Gonna go ahead and toss down my character since I've already sent it to the GM and made the modifications requested.
Name: Iokua Kaʻanāʻanā
Alias: Lost
Race: Elf
Sex: Male
Nationality: Hawaiian
Lifestyle: High (20 LP)
Total Karma: 0
Karma Spent: 0
Physical DescriptionMeat:
1.93 meters tall, with a medium build (heavy for an elf) and milk-white skin, which is almost completely covered by tattoos, all done in a vibrant black ink that contrasts the colorless skin. Dark pink eyes and darkly vibrant red hair kept cut to shoulder-length.
Astral:
Astral form appears to be almost the same as his meat body sans tattoos, but completely translucent and traced by a thick black border.
Icon:
On the Matrix, Lost appears to be a soap bubble floating in the air, iridescent and translucent.
Personality/BackgroundLost is, to most people, a quiet, reserved individual, a friendly person always willing to help out a neighbor. Those people have never seen the inside of his apartment. Or the inside of his mind. Lost is a pure hedonist, seeking out the pleasures in life for himself, willing to use whatever tools are at his disposal to attain those goals. He practices his magic because it brings him pleasure to do so, and it affords him opportunities that would otherwise be denied him.
Born December 31st, 2049 at 11:59:59pm, Iokua was raised in the belief that his family was descended from the
kahuna that had protected the rulers of Hawai'i of old from mystical threats. When his magical talent surfaced, his family was thrilled that they had produced a new
kahuna and began to groom him to one day take his "rightful" place as a defender of the independence of the islands and those who would support it.
Iokua had a single friend throughout most of his life - a menehune named Akani who was born at the same time and date as Iokua was. The two became close fairly quickly, and were all but inseparable throughout their formative years and later. They became blood-brothers through ritual, carried out in secrecy from their families. As they grew older, they began to discuss how to leave the island and escape their lives; Iokua from his 'destiny' and Akani from being 'just another dwarf'. Between the two of them, they formed a workable plan.
Akani was skilled with his hands; Iokua was magically gifted. With the combination of summoned spirits and Akani's workmanship, they crafted a boat sturdy enough to carry them to the mainland, where they could find their own lives. On the eve before their eighteenth birthday, after Iokua had spent almost a week erasing all material links the two had, they set off in the ship, christened the
Freedom.
Alas, it wasn't meant to be. A tropical storm broke out over the ocean a few days into the voyage. Even with a water spirit propelling the ship forward, they couldn't outrun the storm. Akani was tossed overboard as the ship was thrown back and forth like some child's toy over the waves, and Iokua was thrown head-first into the deck of the ship, knocking him unconscious.
Iokua awoke hours later, a very wet, half-drowned elf on the shores of CalFree, just outside of San Francisco. He'd made it... but lost his brother in the process. He vowed to not let his blood brother's death be in vain, though. The plan had worked, after all; the ship had gotten at least one of them to the mainland. So Iokua set out to find a new, better life.
He didn't find it. He obtained a legal SIN in CalFree, but with no background and nothing to really offer, the young mage couldn't find any kind of work and was forced to live on the streets. One night, he was jumped by a group of younger teens belonging to a local wizgang called the Satanists of Diablerie. After he killed them (in self-defense), he was approached and made an offer - join or get geeked. He joined; after all, how much worse could it be than having to eke out a meager existence on the streets, getting jumped?
The Satanists of Diablerie were a black magic group who demanded their followers practice magic their way. Their initiation rite involved making a pact with their Mentor - the Dark King. Iokua made the pact freely, an almost Faustian deal - in exchange for the Dark King's assistance in life, in death he would become the Dark King's servant, a guardian in the land of the dead.
Iokua took to the black magic outlook of the wizgang quickly; hedonism, being self-serving, and taking what one wants in life appealed greatly to the young mage who had fled his home in an attempt to escape the trappings of tradition. For a time, he became almost sociopathic, using his magic to bull his way through obstacles and hammer aside opposition.
That changed pretty quickly around 2070. The Satanists of Diablerie were approached by an organized crime group - Iokua never found out who. When they refused to sign on with them, the wizgang became their target of opportunity, to make a name for themselves in the town by wiping out an established local presence who refused them. The gang was systematically assassinated, in drive-bys, bombings and other assorted nastiness.
Iokua booked it when the majority of the gang had been wiped out. He cleansed his material links and tried to get away as quietly as he could. When the bus he had boarded (to get to Los Angeles) was attacked by the crime syndicate, Iokua thought his all-too-short life had come to an end. That's when Akani showed up; he'd washed up in LA and spent the last two years trying to find his blood brother, slowly becoming an information broker in the process. Along with Akani came a well-established go-gang on bikes with heavy weapons that blasted the vehicles of the syndicate to pieces.
Reunited after three years apart, Iokua and Akani returned to LA together, where Iokua played "magical assistance" to Akani's information broker services. Which meant that he spent a lot of time on his ass while his rich and influential friend made nuyen hand over fist. After a year of this, however, Iokua became... well, bored. At least in the wizgang, he was living on the edge, dancing the knife-edge between life and death every day. Akani gave his blood-brother a chance at finding that excitement again; he sent him to Seattle and fixed him up with a comfy life and a Fixer. Running the shadows should be pretty exciting, right?
