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Old May 8th, 2021, 06:02 PM
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  • Name/Street Handle: He only shares his real name with people close to himFrank Nohea/Frank originally named himself Thermopauze, the boundary between the thermosphere and the exosphere in Earth's atmosphere but it was too long and so dropped the "rm" and "pause" from the name to became Theo. A much easier name to shout during a gunfight.Theo
  • Role: Fixer(male, age 29)

  • Discription:
    Since Jade's death, Theo has a tendency to let his personal grooming slide. With a persistent five o'clock shadow on his boyish features, Theo still maintains a wide mohawk from his childhood by cutting short the hair on the sides of his head. The lack of using proper hair care products has caused said mohawk to become more of a bush of brown curly hair and only faintly resemble a mohawk. Add in the occasional facial scar from blocking with his face, and a recently broken nose and split lip, and Theo looks as if he's having a hard decade. It's when you look in his eyes and see that he's unfazed by whatever life throws at him that one realizes Theo is tougher than he looks. Theo can often be seen smoking a thin black cigerate and he's a borderline alcoholic thanks to working out of a bar.

  • Personality:
    While not introverted, Theo likes to let other people talk while he sits back and listens. Theo can learn much about a client if they are chatty enough. And considering most of his clients are boisterous gang members and this social tactic has seen Theo through quite a few rough encounters. His secretive nature however does tend to impede Theo's social life as he rarely feels comfortable sharing anything about himself with people. Given the fact he's still hurting from Jades' death two years ago and Theo currently couldn't care less about his social life.


 


STAT'S
INT: 8, REF: 7, DEX: 7, TECH: 4, COOL: 5, WILL: 5, LUCK: 8, MOVE: 6, BODY: 5, EMP: 8-4(cyberwear)4.

HIT POINTS: 35
HUMANITY: 80-38=42
FIXER ABILITY: Operator(Rank 5)

SKILL'S
AWARENESS:
[WILL 5] Concentration 3 = +8
[INT 8] Perception 6 = +14 ( +2 for Checks involving hearing. Cybernetics.+16 )
BODY:
[DEX 7] Athletics 5 = +12
[DEX 7] Stealth 4 = +11
CONTROL SKILLS:
[REF 7] Drive Land Vehicle 1 = +8
EDUCATION:
[INT 8] Business 4 = +12
[INT 8] Education 2 = +10
[INT 8] Language(English) 4 = +12
[INT 8] Language(street slang) 3 = +11
[INT 8] Local Expert(The Glen) 3 = +11
FIGHTING:
[DEX 7] Brawling 5 = +12
[DEX 7] Evasion 6 = +13
RANGED WEAPON:
[REF 7] Handgun 6 = +13
SOCIAL:
[COOL 5] Bribery 5 = +10
[EMP 4] Conversation 4 = +8
[EMP 4] Human Perception 6 = +10
[COOL 5] Persuasion 5 = +10
[COOL 5] Streetwise 5 = +10
[COOL 5] Trading 5 = +10
TECHNIQUE:
[TECH 4] First Aid 2 = +6
[TECH 4] Forgery 3 = +7
[TECH 4] Pick Lock 4 = +8

Weapons:
  • Light Melee Weapon(Combat Knife): # of Hands(1), Damage(1d6), Rate Of Attack(2), Concealable?(Yes).
  • Heavy Pistol(Mustang Arms Mark III): # of Hands(1), Damage(3d6), Rate Of Fire(2), Concealable?(Yes), Magazine(8 Heavy Pistol rounds).
  • Very Heavy Pistol(Sternmeyer P-35): # of Hands(1), Damage(4d6), Rate Of Fire(1), Concealable?(No), Magazine(8 Very Heavy Pistol rounds).
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Agent Bug Detector Computer Disposable Phone(x2) Contacts & JewelryGeneric Chic MirrorshadesLeisurewear Footwear, Jacket, Bottoms, & TopUrbanflash
50 Basic Heavy PistolHP Ammo 50 Basic Very Heavy PistolVHP Ammo SP 11Light Armorjack Body Armor SP 11Light Armorjack Head Armor 2 Memory Chips 9 Armor-Piercing VHP Ammo(spare clip) small Carryall
2 eat after every run and replaceKibbel Packs 10 Explosive HP Ammo     

