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Red Ribbon

2025-09-16T00:43:17Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

* <s>Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.</s> She's finally done it. Why does she feel so... strange?

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

Wanted: Aztechnology (250k nuyen) - Helping steal a Bloodhawk will do that.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Commander
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lt.Cmdr Yennefer Kerrigan
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+30 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

-50 Rep [[Aztechnology]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Vory and Finnigan associated forums seem angry at her when she's brought up.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Vory are out for her head, for one thing, and she has a... tense relationship with the Finns. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Information
!Related Run(s)
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|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|'''Highway to the (danger zone)'''
|Red Ribbon helped steal an Aztechnology Bloodhawk. This made Aztechnology pissed. Also, she had to make a deal with the dragon [[Xicena]] to get out with reasonable certainty of living, which only ever goes well. Now AZT has a bounty on her head, and Ribbon owes a ritually-enforced favor to the dragon.
|[[Operation: Hell's Gate]]
|-
|}

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==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

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Red Ribbon

2025-09-14T00:44:11Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

* <s>Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.</s> She's finally done it. Why does she feel so... strange?

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Commander
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lt.Cmdr Yennefer Kerrigan
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+30 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

-50 Rep [[Aztechnology]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Vory and Finnigan associated forums seem angry at her when she's brought up.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Vory are out for her head, for one thing, and she has a... tense relationship with the Finns. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
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|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|'''Highway to the (danger zone)'''
|Red Ribbon helped steal an Aztechnology Bloodhawk. This made Aztechnology pissed. Also, she had to make a deal with the dragon [[Xicena]] to get out with reasonable certainty of living, which only ever goes well. Now AZT has a bounty on her head, and Ribbon owes a ritually-enforced favor to the dragon.
|[[Operation: Hell's Gate]]
|-
|}

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==Note==
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Red Ribbon

2025-09-14T00:43:50Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

* <s>Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.</s> She's finally done it. Why does she feel so... strange?

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Commander
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lt.Cmdr Yennefer Kerrigan
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+30 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Vory and Finnigan associated forums seem angry at her when she's brought up.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Vory are out for her head, for one thing, and she has a... tense relationship with the Finns. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|'''Highway to the (danger zone)'''
|Red Ribbon helped steal an Aztechnology Bloodhawk. This made Aztechnology pissed. Also, she had to make a deal with the dragon [[Xicena]] to get out with reasonable certainty of living, which only ever goes well. Now AZT has a bounty on her head, and Ribbon owes a ritually-enforced favor to the dragon.
|[[Operation: Hell's Gate]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

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Red Ribbon

2025-09-14T00:43:18Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

* <s>Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.</s> She's finally done it. Why does she feel so... strange?

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Commander
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lt.Cmdr Yennefer Kerrigan
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Vory and Finnigan associated forums seem angry at her when she's brought up.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Vory are out for her head, for one thing, and she has a... tense relationship with the Finns. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|'''Highway to the (danger zone)'''
|Red Ribbon helped steal an Aztechnology Bloodhawk. This made Aztechnology pissed. Also, she had to make a deal with the dragon [[Xicena]] to get out with reasonable certainty of living, which only ever goes well. Now AZT has a bounty on her head, and Ribbon owes a ritually-enforced favor to the dragon.
|[[Operation: Hell's Gate]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-09-14T00:42:48Z

Sample Text: /* Ongoing Goals */

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Commander
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lt.Cmdr Yennefer Kerrigan
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Vory and Finnigan associated forums seem angry at her when she's brought up.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Vory are out for her head, for one thing, and she has a... tense relationship with the Finns. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|'''Highway to the (danger zone)'''
|Red Ribbon helped steal an Aztechnology Bloodhawk. This made Aztechnology pissed. Also, she had to make a deal with the dragon [[Xicena]] to get out with reasonable certainty of living, which only ever goes well. Now AZT has a bounty on her head, and Ribbon owes a ritually-enforced favor to the dragon.
|[[Operation: Hell's Gate]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
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[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-09-14T00:41:16Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Commander
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lt.Cmdr Yennefer Kerrigan
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Vory and Finnigan associated forums seem angry at her when she's brought up.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Vory are out for her head, for one thing, and she has a... tense relationship with the Finns. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|'''Highway to the (danger zone)'''
|Red Ribbon helped steal an Aztechnology Bloodhawk. This made Aztechnology pissed. Also, she had to make a deal with the dragon [[Xicena]] to get out with reasonable certainty of living, which only ever goes well. Now AZT has a bounty on her head, and Ribbon owes a ritually-enforced favor to the dragon.
|[[Operation: Hell's Gate]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-09-14T00:38:55Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Commander
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lt.Cmdr Yennefer Kerrigan
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Vory and Finnigan associated forums seem angry at her when she's brought up.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Vory are out for her head, for one thing, and she has a... tense relationship with the Finns. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-09-14T00:38:12Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Commander
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lt. Cmdr Kerrigan
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Vory and Finnigan associated forums seem angry at her when she's brought up.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Vory are out for her head, for one thing, and she has a... tense relationship with the Finns. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Related Run(s)
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|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

