VW Stadtbus (Connestoga Vista), Armour 20, Satcom, Retrans Unit, High Amenities, Ram Plate (f+r), Rigger Adaptation, Improved Sensor Array, Special Equipment: Vehicle Bay with loading ramp (16 BOD), Drone Rails(paid for as 3 small drone racks), Spoof chip, Morphing Plates - 58500

Ares Sentinel 'R' Rail Drones x 3, Targeting 6(Optimization 2) Cracked Autosoft, Clearsight 6(Optimization 2) Cracked Autosoft, Smartlinked AK-97 - 9640

Standard Ammunition, 190 rnds - 360
Gel Ammunition, 200 rnds - 600

Name: Dancer (Katherine "Kate" Danner)
Gender: Female
Race: Ork

BREAKDOWN (500 Points)
Core Attributes: 180
Special Attributes: 75
Race: 10
Active Skills: 144
Qualities: 0
Contacts: 12
Resources: 50
Initiate twice: 29

=Attributes=
Body: 5
Agility: 5(7)
Reaction: 5(7)
Strength: 3 (5)
Charisma: 4
Intuition: 3
Logic: 3
Willpower: 3
Magic: 4 (6, reduced by Cyber/Bioware)
Edge: 2

Essence: 4.00
Initiative: 10
Initiative Passes: 3
Physical Damage Track: 11
Stun Track: 10

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

=Qualities=
Adept
Allergy: Silver, Moderate
First Impression
Guts
Martial Arts:
>Kenpo: 5 (+1 on melee block)
>Kung Fu: 5 (+1 on melee block)
>Muay Thai: 5 (+1 DV on unarmed attacks)
>Tai Kwon Do: 5 (+1 DV on unarmed attacks)
Nano-Intolerance
Scorched
Sensitive System

=Active Skills=
Gymnastics/Dance: 4/+2
Influence Skill Group: 4
Intimidation/Physical: 2/+2
Perception: 3
Pistols/Semi-Automatic: 4/+2
Stealth Skill Group: 1
Unarmed Combat/Martial Arts: 6/+2

Martial Arts Maneuvers:
>Disarm
>Finishing Move
>Herding
>Kick Attack
>Riposte

=Knowledge Skills=
Languages>
English: N
Orzet: 4

Other Knowledge Skills>
Exotic Dancing: 3
Goblin Rock: 2
Magical Background: 3
Martial Arts Unlimited Fighting Circuit: 3
Ork Underground: 3

=Bioware=
Biosculpting: Minor Modifications (2,000 Nuyen)
Cosmetic Bioware: Glo-tatts
Muscle Augmentation: 2
Muscle Toner: 2
Reflex Recorders:
>Unarmed Combat
Skin Pigmentation (Perfect Tan)
Synaptic Booster: 2
Vocal Range Enhancer

=Adept Abilities=
[Note: 2 additional power points from 2 Initiations]
Counterstrike: 1
Critical Strike: 4
Flexibility: 1
Improved Ability -
>Gymnastics: 2
>Unarmed Combat: 2
Killing Hands
Kinesics: 4
Sustenance

=Contacts=
Fixer (Connection: 4/Loyalty: 2)
Dancer (Connection: 2/Loyalty: 4)

=Lifestyle=
Low (3 Months)
Starting Money: 3d6 x 50 Nuyen

=Equipment=
ID/Credsticks:
Fake ID (Rating: 4), Fake Gun Registration (Rating: 4), Fake Concealed Carry Permit (Rating: 4), Fake Bioware License (Rating: 4) x 2; 4 certified credsticks.

DocWagon Contract:
Basic (1 Year).

Weapons:
>Colt Government 2066 with internal smartlink, skinlink modification, concealable holster, 140 normal rounds of ammo, and 9 spare clips.

Armor/Clothing:
Armor Jacket, FFBA half suit with Nonconductive: 4; PPP forearm guards, shin guards, vitals protector, and arm/leg casings (the discreet protection version); Urban Explorer Jumpsuit, 1,250 Nuyen worth of assorted clothing.

Commlink/Software/Simsense:
Novatech Airware Commlink with ISIS Orb OS, sim module, skinlink, trodes, and subvocal mic; browse program (Rating: 3), Linguasoft (Chinese, Rating: 3), Virtual Surround Music, Virtual Pet (white rabbit).

Other:
Glasses with skinlink modification and - image link, smartlink, Vision Magnification, and flare compensation; duffel bag (100 Nuyen), Medkit (Rating: 6) with 2 refills, Operations Cleanup toolkit, Disguise toolkit.

=Background=
(Bull's 50+ Questions) -

1. What is your character's Sex?

Female.

2. What is your character's physical size?

Petite but curvy build.

3. What is the color of the character's hair, eyes, and skin?

Her hair is pale blonde in a tousled pixie cut. She has startling bright green eyes and golden tan skin. She usually wears understated makeup - pink lipstick, a bit of eyeliner, no base. She has glo-tatts of intricate, flowery Or'zet runes.

4. What is the character's general appearance (i.e., How does she dress, etc.)?

Kate dresses to blend in on the streets - either a mix of denim and synthleather in the rougher parts of town, or typical skirt/blouse combinations elsewhere. She has one or two more formal outfits for meets or upscale places. In nightclubs, she goes to the other extreme and wears daring outfits, although she still doesn't stand out that much, since a lot of other people do that, too. She moves with the unconsious grace of a dancer, though, so she draws a lot of glances despite her efforts to be part of the crowd. Although attractive by human standards, none of her cosmetic mods alter her looks to make her look less orkish (tusk reduction, etc.).

