Ca1yps0
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| Mermaid Transhumanist Cybercriminal | |
|---|---|
| Original Generation Technomancer | |
| Discord | @Sarcarian#8374 |
| [1] | |
| Metatype | Elf (Dryad) |
| Street Cred | 0 |
| Notoriety | 1 |
| Public Awareness | 0 |
| CDP | 58 |
| D.O.B. | July 31, 2048 |
| Age | 37 |
| Folder | [2] |
| Priority | Prime Runner (slot purchased with GMP) Metatype - D Attributes - B Magic/Resonance - A Skills - D Resources - E |
Character Information
Summary
Slightly-dissonant mermaid techno/Horizon matrix icon/longtime BTL addict.
Goals
- Avoid succumbing to the dissonance.
- Build a proper underwater batcave.
- Catch a flipper to raise as a pet.
Background
Born in LA inside the El Inferno ghetto to SINless refugee parents from Amazonia. Heard the call of Deus when she was 12 and ending up a member of Ex Pacis and a node in the Network. Underwent SURGE and turned into a mermaid when the comet arrived, and her parents died in chaos following the quakes and the subsequent and riots. Lived on her own in flood-ravaged LA after that, until Horizon found her in during their efforts to rebuild the city; when Crash 2.0 cut her off from her tribe, she embraced the corporation as a substitute family and started developing a BTL habit in order to cope with the loss.
Was marketed by Horizon as a matrix idol and simsense star, even being given a SIN to keep her in line when they got AAA status. In 2068 she re-emerged, trying her best to hide it and spiralling further into BTL abuse, causing her to have difficulty controlling her emotions; in the immediate aftermath of the Vegas Technomancer Massacre she trashed the corp publicly in a fit of outrage before faking her death and going underground. She attempted to burn her SIN, and subsequently fell into a ten year long spiral of simsense addiction-fuelled cyber-crime, but her data trails were eventually traced by the Dawkins Group.
After being reconnected with her old talent agent/new fixer, she was put to work as a semi-willing shadow asset for the megacorp. In the years since she has managed to build up something of a reputation for herself as a freelance hacker while maintaining a cover identity as a transhumanist decker to market her simsense work and fund her chip habit. Now that she has a hookup with a freelance network in the Haven to get her reliable running work, she is attempting to distance herself from her fixers/corporate handlers and become more of an solo artist, with the goal of setting up a decent life for herself outside of Horizon.
Narrative Significant Qualities
- Actual Mermaid (Class III SURGE: Bioluminescence + Cold-Blooded + Functional Tail (Paddle) + Gills (Aqua) + Scales + Underwater Vision + Webbed Digits) + Parapalegic
- A literal mermaid - an original SURGE case from the Year of the Comet. Naturally, due to the fact that she has a tail in place of her legs, this means she is unable to walk.
- Expanded Horizons (Corporate Pariah + Records on File + SINner)
- A full citizen of the Horizon Group since they achieved extraterratorial status, though she is not well-regarded within the corporation since the Vegas Technomancer Massacre.
- Functional Chiphead (BTL Addiction + Day Job + Electronic Witness)
- A long-time abuser of better-than-life chips who has a side gig producing and selling her own programs on the calhots market under a pseduonym in order to fund her habit.
- Internet Famous (Online Fame + Signature + Unique Avatar)
- A matrix idol renowned for her specility simsense content, especially in Los Angelas and the California Free State, with a custom-designed persona that cannot be replicated.
- Veteran Techno (One With the Matrix + Otaku to Technomancer + Taint of Dissonance)
- A re-emerged Otaku who was once a member of Ex Pacis, her living persona still bears the mark of Dissoannce from her time as part of the tribe and as a node in the Network.