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Red Ribbon

2025-08-19T19:27:40Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Vory and Finnigan associated forums seem angry at her when she's brought up.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Vory are out for her head, for one thing, and she has a... tense relationship with the Finns. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Information
!Related Run(s)
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|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-08-19T18:05:44Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Some of her matrix activity seems to involve research into technomancy. Vory and Finnigan associated forums seem angry at her when she's brought up.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Vory are out for her head, for one thing, and she has a... tense relationship with the Finns. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-08-19T18:04:37Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Some of her matrix activity seems to involve research into technomancy.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Vory are out for her head, for one thing, and she has a... tense relationship with the Finns. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-08-19T18:04:03Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Some of her matrix activity seems to involve research into technomancy.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns and the Vory are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-08-19T18:03:09Z

Sample Text: /* Matrix Search Table */

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net (MCT reps in particular), posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Some of her matrix activity seems to involve research into technomancy.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-08-19T18:02:27Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She seems to do a lot of language-learning on the matrix, currently focusing on Sperethiel. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a Mack Hellhound and multiple expensive sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around. Some of her matrix activity seems to involve research into technomancy.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

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Red Ribbon

2025-08-19T18:00:18Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2083. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2084, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms a couple years back. Recently, there's been rumors about her involved in some business up in the Tir. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

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Red Ribbon

2025-03-11T23:15:48Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-02-25T22:29:47Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-8 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-02-25T22:05:58Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Francesco di Gangi
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-02-09T19:22:39Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda (contact)
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
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}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2025-02-09T19:21:46Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Garuda
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Dead(er) Head

2025-02-04T02:05:20Z

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[[Category:Runs]] 

==Summary==
* 1/4: 4 Hours
* 1/16: 2 Hours
* 1/30: 3 Hours

==Background==
During the events of [[420BPM_THROUGH_THE_SKULL|A prior run]], the Shredder and Red Ribbon came across the Red Vory known as Deadhead. After experiencing the "shotgun roulette", both Shredder and Ribbon vowed they would shut down Deadhead and end his sick, cruel, games.

==The Meet==
Shredder reaches out to Ribbon about going back to Stairway to Heaven. After considering that they want to do so during the bar's off hours, they begin reaching out to other runners. Ribbon pulls in Bhop for matrix overwatch, and then Alkali for magical support. In the case of Bhop, the DNI reaches her amid a small resonance realm amid floating islands and gears built into the side of them. In the case of the maid mage, Ribbon and company dox the frag out of him first making the initial contact, despite Alkali's very thin and suspiciously clean matrix presence. The mage, exhausted from his recent adventures and iniation, agrees to the meet.

The meet happens in a park in Snohomish and the various runners make their way there. They discuss the background of Deadhead and [[Dealer]], determining how much Alkali is going to charge them for his magical services.

==The Plan==
* Have Alkali socially infil to scout the place
* Steal the Spinrad Talent Scout's identity via magic
* Craft disguises
* Sneak into the Skull by posing as the Talent scout
* Sneak Ribbon's Drones in
* Kill Deadhead and the Twins
* Collect their bounties and steal their shit

==The Run==
===Legwork: Seeking Heaven===
'''Magical''':
* Alkali summons a gambling task spirit in order to borrow his aura, and then do an astral scouting run.
* Force 8 Ward
* Couple of errant free spirits soaking up the mana aspect
* Outside Preamble: Aspected BGC 1 (Debauchery, hedonism, drug use, etc)
* Inside Preamble: Aspected BGC 2
* Spine: Aspected BGC 4
* Skull: Aspected BGC 6 (aspect also includes Violence)
* F6 Spirits of Man patrolling Skull
* F6 Alarm Ward on Deadheads office
* Spots Elven woman going in and out, catches her aura, and follows her. Woman is a talent scout for Spinrad, using Skull as a pool of "talent" for a potential "Urban Brawl team"