5. Where was the character born (City, State, Hospital Name)?

Kate was born in the Seattle Ork Underground, with the assistance of a midwife.

6. What is the character's date of birth?

September 15th, 2052.

7. What was the character's family life like?

Kate's dad had a typically big ork family, and the orks in the underground tended to consider themselves part of a bigger extended family. She got along with her siblings well enough, but she was a bit of a loner, and always wanted to go off and explore the sewer tunnels, resulting in many a scolding.

8. Has the charcter begun her own family?

No. Kate has nightmares about becoming like one of the typical tired-looking ork women of the Barrens, with a squalling brood of little brats running all over the place. She is too busy getting her head together to even think about a serious relationship at this point. And she hasn't really had a good long-term relationship, so she wonders if she's capable of that level of commitment.

9. Where or how was the charcter educated?

Kate was home-schooled by her mom, a former school teacher who wanted her kids to make something of themselves. Her mom was one of the few people who took her dreams of becoming a dancer seriously. But the open area where she practiced was also the place where the tougher orks would gather to spar, honing their unarmed combat skills. Kate was enthralled by what she saw, and pleaded with them to teach her. A few of them acceded to her wishes, indulgently at first. Then, when they saw she had some genuine aptitude, they started training her in earnest. One of them also insisted that she learn to shoot a gun. She continued to practice her dancing, but unknowingly, her focus had changed, to the point that when she awakened, she began to manifest abilities of the warrior's way, rather than the artist's way.

10. Has the character ever done anything else for a living?

Her experiences aboveground were disillusioning. SINless, an ork, and facing additional prejudice for being awakened, she found most doors closed to her. She could always find work dancing, but unfortunately it was not exactly the kind of "dancing" that she had in mind for a career. She could also find work as a gunsel or bodyguard in shady deals. The dancing was a dead end, she knew, even though cosmetic biomods and some striking glo-tatts made her popular. The muscle work, on the other hand, evolved into higher-end stuff, especially when she got some bioware enhancements to complement her mundane and magical abilities.

11. What are the character's political and religious beliefs?

Kate is pretty cynical (but apathetic) politically. She suspects humans of a sometimes subtle (sometimes not) bias against orks, and doesn't think activism is going to change anything. It is still needed - orks and humans rub shoulders too much for them to be able to ignore each other - but other people can bang their heads against that particular brick wall.

Religiously, she is agnostic. She thinks there is an afterlife, but if she had to guess, she would say it is a bunch of powerful spirits pushing their own agendas and playing games - just like things are here. She distrusts religions, because they seem to see the afterlife as a place where all of this life's problems and injustices will be magically set right, and she doubts it will be that simple.

12. Describe the character's moral code. Include how mercenary she is, whether or not she'll kill innocents, etc.

Kate is mercenary-minded and cheerfully amoral. She finds most laws to be biased, unfair, and stupid. She only pays enough attention to them to evade them. The unwritten rules are far more meaningful to her. She is pretty much out for number one, although she is loyal to friends, mindful of keeping a good rep as a runner, and an occasional soft touch for someone in trouble. Although she has little problem with criminal activities, she flinches from wetwork, and prefers non-lethal means whenever possible. When it is unavoidable, though, she acts with utter ruthlessness, her drive to survive trumping any considerations of fairness or honor.

She has a healthy libido, but is a bit fickle, and avoids any potential long-term romantic relationships. She fears BTLs because of a bad experience that she had with a Kong chip, and is too much of a control freak to indulge in any other kinds of brainbenders. She considers it a personal choice, though, and could care less if other people choose to indulge. She loathes smokers, though, because they are always polluting OTHER people's air (more specifically, her's) with those noxious fumes.

13. What are the character's goals?

Kate is still dealing with her original dreams (of being a dancer) being stomped down into the occasional forlorn hope. Her real goal now is to make a career out of shadowrunning while steering clear of the nastier jobs.

14. Why does the character run the shadows? (Why does she run the shadows still, rather than getting a "real" job?)

Kate doesn't have too many non-illegal options for making a living. The only alternatives that she can see are out-and-out wetwork, and stripping, which is lucrative but a dead end, and she would much rather not do either of those things.

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 colour or add mood to the history.

Kate is a bit bitter, and still trying to get a sense of control back in her life, but it doesn't show that much to others - superficially, she seems laid-back and unflappable, someone that it is very difficult to shock or embarass. When you have punched someone's face in, or worked a troll biker bachelor party, most other situations don't seem like such a big deal.

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.

Her nonchalant attitude actually tends to induce people into opening up to her - she gives the impression of being someone who won't be shocked or judgemental by most admissions. She is not a good planner, but is good at reading people and reacting on instinct. Although she has a sharp tongue at times, she can be soothing and comforting at other times.

17. Are there certain things that the character can't or won't do? Why?

Kate finds it difficult to get emotionally close to people, or to admit it when she is. It is not just romantic relationships - she tends to keep a bit of emotional distance from friends, contacts, and fellow runners, too, at least until she gets to know them very well. Right now, her mom is the only one she lets past her emotional armor.

18. What things, people, or ideas does the character hate?

Kate hates bigots of all stripes, even orkish ones like the Sons of Sauron. She hates idealogues who think their precious causes are worth blowing things up for. She tones out most rhetoric, believing actions speak louder than words. She hates people who glorify violence, who use it at the first opportunity rather than as a last resort.

