Here's my character. It might need a couple of tweaks left or right, but that's it.
Real Name: Sylvia Colindres
SIN1 (rating 3): Pascale Caragiorgio
SIN2 (rating 4): Angeline Lau
Nickname: Shadow
Date of birth: 10FEB2044
Place of birth: Havana, Caribbean League
Tradition: The invisible way
Hair colour: brown
Eye colour: brown
Length: 1m70
Weight: 55 kg
Measurements: 34B-28-33
Age: 28
Metatype: human
Sex: F
attributes:
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Body: 3
Agility: 4
Reaction: 3
Strength: 3
Charisma:4
Intuition: 4
Logic: 4
Willpower: 3
Edge: 3
Essence: 6
Initiative: 7
Magic: 5
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active skills
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Stealth (group) 4
Con 2 (impersonating +2)
Assensing 2
Locksmith 2
Hardware 3
Perception 3
Pistols 1 (heavy pistols +2)
Unarmed combat 4
Negotiation 2
Gymnastics 2
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knowledge skills
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Languages:
Spanish N
English 2
Japanese 1
Sperethiel 1
Or’Zet 1
Professional:
Corporate security 3
Government security 3
Criminal syndicate security 2
Street:
Data brokerage 2
Interest:
Classical music 2
Gambling card games 3
DC High society 2
Wines 2
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Qualities
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Adept 5
Linguist 5
First impression 5
Dependent (medium) -10
Lost Loved One -5
Scorched -5
compulsive (moderate) -10 (planning the runs)
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gear
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Cost Equipment Description
9000 Chameleon Suit (thermal damping r2)
1950 Executive Suite (Long Jacket, Plain Blouse, skirt)
7500 Moonsilver Evening Gown
1500 Form-Fitting Body Armor Half-Body Suit (nonconductivity r3)
5000 Docwagon basic
520 ammo (90 Regular Ammo, 30 stick-n-shock, 20 taser darts)
150 Defiance EX shocker
950 Ares Predator IV (personalised grip, gecko grip, silencer)
800 Autopicker R4
600 Cellular Glove Molder R3
55 Chisel + Glasscutter + wire clippers
900 Keycard Copier R3
300 Lockpick Set
8000 Maglock Passkey R4
250 Miniwelder
800 Sequencer R4
950 5 doses Leal (in disposable syringes)
1500 3 nanopaste DisguiseSmall
430 earbuds R3 (Audio Enhancements R2, Select Sound Filter R1)
4000 Smart Jammer, Direcitonal R4
1425 Professional Camera with telephoto lens
400 Fingernail Data Storage
825 3x Contact Lenses R3 (Low Light, Image Link, different colours)
1075 Goggles R6 (Flare Compensation, Image Link, Smartlink, Thermographic, Vision Magnification)
150 Tag Eraser
4000 Fake SIN R4
1200 Fake License R4
3000 Fake SIN R3
900 Fake License R3
1130 Grenades (1Esprit "Petite Brume", 2 Smoke Grenade, 2 Thermal Smoke Grenade)
400 Medkit R4
100 Camera (RFID sensor)
50 Direcional Microphone (RFID sensor)
100 Radio Singal Scanner R4 (RFID sensor)
400 Non-Linear Junction Detector R4 (RFID sensor)
450 Climbing Gear + Gecko Tape Gloves
400 Respirator R4
125 Survival Kit + Flashlight
60 GloWand
5000 Disguise shop
600 Sensor Software, all types R3
600 Sensor Software, all types R3
1100 AR Gloves + Satellite Link + Subvocal Microphone + Nanopaste Trodes
75 5 doses C-Squared
500 smartpack
30200 Mercury Comet (Run Flat Tires, Basic Termination system, Morphing licence plate, Smoke Projector, Spoof chip, Oil-Slick Sprayer, Chameleon Coating, Manual Control Override, Smuggling Compartment
114660 total gear cost
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adept powers:
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Power level points notes
Attribute boost (agility) 1 0.25 boosts agility by hits on (magic+level)
Improved reflexes 1 1.5 +1 reaction, +1IP
Eidetic sense memory - 0.5 perfect recall of any sensory memory+photo read
Voice control - 0.5 alter voice, fool voice recognition
Facial sculpt 2 0.5 +1die for disguise / level
Melanin control - 0.5 shift skin and hair colour
Flexibility 1 0.25 +1 die for escape artist/level, fit in small places
Astral perception - 1 can see the astral
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lifestyle
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Comforts low
Entertainment low
Necessities middle
Neighbourhood low
Security middle
Total LP: 12 (2 months bought, 1 roommate, 3520 nuyen/month)
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history:
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Sylvia was born in Havana, Caribbean League, as daughter of a wage mage and an adept officer in the Caribbean army. As both her parents were awakened, she and later her two younger brothers were tested as well. As it turned out only she was awakened, which meant even more tests to see how exactly. This was not exactly the kind of thing an inquisitive 6 year old wanted to do and it became an almost continuous battle between Sylvia and the mages of both her mother’s company and the army. She was placed in a special school program for awakened in order to improve on their talents and she did very well there. In fact, the teachers only needed to explain things once and she could retain them perfectly. She was also very good with languages, mastering them with ease.
When she hit puberty, she started to think she was ugly and it was at this point she discovered she could change some of her facial features, hair and skin colour and even her voice. With some of her girlfriends she started using these powers to play tricks on boys. Halfway through an evening, she would switch with her friend and try to keep the conversation going, even though she didn’t know what was said before. It was mostly harmless fun, but she got caught a couple of times and due to this a new player entered: the intelligence service of the Caribbean League. People who could change their appearance and who could retain anything they had seen or heard were not all that common but very useful, so they wanted to recruit her.