'''Matrix''':
* Red Ribbon discovers that both of the Twins have 5k bounties, each, on them from an anonymous source. Deadhead has a 10k bounty from Silas, a local Fixer, for screwing him on a recent job
* The Twins are both physical adepts with weapon foci Katana. They hire themselves out as bodyguards to the highest bidder, usually operating in higher class areas. They are known only as "The Twins" and are biosculpted to look exactly alike. It is rumored they were, or are, siblings. While it is not clear who the bounties are from, there is strong online chatter that they pissed off the Black Lodge.
* Dealer is a an Aztland national who lost most of her sense of self a long time ago. She doesn’t belong to any creed or nation now, knowing only war and how to stem the boredom of being a ghoul. She gambles with her life in the Stairway to heaven playing Shotgun Roulette, since she’s tough to kill and usually wins because of her infected nature.
* Yuri Petrov aka Deadhead is a boss of the Red Vory. He works the operations underground here, and usually stays within a special arena for watching games of Shotgun Roulette. He’s been sitting in there as he and dealer are on good terms, and usually bets on Dealer
* Preamble: An old church that has been fashioned into a semi-literal fortress. The Preamble has the most accommodating areas, as its stonework and masonry make it somewhat hospitable and actually nice to look at. For those who wish to party and come back out alive, usually this is the place to be. Drugs can be purchased here from the vory. Music is thumping 24/7 and rarely shuts down.
* Spine: A large shaft that has a few rooms around the side, stair ways around the side of the shaft that led to ancillary tunnels, but otherwise is given the name due to the very large stairway that spirals down. Every two floors there’s a landing for people to party on. Shredder was able to skate from the top to the bottom once.
* Skull: This is where the real party happens. The floor of the place is usually crowded by people partying to nonstop 24/7 edm / phonk / noise music. It’s easy to hide in the crowd, but vory guards do keep an eye out here. Death games happen here, notably Dealer hangs out here with the Vory Boss, Yuri Petrov aka Deadhead.
* OU Tunnels: Simple as; there are a few ways to get nearby, but nothing large enough for a vehicle to get by. Motorcycles, sure, but not cars.

'''Bhop's Matrix run'''
* R4 Host (A5, S4, D6, F7): Preamble - destination host
* R6 Host (A6, S8, D7, F9): Skull - bare bones regular host
* Despite a Noise of 12 from Metal Walls and Noise Paint, Bhop gridhops like the Bun she is.
* R6 MAD Scanners, R6 Cyberware Scanners
* R6 Cameras
* R5 Maglocks on secure locations
* Local Spider, Zeus: Cyberdeck: Shiawase Cyber-5, A6(7) S8(10) D5 F7, Commcode, Last Action Taken: Decrypt
* Skull only: R6 Motion Sensors in air vents, R6 Alarms on windows. 4x R6 Turrets in the walls with Ares Alphas
* Faraday Cage on the Office
* Skull almost never closes, operating on a 8 hrs x3 schedule, except every once in a while for a day off. The next "open" day is in two days

'''Meat''':
* Alkali calls [[Scheherazade]] and discovers that Deadhead has recently recruited two bodyguards from an upper end place - known only as The Twins. A pair of adept guards, likely biosculpted to look like each other.

===Run: Stairway to Heaven, Highway to Hell===
* Disguise Notes: BHop (Not Present), Alkali 12 (Disguised as Jeanne Stilray, Spinrad Talent Rep), Ribbon (Not Present), Shredder 6.
* The team rests a few days and then prepares to grab the Spinrad agent, Jeannie Stilray.
* They track down her GMC Phoenix on route to Stairway to Heaven and Bhop Haaaaacks from Beyooooond in order to take control of the car, forcing it to roll a window down.
** Ribbon uses a drone to shoot Stilray with a dart while Bhop squelches any comms in case something goes run.
** Stilray gets hit with Narcojet, and then they hit her with Slab to keep her out
** The team realizes this is [[Sandalphon]] after realizing she is wearing a synthskin mask
** Bhop erases her matrix signatures from the car.
* Alkali, masquerading as Stilray, contacts Deadhead to set up a meeting to try and recruit the Twins from him.
* Ribbon sneaks some drones in from the underground OU entrance but there are no actual vents from the OU side.
* Bhop, eventaully, gets into the Skull host and takes over the cameras, locating the door to the OU for Ribbon to enter from
* They manage to get Deadhead out of his office, and then spring the trap. A firefight breaks out where the runners manage to get the upper hand on the twins and Deadhead.
* The opfor Decker, a script kiddie, absolutely bails since he is not Vory and this looks heavy.
* The team manages to exfil under fire from the club, grabbing loot on the way out.

