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character sheet and back story for evaluation:
Name - Caroline "kitty" Smith
Gender: F
Brief Background
From foster home to foster home to foster family, the list would probably go on, Caroline was (is) the epitome of a trouble child, some of the things she saw in foster care where enough to scare any person, although she outwardly tries to maintain a happy go lucky demeanour deep inside she hates with all her strength the abuse some people in the foster care "industry" (her words not mine) inflict upon children, they are just another pay-check, another number on the credstick to the foster families, they don't want to adopt you and make you part of the family, youre just one more asset to pay for the BTL's, drugs or whatever tickles their fancy. and there are even those scarier cases, of children simsense exploitations, she was lucky for not having encountered those.
She would probably be described as the scrawny smart kid, introspective, always looking for a (easy) way out, well things don't usually work out very well for kids on foster care, running away was almost a trademark of her, stealing what she could grab and wasn't nailed to the ground was another, getting away was not her best skill though, the services eventually caught up with her and the justice department did the same as soon as she turned forteen, B&E is considered a felony...so... graduation to juvie, one year. Juvie is to crime as High school is to life, there they do not reform you, Caroline really had issues with personal property boundaries, she did have a fair sense of conduct has she tried never to hurt anyone, but as far as property goes "Finders keepers!! hehe!", so, what do they teach in juvenile detention? they get you contacts, they provide a way for you to get more acquaintances in the street, they "teach" you how to disassemble a commlink, matrix theory is also a good subject, there are other "classes" , like fencing, mugging, con artistry, so its a junior high of crime pretty much.
There she met Amanda, she used to run with the Cereal Killers, she taught Caroline much of what she knew matrix wise, she was also two years older, in fact more experienced than Caroline. Eventually Amanda nearly got turned into a vegetable, no matter how much experience you have there is always someone out there that is a bigger fish than you are, mix with a good dose of overconfidence and the result in her case was too much damage to her brain, sometimes spiders spin their web and GOD just looks the other way, by the way, the pun was intended chummer.
So its true, Caroline did run with the Cereal Killers for a couple of years, when she got out of juvie she was sent to another foster family, its was the same drek all over, there isnt much to complain with the social workers that only want to dump you and there is nothing much to argue with the family that is all warmth and smiles until the social workers turn their backs, then its fastforward to half rations, take care of the other brats and dingy room shared with 5 other kids who have to make happy faces when the social workers come to have a visit. YouŽll be amazed what a bomb threat and a few gas home-made bombs can do, contact a chummer that knows his way around detonators (cheap thing to find really), place the thing when no one notices, make a couple calls, wait for people to leave, trigger it off, wait for the pawns to arrive (they never do) and for the fire dpt to come and put the flames, act all teary and innocent and bam! scot free and one more lousy couple out of business, what goes around comes around they say, and fyi no one got hurt luckily, even the cats and dogs where out of trouble (but they are usually wiser than us tbh).
So... where was i? yes Caroline running with Cereal Killers, she already knew her way around a commlink, she could disassemble one with you eyes closed, her first one (a nasty looking Meta Link that she attached a Hello kiity sticker on its back, she still has it somewhere around her backpack) got it coming more than a couple hundred times, so what next? pull a couple low time jobs and get yourself a datajack and a deck, even if its a crappy one . Erika MCD-1 is not much to go by, and at second hand rates it still does not cost you much, maybe that was the reason why Amanda loaned it to her, on the condition "if you break it you pay it". the Jack was even cheaper, although Caroline went for a superior job in a legitimate clinic, sweet piece of hardware, she still keeps it, even though she has an implanted Hermes chariot in her skull, she says that the bronze chrome jack looks good on her. Yes she was a natural, she had always been a smart kid to start with, she had always had a knack for assembling and disassembling stuff, so it was either go decking or go mechanic, she did go decking but that you already knew.
