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Name: Brian Crenshaw
Alias: "B. B." "Bee Bee" Fake SIN - Mike Patterson
Race: Gnome [25 BP]
Sex: Male
Age: 22
Nationality: Formerly of Cal-free
Physical Description: Greasy chin-length black hair. Vacant eyes.
Personality/background: B. B. is a kid who never grew up. Quite literally so. Les Enfants Terribles, in his way, he has little time for social mores.
Karma earned:64
Street Cred: 2
Notoriety: 3
Public Awareness: 1
Attributes [230BP] {30}
Body: 3 [10]
Agility: 4(6) [30]
Reaction: 2(4) {3(5)} [10] {15}
Strength: 3 [zero]
Charisma: 2 [10]
Intuition: 5 [40]
Logic: 5(7) [40]
Willpower: 6 [40]
Edge: 2 {3} [10] {15}
Magic: 5(4) [40]
Essence: 5.0
Initiative: 10 - 3IP
Physical Track: [ ][ ]-1[ ][ ]-2[ ][ ]-3[ ][ ]-4[ ]
Stun Track: [ ][ ]-1[ ][ ]-2[ ][ ]-3[ ][ ]-4[ ][ ]-5[ ]
Positive Qualities: [35 BP]
Adept [5]
Type-O System [30]
Thermographic Vision [Inn]
Arcane Arrester [Inn]
Negative Qualities: [-35 BP]
Media Junky (moderate) [-10]
Low Pain Tolerance [-10]
Scorched (Hacker) [-10]
Mild Addiction (Betel) [-5]
Neoteny [Inn]
Distinctive Style 1 [Inn]
Active Skills: [86 BP] {28}
Athletics Group: 1(4) [10]
-Climbing: 1(4)
-Gymnastics: 1(4)
-Running: 1(4)
-Swimming: 1(4)
Cracking Group: 4 [40]
-Cybercombat 4
-Electronic Warfare 4
-Hacking 4(6)
Electronics Group: 1 [10]
-Computer: 1
-Data Search: 1
-Hardware: 1
-Software: 1
Stealth Group: 1(2) {2(3)} [10] {10}
-Disguise: 1(2) {2(3)}
-Infiltration: 1(2) {2(3)}
-Palming: 1(2) {2(3)}
-Shadowing: 1(2) {2(3)}
Automatics {(SMG)}: 1(2) {3(4)} [4] {12}
Clubs {(blocking)}: 1(2) {2(3)} [4] {6}
Perception: 2 [8]
{Arcanum: 1} {4}
{Pilot Aircraft: 1} {4}
Knowledge Skills: 28 free {6}
Hangouts (Matrix): 3
Procedure (Matrix Security): 3
Astral Research: 1
Comic Books: 1
Computer Theory: 1
Conspiracy Theories: 1
Corp (Ares Macrotechnology): 1
Corp (Mitsuhama): 1
Corp (Renraku): 1
Corp (Security Companies): 1
Corp (Shiawise): 1
Criminal (Seattle Gangs): 1
Hangouts (Shadowrunner): 1
History: 1
Law: 1
Magic Knowledge: 1
Matrix Theory: 1
Music Theory: 1
Navigation (Public Trans. Routes): 1
Politics (UCAS): 1
Procedure (Security): 1
Regional (Seattle): 1
Regional (San Francisco): 1
Sci-fi Trids: 1
{Street Drugs: 1} {2}
{Parazology: 1} {2}
{Pirate Trid Broadcasts: 1} {2}
Language Skills: 2 free
English: N
Japanese: 1
Spanish: 1
Powers:Analytics (0.25)
Improved Reflexes II (2.5)
Improved Ability (Hacking) 2 (0.5)
Multi-Tasking (0.5)
Sustenance (0.25)
Path: The Artisan's Way Initiation level: 1 {13}
Metamagics:
1) Masking
Expenditures: [50 BP] 250,000¥ on the dot
Cyber/Bio-ware: 177,150¥
Obvious Cyberhand (Used Std.) -2,500
+Customized Limb - agility 3 (Used Std.) -2,250
+Nanohive (2) (Used Std.) -10,000
+Radar (4) (Used Std.) -6,000
