Anyone you can be, I can be better.Character: Noh
Concept: Bunraku Doll Gone Rogue
Priorities:Metatype: D
HumanAttributes: A
24Magic: E
MundaneSkills: C
28/2Resources: B
¥275,000AttributesBody: 3
Agility: 5
Reaction: 6 (8 )
Strength: 4
Willpower: 2
Logic: 4
Intuition: 4
Charisma: 5
Edge: 5
Magic: 0
Essence: 0.55
Derived AttributesMental Limit: 5
Physical Limit: 7
Social Limit: 5
Initiative: 18 + 2d6
QualitiesErased (+8 )
Too Pretty to Hit (+3)
Dry Addict [Severe; BTLs] (-10)
Faceless (-6)
Uneducated (-8)
Active SkillsCon [Fast Talk] 6 (Pool: 11 / 13)
Disguise* 2 (Pool: 6)
Gymnastics* 2 (Pool: 7)
Impersonation [Human] 6 (Pool: 11 / 13)
Palming* 2 (Pool: 7)
Perception [Visual] 6 (Pool: 10 / 12)
Performance [Dance] 3 (Pool: 8 / 10)
Pilot Ground Craft [Bike] 2 (Pool: 8 / 10)
Running* 2 (Pool: 9)
Sneaking* 2 (Pool: 7)
Swimming* 2 (Pool: 7)
* Skill Group
Knowledge Skills 12
Tokyo Street Gangs 3 (Pool: 7)
Sprawl Life [Squats] 2 (Pool: 6 / 8 )
Street Drugs [BTL] 2 (Pool: 6 / 8 )
Fashion [Harakuku Scene] 2 (Pool: 6 / 8 )
AugmentationsDatajack 0.10 Essence ¥ 1,000
False Face 0.50 Essence ¥ 20,000
Voice Modulator (Rating 1) 0.20 Essence ¥ 5,000
Move-By-Wire System (Rating 2) 4.00 Essence ¥125,000
Skilljack (Rating 4) 0.40 Essence ¥ 40,000
Chipjack (Rating 5) 0.25 Essence ¥ 5,000
Contacts-
Thành "Duke" Nguyen, Fixer (Con 4, Loy 3)
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Hida Man, NTMP Beat Cop (Con 3, Loy 2)
Karma Expenditure (34 of 38 Karma)- 4 to gain ¥8,000 more
Resources-10 to raise
Willpower 1 to 2
- 5 to gain
Stealth Group 1
-15 to raise
Stealth Group 1 to 2
Equipment ArmorZoé Second Skin [Cap 2] ¥12,000
> Thermal Dampening (Rating 2; -2 Cap) ¥ 1,000
WeaponsTelescoping Staff ¥ 350
Shock Gloves ¥ 550
Garrote ¥ 50
Other StuffCommlink, Renraku Sensei ¥ 1,000
Contacts [Cap 3] ¥ 600
> Flare Compensation ¥ 250
> Image Link [-1 Cap] ¥ 25
> Low-light Vision [-1 Cap] ¥ 500
Earbuds (Capacity 1) ¥ 50
> Sound Link [-1 Cap] ¥ 25
Fake SIN (Takara Jenī; Rating 4) ¥10,000
Micro-Camera [Cap 1] ¥ 100
> Low-light Vision [-1 Cap] ¥ 500
Skillsofts*
Active Soft [Rating 3; Clubs] ¥ 15,000
Active Soft [Rating 3; Exotic Weapon] ¥ 15,000
Active Soft [Rating 3; First Aid] ¥ 15,000
Active Soft [Rating 3; Unarmed] ¥ 15,000
* Rating 5 Chipjack paired with a Rating 4 Skilljack can handle a total of 18 Skillsoft Ratings (or 27 with wireless enabled).
BackgrounThành "Duke" Nguyen is a low-life scum bucket who, somehow, managed to turn the dingy pho shop he inherited from his grandmother into an even dingier pho shop that is also one of the best places to buy black-market guns imported from his contacts in Cal Free State and Pueblo Corporate Council. Duke has recently started expanding his business from selling black-market guns to selling the services of the people who buy those guns as an aspiring Fixer. Duke has a quiet understanding with the local police and the local yakuza: he doesn't sell guns to anyone
too dangerous, he doesn't sell any weapons that are
too dangerous, and he makes sure all the right people get a taste of his profits... Which is a lot tastier than his pho.
Noh stumbled into Duke's shop one winter morning at about 4:00 AM, dressed in the costume and mask of the dancer character from the Noh play
Dōjōji. Carrying a garrote, the severed head of a Seoulpa Ring hit-man, and with a 5.7mm ex-ex bullet in her head. It had been aimed directly at the back of her skull, in what Duke and anyone who'd ever seen a gangland trideo film, recognized as an execution... The bullet had, miraculously, been a dud round. It had also logged itself in her chipjack implant.
Duke called in some favors from some street docs he knew, got the mysterious girl patched up, and he promptly started making discrete calls to all the local yakuza. Duke wasn't an idiot, it was obvious that a girl who looked this pretty and was sporting this particular set of cyberware was a
bunraku doll. But not just any "puppet" but one that was meant for assassination work in addition to her regular "services". Despite all of his inquiries, no one came forward to claim her. Duke didn't have the stomach to just dump her back into a bunraku parlor and he certainly wasn't going to start one himself... On the other hand, a woman who could (with the right skillsofts) become the "perfect" Shadowrunner seemed like something he could market. But, damn, they were expensive as hell. Still, ya gotta start somewhere.
Noh, for her part, doesn't remember much about anything that happened to her during the past ten to twelve years... and she doesn't talk about what she does remember. She remembers her time in the bunraku parlor only in snippets and flashes, as brief lapses in-between on persona fix chip being deactivated and the next one installed. She sometimes thinks she remembers what her face looked like, but she can't quite remember if that was her face when she was a child or if its just the "default" that her implants reset themselves to.
Duke has promised her that, with is help, she'll be able to make enough money to buy anything she could ever want. She wants her life back... and that's going to take a
lot of money.