So, the face in my campaign is going to prove... interesting, at the very least.
He's a mystic adept, but that's nothing new. He's got interpersonal adept powers and positive qualities. Old hat.
Here's the weird part: He's got both the Mistaken Identity and Escaped Clone qualities, along with low-grade Amnesia and Flashbacks. So he's a copy of someone, looks a lot like someone who's at least moderately well-known, and doesn't know it. He gets hints once in a while (though I haven't yet had one trigger). Topping it off, he's got someone gunning for him (an Enemy) as a result of this.
What I need is a name: Who's face/retinas/fingerprints has he copied? Who's after him?
I've got a couple ideas, but I'm not sure how well these will work out.
- He's the clone of Renraku's main PR guy, the one they trot out whenever they need to make a public announcement. He's not aware of the cloning, so it's the tech-heads that performed the Xeroxing who want him back. (These guys may or may not be affiliated with RC.) They didn't expect the copy to Awaken, which is why he got away.
- Same PR guy, but he's the one who ordered the copying. Again, sprouting adept powers wasn't part of the package, and he wants his copy back. The idea was to use personality sims on him until he literally became the original, then send him off to some nefarious purpose.
I can run this either way -- since he has Amnesia, I can play my cards close to the table. With Flashbacks, I get license to drop the occasional vague hint as to what was really going on. And with an Enemy, I can use this to draw everyone into some weird conspiracy.
I don't have either the new Seattle sourcebook, or the world atlas, but I'd like to make sure I'm not totally wrecking some canon details in fleshing this out. The main things I'd need are a name to attach to the face ("Hey, aren't you so-and-so?"), as well as something suitable for a Flashback trigger. Maybe something like seeing a Red Samurai, though I don't know how often they appear on the trid.
Ideas?
