Background: Was born in 2010 just as the world was starting to go haywire. Childhood was kinda chaotic, with my parents trying to make it seem normal. Was a boyscout for a while. Family got caught in Seattle when the US fell apart in 2014, so I grew up here. Dad worked odd jobs. We were lower middle class. Everything changed in 2022. I was on a camp out with the scouts when my best friend was attacked by dogs. I wasn't particularly formidable, but I was hitting them with my hiking stick trying to beat them off of him. I became more frustrated as I was ineffective. Suddenly, my swings with the stick started knocking them off. I had awakened and was using my magic to hurt the dogs. They ran, and I collapsed. That same best friend, while recovering from his injuries, goblinized into an ork (it was the beginning of goblinization). His family was relocated to an internment camp and I never saw them again.
The biggest change of all, toward the end of the year, my parents died in the second wave of VITAS in 2022. I was taken in by a family that my parents knew. I hid my abilities from them and tried to be normal. My foster parents owned a construction company, and I worked for them for my early adult life, rarely using my abilities. I finished high school in 2028, and worked for them from then until 2040. During this time, magic was becoming more accepted. I used the money I made and my spare time to take correspondence courses for magic.
Somewhere about 2040, when I was in beginning my 30's, I got restless and tired of the dreary, boring life, and I started developing my awakened abilities, and using them to do quasi legal jobs on the side. A brush with police put me on the outs with my foster family, and I was told to shape up or ship out. Ship out I did, and spent the next ten years working as a shadowrunner for the excitement.
Due to mysterious circumstances in 2050, I left the shadows. I spent the next 20 years living anonymously in the Barrens. I know them well, I know how to get by. At the age of 60, I'm tired of getting by, and I started working with a private investigator named Mike a couple of years ago. I have recently struck out on my own as a PI with the help of a lawyer I know. Ito Takaneshi put me in touch with some associates of his and I borrowed enough money to open up my own PI practice.
Recently spent a short stay in the hospital and rehab. I was working on a case, investigating some unusual activity, when I had a run in with a toxic mage. Toxic Mage 1, Jed 0. Trashed my car and my body. Still a little weak, but I’m down to my last 40 Nuyen, its dinner time and rent is almost due…
Contacts:
Mikhail Anatoli Mouskov: Mike is an orc of russian decent. Not part of the Vor, but has associations, partly just by being a tough guy russian. He is my mentor as a PI. My one true friend. We met while he was working a case in the Barrens. He had been caught off guard by a gang while looking for a missing person. I stepped in and helped him survive the situation. Soon after, I started working for him. Very few people know that the nickname his mother called him was Nishka. Contact made with him by commcall. Uses: physical legwork, street rumors, extra contacts, getting a beer.
Ito Takaneshi: Lawyer introduced to me by Mike. Contact made by commcall or office visit. Uses: Influence, legal help, introductions, information, Shadowrunner scuttlebut
Escher: Escher is a hacker contact that I met through Mike. We use him when we need to follow digital clues. We have never met, as he will only meet in VR. Contact is made with him through a guild in a Matrix RPG. He seems to be available 24/7, leading us to speculate that he is actually a group of hackers, or an AI, or something unusual. Uses: Information, digital surveillance
Rosalie Valdez: mid 30's Puerto Rican descent. Works as lead technician in the city's crime lab. Mike uses her to process his own forensics evidence on the sly for a fee. DNA testing, residue analysis. As lead technician, she has access to the police records system, and can provided copies of police reports off record, even the sections of the report that aren't public release. She seems to enjoy flirting with this old man, but of course she wouldn't be interested, right? Contact is made by contacting her in her Second Life matrix game. Uses: Information, forensics legwork, Background checks, possible misplacement of evidence against someone (possibility is unexplored by this character).
Connor and Quinn Keegan. Pair of Irish descent gypsy brothers who run a black market store out of a small collection of vans and sedans that set up and various locations in the Barrens (abandoned warehouses, parking garages, etc). They put an add in the classifieds each day in code to tell their customers where they set up. Always seen together, Connor does the business and speaks with a strong Irish accent. Quinn takes care of security, and is quiet and moody. Funny thing is that when he talks, he has no accent. Contact: call is placed to an answering service, and then Connor or one of his assistants will call you back. Delivery is possible for a fee, depending on the item and your location. They will not deliver to Bellvue or Downtown due to security risk. Uses: Gear, jobs, information, more contacts.
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