+Auto-Injector (4 dose) (Used Std.) -400
Cerebral booster (2) -20,000
Muscle toner (2) - 16,000
Reflex Recorder (automatics) -10,000
Reflex Recorder (clubs) -10,000
Reflex Recorder Group (Stealth) -25,000
Synthacardium (3) -30,000
PuSHeD -15,000
Neural Amplifier Nanites - Limbic (3) -15,000
Neural Amplifier Nanites - Neocortical (3) -15,000
Gear: 72,850¥
Form-Fitting Body Armor - shirt -500
+nonconductivity 6 -1,200
Industrious Line Coverall -900
+Chemical Resistance 2 (Intg)
+Fire Resistance 2 (Intg)
SecureTech PPP System Forearm Guards -200
SecureTech PPP System Shin Guards -150
AZ-150 Stun Baton -800
+Personalized Grip -100
FN P93 Praetor E -850
+foregrip -50
+sling -10
+Metahuman Customization -50
+Sound Suppressor -600
+Improved Range Finder -1000
-Gas Vent 3 (Barrel) -400
-Smartgun System, Topmount -400
=Electronic Firing (Intg)
=Folding Stock (Removed)
_Spare Clip -5
_100x Explosive rounds -500
Ceska Black Scorpion -550
+Extended Clip -500
+Firing Selection Change FA (from BF) -300
+Personalized Grip -100
+Melee Hardening -300
+Underbarrel Weight -25
-Gas Vent 3 (Barrel) -400
-Smartgun System, topmount - 400
=Folding Stock (Intg)
_3x Spare Clip -15
_176x Explosive rounds -880
_Quickdraw Holster -100
Medkit (6) -600
2x Medkit Supplies -100
4x Stimulant Patch (6) -600 [in autoinjector]
Fake SIN (r4) -4000
Fake License (r4) Security Consultant - 400
89x Betel -89
Handheld Sensor -1
+Radio Signal Scanner R6 -150
Goggles (5) -250
+Flare compensation -50
+Image link -25
+Smartlink -500
+Vision Enhancement (3) -300
+Vision Magnification -100
Earbuds (2) -20
+Audio enhancement (3) -300
+Select sound filter (3) -600
Novatech Airware -1,250
+Response 5 chip -4,000
+Signal 5 upgrade -1,000
+Optimization (Exploit) -500
+Skinlink -50
-Sim Module -100
-Trodes -50
-AR gloves -250
-Subvocal Microphone -50
-30x Datachip -30
Firewall 6 -3000
System 5 -2500
Armor 3 -1,500
+Ergonomic -100
Attack 5 -5,000
+Area 2 -1,500
+Targeting - 1,500
Corrupt 3 -1,500
Data bomb - in game
Decrypt 3 -1,500
Defuse 3 -1,500
Exploit 5 -5,000
+Mute -100
Medic 3 -1,500
Sniffer 5(0) - in game
Spoof 3 -1,500
Stealth 5 -5,000
+Optimization 2 -200
+Ergonomic -100
Track 3 -1,500
ECCM 3 -1,500
Analyze 6 -600
+Ergonomic -100
+Optimization 1 -100
Browse 6 -600
+Optimization 1 -100
Command 6 -600
+Optimization 1 -100
Edit 6 -600
+Optimization 1 -100
Encrypt 6 -600
+Optimization 1 -100
+Ergonomic -100
Scan 6 -600
+Optimization 1 -100
+Ergonomic -100
Unrestricted Agent R5 - in game
1 Month of Lifestyle -6,000
Starting cash +12 -1,200
Lifestyle: Custom high{medium} 6000{5000}/mo
-comforts: 3
-entertainment: 4{3}
-necessities: 2
-neighborhood: 3
-security: 3
+Free Access [1]
Contacts: [9 BP] I'll write these guys up if you like.