I was told to tell a brief story... but hey listen up chummer, youŽre certainly not wondering how she got her nickname, that's pretty obvious taking the Hello Kitty fixation she has, what you're probably wondering is why she carries that scruffy backpack wherever she goes, am i right? it was there (or so the social workers swear) when she got given to adoption, it did contain a letter and a bottle of formula, nothing much, when she got thrown around from family to family it went with her, she got into fights with other kids over it, it got lost twice and she always went to great lengths to recover it, she says its her lucky charm, my guess its the one piece of the family she never knew that she cannot part with, you make your own judgement mate.
so yeah, she goes all giggly and happy go lucky, she does brave it, but i guess you never had to ear the kids crying themselves to sleep, she did and she was one of the ones doing the crying. But pretty much things where all nice and spiffy with the Cereal Killers, she got a scooter which she had custom painted pink with HK motifs, she had the name painted on it キティ・ホワイト(Kiti howaito), the only reason (actually there where two) she had to cry about on that period was when Amanda got way over her head and nearly got turned (and that nearly was too close and she never came around) into a human cucumber. She still visits her though and does try to help her in any way she can, being one of the few persons she considers a friend.
since i have already told you this much I might as well tell you the whole story, the other reason she had to cry about at that time was because of Charlie, Charlie was a good looking kid, about 1 year older than she was, good looking, nice strong jaw, curly brown hair, green eyes, he really had the looks, as for the personality... well in the end he was a scum-bag in the making, but its like they say " If you love someone, you like virtually everything about him", thus i reckon she did not mind the fundamental flaws in him, not until she discovered he was two timming her with Jill, jill was also a member, and one of her friends, so what did you expect from those two kids? they got fitting over him, and guess what, he was like the king of the hill, besides cheating they still fought over who gets the spoils, the problem with smart kids is (and there are plenty of those in the Cereal Killers) is that somewhere along the line they eventually get smart over things, so lets make a long story short (shorter that is) and she did stop fighting and the guy ends up leaving the Killers. if they where friends then that just made the friendship stronger, and as they say, one thing leads to another and they eventually hit it of with each other, they actually ended together (in more than one sense if you get my drift chummer). If you think this is starting to sound like a fairy tale in the making forget about it chummer, bad things happen to good people, and Caroline is one of them.
Thats the thing that actually leads to the ton of chrome in her, you know that toddlers and soykaf dont mix right? you if dont, you should, nasty bugger with hyperactivity, believe me, the same holds true to drugs and bikes (even if they are scooters), if you put Caroline (who is already, despite her childhood demeanour, a bit hyper) on Jazz or Kamikaze, what do you get? an accident in the making. that was just what happened, the next six months where a blank, broken bones, head trauma, internal bleeding. when a scooter (where your body is actually the fender) goes against a truck, the truck usually win, and that a pretty good resume of that fight, truck 1 - Caroline 0. The doctor did what they could, she barely made it, but the prognosis was that the head damage was extensive, so they reached out where they could, they pulled a cerebral booster out of a vat and tried for her brain to kick in on it to repair the damage done, the bones had to be laced due to the multiple fractures. but some good does come out in the end as they say, when she woke up from the coma six moths later, she was told the story, in a very brief period of recovery they also learned that the tissue repaired itself apparently (or maybe the damage was not so extensive as they thought) and that the booster was in fact what it was always meant to be, an add on, so it just added to her smarts and he just became a little tougher.
But not all ends well, certain thing do come at a price, and six months is a long time in the life of a 18 year old youngster, Jill was there at her bedside when she woke up, but so was Charlie 8and that was more of a shock than the fact that she had lost six months of her life and that she had nearly bought the farm in the scooter Vs Truck fight of the century. Apparently jill choose CharlieŽs arm to cry on, and things got on from there, to make it shorter you can imagine Caroline reaction to it, if she thought it hard to trust anyone those last events just gave her reasons to support that particular feeling. She did make it up with Jill, even if it hurt inside she could not stand not being friends with her, but things would never be the same between them, Charlie was back in the Cereal Killers and Jill was riding along with him the matrix flows, so that was the end of a chapter for Caroline.
this story actually has an interlude, or maybe its a prologue to a new chapter, anyways, they say you can never get enough of a good thing, right? i say that it depends on the good thing and its consequences. From Caroline's point of view the accident did show her plenty of things, for once maybe getting implanted was not so bad after all, her new left arm was a standard issue thing, not even synthetic, but it felt as good as had always been there, her body felt stronger, maybe she did not have to depend on others so much. and talking about other was probably what triggered her leaving the Killers, Jill had betrayed her, Charlie was back inside and although they had pulled some credits to patch her up it was not in her nature to be in a debt in that kind of situation, if she was to be in debt it would be on her terms. that's where Hioshiro queues in.
