Aside from the question concerning contacts (I am awaiting a response on my question before I flesh it out) heres Enigmas 20 questions.
We are shaped by our heritage. Facial features, skin tone, height,
build, metatype, even aptitudes are influenced by the genes
passed from parent to child. Attitude, too, is taught by parents,
informed by their own lives and their cultural heritage. Where
does your character come from, what is her lineage, who were
her parents, and what did she inherit from them?
James was born to two upper class executives for a small mining company that was a subsidiary of Ares. He grew up in a very traditional UCAS home. He found at a young age he had a knack for computers and ended up in a school program for corperate spiders. James life seemed to be all in order for him. He had a beautiful wife who adored him and a child on the way. the company moved him to a small town in north dakota. Ares had apparently found copper deposits in the area and purchased the land to be mined. The entire town was built almost overnight and employees moved in to fullfill the new positions. This was a promising move for James in the company and ment he would have a higher position out of school then he would otherwise get. Things went well for several months until one day he was home working on some unusual security reports he'd been looking over his "wife" drugged his coffee he was drinking. He woke up earlier then expected only to find himself bound while his wife talked to some other man. upon hearing him awaken his "wife" turned around and checked his bindings to make sure they were still holding and he saw the face of the man she was talking to. Where his eyes should have been he had two compound eyes bulging from his head and two pincers protruding from his mouth. Before losing conciousness again he heard gunfire and men shouting. He awoke sometime later and was able to pull free of his bindings. He took his car and drive from there as fast as he could.
Unbeknownst to him Ares was using the small subsidary to pull employees from to test several hypothesis about the bug spirits they had locked up in complex 68G. Soon after James left the town and the extraction team had pulled the queens and insect shamans from the town for further experiamentation the town was sanitized from orbit.
This singular event has shapped James life more so then any of his other experiences combined. While on the run from the invading insect spirits he thought were out to get him he honed his skills as a hacker and rigger. His hacking became a safe way for him to re-establish a semblance control over his life again and not only provide for himself but added another layer of protection between him and the bugs. They could be anybody and anywhere if he missed it in his wife who else might be infected by them and he wouldnt even know. Well he made it his life to know. Like the spider he used to be he checks security and attendence reports from companies hes never worked for in the hopes that he can find any new sources of infestation and wipe them out before they become more of a threat. Hes worked the shadows and even johnsoned now and again when he needed to in order accomplish his goals gather resources and hit targets he had confirmed. He makes sure no one can track him down by staying on the move and uses a special program he wrote to hack into several online databases and erase his presence from them.
Parents can be proud of their children or regret ever bringing
them into the world. Some are loving, and some are indifferent.
All of them are only metahuman and have their own opinions
of their children. Assuming they could speak, what would each
of your character’s parents say about her?
He hasn't seen them since the day he left the company. He was presumed dead when ares firebombed the town and told everyone there had been an accident at the town. IF they did see him there would probably be a mixture of pity for there boy who has fallen so far from where they remember him and horrer at the inocent lifes that have been taken in his quest. He feels its better to kill a few to make sure the infestation is really gone then to let one of them escape and potentially infect a thousand more. He'd be a number one most wanted terrorist in the UCAS by now if the reports weren't deleted of any information that could potentially point to him by now
Many people remember certain historical events for the rest of
their lives. For those alive in the first decade of the 21st cen-
tury, it could be the assassination of John F. Kennedy, or the
Tiananmen Square protests, or the fall of the Berlin Wall, or
the attacks of 11 September 2001. People remember where they
were, and what they were doing when they first heard of these
events. Shadowrun history has significant events as well, such as
the assassination of President Dunkelzahn, the Crash 2.0, and
the emergence of technomancers and artificial intelligences.
Pick a few events from recent Shadowrun history and ask where
the character was at the time, what does he remember about the
event, and what was he doing at the time?
He spends most of his time jacked in and online, planning his next fundraiser or moving to keep his trail cold. The crash 2.0 wiped out most of the records of him even having existed. hes studied most of the other major events looking to see what new threats may present themselves and what secret goings on he could benefit from.
Very few people choose to become shadowrunners. More
likely, they are thrown into the life by a chaotic and uncar-
ing world. Even if he made a conscious decision to enter the
shadows, his decision is influenced by the world around him.
How did your character get into shadowrunning, and why did
he take that path?
Most of the time, if he didn't anonymously hire the group himself, its a way for him to raise money to fund his other operations. Daddy needs a new reconasance drone since the last mission kind of thing.
People have control over their own living arrangements. From
the child young enough to use crayons and tape all the way up
to the elderly shut-in who plasters her walls with family photos
and cat pictures, everyone makes their living spaces more per-
sonally pleasing. What is your character’s living space like, and
what has he added or changed to make it his own?
As he moves alot he has very little in the way of furnature or decorations that follow him from place to place. In AR though he generally has at least one of his rooms with "sliding walls" that he can post ideas connections and conspiracies on. Yes, Enigma has a crazy AR theme to his house that he puts his crazy news paper (digital of course) cut outs with red marker and strong connecting them apparently randomly.
Everyone has beliefs, and many have beliefs strong enough to
be convictions. Some are religious, some are political, some are
social, and some are just about why people are here. What does
your character believe in, what are her convictions (if any), and
why does she hold them?
His fear has forged him into a fanatic. He will do anything to stop the bug spirits from infecting more and will go to any lengths to make sure they are stopped.
Everyone has aspects of their personality that grate on someone.
Even the best of friends annoy one another from time to time.
