Screech

Screech

Media Vulture
Sneaky Social Adept
Source: the rats that live in your walls
Discord	@discogoblin#9660
Reddit	[1]
Metatype	Koborokuru
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	2
D.O.B.	5/3/2058
Age	27
Folder	[2]
Priority	Metatype - B Attributes - C Magic/Resonance - D Skills - A Resources - E
#Max IGs/Ascension	0
# Optional Infected powers allowed	0
Essence(Current/Max):	6/12
# Optional Drake powers available	Major Powers:0 or Minor Powers:0

Character Information

Summary

Seattle's NUMBER ONE source for INDEPENDENT journalism, bringing the people the UGLY TRUTH, 24/7!!! Screech is a ravenous, cannibal Gnawer- and worse- and honest media, hellbent on making a name for herself by sticking a claw in the Big 10's eye. She runs because well... truth doesn't pay the bills, and her audience loves a good pulpy crime drama.

Goals

- EXPOSE the corruption of the corporate ruling class!

- BROADCAST her message to the people of the world!

- COPE with her ravenous hunger for bones!

- PAY her overdue rent!

Background

Cadence Conway: an indie news star, known for her daring, on-the-scene broadcasts and deep undercover exposes. She burst onto the scene with her coverage of corruption in Knight Errant juvenile court systems, purposely getting arrested to sneak recording gear into the jail. After that came her groundbreaking documentary on an ecofascist policlub in Snohomish, featuring a member of Seattle's city council admitting to campaign finance fraud on tape. By then big names were starting to notice, and Cadence got signed to Reverb News: a massively successful, independent outfit that she had looked up to since she was a kid. She dropped out of college and realized her dream of becoming a full time media, but as her company shifted towards mass-market appeal the relationship between the two soured. Cadence leaned harder into fringe stories ignoring the objections of her editors, gradually whittling her audience down to a small group of NeoA diehards. Then, the intrepid reporter poked the bear.

While researching a string of missing persons in the Barrens, she stumbled into an enormous conspiracy: a Tamanous organ legging operation that reached all the way to the corporate council. This wasn't some petty, street level corruption, but a billion nuyen industry built off dead bodies and refurbished ware. Tamanous were smart, organized, ruthless, and known for making examples out of snitches. Cadence said publish the story, damn the risk! Reverb was decidedly less gung-ho. When faced with the potential for violent retribution, the company threw its employee to the wolves. They fed her location to a Tamanous hitman and washed their hands of the whole affair, and quietly replacing her time slot that night with a nice, inoffensive cooking show. Cadence was grabbed on the way to her apartment by a hulking, slavering loup garou, and her story would've ended there if not for the actions of a single bold stranger.

This person whose name Cadence didn't even know charged the loup garou with a tire iron, giving her a chance to tear free of his grip and flee down a narrow side-alley. Her savior's warcry cut off abruptly as the garou turned upon them with its rage, tearing the hero to chunks of viscera splattered down the rain-soaked gutter. Cadence called in every favor she had to cover her tracks and get to a ripperdoc, eventually being saved by an old acquaintance from way back in the Snohomish days. Bianka Dreschler, a Free Berlin holdout, barely even blinked at the situation, but even as she arranged an ambulance she knew that it was too late. Cadence succumbed to her injuries on the ripperdoc's table. Then she opened her eyes again, a reanimated puppet for HMHVV. Her skin turned pallid, chipped like flint, and her hair fell out in great big clumps. Then the ripper tossed a body in the room she stripped it like a school of piranhas.

It's been busy nights as of late for the dead media. Assets seized, SIN burned, and on the hook for a whole lot of medical debt, she really didn't have much of a choice in accepting Bianka's offer for work. At least it'll get her back on her feet, she tells herself over and over again. She may have lost once but she's not down and out. With a little bit of luck she can start a new platform, for real this time, free from corporate constraints. Then she'll drive a stake through the heart of the conspiracy that they tried to cover up. She'll drag this whole sordid mess into the light of day, even if it burns her up in the process. Cadence Conway always gets her scoop.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

Rat Queen (Animal Empathy, Infected: Gnawer): Screech is a fledgling strain 2 infected with all the problems that entails. She hasn't got a clue how to get her own food, and until her embrace was totally mundane. The only point she has in her favor is a strange, newfound affinity for vermin. Two big Devil Rats from her apartment building, Jeepers and Creepers, have appointed themselves her protectors.

Beat Reporter (Online Fame, School of Hard Knocks, Linguist): Screech has never shied away from putting herself in the field. She knows the city like the back of her hand, and is already amassing a new online following for her coverage of Seattle's sordid underground. Whether this fame is good for her or her teammates remains to be seen.

Negative

Muckraker (Data Liberator, Electronic Witness, PSC IV: Nosy): For better or worse (usually worse), Screech truly believes in her mission to publish nothing but the truth. Her infection has only increased her fervor, and she will happily expose morally dubious practices even if it means screwing over a client. She also likes to film her jobs- blurring the faces of her team, of course- and publishes them in the form of videos on her exclusive subscription feed.

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Date of Run
Green Gold in the Ashes	LHOG		15 August 2085

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
News Van Dan	3	1	Legwork	Guerilla Reporter (Infobroker)	Infobroker, Conspiracy Theorist, Drone Operator, Hacktivist	Even
Bianka Dreschler	3	3	Fixer	Info-Broker	Chaos Magic Magician, Anarchist, Paracritter Lover, Linguist	Even
Zigzag	1	1	Service	Driver/Organlegger	Ghoul Organlegger, Actually a Good Driver, Dead Drop, Infected Networker	Even

Enemies

Tamanous: This time around it's personal. Screech hasn't given up the goal of exposing Tamanous's smuggling ring, but will have to restart from square one after her own editor burned her research.

In Character Information

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SINs

Kayla McKenna, R3 Burner: Look, it's all she could afford.

Character Plot Hooks

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