Peerless

Peerless

Adept Combat Biker
Riding Up Mount Tai on a Monowheel
Spitting Mouthfuls of Blood, Courting Death
The Net of Heaven is Wide and I Got Through It Fine Thanks
Discord	cuttingsea
Reddit	cuttingsea
Wiki User	Bleu
Metatype	Troll (Minotaur)
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	0
Folder	[1]
Priority	Metatype - A Attributes - A Magic/Resonance - C Skills - E Resources - E
#Max IGs/Ascension	0
Essence(Current/Max)	6/12

Character Information

Summary

An adept combat biker expatriated from Hong Kong; a Triad with a prickly but benevolent nature, a propensity towards grudges, and a big mace.

Goals

Chased out of Kwun Tong by the Black Chrysanthemums, his goals are revenge, defense of the downtrodden, and survival, in approximately that order. He is still a Triad, which means he is accustomed to the network of face and favors that makes up the Hong Kong underworld (and is accustomed to paying his way through with violence for hire), but he errs more on the side of the protection side of protection rackets when he isn't in the combat biker arena.

Background

In the broken buildings of Kowloon, a nameless child needs food before he can achieve enlightenment. Though he never discovered how he was born there—he suspects his parents were refugees from the EuroWars—he certainly discovered what was required to stay alive: overwhelming, immediate violence. The kids in the gang he ran with started to sarcastically call him "Youxia" for his willingness to lash out when anyone, as the pirated donghua trids put it, was courting death. But before long, the nickname was tinged with respect - he might have been a brutal hand with rebar, but he always made sure the food they scavenged was split equally.

It didn't take long for the Ten Thousand Lions to take notice. In exchange for taking on a crushing amount of debt, the Triad smuggled him and the surviving members of his gang into Kwun Tong, where they found new work as legbreakers and smugglers. There, amid the cranes and smokestacks, he learned to ride a bike—and then to love it. His pocket nuyen went into a personal ride, and in a fit of inspiration the former street kid entered the off-books combat biking circuit held in the cracked freight yards of Kwun Tong. He won. And then he kept winning, enough to pay off his debts. Enough, in fact, to draw the attention of one of the adept masters in the Ten Thousand Lions, who assigned himself as personal mentor in the Dao.

Master Lau Jing-Wei - “Senior” to you - was not the serene kind of monk you'd find in a mountain monastery. He barked parables from the back of a moving scooter and chased his student up and down the steel walkways of Kwun Tong’s nanofoundries. Locals placed bets on how long the boy could keep running before collapsing. But he ran until found purpose. A name. A path.

But it's not enough to simply talk of the Dao. When he opened his dantian for the first time, the chip he was holding revealed the Black Chrysanthemums were shipping a cargo ship of trafficked children out of Kowloon and into slavery. He raided them, single-handedly killing an entire squad before delivering the ship to the 9x9s. In repayment, they helped him elude their counter-raid and vanish; a ship carried him out of Hong Kong and to a new life. When he's ready - when he's not just a hero, but immortal - he'll be back.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

• Mentor Spirit: Stag (Yuhuang, the Jade Emperor)
• Made Man - Yellow Lotus Triad

Negative

• Code of Honour: Wuxia
• No Man Left Behind
• Poor Self Control (Vindictive)

Run History

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Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Old Wu	2	5	Fixer	Professional Gossip, Occasional Biking Coach	Bikes, Triads, Drugs	Even

Organizations

Contact	Position	Connection	Faction Rep	Archetype	Health	Location
Yellow Lotus Triad	Sze Kau	3	0	Organized Crime Syndicate	Maintaining	Seattle

In Character Information

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SINs

Ernest Ren (R3, UCAS). An Awakened motorcycle courier and freelancer.

Appearance

Clothing

Broke as he is at the moment, he mostly gets by with VendingWear jogging pants and pullovers, though he brought along his motorcycle jacket and helmet with a few padding odds and ends with his bike.

Matrix Persona

The default Meta Link persona - a blocky, notably featureless troll (minotaur model too expensive).

Character Plot Hooks

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