Vip3r

Vip3r

Technomancer
"I have the whole Matrix worth of information and more at my fingertips; the real crime here would be not to use as much of it as I can."
Discord	@makiiato#1300
Reddit	makiiato
Metatype	Elf
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
Titles and Awards	0
CDP	0
D.O.B.	February 4th, 2057
Age	29
Folder	Vip3r
Priority	Metatype - D Attributes - B Magic/Resonance - A Skills - C Resources - E

Character Information

Summary

A technomancer and a technological prodigy from an early age, Vip3r has been at home in the Matrix since long before she emerged. She's a skilled hacker and street survivalist, and isn't bad at talking her way out of trouble either.

Goals

For now, Vip3r is primarily seeking stability. She's hoping to save enough nuyen to find a neurologist willing to treat her, or at least help her figure out what's wrong with her.

Shadowrunning has provided Vip3r with the steady income necessary to support herself, and also to afford the regenerative treatment she needed to correct the brain damage that she suffered in a Mitsuhama lab. She has a solid support network in Shadowhaven and is embracing her role as a shadowrunner and her identity as a technomancer, but she's still wondering what it truly means to be emerged. Vip3r craves community with other technomancers who will help her understand her relationship to the Resonance, and hopes to find information that will help her to contextualize the experiences she's had.

Background

Vip3r taught herself to hack for fun and survival as a juvenile delinquent on the streets of the Redmond Barrens. She was adopted as a teenager by a middle-class couple who put her through high school, where she proved to be such a skilled learner that she was handed a corporate scholarship that would almost cover a college education and give her a direct pipeline to a stable career. In a desperate attempt to cover the rest, Vip3r took a shadowrun that ended in disaster, earning her eight years in Shadow Lake Correctional Facility at the age of seventeen. Four years in, she was offered a deal that would shave two years off of her sentence. It was framed as a work opportunity, but instead, it made her a lab rat in an intense and dubiously-ethical technomancer research operation by MCT.

Having extracted all the knowledge they can from her, MCT turns Vip3r loose two years later, putting her back on the street with no family, no contacts, and not-insignificant neurological damage that's rendered her unable to hold a regular job or schedule.

With a criminal SIN and nowhere else to turn for income, she began taking small-time hacking jobs again. As she did, people began to notice her skill, and Vip3r eventually attracted the attention of the Eighty-Eights Triad. They offered to burn her criminal SIN and set her up with a fake if she agreed to work for them in exchange, and in no position to refuse, Vip3r accepted.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

• Paragon (01): At Betz's suggestion, Vip3r has sought communion with 01 out of a desire for a deeper understanding of the Resonance and a meaningful connection to other technomancers.
• Resonant Stream: Sourceror: Having always been heavily reliant on her own ability, Vip3r has chosen to focus on her own skill with complex forms rather than depending on the use of sprites.
• School of Hard Knocks: Vip3r spent most of her childhood learning to survive on the streets of the Redmond Barrens. Navigating urban life is in her nature.
• Sensei: Vip3r is learning to improve her Cracking skills under M4rqu15 M4cr0.

Negative

• Distinctive Style: Vip3r is more than just a name; it's an identity. Snake tattoos, snakebite piercings, a split tongue and a Matrix persona that's an elf-sized humanoid snake make that identity unmistakable.
• Records on File (Mitsuhama): Yeah, this one's self-explanatory if you've read her history. As far as anyone knows, Vip3r's biometric and neurological records are still being stored in a Mitshuama lab somewhere.
• Scorched (Migraines): While she's no longer plagued by tremors, Vip3r still deals with debilitating migraines as part of the brain damage she suffered under MCT's study.

