Name: Jack Mason
Aliases: Red-Eye, Archive
Height: 168 cm (5' 6")
Weight: 60 kg. (132 lbs.)
Metatype: Human
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Attributes| Body | Agility | Reaction | Strength | Willpower | Logic | Intuition | Charisma | Edge | Essence |
2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6(8) | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5.25 |
LimitsPositive QualitiesCodeslinger: +2 to Hack on the Fly tests.
Overclocker: +1 to one Matrix attribute; can change whenever reconfiguring
Perfect Time: Keeps time perfectly down to the minute; 2 Free Actions per Action Phase
Negative QualitiesSunlight Allergy: (Common, Severe) -4 penalty to all tests made while experiencing symptoms, and suffer 1 box of unresisted Physical Damage per minute of exposure.
Distinctive Style: His eyes noticeably glow red, especially when using his cybereye functions.
Skills| Electronics Skill Group | 6 |
| Computer | |
| Hardware | |
| Software | |
| Cybercombat (Personas) | 6 (+2) |
| Demolitions (Improvised) | 6 (+2) |
| Electronic Warfare | 6 |
| Hacking (Devices) | 6 (+2) |
| Throwing Weapons (Aerodynamic) | 6 (+2) |
| Armorer (Explosives) | 3 (+2) |
| Chemistry | 3 |
| Perception | 3 |
| Outdoors Skill Group | 2 |
| Navigation | |
| Survival | |
| Tracking | |
| Stealth Skill Group | 2 |
| Disguise | |
| Palming | |
| Sneaking | |
| Etiquette (Street) | 1 (+2) |
LanguagesKnowledge| Academic | |
| Physics | 3 |
| Cyberdeck Design | 2 |
| Parazoology | 1 |
| Interest | |
| Vampires | 3 |
| Street Drugs | 2 |
| Professional | |
| Matrix Security | 4 |
| Engineering | 2 |
| Street | |
| Matrix Rumors | 2 |
| Safehouses | 1 |
AugmentationsUsed Cybereyes Rating 1
(w/ Thermographic Vision, Vision Magnification)
Standard Datajack
Standard Cerebral Booster Rating 2
ArmorAres Victory Globetrotter Clothing: Consists of camou pants, brown coat and hooded sweater.
Armor Rating: 7
Capacity: 7 (w/ Custom Protection(2) [Chemical], Fire Resistance [6])
Ballistic Mask: Matte black mask that covers the entire face.
Armor Rating: +2
Capacity: 8 (w/ Gas Mask [2], Infrared Flashlight [1], Camera Rating 3 [1](w/ Thermo, Low-Light), Omni-Directional Microphone Rating 3 [2](w/ Select Sound Filter, Spatial Recognizer), Bug Scanner Rating 6 [2])
ExplosivesAerodynamic Grenades
-6 Paint Grenades
-6 Flash-Bangs
-6 Smoke Grenades
-6 Pepper Punch Gas Grenades
-6 High Explosive Grenades
2 Kg Foam Explosive (Rating 6)
2 Blasting Caps
GearNovatech Navigator Cyberdeck (w/ all Common and Hacking programs)
Sunglasses (Rating 4) (w/ Vision Enhancement 3, Flare Compensation)
Respirator Rating 6
Hardware Tool Kit
Armorer Tool Kit
Chemistry Tool Kit
Demolitions Tool Kit
1 dose of Psyche
LifestyleHomeless
ContactsAlexei Barkov - Dwarf Doctor/Surgeon
Connection 2 Loyalty 4
Dr. Barkov was formerly a cybertechnology surgeon and well respected physician by the name of Dr. Ivan Lagunov. However, the good doctor is a man of many vices, and after one bad night involving a great deal of Vodka and the daughter of a Vory lieutenant, he fled Russia, changed his name, and underwent extensive surgery to hide his identity, much of which he performed on himself. (The alcohol really helped.) Now a somewhat disfigured looking dwarf, Dr. Barkov gets by operating in the shadows, as its rather difficult to get a legitimate medical license when you have a fake identity. He keeps his history tight lipped, but his love of alcohol and women have not diminished.
