Either way works for me. Cold is always more amusing, though.
Sorry for the delay. Here's the preliminary character sheet.
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Subrace: human
Body: 4
Agility: 4 (6)
Reaction:5 (7)
Strength: 4
Intuition: 3
Logic: 2
Willpower: 2
Charisma:4
Initiative: 8 (10)
Essence:0.83
Edge:2
Negative Qualities. I took Mild Addiction twice, since he’s perpetually kicking an addiction and replacing it with another, so at any given time, he’s wrestling with one to three compulsive behaviors.
Addiction (mild): Vice just threw off his novacoke addiction, then yielded to his poor impulse control and bought a racing bike, and is starting to get into street racing and the gambling that goes with it. He’s a mediocre rider, and compensates by relying on his augmented balance and reflexes.
Addiction (mild): Vice is in the process of fighting off his prostition addiction.
SINner (Standard). As a legitmate citizen of the CAS, he was issued a SIN at birth. Since he was enlisted in the CAS Army during Crash 2.0, he was issued a fresh SIN, much to his chagrin.
Active Skills:
Athletics Skill Group - 3
Infiltration - 3
Con - 3
Negotiation - 4
Pistols - 3
Automatics - 5
Dodge - 4
Unarmed Combat - 2
Pilot Ground Vehicles (Bike) - 1(+2)
Etiquette (Street) - 3(+2)
Perception - 1
Knowledge Skills
Area Knowledge: Hong Kong-2
Casino Gambling-2
Street Drugs-1
Corporate Security Procedures-3
CAS Army Procedures-2
Language Skills
English (Native)
Cantonese-2
Spanish-2
Vietnamese-1
Cyberware and Bioware (Vice’s cyberware was installed by Saeder-Krupp. He added the bioware himself)
Cybereyes, rating 4
Flare Compensation, Low Light Vision, Smartlink, Thermographic Vision, Vision Enhancement-3
Cyberears, rating 4
Audio Enhancer-3, Balance Augmenter, Audio Enhancer-3, Select Sound Filter-4, Spatial Recognizer
Trauma Damper
Bone Lacing (Plastic)
Cyber Safety
Muscle Toner-2
Wired Reflexes-2
Enhanced Articulation
Datajack
Orthoskin-1
Gear
Survival Knife
Ares Predator IV with concealed holster, silencer, 6 spare magazines of explosive ammo, 2 spare magazines of gel ammo, skinlink
Ingram Smartgun X with 3 spare magazines of explosive ammo, skinlink
FN 5-7C with smartlink, gas vent-3, 4 spare magazines of explosive ammo, 1 spare magazine of gel ammo, skinlink, personalized grip, concealed holster
4 high explosive grenades
2 thermal smoke grenades
2 cold smoke grenades
4 flash bang grenades
Armor Vest
Fairlight Caliban with Novatech Navi upgraded with Firewall-6, biometric reader, satellite link, skinlink
Plastic restraints, 1 bundle of 10
Grapple Gun
Catalyst Stick
3 100m spools of stealth rope
Maglock passkey, Rating 4
Medkit, rating -6
Mapsoft of Hong Kong, Rating 6
2 Trauma patches
Suzuki Mirage
Fake SIN, rating 4 (Donald Xavier, simsense weapons handling consultant)
Fake SIN, rating 4 (Zachary Jones, bonded courier)
High Lifestyle, 1 month
Assets
15,720 nuyen
Contacts : 21BP. Vice knows a lot of people. None of them are particularly important, and most of them don’t really like him that much, but they answer the phone when he calls. The contacts are extremely open ended on purpose, since I wasn’t sure which side you’d want us on in the organized crime war.
Vincent Cocetti - Fixer (2/2)
He’s that guy that knows everyone. Or at least he was in Los Angeles. He's new to Hong Kong and just starting to make a name for himself. He talked Vice into making the move across the Pacific in hopes that he can gain face in the Free Enterprise Zone by turning local Johnsons onto the out of town shooter.
Tina Bleeth - Street Doc (1/1)
Not so much a Street Doc, as an orthopedic surgeon, with a legitimate practice. She's able to help him out with advice when his cyberware starts spitting out diagnostic error codes, but won't risk her practice by treating injuries gained in the process of committing crimes. Her office is in an complex in Mid Level.
Xue Li Tan - Triad Accountant (1/2)
Low level money launderer and bean counter for the Smoke Circle Society. When she needs to make a collection from someone who's established himself as a problem, she occasionally calls Vice.
Mai Li - Executive Personal Assistant (2/1)
She’s a glorified secretary, working for the marketing director for Rhymnin' and Stealin' Records, a small local recording studio/record label. She met Vice through the street racing scene, and has no clue what he does.
Hokato Ota - Arms Dealer (3/2)
He works for a Snakehead ring that kidnaps young girls from mainland China and Vietnam and brings them into Hong Kong to be sex slaves in exchange for small arms and munitions to fuel the ongoing wars in the respective nations. They met through the Macao based mercenary company that Vice worked with for six months in the sweltering hell of Vietnam.
Svetlana Sirko - Socialite (1/3)
Professional celebrity, club party host, and paparazzi bait scion of Russian shipping empire centered in Vladavistok, currently run by her father Sasha, who is also a high level Vory boss. She knows Vice from the local drug and party scene, and dabbles in the BTL trade.
edit: Tweaked the contacts to bring them more in line with their ratings.
23-Jul-2008 edit: Tweaked skills a tiny bit, adjusted some contacts to give them names, and flesh out a few details, and compressed them a bit
25-Jul-2008 Added names and rough detail to fake SINs, and ditched some rundundant gear to slightly diversify