Dice

Dice

frameless
Mage (Shamanic)
Discord	AngryHedgie
Reddit	u/Ok_Growth9370
Wiki User	AngryHedgie
Metatype	Elf (Dryad)
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	2
D.O.B.	2049-08-13
Age	37
Folder	Drive
Priority	Metatype - D Attributes - C Magic/Resonance - A Skills - B Resources - E
#Max IGs/Ascension	1

Character Information

Summary

Themes of 'a rising tide lifts all boats' and force of will changing one's own fated stars despite adversity.

Goals

1. Acquire contacts.
2. Build a brand for herself in the Seattle entertainment industry and beyond.
3. Profit.

Background

Themes of 'a rising tide lifts all boats' and force of will changing one's own fated stars despite adversity.

A displaced Dryad, Dice lives on the Seattle streets and lays her head in whatever lounge, venue, or even benefactor's guest house that she can wheel into for a while. She may not be a Face, but she's got a touch of the grift to support an enterprising individual who may need support with big jobs, particularly if they require crowd control. Her preference for ritual spellcasting reflects a love of clean, orderly operations and well-considered strategies in shadowruns. None of that clinical hermetic drek, mind you, but nice and tidy all the same. Too bad shadowrunning rarely stays on course the way event planning does...

A good rule of thumb for the conspicuous - for better or worse - is to keep everyone convinced that they are having a good time. Dryads have little in the way of a uniform culture, and since even their parents can be human that makes growing up among the SINless even more daunting. It's not an easy life for anyone, even less so when popular prejudice places a target on your back. Having to dodge portions of Seattle and the outlying cities during anti-meta rallies is obnoxious, but having dealt with it most of her life Dice just keeps her head down and looks for mutually beneficial arrangements with other elves where feasible. All the social and economic pressures taught her was that it is better to be entertaining than to be forgotten or reviled. That's her ticket to the top.

She has no blood family remaining, though she has the capacity to be deeply loyal.

Dice excels at blending into plain sight. Her natural ability with Glamour helps her to elude the worst of the public scrutiny, an illusory impression of a blonde-haired, decidedly pinker woman might stay with those who do not have the sight to pierce through to the heart of her nature. Her pointed ears do little to alleviate the general distaste for her kind, but elvish typing and metavariance aside: she manages. Where street savvy and illusion fail, manipulation often solves her concerns. She might be on the streets for now, but she has ambitions.

The combination of dryad allure, a meticulous attention to her appearance within her limited means, and mind-altering abilities makes her an excellent coordinator, hostess, or promoter for events where hostilities are a risk. The majority of her personal interactions are superficial and a means to an end; but those few she trusts are in for life. Her interactions with those she does not know tend to be light and pleasant, but she has a long memory for those who cross her. Still, you never know how fortunes will rise and fall; today the person in the streets you throw a few creds to might be king of the corpos tomorrow. It pays to play carefully.

With her delicate physical frame and allergic flares to the toxicity of urban life, she may not be the heaviest hitter amongst the shadowrunners on the streets of Seattle, but she is steadily acquiring contacts as she works on building a reputation that until Dice rolls in the party has yet to begin.

She is vegetarian, like most of her kind, but survival trumps preference as it is with most people. She sees the Father Tree as a totem of seasons, wither and decay as much a part of the natural order of things as growth and life. She also has the philosophical outlook that her personal fortunes turn in such cycles also, which is part of why she can sometimes be persuaded to work on a favour economy for those who have accrued a positive reputation with her or her allies. If she can help someone here and there, she doesn't sweat it if a nuyen or two kicks over to someone in the winter of their career. If a little karma or good will swings back her way as a result, so much the better.

Though she keeps it well-concealed for fear it will be misinterpreted as an affinity for eco-terrorists, Dice also has ties to a green space conservatory within the city that serves as a retreat for recovery when the demands of the concrete jungle become too taxing, particularly if necessity requires her to delve too far into the vices of shadowrunner life in the city. [Future PC may develop as part of this organization.] She finds herself moving in the same circles as Chloe Green both socially and in her conservation interests, but keeps walls up with the socialite and puts her off as a contact to avoid association with her eco-terrorism group.

Narrative Significant Qualities

• Magical Theory (Street)
• Magical Threats
• Parabotany
• Spirits
• Sperethiel (Native)
• English
• Japanese
• Bars and Clubs
• Fashion
• Grifting

Positive

• Friends in High Places
• Glamour
• Low-Light Vision
• Lucky
• Magician

Negative

• Allergy (Common, Mild) (Toxins (Synthetic Drugs & Synthetic Alcohol))
• Computer Illiterate
• Distinctive Style (Glamour)
• Driven (Green House and Seed Bank: make real produce accessible. [Secretly wants to fund her own sacred grove.])
• Symbiosis

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Mister Mental	Asmodeus	Hail to the Pumpking	High	11 October 2086

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Axilia_Selmer	6	1	Networking	Music Producer	Musical Talent, Corporate Dealings, High Class Businesses, Bodyguards, Celebrities, Inconspicuous Associates, Daddy's Girl	Even
Candlejack	2	1	Custom(K,N,G,A)	Security Rigger, Fixer, and Infobroker	Distracted Diving, Know People Who Know People, Time to Burn, Known for Drones, Industry Insider	Even
Captain_Boomerang_(Contact)	4	1	Custom (G,A,K,N)	Talismonger	Hard to Reach, Talismonger, Alchemist, Artificer, Chaos Mage, Part Time Hero, Kitchen Alchemy	Even
Charybdis	4	1	Custom(N,K,A,G)	Librarian/Fixer	Conjuring Sensei, Book Club, Bestiary, Smuggling Connections, Computer Illiterate, Architecture Enthusiast, Voodou Mage	Even
Flipster	2	1	Networking	Music Promoter	Where's the next party?, Drugs, Audiophil, Hard to reach, Paperwork? What Paperwork?	Even

