To those of you I haven't been communicating with on Skype; Hi! I'll be joining the second part of this story arc, Date Night, as Daemon O'Toole, aka BlackHat, an elf male decker in his mid-20s.
Full character sheet:
== Info ==
Street Name: BlackHat
Real Name: Carl Adler
Fake SIN: Daemon O'Toole
Movement: 6/12
Karma: 0
Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 0
Public Awareness: 0
Elf Male Age Mid-20s
Height 1.8m Weight 75kg
Composure: 7
Judge Intentions: 8
Lift/Carry: 4 (30 kg/20 kg)
Memory: 9
Nuyen: 660
== Priorities ==
Metatype: D (1) - Elf (0)
Attributes: D (1) - 14 Attributes
Special: E (0) - Mundane
Skills: A (4) - 46 Skills/10 Skill Groups
Resources: A (4) - 75,000¥
== Karma ==
Attributes: 10 (Edge 2)
Contacts: 3
Qualities: 13/13 (Positive/Negative)
== Attributes ==
BOD: 2
AGI: 3
REA: 2 (3)
STR: 2
CHA: 3
INT: 5
LOG: 5
WIL: 4
EDG: 2
== Derived Attributes ==
Essence: 2.49
Initiative: 8 + 2d6
Matrix AR Initiative: 8 + 2d6
Matrix Cold Initiative: 5 + DP + 3d6
Matrix Hot Initiative: 5 + DP + 4d6
Physical Damage Track: 9
Stun Damage Track: 10
== Limits ==
Physical: 3
Mental: 7
Psyche [+1] (Duration: (12-Body) hours)
Social: 5
Ballistic Mask [+1] (Only for intimidation, Must be visible)
Mortimer of London: Berwick Suit [+1] (Must be visible)
Novacoke [+1] (Duration: (10-Body) hours)
Astral: 7
== Active Skills ==
Animal Handling : 0 Pool: 2
Archery : 0 Pool: 2
Armorer : 0 Pool: 4
Automatics : 5 [Machine Pistols] Pool: 8 (10)
Blades : 0 Pool: 2
Clubs : 0 Pool: 2
Computer : 6 Pool: 12
Con : 3 [Fast Talk] Pool: 6 (8)
Cybercombat : 6 Pool: 12
Demolitions : 0 Pool: 4
Disguise : 3 [Cosmetic] Pool: 8 (10)
Diving : 0 Pool: 1
Electronic Warfare : 6 Pool: 12
Escape Artist : 0 Pool: 2
Etiquette : 3 [Street] Pool: 6 (8)
First Aid : 0 Pool: 4
Forgery : 0 Pool: 4
Free-Fall : 0 Pool: 1
Gunnery : 0 Pool: 2
Gymnastics : 0 Pool: 2
Hacking : 6 [Hack on the Fly] Pool: 12 (14)
Hardware : 6 Pool: 12
Heavy Weapons : 0 Pool: 2
Impersonation : 3 Pool: 6
Instruction : 0 Pool: 2
Intimidation : 0 Pool: 2
Leadership : 0 Pool: 2
Longarms : 0 Pool: 2
Navigation : 0 Pool: 4
Negotiation : 0 Pool: 2
Palming : 1 [Concealment] Pool: 4 (6)
Perception : 2 Pool: 7
Performance : 3 [Keyboard/Piano] Pool: 6 (8)
Pilot Ground Craft : 0 Pool: 2
Pilot Watercraft : 0 Pool: 2
Pistols : 0 Pool: 2
Running : 0 Pool: 1
Sneaking : 5 [Urban] Pool: 8 (10)
Software : 6 Pool: 12
Survival : 2 [Urban] Pool: 6 (8)
Swimming : 0 Pool: 1
Throwing Weapons : 0 Pool: 2
Tracking : 0 Pool: 4
Unarmed Combat : 1 [Blocking] Pool: 4 (6)
== Knowledge Skills ==
Area Knowledge: Seattle : 1 [Redmond Barrens] Pool: 6 (8)
Chemistry : 1 [Pharmacology] Pool: 6 (8)
English : N Pool: 0
Gangs : 1 [Matrix] Pool: 6 (8)
History : 1 [Early 20th Century] Pool: 6 (8)
Matrix Theory : 3 [AI] Pool: 8 (10)
Music : 1 [Jazz] Pool: 6 (8)
Security Design : 3 [Matrix] Pool: 8 (10)
Small Unit Tactics : 1 [Urban] Pool: 6 (8)
== Contacts ==
Jonny Wakshira (4, 1), Kobun of the Kanaga-gumi and owner of The Joke located in Redmond
== Qualities ==
Positive
3 Karma: Brand Loyalty (Product) (Erika MCD-1)
0 Karma: Low-Light Vision
5 Karma: Overclocker