19. What things people, or ideas does the character love?

Kate likes hitting the hot night spots, especially the adrenaline rush that she gets from dancing. She likes hooking up with people, but doesn't usually get that attached to them. She likes her virtual pet, but finds it more therapeutic than anything else - she wouldn't hesitate to replace it with another cuter virtual critter. She has a soft spot for people down on their luck, especially for people who are poor but still have a sense of community (like the Ork Underground does - minus the bully boys).

20. What is the character's name? Give both full birth name, as well as nicknames, street names, etc.

Her "real" name is Katherine Danner, Kate to people she knows - her fake ID lists her as Katrina Doyle, and her street name is Dancer.

21. Determine what your character used to do, before becoming a shadowrunner (very important).

Kate worked at some of the seedier night clubs, the ones that didn't check for SINs and paid certified cred, as well as whatever odd jobs that needed a gun or a discreet bodyguard. When she began moving up to better jobs, she felt relief that things had begun to improve a bit.

22. Decide why your character left her old job, if she had one (also important).

Her previous jobs were forced upon her by desperate circumstances, and she is glad to be away from them.

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?)

Shadowrunning may be dirty and dangerous work, but it's still the best option that she sees out there. It evolved from the legally shady activities she supplemented her income with, and she has moved more and more towards doing shadow work as her primary source of income.

24. How did your character come to know her contacts? Contacts are an important part of Shadowrun, decide how and why you know them.

Renald Biggs (Fixer) is a slightly overweight ork who has a mullet and muttonchop sideburns, usually dressed in white CAS-style suits. He tries to sound urbane and educated, although he has the occasional mispronounciation of a self-taught man when he uses some of the bigger words. He likes classical music and fine art, and tries to defy the typical stereotype of an ork. He has ties to the Black Rain, the Cascade Orks, and perhaps the mafia. He helped Dancer get started as a runner, and has been a good source of gear and jobs for her. He is usually accompanied by Mum, a towering Jamaician troll who gets his name from his taciturn silence.

Frou-Frou (Dancer) is the street name of a female Troll of mostly Hispanic descent who works as a go-go dancer and bouncer at Maxine’s in the Ork Underground. She met Frou-Frou when she worked at Maxine's for awhile. The troll was protective of the petite new girl, until she realized that Dancer could actually take care of herself pretty well. The two friends kept in touch after Dancer went on to a shadowrunning career. They share both dancing and fist-fighting in common, and always have plenty of tales to swap. Frou-Frou occasionally passes on some useful information to Dancer, and Dancer occasionally helps out when Frou-Frou lets her know that the MOM needs a bit of extra security or muscle.

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.

Kate has never had a SIN, but she does have fake ID and other paperwork now.

26. Is the character a full-time shadowrunner? Or does the character lead a Batman-like double existence?

Kate is a full-time runner.

27. Which person(s) or group(s) do you love the most?

She typically has a lot of people she hangs out with, but develops a few close friends. She is also still close to her mom.

28. Which person(s) or group(s) do you hate the most?

She hates terrorists and extremist policlubs the most of all. She loathes gangs almost as much, as she considers them pathetic bullies at best. Bigotry vexes her, but she considers it so common, that she is surprised when she meets someone who ISN'T at least a bit racist.

29. Which person(s) or group(s) do you respect the most?

She respects the real, cold, hard pros - she knows she isn't one of them yet, but hopes to reach that upper echelon someday. She isn't sure about that, though. She would rather stay lower down on the food chain, if reaching the top will involve turning herself into something remorseless and inhuman. That assumes she will have a choice, though.

30. Which person(s) or group(s) do you fear the most?

She fears all of the wack jobs out there - policlubs, cults, and the like. You can't tell WHAT they're going to do. She is wary of groups like Aztechnology and the Triads, who take biz personally and are big on vengeance, but at least they usually have a logical reason when they go after someone.

31. What is your favourite colour?

Pink, although outside of nightclubs, she will only wear it as an accent to more subdued clothing.

32. What is your favourite food and/or drink?

Kate likes meat, real meat, as opposed to that damn soy and krill that's everywhere. Of course, for her, most of the "real" meat she has eaten has either been Ork Underground cuisine (There's all kinds of critters in Uncle Ed's fritters...) or vat-grown stuff. She also has an inhuman tolerance for hot spices, and relishes doing things like putting Habenero sauce on ice cream. She likes beer better than wine, which tastes too fruity to her, although she likes lagers better than that dark beer the dwarven microbreweries turn out.

Since gaining her sustenance ability, she is more selective about what she eats and drinks - since she doesn't need to do so as often, she can afford the good stuff for when she does. She freaked out for about a week when it first happened, though, wondering if she was constipated, or getting insomnia, or if someone had slipped her some weird kind of drug.

33. What place would you most like to visit?

There are still a few night clubs that she still hasn't been to, yet.

34. Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to?

Herself, mostly. She is fiercely loyal to friends even if she downplays it most of the time. She also will help people down on their luck or in trouble sometimes. She feels more solidarity with squatters and shopkeepers than with criminals, still, only one of the reasons that she is unlikely to ever join one of the major syndicates. She feels a certain solidarity with other orks, but finds ork "culture" tiresome sometimes - it's like you have to dress and talk a certain way to be considered properly "orkish", and that has gotten old quickly for her.

35. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the most enjoyment? (Warning: Answering Sex for this question can and will result in penalties to your character!)

Kate loves dancing. Despite being a bit shy at times, she still prefers being with people to hanging out by herself.

36. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the least enjoyment?

She likes fighting, but doesn't like killing (at least, she tells herself that), and she doesn't like when she has to use her charms as part of a job, even if actual sex isn't involved.

37. What annoys you the most?

People who are so wrapped up in their ideals and preconceptions that they don't really listen to other people, who seem to only peripherally function in the real world.

38. What (if any) is your favourite form of art?

Dancing is one of her main joys in life. She may not be able to do it as a career, but she still enjoys watching it on the trid or hitting the night clubs herself. She doesn't quite consider tattoos an art form, but thinks that they should involve some aesthetic consideration beforehand. She disdains people who just get drunk and get a tattoo. And gang tattoos are almost as bad, turning an expression of individuality into an expression of conformity.

39. What is your greatest goal?

Her greatest goal, to become a dancing star, has been shot down. Her goals now are more practical - become an established runner, stay away from the more unsavory jobs as much as possible, and eventually get a big score and retire. She is all too aware that the odds are against her accomplishing the last one.

40. What do you think is your characters best quality?

Her mental resilience and survivor's instincts.

41. What do you think is your characters worst quality?

Her bitterness over her lost dreams, and inability to have a serious relationship with anyone.

42. What is the most important thing you have ever done?

She was involved as a bodyguard in the meet that led to a few months of relative peace between several underworld factions.

43. Which religion (if any) do you follow?

None, unless muddled agnosticism can be considered a "religion".

44. What is your most treasured possession (and why)?

She has a keychain with a holo of a long-faded modern dance star on it (Deja Theriss, one of the few orkish women to make it in the dance scene). She has had it since she was a kid and wanted to be a dancer herself.

45. What are your three most common dreams?

> Flying, or sometimes dancing, over a cityscape, among neon-colored clouds, feeling transcendent for a moment. She always feels a stab of disappointment when she has to wake up from it.

> In a nightclub or at a party, where everyone is naked, including her, but she isn't embarassed or disturbed, just unusually mellow. She walks through the other people as if they aren't there. Most times the dream will continue and segue into other confusing, disjointed dreams.

> A nightmare of brutally killing someone with her bare hands, sometimes turning into an even worse nightmare where they rise up as a blood-dripping, grinning zombie to exact vengeance on her.

46. What is the Character's current relationship with her family?

Good, although she has drifted away a bit. Jake, Sheila, and her mom are the only ones that she remains that close to, and her mom is probably the only one she would really open up to.

47. If the character's family is still alive, what do they do, and where do they live?

Most of her family is still in the Ork Underground. She keeps in touch with them, although she is still a bit vague on her running career. She may live on the surface now, but she still visits the Ork Underground a lot. An older brother, Jake, is with the Black Rain now. They occasionally run into each other, although both usually try not to talk any biz with the other. A younger sister, Sheila, is working as a secretary and backup gun to a semi-alcoholic dwarven investigator, and seems to be having fun despite the hair-raising misadventures she tells Kate about.

48. Where did the character learn her Skills?

Her dancing and fighting skills were picked up in the ork underground, and improved a bit on the mean streets of Seattle. Her studies were serious, if eclectic, but nothing she could ever put on a resume.

49. Does the character have a good luck charm? What is it, and why?

No. She sometimes refers to her gun as her "good luck charm", but only to herself, and ironically.

50. What type of music does the character like?

Goblin rock, although she doesn't mind any other kind of dance club music. Renald has exposed her to classical music, but she is only so-so about it - you can't dance to most of it.

51. List any past serious relationships that your character has had, and give a brief overview of the relationship.

None, really. She has had a few people get creepy and obsessive about her, which has only made her more leery of getting seriously involved with anyone.

52. Where does your character live? Why does she live there?

Kate's current place is a tiny studio apartment in a tenement in a decaying industrial area, close to one of the entrances to the Ork Underground. The utilities are rationed, and you always want to keep the deadbolts locked when you're not there, but it's her OWN place. The neighbors are noisy, but she doesn't care. Nothing wrong with people who know how to party. The apartment itself is obsessively neat, if a bit spartan.

53. Remember, your Gamemaster like detail, so if you can think of any other little details, quirks, or whatever that you think might please the almight GM, then add them in as well. Oh, and your GM won't use any of these details against you at a later date. trust me...

The latest revision makes her better as the team's face, without sacrificing too much from her unarmed ability.

Name: Scab
Race: Elf
Gender: Male

BREAKDOWN (400BP)

=Attributes=

=Qualities=

=Active Skills=

=Knowledge Skills=

=Spells=

==Metamagic==

=Foci=

=Gear=

=Contacts=



==Magical Group==


==Bound Spirits==


=Lifestyle=

Simon Wellington (Glitch) (500 BP total)

Metatype : Ork (10 bp)

Attributes (200 bp)
Body: 4
Agility: 5
Reaction: 5
Strength: 3
Charisma: 3
Intuition: 5
Logic: 4
Willpower: 4

Edge: 5 (40 bp)
Initiative: 10
Essence: 4.325

Active Skills (180 bp)
Computer : 4
Data Search : 4
Hardware : 4
Software : 4
Con : 1
Etiquette : 1
Leadership : 1
Negotiation : 1
Hacking : 5
Cybercombat : 4
Electronic Warfare : 5
Perception : 3
Dodge (Ranged Combat) : 3
Unarmed Combat (Martial Arts) : 3
Pistols : 2
Forgery (False ID) : 4
Pilot Ground Craft : 1
Instruction : 1

