Cry

Cry

Archetype
Combat Medic
Adept
Player	Mursey40k
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	20
Notoriety	2
Public Awareness	0
Titles and Awards	0
D.O.B.	21st Feb 2055
Folder	Shine
Priority	Metatype - D Attributes - B Magic/Resonance - B Skills - B Resources - E

Character Information

Summary

A woman pushed to the edge by a year of imprisonment at the hands of Vampires and Banshees. Driven to the shadows to take her revenge, she'll begin by learning how to murder dangerous metahumans, then move on to her true prey.

Cry is *not* a fanatic. Neither she is entirely obsessed with her religion and faith as one might expect. Instead, she is driven. She knows she is both a sinner and a damned soul, and embraces this fact, liberating her as it does from conventional morality and granting her the freedom to act as she must in service to herself and to her goals. A woman deeply traumatised by her past, she sleeps little and parties often, passing her sleepless nights on the hunt or in reckless drinking and debauchery. She knows she is damned until her soul can be reclaimed, and this behaves as she wills, all the while striving to gather back to herself that missing piece of herself which, deep down, she knows she shall never lived to reclaim.

She has spent much of the last year rediscovering and reinventing herself under the tutelage of some of the more disreputable members of the Roman Catholic church in Seattle, among them Father Figaro and Cardinal Boomstick, and is loosely affiliated with her rescuer, Rose of Sharon Howlett, with whom she maintain close contact and shares information concerning the activities of soul-drinking infected.

Goals

• Reclaim her soul and repair the yawning, awful, terrifying rent in her aura caused by minions of the Banshee Agamemnon.
• Improve her skills as an assassin until she is ready to reap her vengeance upon soul-drinking infected.
• Infiltrate Shadowhaven and feed what she learns about soul-drinking infected runners back to Hunters who can make use of it.
• Destroy the infected where-ever they might be found. Until then, she will content herself by trying to fill the emptiness within herself with the screams of the Soul-Drinkers.

Alignment

Black Trenchcoat: Cry is a traumatised vampire survivor no longer content with being "mere prey" but instead intent on turning the tables on those she blames for her ordeal. All of them. She's of the opinion that she should killed them all, and let God sort out through the guilty. Her theme is dark and tragic, and consequently she's not really suitable for Pink Mohawk play or light hearted runs.

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Background

Emily was well positioned in life. She had everything that mattered: a SIN, a good school, parents who loved her. And she had a dream: univerisity, a pulitzer, a family, and in that order. All of that came crashing down the night she caught the attention of the wrong eyes while working her way through college, on an astral courier run into Puyullup. She tried to tell her brain she wasn't seeing what her eyes were seeing, but she was wrong.

And what was worse, what she was seeing saw her too. It saw her too, and it took her. For over a year she languished in the dark, being bled and fed upon as the mood took her captor, her tormentor. Trapped in the dark, bound by mage cuffs, she could perceive only the astral events around her, and far from becoming her haven from the world, the Astral scape around her became the stuff of nightmares. She -saw- souls drained from bodies. Men and women drained dry and murdered for the sustenance of a decaying, baying, decadent mob. Nightly, she preyed for death - until He sent salvation.

His Angels did not come in the form she had been given to suspect. They were thugs, gangers, runners, led by a woman with three parallel claw wounds upon her right cheek. She saw the stimgata at once and recognised it for what it was, the sign of a servant of God. They tore her mage cuffs away and freed her from the darkness, commanding her to run. Run! Hasten into the night.

And as she saw the vampiric minions of her once-captor fall beneath the blades of her liberators she knew! This, this why she had been spared.

So now, she walks the Shadows as a hunter of those who would call her prey. Setting herself as bait, luring them out. For though her prey might be dual natured, she knows they cannot stand against her when her shredded soul walks the Astral as a crusading Avenger. Her soul has been ravaged and to enter Heaven she must redeem by sending the souls of monsters to hell. Alison knows her prey haunt the shadows were good people cannot venture, and so she has ventured into the Shadowhaven. Bound by her word not to slay the demon-infested blood spawn she finds there, she knows she has no qualms concerning what she learns of infected runner to those who might otherwise put that knowledge to good use.

Deus Veult.

Narrative Significant Qualities

• College Education: Though she never finished her college education, Cry is still a registered student with the University of Washington.
• Common Sense: Walking at home through campus grounds drunk, at night, was an uncharacteristic act for a once otherwise grounded and sensible young woman.
• Deus Vult, Driven: Though not a fanatic, Cry believes she was spared from soul death for a reason, and intends to ensure that what she believes to be God's plan for her is fulfilled.
• Dishevilled, Innocuous: Cry really doesn't look anything like what most people expect from a shadow runner.
• Flashbacks (Feeding Type II Infected), Insomnia (Basic), Prejudiced (Essence Drainers -Outspoken), Social Stress (Presence of Infected): A year of anguish at the hands of her captors hasn't left Cry unaffected. As much as she hates and despises essence draining undead, and seeks their destruction, even simply being in their presence can reduce her to a quivering wreck.
• Vendetta (Agamemnon and his Agents): While Cry seeks the destruction of soul-drinking undead in general, she holds a particular hatred for Agamemnon and his associates.
• SINner (National): Emily Brook is a registered UCAS citizen.

