Sircuit

Sircuit

Decker
Net Knight
Hacker and Slasher
Discord	nivenbee
Reddit	gnome_idea_what
Wiki User	Niven
Metatype	Human (Metavariant)
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	2
Folder	[1]
Priority	Metatype - C Attributes - D Magic/Resonance - E Skills - B Resources - A

Character Information

Summary

An former e-ganger, skilled with deck and sword, who aspires to live up to knightly ideals--without falling to the depths of the knightly historical reality.

Goals

• Show the Electric Knights how a real knight should act

• Serve as an exemplar for hackers and street samurai alike

• Carve out spaces on the matrix free of the megacorps' control

Background

This tale starts in Tacoma. Our hero, Sircuit, grew up SINless with a gift for the technical and a strong sense of right and wrong. He felt victimized by “the system”, and had power on the matrix that the real world denied him. But he was still a teenager, with much to learn about the world.

For example, he thought the Electric Knights gang was the coolest people alive, and wanted to join them. Sircuit had enough matrix skills for them to let him hang around. Some wires and swordplay impressed them even more, convincing the group to allow this teenager the “privilege” of being one of their bodyguards.

And so things went. But as he grew older, the indiscriminate nature of the gang’s matrix pranks began to wear on him. His suggestions that the gang pursue a more anti-authority agenda was viewed as boring and uninspired.

The final straw came when Sircuit was called upon to defend the gang from the consequences of its own actions. A power surge from a backfired hack had blacked out the entire neighborhood, and the local SINless knew exactly who to blame. The Electric Knights’ usual irreverence was received poorly by the neighbors, who escalated the argument into a fight. Sircuit’s loyalty to the gang and CQC skills weren’t enough to defeat two dozen highly motivated people, and his stepping in to defend the hackers (who had retreated inside their fortified structure once the fighting started) made him a lightning rod for their anger. By the time they left, Sircuit was barely alive.

The Electric Knights were willing to chip in for cybersurgery to replace the body parts that had been damaged beyond repair, but this gesture was too little too late. Sircuit had lost too much respect for the Electric Knights. While recovering, he pondered what to do instead of playing bodyguard for script kiddies. Being an independent contractor would let him apply his skills to better causes, so he disentangled himself from the gang (who allowed him to leave once they realized Sircuit had no plans of ratting them out) and struck out on his own as a shadowrunner.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

• Instinctive Hack+Overclocker+Perfect Time: "The one good thing about spending years with a bunch of overly competitive nerds? You pick up a lot of tricks, learn to make the most of what you've got."
• Ronin (dodge+cyberware): This man has studied the blade.

Negative

• Code of Honor (Warrior's Code): Sircuit holds himself to a high standard, knowing that for now he may be the only one who can appreciate it. But to him, if violence isn't worth doing "right" then it isn't worth doing at all.
• Prank Warrior: While the Electric Knights aren't out for Sircuit's blood after he left their gang, they do think his personal crusade is silly and delight in testing his resolve by trolling him during shadowruns. This generally takes the form of an Electric Knights decker dressed in an opposing knight persona (with some kind of anachronistic design or heraldry marking them as a member of the gang) showing up to cause mischief.

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Product Acquisition	Sarcarian		High	18 October 2086

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Anhe	3	1	Fixer(K,N,G,A)	Matrix Information Specialist and Fixer	Detached, Lore Hunter, Chronically Online, Shadowrunning, "Oh? Tell me more.", Information Specialist, Fact vs. Fiction, AI "Ally", Protosapients and Technocritters, Digitization and Archival	Even
Salve	1	1	Legwork	Medic Spirit	Your Insurance Isn't Covering This, Strictly Professional, Awakened Healer, Metaplanar Med School Grad, Ambulance Chaser, Out-Of-Network Providers	Even

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	A few minor cybercrime incident reports taken credit for by a user named Sircuit, dated from about a decade ago to about five years ago. None particularly sophisticated or dangerous, mostly AR vandalism and cracked files.
3	Some patter in hacker forums, largely talking shop about hacking techniques, from a user going by Sircuit.
6	Details about a falling-out between Sircuit and some Seattlite hackers. It seems ideological differences were the cause.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	"Decker, has a sword, got a whole 'knight' gimmick going on. Native to Seattle."
3	"He's no Don Quixote, the knight stuff is just an aesthetic choice. His deck's lower-end, but he's pretty chromed up for a nerd. The sword isn't just for show either."
5	"I heard he had some kind of bad break with the Electric Knights. Ugly business he's trying to put behind him. Guy can be a bit uptight about violence, very 'high and mighty' about not hurting the wrong people."

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1	The aura presents no maladies or magic.
2	Arms and legs are all augmented.
3	Further augmentation of the head and spine.
4	Essence of 0.0375. Some bioware in the head and lower torso.
5	Nothing you didn't already know.

SINs

Bruce Gawain (R4 UCAS)

Appearance

Sircuit is a tall young man of Mediterranean descent. He has striking red-brown eyes and short, straight black hair.

His arms and legs are cyberlimbs, all of which are older-school obvious limbs with robot-like joints and smooth metal plates with a silvery sheen, kept meticulously polished. His datajack is tucked behind his right ear.

Clothing

When not worried about attracting the wrong kind of attention, Sircuit will wear his chain mail over a thick sweater (thinner in the summer) and overalls. If he has to worry about getting connected with criminal activity he'll ditch the chain mail. He prefers lighter colors: red, white, lighter gray, and yellow are common sweater colors, while his pants are generally more muted tans and grays.

In situations where violence is expected, Sircuit will don a knight's helmet and add plate-armor-esque PPP systems, and carries an arming sword in a leather scabbard.

Matrix Persona

Unsurprisingly, his persona takes the form of a knight. Even his "civilian" version is heavily detailed, with a focus on realism over stylization. His persona when run off his cyberdeck takes this a step further by adding a horse that he rides, a roan charger almost as detailed as the knight part of the persona, and a suite of weapons.

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)
Gone but not forgotten	Sircuit has formally severed ties with the Electric Knights, but left with some complex feelings about some members of the group. While at worst they were bored corpkids looking for a form of youthful rebellion without real world repercussions, some of them were simply misguided in his mind. Should he stumble into one or more of the more well-regarded Electric Knights in trouble, he would be unable to simply walk away.
The once and future king	The Pendragon, the mysterious English political activist claimed by some to be the return of King Arthur, has always been a curiosity for Sircuit. While too young and far away to be a role model, the loose end of the vanished Pendragon intrigues Sircuit, and he would pull on any string purporting to contain info as to his identity, motives, or eventual fate.
Sword, Lance, and/or Chalice	The paraphernalia of Arthuriana, such as the sword Excalibur or the Sangrail, are also on-and-off fascinations for Sircuit. In particular he's interested in the possibility that the stories may be based on magical artifacts from an earlier cycle of magic. Any clues as to the origins or whereabouts of these apocryphal items would greatly interest Sircuit. Unbeknownst to Sircuit, given that Excalibur is likely tied to the Dragons and/or Immortal Elves based on comments from Harlequin and Dunkelzahn, this may be a rabbit hole into Fourth World stuff.
Making that Host a Home	Sircuit fights for a net that serves the peoples' needs, not the corps' needs. But with a complete digital revolution unlikely to happen in the near future, he'd settle for a corner he can use as a sanctuary and rallying point. But acquiring a host just isn't done via conventional means, so with no known avenues of progression he's put this ambition on the backburner for now.
Aspect 5