==Aftermath==
[[Sandalphon]] wakes up in a no-tell motel, having been hit with Laes to not remember anything that led to her waking up around a number of empty drug bottles.
Deadhead is, finally, a dead head.

==Rewards==
* Extreme: 30 RVP x 1.5 Hours = 45 RVP
* 10 Karma (10 RVP)
* 20,000 Nuyen in Bounties(10 RVP)
* 40,000 Nuyen in stolen gear (guns, ammo, armor) or Foci. up to avail 20 (10 RVP) or if fenced 20k Nuyen
* 30 CDP (15 RVP)
* 2 CDP Run Guarantee

* Quality Notes, posquals taking taken from above rewards
* PSC: Braggart for Red Ribbon
* Shoot First (2 RVP) for Shredder
* First Impression (11 RVP) for Alkali
* Fade to Black (7 RVP) for Bhop

* Mundane Ascension for Shredder

==Game Quotes==

{{Gamequote|Amusing quote from game.}}

==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==
**Red Ribbon:** "It's been a good few years since I started doing this thing. Every now and then you get a chance to off someone '''real''' slimy, choice selections of the worst pieces of work this world has to offer. Deadhead's better off this way, and so's everyone else. Feels good to do something without a J pulling the strings."

Redmond Club Temporarily Closed after Basement Shooting

2025-01-31T05:21:15Z

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Hey Redmonders! Redmond-ites, Redmond Friendmonds! Today I've got you something that'd be exciting anywhere else. You know that club, Stairway to Heaven, the one right near Glow City? Rumor has it some shady drek went down there daily, but nobody wants to stick their nose in that kind of stink - until yesterday, seems like. From what I heard, some people walkin' by heard shots comin' from inside, distant-like. I dig a little deeper, and whadda I find? The club had an ''underground basement!'' In the OU! Maybe just the distance away for the shots to sound like that, hey? And now they're closed, they say for ''repairs'' or some drek. I don't believe a word of it, but guys with guns won't let me in the front door. You can't see it, but I'm pouting, and it's like, a really good pout, you'd ''totally'' let me in the door if you saw this pout.

Ahem.

We couldn't get an on-site report from witnesses on the ground. Nobody wants to talk to poor little me. Like the guy in this video clip!

<pre>What? The fuck - leave me alone, lady! Turn the damn camera off! I said - </pre>

Anyway that's X-POS-A out until another day, reporting on whatever the frag I want in the Redmond Barrens! Give me your money so I can do this more.

Redmond Club Temporarily Closed after Basement Shooting

2025-01-31T05:19:51Z

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Hey Redmonders! Redmond-ites, Redmond Friendmonds! Today I've got you something that'd be exciting anywhere else. You know that club, Stairway to Heaven, the one right near Glow City? Rumor has it some shady drek went down there daily, but nobody wants to stick their nose in that kind of stink - until yesterday, seems like. From what I heard, some people walkin' by heard shots comin' from inside, distant-like. I dig a little deeper, and whadda I find? The club had an *underground basement!* In the OU! Maybe just the distance away for the shots to sound like that, hey? And now they're closed, they say for *repairs* or some drek. I don't believe a word of it, but guys with guns won't let me in the front door. You can't see it, but I'm pouting, and it's like, a really good pout, you'd *totally* let me in the door if you saw this pout.

Ahem.

We couldn't get an on-site report from witnesses on the ground. Nobody wants to talk to poor little me. Like the guy in this video clip!

<pre>What? The fuck - leave me alone, lady! Turn the damn camera off! I said - </pre>

Anyway that's X-POS-A out until another day, reporting on whatever the frag I want in the Redmond Barrens! Give me your money so I can do this more.

Redmond Club Temporarily Closed after Basement Shooting

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Hey Redmonders! Redmond-ites, Redmond Friendmonds! Today I've got you something that'd be exciting anywhere else. You know that club, Stairway to Heaven, the one right near Glow City? Rumor has it some shady drek went down there daily, but nobody wants to stick their nose in that kind of stink - until yesterday, seems like. From what I heard, some people walkin' by heard shots comin' from inside, distant-like. I dig a little deeper, and whadda I find? The club had an *underground basement!* In the OU! Maybe just the distance away for the shots to sound like that, hey? And now they're closed, they say for *repairs* or some drek. I don't believe a word of it, but guys with guns won't let me in the front door. You can't see it, but I'm pouting, and it's like, a really good pout, you'd *totally* let me in the door if you saw this pout.

