package (Cap6, Sig4)
{1} Camera (forward) (standard)
{4} Vision Enhancement 2 (standard)
{2} Vision Mag (100)
{4} Smart Link (500)
{1} Motion Sensor (forward) (standard)
{1} Microphone (50)
{2} Ultrawideband Radar 4, Signal 2 (2,000)
{1} Barometric (200)

Proteus Tieftaucher (Saeder-Krupp Mk-17D Neptune) [58,350 total]
-1 5/20 30 3 4 12 3 10 (22,000)
{2} Modular Full Mechanical Arm (Strength 6) (4,400)
{4} Strength +4 (1000)
{+4} Inceased Capacity 4 (4,000)
{8} Cyberarm Slide (3,000)
{5} Large Smuggling Compartment (2,000)
{2} Telescoping Cyberlimb (2,500)
+Hydrolic Press (5,000)
Environmental Resistance (underwater, high pressure) (200)
+Jackhammer (5,000)
Environmental Resistance (underwater, high pressure) (200)
+Welding Laser (3,000)
Environmental Resistance (underwater, high pressure) (200)
{1} Winch, Standard (600)
{1} Searchlight (1,200)
Sensor Package (Cap8, Sig4)
{1} Camera (forward) (standard)
{4} Vision Enhancement 3 (standard)
{2} Vision Mag (100)
{4} Smart Link (500)
{1} Microphone (50)
{1} Barometric (200)
{3} Sonar, Active 6 (1,200)
{2} Ultrawideband Radar 4, Signal 2 (2,000)

Proteus Lamprey [35,850 total]
0 10/15 35 1 6 4 1 - (14,000)
{2} Hydrofoil Capbility (12,000)
{1} Winch, Standard (600)
{0} Amenities, Squatter (Seating for cool.gif (100)
{1} Searchlight (1,200)
{1} Smuggling Compartment, Shielded (wifi negating) (3,000)
{1} Large Storage Bins (1500)
Sensor Package (Cap12, Sig5)
{3} Active Sonar 6 (1,200)
{1} Barometric (200)
{1} Camera (forward) (standard)
{4} Vision Enhancement 1 (standard)
{1} Camera (downward) (standard)
{4} Vision Enhancement 1 (standard)
{2} Ultrawideband Radar 4, Signal 2 (2,000)
{1} Microphone (50)

Trodes (50)
Toolkit (Forgery, Armory) (1,000)
Modular Built In Utility Kits, For Proteus (Industrial, Automotive, Aeronautic, Nautical, Electronic, Demolition, Locksmith) (12,000)

Commlink (100) [61,800 total]
Signal 5 (1000)
Response 5 (4000)
Programs
Analyze, Browse, Command, Edit, Encrypt, Scan 5 (3000)
ECCM, Sniffer, Spoof, Stealth 3 (12,000)
System 5 (2,500)
Firewall (Commlink, Boat, Sled, Hookriderx2) 6 (15,000)
Pilot
- Boat 3 (3,000)
- Lamprey 3 (3,000)
Autosofts
- Maneuver (Boat) 3 (600)
- Maneuver (HookRider) 3 (600)
- Maneuver (Neptune) 3 (600)
- Maneuver (Lamprey) 3 (600)
- Targetting (Torpedo Launcher) 3 (600)
- Exotic Firearms (Harpoon Launcher) 3 (600)
- Exotic Firearms (Gyrojet Pistol) 3 (600)
Mapsoft (50)

Weapons

Proteus AG Piranha Mini-Torpedo [3,600 x2 = 7,200 total]
8(12)P -4 -2/m 12F 3,600

M79B1 LAW [2,800 x4 = 11,200 total]
12P -2/-6* SS - 1 12F (750)
Airburst Link (500)
{1}Internal Smartlink (750)
{1}Camera Upgrade
-{2} Vision Mag (100)
-{4} Smart Link (500)
-{6} Thermographic (100)
{1} Extreme Environment Mod (Underwater) (100)

Rapier, [1650 total]
1 (STR/2+2)P -1 4R (550)
{1} Custom Look 2 (1,000)
{1}Personalized Grip (100)

AquaDyne Shark-XS Harpoon Gun [1300 x4 = 5200 total]
6P -1 SS 5+1(m) 6R (600)
6 Harpoons (850)
{1}Internal Smartlink (600)

Armor

Diving Armor 5/4 Cap3 Avail 6 (1750)
Leg and Arm Casings (+1/+1) (350)
Shin Guards (+0/+1) (150)
Diving light (25)
Drysuit (1000)
Dual Tank Manifold (600) (4 hours)

Other

SIN Rating 4 (1,000)
License (Harpoon Gun) Rating 4 (400)
Lifestyle, Low (2,000)

The origins of this shaven headed, dark skinned dwarf are a mystery and inquiries are met with a disconcerting toothy grin or Creole riddles. It is safe to say that he was probably born on Haiti but his accent is subtly wrong to those familiar with the region.