Jimmy Locke (Warez geek): Loyalty 2 connection 2
Maurice Mothersbaugh (Fixer): Loyalty 1 connection 4
Starting cash {
4d6 → [1,4,3,2] = (10) + 12} x 500 = 11000¥
50 Questions:
1. What is your characters Sex?Male
2. What is your characters physical size?Brian is exceptionally tall for a Gnome, coming in at a whopping 92 centimeters. For all the world, he strikes the impression of a three year old boy. Just, without the baby-fat..
3. What is the color of the characters Hair, eyes, and skin?Hair: Black and kind of stringy. He lets it grow long enough to hang straight, since he doesn't spend much time tending to his appearance.
Skin: His European heritage and habits have left him with the Classic Pale™ monitor tan. His eyes are black, but the goggles will pretty much always cover them anyway.
4. What is the character's general appearance (i.e., How does he dress, etc.)?Well, he doesn't go out too much, but when he does, he usually wears oversized shirts and shorts or just his coveralls. He is always a little disgruntled at the clothing choices left him, being 2/3rds the size of a dwarf and with different proportions to boot. He often wears an old-style driving cap over the trode net which he regularly leaves too long in his hair.
5. Where was the character born (City, State, Hospital Name)?He was born in Sacremento in the California Free State.
6. What is the characters date of birth?6th of September, 2049
7. What was the character's family life like?Brian was raised in a mixed society. His family was largely accepted within the community due to the common reaction to the fascist attitudes of nearby San Francisco. Naturally there was still a significant number of people who were encouraged by the nearby racist state. The result was that Brian attended normal classes with human children, but received considerable abuse from some of the much larger children. Later, after Saito's forces pushed into Sacremento, his family moved to Diablo Valley where the local Dwarves had built a home.
8. Has the character begun his own family?No. How could he develop personal relationships when there are still people who are wrong on the Inter-trix? Basically he has a lot of PTSD issues and there are maybe 30 other Gnomes in all of Seattle, so..
9. Where or how was the character educated?He started off in a number of private schools in Sacremento, then the community school in Diablo Valley. Finally, after Awakening, he sought training from a local Adept, named Louis. This relationship did not last through the conflicts from 61-67 as Louis was a casualty of a retaliatory strike.
10. Has the character ever done anything else for a living?Brian worked as a saboteur during the conflicts with Saito's troops.
11. What are the characters beliefs on church and state?He's not real big on authority, but that doesn't stop him from forcefully expressing his views to or upon others. Pretty typical anarchist, really.
12. Describe the characters Moral code. Include how mercenary he is, whether or not he'll kill innocents, etc.He has been responsible for death and destruction, directly through his actions, and indirectly from the response to his actions. He knows about consequences, but he's still not fully in touch with the true depth which consequence can provide. In the end though, he knows that every moral system breaks down to me > you.
13. What are the character's goals?Respect. It's how you make things happen. Things like killing the yaks off the face of the Earth. But ultimately, he's too emotionally scarred to see a real future ahead of himself yet. He still needs to heal before he can move on to real goals.
14. Why does the character run the shadows? (Why does he run the shadows still, rather than getting a "real" job?)There's not many corps who would hire an ex-guerrilla saboteur to a desk. Well, Ares might, since they were on the same side of the California Protectorate conflict, but he's got a good thing going, so why bother?
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 color or add mood to the history.Brain comes from a background of oppression and discrimination which has lead him to sink himself into trivialities as an escape. Though, when he is about his business he can focus, he often finds himself falling back into the comforting digital world of just entertaining himself.
