Well, since I can't get below the 20 000 character limit on post (considering it includes the BB code, it's no wonder), I'll have to cut the background and sheet in two.
Name:Aelfwine Ströbel
Alias:Loki (everyday), Blackdogg64 online
Race:Human
Sex:Male
Nationality:AGS
Lifestyle:"The Farmhouse" Advanced lifestyle, worth 7 LP, 1100¥, +10% for Roommate, total 1210¥, 1 month paid only
Comforts:Low (decent furniture, a real bed, etc) [2 LP]
Entertainment:Squatter (if it's not on my commlink, it's probably not worth it) [1 LP]
Necessities:Low (Pseudo-running water and power, thanks to solar stills and green plan energy) [2 LP]
Neighbourhood:Squatter (as good as a neighborhood gets in this hell hole) [1 LP]
Security:(Low Mom may have lost half her Magic, but Force 3 spirits are decent household guards still) [2 LP]
Lifestyle Qualities: Animal Lover (2) [3 LP]Not quite LP farms, but mom's just getting started.
Homegrown Farming [1 LP]Mom Cleaned some earth ("not as bad as the Black Tide's run off" she said) and planted it.
Perfect Roommate [2 LP]Yes, my mom makes the dishes and my laundry still... and she's a mage too.
Crash Pad [-1 LP]There's always a bunch of people home, trying to get mom to cast this spell or that.
Green Plan [-1 LP]Solar panels and wind mills, not enough for the whole community though.
Living by Committee [-1 LP]Strength in number, but we have to play by their rules.
Trigger-happy Landlord [-1 LP]The committee doesn't like Awakened too much.
DescriptionAt the edge of the Northside, "the farm" is a small enclaves of damaged buildings surrounding what was once a small park, which has been divided in fenced lots where the paying residents can put livestock or try to eke out a garden. Freya's back-to-nature upbringing got a kick out of the place, and she's currently spending most of her time trying to make her animals reproduce and her garden grow, leaving Loki stuck with doing jobs to pay the bills. Decision-making is done via weekly popular assembly, and so far a slim majority considers the two new Awakened's service worth the risk of attracting dangerous spirits or FAB III clouds.
Karma Spent:0
Physical Description:Loki is… odd. A mild Changeling, his hair, beard and body hair are slightly thicker, with black guard hair (like those of wolves) sticking out of the season-changing "fur" (picture something somewhat akin to Wolverine's facial hair in the X-Men movies). He is otherwise relatively unremarkable, wearing an army-style camouflage jumpsuit and helmet that looks a little big for him. Despite the backpack and combat vest, he looks more like a geek costuming as a military rather than the real deal, even with an assault rifle in his hands. The fact taht he wears sports glasses under the helmet's visor clearly doesn't help, yet you can can't help but find him endearing, in that "look at the kid playing soldier" kind of way, except that he's way past action figures.
Personality/background“Loki” was born and raised in the northern AGS. Early on, he expressed an interest in gaming and computers in general, much to the disappointment of his awakened mother. In 2061, however, with the passing of Haley’s Comet, things suddenly took a new turn for the child: a mild changeling, his body suddenly sprouted thick, wolf-like hair on his face and limbs. He also developed the uncanny ability of sensing electric activity, even as faint as a metahuman body, in his immediate vicinity. Fearing public opinion of what might have been a new goblinization, his mother secreted him away in the secluded lodge of her Àsatru circle. There, along with the gode Gunnar and the others of the circle, they conferred on the matter of the child, which was rather distraught over not having a deck at hand. As the SURGE wave smoothed over and no widespread panic seemed likely should the “wolf-child” be brought forth, Loki’s mother returned home with him. He was nine years old.
As Haley’s Comet left, Loki began developing additional talents. His senses sharpened, particularly his scent; his reflexes waxed strong, to the point of competing with his friends in gaming despite having no datajack with which to connect to his deck. Soon enough, he was brought forth before the whole circle again, this time as an awakened. Gerhardt, the only other adept, offered to train the child. The results were mixed: though the child had uncanny reflexes and senses, he demonstrated little interest in combat or survival training. Rather, he turned his mind into using computers in a time when trodes and implant-free simsense did not exist, using controls and screens with as much speed as a wired decker could. The whole circle was not exactly pleased, but the child was willful and refused to care about their expectations. Still, Gerhardt and his wife-to-be Freya supported the child, claiming that magic worked in fickle ways, and that they were no hermetic mages to try and constrain the child’s natural leanings.