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Cry Wolf!	Sarcarian			3 October 2082

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Cardinal Boomstick	6	1	Gear	Priest	Weapons Dealer, Ammunition, Heavy Weapons, Melee, Blades, Machine Guns, Explosives	Even
Father Figaro	3	1	Custom(G,A,N,K)	Priest and Talismonger	Christian Theurge, All Things Holy, Silver Stockpile, Talismonger	Even
Rose of Sharon Howlett	2	2	Legwork	Occult Bounty Hunter	HMHVV Carrier, CAS Native, Law Enforcement Experience, Monster Slayer, Spark of Magic	Even

Allies

Roman Catholic Church.

Enemies

Agamemnon Type II Infected.

In Character Information

Astral Perception Table

Her aura is rent in the Astral, a horror to behold. Unlike the crisp, clean lines of empty to found in the aura's of those who replace their bodies with meat, and plastic and foreign tissue, Cry's aura is a frayed wound, a serious of ragged tears and gaping voids where they should be life and colour and vibrancy.

Threshold	Result
1	1 Hit: Fit and well, Emotional State, Awakened. Initiated. 2 Hits: No standard cyberware, unusual dark streaks in aura indicative of metaplanar contact. If she is carrying her Katana it will be revealed as a weapon foci. The spider-ring worn on her right finger is a qi foci.
3	3 Hits: No alphaware, sense if Essence and Magic is higher or lower than your own. 4 Hits: No betaware, Magic 6, Essence 6. Identify if any adept powers are active - YES. Noticeably there is a faint shimmer of protective magic around her at all times. The brightness of her aura suggests that several other adept powers are also exerting an effect upon her physical and astral form.
6	No genetech present.

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	Glitch: SHINE! The easy-application spray that makes even the rustiest chrome SHINE! Like new! 1 or 2 Net Hits: Shine is a Shadowhaven Runner who specialises in breaking and entry, extractions, and combat medicine. She's a solid combatant, but does everything possible to avoid "going loud" on a run.
3	A grainy still-image taken from a news cast of a street-fight in Montreal. Shine's head, shoulders and fore-arms are barely in view while she uses a drag-handle to pull a wounded runner in Ancient's colours out of shot with one hand. The other hand being engaged in spraying short bursts from an Ingram Smart-gun. A crash-cart patch is clearly visible on her combat jump-suit and body armour.
6	An obituary in an internal Horizon news-letter for operations in Montreal, lamenting the "heroic sacrifice" of Monique De Rochelle and her entire Crash-Cart team during a disturbance inside an Ares Facility in Montreal. Ares representatives are recorded as extending their "deepest regrets" the families of the deceased Crash-Cart responce team and lauding their "heroic efforts" at extracting wounded Ares personnel from the "disturbance" zone.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	"Cry? Never heard of her. Sounds like a walk-over if you ask me. Who calls themselves "Cry"?
3	"Cry? Uh. Who?"
5	"Brand new runner. Not really the type you'd associate with the Shadows. Really doesn't seem the sort. Good candidate for dead runner of the week if you ask me."

SINs

Emily Brook, UCAS Citizen. Actual SIN

Emma Pryde UCAS Citizen (Fake SIN and all licenses rating 4):

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Appearance

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General Description and Clothing

A tall, slender woman of unremarkable good looks, of average height and with chestnut brown hair bound in a pony tail. Her eyes are bright, almost fevered, and her expression intent and driven. Her clothes are often soiled. wrinkled or grimy, and she rarely takes the opportunity to wash as often as she should. Even when she takes the time to clean her face and body, there's still a slight smell of woodsmoke, old sweat and damp soil about her, and she frequently deliberately styles her mascara to make it appear as though she has been crying, particularly when is is about to go into battle.

For the moment, she tends to favour baggy, almost shapeless Urban Explorer Jumpsuits with helmet, ballistic mask and forearms guards on a run. Her equipment is basic, marking her as a newcomer to the runner scene, but in good repair despite her habitually dishevelled appearance.

Matrix Persona

Her matrix persona is an angelic, winged being clad in battered armour of grey metal and bearing rod and staff as it's weapons.

Media Mentions

03 January 2081: A missing person's notice in the name of Emily Brook, last seen walking home from a New Years Eve party on the University of Washington Campus, together with an appeal for information, posted alongside avague description of a tall, slender "spooky" elf leaving the party moments after she departed.

12 January 2082: "Missing Girl Returns After a Year of Hell in A Vampire Torture Dungeon."
by News Van Dan.