Ahem.

We couldn't get an on-site report from witnesses on the ground. Nobody wants to talk to poor little me. Like the guy in this video clip!

<pre>What? The fuck - leave me alone, lady! Turn the damn camera off! I said - </pre>

Anyway that's X-POS-A out until another day, reporting on whatever the frag I want in the Redmond Barrens! Give me your money so I can do this more.

S.K.A.T.E.

2024-11-13T06:41:37Z

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Red Ribbon

2024-09-15T05:55:45Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of their enemies, but Ribbon would only learn of their deaths much later. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she could scrounge from the wreckage of her life, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
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==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


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|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
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|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


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===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
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|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
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|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-09-10T22:20:44Z

Sample Text: /* Allies */

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
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}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+10 Rep [[Chulos]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-09-10T22:20:16Z

Sample Text: /* Character Plot Hooks */

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Related Run(s)
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|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways. Tako Johnson has recently spotted her in Redmond, and she's been previously hunted by an MCT spider as well.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
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Red Ribbon

2024-09-10T22:19:01Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy, Alibi, Profiler - Ribbon's experience as a shadowrunner, her Matrix expertise, and her ability to seem oddly sincere no matter what she's saying all come together to make for a surprisingly charismatic rigger.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-09-10T22:17:28Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* Keep [[Paz]] from doing something stupid and dying.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-09-10T22:16:57Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-09-10T22:16:39Z

Sample Text: /* Matrix Search Table */

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
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}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts. Additionally, it seems like she's a pretty frequent participant in street racing around Redmond, showing off a truck and multiple sports cars.
|HighResult=There are subtle-to-unsubtle corpos digging for info on Ribbon while crawling around the 'net, posts about... an orphanage being burned some years back, and rumors about the Redmond radstorms, plus various bootleg Rad Wars recordings of her. She gets around.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-09-10T22:14:23Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Lot to say about this name, but it might get you in trouble to hear it. Miss Ribbon was a ganger in her early days, and a real mean one too - ask [[Saint]] about it and try not to get stabbed. Nowadays she takes high-risk gigs, the kind you only hear rumors about afterwards. People are sayin' she's in real hot water with [[MCT]], and that she was in the middle of all those radstorms back in the summer. If you've got a problem with her, make sure you're shooting the real one and not her anthrodrone."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Information
!Related Run(s)
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|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
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Red Ribbon

2024-08-08T03:30:55Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Ashen Hand
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Slava Nikerosa
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Information
!Related Run(s)
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|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

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Red Ribbon

2024-08-08T02:49:11Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-2
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-07-18T07:48:17Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated - but not before the technomancers captured there were extracted. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill, but her proclivity for helping out technomancers might make her interesting in other ways.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
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[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-07-18T07:47:10Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|'''Zeroed Zero Zone'''
|Red Ribbon was part of a runner team instrumental in the destruction of a secret MCT Zero-Zone research facility. Due to some... destructive decisions... the facility was overrun by monads, and the power plant overheated. She's almost certainly on MCT's short-list of runners to kill.
|[[Séquence en Cascade]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

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[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-07-18T07:39:23Z

Sample Text: /* Ongoing Goals */

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Stand up for what she wants to believe in. Such things include: fucking over corpos and helping innocent technomancers.

* Protect her girlfriend, [[Bunny Hop]].

* Chill out with [[Shredder]] some more.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
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===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-07-18T07:37:40Z

Sample Text: /* Character Information */

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Grow a spine, stand up for what she wants to believe in, and hopefully earn [[Bunny Hop|Bunny Hop's]] respect and trust.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Wherever she is, hopefully she's happy.

* <s>Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.</s> There are other things to worry about now.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Information
!Related Run(s)
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|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

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Red Ribbon

2024-05-26T22:01:53Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Oh, [[Spriggan|Fern]], what have you done?

* Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.

* Grow a spine, stand up for what she wants to believe in, and hopefully earn [[Bunny Hop|Bunny Hop's]] respect and trust.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

-20 Rep [[MCT]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-05-26T00:22:07Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Oh, [[Spriggan|Fern]], what have you done?

* Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.

