Lingchi

Lingchi

Scarred Mage
Pinprick of Light
Discord	@lhog
Reddit	elleelleellehawg
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	32
D.O.B.	September 4th, 2054
Age	31
Folder	Drive
Priority	Metatype - C Attributes - B Magic/Resonance - A Skills - E Resources - D
#Max IGs/Ascension	6

Character Information

Summary

A mage burned by her own allies, sent packing across the sea and setting up shop in a city she doesn't know.

Ah. And she's lost her arm, eyes, and half her magical power. Some would call it inauspicious as a start. But Yue considers herself to have been born under a lucky star.

Goals

• Help Quanxi. The twins do not deserve their current fate.
• Don't die.
• Rediscover what magic is.
• Cleanse her aura of the taint left by the previous owner of her arm and eyes.
• Stand on the surface of another planet - first as a projection, then on the physical.

Background

The daughter of rich parents, Yue isn't her given name - but the old one is burned. Perhaps even literally - the damage of breaking her oaths was extensive.

Initiated into the Ten Thousand Lions Triad at an early age, Lingchi was a faithful servant and a faithful mage until a breach of her trust and an insult that went too far. Her attempts at retaliation were ineffective, and quickly her family paid the price for her insolence. The Triad uses magical tattoos to keep their people loyal - and Yue was forced to take more bindings than most. Her magic, her sight, her physical strength, all bound up in the tattoos covering her. For some time, she lived in bondage. But when it became too much, she hatched a plan - cut the chains tying her, and pay whatever cost is required to escape.

She set a date with a doctor - one belonging to the Yakuza. A stack of nuyen - only her own - paid for the cost of the used 'ware she would need. And then? To cut her way out of the ties that bind? To break the magical power flowing through the tattoos? Lingchi had the doctor cut her arm off, knowing full well what came next. The backlash was ferocious, the damage massive, and her magic would never be the same. She was freed - but it cost her an arm and her eyes. Where she could, the old tattoos have been replaced. Her old hair has been replaced. Days of recovery later - she fled across the sea.

On the boat over, the person next to her asked her name, but the dazed mage could only mutter about what she saw in the sky hanging above. Yue Liang. 'Bright moon.' They called her that the rest of the voyage. In Seattle though? She got nicknamed by disdainful members of the Triad. They wouldn't go after her - but they ensured that she'd be reminded every day of what she'd done. Lingchi. Death by a thousand cuts. An execution by dismemberment, reserved for traitors. For now, Yue owns the name, for that is the name that gets her work.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

• Lucky - Even with all that's happened, Yue was born under a lucky star - must have, just to survive.
• Daredevil - Yue makes terrifically bad moves.
• Spirit Whisperer - There is a desire to understand the world around her and a desire to be understood in turn. Perhaps spirits have taken notice.
• Analytical Mind - She's caught an asteroid in a decaying orbit around a black hole - on the astral. Dead reckoning of physics and mathematics is one of the cosmic mage's strong suits, and it shows.

Negative

• Dependent (Inconvenience) - Drinking & Smoking
• Distinctive Style - Fiber Optic Hair, LED tattoos of the sun and milky way, stars in her cybereyes, and an obvious cyberarm. There's nothing subtle about Yue.
• Impassive - Not the most emotional of characters, and her flattened affect is offputting.
• Phobia (Uncommon, Moderate) - Being trapped
• Big Regret (Triad Mage) - The traces of her old Triad tattoos are visible around the edges of her LED panels laid atop them. Nobody who puts the pieces together about a mage who used to work with the Triads is likely to view her favorably, even active Triad members.

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Waiting to be Known	Sarcarian		High	10 November 2085
The Full Moon Makes the Flowers Bloom	Sarcarian		Medium	11 September 2085
Better Living Through Chemistry	Sarcarian		Deadly	22 June 2085
Intermediate Entomology	Sarcarian		Deadly	12 June 2085
3EM20; Those Born Evil	Fangblade_		Deadly	24 December 2084
Revolutions	Fangblade_	Amatsu Kaze	Deadly	19 November 2084
Go big, go loud, or go home!	TidanShock	The Life and Times of One Kevin Crimes	Extreme	18 November 2084
PULLTHETRIGGER+55	Fangblade_		High	11 November 2084
Sojourner Between Stars	Sarcarian		High	9 November 2084
BANGYOURHEAD+55	Fangblade_		High	2 November 2084
A slightly rainy day in Kansas	Lotus	Swarming Season	High	20 October 2084
Our Fellow Sorcerer's Corpses Part 1	Fangblade_		Deadly	16 October 2084
Falling Dusk, Part 1	Açai.0		Low	8 October 2084
So Goes Darkness Part 1	Fangblade_	And Love You Shall Find	Deadly	7 October 2084
Heist Gone Wrong	Bulldogc		Medium	6 October 2084
As Goes Light	Fangblade_	When the hunters came to town And Love You Shall Find		30 September 2084

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Joe Smith	3	3	Fixer(N,K,G,A)	Fixer	Procurer of exotic goods, Hang gliding enthusiast, Linguist, Smuggling expert	Even
Quanxi	5	2	Networking	Translator	Wanted - Triads, Private Information, Ex Triad, Identical Twins, Wuxing, Magic Tradition - Wuxing, Fae Knowledge, Awakened Hangouts	Even
Exeunt	1	1	Service	Street Doc	Past Paranoia, Critical Condition, Metahuman Jury-Rigger, Cyberdoc	Even

Organizations

Contact	Position	Connection	Faction Rep	Archetype	Health	Location

Allies

Farraday's Clinic +5 Rep

Enemies

Compulsory Execution Unit -10 Rep

In Character Information

Symbols and Signatures

If there's any symbol most associated with her, it's the shimmering stars in her eyes and the constellation running up her arm and onto her back.

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	A form of torture by severing limbs. Favored by the Triads for those whom they view as traitors.
3	A relative nobody mage, with weak magical force due to the indignity of hosting used cyberware. Her eyes are stars, and her skin a constellation.
6	Thorough traces of her image place her back in the Triads just a month before she arrived in Seattle, with all limbs and ordinary eyes intact. Instead, she sported the sorts of tattoos one might expect of a member of the Triads - the type that enforce obedience.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	A relatively weak mage. The only noteworthy thing about her is that she can at least hold a gun to make up for her mediocre casting.
3	A mage of the Cosmic tradition, with striking looks that make her memorable to almost anyone on the streets. She refuses to hide the LED tattoos and refuses to change the lenses of her cybereyes to something reasonable. Triad members have a distaste for her.
5	Burned by the tattoos the Triad once had binding her, this mage apparently had her arm cut off to escape the trap of bondage.

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1
2
3
4
5

SINs

Mei Li (Fake, Rating 4, UCAS)

• Mage License (Fake, Rating 4)
• Firearms License (Fake, Rating 4)

Appearance

Short of stature, but that's not the first thing people notice. Her cybereyes have stars in them - artificial ones. Her hair is ordinarily black, but at night, it lights up: mirroring the milky way, a comet occasionally streaking along one of the strands. On her (non-cyber) hand, one small LED panel has a sun and moon, circling with the time of day. Up along her arm trail constellations, and across her full back is the entirety of the draco constellation - not that it gets shown often. It is there to replace the swirling dragons whose traces remain in the skin separating the edges of the panels.

Clothing

Long pants, heavy coats, short sleeves - something to let her arms remain free, to show the changes she's made to herself. Yue will not allow others to view her in the old light, not that many in Seattle would have even known who she was back then.

Matrix Persona

On the Matrix, she appears as a humanoid constellation - a hollow space of darkness, interspersed with stars and swirling planets.