Three years later, Crash 2.0 swept the world. Gerhardt’s parents’ minds were lost in the Matrix while Loki’s mother, returning by plane from an Àsatru congregation in the Scandinavian Union was lost at sea when the Boeing blindly crashed into another airliner. Winternight's apocalyptic gambit damaged the public's view of Ásatru believers at large, and the circle collapsed when old man Gunnar was murdered by grief-stricken haters seeking to lash out at someone for the death of their loved ones, the loss of their identity, or just plain bigotry (frankly, they didn't take the time to explain as they stoned the old mage with bricks and pieces of the pavement). It’s around this time that « Loki » took this name for himself, hoping to become what Winternight feared, an agent in the Matrix that would oppose them. It was wishful thinking from a youth, but he clings to this name to this day.
Freya and Gerhardt took the child under their wing and hid at the edge of Berlin's shadows, taking on a life of shadowrunning. Their talents made them valuable, and the warrior adept's expertise at tackling paranormal threats meant a steady stream of jobs, with Loki joining them as a hacker once the technology was once again available. Things went well for a year or two, but as it turns out, some of the paras that Gerhardt was paid to hunt happened to feel the same way about losing their loved ones as they did. In an act of retaliation, a banshee assaulted Freya, draining her of some of her essence. The Infected's sadistic urge to draw out the act saved the girl's life as a Guardian spirit quickly fetched her lover, then assisted in dispatching the creature, but the damage was done, and Freya had lost half of her magical potential, while Gerhardt himself had taken a lethal blow that Freya’s diminished powers could not heal. Worse yet, a few calls and data searches from Loki uncovered that the Banshee was part of a larger organization of similar night creatures, and it would seem they had been marked to suffer for the rest of his life rather than have a quick death.
The only wise move was to move out. Burning out most of their savings and all of their local contacts and favors, they took the bare minimum and shipped out to Chicago, figuring the possibly lingering FAB III bacteria would deter any pursuer. Freya and Loki have been eking out a life of survival ever since, though she is paying ever less attention to her foster child, losing herself in her pet projects instead. It’s been over a year now, money’s running tight, and someone has to do something. Loki used his last savings to have Gerhardt’s old equipment refit for him from Boris Kalachnikov, then contacted Wild Mike, hoping that his talents could be worth a bit of cred.
Attributes| Body | Agility | Reaction | Strength |
| 2 | 3 | 2 (4) | 2 |
| Charisma | Intuition | Logic | Willpower |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Edge | Magic | Essence | Initiative / IPs | Matrix Initiative / IPs |
| 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 (7), 3 IPs | 12, 3 IPs |
Positive QualitiesAdept [5 BP]
Changeling (Class I SURGE) [5 BP]
Electrosense [10 BP Metagenic, can sense electromagnetic fields]
Walking the Ways [10 BP, Way of the Adept Errata, may apply Way Bonus to any (Magic/2) powers but gain no metamagic bonus]
Negative QualitiesAllergy (Uncommon [Silver], Moderate) [10 BP]
Critter Spook [5 BP Metagenic](My mom won't let me help with the farm anymore...)
Dependent (Inconvenience) [10 BP](Have to pay for my mom's rent and eccentricities AND run errands)
Unusual Hair [5 BP Metagenic]
Geas (Talisman geas: A hand-made
real leatherpouch containing
futhark runesscribed unto tiles made from the
heartwood of an oak(both leather and wood must be reagents)
Active Skills| Cracking Skill Group | 4 |
| Cybercombat | 4 (+2 from Improved Ability) |
| Electronic Warfare | 4 |
| Hacking | 4 (+2 from Improved Ability) |
| Electronics Skill Group | 4 |
| Influence Skill Group | 3 (+3 from Empathy Software, +2 from Kinesics) |
| Automatics | 2 (Assault Riflespecialty) |
| Climbing | 1 (Assistedspecialty |
| Dodge | 2 |
| Gunnery | 2 (Ballisticspecialty) |
| Infiltration | 1 (+2 from Color-changing armor mod) |
| Perception | 2 (+2 from Enhanced Perception, +3 for Visual and Audio, may detect electric activity, Observe in Detail as Free action) |
Knowledge Skills(18 free points)| Matrix Phenomena | 3 |
| Mythology | 3 |
| Security Systems | 2 |
| Magical Threats | 4 |
| Gaming | 2 (Paranormal Crisisspecialty) |
Language Skills
Adept Powers| Power | Cost | Notes |
| Improved Ability (Hacking) [2] | 0,5 | - |
| Improved Ability (Cybercombat) [2] | 0,5 | - |
| Improved Reflexes [2] | 1,25 | Reduced by 50% (Geas and Way bonus) |
| Improved Sense [Scent] | 0,25 | Can track by scent, duplicates Olfactory Booster |
| Kinesics [2] | 0,5 | Reduced by 50% (Geas and Way bonus) |
| Multi-tasking | 0,5 | Observe in Detail as Free action, +2 Free Actions outside combat |
| Enhanced Perception [2] | 0,50 | May not have more levels than INT |