* Grow a spine, stand up for what she wants to believe in, and hopefully earn [[Bunny Hop|Bunny Hop's]] respect and trust.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Alexandria
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-04-20T07:07:39Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Oh, [[Spriggan|Fern]], what have you done?

* Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.

* Grow a spine, stand up for what she wants to believe in, and hopefully earn [[Bunny Hop|Bunny Hop's]] respect and trust.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery... for the Military!]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|}

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==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-04-20T07:07:10Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Oh, [[Spriggan|Fern]], what have you done?

* Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.

* Grow a spine, stand up for what she wants to believe in, and hopefully earn [[Bunny Hop|Bunny Hop's]] respect and trust.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


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{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
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|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[Special Delivery for the Military]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-04-20T06:57:49Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Oh, [[Spriggan|Fern]], what have you done?

* Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.

* Grow a spine, stand up for what she wants to believe in, and hopefully earn [[Bunny Hop|Bunny Hop's]] respect and trust.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Information
!Related Run(s)
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|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[???]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|[[The Great Wave]]
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

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Red Ribbon

2024-03-31T19:20:20Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Oh, [[Spriggan|Fern]], what have you done?

* Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.

* Grow a spine, stand up for what she wants to believe in, and hopefully earn [[Bunny Hop|Bunny Hop's]] respect and trust.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

Ninja Vanish - If you can't fight on the matrix, better to hide.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[???]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|N/A
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-03-31T19:19:43Z

Sample Text: /* Ongoing Goals */

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Oh, [[Spriggan|Fern]], what have you done?

* Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.

* Grow a spine, stand up for what she wants to believe in, and hopefully earn [[Bunny Hop|Bunny Hop's]] respect and trust.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

* Revitalize back to 1 or greater essence. Hopefully that'll help with her mental issues.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[???]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|N/A
|-
|}

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

==Note==
I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-03-31T19:19:17Z

Sample Text: /* Ongoing Goals */

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Oh, [[Spriggan|Fern]], what have you done?

* Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.

* Grow a spine, stand up for what she wants to believe in, and hopefully earn [[Bunny Hop|Bunny Hop's]] respect and trust.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[???]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|N/A
|-
|}

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[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-03-31T19:14:26Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Get people to trust her again.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Oh, [[Spriggan|Fern]], what have you done?

* Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.

* Grow a spine, stand up for what she wants to believe in, and hopefully earn [[Bunny Hop|Bunny Hop's]] respect and trust.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


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{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
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|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
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|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[???]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|N/A
|-
|}

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[[Category:Player Characters]]

Red Ribbon

2024-03-31T18:49:26Z

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=Character Information=

===Summary===
Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

===Ongoing Goals===

* Get people to trust her again.

* <s>Get to know [[Spriggan]] better. But... carefully.</s> Oh, [[Spriggan|Fern]], what have you done?

* Kill [[True Sulla]]. Forever.

* Grow a spine, stand up for what she wants to believe in, and hopefully earn [[Bunny Hop|Bunny Hop's]] respect and trust.

* Make more friends. They all keep disappearing or moving away.

* Buy a VTOL.

* <s> Help [[Farraday's Clinic]] recoup.</s> Gone, reduced to atoms. She'll work with [[S3I]] in the same spirit.

* Pay back [[Arma Remington]].

* Gain [[Von Neumann]]'s trust so she can get this microbomb taken out of her head.

===Resolved Goals===

* <s>Buy something nice to drive around town with. A van is good, but it doesn't have the right ''flash.''</s> A cherry-red Shin-Hyung and a Mack Hellhound do quite nicely.

* <s>Spend more time with [[P23|Paz]], and keep her safe.</s> The FLR ex-girlfriend has retired to Cara'sir, but Ribbon hasn't had enough of the runner life just yet.

* <s>Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.</s> Goddammit, not [[Saint|like that!]]

* <s>Make goddamn sure [[Red Ledger]] never figures out who she is.</s> [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|Drek.]]

* <s>Get to know [[Sizzles]] better.</s> Where ''is'' the man? She hasn't heard from him in weeks.

* <s>Smooth things over with the [[Finnigan Family]].</s> I suppose you could say that ship has sailed.

* <s>Somehow, get [[Saint]] to stop trying to kill her.</s> Funny enough, helping save someone's girlfriend helps a lot with that.

