Apex

Apex

File:Apex.jpeg
Sleze decker
Better, Faster, Smarter
Discord	@Shitpostbot3000#9033
Reddit	Scranton Anchor
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	1
Public Awareness	0
CDP	10
D.O.B.	Character's Date of Birth
Age	29
Folder	https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UyZZrn84jk95liAyAVC8cqSLtPG9bT-P?usp=sharing
Sum to Ten	Metatype - E Attributes - B Magic/Resonance - E Skills - B Resources - A

Character Information

Summary

Apex is a young shadowrunnerwho, through the combination of careful biological and genetical calibration, genuine talent and reckless use of nootropic substances, manages to reach quite good levels of intellect. This nova hot brain is put to use as a decker, specifically one specialized into the more subtle and sneaky side of the trade, but that doesn't shy away from making use of barbaric tools such as data spikes or even, gasps, firearms.

Goals

• On a short term, get to upgrade their ware and cyberdeck to better specs, specifically acquiring a stronger agent, some PuSHed genemod and a CIY-720
• On a long term, push their mind further and further into transhuman territory, to truly become, the Apex they crave to be. Oh, emptying the Zurich Orbital's datavault seems kinda nice too

Background

The life of the little Gertrude (yes, that's her actual name and yes, she hates it) was never the best, but neither the worst, by a long shot. Her parents were not the richest, with the father working as a factory worker for some shitty A grade corp and the mother being a SINless that made a living harvesting reagents for mages far more powerful then her, but Lotus never went to bed hungry, if you know what I mean.

Her life started to look a bit brighter when she was 13, and discovered that she was magical enough to be a true mage, not only an aspected one. This was a turning point, and she started ignoring traditional school to study the shamanic lore most dryads refer to, and becoming a good doer in that criminal hellhole that was Everett.

For the first times the thing kinda worked, with her magic and natural charme always being used for free or for a good cause. But then, she discovered the reality of shadowrunners, and millions of nuyen they make with a single job

The first time was at 17, her first run: a simple job, meet up with two other dudes from the hood, enter this abandoned car shop, get the stash of coke some lowlife ganger hid inside, and get out. Easy. What they didn't knew was that inside the building there was a guard, another ganger, the same age as her. She tried to seduce him to let the others do the stealing, and it worked, for the most part. But for one split second, the guard turned back, and saw the other team members. It was a matter of an instant, he was already pulling out his gun, and Lotus had to save their lifes, so she cast flamethrower against him, driving him to the ground screaming in agony. Those screams didn't scare her tho, they were music for her ears. She felt alive, she felt powerful! And the more powerful she felt, the stronger her magic became! It quickly became a vicious cycle of sadism and manipulation that drove her to seek the mysteries of the Black Magic

Lotus' already manifest sociopathic tendencies sharpened again at the age of 24, when she got infected by accidentaly ingesting bodily fluids of a banshee, turning into a banshee herself. Now her metamorphosis to a new person complete, the last step was leaving the slums and going to live in the downtown. It took Lotus no time to find a small flat in the downtown, from where she'll plan her rise!

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

Codeslinger: Hack on the Fly

• Most of the commercial firewalls are similar in structure, with familiar architectures, and shared flaws that Apex learned to exploit.

Overclocker

• Through careful data tweaking and general care, Apex is able to squeeze that little more that turns any stock decker in a force to be reckoned with.

Perfect Time

• When your mind is forced into processing stimuli at several times the speed of what a normal metahuman considers fast, time becomes relative.

Trust Data, Not Lore

• Relying on your guts to do the thinking may save your life on the streets, but in a world of 1s and 0s it's the cold, hard brain that should do the heavy lifting.

Negative

Addiction (Moderate): Psyche

• Once you take the habit of making your brain perform at such crazy heights, coping with your regular only genius level of IQ is, well, hard.

Basement Dweller

• Even after cracking thousands of codes, Apex is still puzzled by one: face-to-face metahuman interaction.

Paranoid

• Apex is the living proof that sometimes, there IS such a thing as overprepared.

Records on File: NeoNET

• Turns out that doing an unpaid internship for a triple A wasn't a smart move after all.

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Bug Out Bag	DiscoGoblin		Medium	15 June 2082
At Cross Purposes	Aurora		High	25 May 2082
Unhospitalized	Onebi	The Crow of Seattle	Medium	13 May 2082
Stay Very Quiet	Asmodeus		High	13 May 2082
Throwing Shade	Sarcarian		Medium	12 May 2082

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Haruki Uchida	5	2	Fixer	Fixer	Cyberware, Bioware, Fake SINs, Infobroker Contacts, Armor Accessories, Shiawase Brand Equipment	Even

In Character Information

Symbols and Signatures

Everything about Apex on Matrix follows a clear pattern: geometrical shapes, pure whites, golden decorations.

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	Apex, noun: the uppermost point
3	Stories about a perfect nobody who came onto the scene a couple of years ago with a shitty Little Hornet deck and still pulled off some serious stunts.
6	Same as above, with the addition of this nobody often changing name, signatures, decks, habits, pretty much everything, every 4 months or so.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	A decker from Seattle
3	A sleaze based human decker from Redmond, Seattle
5	A sleaze based human decker, with some baseline combat capabilities and several genemods, often jumping from place to place, currently active in Redmond, Seattle

SINs

Ash Kinney, NeoNET spider, Concealed carry/cyberdeck/drone licenses, everything at R4

Appearance

Apex is a 1,67 m (5'6) human non binary person. After a long and careful biosculpting process, their body appears very lithe and devoid of either evident muscle mass or volumionus curves. Despite their past under the hands of very capable plastic surgeons, everything else about Apex is pretty standard, from their white, almost elven like long hair, to their ice blue eyes to their pale skin.

Clothing

The go-to run outift is a long trenchcoat paired with a scarf made out of true wool, denims and boots (and eventually a mask if they are B&E), but this "comfy-chic" attitude is carried out to their everyday wardrobe to

Matrix Persona

When not on situations where an odd looking avatar would bring unwanted attentions, Apex's go-to avatar these days is a robotic entity composed of floating, extremely cutting edge sci-fiesque parts.