Name (real): Laura Summers
Name (fake SIN1, r4): Rivera Paulson, UCAS citizen
Name (fake SIN2, r3): Amy Robinson, SK citizen
Alias: black panther
Race: elf
Sex: Female
Nationality: CAS
Length: 1m85
Weight: 74 kg
Eyes: white
Hair: white
Measurements: 36C-22-37
Description: Laura is a good looking, black elf. She has white hair (a genetic mutation running in her family), which she normally wears in a ponytail, and she got matching white cyber eyes. On a run she is mostly dressed in leather (or at least faux-leather), except when the situation requires something else (like fancy dinners and such). She often seems a bit distracted while doing matrix stuff.
matrix avatar: An almost real black panther (hence her nickname), roaming around in the jungle (if her reality filter wins). She also has a cartoon version of the same and a female dark elf avatar for those locations that request metahuman avatars.
Attributes
| Body | Agility | Reaction | Strength |
| 3 | 5 | 3 (4) | 2 |
| Charisma | Intuition | Logic | Willpower |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Edge | Magic | Essence | Initiative |
| 3 | - | 3.25 | 8 |
Positive Qualities-Photographic memory (10) (-1 treshold on memory tests)
-Analytical Mind (5) (+2 dice on logic for puzzles, etc, +2 dice on data search + software tests)
-first impression (5) (+2 dice on social tests during first meeting)
Negative Qualities-asthma (-15)
-Scorched (black IC) (-10) (-2 dice on will when facing black IC)
-SINner (standard) (-5)
-media junkie (mild) (-5)
Active Skills| Electronics Skill Group | 4 |
| influence skill group | 3 |
| longarms (shotguns +2) | 2 (4) |
| pistols (automatics +2) | 3 (5) |
| perception | 4 |
| gymnastics | 4 |
| Pilot aircraft | 2 |
| pilot ground craft (car +2) | 3 (5) |
| Cybercombat | 4 |
| Electronic Warfare | 4 |
| Hacking | 6 |
Knowledge Skills ( [Logic + Intuition] x 3 free points)| Matrix security procedures | 3 |
| Ares R&D procedures | 1 |
| Matrix gangs | 3 |
| Smuggler groups | 3 |
| Data havens | 2 |
| gambling card games | 3 |
| Elven wines | 2 |
| Media sites | 2 |
| Classical music | 1 |
Language Skills
| English | N |
| Salish | 2 |
| Sperethiel | 3 |
Cyber/Bioware| Cyberware | Essence | Cost | Notes |
| implanted commlink | 0.2 | 2000¥ | |
| hot sim module | 0.2 | 5000¥ | can go to hot sim VR |
| wired reflexes I (alpha) | 1.6 | 22000¥ | +1 reaction, +1IP |
| cybereyes (r3) | 0.4 | 8750¥ | low light vision, thermographic vision, flare compensation, smartlink, vision enhancement r2, vision magnification |
| cyberears (r2) | 0.3 | 13000¥ | audio enhancer r2, datajack, select sound filter r2, damper, ultrasound sensor |
| | | | |
| Skin pocket | 0.1 | 5000¥ | can conceal small objects |
commlink1| commlink/OS | signal/system | response/firewall |
| Hermes Ikon | 4 | 6 |
| Novatech Navi | 6 | 6 |
Programs: armor 5 (ergonomic), attack 6, biofeedback filter 5 (ergonomic), blackout 6, corrupt 5, data bomb 4, decrypt 6, defuse 6 exploit 6, medic 3, sniffer 6, spoof 6, stealth 5 (ergonomic), track 6, ECCM 3 (ergonomic), analyse 6 (ergonomic), browse 6, command 6, edit 6, encrypt 6, purge 6, reality filter 6 (ergonomic), scan 6, facial recognition r3, vehicle recognition r3
Options: Optimization (exploit): +1 to actions using program
commlink2| commlink/OS | signal/system | response/firewall |
| Sony Emperor | 3 | 3 |
| Iris Orb | 3 | 5 |
Programs: analyse 6 (ergonomic, optimization 3), browse 3, command 3, edit 3, encrypt 3, purge 3, reality filter 3 (ergonomic), scan 3
Gear (228731¥)| armoured vest (chemical protection 2) | 1100¥ |
| Form-fitting half-body suit (nonconductivity 3, fire resistant 3) | 1800¥ |
| Zoé executive suit ensemble (long jacket) | 1950¥ |
| actioneer business suit | 1500¥ |
| Zoé moonsilver cocktail dress | 5000¥ |
| docwagon basic | 5000¥ |
| survival knife | 50¥ |
| defiance EX shocker | 150¥ |
| Ares predator IV (personalised grip, gecko grip, silencer) | 750¥ |
| Enfield AS-7 (powered folding stock, foregrip, personalised grip, smartgun system, sling) | 2460¥ |
| shotgun ammo (100 rounds regular, 50 rounds stick-n-shock) | 600¥ |
| pistol ammo (150 rounds regular) | 300¥ |
| taser darts (20 rounds regular) | 100¥ |
| spare clips (5 pistol, 3 shotgun) | 40¥ |