Cyberwear(# of Slots) [-38 Humanity & -4 EMP Loss]: <NOTE: Note the Implants that take up a slot in 2 Eyes/Limbs>
  • FASHIONWEAR(7)
  • NEURALWEAR(5)
    [HUMANITY LOSS: 5] Has 5 Option Slots. Wired artificial nervous system, required to use Neuralware and Subdermal Grips.Neural Link
    SLOT 1: [HUMANITY LOSS: 8] Cyberarm Option. Neuralware Option. A subdermal plate under the palm allowed user to make use of Smartguns. A cost-effective alternative to Interface Plugs. Can be installed as the only piece of Cyberware in a meat arm. Requires Neural Link and takes up a Neuralware Option Slot. 1 SLOTSubdermal Grip
  • CYBEROPTICS(3 per Eye)
    [HUMANITY LOSS: 7] Each Cybereye has 3 Option Slots. Some options must be paired (purchased twice and installed in two different Cybereyes on a user. HL must be paid for each)Cybereye [Right Eye]
    SLOT 1: [HUMANITY LOSS: 2] Projects subscreen into user's field of vision. Requires a Cybereye. 1 SLOTChyron Display
  • CYBERAUDIO(3 total)
    [HUMANITY LOSS: 7] Has 3 Option Slots. Cannot install more than 1Cyberaudio Suit
    SLOT 1: [HUMANITY LOSS: 3] Fully functional Agent installed internally. Can be linked to a Cybereye with Chyron display. Otherwise, audio-only. Requires a Cyberaudio Suite. 1 SLOTInternal Agent
    SLOT 2: [HUMANITY LOSS: 3] +2 to Perception for Checks involving hearing. Requires a Cyberaudio Suite. 1 SLOTAmplified Hearing
  • INTERNAL BODY CYBERWEAR(7)
  • EXTERNAL BODY CYBERWEAR(7)
    SLOT 1: [HUMANITY LOSS: 3] 2" x 4" (5cm x 10cm) storage space just under the skin with RealSkinn™ zipper.Subdermal Pocket
  • CYBERLIMBS(4 per Limb)

EURO BUCKS: 7,440 eb's

IMPROVEMENT POINTS: 0
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Old May 9th, 2021, 01:49 PM
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Real Name: (not generally public information) Cassandra D'Addario
Role: Rockerboy (flavored as 'Idoru-type, who uses an avatar when on the Datapool, and who wears a full-head mask and coat to project a hologram of her avatar, when she's doing a live appearance as Collie.social media influencer')

RP / personality sampler"Hey Actionistas! It's your girl Collie, on the scene of the next big anti-cap Overthrow! Holla!"

Collie's face is being streamed to hundreds of her subscribers, leechers, detractors, and obsessives. Her face is lit by the camera she's holding in her hands, and behind her is a blurry urban scene. Laudromat signs flash, street lights glare, and red brake lights streak and zig-ziag as Collie quickly re-adjusts the framing of the shot so that watchers can see where she is.

"Corner of 36th and Hayes! Don't know how long we'll be able to keep the stream up, so make sure to hit those 'like' and 'subscribe' buttons to make sure you get all the updates, if I go dark!" Behind her, there is an all-glass panel of doors. It looks like the first floor of a corporate headquarters skyscraper. At the door are a few masked individuals of mixed race and gender. They are violently kicking at one of the glass doors. One of the masked agitators rips a nearby municipal trashcan off its base, and hurls it at the glass doors. It has no effect, and Collie barely seems to notice it happening. She adjusts her hair attractively, and laughs at a comment in the chat feed.

"Ha! No, Prol_Supreme, I WON'T show you my feet! But, if I can get up to 300 paid subscribers, you'll all unlock the next SECRET reward level, so who knows what's hiding there, right?!" She winks coquettishly at the camera.

Something shatters off-camera, and Collie gets serious. "Remember, we're here with THREE major demands: ONE, bi-annual management wage confiscation to fund pensions for all workers after age 45. TWO, at least 80% worker representations on all Boards. And THREE, universal representative re-distribution of all stocks and private equity positions."

Just then the telltale flashing lights of police vehicles begins strobing across the glass and Collie's face. There is some shouting far off camera, and suddenly the stream becomes almost completely incoherent. The camera is shaking, moving, rotating; it's pointing in every direction but the one that would give you information about what's going on. Whatever is the situation, it is loud and violent, and Collie is in the mix. Collie is letting off a stream of profanity, directed at the authorities. There are people nearby shouting slogans, and police shouting commands. People cry in pain, people shout in anger.