The flaws in a person’s character are as important as the qualities.
What do you dislike most about your character’s personality?
Generally speaking if you are one of the few who can get close to him and are on a freindly level with him he will require you to answer some security verification questions or hes likely to ether ignore you for the time being, attack you with insecticide or something inbetween. Just make sure you mouth isnt open when he does. its only harmful to humans if ingested.
The Sixth World is considered by many to be spinning out of
control. If anyone could exert control over it, it would be the
“Big Ten” triple-A megacorps. These transnationals exert a lot of
influence on everyday life in the 2070s. Which of the Big Ten
does your character hold in the highest (or least low) regard,
which does he like the least, and why?
He hasn't learned yet that the infestation that changed his life was perpatrated by Ares. He's still holds them in fairly high reguard but like all megacorps due to the mich higher security on there main nodes he is unable to run diagnostics on there employee records to see if they have been infected. So far at best hes been able to get into some of the larger subsidaries of Ares and the other megacorps.
People make acquaintances and friends; we’re hardwired for it.
Humans are social animals. This is especially true in the shad-
ows, where often it is not the power you have, but the power you
can borrow, and not who you, are but who you know. There’s a
story behind each and every one of these relationships. What is
the story with your character and her contacts?
WIP
It’s Sunday morning, and your character has no commitments
until tomorrow afternoon. What does she do for the day?
Probably going over local attendance records of a warehouse distribution center, the food court at the local mall and a security company for a local law firm. looking for patterns in the chaos that scream bug spirit infestation.
Your character has a specific skill set, a list of Active and
Knowledge skills that define what she knows and her areas of
expertise. How did she come to learn those skills, and how did
she develop them to those levels?
The many hard years on the streets hes lived fighting his guerella war against an opponent that probably doesnt know he exists
Everyone has their limits. People can be dark, but most people’s
instinct is to draw the line at certain actions and thoughts, and
they keep to their own moral convictions. Is there a moral limit
that your character enforces on the jobs she takes, and in what
shadow work would she refuse to engage?
He avoids wetwork whenever possible except in situations where he can confirm a bug spirit infestation. Hes done quite a bit in the shadows otherwise to find his guerilla war.
While acceptance and bias vary from place to place, augmenta-
tions—be they bio-, cyber-, gene-, or nanoware—are increasingly
common and available in the Sixth World. However, personal
technological enhancement is rarely cheap, and many implants
that runners possess are restricted. How did your character
come to have the enhancements she has, how were they paid
for, and what motivated the choices she made (if she did make
the choices)?
He found fairly early on that in order to wage war he would need funding and started working out several fund raising missions. Generally planned and executed on his own. He'd find something he could sell to a fixer that wasnt guarded as well as it should have and take it. he's doen everything from car electronic jacking to cat burglery. He would then reinvest the money gather in these operations to improve himself and his ability to wage his holy war against the spirits. He'd go to a different street doc everytime and pay in cash all the while watching the surgery from a drone of his unde rlocalized anesthesia.
Life as a shadowrunner is by definition outside the bounds of
“normal” life. Shadowrunners do not truly fit into the lives of
ordinary people, whether they live in slums or mansions. What
does your character think of ordinary life, mainstream culture,
and those who abide by it?
Sheep waiting to be slaughtered by horrers they can't even imagine.
Everyone has nightmares. Sometimes, we forget the dream
completely on waking. Sometimes, the nightmare haunts us or
even recurs. If your character had a lingering nightmare or a
deep-rooted fear, what would it be, and why does he find it so
terrifying?
Since that day Enigma has had a long hard battle with insomnia. He's walked the edge of drug and stimulant abuse many times but fortunately isn't addicted. When he sleeps he dreams of his wife, only shes not his wife any more, she just looks like his wife. Sometimes it will be someone else in the dream instead of his "wife". but like his "wife" it wont really be them eather. I cant really explain how he knows its not them but its not them. and there coming to get him.
People tend to attach sentimental value to items in their pos-
session or people they are close to. They make an effort to
keep these close by and safe. What is your character’s “sacred
object” or “close one,” and how did they come to be so impor-
tant to him?
Much of his old life was "sterilized" in the fire bombs when Ares destroyed his town. He's been very careful not to get too attached to anything since then.
One of metahumanity’s greatest assets is its ability to look to-
ward the future and imagine a better life. Even small children
have dreams about what they want to be when they grow up.
What did your character want to become when he was a child,
and what are his goals now?
When he was younger he kind of wanted to be a mage when he grew up not realizing that it didn't work like that. Now his goals in life are all towards the one singular goal hes had since that day. Make them pay for every life they have taken till they no longer come to our plane.
A person’s appearance can say volumes about him. From fashion
sense, to the colors he prefers, to the way he walks and speaks.
Sometimes, his personality determines his appearance, and,
sometimes, the appearance he chooses to present the world ef-
fects his personality. What does your character look like, and
what inspired his choices?
Despite the fact that it simply isnt true he fully believes that the insect spirits know of him and are actively trying to hunt him. This means he changes appearance on a regular basis making sure all his social contact with the outerwild is as someone he really isnt. Hes gotten very good at this and can mimic many different walks of life, ethnicities and nationalities.
Everyone has a name, but a runner’s street name is a represen-
tation of his connection to the shadows. Sometimes runners
choose their own moniker, but more often it is given to them as
a nickname or earned through some (mis)adventure. How did
your character come to be known by his street name?
While reading a police report about to be deleted by his program an overly poetic officer reffered to him as an Enigma. He liked the name and he's used it himself eversince.