Whatever the reasons for leaving his homeland it is clear that his true home is the sea. Agwe's voice sings in his mind and he is powerless to resist. He can often be found on the bow of the ship, singing softly in French or Creole in a murmuring tenor voice, his arms spread wide in ecstasy and his eyes rolled back in his head.

Whatever his eccentricities, it is safe to say that no-one understands the moods of the ever changing Agwe better than Petwo. Many an expedition has returned to port in blue skies minutes before the weather changed and half a dozen vessels were lost. Those with experience have been known to track the vessel that 'PeePee' has signed on with, if they could not entice him onto their own crew. Strangely when 'PeePee's' vessel returns to port early he is rarely aboard and those that know why rarely talk about it. He always reappears within a few days to collect his gear and usually rewards those that have looked after it for him with some sort of valuable trinket.

Mostly he works on fishing vessels and asks for little other than to be on the sea. When one vessel comes back to port he will immediately hire on with another that is about to leave. Occasionally, however, he hires on with salvage expeditions. Such expeditions have a suspiciously high success rate and Petwo always asks for the same payment. One item of his choice from the wreck that isn't on the cargo manifest. Usually such treasures are valueless or bizarre but occasionally they have been items of enormous value or significance whose presence in the wreck is universally mysterious.

Despite his initially appearance, he strongly resembles some sort of terrifying obsidian idol with alien symbols engraved all over it's surface, he is a friendly, jovial man with a deep booming laugh with a love of cooking and story telling, pastimes that are often welcome aboard ship. When not chanting to the Loa he likes to belt out Gilbert and Sullivan and it is rumoured he has even performed in amateur productions, although such stories are clearly madness or tall-tales of his own invention.

Name: Petit Petwo
Race: Dwarf
Gender: Male

BREAKDOWN (450BP)

Core Attributes: 120 BP
Special Attributes: 80 BP
Race: 25 BP
Active Skills: 128 BP
Positive Qualities: 35 BP
Negative Qualities: 35 BP
Contacts: BP
Resources 50 BP
Spells: 36 BP
Foci: 11 BP

=Attributes=

Body: 5
Agility: 2
Reaction: 2
Strength: 3
Charisma: 3{6}
Intuition: 3
Logic: 3
Willpower: 3{6}
Magic: 4
Edge: 5

Essence: 5.5
Initiative: 5{7}
Initiative Passes: 1{3}
Physical Damage Track: 11
Stun Track: 10

Current Karma: 0
Total Karma: 0
Street Cred: 0
Noteriety: 0
Public Awareness: 0

=Qualities=

Magician
Biocompatibility: Cyber
Genetic Heritage: Genetic Optimization: Will
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Spirit Bane - Fire Spirits
Sinner
Allergy: Soy, Mild
Geas: Ritual, Immersion in Salt Water

=Active Skills=



Spellcasting (Manipulation): 6(+2)
Counterspelling (Combat) : 4(+2)
Conjuring Group: 4
Enchanting (Alchemy): 2(+2)
Unarmed Combat (Tooth + Claw): 2(+2)
Ritual Spellcasting: 2
Assensing: 2
Perception: 2

=Knowledge Skills=

English: N
Creole: 4
French: 2
Ship Wrecks: 6
Magical Theory: 4
Ghost Stories: 2

=Spells=

Stunbolt
Heal
Increase - Charisma
Increase - Willpower
Increase - Reflexes
Deflection
Fix
Reinforce
Shape Metal
Mana Static
Shapechange
Fashion

=Foci=

Sustaining Focus (3) - Health
Sustaining Focus (3) - Health
Sustaining Focus (3) - Health
Power Focus (2)

