Ca1yps0

Ca1yps0

Mermaid Cybercriminal Transhumanist
Original Generation Technomancer
Discord	@Sarcarian#8374
Reddit	[1]
Metatype	Elf (Dryad)
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	1
Public Awareness	0
CDP	52
D.O.B.	July 31, 2048
Age	37
Folder	[2]
Priority	Prime Runner (slot purchased with GMP) Metatype - D Attributes - B Magic/Resonance - A Skills - C Resources - E

Character Information

Summary

Slightly-dissonant mermaid techno/Horizon matrix icon/longtime BTL addict.

Goals

• Avoid succumbing to the Dissonance.
• Build a proper underwater batcave.
• Catch a flipper to raise as a pet.

Background

Born in 2048 inside LA's El Inferno ghetto to SINless refugee parents from Amazonia. Underwent SURGE and turned into a mermaid when the comet arrived, and her parents died in chaos following the quakes and the subsequent riots. She heard the call of Deus when she was 12, ending up a member of Ex Pacis and a node in the Network. Lived on her own in flood-ravaged LA until Horizon found her in during their efforts to rebuild the city; fading hard after Crash 2.0 cut her off from her tribe, she embraced the corporation as a substitute family and started developing a BTL habit in order to cope with the loss.

Was marketed by Horizon as a matrix idol and simsense star, even being given a SIN to keep her in line when they got AAA status. In 2068 she re-emerged, trying her best to hide it and spiralling further into BTL abuse, causing her to have difficulty controlling her emotions; in the immediate aftermath of the Vegas Technomancer Massacre she trashed the corp publicly in a fit of outrage before faking her death and going underground. She attempted to burn her SIN, and subsequently fell into a years long spiral of simsense addiction-fuelled cybercrime, but her data trails were eventually traced by the Dawkins Group.

After being reconnected with her old talent agent/new fixer, she was put to work as a semi-willing shadow asset for the megacorp. In the years since she has managed to build up something of a reputation for herself as a freelance hacker while maintaining a cover identity as a transhumanist decker to market her simsense work and fund her chip habit. Now that she has a hookup with a freelance network in the Haven to get her reliable running work, she is attempting to distance herself from her fixers/corporate handlers and become more of an solo artist, with the goal of making a decent life for herself outside of Horizon.

Narrative Significant Qualities

• Actual Mermaid (Class III SURGE: Bioluminescence + Cold-Blooded + Functional Tail (Paddle) + Gills (Aqua) + Scales + Underwater Vision + Webbed Digits) + Parapalegic
  • A literal mermaid - an original SURGE case from the Year of the Comet. Naturally, due to the fact that she has a tail in place of her legs, this means that she is unable to walk.

• Functional Chiphead (BTL Addiction + Day Job + Electronic Witness)
  • A long-time abuser of better-than-life chips who has a side gig producing and selling her own programs on the calhots market under a pseudonym in order to fund her habit.

• Internet Famous (Online Fame + Signature + Unique Avatar)
  • A matrix idol renowned for her specility simsense content, especially in Los Angelas and the California Free State, with a custom-designed persona that cannot be replicated.

• New Horizons (Corporate Pariah + Records on File + SINner)
  • A full citizen of the Horizon Group since they achieved extraterratorial status, though she is not well-regarded within the corporation since the Vegas Technomancer Massacre.

• Veteran Techno (One With the Matrix + Otaku to Technomancer + Resonant Discordance)
  • A re-emerged Otaku who was once a member of Ex Pacis, her living persona once bore the mark of Dissoannce from her time as part of the tribe and as a node in the Network.