Knowledge Skills (0 BP)
English : N
Or'zet : 3
Spanish : 2
Computer Background : 3
Security Procedures : 4
Matrix Games : 2
Sports (Martial Arts) : 1
Safe Houses : 3
Strategy Games (Chess) : 4
Matrix Chat Rooms : 4

Positive Qualities (30 BP)
Analytical Mind
Chatty
Codeslinger
Human Looking
Restricted Gear

Negative Qualities (-35 BP)
Media Junkie, moderate
Allergy com/mild (peanuts)
Reality Impaired
SINner Criminal

Gear (49 BP)

Cyberware
Commlink (2/3)
Response Upgrade (6)
Signal Upgrade (5)
System (Rating 6)
Firewall (Rating 6)
Hot-Sim Module
Control Rig
Datajack
Data Lock (Encryption 6)
Simsense Booster

Bioware
Sleep Regulator

Weapons
Colt Manhunter
Sound Suppressor
Concealable Holster
5x Spare Clips
8x Regular Ammo (10 shots)
8x Gel Rounds (10 shots)

Armor/Clothing
Form Fitting Body Armor (Half-Body Suit)
Thermal Dampening (Rating 6)
Lined Coat
Chemical Protection (Rating 6)
Fire Resistance (Rating 3)
5x Clothing (Cheap)
2x Clothing (Regular)

Programs
Analyze (Rating 6)
Browse (Rating 6)
Edit (Rating 6)
Encrypt (Rating 6)
Reality Filter (Rating 6)
Scan (Rating 6)
Armor (Rating 6)
Attack (Rating 6)
Biofeedback Filters (Rating 6)
Blackout (Rating 6)
Command (Rating 6)
Decrypt (Rating 6)
Defuse (Rating 6)
ECCM (Rating 6)
Exploit (Rating 6)
Medic (Rating 6)
Sniffer (Rating 6)
Spoof (Rating 6)
Stealth (Rating 6)
Track (Rating 6)

Equipment
Satellite Link
Holo Projector
Tag Eraser
White Noise Generator (Rating 6)
Mapsoft (Rating 6)
Virtual Surround Music
2x VR Game
Virtual Person
AR Gloves
4x Fake Sin (Rating 4)
4x Fake License (Rating 4)
Keycard Copier (Rating 6)
Sequencer (Rating 4)
Medkit (Rating 6)
Tool Kit
4x MCT Fly-Spy (Minidrone)

Lifestyle: 2 months prepaid (14 LP) 4400 /month

Comforts - Middle (3 LP)
Entertainment - Low (2 LP)
Necessities - Middle (3 LP)
Neighborhood - Squatter (1 LP)
Security - Middle (3 LP)
Positive Qualities - Workplace (+1 LP), Free Access (+1 LP)

Contacts (26 BP)
Warezhouse 24 (L:3 C:3[8]) - Hacker updates, file-sharing, warez and patch trading
Molly Malone (L:3 C:4) - Elven UCAS military officer
Bruce (L:3 C:5) - Force 7 Free Spirit

1. What is your character's Sex?

Male.


2. What is your character's physical size?

Small and lanky for an Ork. Glitch is only slightly larger than your average human.


3. What is the color of the character's hair, eyes, and skin?

Glitch has shoulder-length brown hair. He has green eyes, and lightly tanned skin.


4. What is the character's general appearance (i.e., How does she dress, etc.)?

Glitch is very human-looking for an Ork. In fact he runs into much prejudice in the Ork Underground because of his delicate features. His tusks do not protrude from his mouth,and his slightly pointed ears are covered by his long hair. He typically wears cargo pants, high top sneakers, t-shirt, and his long coat. He also has nicer clothes (typically black slacks, black dress shirt, black leather shoes) for special occasions.

5. Where was the character born (City, State, Hospital Name)?

Seattle, Washington. Seattle General Hospital.


6. What is the character's date of birth?

October 15, 2053.


7. What was the character's family life like?

Glitch is the youngest of 8 children. His father is a middle class businessman, and his mother is a professor at the University of Washington. All of his older siblings respected their father's wishes and successfully entered the business field. Glitch had no interest in business, and pursued education in computers. This rankled his father, but his mother supported his decision. His father made him take karate lessons to get his head out of the Matrix for at least 3 hours a week. He also occasionally visited the tanning booth to hide the pale skin he'd otherwise have from his father.


8. Has the charcter begun her own family?

No.


9. Where or how was the charcter educated?

Home School. Private School. University of Washington.


10. Has the character ever done anything else for a living?

Glitch worked nights as tech support for a Matrix Game company.


11. What are the character's political and religious beliefs?

Glitch is nominally Catholic, but for all practical purposes he is Agnostic. Glitch's politcal views can best be described as Libertarian.


12. Describe the character's moral code. Include how mercenary she is, whether or not she'll kill innocents, etc.

Despite being a crimnal, Glitch has a strict sense of personal honor. He will go out of his way to avoid harming innocents. He hacks for the intelletual pleasure of the exercise, not the money.


13. What are the character's goals?

Hack the Planet! Currently he'd like to expunge or erase his SIN. Teach kids karate.


14. Why does the character run the shadows? (Why does she run the shadows still, rather than getting a "real" job?)

Glitch will occasionaly get a temporary job, but he has to do so under an alias due to his criminal record for hacking. Shadowrunning is more... lucrative.


