Trades
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| Archetype: Aspiring Sourceror/Generalist | |
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| Former Otaku, New Technomancer | |
| Discord: Elayne(Trades) | @Elayne_Malachite |
| Reddit: Elayne_Malachite | [1] |
| Metatype | Human |
| Street Cred | 0 |
| Notoriety | 0 |
| Public Awareness | 0 |
| CDP | 52 |
| D.O.B. | January 14th, 2054 |
| Age | 31 |
| Folder | [2] |
| Sum to 10 | Metatype - E Attributes - A Magic/Resonance - C Skills - E Resources - A |
| # Optional Infected powers allowed | 0 |
Character Information
Summary
Trades is a matrix infiltrator who uses her living persona and extensive augmentations to help her crack systems. She barely has a spark of the resonance in her, but she's eager to develop the new matrix powers to replace what she had before.
Goals
Become a sourceror.
Develop mastery over the resonance alike to what she had as an otaku.
Upgrade and add more ware, Trades is a trans-transhumanist. She started during her days as an otaku, and she's happy to be able to continue on her path as she get's involved in shadowrunning once more.
Get her skillwires geared up. She needs activesofts and better wires if she wants to make something of herself.
Background
Born in Seattle, Trades was identified by her former tribe around the age of 7. She spent the next two years slowly being initiated into the mysteries of the matrix. Finally, it was time for her initiation into the resonance. When she returned from her time in the deep resonance, she could see the matrix in a new way. Where some might have seen the cluttered and patchwork symbology, Trades saw the elegant construction of underlying code. She took to her new skills with a great appetite leading a brief, but successful career as a shadowrunner leading up to Crash 2.0. Crash 2.0 also drew the curtain on her career as a shadowrunner since her abilities didn't translate into her emerging as an early technomancer. As data was gathered on technomancers and their relationship to essence, Trades began to suspect that her extensive augmentation may have been responsible for why she didn't emerge like many of the other otaku. She spent the next 2 decades working in Retrofit's clinic as her assistant using their skillwires.
In late 2084, Trades started to notice that she was able to do more in the matrix than should have been possible with just her datajack. It felt a little like how it had been to be an otaku, so she attempted another pilgrimage to the deep resonance in the hopes that maybe she might find answers. The deep resonance was lost to her like every other otaku, but she did manage to reach the resonance realms. When she arrived at Kernel Panic she was struck by another transcendental moment. It was as if she had been looking at the new matrix through a pair of blurry glasses and things had finally come into focus. Things slotted into place in her brain and her living persona sparked to life for the first time. Now she's back on the streets, and eager to restart her career as a shadowrunner.
Narrative Significant Qualities
Positive
- Like a lot of former otaku, Trades has a razor sharp mind. The resonance feels familiar to her even if it's a little bit off and a lot more muted.
- She's a ronin. She'll never be the first to break under pressure, and she'll never leave anyone behind. If that means getting captured in order to stabilize a team-mate, then that's a trade she's willing to make.
- A lot of matrix specialists can't move and hack; Trades can do both at the same time. She's not afraid to be on-site with her team.
- She has a teacher who's been helping her master her complex forms.
- Trades has a keen eye for spotting icons from truly monumental distances.
- When it's time for a fight, you can find Trades already moving before others have realized something is up.
- Trades has cut her teeth on aquatic infiltration missions. She's learned how to best cover her approach on water.
- On her trip to New York, fate conspired with Trades in order to see her succeed. She's a lot luckier than other runners.
Negative
- Trades got left behind by her team once when she was an otaku. That hopeless sinking feeling she felt as she realized that there would be no rescue is something she can't bear to inflict on somebody else.
- Indiscriminate murder? Not really Trade's jam. If she's going to kill a person, then they had better have done something to deserve it.
- Clothes are a hobby of Trades! She's particular about her outfits, and if things aren't just right, then it'll put her off her game.
- Did you know there was so much cool info on the matrix? Trades loves chasing down factoids and tid-bits of news. If someone is talking about something interesting, then she'll probably go listen to that.
- A lot of otaku were weaker than their mundane counterparts. Trades is just about as strong as a particularly perturbed cat.