5 Karma: Perfect Time
Negative
0 Karma: Day Job (20 hrs)
3 Karma: In Debt (15,000¥)
10 Karma: Weak Immune System
== Lifestyles ==
Apartment at The Joke (Union Hill Road & 208th Avenue NE) 1 months @ 2100¥
Comforts & Necessities: 2/3
Security: 2/3
Neighborhood: 2/3
Available points: 0/3
1 point: Grid Subscription, Local (+50¥)
1 point: Local Bar Patron, The Joke (+0¥)
1 point: Public Transportation, Seattle (+50¥)
== Cyberware/Bioware ==
Cyberdeck (Used)
Datajack x2 (Used)
Smartlink (Used)
Wired Reflexes Rating 1 (Used)
== Armor ==
Add-ons
Ballistic Mask 2
Forearm Guards 1
Standard
Mortimer of London: Berwick Suit 9
+Custom Fit
Lined Coat 9
+Shock Weave
Fedora 0
Infiltration
Chameleon Suit 9
== Weapons ==
Ares Crusader II
+Ammo: Gel Rounds (Machine Pistols) x40
+Concealed Quick-Draw Holster
+Gas-Vent 2 System
+Smartgun System, Internal
+Sound Suppressor
Pool: 10 (12) Accuracy: 7 DV: 7S AP: +1 RC: 3
Shock Gloves
Pool: 4 Accuracy: 3 DV: 8S(e) AP: -5 RC: 1
Survival Knife
Pool: 2 Accuracy: 5 DV: 4P AP: -1 RC: 1
Unarmed Attack
Pool: 4 Accuracy: 3 DV: 2S AP: - RC: 1
== Commlink/Cyberdeck ==
Erika MCD-1 (ATT: 4, SLZ: 3, DP: 2, FWL: 1)
+Fake SIN (Daemon O'Toole, UCAS) Rating 2
Meta Link (ATT: 0, SLZ: 0, DP: 1, FWL: 1)
== Gear ==
Apartment
Ammo: Gel Rounds (Machine Pistols) x60
Survival Kit
Carried (on person)
Certified Credstick, Silver
Certified Credstick, Standard
Flashlight, Low-light
Spare Clip (Ares Crusader II)
+Ammo: Explosive Rounds (Machine Pistols) x40
Spare Clip (Ares Crusader II)
+Ammo: Stick-n-Shock (Machine Pistols) x40
Carried (formfitting backpack)
Medkit Rating 6
+Cram x5
+Long Haul x2
+Novacoke x5
+Psyche x2
+Slap Patch, Antidote Patch Rating 6
+Slap Patch, Stim Patch Rating 5 x2
+Slap Patch, Trauma Patch
+Chloral Hydrate
+Leäl
+Slab
Tool Kit (Disguise)
Tool Kit (Hardware)
+Bug Scanner Rating 6
+Camera, Micro
+Data Tap
+Gecko Tape Gloves
+Jammer, Directional Rating 5
+Micro-Transceiver
+Satellite Link
+Stealth Tags x25
+Trid Projector
+White Noise Generator Rating 6
Programs
Armor
Biofeedback
Browse
Configurator
Decrypt
Defuse
Demolition
Edit
Encryption
Exploit
Fork
Hammer
Lockdown
Signal Scrub
Sneak
Toolbox
Track
Virtual Machine
Wrapper
Worn
Contacts Rating 2
+Vision Enhancement Rating 1
+Vision Magnification
Earbuds Rating 3
+Audio Enhancement Rating 1
+Select Sound Filter Rating 2
Glasses Rating 1
+Flare Compensation
Respirator Rating 6== Description ==BlackHat is a skinny-looking Elf male of Caucasian heritage who looks to be in his mid-20s. The deep, solemn look of his emerald eyes can betray the cheerful attitude he projects, and the auburn roots of his cropped hair suggests that the raven black luster is not his natural color. Two universal access ports adorn the side of his head just below and behind the left ear, and a perceptive observer might even notice the relatively fresh scars in the back of his neck that indicate the location of a micro-sized cyberdeck implant, as well as the slight tremor in his extremities that, to anyone used to dealing with shadow assets, are tell-tale signs of cybernetically enhanced reflexes.
