The man who now goes by the handle “Nym” lost his real identity in the Crash of ‘64, and never managed to gain another one - at least not for very long. His emergence as a technomancer began manifesting itself as unusual glitches with routing of information related to him, and he found it nearly impossible to hold onto a SIN - or any other form of identification - for more than a day. He seemed to constantly slip between the cracks of the system and, as a result, learned to simply live with the reality of being SINless. In the 8 years since, he has learned to control (or, rather, influence) these abilities, but has also come to an understanding about the new life he had been given, and his place in the network of personal information flowing around the cities. This unusual understanding of connections between people comes with a few disadvantages, however. To many, Nym would seem afflicted with irrational paranoia, often directed at corporate and government entities, and the people who further their agendas. He isn’t comfortable around people he doesn’t know well, and the people he gets to know well tend to be similarly eccentric loners (Some would say tin-hat wearing lunatics and dangerous anarchists).

Other than the various members of Black Cross and Black Crescent, the person Nym has worked with the most is an information broker who calls himself “The Directory”, and specializes in the trade of personal information. However, the mutual respect of their relationship only goes so far. On multiple occasions, The Directory has attempted to maintain a file on Nym (who went by the handle “Middleman” at the time), on his own secure database, only to find the data missing days later. He chalks this up to expert hacking skills on Nym’s part, and while he doesn’t appreciate the intrusion, he respects that the only data that was tampered with was Nym’s. The situation does make for uncomfortable negotiations, however, as neither party really trusts the other. Through The Directory, Nym was once put in touch with a hacker who goes by the handle “The Phisherman”, who specializes in online scams. The who talked trade over a meeting once, but neither one has really had need of the other’s services, since.

Nym did a few jobs for a “freelance” ID Manufacturer who called himself “Mr. Bornagain” (Nym went by the alias “C-Squared” at the time, after the chemical “Cleaner Cleaner”, as he was contacted to clean up burnt SINs). Through these jobs, he met a smuggler (who dabbled in human trafficking and unauthorized border crossings) who called himself “Bryan Hyder”.

While Nym has participated in a few Shadowruns, in the last few years, he usually didn’t stay in contact with any other other Runners he met. One Runner, an Eco-Shaman called “Howls-By-Day” though, caught his attention, because is eco-activist ideals lined up nicely with Nym’s own paranoia and anarchistic tendencies. They still message one another on occasion, but have not worked together since that job. Online, Howls-By-Day introduced Nym to a human-rights activist called “Moxie” who needed a hand with some legwork digging up leads on a human traifficking ring that she intended to expose. Nym helped her out, as a favor to Howls-By-Day, and although he still follows her activities when her activism gets the attention of the media, he hasn’t gone out of his way to contact her since.

Nym has also found (on his own) an anarchist blogger who goes by the handle “Ramshackle Red” whose daily rants make for entertaing reading (and fuel the fires of Nym’s anti-establishment prejudices). He has posted a few times (anonymously) to Red’s blog, but that is pretty much the extent of their relationship. Another online contact he has made is Lola Lightshine (known as Loony Lola Lightshine, by almost everyone) who operates a pirate trideo station which moves up and down the cost, and broadcasts the craziest conspiracy theories to anyone who cares to listen.

Nym considers himself one of the “good guys” working against (and around) an unjust system designed to exploit people, which is a little hypocritical because his scams often have the potential to ruin people’s lives. He justifies this to himself by claiming that by ruining their credit or compromising their SIN he has somehow helped them unshackle themselves from the corporate prison they were previously in. That is not to say he won’t take jobs of questionable morality, but when he has a choice in the matter, he is inclined to take jobs that ruin the lives of people he considers to be part of The System. He avoids confrontation, particularly combat, whenever possible - both because he knows he isn’t any good in a fight, and because he doesn’t like the idea of hurting people that directly.

For the last few years, Nym has been working in the West Coast Shadows - from Seattle to Aztlan - not because he needs the money, nor because he wants the reputation (he doesn’t), but because he understands how networks work, and it is important to him to maintain a network of like-minded contacts. His network includes a number of Anarchist Black Cross and Black Crescent cells running up and down the coast who are often in the market for someone with the skills to fake identification or to make someone disappear. Despite having helped these organizations on numerous occasions, Nym doesn’t have much of a reputation in the Shadows. This is partially by design (not wanting people he doesn’t know to know too much about him) and partially because of his tendency to switch identities even when it comes to Runner aliases. He has gone by a number of other names, and even gotten a few jobs by impersonating other Runners, but he doesn’t tend to stay in any one place long enough to make a lot of friends or to establish himself with a team. So, although Nym has quite a few contacts in the shadows, many of them know him by different names, and few of those relationships are particularly strong.

These days, Nym lives outside of the System while living off of it, borrowing or forging identities as they are needed, and wearing his SINlessness as a badge of honor when they are not. Nym travels light. At a moment’s notice, he wants to be able to toss his disposable commlink, or leave behind an empty apartment, along with whatever identity he was using at the time. When he enters a new sprawl, it rarely takes him more than a day to get himself set up with the bare necessities. His current safehouse is a simple inconspicious one bedroom apartment, unconnected to any SIN, and forgotten or lost in most residential databases. His particular unit is “off the grid”, leeching power and matrix access from neighbors. The records for the address have also been altered to make locating it in the matrix difficult. This has resulted in a number of mis-forwarded matrix messages, commcalls, and missrouted deliveries, which - while inconvenient - serve to further confuse anyone attempting to unravel the tangled web of digital misdirection Nym has spun around himself.

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