Renegade - Paranoid Decker
Connection 4 Loyalty 3
A matrix contact who knows Jack as Archive, Renegade is an erratic and strange person of questionable morals and sanity. He, if he even is a he, seems to have connections all across the Matrix, with special focus on rumors, politics, corporate movings and conspiracy theories. Jack met Renegade while trying to break into a corporate host, finding the other hacker was already there and fighting off IC. He helped Renegade get out of the host before he got geeked by Black IC, and they've developed a working relationship since, although Renegade adamantly refuses to meet in person, for reasons he will not disclose.
Renegade has a weird manner of speaking and apparent understanding of the world, speaking in riddles at times and referring to reality in a manner that suggests he's not entirely familiar with how it works, or simply perceives it in an alien way. These weird behaviors have led Jack to theorize that Renegade may be somewhat insane, or possibly even a meta-sapient AI.
 | Appearance
Jack is shorter than average, and very thin in build. He would be considered downright petite, although that's a descriptor he loathes to hear. He has short brown hair and red eyes. His entire body is covered without any skin visible; combat boots, thick camouflage pants, black gloves, an old brown coat over a black hooded sweat shirt with sunglasses to cover his eyes and a bandana around his neck that can be pulled up to cover his face at a moment's notice. There's a red glint behind his pupils that's visible even through his sunglasses, giving his eyes an ominous red shine.
On the Matrix, Jack appears as Archive: A tall, dark figure in a hooded robe that conceals all features and has no face. His voice is featureless and booming, and whenever his robe opens or parts, he is made up of pure data inside, in the vague shape of a generic humanoid. his marks take on the appearance of a dog-eared bookmark, with a barcode across its surface. His programs manifest as solid masses of data, forming into the vague shape of weapons or tools. They flow out from under his robes and coalesce in space around him when in use, then dissolve and return to his body when finished.
Background
Jack was born to a single mother in the Seattle Metroplex in 2047. She claimed his father had been a vampire, and she had been his thrall, which seemed supported by a birth defect that made him allergic to sunlight. Due to vampires being widely feared and mysterious at the time, his family became shunned and he was ostracized and feared by the public. He never made friends as a child, never went to school, instead staying home and learning everything from virtual classes on the Matrix.
By the time he was 8 years old, he spent more of his time in cyberspace than reality, and he used the Matrix as an escape, where he was able to look however he liked and no one judged him for his disability. By the age of 12 he became involved in the decker community, and rebuilt his home cyberterminal into a cyberdeck. He was an effective decker, though a script kiddie, by the age of 14.
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At the age of 17, he had built a reputation for himself as a decent decker, and had gotten a datajack implant, only for Crash 2.0 to occur the very next day. Many of his decker friends died in the matrix, and he called in what few favors he had earned to get his mother and himself to safety. With the Matrix in shambles, he turned to his other skills to survive, becoming a drug chemist for a street gang for awhile, before it was discovered he was far better at cooking up explosives.
Sometime around the age of 20, Jack returned to decking, thanks to the rise of the wireless matrix. He was growing tired of being pushed around by the gang and ended up rigging their hideout to explode. That gang no longer exists, and Jack became a free agent, falling into the shadows.
For the past nine years, he has built himself a reputation as both a skilled Decker and a somewhat insane shadowrunner, due to his penchant for blowing up his enemies. He's picked up augmentations to enhance his abilities further, and earned the nickname 'Red-Eye' from the defective cybereyes he had installed, which always seem to glow a bright red when in use. On the Matrix, he goes by Archive, and he does his best to minimize the number of people who know they are one and the same, often claiming Red-Eye is just a demolitions expert and Archive is simply a matrix contact of his.
Throughout his life, Jack has had a sore spot regarding a comparison between himself and vampires, made all the worse by the fact that his mother has always been a fan of vampires and tended to consort with vampire posers. She has always claimed that Jack's father was a vampire, and was thrilled that her son was born allergic to the sun and was a true child of the night. Jack was less thrilled, and has spent a lot of his free time researching vampires thoroughly, both the real thing and the fiction that has surrounded them for centuries. He is thus aware that it is impossible for him to truly be the son of a vampire, as all research suggests that the HMHVV virus renders infected humans sterile, but that won't stop him from stabbing his deadbeat father in the chest with a wooden stake, should he ever meet him in a dark alley.