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Turning Tides	Robinton		Medium	24 August 2085
Transdualist Paradoxes	Asmodeus	The Arrival	Extreme	26 June 2084
Non-Hostile Commandeering	Asmodeus		Deadly	19 November 2083
Uprooted	Asmodeus		Semi-Prime	4 September 2082
Seeds of Resistance	Asmodeus		Medium	31 July 2082
Among The Stars	Aurora			30 July 2082
Shark Week	CutierThanThou	It's Always Wednesday in Seattle	Medium	19 June 2082
So Swift, So Surly - Seattle Drift	Si1as		High	8 June 2082
Dethroning the Dissonant	Aurora		High	10 May 2082
Awake, Dear Heart	OrionsRequiem		High	2 May 2082
Time to Attack	Asmodeus	Hail to the Pumpking	Medium	23 April 2082
Little Fish in the Koi Pond	OrionsRequiem		High	28 March 2082
What Did You Think Tomorrow?	Asmodeus		High	22 March 2082
I am Fading And I Love It	BloodLibrarian			19 March 2082
The Deepest Dive	OrionsRequiem		High	7 March 2082
Fresh Fish	Shadowhand	Taking Back Tacoma	Medium	26 February 2082
ACHEy Breaky Bones	Aurora	Deus Machina	Semi-Prime	20 February 2082
Ca1yps0 and the Jabberwock	Aurora		High	12 February 2082
A Cornered Animal Fights the Hardest	Aurora	Against all odds - The OtherCon story	High	11 February 2082
Something Bugging Me	Aurora		High	6 February 2082
Sins of the Father	OrionsRequiem	Cross Flight Love Fight	Medium	5 February 2082
Trix & Treats	Shadowhand		Low	31 January 2082
I've got a feeling...	Isaac		1A: Medium 1B: Medium 2A: Milk 2B: Low	21 January 2082
"What do you mean it's just a dog?"	Isaac		Low	20 January 2082
"What are you buying, stranger?"	Isaac		Medium	15 January 2082
The Red Star	Asmodeus		High	13 January 2082
What? Not Butter!	Asmodeus		Low	3 January 2082
The Little Mermaid 3	Si1as		High	30 December 2081
Identifying a Problem	Si1as		Medium	27 December 2081

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Ace Powers	6	1	Fixer	Horizon Talent Agent	Musical Talent, Corporate Deals, Keep it Classy, Fake SINs, Insider Knowledge, Horizon Agent, Hired Muscle	Even
The Weekender	6	1	Fixer	Horizon Johnson	Ex-Dawkins, 6 foot 20, killing for fun, Pyrotechnician, Black Mage, CFO is my side gig, Mind Magic, Hotline Horizon	Even
Lord Logie	5	2	Fixer	Owner of Dead Station	The Archive, Matrix Networker, Dead Station Gossip, Tech Stashes, Information Broker, Technomancer	Even
The Chairman	5	2	Fixer	Extreme SURGE Activist	Armed to the Chompers, 410,757,864,530 DEAD PAWNS, Champion of the Working Fluffball slash other animalesque proletarian, You Know We're Living in a Society Here, Human Shmeings, The New Flesh is Surprisingly Fuzzy	Even
Bootstrap	4	3	Networking	Reality Hacker Lieutenant, Decker	Reality Hacker, Decker, BTL Producer, Rival Destroyer, Dealer	Even
Flash	4	3	Service	Hardware Specialist	Technomancer, Electronics, Hardware Expert, Tinkerer, Hardware Reassignment	Even
Katie Smiles	3	4	Generalist	Horizon Tailor	Tailor, To the Stars, Keeping up with the Latest, Shiny Stuff	Even
The FisherKing	3	4	Legwork	Matrix Infobroker	Technoshaman, Sprites 4 Days, Matrix Gaming, Resonance Realms	Even
Surf Duct	2	2	Gear	Talismonger/Scientific Vessel Captain	Out to Sea, Sonar Seer, Sea Witch, International Water Rules, Boat Haver	Even
Bubblegum	1	1	Gear	Fake SINner	Corporate Forger, SINner, Nothing Lasts Forever, Knows How She Got Here	Even
Dr Elijah "Snowflake" Turing	4	4	Service	Doctor Specializing in Exotic Physiologies	Surgeon, Exotic Physiology Specialist, Missionist, Health Spells, Chip On His Shoulder	Even
Tanya	2	2	Fixer	OtherCon Advocate	Unreliable, Nutty, Lorax, Bubbly Buddy-Buddy, SURGE Sympathizer	Even
Faulty	4	6	Service	Fault Sprite	Real-World Naivety, Attack-Happy, Resonant Redemption, Veteran Resonant Warrior, Matrix Martyr, Order Of The Fish Grand Master, Resonance Well Sextant And Map	Even
Cecelia Cross	5	2	Networking	CATco Employee	Secret Technomancer, Woman Scorned, Tech Expert, Matrix Master, Corporate Life, Network Angel	Even
Taranis Lú	4	2	Custom(K,N,A,G)	College Professor	"Former" Cyberterrorist, Otaku/Technomancer, Data Security Specialist, Foundation Firebrand, Evading GOD, Tenured Professor at Kyoto University, Hacking Professor	Even
Wusan	5	3	Service	Overlord of the Seas	Ocean Bound, Master of the Sea, Purifier, Trick or Treat, Caller of Tides, Ocean Awareness, Sense of Humor, Spirit Bound, Sense of Duty, Sense of Honor	Even
Chitin	4	2	Legwork	Cyberscreamers Guide	Off The Grid, AI Associate, Xenophile, Foundation Fixer, Dissonant Druid, Prime Datahaven Membership, Sprite Savvy, Morphinae, Diagnostics Sprites	Even

