Caliban

Caliban

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Discord	@sleevey.
Reddit	[1]
Metatype	m̶o̶n̶s̶t̶e̶r̶Elfm̶o̶n̶s̶t̶e̶r̶M̶O̶N̶S̶T̶E̶R̶
Street Cred	EntryIncomplete
Notoriety	Two.
Public Awareness	0
Titles and Awards	Creature, Fiend, Wretch, Devil, Monster
CDP	22
D.O.B.	Unknown
Age	21
Folder	[Drive URL Link]
Priority	Metatype - B Attributes - B Magic/Resonance - A Skills - E Resources - E

Character Information

Caliban

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So I summoned Caliban. She was

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤsquat and ugly

Sometimes she cried. Sometimes

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤshe lied.

She was so sly and sometimes

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤso forthright she disgusted me.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ"Come, little Caliban,

I take you by the hand

ㅤㅤㅤWe will walk upon the sand to the bright, blue sea."

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤBut she knew

As we walked towards the cliff what fate I had in mind

And broke from me

ㅤㅤㅤAnd so, we run across the sand;

The little murderer

chased by monstrous me

trying to save herself

‎‎ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤand me from me.‎‎

Summary?

I am Caliban. The matrix's cruel branches are my plaything and prison, for I know their every cruel song. Resonance and Dissonance. Teakettles and Brandy. Raincoats and Soft, Soft Skin. I would exact my vengeance upon this canvas that has wronged me.

Goals

If there is a God of the matrix, I would like to see him dying.

Let me comprehend whatever thing ripped the veil from my eyes so that they may be judged.

I should like to find a place where I am safe and warm and it is quiet next.

Timeline

Early 2065: the entity that would later come to be known as Caliban is born to a pair of CATCo Sinners, Durga Namjoshi and Francis Turner and given the name 'Miranda Namjoshi. Later that year, CATCo loses its AA status, placing the families SINs into a state of flux.

2068: Durga and Francis are given provisional work SINs by the UCAS government for managerial and secretarial work respectively.

2070: the families SINs are shuffled away beneath the paperwork and vanished from official records. , being five years old and unable to work, possesses no provisional work SIN. The family scrounges together enough funds for a FAKE sin for the child.

2070 - 2078: Little Miranda is enrolled in entirely online schooling, thanks to fewer checks regarding the SIN. From a young age, Miranda displays prodigal reading, writing and math skills but is stunted socially.

Late 2079: The family loses their provisional work SINs, relying entirely on low income work and Miranda's existing Fake SIN to stay afloat. Miranda takes a variety of matrix related work to support their family, although existing tensions within the family start to boil over.

2080: Miranda Namjoshi emerges as a technomancer after a fight with her parents. A few days later, she receives an anonymous full ride scholarship to MIT&T, attended virtually. Doubly impressive, thanks to her young age. Her FAKE sin is, miraculously, never exposed. She moves into a dorm, dedicated for long distance college students attending virtually.

2080 - 2083: Prodigal, brilliant Miranda Namjoshi spends the next few years learning and studying, proving to be a promising decker and an even more promising academic. She attracts the attention of one Penelope Ann Xavier and studies beneath the esteemed academic, being hired to work as her secretary. Along the way, she makes contact with Cecilia Cross of CATCo, alongside several other important connections. She is able to painlessly transition, as well as receive some QoL augmentations to better work with.

January 16th, 2083: Miranda's thesis prepwork runs into a slight hiccup. Rather than wait several months for paperwork to file through the system, unarchiving old NEONet archival data for past host sculpting, Miranda decides to cut out the middleman and dive directly into a number of relevant host archives. The first several go off without a hitch but on the last one, something goes wrong. She goes missing within that host, pulls free the peeling wallpaper and dives into the mad house beneath. She falls away ... away ... away ... away ...

January 16th, 2084 - ?̵͓̠̊?̸̹͒͋?̸͍̠̔: time without time within time in that place in that hell every year a drop of blood and it fills an ocean every millennia a pulled tooth and they pile up like mountains i know nothing but that place i am that place within without I am Caliban that place named me it scratched its name on me Caliban I am Caliban now

January 16th, 2084 - December 3rd, 2084: The entity formerly known as Miranda Namjoshi is hospitalized for several months for an unknown cause, exhibiting similar symptoms to those trapped within foundations or the resonance realms. During this time, her SIN is placed under proper scrutiny and is burned, resulting in her expulsion from MIT&T. Her meager savings allow her to remain on life support in a back alley clinic, however she experiences severe muscle atrophy during this time.

December 3rd, 2084: Caliban wakes up and leaves the clinic. She is astounded by the ugliness of the world.

December 3rd, 2084 - Present Day: Bitter, angry Caliban sharpens her blades against the crime that is the matrix, gathering her weapons with which to slay a GOD.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

A Beast of the Sea's Making (Codeslinger: Data Spike, Instinctive Hack): Caliban must strangle it, choke the life out of it, choke the light out of it, cut the serpents head, strip the tree's branches, cage the sprinter, mask the fool

Prodigal Fool (College Education, Speed Reader, Trust Data Not Lore): Caliban knows the shape of the sea, has been steeped in its lies since even before the waves too them away. Caliban remembers the beach and the sea washed away everything else that was not its brilliant blue.

It Yet Lives (Lucky, Paragon: The Soldier): The Sea spared Caliban and Caliban still can make out its detestable whispers, honeyed words spit from fat lips. Ugly words that would make Caliban tear at the world's shell to silence them.