It's possible that at one point Collie brandishes a weapon of some kind. Again, the video feed is a jumble (and conveniently non-incriminating!). But very near the microphone, a police officer is shouting, "Hands up! Put it down!" There are a few loud bangs. Collie's voice is then shouting, "Let him go! Get off of him! Let him go, pig!" It sounds like she then spits, and from the rapid jarring of the camera, it's clear she has set off running.

About a minute later, the running slows. Collie's face appears re-centered in the frame. The street scene behind her is now different. It's darker; a side street or alleyway of some kind. She's breathing hard and moving at a fast walk. She looks over her shoulder every few seconds.

"OK. OK," she pants. "Whew. OK. So. Jackboot fascists just disappeared some comrades. Gotta sign off. Once I'm secure, I'll get back on stream to give The Line." Collie looks at her arm. "Oops, I think I'm bleeding. Remember, if you donate at the $25 a month level, you get access to the exclusive medical records tracker, in addition to the Chairman Meow photo feed, and ability to participate in the monthly subscriber Theory Teach-in event." It looks like she sees someone off camera, and waves to them.

"All right. Until next time. Remember: the Revolution WILL be streamed!" The video goes dark, and the red dot indicating a live stream turns off.
Backstory: Lifepath summary
ReclaimersCassie's family drifted into University City when she was 4 years old. They had criss-crossed the country for years. University City promised a lot: the ruins of some of UCSD and nearby research institutesthe most advanced tech, what's left of some of the nearby La Jolla on the searichest neighborhoods, and that The Mormon Templeodd temple as a beacon for Reclaimers. Night City nearby provided markets for particularly tasty salvage.

The D'Addario family believed in self-reliance. University City offered a community of like-minded individuals, but Papa D'Addario demanded discipline, obedience, and hard work. He was always disassembling this, re-building that, and giving his children little tasks and errands to complete. Sloth was not permitted, nor a lack of Honor of the Mother and Father. Working for the family was critical, to build a community. If the choice was between reading a book to the child, or re-starting the power supply to a refortified living block, the power supply always came first. The community came first.

Cassie grew up shy, with few friends. Eventually, things got bad and Cassie had to run. Clairemont wouldn't take her in, nor would Miramar. The Borjias were too powerful. Where could she hide? There was only one option: Night City


Cassie in The Big CityFor a time, Cassie was just another cast-off life, barely getting by on the street. Work rarely came, nor a sense of who she was. Shut up so long, she barely knew how to relate to the press of humanity. She was dumbfounded. How could she find herself here, swarmed by humanity on all sides, and yet be more alone than when she was living isolated on literal heaps of rubble? Where did community come in? Where was friendship?

Eventually, she began to learn the game. Jobs and work were held by the corporations. If you didn't sign your soul away to them, you had little hope. She took the dregs of such jobs to get by, and at night, she started pouring her heart out onto the Datapool. At first, it was incoherent: the ramblings of a scared girl looking for connection, and meaning, and friendship. After years of isolation, she wasn't willing to broadcast her face to the world, so she hid behind an avatar. Early on this changed this virtual visage to fit her mood.

Without a message, and without a purpose, she had little audience. She was earnest and direct, and those things were hard to come by in Night City. It garnered her a few fans, but also the attention of more dangerous types, sensing easy prey. Hellswynd, leader of the boostergang the Razor Knights, reached out to meet. He was terrifying, and callously violent. But he promised something intriguing: power. Action. The ability to make something of yourself, to enact change outside of corporate feudalism. It was a community. Perhaps this was the way forward, in Night City.

Collie in the Big CityIt was, and it wasn't, the way forward. As Cassie witnessed the agitation, the violence, the action of the boostergang, she saw that they DID make change. Slow diligence with your head down was the path to slavery. Her broadcasts became more focused: don't just look for community, build it. Don't just complain about the corporations, fight them. Don't despair alone, be part of the collective!

Collie Active was born! Cassie stopped flipping her avatars. She adopted some old Soviet iconography. Cassie herself is of southern Italian stock: deep olive skin, dark raven hair kept wild as her blood mixed Roman, Greek, and North African ancestry. Her avatar is a young blonde woman, eternally wearing twin braids and an Imagine a Swiss Miss wearing a Castro cap.olive-drab patrol cap with a red star in the center.