Run History
Affiliations
Contacts
| Contact | Connection | Loyalty | Archetype | Profession | Aspects | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heward Smith | 1 | 6 | Fixer | Street Punk | Unlicensed Vendor, Criminal Connections | Even |
| Retrofit | 1 | 6 | Gear | Shady Street Doc | Augmentations, Cyberware | Even |
| Miss Amanda Jones | 3 | 2 | Custom(A,N,K,G) | Professional Escort | Arm's Length, Hard to Reach, Money don't grow on trees, Street Actress, Not interested in the way to a man's heart, Knows Her Target Market, Gotta Spend Money to Make money, Shadow Connections | Even |
| Norville Craddock | 6 | 2 | Custom(G,K,N,A) | Elder Mage Talislegger | Wanted, Abilities Considered Unnatural, Dreamland Voyager, Lost Faith, Hard to Reach, Sins of the Flesh, The Bitter Water of Marah, Keeper of the Vaults, Esoteric Tastes, All-Seeing Eye of God, Silver Tongued Devil, Armor of God, Peddler of Arcane Esoterica | Even |
| Prof. Dr. Franz Andreas Buhl | 6 | 1 | Custom(G,N,K,A) | Owner - Jordan Winery | A Case of Fine Wine, You should meet my tailor, DLR Rheinpfalz insider, Weincampus Neustadt industry connections, Weincampus Neustadt academic connections, Wine connoisseur, Bundeskriminalamt connections | Even |
| KAPTAIN KILLDOZER | 2 | 1 | Service | Street Pirate Kaptain | RAISE THE FLAG!, KAPTAIN'S ORDERS!, FIRE ALL CANNONS!, SET SAIL!, YOU ARE A PIRATE! | Even |
Organizations
| Organization | Reputation |
|---|---|
| Shiawase | +2 |
| Universal Omnitech | -2 |
| Contact | Position | Connection | Faction Rep | Archetype | Health | Location |
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Allies
Retrofit- They've been working with Trades since their days as Ultrabyte the Otaku. Retrofit helped Trades find a new life after crash 2.0 as well as providing gender-affirming care. They were able to secure vat time for Trades to complete their physical transition in late 2075
Heward Smith- A frequent visitor to Retrofit's clinic. Trades has spent a good part of the last 10 years helping put him back together. He serves as the clinics liaison with criminal elements helping to keep it safe from the predations of nearby gangs. Trades has served as his back-up during countless tense meetings.
Norville Craddock- Trades worked with him on a mission to steal some paydata on magical reagants from the triads. His mysterious aura makes him seem like someone that she wants to get to know better. Trades went to seek advice from Norville after her mission in Germany to try and process how she used sex to manipulate the target and her feelings about it.
Prof. Dr. Franz Andreas Buhl - He hired Trades for a mission in Germany where she and her team blackmailed a major into selling weapons to him.
Miss Amanda Jones - During her mission in Germany, Amanda and Trades seduced and blackmailed Major Wolfgang Müller of the MET 2000 in order to coerce him into selling weapons to Professor Buhl.
KAPTAIN KILLDOZER- Shiver yer timbers. Trades joined the merry crew of the KAPTAIN in order to perform an act of piracy upon the seven seas during her inaugural mission with the Shadowhaven. The crew grabbed the booty of paydata and made a clean getaway.
Enemies
In Character Information
Symbols and Signatures
Matrix Search Table
| Threshold | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | Until early 2085, she was employed by Retrofit as a surgeons assistant. |
| 3 | Before Crash 2.0, they were a cyberadept of one of the Seattle tribes, and led a brief but successful career as a shadow-runner. She's also somewhat active in trans BBS. |
| 6 | She's got some niche posts in some otaku BBS after Matrix 2.0 about rumors of technomancers. In early 2084, there's a brief resurgence questions surrounding them, the deep resonance, and the possibility of emergence later in life. |
Shadow Community Table
| Threshold | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | Trades is an up and coming novahot decker. She's started doing some odd jobs for people in early 2085. |
| 3 | Her symbology in the matrix is that of an architect. She makes adjustments to her blueprints in order to alter the fabric of the matrix. |
| 5 | They used to be an otaku known under the alias Ultrabyte. If you want to embarrass her, then bringing up the moniker she chose as an otaku is a safe bet. They fell off the radar for 20 years after Crash 2.0. In early 2085, she began making new appearances under the alias Trades. Nobody has reported her getting a deck, so it's a pretty decent guess that she's finally emerged as a technomancer. |
Assensing Table
| Threshold | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | Trades is Mundane |
| 2 | Trades possesses a R1 cyberear with 3 antennae and a translat-ear, a datajack, an EARRS, a R3 skilljack, R2 skillwires, R3 Reaction Enhancers |
| 3 | Trades possesses no alphaware |
| 4 | Trades is currently at 1.2525 essence. They currently possess R1 Cerebellum, and R2 Cerebral boosters. |
| 5 | Trades is a technomancer who possesses the Narco geneware as well as genetic optimizations of her logic, intuition, and willpower. She also possesses two R1 nanohives supporting R2 Neocortical and R2 Limbic neuroamplifiers |
SINs
Rating 4 (Eleanor Reeds, UCAS)
Rating 2 (Sarah Breeks, UCAS)
Appearance
Clothing
Trades generally wears her green jacket, although a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'd recommend taking a peek at her profile. She keeps a lot of her devices connected to her skin in order to take advantage of her ability to directly connect with things simply by touch.
Matrix Persona
Trades matrix persona is currently an architect. When she is engaging in traditional hacking, she tends to use symbology related to construction. She generally uses a blueprint as a symbolic focus for navigation and interaction. Her MARKs are small glass buildings. Her Sprites look like little construction drones.
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 | Trades and her team ended up betraying the Johnson in New York, so he might come back for revenge. | |
| Aspect 2 | ||
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| Aspect 5 |