The Name of Heaven

Whispered within circles of Technomancers and before them, the Otaku, is the idea of 'Heaven'. A place within places, a sort of El Dorado, hidden at the core of the matrix. A place where time stands still, where the only thing that exists is the mind and where there can be nothing that does not fit in.

However, the common belief is that Heaven is a myth. A tale started in tribes of wayward Otaku, spinning stories of a place where they could finally belong, a place where everything made sense. Some saw Heaven within the deep resonance or the being that took that name. Others, within the ultraviolet eyes of his defiant right-hand. Others in stranger places still. Nevertheless, a few still seek this forgotten place, digging through old records and within abandoned hosts, even wandering the resonance realms in search of the name of Heaven.

Factions

The Girl in Many Colors

A strange, enigmatic being who claims to be attempting to transcend the conceit of resonance and dissonance entirely. In the pursuit of this quest, she is searching for a place called 'Garden', a place which Heaven is either synonymous with or a stepping stone too. Regardless of what she claims, she is a powerful technomancer in her own right and represents the new blood, the younger generation of technomancers searching for an old, old myth.

Allies

Bunny Hop has been an outcast and now, she searches for connection. Both with other technomancers but also with the matrix and with herself. As such, she currently has decided to help out The Girl in Many Colors

Goals

Find Heaven and Garden

Transcend Dissonance and Resonance entirely

Ibis

Once a haven runner themself, Ibis was former Otaku that did not instantly emerge as a technomancer and dedicated the entirety of their life to emerging once more. Their path eventually crossed with the Heavenly Host, a secretive order of technomancers devoted to keeping a powerful AI chained. Ibis infiltrated their ranks and broke the beasts chain, emerging as a powerful dissonant technomancer and killing many of the leaders of the Heavenly Host immediately after. Now, they are searching for greater power, greater truth. They are looking for Heaven.

Allies

The Beast Unchained is a powerful, xenosapient knowledge with extensive knowledge of the origins of the matrix, as well as its darker inner workings. For now, their interests are seemingly aligned with those of the Ivory Dove, however each would throw the other to the wolves to climb higher.

Goals

Find Heaven

Devour Heaven

Become the Strongest Entity on the Grid

The Heavenly Host

Heavily fragmented and nearly wiped out after the actions of Ibis, the Heavenly Host slowly rebuilds its strength. This time, they plan to kill the beast. and its ally, for Good. A few of their members have taken to seeking out Heaven and Heavenseekers, both for powerful potential members and for potential weapons against the Beast.

Members

Azazel - Deceased, Killed in battle by Ibis

Grema - MIA, Supposedly killed by Ibis

Handraniel - Alive, spearheading the rebuilding efforts

Hyperion - Alive, remains crestfallen and unhelpful, his bravado turned sour.

Sydney - Alive, spends very little time on the grid in fear of the Demiurge.

Brickbreak - Alive

Michelangelo - KIA

Susan Rodriguez - Alive

Goals

Rebuild

Kill Ibis

Destroy The Beast Unchained

Assorted Heavenseekers

Despite its status as a legend, countless technomancers from all walks of life, resonant and dissonant, are enthralled by the idea of Heaven. Some of them search in tribes, others on their own. Nevertheless, they search.

Currently Known Other Heavenseekers

Resonant:

• Br34ker and chiTIN - The two remaining members of the World Tree Trio, they sought Heaven religiously, as the followings of their shared paradigm. After their host was destroyed by Caliban, alongside their data, they have been set back severely, likely never to recover.

Dissonant:

• Squirm - A morphinae dissonant technomancer could be generously described as a mediocre hacker and an excellent murderer. She is a strange, wild woman of Aztlaner ancestry and heavy augmentations from her time in the arenas. She has grown a warped understanding of the world and the matrix, seeing things flwo together nonsensically in strange and horrible fashion. Lately, she has become convinced that heaven is the key to understanding everything and has allied herself with FacelessEyeless in order to achieve that goal. She has a bug motif to her matrix presence, although she mainly kills people with a machete. Currently alive.
• FacelessEyeless - An enochian dissonant and a powerful hacker in his own right, the origins of FacelessEyeless are largely unknown. He changes faces and handles like the wind, taking whatever identity suits him at the moment. While he is an effective face and bodysnatcher owing to his habit and his natural charisma, there is an uncanniness to his presence that makes him difficult to trust, a sort of innate sliminess no matter what form he decides on. Where is even more at home is on the matrix. His sprites take the form of body horror monstrosities compromised of an overgrown organic material and his physical form is that of a businessman with a smooth face, with globs of disconnected tissue and organs floating around him. A meat technomancer in the most literal of senses. He is a powerful attack technomancer, cable of dissonance spikes and dataspikes alike. He was last seen being ravaged by a foundation monster within the depths of The Lost City Foundation in the Novatech Archive Host. As such, he is presumed dead.
• b0z0 - A clown-like technomancer and a former member of the World Tree Trio, b0zo was touched by the dissonance after Caliban killed the world of the foundation he and his friends cultivated and he was shown the depths of human malice.

Goals

Find Heaven

Sabotage Other Heavenseekers

Runs

Name	GM	Date	Runners
A Journey of a Thousand Miles Starts With A Single Map	Niven	29 June 2085	Hawk Clown Akuma Vailrunner
RIP Bozo	sleevey	16 June 2085	Saint Buck Digifex Lanius
Battle Not With Monsters	jit	18 May 2085	Caliban
On Bloodied Wings	Sleevey	12 May 2085	Lumin Quinntessence
Memitim's Tomb	Sleevey	10 March 2085	Fennec Bunny Hop
Budding Heavenseeker	Sleevey	26 January 2085	Bunny Hop