[gerzel]

Ok.  As I've said before I'm GMing a game set in Denver.

One player asked me to make her character up for her and I agreed.

For background I am making her a former Horizon Agent that worked the shadows. (There are a few options here that I've sent to her and not heard reply back).  Most options have her working under a Horizon Fixer and Johnson as a secretary/personal assistant.

For Qualities I'm giving her Erased, Records on File (Horizon), and Mysterious Cyberware at 20 or 25 points, and possibly Big Regret, or Vendetta depending on what she replies back.

The Mysterious Cyberware I am thinking of consists of a backdoor or two into her cybereyes/ears/simrig/smartlink system, a datalock(which she may know about and have as normal non-mysterious cyber), and a commlink.

Basically the idea is that the Corp is able to keep track of her  in detail through the commlink uploading information and make sure she can't act against the corp.  (why turn off the smartlink when you can simply reverse the Friend and Foe designations?)

I plan on slipping clues in with little things like noting that when she uses a new SIN she finds her prefrences already set up.  Her Horizon Music playlists already queued and favorite soycaf orders already set in advance.

Another way is when she is on Horizon property to have the systems greet her as her original employee name when she is the only one seeing it but keep up the fake SIN settings when others see it.

[Critias]

I'm not sure how well Erased and Records on File will work together.  You, as GM, can always juggle them about a little, house rule it for story purposes, and say that the Erased works on all her files except the ones Horizon has, I guess...but otherwise, having both at once feels a little counter-intuitive.  You might also want to look into Sinner for her (if she's a real person with real documents), just as an aside.

Other than that, it sounds pretty cool to me.  I'm with ya on a datalock not necessarily being unusual (so it might not need to be "mysterious" on her), and the other stuff all sounds pretty reasonable.  I think it'd be a fun character.

[James McMurray]

I'm not sure how well Erased and Records on File will work together.  You, as GM, can always juggle them about a little, house rule it for story purposes, and say that the Erased works on all her files except the ones Horizon has, I guess...but otherwise, having both at once feels a little counter-intuitive.  You might also want to look into Sinner for her (if she's a real person with real documents), just as an aside.

Erased has two times when it doesn't work: when the data is something the PC wants to keep around, and when the data is on a heavily secured system. A shadow operative's files are probably going to fall under the latter.

Also, Erased always has someone behind it that's doing the erasing. If that someone is Horizon, it makes perfect sense that they wouldn't delete their own records.

[John Shull]

The Secretary can have the erased and records on file.  Horizon tryiing to keep her clean.  They put in Looking Glass cyberware, at least that's what I am calling it, to keep eyes on in the field.  Don't get the Big Regret unless she is being squeezed to work against a friend or they conned her into this assignment.  You didn't describe what the Secretary is supposedly going to get to see that is so iimportant that Horizon turned her into a living sensor who has everything short of a cranial bomb on board to make her do dirty work.  She has to be working as a asset for intel or insurance.  Horizon may have a guy watching through her eyes in 4 hr shifts directing her so it better have a payoff.  If it is a undercover job they could use Deepcover to further the deception.  It is a good further investment on the operation.  The handlers may get on her side and start feediing her help along the way.  Good contact to have in your ear.  Feeding her skillwire uplinks, or bios on people she is sitting with, or telling her that somone just hid a sniper rifle in the bathroom and she should assemble it and be ready to take shots out the window in 90 seconds (yes, I am a fan of the movie Le Femme Nikita), or anything the GM wants to direct act to the team via her Horizon handlers, the Secretaries Pool could be a fun angle to play. 

[John Shull]

Making her this character for her to play has this dark secret of Horizon sitting on her shoulder.  It would be good to give her some upside for working for The_Man, Horizon variant.  Its obvious they are going pretty whole hog into this project they are using her in.  Maybe they are on a mole hunt inside Horizon and having her paired up with a Horizon Fixer facilitates that investigation.  At any rate she seems like what they are using to get a big fish.  (Opportunity for Enemy here)  Having some Horizon bonus coming back her way would be good balance for the character.  Espically if she has a demanding handler making her risk more and more to find whatever Horizon is looking for, she may want to kill him later but until then she needs tools to help her look.  I don't have any issues with putting characters behind the eight ball but give them a shot at playing their way out of it.

[gerzel]

The dark secret is fairly well out.  Other players have overheard the horizon connection and one reads this board. 

The Big Regret is just penciled in.  The actual alignment of negative qualities will depend on what route in the background that she chooses I've given her some options to pick from and am waiting for response.

[Tex Muldoon]

I love your concept and qualities.