At first she resisted as she wanted to go to the army like her father, but it became quickly clear that she wasn’t a soldier. After an accident where she drove a tank against a bunker, wrecking the tank, they made it clear to her that she wouldn’t graduate and maybe to accept the intelligence offer. This she did and she has never regretted it. With the intelligence service she blossomed and started to develop her powers in a more structured way. She also learned unarmed combat to be able to defend herself in a spot where she couldn’t take weapons. It quickly became clear she was better unarmed than with guns.
In 2063, the now 19-year old Sylvia went on her first mission, getting into the offices of a smaller Japanese corporation to get a couple of chips. After a stake-out of the corporation, she was able to impersonate one of the employees and get in that way. It was during this operation that all of a sudden she was able to see people’s auras. It was very confusing at first and while she managed to complete the mission she did almost get caught a couple of times. When she told what happened during the debriefing the agency people immediately recognised that she was able to astrally perceive. As this was quite useful, they arranged for some lessons from other adepts who could do the same thing.
One year later, in 2064, she was in the UCAS for her first operation on foreign soil, when the crash hit. The Caribbean Information Agency (CIA) was hit hard and lost almost all personal data. On top of that, she also lost her SIN data, like so many in the Caribbean League. Having no other options at that moment, she struck out on her own (taking with her all the equipment they had given her for this mission), using her skills to operate in the shadows all over North America and from time to time abroad. This was a tough time and at one point she was tempted to try a BTL (with trodes of course, as she never had a DNI implant). She didn’t know how it was programmed or if there was something with her brain that reacted with the chip, but luckily she had her docwagen contract (under one of her fake names) as she spent the following two weeks in hospital. When she got out, her first order of business was to track the gang that had sold her the thing and make them pay. Also also made a pact with herself to never try drugs or BTLs anymore.
Near the end of 2065 she got news that her parents had been killed in a plane crash. It was the first time since the crash that she was back in the Caribbean League and she was amazed on how much rebuilding there still was to do. This left her with the care of her two younger brothers (12 and 15 at the time), who had also become SINless during the crash (as everybody in her family). She smuggled them to the CAS and from there to the UCAS to live with her instead of going into an orphanage.
There she continued running the shadows and in 2066 she did her first AA-corp job. To get in using her impersonation trick, she needed good documents which could withstand any scrutiny. One of the team members knew someone who could do document forgeries and indeed, the run went without a problem. Since that time Sylvia always went to her for any document forgery she needed and while she always paid, they got to know each other a bit better. And if she managed to get her hands on some types of documents (like ID badges and such) she provided her with the real ones or a copy so she could make her forgeries better.
A couple of months later Sylvia and her group needed to get into a building. Since one of the electric companies was working in front of the building, she put on the charm on the work supervisor there and she managed to get the group in by a hole they had made. As it turned out, she and this supervisor both liked classical music and they went together to some concerts a couple of times. They even had a short relationship and while it has ended, they still remain friends.
In 2069, Christine Baynard brought her into contact with a mafia lieutenant who had lost some of the mob’s property to a Yakuza raid. Not wanting to alert his superiors, he hired her to get the property back, a small but valuable case. She managed to get the case and the only guard she had to take out she did with a blow on the head and a shot of Lael. The lieutenant was glad he got the valuables back discreetly and hired her a couple of times, while she managed to get some hard to get items (like replacements for the gear she had taken from the CIA) and modifications to her car through him and his contacts.
Life was going good until early 2070 when her oldest brother, now 20 and a student at the university, went missing. One night he didn’t come back home and all commcalls went unanswered. As going to the Star was not an option for a SINless, she tried to find him herself, even hiring other runners to try to get him back, but to no avail. From all the clues she had gathered, an incomplete picture started to form. She now thinks he had become a technomancer and was taken by a corporation. Now the only thing she needs to find is which one and then turn their research facilities upside down. For now she keeps a close eye on her other brother who still lives with her. He recently started out with the gang which controls their neighbourhood. While they aren’t the nicest people around, as long as you pay them they do protect you. She even helped them out a couple of times by infiltrating into other gang’s HQs and getting data to them. While it is difficult living as a young woman with a younger brother, the fact that she was useful to the local gang and also had displayed a good grasp of unarmed combat made that they left her alone. Also the fact that her brother was an initiate in the gang gave her some protection.
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contacts:
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Vincent Willame (35, human male, L3,C1): technical supervisor for one of DC’s electric companies. She met him on a job, but they discovered mutual interests (classical music) and became involved for a short while. They are still friends. He can get most building blueprints with all the power lines on it and even the lines of the old wired matrix which are still in a lot of buildings.
Christine Baynard (27 human female, L3,C3): A good document and ID forger, part of a group of such people. Sylvia always goes to her for forgeries and if she finds ID badges, tags or things like that during runs she sends them Christine’s way. Christine (and her group) has contacts mostly in hacker circles, some criminal syndicates who use her group’s services and also with the people in charge of the databases she creates forgeries of (like SIN data).
Diego Nicolo (31 orc male, L1,C3): a mafia lieutenant working for a DC mafia family (one of the boss’ direct underlings). She managed to get some stuff back from the Yaks for him and now she works for him from time to time and also gets most of her gear through mafia controlled smuggling operations. He has contacts within the mafia, some gangs and the smugglers, as he oversees most of the mafia smuggling operations.
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