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	Occasionally appears in news coverage and social feeds of the greater Seattle area entertainment scene.
3	Frequently seen at cabarets or casinos, particularly known to be an up-and-coming promoter for Stuck's Carnival.
6	Is a regular volunteer at one of the local libraries in downtown Seattle run by another dryad.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	This runner is too new to shadowrunning for rumours to circulate. Check back again later.
3
5

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1	Awakened.
2	Magician.
3	Shaman.
4	Not a technomancer.
5	Father Tree totem / Dryad (if Glamoured or otherwise concealed).

Appearance

Swag

• Reagents, per dram (Shamanic) x50
• Magical Lodge Materials (Rating 1) (Shamanic) x1
• Alchemical Focus Formula (Rating 1) (Shamanic) x1

Bribes & Drugs

• Zen x1 dose

Currencies

• NuYen 135.38￥
• Wuxing Scrip x5
• UCAS Dollar 5.00$
• Ares Scrip x5
• Aztlan Peso 5.00¢
• Aztechnology Scrip x5
• Evo Scrip x5
• Horizon Scrip x5
• MCT Scrip x5
• Renraku Scrip x5
• Saeder-Krupp Scrip x5
• Shiawase Scrip x5
• Southeast Asian Ringgit 5.00RM
• Tir Ryal x5

Favours

• Unskilled Labor (Hour) x4

Clothing

• Good Dress x1
• Lined Coat x1
• Nice Shoes x1 pair
• Nice Undergarments x1 set
• One-Use Gloves x1
• One-Use Pants x1
• One-Use Shirt x1
• One-Use Shoes x1
• Nice Stockings x1 pair
• Ski Mask x1

Sundry Possessions

• Survival Knife (Pool:4, Accuracy: 5, Damage: 3P, AP:-1, Reach: 0) x1
• Tube of Epoxy x1
• White Noise Generator (Rating 1) x1
• Survival Kit x1
• >Lighter x1
• >Compass x1
• >Matches x20
• >Lightweight Thermal Blanket x1
• >Several Days' Worth of Ration Bars x9
• >Water Purification Unit x1
• >Knife x1
• Apple x2
• Prepaid Commlink (Good)
• >Screamsheet Download (Bellevue Realty Report)
• >Screamsheet Download (Bellevue Society News & Events)
• >Screamsheet Download (Seattle Events, Parties and Entertainment + Hiring Venues)
• >Screamsheet Download (Berlin Events, Parties and Entertainment + Hiring Venues)
• >Screamsheet Download (Neo-Tokyo Events, Parties and Entertainment + Hiring Venues)
• >Screamsheet Download (London Atelier and Fashion News)
• >Screamsheet Download (Paris Atelier and Fashion News)
• >Screamsheet Download (Harajuku Atelier and Fashion News)
• >Screamsheet Download (Berlin Atelier and Fashion News)
• >Screamsheet Download (Global Politico: News & World Report)
• >Screamsheet Download (Popular Botany)
• Portable Music Player ["Pocket Party" for ambience]
• >Music Album Download (Fifth World Metal)
• >Music Album Download (Naturecore) [Sounds of the natural world, sometimes with modern beats and bass]
• >Song Download (Green Magic Woman by SINtana)
• >Song Download (Nightcomm by Krawhisky)
• Univeral Connector Cord (Meter)
• Good Lighter x1
• Roll of Clear Tape x1
• Roll of Duct Tape x1
• Good Seamstress' Tape Measure x1
• Solar Panel (Square Meter)
• Cheap Duffel Bag x1
• Can of Spray Paint [for quick and dirty symbols on the go - or foiling surveillance]
• Standard Certified Credstick x1
• Stealth RFID Tags (Rating 3) x1
• Respirator (Rating 1) x1
• Micro Camera x1

Matrix Persona

N/A

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	Dryads may not always be well-adapted to the concrete jungle. As a result, many have allergies. Dice is fortunate that she primarily has to deal with standing out for her looks, and much of her magic has developed around illusion and manipulation as a result. She is attuned to green spaces within the city, particularly a small series of parks tended by a local conservatory. While she does not have to spend all of her time there, she does often in order not to break the attunement and because her work in the entertainment industry keeps her awake most nights. This makes her particularly susceptible to unwanted guests in the event they are successful in searching for her away from her usual haunts, but it also means she is almost never completely alone.
Aspect 2	Orphaned early, Dice feels lucky that her parents were SINless. She feels less lucky that they were both human and angry to have the misfortune of a dryad for a daughter. Had they survived, Dice suspects she might have found herself in corporate hands. She never discusses this, but with Axilia Selmer now amongst her contacts, she worries that her efforts to integrate herself into Bellevue society and the Downtown Seattle entertainment scene may result in unwanted interest from Flash Star! in their escalating efforts to achieve AA status. Their focus on filling out the ranks of their magical security has begun to give Dice pause, though to date there has been no inkling this might become a problem. For now, she feels reasonably certain that her profile is too low for much attention on this front.
Aspect 3
Aspect 4
Aspect 5