Hioshiro is a familiar face in Seattle, fencer, runs a pawn shop, some say he is a front man for the Yakuza, a front on a front, eh? So Caroline goes to him, the matters in the Killers still waiting to be resolved, and to resolve them she gets in debt, not just to pay for what they polled together but to get more chrome, a way for her to hit it on her own, to get up and running, i believe that deep inside she was still that scary kid sporting a shabby backpack, always looking over her shoulder to escape those trying to take advantage of her, she fought them, weather using her will, her guts or simply by outsmarting them, but its obvious one tires of being afraid, in some way i still think she is searching for her fairy tale, and hitting it on her own was just her best or only way to continue to search for the dream, the dream of finding her family, but that path usually brings more grief, trust me, I've been there and done that, Seattle is a mean step-mother.
(pending further back story)
Distinctive features: Bleached hair, red round glasses, leather jacket, hello kitty tattoo on the right temple dragon tattoo (on blue neon colour) on left side of the face (almost enveloping the datajack). Flowery pink dress with ruffled skirt and a Hello Kitty battered (and i mean battered) backpack.
Metatype D
Attributes B 20
Magic or Resonance E
Skills C 28/2
Resources A 450000
hair - bleached (brunette)
eyes - brown
height - 1,65
Body 2 ( 4 )
AGI 3 ( 9 ) w/ using pistols on left hand
REA 4 ( 5 )
STR 3
WIL 3
LOG 5 ( 7 )
INT 5
CHA 3
MAG 0
RES 0
EDG 5
Ess 0.58
Initiative - Physical 10 + 2d6
Physical 6
Mental 8
Social 4
Composure - 6
Judge Intentions - 8
Memory - 10
Lifting/Carrying - 5
Base lifting capability - 45
Base carrying capability - 30
Skills
Group - Athletics - 2
Cybercombat - 4 -» 11
Electronic Warfare - 2 (4) jamming -» 9 (11)
Hacking - 5 (7) files -» 12 (14)
Computer - 5 -» 12
Hardware - 3 (2-»3 karma) -» 10
Software - 2 (2 w/ karma) -» 9
Pistols - 4 (6) tasers -» 13 (15)
Etiquette - 1 (3) gang -» 4 (6)
Perception - 2 (w/ karma) -» 7
Pilot Ground Craft - 1 -» 6
Sneaking - 1 (w/ karma) -» 4
Locksmith - 1 (w/ karma) -» 4
skills - knowledge
English N
Japanese - 4
Gang identification - 3
Matrix security protocols - 3
Fences - 4
20th Century trivia - 1 (3) (Japanese)
Current Simsense movies - 1 (3) (Japanese)
Qualities
Codeslinger
Analytical Mind
Photographic Memory
SINNer (Criminal)
Distinctive Style
Pejudiced -specific/radical -» exploitation of minor, defenceless people, women...
Karma coverted to creds - 5
Augmentations
Synthetic Full arm
+cyberlimb Enhancement Agility - 3
+Cyberlimb Customization (Agi) - 3
Commlink (delta)
Cyberdeck (alpha)
Cerebral booster Rating 2
Mnemonic enhancer Rating 2
Cybereyes Rating 2
Image link
Smartlink
Thermographic vision
Low-light vision
Vision enhancement Rating 1
Wired Reflexes rating 1 (alpha)
Enhanced articulation
Aluminum Bone Lacing
Platelet factories
Equipment
Armor jacket
Transys Avalon (commlink)
Hermes Chariot (deck)
Fake SIN (Rating 2)
Fake SIN (Rating 4)
Fake license (Rating 4) x8 (firearms; Electronic devices; drugs; Cyberware; software)
Yamaha Pulsar
Ear buds (Capacity 1-3)
+Audio enhancement (Rating 1-3)
+Spatial recognizer
Dodge Scoot
Ares Predator V
Concealable holster
Walther Palm Pistol
Quick-draw holster
Cyberprogram, common use x7
Cyberprogram, hacking x19
Agent (Rating 4)
Agent (Rating 3) x2
Biomonitor
Jazz x4
Kamikaze x4
Long Haul x3
Jammer, area [Rating 4]
Tag eraser
Sequencer (Rating 4)
Autopicker (Rating 6)
Maglock passkey (Rating 3)
10 Stealth Tags
10 Security Tags
10 Datachip
10 Sensor Tags
Lifestyle - Low
Dangerous Area(-20% to Life Style Rating)
Contacts
Jill - Cereal killers member
Hioshiro - Fencer, Yakuza "front"
Remaining resources - 370