In the physical world, BlackHat usually dresses in the traditional duster and slacks common amongst the denizens of the barrens, reserving the carefully maintained business-casual 3-piece suit complete with a BlackHat, tinted glasses, and an old-fashioned pocket-watch for more important meetings. Regardless of what he's wearing, chances are that anyone who spends time with him will realize that there is maturity beyond his years in the young man. He conducts himself in a quiet and reserved manner both in the real world and in the Matrix, and his English is spoken in a measured, controlled tone with a subtle hint of a foreign accent.
In the virtual world, BlackHat has chosen a persona that befits his physical form. Shaped like a human of above-average height wearing a fashionable suit and accompanying eponymous hat, the sculpting of the persona is relatively unique in that its face is almost entirely smooth, lacking distinguishing features like eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, and its skin looks to be made from a mirror-like material that always reflects the brilliance of a neutron star set against the background of an unknown nebula.
== Background ==Carl Adler was born in 2055 in a blue-collar enclave on the outskirts of the city of Fargo, a major transportation hub in the north-west UCAS. Vast amounts of land trade passed through the city to and from the Algonkian-Manitou and Athabaskan Councils in the north, Tir Tairngire and the Native American Nations in the west, and Aztlan and the CAS in the south. Carl’s parents worked the factory lines for AN Meridian, a heavy industry subsidiary of Saeder-Krupp, until a particularly deadly strain of influenza ravaged the city in 2063. Carl's parents succumbed to the disease along with more than two-thirds of the city’s population, and though Carl survived the infection his immune system was obliterated as a result. Misery loves company, as the saying goes, and when the Second Matrix Crash hit just months later Carl’s SIN was wiped from the Matrix; in the chaotic aftermath the young Elf found himself alone and afraid on the streets of the city, abandoned by the corporation that had been his home.
While a semblance of order had been restored after the events of the ’63 “Fargo Flu” and the Crash of ‘64, crime was still rampant in the city and Carl’s first years on the streets were rough. His knowledge of tech and computers saw him snapped up by the Red River Rumblers, a local small-time gang looking for matrix talent to accelerate their expansion plans. Despite being frail and prone to illness, he instantly proved his worth to the Rumblers when he disabled the security systems of the 2nd Street Steelers with nothing but an old, beat-up commlink, allowing the Rumblers to take their rivals by surprise and making short work of them in the process.
Carl quickly realized that his skills were rare amongst the gangers, which meant he had the potential to become something of a powerhouse in the reconstructed mess of the local Matrix. He adopted the online moniker Dev/Null while carefully avoiding the watchful eyes of GOD. Over the next few years he made a name for himself by expertly circumventing security systems, establishing botnets to use for DDoS attacks, laundering credit accounts and financial records, and cracking data stores in search of juicy paydata. While most of his time was spent furthering the cause of the Red River Rumblers, Carl began squirreling away some of their ill-gotten gains for himself. He used these discretionary funds to procure various Matrix hardware and software upgrades, as well as a few augmentations for himself.
In 2072 Carl accompanied a team of Rumblers on a raid of a storehouse thought to belong to a local food processing corporation. Carl quickly recognized that the factory was just a cover and made a run on the data stores present at the facility. After sneaking past some of the blackest IC he’d ever encountered he found a cache of heavily encrypted data, and he quickly swiped copies of everything he could before jacking out. He wasn’t quick enough, however, and before the team could evacuate the premises they came under attack; in mere moments a quarter of the team was dead or dying, and as far as Carl knew he escaped as the only survivor. While enacting carefully laid contingency plans he offloaded the stolen data to the Denver Nexus, dumping every other piece of data that could possibly lead back to him and hit the roads in order to lay low for a while.
Weeks later he came to learn that the Rumblers were no more; their safehouses had been destroyed, every last member killed, and their Matrix presence had been completely scrubbed from even the deepest, darkest recesses of the grids. By the end of the year, word got back to Carl that the research data he had found had been proof of horrific experiments on so-called virtuakinetics by the MCT megacorporation, and that the data had been made public by a journalist in Denver. Armed with the knowledge that he’d be hunted forever if he ever looked back, he once again dumped his identities, reshaped his Matrix Persona, and spent most of his remaining money to get to the darkest shadows he knew of; Seattle.
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After two years of living on the streets yet again, but with no signs of corporate hit-squads, Carl slowly emerged from the shadows of Seattle. He'd scraped by using his skills to hack vending machines for food and clothes while alternating between sleazing the registries of different no-tell motels and sleeping in the streets. The new wireless matrix protocols implemented during the mid-70s meant his old hardware was rendered obsolete, however, and in order to get back in the game Carl agreed to help DevOps, leader of the matrix gang Reality Hackers, in her campaign against the Kanaga-gumi, a Yakuza syndicate local to the Redmond Barrens.
