Variance

Variance

Social Adept
(Can convince you the sky is pink)
Discord	@thane_garm#1142
Reddit	[1]
Metatype	(Elf)
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	-1
Public Awareness	0
CDP	4
D.O.B.	January 6th, 2028
Age	57
Folder	[2]
Priority	Metatype - C Attributes - C Magic/Resonance - C Skills - B Resources - D
#Max IGs/Ascension	1

Character Information

Summary

"If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, you are the sucker."

Some people just wanna watch the world burn others wanna strike the match. Me? I wanna bet on which city burns first. Life is nothing without risk and shadowrunning beings the ultimate gamble, where the stakes are the highest and the odds are never in your favor. Everyone has a reason to run. For me running is the reason.

Goals

Pay off debt and find some better accommodations. Redmond has it's charms but soycaf out of a broken machine loses it's appeal quickly.

Background

What is there to tell but a short tale of illusions shattered, lives torn apart, and the great wheel of corporate oppression claiming another victim on his long spiral towards rock bottom. The Grand Masquerade finally at its end, revealing what lies under the masque of ineptitude and corruption is nothing more than a game of chance. See the world today is nothing more than a casino, there are players and there is the house. The house has all the money, all the advantages, all the power, while the players delight over the occasional scrap tossed their way. It's simple. It's pure. It's.... exhilarating.

This is the truth that Variance now lives by, seeing everyday actions as a move by "the house" and attempting to work every angle. This mentality has led him in a downward spiral as his gambling debts mount ever higher, and the loan sharks circle ever closer. But still he revels in this predicament, seeing it as nothing more than a consequence of losing the game. Cards, slots, dice, lives, no game is beneath him, no payoff to low, and no risk too great. And it is precisely this mentality than landed him deep in debt to powerful people in the shadows. Forced to run in order to pay his insurmountable debt Variance has found a new kind of game. One where players win or they die, and that game is simply too fun to be passed up.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

Mentor Spirt (Seducer): This beings influence is probably what led a young man down this path of vice and lies that Variance now finds himself walking.

First Impressions: Baffle them with your bull shit so they never see the hammer till it's crashing down on top of them.

Negative

In Debt (10): Better find some work don't think my knees can take much more of this.

Prejudice: Old habits die hard. Can't grow up in East Berlin without picking up a few anti corp sentimentalities.

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Date of Run
RATS in The Barrens Part I	Villiers	All The World's a Stage	30 December 2084
Prelude to Pumpkin-Head	Fangblade_		21 August 2084

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
Captain Madeline Palermo	5	1	Gear	Black Market Armorer	Ares Macrotechnology, Armorer, Ex-Firewatch, Firearms, Laser Weapons, Milspec Gear	Even
Hideo Masamune	6	1	Custom(G,K,N,A)	Talismonger	Enchanter, Talismonger, Arcane Blacksmith, Moshi Moshi, Sushi Chef, Guardian Of Horrible Secrets, Tattoo Artist	Even
Danny Greenlight	1	3	Service	Taxi Driver	Drive Quiet, Drive Loud	Even

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	Variance noun; the fact or quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent.
3	A social adept new to the game.
6	A shadowrunner that owes too much money to the wrong people amd has to run in order to pay of his debts and save himself a painful death through collections.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	An adept from Seattle
3	A social adept from Redmond Seattle
5	A social adept from Redmond specialized in social manipulation and infiltration. Is somewhat of a wild card also wear ear plugs around him those adept powers can cause a real headache

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1	Physical Adept, a little shredded essence wise but otherwise nothing too interesting
2	Authoritative tone, nothing like a little confidence boost in the morning, that and a little Red Mescaline
3	Commanding Voice, now that's a little dangerous make sure to wear your ear plugs or you might find yourself doing or saying things you normally wouldn't.
4	My man needs to stop buying used ware. Datajack, eyes, an pheromones make for a nasty start to a chrome addiction.
5	Social Adept with a little bioware here and there along with a nasty bit of scarring from the shoddy implant job of his tailored pheromones. The seducer is hanging out with this guy too take whatever he says with a grain of salt that or just don't listen to him.

SINs

Dietrich Becker R4 (U.C.A.S)