Yet it became increasingly clear that the gang itself needed to go from her life. She quickly learned that many of the members were quite literally psychotic. They just wanted harm for harm's sake, and to do the harming themselves. They didn't want a better world, they want a worse one, with them on top. She denounced them publicly, calling out the members by name. She called them the poison of capitalism, as virulent as the corporations. They wanted no community, no solidarity, no directed action. They were just capitalism's anger. Collie Action would be the PEOPLE'S voice, the PEOPLE'S anger!

From there, her popularity grew rapidly. She streamed regularly, focused on the themes of positive change and communal spirit through direct violent action. Corporate masters must fear the people, not the reverse. She set up funding, spawned off a few different feeds (everything from reading groups to Chariman Meow!cat pictures), and began to take more opportunities for live events. Always, she maintained the persona of Collie. In live appearances, she always wears a mask This protects her identity, given her increasingly-violent encounters, and allows for the avatar to be superimposed over. It builds her brand, day-by-day.

Eventually, her audience grew enough that she began eating into the audience shares of other Idoru on the Datapool. Just_Princess had built her audience through a mix of slick production, ever-present deep cleavage shots, and a dedication to always claiming to adopt the progressive issue-of-the-week. While not exactly making her a superstar, it gathered her a respectable army of simps and parrots who would follow down whatever path they took her. Yet for what Just_Princess offers in terms of fan service, she lacks in results. Collie Action offers a more visceral experience - a direct human connection, and true peril to her own person. As Collie's star rises, the Just_Princess could fall, and this is not something she's likely to take lightly
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Collie lives in a container at the north end of the South Night City combat zone, about halfway between the boxes numbered 01 and 26 on Marsh's map
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Character Name: Pasqual
Role: Netrunner
Gender Identity: Is 'hacker extraordinaire' a gender identity?
Background: Pasqual didn't start out on the street. Hers was a life of the wealthy and powerful, something she's a bit touchy about now that she's among the Bourgies. Servants, luxury homes, and the best of everything, including private security to make sure she were always safe. She attended prestigious private schools and her whole life seemed to be on the fast-track to success.

Then, one day, everything went straight to hell.

Everything she knew and grew up with was destroyed in the blink of an eye, and her family was imprisoned. She managed to escape, but was almost completely unprepared for life on the streets, having lived the good life until then. She scratched out survival in the heart of the Combat Zone, living in wrecked buildings or any other squat she could flop for the night without getting zeroed. She had to do a lot of growing up, and toughening up, quickly and immediately.

Fortunately, she was able to put her training and education to work as a Netrunner, making herself valuable enough to barter for her life. Eventually, she began to pick up the pieces and move on, though not without help. She managed to make a good friend on the street, who showed her the ropes as they watched each other's back. She also made enemies, and not all were from the street - where most either kept to themselves or were just looking for a quick score.

Once her family was no longer around to protect her, Pasqual had to worry about an old bully from her prep school days finding her. Pasqual had posted some...humiliating information and it had never been forgotten or forgiven. Given how short-circuited the gonk was, Pasqual wouldn't be surprised if vengeance came in the form of a bullet...or at least a severe ripping. Then again, Pasqual had a habit of getting into trouble using The Net to play pranks. She'd once been friends with the son of the local police chief, until Pasqual posted some compromising information about corruption within law enforcement. Honestly, Pasqual had simply been trying to open her friend's eyes, 'help' them in a way. Instead, she managed to torque off the cops and earn a very public verbal lashing from the now-former-friend. And, of course, there was Pasqual's competitor, another hacker who wanted to prove that they were the best, but always managed to fail. Maybe not a dangerous individual, specifically, but definitely could be trouble while Pasqual was Netrunning.

Just as soul-crushing was that Pasqual's boyfriend was caught up in the same events that brought her family down. He disappeared at roughly the same time everyone else did, and Pasqual was too busy running for her life to keep track of him. The trail was cold by the time she chilled, but she hasn't abandoned hope of finding him yet. She also hopes to restore her family, and personal, reputation. Someday...she'll take back what the bastards took from her.

For now, though, she works as a freelancer, hacking for anyone who will pay. She likes to work alone, buried in her hideaway bristling with computer screens, all the better to monitor...and look intimidating. Local fixers send her clients, poor saps who can barely start a computer, much less run the Net the way she does. She's got a good network going now, and a few backdoors set up in various corporate warehouses she can loot at will, as long as she's cautious. Once again, she's got competition among other hackers, Deckheads who've taken a disliking to her, somehow. So much for a collaborative community...probably just jealous of her upbringing and skill, neh? Losers.

 
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