The Reality Hackers fronted the cost of a low-end deck and the surgery to have it installed in Carl's head, and in return asked that Carl borrow money off of the Yakuza in order to get in with them. The idea was that since Carl couldn't afford to pay the Yaks off he'd have to begin running jobs for them, as any crime syndicate with more than eight bits between their ears would jump at the chance of forcibly enlisting a talented decker.
More details:
http://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=19982.0== Concept ==As novahot as Dodger, or so he likes to claim; cocky, but there's no denying he's got skill. Ride the signal...
== Notes ==Smokes cigarettes
----- Equipment Lists -----
All wireless devices disabled unless specified otherwise, and all enabled wireless devices running silently on public grid by default
* devices with wireless enabled
** devices with wireless enabled and slaved to cyberdeck
^ items actively concealed
Standard
AV 10, Base Concealment -4
Carried: Certified Credstick (Standard), Flashlight (Low-light), Meta Link, Medkit, Spare Clip (Ares Crusader II w/40x Explosive rounds), Spare Clip (Ares Crusader II w/40x SnS rounds), Tool Kit (Disguise, w/Ballistic Mask), Tool Kit (Hardware)
Cyberware: Cyberdeck*, Datajack x2, Smartlink**, Wired Reflexes
Weapons: Ares Crusader II** ^ (w/40x Gel Rounds), Shock Gloves, Survival Knife
Worn: Berwick Suit*, Contacts*, Earbuds*, Forearm Guards, Glasses*, Lined Coat**
Infiltration
AV 12, Base Concealment 0
Carried: Certified Credstick (Standard), Flashlight (Low-light), Meta Link, Medkit, Spare Clip (Ares Crusader II w/40x Explosive rounds), Spare Clip (Ares Crusader II w/40x SnS rounds), Tool Kit (Hardware)
Cyberware: Cyberdeck*, Datajack x2, Smartlink, Wired Reflexes
Weapons: Ares Crusader^ (w/40x Gel Rounds), Shock Gloves, Survival Knife
Worn: Ballistic Mask, Chameleon Suit**, Contacts**, Earbuds**, Forearm Guards
----- Matrix Configurations -----
* Attribute increased with Overclocker quality
Breaker
Actions: Brute Force, Crack File, Crash Program, Erase MARK, Jam Signals
Attributes: Attack 4 (6*), Sleaze 1, Data Processing 3 (4), Firewall 2
Programs: Virtual Machine (Decryption, Toolbox)
Controller
Actions: Check OS, Control Device, Format Device, Hide, Reboot Device, Snoop, Spoof
Attributes: Attack 1, Sleaze 3 (5*), Data Processing 4 (5), Firewall 2
Programs: Virtual Machine (Stealth, Toolbox)
Defender
Actions: Jack Out, Full Matrix Defense
Attributes: Attack 1, Sleaze 2, Data Processing 3, Firewall 4 (6*)
Programs: Virtual Machine (Armor, Firewall)
Flanker
Actions: Grid Hop, Hack on the Fly
Attributes: Attack 1, Sleaze (Hack on the Fly) 3 (4) (+2), Data Processing 4 (5*), Firewall 2
Programs: Virtual Machine (Exploit, Stealth)
Hunter
Actions: Trace Icon
Attributes: Attack 1, Sleaze 2, Data Processing 4 (6*), Firewall 3
Programs: Virtual Machine (Toolbox, Track)
Sacker
Actions: Edit File
Attributes: Attack 1, Sleaze 2 (4*), Data Processing (Edit File) 4 (+2), Firewall 3
Programs: Virtual Machine (Edit, Stealth)
Seeker
Actions: Matrix Search, Matrix Perception
Attributes: Attack 1, Sleaze 2, Data Processing 4 (6*), Firewall 3
Programs: Virtual Machine (Browse/Fork, Toolbox)
Striker
Actions: Data Spike
Attributes: Attack 4 (6*), Sleaze 1, Data Processing 3, Firewall 2
Programs: Virtual Machine (Decryption, Hammer)
Sweeper
Actions: Disarm Data Bomb
Attributes: Attack 1, Sleaze 2, Data Processing 3, Firewall 4 (6*)
Programs: Virtual Machine (Defuse, Encryption)
Trapper
Actions: Set Data Bomb
Attributes: Attack 1, Sleaze 4 (6*), Data Processing 3, Firewall 2
Programs: Virtual Machine (Demolition, Stealth)
Watcher
Actions: Matrix Perception
Attributes: Attack 1, Sleaze 4 (5*), Data Processing 3 (4), Firewall 2
Programs: Virtual Machine (Toolbox, Wrapper)