=Gear=

Urban Explorer Jumpsuit (Skinlink, Biomonitor, Music Player, Audio System, Select Sound Filter 3, Chemical Protection 4, Fire Resistant 4, Non-Conductive 4.)
FFBA Full Suit (Skinlink, Simrig, Insulation 3)
PPP Forearm Guards, Shin Guards, Vitals Protector
Med Kit 6, Extra Supplies x 2
AK 97 (Accessories: Foregrip, Tripod, Internal Smartlink, Skinlink, Gas Vent III. Modifications: Extended Barrel, High Velocity, Drum Magazine, Personalized Grip, Sling)
Goggles (Skinlink, Smartlink, Image Link, Vision Magnification, Vision Enhancement 3)
Contacts (Flare Compensation, Low Light, Image Link)
Mage Sight Goggles (30m, Skinlink, Image Link)
Earbuds (Skinlink, Audio Enhancement 3, Spatial Recognizer)
Handheld Sensor (Radio Signal Scanner 6, Cyberware Scanner 6, NLJD)
Handheld Sensor (Olfactory Sensor 6, Radiation Sensor, Barometric Sensor)
Handheld Sensor (Ultrawideband Radar 3, Motion Sensor)

Ammo Drums x 4
Gel Rounds x200
Regular Rounds x300

Basic Comm-links x2 (1 w/ Skinlink)
Certified Credsticks x2

Squid, Rating 6 Prepared Plasteel Homunculus
Plast-eel, Rating 1 Prepared Plasteel Homunculus

Magical Lodge, Rating 6
Binding Materials, Force 6
Manipulation Fetish
Assay Kit
Raw Seashells, 100 Units



=Cyber=

Skillwires 3 - Alpha
Datajack - Alpha

=Activesofts=

Industrial Mechanic, Rating 2
Aeronautic Mechanic, Rating 2
Nautical Mechanic, Rating 2
Dodge, Rating 2
Infiltration, Rating 2
Armourer, Rating 2
Automatics, Rating 3



=Contacts=

Fixer ( Loyalty 1/ Connections 5)

Guy was born as Doug Sargas to a opulent, middle-class family in Southern California. He had a largely healthy and sucessful childhood in spite of being an only child and was reasonably educated at a number of excellent facilities. He retains fond memories of his Youth, carefree time spent on beaches, surfing and exploring the hidden treasures of the ocean. He headed to college at the still-standing CFSD.

There he discovered a passion for history, art, mathematics, computers and most importantly, for Emily Raven, an Amerind exchange student. The two were as star-crossed and star-struck as couples come and married as soon as they had degrees in hand.

The couple moved back to LA to accomodate Emily's job at Horizon. Doug took up a software job at a startup which did some clever work with matrix security and wireless communications. The company paid for much of Doug's cyberware and computer equipment. It was a happy five years.

The crash of 2064 was bad. Doug's father suffered an unexpected heart attack in the week prior. Doug was with his grieving mother when his wife and child died in a hit-and-run car accident. The crash left him stranded at an airport halfway between the two parts of his family as the world tore itself apart when the matrix crashed. Both mother and wife were missing by the time he was mobile again.

He tried going back to work, but financial backing was somewhat lacking and most of the software the company had developed was gone. As a professional engineer with wireless experience, Doug was a hot commodity especially to NeoNet and recruiters were hot on his heels. However, Doug had a vague mistrust of corporations, suspecting Horizon was somehow responsible for the death of his wife, and more importantly Doug needed to get away from everything.

He went to the sea and looked for work. He immediately stumbled across Joseph Carter who was in the process of gearing up for a salvage operation and was in deperate need of someone to keep his network secure. Doug fit the bill. After just a few more salvage operations, some with Carter and some with others, Doug changed his name - legally - to Guy Freebird in an attempt to shed association with his former life.

He has worked for many salvage operators and even some land based companies in the years he's spent in the shadows. His long history with Carter has led to continuing employment and a friendly relationship. Guy's also developed something of a niche role as an underwater signals integrity and analysis guru. For folks who need complicated electronics underwater, he's the man to go to. Needless to say, the territory of treasure hunting has taught Guy how to take care of himself.

He's been living a wild reincarnation of his youth ever since, looking for the big score that will let him make sense of his life. He hasn't found it yet and he gets a little older and a little slower every day. It's an open question whether his career will catch up to him before he finds peace.

Name: Guy Freebird, formerly Doug Sargas
Matrix Handle: Hang10

Race: Human (-0 Pts.)

Qualities
- Sinner +5
- Aikido +1 on Full Defense -5
-evasion

Attributes: (-200 Pts.)