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 colour or add mood to the history.

Glitch appears quiet and reserved. He is thoughtful of others but often fails to express his empathy adequately. In VR he does not suffer from this impediment and seems almost a completely different person. In that environment he very socially adept. Glitch is loyal, and despite being a crimnal has a strict sense of personal honor. He will go out of his way to avoid harming innocents.


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.

Glitch is an excellent gift giver, with an uncanny ability to predict exactly what someone would want. He is easy going, and very easy to get along with, epecially with more scially adept people, who can get him to come out of shell a bit. He has an uncanny deductive talent,


17. Are there certain things that the character can't or won't do? Why?

Glitch is fiercly loyal and would never turn on a friend. Glitch will not purposefully harm an innocent.


18. What things, people, or ideas does the character hate?

Glitch has no love for intolerance, oppression, or corrupting power.


19. What things people, or ideas does the character love?

Glitch loves his family even though they have, for the most part turned their backs on him. He loves freedom in all forms, and is very fond of the embodiment of this ideal in the Hacker community.


20. What is the character's name? Give both full birth name, as well as nicknames, street names, etc.

Simon Christopher Wellington. His shadow handle is Glitch. His most commonly used fake ID is Conner Gates.


21. Determine what your character used to do, before becoming a shadowrunner (very important).

Glitch was a student at the University of Washington, and worked nights as tech support for a Matrix Game company.


22. Decide why your character left her old job, if she had one (also important).

Glitch had to leave his old life behind when he was marked for hacking into Aztechnology through a loophole in the Stuffer Shack node. He fled his dorm room mere minutes before corp security and Lone Star arrived.


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?)

Glitch fled to the Ork Underground to avoid arrest. That is where he met the founding members of his current team. He filled a niche in their missions, and since he needed to support himslef, he stuck with it. He soon became a full member of the team.


24. How did your character come to know her contacts? Contacts are an important part of Shadowrun, decide how and why you know them.

Glitch's hacking exploits earned him an invitation to Warezhouse 24 by age 15. His setback with Aztechnology has damaged his rep a little in the hacking community, but Warezhouse is still a solid contact for him. Glitch met Molly Malone through the Matrix game Omni. Glitch provided tech support, and Molly later talked him into playing the game with her. They have only met in Virtual Reality, but the two have talked of meeting in Real Life. Glitch met Bruce in the form of a huge St. Bernard the day he entered the Underground as he fled from the authorities. Glitch fed the apparently starving dog the last of his meager food supplies. Bruce led Glitch through the tunnels, taking the safest route, eventually leaving him in the hands of Doc and Spike.


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.

Glitch has a legal SIN with a criminal record (hacking into Aztechnology) attached to it. He currently has 4 fake ID's.


26. Is the character a full-time shadowrunner? Or does the character lead a Batman-like double existence?

Glitch teaches karate in the dojo beneath his loft, and he occasionally takes a temp job as tech support for new Matrix games under one of his aliases. Neither activity affects his status as a full-time shadowrunner.


27. Which person(s) or group(s) do you love the most?

Glitch is most at home when he is virtually among those in the Hacker community.


28. Which person(s) or group(s) do you hate the most?

Aztechnology.


29. Which person(s) or group(s) do you respect the most?

Hackers/Technomancers.


30. Which person(s) or group(s) do you fear the most?

Hatemongers like the Humanis Policlub.


31. What is your favourite colour?

Black.


32. What is your favourite food and/or drink?

Anything with caffeine... iced tea.


33. What place would you most like to visit?

For some odd reason, Vatican City.


34. Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to?

His friends.


35. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the most enjoyment? (Warning: Answering Sex for this question can and will result in penalties to your character!)

Glitch like teaching karate to kids in his dojo, and sparring with Dancer. He loves trolling the Matrix, but it seldom gives him the sense of peace and balance that martial arts provides.


36. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the least enjoyment?

Having to hurt people.


37. What annoys you the most?

Intolerance.


38. What (if any) is your favourite form of art?

Classical music.


39. What is your greatest goal?

Glitch wishes to depose the oppression embodied in the mega corps, hoping to expose their secrets, bringing them to their knees.


40. What do you think is your characters best quality?

Glitch has a highly analytical mind that allows him to think on his feet, and intuitively solve problems other have only begun to fathom.


41. What do you think is your characters worst quality?

Glitch is a bit reality impaired, and tends to treat real life sitations as if they were Virtual Reality.


42. What is the most important thing you have ever done?

Getting out from under the thumb of his father and becoming his own person, leading to his helping people in the Ork Underground. Funny how the impetus to it all was getting marked hacking into Aztechnology.


43. Which religion (if any) do you follow?

Glitch is nominally Catholic, but for all practical purposes he is Agnostic.


44. What is your most treasured possession (and why)?

His black belt. It represents a small island of order in the chaos that is his life. The fact that his father thought he'd never earn the belt only makes it more precious.


45. What are your three most common dreams?

> Running away from something horrid and not being able to get away. It's never quite clear what the horrid thing is.

> Hacking the Planet.... literally.

> Running away from it all and marrying Jenny Hernandez (sometimes other girls) on some far away tropical island.


46. What is the Character's current relationship with her family?

Glitch's father has disowned him, but his mother still talks to him, and send him money from time to time. He never had much in common with his siblings, and they are pretty much of the same minds as his father about him.


