A second-generation ork and fifth-generation Russian, Peter's lived in the Fife area of Tacoma his whole life. The area is bad but not awful, and his parents have always had steady work (if not always the best pay). The whole family being SINless has its advantages and disadvantages, but living in a tight-knit ethnic neighborhood helps with some of the worst aspects.

Gang violence touched upon the family, and although Peter never joined up he has several childhood friends in the Ragers, and a younger brother joined recently. His parents are angry; they worry about their son, and it seems Peter's dad had a sister who was tied up with the Mafia years ago. It's a sore subject. But at least its a commitment, Peter thinks--his other siblings (two from his own litter, and the four younger pups born three years later) still haven't come up with any path in life.

Not Peter, though--he has a job to help the family pay for bills and food.

Peter was only eight when Or'zet was first revealed, and when the Orxploitation Boom grew out of that Peter was caught up in a big way. He's loud and proud about his race--it's gotten him in some trouble but it's helped him to meet a lot of people he wouldn't otherwise know. Two years ago he got the chance to meet CrimeTime, just for a few minutes--sure, the guy misheard his name and kept calling him "Kieth," but still, it was pretty wiz. These opportunities (and others, he's just sure of it!) have come about because of the position he got at Hez Music; a chance meeting with Sergei Malenkin himself got the big man's attention and got Peter a wage. He's a part-time "Inventory Distribution Specialist" (he sets up boxes of simchips for shipping to retail outlets who sell to those who don't want to download their tunes for one reason or another). Peter's too naive to understand the record label's ties to the Vory, or the smuggling he's been party to, or that his job there is just one link in the chain of obligations the Vory intends to use to sink themselves deeper and deeper into Tacoma.

He's got bigger things to worry about as is; around the same time as the Hong Kong panic over technomancers, Peter began to realize he was one himself. Although afraid of this revelation he has kept it to himself, and even keeps his commlink on him so no one realizes. Sometimes when he's alone, though, he experiments with the Matrix in ways he never imagined possible, and he's begun to find a raw talent for diving into it. Ever since it happened, he's spent more and more time online. He's unaware of any danger; he thinks he's swimming safely in the data, not realizing it could be an undertow that pulls him down and drowns him.

Agility 3
Body 6
Reaction 3
Strength 6
Charisma 3
Intuition 5
Logic 3
Willpower 4
(200 BP)

Edge 2
Essence 6
Resonance 3
(30 BP)

Compiling 3
Computer 3
Cracking Group 2
Data Search 3
Decompiling 1
Etiquette 3 (+2 Matrix)
Perception 3
Pilot Ground Craft 2
Registering 3
Software 1

(104 BP)

Knowledge Skills - 24 Free
English - N
Russian - N
Or'Zet - 3
(S)Tacoma Gang IDs - 3
(S)Tacoma Knowledge -3
(I)Orxploitation Culture - 4
(I)Sim Stars - 4
(P)Music Distribution - 2
(I)Chat Hosts - 3
(I)Technomancer Rumors - 2

Positive:
Analytical Mind - 5
Bilinguil - 5
Paragon - 5 (The Flow paragon, p151, Unwired)
Perceptive - 5
Technomancer - 5 (Info Savant stream, p139, Unwired)
Toughness - 10

Negative:
Day Job - 5 (10/hrs week, 1000:nuyen:/month)
Dependents - 10
Media Junkie, Moderate - 10
Spirit Bane - 10 (disliked by Guidance spirits)

System: 3
Response: 5 (+1 in VR) (currently limited to 3)
Firewall: 4 (currently limited to 3)
Signal: 2
Biofeedback Filter: 3
VR Matrix Init: 11 / 3 passes

Analyze 3
Attack 3
Browse 2
Exploit 3
Spoof 3
Stealth 3
-R3 Data Sprite, 2 services
-R3 Paladin Sprite, 2 services

Alexander, bartender at Underground 93 -- 2/2
Selena, activist for Orks Right Council -- 3/3
The Ragers, meta gang -- 3(6)/2 (+2 for membership, +1 for districtwide)

Computer Gear (1370:nuyen: )
Sony Emperor w/ Redcap Nix OS
AR Gloves
Blank Datachips (20)

Armor Jacket (900 )
Clothing (ten sets) (500)
Fake SIN (Rating 2) (2000)
Flashlight (25)
Emotitoy (nonmobile) (Rating 3) (300)
Respirator (Rating 2) (200)

Yamaha Growler (5500)

Low Lifestyle (7) - 1100:nuyen: a month, 2 months prepaid
Comforts: Low (2)
Entertainment: Squatter (1)
Necessities: Low (2)
Neighborhood: Low (2)
Security: Low (2)
Qualities
Friendly Neighbors +1
Living With Parents -2
No Privacy -1 (Astral)

Attributes 200BP
Skills 184BP
Qualities -10BP Net
Contacts 12BP
Equipment 14BP
Description
Backstory

In the deepest, darkest heart of the Redmond Barrens, there is no law or civilization. In fact it's fair to say that complete anarchy reigns there. It is Survival of the Fittest magnified, exaggerated, perverted, and turned into an untamed, slavering beast. The denizens of this shameful, blighted wasteland have adopted various survival strategies. Some band together for protection or for plunder. And some others adopt a feral, "whatever it takes" mindset from childhood, figuring that it is their strength and ability to impose their will on others that allows them to make it in this world.

Dennis Rend, a.k.a. "Scar" is one of those. He was born to troll parents, but even his parents succumbed to the torments of the Barrens. From an early age he learned to fight - and kill - for whatever he needed to survive. Since there is no food in the Barrens he learned not to be picky; he simply ate whatever was nearby, be it devil rats or other metahumans. He has more than once fought ghouls over a corpse in order to merely sustain himself, becoming in some regards more ghoulish than the infected of the area.

He attained a massive size from a fortuitous combination of racial phenotype and having perservered through innumerable tests thrown at him during his lifetime in the Barrens. This enabled him to weather most storms and survive attempts to take his life and turn him into prey. He does, however, bear many scars along his body, especially on his face, which is heavily lined and distorted from years of trauma.

Having such an affinity and familiarity with carrion, he soon bumped into area organleggers and Tamanous operatives. Rather than squander such a resource as Scar, they enlisted him both for his lack of restraint, his skill set, and his knowledge of anatomy. He would routinely find fresh meat for the organleggers and deliver bodies to them in return for food and other goods. When they began giving him money in the form of credit in a shadow bank account, Scar then began leaving the dangerous inner Barrens and exploring the outside city.

He still ekes out a meager existence, but he has been getting advances on his "deliveries" to Tamanous, which enabled him to obtain some low-grade cyberware. Meanwhile, he has started to see that there is a larger world with greater opportunities in the city beyond the Barrens, and his sights are now set higher.

He doesn't fit in with this newly discovered world, and he has found himself at odds with a more polite and civilized society that looks poorly on his... "methods." For the first time in his life he is having to practice restraint when out among others... But what others cannot see, they cannot know...