| 2x disposable commlink | 600¥ |
| 5x datachip | 5¥ |
| satellite link | 500¥ |
| 2x 1m fiber optic cable, wireless adapter, optical tap | 260¥ |
| 40 RFID tags (20 security, 20 stealth) | 200¥ |
| fingernail data storage | 200¥ |
| tag eraser | 150¥ |
| area jammer rating 4 | 2000¥ |
| directional jammer rating 4 | 2000¥ |
| fake SIN rating 4 + 3x fake licence rating 4 | 5200¥ |
| fake SIN rating 3 + 3x fake licence rating 3 | 3900¥ |
| glowand | 60¥ |
| 5x lael in disposable syringes | 950¥ |
| medkit rating 6 | 600¥ |
| respirator rating 6 | 600¥ |
| survival kit | 100¥ |
| hardware + software kit | 1000¥ |
| 10 plastic restraints | 1¥ |
| Asthma medication (3 months) | 600¥ |
Drones-Microtapper bug (2x, one with cable, one with wireless adapter)
| Handling | Accel | Speed | Pilot | Body | Armor | Sensor | Availability | Cost |
| 1 | 2/10 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1000¥ |
-Cyberspace Designs Dragonfly (minidrone)
Modifications: chameleon coating, fuzzy logic, improved sensor array: motion sensor, radio signal scanner r4, directional microphone (audio enhancement r2), camera (thermographic vision, vision enhancement r2, vision magnification)
| Handling | Accel | Speed | Pilot | Body | Armor | Sensor | Availability | Cost |
| 1 | 3/15 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1000¥ |
-Mercury Comet (car)
Cost Description avail
Run Flat Tires, Basic Termination system, Drone Rack (Mini),Smuggling Compartment, GridLink Override, Personal Armor 3, Morphing licence plate, Oil-Slick Sprayer, Manual Control Override, Drive-by-Wire, Smoke Projector, Spoof chip
| Handling | Accel | Speed | Pilot | Body | Armor | Sensor | Availability | Cost |
| 0 | 15/30 | 110 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 1 | - | 24200¥ |
Lifestyle:13 LP total, 3800¥/month (2 months bought)
Location: Tacoma, Seattle
| comforts | 3 |
| entertainment | 2 |
| necessities | 3 |
| neighborhood | 2 |
| security | 3 |
Karma Spent: 0
Contacts| Contact | | C/L |
| Jean-Jacques Leroy (Smuggler) | | 4/3 |
| Zeus (blogger specialised corp news) | | 3/3 |
| John Smith (mechanic) | | 3/2 |
T-bird smuggler (Jean-Jacques Leroy): captain of the T-bird with whom she had gone into Denver when the group was taken down. Now the second in command of the -reduced- smuggling group. Useful contact to get some gear or someone in or out Seattle.
Blogger (Zeus): she got to know him on one of the runner and hacker forums she is on. She got him a lot of data on Ares’ procedures when she was fired by the company and now when she needs something about a corp, she can always ask him. He doesn’t have everything of course, but from time to time he has some gems. She makes it a point if she learns something about a corp (specially the megas) to let him know as well.
John Smith: he’s a mechanic who did the mods on her car and also some drone work. He also likes to play a game of poker and they, which is where they met. Has a lot of contacts in the runner and smuggler scene, as well with street racers.
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background Laura was born in 2040 in Charleston, South Carolina, CAS. Her parents had an upscale restaurant, catering to the rich and famous of the CAS. Her childhood was quite idyllic and she was send to a private school, just like her brother. But while he was more interested in economics, she quickly found the matrix more to her liking, often staying up very late to play games and such. She was very intelligent and curious and she went through school without a problem, on the school level that is. There were a couple of children of humanis members at school and as she had very good results and also was prettier than most of the humans, they harassed her often. Some teachers, also members of humanis, turned a blind eye. But she got her revenge when she found the passwords of one of the leaders of the little group. Using his account, she attempted to hack into the school node to get to the exam questions. It didn't work, but she managed to hide her tracks very well and the alleged hacker was kicked out of school. Without a leader the group left her alone and she managed to graduate with honours.