47. If the character's family is still alive, what do they do, and where do they live?

Glitch's father and siblings all have jobs in businesses in Downtown Seattle. His mother is a tenured professor at the University of Washington.


48. Where did the character learn her Skills?

Private School. University of Washington. The dojo. In the Matrix.


49. Does the character have a good luck charm? What is it, and why?

Glitch believes that you make your own luck. He would not attribute such characteristics to an inanimate object.


50. What type of music does the character like?

Classical. Alternative Rock. Suprisingly, Karaoke.


51. List any past serious relationships that your character has had, and give a brief overview of the relationship.

Glitch still has an unresolved tension with Jenny Hernandez, the captain of the chess club at the University of Washington. She still accepts and returns his messages, even after the "incident" which left him a fugitive. The relationship hasn't quite gotten to the "serious" stage.


52. Where does your character live? Why does she live there?

In the Ork Underground. He has an apartment loft above an old gym, which he turned into a dojo. He lives in the Underground to avoid being arrested due to his crimnal record.


53. Remember, your Gamemaster like detail, so if you can think of any other little details, quirks, or whatever that you think might please the almight GM, then add them in as well. Oh, and your GM won't use any of these details against you at a later date. trust me...

Glitch is a bit of a neat freak (not compulsive, but he likes things tidy). Quite possibly to his detriment, he maintains contact with Jenny Hernandez, a student at the University of Washington. Glitch is allergic to peanuts.

1. What is your character's Sex?

Male

2. What is your character's physical size?

5'10". He walks with an almost perpetual stoop that makes him appear somewhat smaller.

3. What is the color of the character's hair, eyes, and skin?

Dirty. Brown eyes, probably Caucasian.

4. What is the character's general appearance (i.e., How does she dress, etc.)?

Scab looks like a bum, a down and out tramp that hasn't even been frightened with a bar of soap his entire life.


5. Where was the character born (City, State, Hospital Name)?

Unknown

6. What is the character's date of birth?

Uncertain. Sometime in early 2055.

7. What was the character's family life like?

Non-existent. Scab has pretty much fended for himself since his adoptive parents died about five years ago. There was no real love there, just a sense of duty.


8. Has the character begun her own family?

No.

9. Where or how was the character educated?

At the school of hard knocks. Scab has a talent for getting into places that he shouldn't. He particularly loves libraries.

10. Has the character ever done anything else for a living?

No.

11. What are the character's political and religious beliefs?

Keep your head down and take what you need to survive.

12. Describe the character's moral code. Include how mercenary she is, whether or not she'll kill innocents, etc.

Scab is a coward. He thinks only of his own survival. In recent years he has grown to consider the preservation of all that he has achieved. He has a great deal of empathy for the dispossessed and the down-trodden.


13. What are the character's goals?

To use the gifts he has been given to quietly build a place of power and security to rival any that have ever existed. To earn the respect of OU community despite his obvious failings.


14. Why does the character run the shadows? (Why does she run the shadows still, rather than getting a "real" job?)

It is all he has ever known, he has no SIN or formal education.


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 colour or add mood to the history.

Optimistic. It's that or suicide when your in Scab's position. He tries very hard to look on the bright side and to find ways that even the worst of circumstances can be of benefit to him.

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.


Scab has a wild, uninhibited and fantastic imagination. It has allowed him to create fantastic things that would seem impossible. He is often blissfully unaware of the impossible.

17. Are there certain things that the character can't or won't do? Why?

Scab hates guns and won't have anything to do with them. His foster father was a PhysAd who disliked anything that gave someone the ability to kill without skill or discipline.

18. What things, people, or ideas does the character hate?

Scab hates corners. This is merely a symptom of a larger dislike of confrontation. He becomes very disturbed when he doesn't have a get-away planned.

19. What things people, or ideas does the character love?

He loves exploring, finding places that everyone has forgotten about or that have never been seen by anyone. He loves to dig and to mold the Earth herself into fantastic and elaborate systems of chambers. He loves the way Magic can change things. He loves gemstones and curious rocks.

20. What is the character's name? Give both full birth name, as well as nicknames, street names, etc.

Scab, wretch, scum, Legolas. His birth name is a mystery.

21. Determine what your character used to do, before becoming a shadowrunner (very important).


Get kicked a lot. Snivel. Hide. Steal scraps.

22. Decide why your character left her old job, if she had one (also important).

His step-parents were killed in a Humanis revenge attack. Their previous activities in the 50's had earned them a Bounty from the hate group. Scab was left to fend for himself, haunting the OU like Gollum under the mountain.


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?)

Months hiding in the darkness on his own caused his talent to emerge at a very early age. He quickly adapted and found he could
that he was able to do things that others had a use for. His knack for finding raw Alchemical materials drew attention and his first real source of income. From there his career has expanded and flourished.

24. How did your character come to know her contacts? Contacts are an important part of Shadowrun, decide how and why you know them.

Little Louie first noticed Scab when he made filthy hand prints on the windows of his Talismongering front. The little urchin didn't look like much but Louie could sense the lumps of raw power that his pockets were full of. An Orc with a nose for a profit he made a tidy sum buying from the naive young Elf materials worth ten times what he paid. When the kid kept coming back he grew curious to the source of such riches and sent Watchers to follow the boy and report the site of his good fortune. Frustrated in this effort Louie discovered Scab's other talents, the few Watchers that returned reported that the kid could walk through walls of solid stone and take on numerous animal forms to evade pursuit. The canny fixer put the kid on payroll as an Arcane B&E Specialist at full 'Adult' rates.