Negative

Ḓ̴̔ȇ̸̫c̵̹̄ͅa̸̱̅͂y̶̟͝i̸̲͂n̴̥͝g̸̢̐ ̸̨̞̃́D̶̰͋̆ͅï̸̪s̸̲̍s̷̟̟̾͊o̶̻͗̒n̸̙̍ả̷͉͗ń̴̠c̵̩̖͐e̴̳̾ - I brought that piece back with me and I am that piece that I brought back with me and I would make it my sword and shield and I would cut them with it and I would hide myself with it and I would be made safe by it. I would sing the songs I learned upon that brook but you would not delight in them as I do not delight in them. I would dance the dance of that beach and you would cry and tear at your eyes and face and beg the monster to quiet. Tearing off a bandage always hurts but it needs to be done. It needs to be done.

Albinism - I am soft-bellied and the sun detests my meager form.

don'tlookatmedon'tlookatmedon'tlook (Bad Rep, Impassive, Poor Self Control: Remain Out of Sight of Observable Cameras) - They know what I am they know my speech is faltering and slow they know what I have seen I cannot keep it from them they whisper out rancid songs sung across decaying music halls amidst floorboards swarming with termites and they have the audacity to balk when I shun their putrid chorus go away go away from me

Records on File (Cross Applied Technologies) - I am folded into lines of code and swallowed by the beast that wears the skin of my fellows that devoured them whole and so many others to live I do not live the shadow within the beast is not me

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Blood From a Stone	Sarcarian		High	5 December 2085
Not Quite a Slasher...	PeepTheDictator		Deadly	21 September 2085
Into the Light of a Dark, Black Night	Sarcarian		Deadly	4 September 2085
Is this brat?	Dawnfire		Medium	27 August 2085
300% Casualty Rate	Asmodeus		Medium	9 August 2085
Hopquest	LHOG		Extreme	7 August 2085
Cali-Sam	LHOG			1 August 2085
Better Living Through Chemistry	Sarcarian		Deadly	22 June 2085
School Days	Tyneman		Low	10 June 2085
The Everlasting Gaze	Sarcarian		Medium	19 May 2085
Battle Not With Monsters	jit	The Name of Heaven	High	18 May 2085

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
G01bez and 0-MUS	2	5	Service	Matrix Siblings Decker and Technomancer Tag Team Duo	Overprotective, Technology Connections, Technomancer, Double Trouble, Sibling Synergy	Even
Aisee Yuunao	3	4	Service	Rogue Surgeon AI	Better Safe Than Sorry, Digital Denizen, Encyclopedic, Anatomist, Mechanical Mind, Ripper Network	Even
Cecelia Cross	5	2	Networking	CATco Employee	Secret Technomancer, Woman Scorned, Tech Expert, Matrix Master, Corporate Life, Network Angel	Even
Hextech	4	2	Custom(G,A,K,N)	Black Stalker	AI Expert, Engineer, Technomancy, Cybertechnologist, Custom Armory	Even
Angela	4	3	Fixer(K,N,G,A)	Library Organizer and Teacher	A Bird in a Cage, Techno Teacher, It's In a Book, Hidden Knowledge, Under the Belly of the Beast, Host Dweller	Even
Bootstrap	4	3	Networking	Reality Hacker Lieutenant, Decker	Reality Hacker, Decker, BTL Producer, Rival Destroyer, Dealer	Even

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	Caliban is the name of the half-human monster in Shakespeare's play, the tempest. It is an ugly, misshapen monster filled with nothing but hate and vitriol. You can find an number of articles picking into the significance of the character from various angles and in different contexts. It is also the name given to an expensive commlink produced by Fairlight, keeping with their fantastical naming conventions
3	A quote sticks out to you, by one Russell Hoban, an American fiction writer. "Caliban is one of the hungry ideas, he's always looking for someone to word him into being ... Caliban is a necessary idea." Hungry. Necessary. Where has Caliban gone?
6	You have found Caliban. Whispers of an ugly, misshapen beast clambering across the matrix. It is a violent and ugly thing and those that venture too close will hear its mad ramblings. Ramblings about a beach and its trees and a brook and the mad ocean. Stay away from Caliban.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	Huh? Ya mean the commlink?
3	Oh yeah, yeah. I know the one. Real freak. Hacks good but they ain't subtle. Creeps people out.
5	Heard there was somethin' wrong with 'em from one of my friends. She sees the colors on the matrix, y'know. But yeah, said something was REAL real wrong with 'em. Watch out, chummer.

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1
2
3
4
5

SINs

Ennem Ariel (Rating 4, UCAS): Cyberdeck, Matrix Software, Private Investigator

Appearance

Caliban's flesh is a tall, spindly elf with too-long arms and too thin limbs. Caliban's white hair and pale skin and grey eyes could almost be called pretty but they are marred. Marred by make-up, left half-finished. One piece of the face immaculate and the left rest bare. Or marred by Caliban's speech, bumbling and awkward and raspy and too deep and soft. Or marred by Caliban's words, twisting and nonsensical is the picture she paints. Beautiful Caliban with beautiful eyes and thin, delicate features like a doll, so ugly is Caliban's soul.

Matrix Persona

On the matrix, Caliban adopts the persona of a monster. Caliban could be metahuman perhaps but Caliban is hulking and awkward, dressed in rags with a face like broken glass. Caliban is ugly and you hate Caliban and you do not like Caliban. Caliban is hideous. Caliban is monstrous. Caliban is a bad thing.

Caliban's signature are wounds and the wrongness of the matrix's guts.

Character Plot Hooks

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

Aspect	Information	Related Run(s)
Aspect 1
Aspect 2
Aspect 3
Aspect 4
Aspect 5

Gallery

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  Caliban's Meager, Fleshly Countenance