B 3 -20
A 3 -20
R 3(4) -20
S 2 -10

C 3 -20
I 4 -30
L 5 -40
W 5 -40

Special Attributes: (-10 Pts.)

Mag -
Ess 1.55
Edg 2
Init 7
IP 1(2)

Skills: (-200 pt)
Electronics gp. 4 -40
Hacking 4 -24
Electronic Warfare (comm.) 6 -18
Cybercombat 4 -16
Athletics gp. 1 -10
Survival (maritime) 2(4) -10
Navigation (maritime) 2(4) -10
Influence gp. 2 -20
Diving 3 -12
Automatics 3 -12
Dodge 3 -12
Perception 4 -16
Biotech gp. 2 -20

Knowledge: (-0 pts.)
Los Angeles 2 Street
Salvage Operations 1 Prof.
History (Maritime) 3 Acad.
Mathematics (comm. theory) 6 Acad.
Security Procesdures (matrix) 2(4) Prof.
Surfing 2 Int.
Naval Architecture 3 Prof. (How boats are put together)
World Ports 2 Street.
Sonar Sources 2 Prof. (Some experience with sonar)
Physics (E+M Theory) 2(4) Acad.
English N Language

Resources (225K+15K) (-48 Pts.)

Encephalon 2 -75000 -1.5
Math SPU - -4500 -0.15
Wired Reflexes 1 -11000 -2
Implanted Comm. - -2000+ -0.2
Datajack
Cybereyes 3 -1000 -.4
- Smartlink -1000 [3]
- Eye Lights -750 [2]
- Low Light -1000 [2]
- Vis. Mag. -1000 [2]
- Vis. Enh. -4500 [3]
--
PuSHeD -15000 .1 +15K

101.75K to here (-4.45 ess)

All common programs at 6 -4200
All hacking programs at 6 -78000
- no Blackout
Rating 3 Agent -3000

187.75K

Rating 6 System 3K
Rating 6 Firewall 3K
Rating 5(6) Response 4(K - paid 4K for building
Rating 5(6) Signal 1(3)K - paid 1.5K for building

198.75K (204.75K) - 199.25K is final

205K - 250 [5.5 if building] - 200K - 750

M24A3 Water Carbine 1200
-External Top Smartgun 400
-Gas-Vent 3 400
-Underbarrel Weight 75
-Folding Stock 150
Ares Crusader 700
-Underbarrel Weight 75
-Smartgun, External 400
-Folding Stock 150
-Sound Suppressor 300
-Concealable Holster 100
60 regular ammo M24A3 120
30 stick&shock M24A3 240
80 Crusader Ammo 160
40 Gel stick&shock 120
Armor Vest (6/4) 600
Diving Armor (5/4) 1750

Hardware Kit 500
Monofilament Chainsaw 300
Miniwelder 250
Survival Kit 100
Flashlight 25
15 light sticks 75
Bolt Cutters 25
OXSYS Artificial Gill 1000
Diving Light 25 +25

Geiger counter (w/ extreme environment modification)
Passive sonar 6 1200
- handheld
Active sonar 6 1200
- handheld
UWB Radar 4 2000
Cyberware Scanner 6 450
- handheld
NLJD 6 600
- handheld

Rating 4 Fake SIN
Medium Lifestyle (on boat)

Ear bud (w/ Enhanced Hearing 3)
Smart Area Jammer Rtg. 4 4000
Direct Jammer Rtg. 6
Medkit 6 600
- 2 spare supplies 100
MAD Scanner 3 225 (add the -75 here?)
Satellite Link 500
Skinlink 50
Extreme Env. Mod (Water) x7 700
Ultrasound Camera 1200

Vehicle ECM Rtg 6

Contacts: (-2 BP + 12 Free)
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Black Jack - C2/L2
A gregarious pirate who who runs up and down the Western seaboard of the United States smuggling, pirating, fighting and drinking as he pleases. Black Jack specializes in knowing someone in every port avaialble. Whether or not he's on good terms with his associates there is up in the air. His vessel, the peregrine, is decked out with an impressive antenna and a ramming spike. He and his crew use electronic warfare to ambush their prey. Guy has found some employment manning and uprgrading the sensor tower, though he feels some guilt about the blatant thievery and murder that he's helping to commit. The two exchange favors and introductions freely, each acting as a business network for the other. In addition, the two have contracted each other's services in the past. Black Jack is almost invariably aboard his ship which is available by satellite uplink most of the time.