Well, after another year went past, and a small number of shadowrunning jobs under his belt, Iokua began looking for something... bigger. He'd lived in small places all of his life; the islands, the ten mile radius that the Satanists had control over, the apartment building Akani owned and worked out of. He wanted size. He wanted immensity. He wanted to see the world and all that was in it.
A few phone calls later, and a job out of the country was lined up...
Attributes| Body | Agility | Reaction | Strength |
| 5/6 | 2/7 | 3/6 | 1/6 |
| Charisma | Intuition | Logic | Willpower |
| 7/8 | 3/6 | 2/6 | 5/6 |
| Edge | Magic | Essence | Initiative |
| 1/6 | 6 | 6 | 6/12 |
Positive QualitiesMagician (15); Black Magician Tradition.
Mentor Spirit (5); The Dark King.
Restricted Gear (5); Force 4 Power Focus
Negative QualitiesAlbinism; Mild allergy to Sunlight (-2 to all actions while in sunlight), flashing/glare effects at 1.5* power.
SINner (Standard); Tesh Kana, CalFree citizen.
Media Junkie (Mild); 2 hours/day browsing Matrix, can skip one day. -2 dice to resist the urge to surf the Matrix and Addiction tests.
Prejudiced (Common, Biased); Lost is intimidated by Trolls and tends to react badly to their presence, but tries to keep it to himself.
Nano Intolerance; Nanonware degrades at 1 point/4 days instead of 1 point/week.
Active Skills| Spellcasting | 6 |
| Counterspelling | 4 |
| Summoning | 1 |
| Binding | 1 |
| Assensing | 1 |
| Dodge | 3 |
| Perception | 1 |
Knowledge Skills| Magic Theory | 3 |
| Spell Design | 2 |
| Underworld Politics | 2 |
Language Skills
| Hawaiian | N |
| English | 4 |
| Japanese | 4 |
Bonded Foci| Spell/Foci | Cost | Notes |
| Power Focus Force 4 | 100000¥ | Bonded, 4 BP; polished ring of petrified balsa wood with a 1/16th inch wide inlay of orichalcum running down the center. |
| Health Sustaining Focus Force 3 | 30000¥ | Bonded, 3 BP; finger-sheath in the shape of a skeleton coiled around the finger. |
Spells| Spell | Notes |
| Stunbolt | (F/2)-1 |
| Stunball | (F/2)+1 |
| Acid Stream | (F/2)+3 |
| Toxic Wave | (F/2)+5 |
| Heal | (Damage)-1 |
| Levitate | (F/2)+1 |
| Detect Enemies, Extended | (F/2)+3 |
| Trid Phantasm | (F/2)+3 |
| Improved Invisibility | (F/2)+1 |
| Metal Wall | (F/2)+5 |
| Increase Reflexes | (F/2)+2 |
Gear (165,000¥, 85¥ unspent)| Form-Fitting Body Armor, Full Body Suit with Nonconductivity 6 | 2950¥ |
| Urban Explorer Jumpsuit with Thermal Dampening 6 | 3500¥ |
| SecureTech PPP Leg and Arm Casings with Fire Resistance 6 | 950¥ |
| SecureTech PPP Forearm Guards | 200¥ |
| SecureTech PPP Shin Guards | 150¥ |
| 2 Fake SINs | 8000¥ |
| Force 6 Magical Lodge Materials (Used) | 3000¥ |
| Tag Eraser | 150¥ |
| Rating 6 Goggles with Image Link, Flare Comp, Vision Enhance 3, Thermographic Vision | 775¥ |
| 10 Tranq Patches Rating 6 | 1200¥ |
| Modified Erika Elite (Response 3, Signal 1) with Iris Orb OS (Firewall 3, System 3) and Pro User Package (Analyze/Browse/Edit 4, Command 2) | 3610¥ |
| Rating 3 Earbuds with Audio Enhancement 3 and Spatial Recognizer | 430¥ |
Contacts- A highly secretive information broker who sells what he knows to the highest bidder, with an extensive network of information gatherers across the globe. But to Lost, The Informant will always be Akani, the menehune the elf grew up with on O'ahu, his blood-brother and closest confidant.
- 5er0 (pronounced Vernon) is a surprisingly skilled troll hacker that Lost ran into in the meat one day. Lost helped 5er0 out of a tight jam, by dropping a stunball on a group of Humanis Policlubbers looking for an easy target (and apparently a glasses-wearing troll dressed in nerdy slogans counted). While the two aren't especially close, 5er0 helps Lost out from time to time with his "madd Troggy Matrix skillz", and has his own fairly long-reaching resources in the form of a mutinational hacker group he belongs to.
TraditionBlack Magic
Combat: Fire
Detection: Water
Health: Earth
Illusion: Air
Manipulation: Man
Drain: Willpower+Charisma
Mentor Spirit: The Dark King (+2 dice to Perception and Assensing, +2 dice for spirits of Man, -1 die to resist Physical damage)
- The Dark King peers over Lost's shoulder and whispers in his ear. He points out the things Lost misses in both the physical and magical worlds and lends his most manipulative servants to Lost.
Identities| Identity | Rating | Notes |
| Tash Kana | Legal | Citizen of CalFree |
| Seito Kaiba | 4 | Citizen of UCAS |
| Deis Davros | 4 | Citizen of CAS |
Build Point totals: 400 = 170 Attributes + 30 Metatype + 105 Magic + 68 Active Skills + 25 Positive Qualities + 33 Resources + 4 Contacts - 35 Negative Qualities