==Background==
Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her - and forced to leave by criminal activity. That abandonment wouldn't save them from death at the hands of murderers. Ribbon was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of the local [[Chrome Crash]] gang, who at first deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. In return, of course, she was asked for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. At some point, she learned he worked for a gang, and met some of its members, but didn't dig further. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required, and whenever she showed signs of doubt regarding this view, she was gently reminded of everything she owed to her guardian. The decent life she'd been given was slowly turned into a cage that she willingly remained within.

This might have continued for much longer, but she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle. She was gathering intelligence to be used in lethal ambushes against a rival gang, [[Red Ledger]] and their associates - many of whom were innocent family members or friends. Even this, though, was not enough to shift Ribbon from her cushy little prison, and so she became part and parcel to atrocity, tempted and threatened equally by stability and by the people and power her guardian commanded.

Eventually, inevitably, the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. This turned out to be fortunate - her guardian's associated gang's main safehouse was also hit in the same night. So it was that Ribbon began running for herself, rather than anyone else. Throughout the aftermath, her negative emotions surrounding the event focused overwhelmingly on herself, as she felt viscerally uncomfortable with turning even posthumous blame on the man who put her in the aforementioned situation, despite his direct hand in the matter.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - but also for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her self-perception of her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

===Positive===
Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions.

Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't ''really'' seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Steely-Eyed Wheelman, Stunt Driver, Gearhead, Vehicle Empathy, Sense of Direction - Redmond highways are good teachers, especially when the go-gangs come around. If you try to tussle with Ribbon on the tarmac, you're in for a nasty surprise.

Subtle Pilot (Air & Groundcraft), Aptitude (Sneaking) - With experience comes wisdom. You know what's better than shooting first? Not having to shoot at all. Discretion is key.

Reverberant - Why is it that every time something weird happens in the matrix, it ends up being a techno? At least there are patterns you can spot.

Trustworthy - Even if you hate her, or think what she's done is horrific... Ribbon is a consummate professional, and has held a team together more than once.

===Negative===
<s>Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in. There's also the more material matter of playing a notable part in some Seattle gang conflicts that comes along with this - and there are surely those who would love to see a bullet in her if they were to connect the dots.</s>

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT-Nissan Rotodrone. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Addiction (Mild, Psyche), Addiction (Mild, Overdrive), Addiction (Mild, Hotsim) - It's a thrill to feel so ''active'' and ''pumped up'' in hotsim! Though maybe her behavior is getting a little compulsive, when it comes to that...

R̶e̶c̶o̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶O̶n̶ ̶F̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶(̶S̶a̶e̶d̶e̶r̶-̶K̶r̶u̶p̶p̶)̶ ̶-̶ ̶W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶a̶d̶ ̶W̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶m̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶.̶.̶.̶ Data expunged. It's going to take a few favors to [[Arma Remington]] to pay that back...

Insomnia - The stress. It's too much.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}}


==Affiliations==

===Contacts===


{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=Alessa P
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Henry Wallace
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Lil Raj
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Inari Ōkami
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dottie
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Noison Gayle
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Dr. Nina Farraday
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=WRN3
|Loyalty=5
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Skinshedder
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hanako Shinoda
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Angela
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Taina Kauhava
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Arma Remington
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=-4
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Raytheon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Von Neumann
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Iefraila
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Sandalphon
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Hextech
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Bolt
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===


===Allies===
+20 Rep [[Farraday's Clinic]]

+10 Rep [[West Coast Monolith]]

+5 Rep [[N-51]]

+5 Rep [[Followers of the Iron Thorn]]

+5 Rep [[Pixy Squad]]

+5 Rep [[Ancients]]

+5 Rep [[S3I]]

+2 Rep [[Seelie Court]]

+2 Rep [[TerraFirst!]]

+2 Rep [[Hounds]]

+2 Rep [[Imagination Foundation]]

+2 Rep [[Violi Mafia Family]]

+2 Rep [[Saeder-Krupp]]

+1 Rep [[Dante's Inferno]]

+1 Rep [[Erika]]

===Enemies===
-3 Rep [[Banzai Battlefield Express]]

-5 Rep [[DGSE]]

-5 Rep [[Kenran-kai]]

-5 Rep [[Ares Macrotechnology]]

-7 Rep [[Yellow Lotus Triad]]

-10 Rep [[Compulsory Execution Unit]]. Bastards.

-10 Rep [[Kalanyr]]. Dropping a bunker buster on a dragon's head will do that.

-10 Rep [[White Vory]]

-13 Rep [[Finnigan Family]]. Well, she tried...