Big Dog - C3/L2
A friendly Amerind troll who works as a part time fixer in Seattle. Big Dog has an exceptional knack for setting up safe meetings/deals/exchanges/safehouses and dropoff points and also has a striking memory for names and favorite drinks. He's rapidly risen the rungs of Seattle's shadow ladder and set up shop as one of the premier dealers in smuggled goods and smugglers in the city. Guy's unique technical knowledge has proved useful analyzing a few packages that fell off boats and the troll hit it off with the hacker. The two retain a fairly standard cash for services relationship. Big Dog always has a hacker watching a node that he very carefully maintains for business purposes and the troll is comfortable with some degree of electronic communication, though he prefers face to face meets. If meeting in Seattle, he likes dragging potential clients out into the sticks of Puyallup to guarantee that they're firmly on his turf.

Fitz - C2/L1
A dealer in electronics based out of LA, this neurotic ork embodies every stereotype of the nerd imaginable from the large glasses to the rail-thin frame to the pasty skin. The rumor mill suggests that he's alternately a burned out runner mage or a badass street sam who got crossed by one too many corporations. Whatever the truth is, he now buys and sells electronics of all types from his basement apartment. He's too little of a threat and keeps small enough stock on hand to be robbed or killed. He does have an encyclopedic knowledge of his product and a knack for moving odd requests into or out of the market on short notice (though he charges stiff fees in this case.) The custom commlink and many of the sensors that Guy sports came from this dealer and he retains a status as preferred customer because of his frequent business.

Bartholemew "BS" Smith (DireRadiant)
- Background - Sheet
Desmond "Des" Connelly (TheOneRonin)
- Background - Sheet
Lidralyn (Lidralyn)
- Background - Sheet

Squid>

Looking like the miniature bastard child of a pod-racer engine and a Matrix Sentinel Drone the Squid is a terrifying thing to witness in action.

Not much bigger than a soccer ball [8 liters of metal], it is 60 kg of pure Plasteel with thousands of moving parts and not a single tool mark, burr or seam anywhere, it resembles something that grew somewhere in the depths of an ocean trench rather than a man-made object. More a sculpture than a machine, at rest beautiful and strange.

It is however Prepared as a Vessel for possession Spirits of Force 6 or less. Those with a higher Force get no benefit from the enchantment and must overcome it's OR of 3 on their own.

The fins of a large ducted-fan are visible behind the large bank of 'eyes' that dot the front of its 'head' and the air/water-flow from this 'heart' is vented through four short, thick, stubby ventral tentacles. Without a mundane power-source the spinning fans produce a very unsettling moan, a sort of murmuring susurration that causes the hairs on the back of one's neck to rise.

Erupting from the rear of the dorsal cowl of the fans are dozens of meter long Plasteel tentacles each tipped with a variety of blades, claws and tool-heads that amount to an entire mechanical tool-kit. They stream behind Squid when it is in motion, reaching around it's head like a deadly set of dread-locks to attack foes or tear through objects and vehicles.

Plast-Eel

The prototype for the Squid, the Plast-Eel is a little over half the length and very much slimmer in relative cross-section. It is capable of wriggling through tubes as little as 4cm in diameter. It is only prepared for Force 1 spirits and is generally only Possessed by Watcher Spirits.

Name - "DropShip" Mary L3 C5
Concept - International Art Fence
Relationship - Bart's never met Mary in person, but someday she may actually accept one of his long standing invites. Bart doesn't often know what he's stolen, but as far as he can tell Mary's always been straight and given him good prices on the random objects he's acquired. And when she's given him tips on what to look for on some targets he's asked her about ahead of time, he's always made out well. Every now and then she's even cut him a deal on some technical items, not as much as he might get normally as she needs to cut in some other contacts of hers. Bart was introduced to her as part of some long broken up team, but he's maintained contact with her separately. She claims to have tasted the chocolates he sent her, but you never be sure in this business.
Specialty - Objects d'Art, cultural artifacts, occult data
Contact - It's all virtual through matrix cutouts. With the right codes you post a query about a package size, content description and shipping requirements, and get a quote on the contents value. In return you get a drop ship point, a ship to address, and after dropping the package off, a little bit later you get the insurance payout for the "lost" package. Bart checked the ship to addresses out once, and they are real, so it's something else that triggers the system. The carrier changes too, so he hasn't figured out the exact way it works. But the principle is sound, and the insurance payouts are clean nuyen. Once the package is "lost" he hasn't been able to track it himself either, and from past experience he knows so em kick ass Hackers who have actually freaked out in trying to find the goods in the carriers systems.

