Pycnidium

Pycnidium

Face & Summoner
Everyone’s favorite beautiful idiot
Discord	@Ironmonkey#2848
Reddit	/u/avisionofdoom
Metatype	Dryad (Elf)
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	3
Public Awareness	0
CDP	2
D.O.B.	September 22nd, 2063
Age	22
Folder	[Link tbd]
Priority	Metatype - B Attributes - A Magic/Resonance - B Skills - E Resources - E

Character Information

Summary

Pycnidium (she/they), or just 'Pyck', is a product of poverty and corporate exploitation. She is a Dryad Mystic Adept, one in a million, born to a poor human family. Her great cosmic fortune has only served to damn her. Pyck was largely outcast in her early years, and was picked up by Horizon in High School. She was held prisoner as a tool of corporate influence, and only found freedom through self taught magics, fueled by some long forged dissatisfaction.

Mechanical Summary: Socials 14-18 dice depending on modifiers. Mild summoning/binding talent, can conjure for combat if necessary. 5 Edge to compensate for poor skill spread. Emergency self defense in the form of Mob Mind spell, though not willing to use it carelessly. Lots of dodge if full defending (~20dp), poor defenses otherwise.

Goals

• Accumulate power and experience for the express purpose of maintaining individuality. Pyck is terrified of being under someone else's ‘supervision’ ever again.

• Get petty revenge on her old Horizon handler for ruining her family’s opportunity to rise through the economic ranks.

• Provide for her family and community, but remain personally distant. Turning her over to the corporate soul-grinder at a young age is not a slight easily forgiven.

• Receive higher education, or at least complete a GED. Pyck feels rather insecure about her lack of general knowledge and competencies from a deprived and isolated life.

• Find some genuine (meta)human connection. Pyck is extremely lonely and isolated, but struggles to treat social interaction as anything more than a means to an end, and has trouble connecting with people.

• As a very long term goal: attempt a return to corporate life on her own terms. The potential money and security is hard to pass up, though perhaps a dream of corporate life which still allows self-actualization is naive.

Background

WIP

Narratively Significant Qualities

Positive

• “Staggering Beauty, Venomous Conceit” (Good Looking and Knows It, Glamour, Too Pretty to Hit): Natural beauty and a number of years of conscious presentation. Body language, eye contact and the proper smile are weapons meant to disarm and distract.

• Mentor Spirit (Raven): A sly voice weaving manipulative and capricious notions into Pyck's subconscious. Dangerous if not kept under control.

• Common Sense: A reliable set of instincts, maybe the only thing really keeping her alive.

Other qualities: Focused Concentration 1

Negative

• “A Face to Haunt You” (Distinctive Style, GL&KI Downside): Horribly striking, Pyck has the look and demeanor of someone that you can’t help but think about. This is not necessarily romantic, some faces just burn themselves into our brains with their presence.

• Symbiosis: Natural Dryadic quality, requires her to find an area of nature to meaningfully inhabit. The severe health repercussions of a lifetime of ignoring this (& living in terrible pollution) are largely responsible for her sickliness (1 body).

• Addictions (Kamikaze / Mild, Psyche / Mild): Psyche as a crutch to easier study self taught magicks. Kamikaze as a way to mask her abject lack of experience in a fight.

• Corporate Pariah II (Horizon): Previously a dime-a-dozen idealized teen influencer with a bevy of forgettable appearances in Horizon advertising and media. Former handler was a manipulative man named Richard Tremen. Pyck has ill-conceived notions of a triumphant return to her corporate masters that would somehow not impede her freedoms.

• Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker):

Other qualities:

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Outlet Outrage!	TidanShock		Low	4 December 2083

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Chloe Green	2	1	Fixer	Fixer	Activist, Environmentalist, Rich Brat	Even
Chainsaw Caterpillar	5	2	Fixer(G,N,K,A)	Fixer	Armored Activist, Save Our Soils, Big "Game" Hunter, Upgrade Complete, HUMINT Management, Cyber-Seeker	Even
Joseph Speaks-With-Rivers	5	2	Custom(G,A,K,N)	Talismonger	Enchanter, Urban Shaman, Talismonger, Talislegger, Teacher, Painted Horse Lodge	Even
Blanca Blanco	2	5	Custom(G,A,K,N)	Talismonger	Talismonger, Enchanter, Street Shaman	Even

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	A small number of petty thefts and low level scams can be found on public records which match the runner's description. She is, after all, hard to forget.
3	There is good information available which links the runner with one Richard Tremen, a Horizon talent agent. Though it seems, as of now, their ties are minimal or non-existent.
6	It is likely that the runner is actually a local Seattle highschool dropout, one Izabelle Fischer. Fischer was the middle child of a poor family of wage slaves, it is unclear whether this name is a well kept fake SIN, or her real name. Further investigation required. Fischer was flagged as awakened and processed into Horizons "Teen Dreem" marketing operation, and worked for the corporation for the last 4.5 years. The rest of the Fischer family was not employed alongside Izabelle.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1
3
5