-15 Rep [[Red Vory]]

=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==

==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs. She seems to know half the mechanics that live in town, referring to them with some familiarity.
|MidResult=She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese. She doesn't seem very good at it, from her posts.
|HighResult=There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too. Further research may reveal that [[Chrome Crash]] and [[Red Ledger]] were notable causes of this violence.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Red Ribbon? Yeah, she popped up in the 'haven in summer 2084. Best anyone knows, she's a Seattle native. If you wanna know more, you might ask [[Alessa P | Alessa]] - apparently she's on decent terms with Miss Ribbon. Oh, or that guy over at [[S3I]] - I think his name was [[WRN3]]? You'll see her a lot at The Daze, anyway."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="Ribbon's been around the Haven for a while now, and seems to have a habit of pissing people off. The Finns are out for her head, for one thing. She fought in the Rad Wars in 2083, so if you want to look up footage of her in action, you sure can - S-K corp team. Judgements on that aside, she's a pretty damn good driver."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Surprised you haven't heard about it by now, to be honest. Her name's bad to bring up in the shadows right now - apparently she got up to some real fragged up drek in her ganger days. Hits on homeless shelters during gang wars, is what I heard, with only ashes left behind. Now, I have heard she's trying to be better, and she did help do that clinic in Avondale a [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay|good turn.]] Still, I'd keep judgement careful."
}}

==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious. Shaky mental stability. Insomniac, not quite cyberpsychotic.
|Result2=Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg with several add-ons.
|Result3=Situational.
|Result4=Essence 0.3075. Betaware in her throat and head, along with some bioware in her head.
|Result5=Narco geneware.
}}

==SINs==
(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, Security Rigger, R6
* Driver's License R6
* Drone License R6
* Restricted Cyberware License R6
* Concealed Carry Permit R6
* Automatic Weapons License R6
* Security Rigger License R6
* Matrix Software License R6

==Appearance==
Red Ribbon is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

=== Clothing ===
She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso. As a replacement for her old coat, which had a bullet put through it and was subsequently stolen by [[Saint]], she's acquired a jacket upon which those red accents fade into a dynamic pattern of red circuitry on the back, illuminated by internal LEDs.

Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

===Matrix Persona===
Red's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

==Character Plot Hooks==

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''Doug will remember that.'''
|Doug is a Jarhead related to a corpo who formerly worked for Zeta ImpChem. He failed to stop Ribbon and a crew of other runners from extracting a relative of his. Apparently, Doug holds some pretty intense grudges.
|[[Small Embers]]
|-
|'''Friend of Farraday'''
|Red Ribbon did a '''lot''' of work for [[Farraday's Clinic]] before its destruction. She has a lot of sympathy for the Infected community. The factions that opposed the clinic may remember her thanks to her distinctive appearance and consistent work.
|[[And Love You Shall Find]], [[The Light Before We Land]]
|-
|'''Old Friends'''
|At least two members of Ribbon's old gang, [[Chrome Crash]], are still at large. They go by Mercury and Saturn. Ribbon has directly or indirectly killed three others, though not all were associated with each other.
|[[Fort Dumbass]], [[Duvet]]
|-
|'''Extermination'''
|[[Red Ledger]], a Barrens gang, suffered a great deal due to the actions of [[Chrome Crash]] and Ribbon herself. Now that [[Repo]]'s caught wind of her presence in Redmond, and even saw her personally, her position is getting hotter by the second.
|[[Duvet]], [[Spray, Pray, and Co-Pay]]
|-
|'''Deep in Debt'''
|Red Ribbon owes [[Arma Remington]] a significant amount for purging her records from [[Saeder-Krupp]]'s databases.
|[[???]]
|-
|'''Trust Not Given'''
|Red Ribbon has gotten in contact with and done work for the mysterious AI known as [[Von Neumann]]. Such connections come with a price, and Ribbon's ended up with a cranial bomb for her trouble - until the AI trusts her enough not to talk.
|[[Replicant Encryption]]
|-
|'''Burning Name'''
|Red Ribbon's Big Regret, as described by previous sections, has become public among the shadowrunners of the Haven. While some random civilian on the street might not know, maybe people with connections will. The quality has been bought off, but some still might hold resentment.
|N/A
|-
|'''Riding on a Missile with a Cowboy Hat'''
|Red Ribbon was part of the team that dropped a bomb on Kalanyr's head during the events of [[The Great Wave]], giving him a nice new scar. Specifically, she was the one that actually dropped the thing. He's kind of mad about it.
|N/A
|-
|}

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