Name - "Waldo" Jones L2 C4
Concept - Street Doc/Cyberneticist
Relationship - Waldo has a good bedside manner. Someone who is ripping you apart while sitting in their hot tub 5000 kilometers away better have the manners to make things comfortable for the poor person sitting in a room facing a remotely operated medical drone upgraded with the latest nano bone cutting technology. Bart hasn't developed much of a rapport with him, getting past the immediacy of surgical attachments has been a struggle.
Specialty - Cyber/Nano/Bio implants, remote operations
Contact - Matrix Travel Agency, using a special lexicon for converting special phrases you pick your "package" and when you actually go to the "Resort" it often is a dingy motel room filled with glossy pallets of gear you unpack, turn on, and then set loose to operate on yourself with "Waldo" running it all remotely. If he's not otherwise occupied, "Waldo" can provide remote advice to your standard field medkit, but he has a surcharge for this as it's often not that interesting to him, at least not till afterwards when he's repairing or replacing a missing part.

Name - "Toolman" L2 C3
Concept - Mechanic
Relationship - You never know when you suddenly need a concrete cutting torch, and Toolman is the person to get it from. Bart knows he has a good shot of getting any kind of standard gear out of Toolman's inventory. Some of the more exotic stuff takes a bit longer. Toolman even had some nano supplies for bart's forge. Toolman prefers nuyen, but will trade in stock, in effect acting as a tool rental shop. Though if you break it, you have already paid for it. Occasionally Bart has been asked to repair or do maintenance on some of the trickier high end equipment for Toolman's inventory. "Maintenance" often meaning switching out all the hard embedded tags.
Specialty - Electronics and Hardware gear and tools
Contact - Toolman has a "Tools for Fools" store in Oklohoma City from where he can overnight deliver equipment to anywhere in continental North and Central America. He can also arrange for local equipment supplies through deals with local hardware stores.


Name - "Layout" L2 C3
Concept - Hacker
Relationship - An invaluable virtual Service, getting the layout of places before you go in. That way you can look like you know your way around when wandering around checking those wall cavities for safes. Bart isn't even sure this is a real person yet, it's all kept professional and remote. The old fashioned query interface doesn't help either.
Specialty - Architectural and Industrial Blue prints and Build plans, Patent, Registration and licensing.
Contact - Through an account on a special virtual query service.


Name - Peter Johnson L2 C4
Concept - Johnson
Relationship - Bart figures he's still in good with Johnson because when asked to pick up that brown envelope, and not look inside before placing it into someone's safe, he doesn't look inside. Half the jobs he gets from "Peter" involve planting things instead of stealing. But that's okay, he gets paid, and Bart figures he couldn't collect on the short or long plays on the stocks since he'd need to know what was in the envelopes, and even then, who knows which way it would play out. It's pretty easy to figure out that planting something on the Ares Division Executive secretary is going to end up influencing something. Unfortunately he hasn't figured out the pattern yet, so he's not sure which corp "Peter" is running plays for.
Specialty - B & E jobs
Contact - When not on a job already, "Peter" calls Bart, through a typical encrypted personal matrixvert commcode Bart makes sure to leave up when Bart is looking for work. Whenever bart meets, it's always face to face in a high class jazz and fern club that inevitably features fedoras and a live piano player. Bart's met a few new relatively reliable former team mates through these meets, though it's hard to stay in touch with some people because of the inevitable turnover in the biz.


Name - Twinkle Tops L3 C4
Concept - Sim Sense Starlet
Relationship - There's nothing like being thought of as part of the a Sim Sense starlets entourage to get you into places. And what starlet doesn't need the occasional mystery or scandal engendered by appearing in public with exotic jewelry or occult items du jour. All replicas of course when there's an actual investigation... And what starlet doesn't need someone NOT part of her entourage who she can confide in, or at least talk to secure in the knowledge nothing will be made public. Bart doesn't really like the spoiled brat, but she's very useful, and harmless, and the payoff makes up for the 5 to ten minutes a day of teen angst drivel. Besides, it's better then slotting any of her sims.
Specialty - Being Famous, Partying, social calendar
Contact - Bart has her commcodes, and she has his, she chats with him every day, mostly to relieve her stress.