Organizations

Contact	Position	Connection	Faction Rep	Archetype	Health	Location
Horizon	Full Corporate Citizen	5	33	AAA Rated Corporation	Maintaining	Seattle
OtherCon	Member	1	33	Community	Bruised	Seattle

In Character Information

Symbols and Signatures

Produces highly-distinctive specialized simsense content under a well-known online pseudonym, and likes to mark her cybercrimes with a clip to help market her brand (either with a physical chip left in meatspace or a file left on a device/host in the matrix).

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	A series of meFeed, P2.1, and other social media pages for a mermaid matrix idol, as well as a collection of simsense clips.
3	A matrix site where one can purchase calhot-level simsense downloads, along with customer reviews and an archive of live streams.
6	A fragmented package of information on a figure called "Sycorax", a suspected dissonant technomancer and ex member of Ex Pacis.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	A mermaid changling, with a tail and everything - apparently some sort of hacker.
3	A BTL addict who sells her own work on the calhots market and to the Reality Hackers.
5	A technomancer, rumoured to have once been an Otaku, who has significant ties to Horizon.

Assensing Results

Hits	Information Gained
1	Generally healthy, likely high on a BTL chip, is not Awakened.
2	No standard-grade cyberware. Has a shimmering teal shade to her aura, with a bright spark in her chest.
3	Alphaware: An old-style datajack on the back of her neck, as well as an an Enhanced Augmented Reality Reflex System, an implanted simrig w/ dream link, and a visualizer. Has an impaired ability to regulate her body temperature as well as a slightly weakened metabolism due to metagenetic expression.
4	No betaware-grade cyberware. Bioware: Has had some biosculpting work done, as well as a perfect eyes treatment. Essence 4.
5+	No deltaware-grade implants. Has been genetically augmented to have enhanced capacity for self-expression, as well as increased susceptibility to narcotics and resistance to cold temperatures. No nano-tech. Is a technomancer.

SINs

SIN	Issuer	Rating	Licenses
Miranda Prospero	Horizon	Real (Full Corporate Citizen)	Driver's, Drone, Matrix Software, Restricted Cyberware, Restricted Bioware, Technomancer
Misa Agapova	Evo	5 (tied to Day Job)	Cyberdeck, Drone
Melody Pond	SpinGlobal	5 (used for shadowrunning)	Cyberdeck, Drone

Appearance

A literal mermaid - very clearly a severe case of SURGE, or else the product of extensive bio-modding beyond the ability of most clinics. Has "naturally" blue hair and aqua-coloured scales, as well as skin that glows blue-green in the dark.

Clothing

Has a tailor to custom-fit all her clothing to accommodate her unique physiology, but typically doesn't bother to wear much aside from an insulated water-proof armour jacket and a necklace of seashells unless the situation demands otherwise.

Matrix Persona

Custom-programmed with a graphics engine she wrote herself - an ultra hi-rez mermaid with shimmering kaleidoscopic scales which leaves a trail of bubbles in her wake (if interacted with, they pop and play simsense files from her archive of work).