Run History

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Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Alexander-James Brodrick Johnson III	4	3	Networking	CorpKid	Party all Night... What time is it?, Everybody's Friend., Did Someone say Drugs?, Brodie J IN THE HOUSE!, Ride Wrecked? Brodie J's got it!, Oh yeah! I have a job!, Good looks, Money, and a savant-level understanding of rocket physics	Even
Betz	5	3	Legwork	Infobroker	Hacker, Infobroker, Matrix Lorekeeper, Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, Technomancer, Technoshaman	Even
Cecelia Cross	5	2	Networking	CATco Employee	Secret Technomancer, Woman Scorned, Tech Expert, Matrix Master, Corporate Life, Network Angel	Even
David Yang	[[Contact_Rules#Connection_Rating|]]	3	[[Contact_Rules#Contact_Archetype|]]			Even
Doctor O+	4	3	Custom(G,A,N,K)	Street Doc/Organlegger	Medical, Illegal, Organlegger, Ghoul Organlegger, Armorer, Ware, Rarities	Even
Dr. Tony Hanks	2	2	Legwork	Charity Clinic Doctor	Surgeon, Charity Networker, Redmond Born and Raised, Gang Grudge, Overworked	Even
Kenneth "Flamesaw" Murphy	2	1	Custom(A,G,N,K)	Ganger / Tough Guy	Not the Brightest Bulb, Firesaw, Fraggin' Handsome, People Pleaser, WAIT I'm a runner too!	Even
Miles Imaus	3	2	Legwork	Nightclub Owner	Bellevue up-and-Comer, Nightclub Owner, Gambler, Businessman	Even
Mr.Rudd	2	1	Networking		Art Dealer, I know a guy!, Satisfaction Guaranteed!, NO REFUNDS! NO RETRACTIONS! NO RECEIPTS!	Even
M4rqu15 M4cr0	4	1	Fixer	Matrix Magnate	Magnate, "There's only two things in life that are Certain, my dear...", The High Life, T34ch4r 0f th3 (Hacking) 4rt5, Eccentric Emerged Extraordinare	Even
Saint Nick	2	1	Gear	"Santa Claus"	Blissfully Unaware, KRIME Konnections, Milk and Cookies, Spirit of the Season, We Got Guns	-1
Sarah Snow	3	1	Fixer	Fundraiser and Housewife	Novacoke?, Novacoke!, Dinner Parties of Metahumans, Flawless Skin, On Retainer, Fundraiser	Even

Organizations

• Eighty-Eights Triad: Though not an official member herself, Vip3r will not work against the Eighty-Eights as a result of the assistance they offered her when she was in need.

Allies

• Harebuck: Best friend and roommate, who introduced her to the Haven.

Enemies

• Mitsuhama Computer Technologies: You read the above information, right? Vip3r has plenty of reason to hate and fear MCT. Rather than seeking revenge, however, Vip3r simply wishes to stay off their radar; she has no desire to risk reliving the last two years.

In Character Information

Symbols and Signatures

As her name would suggest, Vip3r follows a snake motif. The mark she leaves behind when hacking is an image of the open jaws of a snake about to bite.

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	Do you know how many users on the Matrix have some variation of "Vip3r" as part of their names? You're gonna have to look a little harder if you want anything specific.
3	A user named "Vip3r" seems to frequent various message boards about current events, technology, and a Matrix game called Plaguehunter. She seems to have a lot of helpful tips about boss attack patterns.
6	"Vip3r" also appears to spend a lot of time on some secure hacker boards. Whenever controversy around technomancers comes up, she seems pretty quick to defend them.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1
3
5

SINs

• Saeder-Krupp fake SIN (Rating 6): Alison Chiba

Appearance

Standing at 5'7" (170cm), Vip3r is a Japanese elf woman with short hair, snakebite piercings, and visible snake tattoos (which, specifically, are African bush vipers) on her forearms and neck.

Clothing

Vip3r dresses for utility and comfort, typically in a street-punk style, favoring blacks and greys with accents in purples or teals. She frequently does her shadowrunning in an armored synthleather jacket, grey with a high collar and plenty of pockets on the inside and out. For jobs with higher-end clients, she has an Executive Suite suit in dark grey, accented in light blue.

Matrix Persona

She switches between two Matrix personas, depending on what image she wants to convey. One is a stylized version of her actual appearance, standing slightly taller than her natural height and wearing a long snakeskin coat. The other is a naga modelled after an African bush viper, with iridescent black-purple scales.