16. What special qualities does the character possess? This does not refer to skills, but rather at other things, such as How he gets along with people, does he plan ahead, etc.He operates in a logistics type of capacity, so he plans pretty well. His experiences have taught him that plans usually don't survive an engagement though.
17. Are their certain things the character can't or won't do? Why?Brian has solid respect for Knight Errant as they were instrumental in toppling Saito. He avoids conflict with them at all costs.
18. What things, people, or ideas does the character hate?He hates the Yakusa pretty fierce, but more than anything he hates anyone thinking they can take advantage of him. He also hates the fact that Black IC has reduced the joy of simsense for him to the point where he feels safer working in AR only.
19. What things people, or ideas does the character love?He loves the Matrix as a place where the mind is free and a person is judged on their works alone.
20. What is the character's name? Give both full birth name, as well as nicknames, street names, etc.Brian Jordan Crenshaw. Baby Brian. Bee Bee. Mike Patterson (of Black Box Consulting.)
21. Determine what your character used to do, before becoming a shadowrunner (very important).He worked alongside the Triads, Mothers of Metahumans and Ares forces in the war against General Saito.
22. Decide why your character left his or her old job, if he had one. (also important).The war was won, so Brian grabbed up what he could from his former allies and made a run for the now unguarded border. There was no one really left for him to go back to but horrible memories. He was only there to finish the fight.
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 he started running the shadows originally. What led him to it?)He had the skills, knowledge and experience to make money running the bad parts of the nets. Why not cash in?
24. How did your character come to know his or her contacts? Contacts are an important part of Shadowrun, decide how and why you know them.Jimmy Locke - They run in similar circles. Jimmy runs gear. Brian runs data. These sort of partnerships are as natural as they come.
Maruice Mothersbaugh - MM is a pretty typical downtown fixer. He runs info for cash. Corporate espionage for the most part, but fixers move with the money. They were originally introduced by a Shadowland pal, and quickly developed a working relationship.
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 characters previous employment.Brian operates a small business, Black Box Consulting, under the name Mike Patterson. This is a front for funneling funds from his illicit activities.
26. Is the character a full-time shadowrunner? Or does the character lead a Batman-like double existence?Yep, full time runner.
27. Which person(s) or group(s) do you love the most?Matrix dweebs. Brian is quite the shut-in.
28. Which person(s) or group(s) do you hate the most?Matrix dweebs. He really doesn't interact with many other types of people... Japanese Imperialists and Human Nation types naturally piss him off, but they can be Matrix dweebs too..
29. Which person(s) or group(s) do you respect the most?The old guard who fought through the crash are all legendary.
30. Which person(s) or group(s) do you fear the most?Well, Trolls are terrifyingly large, but being hit by old-school runner hunter squads like Lone Star's "Circuit Breakers" are a recurring nightmare. Those kind of kick-ins are something he has intimate knowledge of.
31. What is your favorite color?Deep Blue
32. What is your favorite food and/or drink?Vat-grown hamburger. Amazing.
33. What place would you most like to visit?His bookmarked sites.
34. Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to?He doesn't roll over for, or on anybody. He won't mess with K.E. though. At least not so anyone gets hurt.
35. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the most enjoyment?Setting up backdoors in as many systems as he possibly can. Also, arguing on the 'Trix.
36. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the least enjoyment?Working in AR. It pales in comparison to hotsim, but Brian can't hang with Black IC anymore..
37. What annoys your character the most?Dealing with people in the flesh.
40. What do you think is your characters best quality?His breadth of knowledge.
41. What do you think is your characters worst quality?He's a know-it-all.
42. What is the most important thing you have ever done?Disabled an entire airfield during a main assault on Saito's forces, thereby preventing Saito's air-superiority from wiping out resistance forces.
45. What are your three most common dreams?1)He is moving through a world of doors. With the slightest realization, he determines that he is trapped in VR. This realization does not come alone. He now also knows with certainty that he being hunted by something too horrible to look at - Always at his back, as he moves and moves until he can not go anywhere else. Just as he tuns, it grabs him with impossibly cold hands, paralyzing him in an eternal moment of nerve-destroying pain.