After high school she started at Detroit University in the UCAS. At university she had fewer problems with bigotry, but more with her classes. While she was still doing well, she had to gone through high school without doing much, and at university she had to study a lot more, although she still had the advantage of remembering almost everything she had read once. But her grades stayed up and everybody saw her already with PhD behind her name. In her free time she continued to program her own things. It was at university that she got her cybereyes, and on a whim she made them completely white to match her hair (something that ran in her family).
Detroit University was controlled by Ares, who had their HQ in that city. A couple of weeks after she had done her final exams, a representative of one of their many subsidiaries offered her a job. It involved some programming in one of their R&D departments. Since university life started to pale and she had always liked new things, she decided to accept. With that acceptance she started her corporate life, a life that would be spend for more than 90% in the matrix, often in full VR (cold sim only), so she got a datajack and simsense module. It was here that she got her first taste of shadowrunners when one night the facility was attacked, both in VR and in the meat. She later understood that whoever the team was, they hadn't done their homework as they didn't know that the facility right next to it was also part of Ares and they had a firewatch team visiting to pick up some new gadgets. As the team thought the attackers were after the new stuff, they defended in the typical Ares firewatch team way (which is to say, attack and shoot everything until it didn't move anymore). As Laura and her team were doing overtime to get back on the timelines, they were mostly in the facility and helped defending against the VR attacks. While individually they were no match in cybercombat against a 'professional' hacker, together they could simply overwhelm him or at least keep him of the juicy files until help arrived. While two people had to go to hospital with brain damage, they were proud they had managed to hold them off. In order for this to not happen again, Laura started to follow some extra courses so she could defend herself better in cyberspace. The company approved and in 2063 she was promoted to security supervisor.
But the 'idyllic' corp life came to a dead halt in 2064. Laura had logged in from home to do some last minute coding when all of a sudden she was cut off from her meat body. Unfortunately due to the crash, her persona also lost its ID data and the black IC on the company node thought she was an intruder and attacked. She tried to crash the attacker, but the disorientation of the sudden cut-off was too much and she only just managed to flee. This made her even more lost and even today, she has quite a bit of fear from black IC. Her consciousness was wandering in the matrix, trying to find her body back, but whole sections of the matrix had simply gone missing for - at that time - no good reason. She was getting even more frightened when she encountered an entity, probably a ghost of the machine (she had heard stories about them). This entity was in fact very helpful and guided her back to her body, which by this time was moved to a local hospital. There she came by, after a week in coma. Again she was investigated and she had gotten some nerve damage and a fear for black IC. As she had some money, she decided to get some extra cyberwear to help with the nerve damage. The company made it possible for her to get alphaware and also helped with the licences ‘for medical reason’. The company send everybody who had been trapped in the matrix to a psychiatrist, which helped against her fear. While she still didn't like black IC, at least she could get back into the matrix.
A couple of months after she got the cyber, her own nerves started to come back as well. The doctors thought it was the cyber who had pushed the nerves into action again. Whatever it was, she now had both. She had just gotten this good news from the doctors when Ares decided to downsize the department she was working in, as their work had become less useful with the new wireless matrix. For a couple of months it was hard, as she was evicted from her corporate apartment and finding a new place to live wasn't easy for someone without a salary.
But she refused to give up and soon she started doing minor matrix jobs for a smuggling ring. It became quickly clear that she was very gifted in finding those places were certain supplies were abundant and other places were the same things were scarce or illegal. This allowed the smugglers to make more money so they started to give her more responsibility (and more money, which she used to buy upgrades to her commlink and programs). As she still had her official SIN, she could move in circles most smugglers could not, and so she also started doing some of the negotiations. Her nearly perfect memory helped her with this. People always liked it when you recognised them, even if you had met them only once. As she had to go with the crews more and more, they taught her to fly the T-birds they used, so she could also be useful in flight besides running matrix overwatch.
But again her luck was not long lived. In the beginning of 2071, a snitch in the organisation spilled the beans and the whole group was taken out. As she had just left with a crew to bring stuff into Seattle, she wasn't present when the group was attacked. She and her crew were one of the few left over from a group of almost 200 people and as she was one of the more distinctive members, she thought it wise to lay low for a bit. While the rest of the crew went in search for other people who had escaped in order to reform the group, she decided to stay in Seattle and live of the money she had put aside. She did some matrix jobs from time to time, more out of boredom than anything else, while she continued to upgrade her programs herself, but after a while the money started to run out and she had to look for other work, but she decided not to go back to smuggling for now.
Starting money:
4d6=13=> 1800 nuyen