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. He has a cheap fake that Louie gave him for attending meets.

26. Is the character a full-time shadowrunner? Or does the character lead a Batman-like double existence?

Sorta. He spends a lot of time with The Untouchables and that is where he is happiest. He runs to pay the bills.

27. Which person(s) or group(s) do you love the most?

The Untouchables. They are his only real family


28. Which person(s) or group(s) do you hate the most?

Humanis or Aristo Elves. Both are equally intolerant of 'inferior' people in their own delightful ways.


29. Which person(s) or group(s) do you respect the most?


Mama Growby and the Shamen that use the Cavern of Waterfalls. He would never have the courage to approach them but he watches with awe from afar.

30. Which person(s) or group(s) do you fear the most?

Humanis

31. What is your favourite colour?

Black


32. What is your favourite food and/or drink?

Fresh spring water right from the rock face and mushrooms.


33. What place would you most like to visit?

Tibet. Agartha.



34. Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to?


The Untouchables.


35. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the most enjoyment? (Warning: Answering Sex for this question can and will result in penalties to your character!)

Spelunking. Scab will disappear for days at a time climbing, crawling, swimming and flying through natural caverns and oozing through the earth and rock when he runs out of cavern. He loves to find places of power where the Mana flows through the veins of the Earth and caverns no human has ever seen. The Untouchables have stolen his copy of Journey to the Center of the Earth in case it gives him ideas. They are far too late...

36. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the least enjoyment?

He goes above ground to mark the anniversary of both 'parents' deaths. He goes at night and cries at the cold heartlessness of the moon and stars.

37. What annoys you the most?

Soap.

38. What (if any) is your favourite form of art?

Stone tagging. There are very few stone surfaces in the OU that have not been tagged by Scab. He sinks the outline of his 'Digitus Impudicus' into the very stone itself. He loves to go top-side and watch surfacer kids painting walls and buildings. It's a dying art though with the proliferation of RFID-Tagging. He and The Untouchables have gone so far as to create their own little 'cant' of symbols they leave imprinted discretely on walls and in sidewalks as warnings and games.


39. What is your greatest goal?

Live forever and rule the world from his Throne of Living Rock, bwahahahaha..

He's a bit young for goals. Pay next months bills, Initiate again, that sort of stuff is as far as he thinks.

40. What do you think is your characters best quality?

His naivety.

41. What do you think is your characters worst quality?

His naivety

42. What is the most important thing you have ever done?

When his foster parents died he found the name of the Elf who ordered the deaths of his real parents in their effects. A couple of years later that Elf fell into a mysterious crevasse on Mt Hood. His body was never recovered. It is entombed in solid Basalt 1000ft below the surface at the bottom of a tiny wending shaft big enough for air and water to reach him from the surface. How long he suffered in darkness before his death Scab neither knows nor cares.

43. Which religion (if any) do you follow?

Survival of the Sneakiest.


44. What is your most treasured possession (and why)?

A photograph of his real parents.


45. What are your three most common dreams?

Being on the surface in the day time, the sun is shining and suddenly he starts to fall upwards into the enormous nothingness above him...

His mothers face, love, peace, fire, pain, loss, torment. light.

Swimming through the Earth, he can hear his mothers voice, feel the flow of Mana all around him, drawing him onwards. Suddenly a gigantic crystal lined cavern filled with unearthly light and music. Agartha the fabled city, where his parents wait for him and the pain finally ends.



46. What is the Character's current relationship with her family?

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47. If the character's family is still alive, what do they do, and where do they live?

Scab has no surviving family. That he knows of....

48. Where did the character learn her Skills?

In the darkness, listening to the voice of the Artificer, feeling his presence in the structure of the rock and the flow of Mana through it. In libraries all over Seattle and in the Metaplanes.


49. Does the character have a good luck charm? What is it, and why?

A tiny fragment of a military grade remote detonator. If that couldn't get him nothing can....

50. What type of music does the character like?

Gregorian Chant.

51. List any past serious relationships that your character has had, and give a brief overview of the relationship.

In his dreams.

52. Where does your character live? Why does she live there?

In a series of caves and tunnels loosely linked to the OU. He lives there because he is safe there. Nothing can get in without passing through hundreds of feet of narrow pipes or solid rock. His wards are very strong but pointless, smothered in the bosom of mother Earth.

53. Remember, your Gamemaster like detail, so if you can think of any other little details, quirks, or whatever that you think might please the almight GM, then add them in as well. Oh, and your GM won't use any of these details against you at a later date. trust me...smile.gif

He likes to play with little pebbles. Often they will have things hidden within them. Data chips, bullets, peanuts, you name it.

Fixer / Talis-Fence

Louie is a Francophone Orc from Montreal. Whatever caused him to move to Seattle he doesn't talk about it to non- Quebecois. He owns a small Talismongers in the Mall and uses that as a front for his shady activities. Mostly he buys and sells Alchemical materials from and to unlicensed Magicians. He buys at 65-70% market value and sells at full price. He has little true talent himself, only the Sight, and relies on others to do the hard work. This led him to be intimate with a great number of unlicensed Magicians and developed into a nice little sideline as an Arcane Fixer. He mostly fronts for other fixers who require arcane talent and uses those contacts to fulfil his mundane needs. He is always very careful to keep the identities of these contacts to himself lest they cut out the middle-man.