2)He is back in the Berkley Ghettos while imperial marines storm the tenement. He has to hide and so he crawls into a corner. But the corner collapses and he falls backwards into a tunnel. The tunnel takes him back to the caverns of Diablo Valley. His family is there. Some of his human classmates are there, but they somehow fit in a strange dream way. His mother tells him that it's alright, that they are all alright now. Everything seems so far away from him, as if he is drawing back, being pulled away from himself. The cavern fills with smoke. There is the thudding of the bombs. The smoke turns into whips of wind as all the air is sucked out of the caverns. Everyone stands there looking concerned as he gasps for breath and falls away from them to blackness.
3)He is in Seattle, working. Moving, as he often does, through an air-vent. He has to crawl across a hallway, but is surprised by a corp guard. He turns quickly and fires on the guard, but to no effect. The guard calls over another guard and they look down upon him in a strange sense of confusion and sympathy. Brian continues to fire on them while they discuss his presence. "What is he doing?" one asks. "I think he's playing," the other responds. "Oh.. well.." "Yeah.." and the guards give one last pitying look and turn to leave, a little sad and a little confused by the behavior.. Brian lays there, embarrassed and helpless, his gun empty, and that emptiness slowly creeping into himself.
46. What is the Characters current relationship with his family?His family suffocated to death along with many others after a napalm strike sucked all the air out of the Diablo Valley caverns.
51. Where does your character live?In a downtown studio apartment. There's not that much room, but it's still well furnished and safe. There's no parking, (which isn't a problem since he doesn't have a car, and would probably have to stand on the seat to see anyway,) but it's centrally located, and has tons of transit options. Luckily for him, the massive amount of signal traffic in the building makes it easier to hack from home without the threat of being traced.
Fiduciary Expenditures:
1000¥ For Targeting Program option for Attack 5 and a cracked copy of Sniffer 5
500¥ for a Hardware kit
405¥ for 50 rounds of stick-n-shock ammo for the SMG and an extra magazine
405¥ for 50 rounds of stick-n-shock ammo for the Machine Pistol and an extra magazine
300¥ for 10 flash-bang grenades
200¥ for 10 hits of Betameth. (3R)
50¥ for 10 hits of Snuff (-)
60¥ for 60 hits of Betel (-)
50¥ for one hit of Nitro (2R)
50¥ for one hit of Long Haul (-)
5,000¥ for R5 Programming Suite
5,000¥ for rent
4,000¥ for R4 Homeground Autosoft
1,500¥ for R3 Cascading Autosoft
Fiduciary Acquisitions:
11,000¥ Starting cash
200¥ credstick from Sam M.
12,500¥ from Germaine
12,500¥ also from Germaine
250¥ from paydata
{Current cash reserves 17,930¥}
Homebrew Programs:
R5 Databomb + pavlov option
R5 Agent, unrestricted.
Physical Expenditures:
65 Betel (one every 30 minutes) {ya see, Betel is cigarettes in disguise}
6x Ex ammo for ceska
9x Ex ammo for P93
1x Betameth
Karma Log: {0 points in pool}
+15 pts
-10 raising Automatics from 1(2) to 3(4)
-2 Specializing Automatics in SMG
-2 Acquiring Street Knowledge skill Street Drugs.
+1 pt (PARTY HARD)
+3 pts
+45 pts goooooaaal
-15 raise Reaction to 3
-15 raise Edge to 3
-10 raise Stealth group to 2
-4 raise Clubs to 2
-2 Specializing Clubs in Blocking
-2 Acquiring Professional Knowledge skill Parazoology
-2 Acquiring Interest Knowledge skill Pirate Trid Broadcasts
+14 The long Jump
-13 Initiate
+7 Planning
-4 Arcanum
-4 Pilot Aircraft