Run History
| Name | GM | Metaplot | Threat | Date of Run |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turning Tides | Robinton | Medium | 24 August 2085 | |
| Transdualist Paradoxes | Asmodeus | The Arrival | Extreme | 26 June 2084 |
| Non-Hostile Commandeering | Asmodeus | Deadly | 19 November 2083 | |
| Uprooted | Asmodeus | Semi-Prime | 4 September 2082 | |
| Seeds of Resistance | Asmodeus | Medium | 31 July 2082 | |
| Among The Stars | Aurora | 30 July 2082 | ||
| Shark Week | CutierThanThou | It's Always Wednesday in Seattle | Medium | 19 June 2082 |
| So Swift, So Surly - Seattle Drift | Si1as | High | 8 June 2082 | |
| Dethroning the Dissonant | Aurora | High | 10 May 2082 | |
| Awake, Dear Heart | OrionsRequiem | High | 2 May 2082 | |
| Time to Attack | Asmodeus | Hail to the Pumpking | Medium | 23 April 2082 |
| Little Fish in the Koi Pond | OrionsRequiem | High | 28 March 2082 | |
| What Did You Think Tomorrow? | Asmodeus | High | 22 March 2082 | |
| I am Fading And I Love It | BloodLibrarian | 19 March 2082 | ||
| The Deepest Dive | OrionsRequiem | High | 7 March 2082 | |
| Fresh Fish | Shadowhand | Taking Back Tacoma | Medium | 26 February 2082 |
| ACHEy Breaky Bones | Aurora | Deus Machina | Semi-Prime | 20 February 2082 |
| Ca1yps0 and the Jabberwock | Aurora | High | 12 February 2082 | |
| A Cornered Animal Fights the Hardest | Aurora | Against all odds - The OtherCon story | High | 11 February 2082 |
| Something Bugging Me | Aurora | High | 6 February 2082 | |
| Sins of the Father | OrionsRequiem | Cross Flight Love Fight | Medium | 5 February 2082 |
| Trix & Treats | Shadowhand | Low | 31 January 2082 | |
| I've got a feeling... | Isaac | 1A: Medium 1B: Medium 2A: Milk 2B: Low | 21 January 2082 | |
| "What do you mean it's just a dog?" | Isaac | Low | 20 January 2082 | |
| "What are you buying, stranger?" | Isaac | Medium | 15 January 2082 | |
| The Red Star | Asmodeus | High | 13 January 2082 | |
| What? Not Butter! | Asmodeus | Low | 3 January 2082 | |
| The Little Mermaid 3 | Si1as | High | 30 December 2081 | |
| Identifying a Problem | Si1as | Medium | 27 December 2081 |
Affiliations
Contacts
| Contact | Connection | Loyalty | Archetype | Profession | Aspects | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ace Powers | 6 | 1 | Fixer | Horizon Talent Agent | Musical Talent, Corporate Deals, Keep it Classy, Fake SINs, Insider Knowledge, Horizon Agent, Hired Muscle | Even |
| The Weekender | 6 | 1 | Fixer | Horizon Johnson | Ex-Dawkins, 6 foot 20, killing for fun, Pyrotechnician, Black Mage, CFO is my side gig, Mind Magic, Hotline Horizon | Even |
| Lord Logie | 5 | 2 | Fixer | Owner of Dead Station | The Archive, Matrix Networker, Dead Station Gossip, Tech Stashes, Information Broker, Technomancer | Even |
| The Chairman | 5 | 2 | Fixer | Extreme SURGE Activist | Armed to the Chompers, 410,757,864,530 DEAD PAWNS, Champion of the Working Fluffball slash other animalesque proletarian, You Know We're Living in a Society Here, Human Shmeings, The New Flesh is Surprisingly Fuzzy | Even |
| Bootstrap | 4 | 3 | Networking | Reality Hacker Lieutenant, Decker | Reality Hacker, Decker, BTL Producer, Rival Destroyer, Dealer | Even |
| Flash | 4 | 3 | Service | Hardware Specialist | Technomancer, Electronics, Hardware Expert, Tinkerer, Hardware Reassignment | Even |
| Katie Smiles | 3 | 4 | Generalist | Horizon Tailor | Tailor, To the Stars, Keeping up with the Latest, Shiny Stuff | Even |
| The FisherKing | 3 | 4 | Legwork | Matrix Infobroker | Technoshaman, Sprites 4 Days, Matrix Gaming, Resonance Realms | Even |
| John Baptise | 2 | 2 | Service | Taxi Driver | Reliable, Voodoo, No Questions Asked | Even |
Organizations
Allies
Enemies
In Character Information
Symbols and Signatures
Produces highly-distinctive specialized simsense content under a well-known online pseudonym, and likes to mark her cyber-crimes with a clip to help market her brand (either with a physical chip left in meatspace or a file left on a device/host in the matrix).
Matrix Search Table
| Threshold | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | |
| 3 | |
| 6 |
Shadow Community Table
| Threshold | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | |
| 3 | |
| 5 |
Assensing Results
| Hits | Information Gained |
|---|---|
| 1 | Generally healthy, likely high on a BTL chip, is not Awakened. |
| 2 | Standard cyberware: Has an outdated-style datajack on the back of her neck. Has a shimmering teal shade to her aura, with a bright spark in her chest. |
| 3 | No alphaware-grade cyberware. Has impared ability to regulate her body temperature and a slightly weakened metabolism due to metagenetic expression. |
| 4 | No betaware-grade cyberware. No Bioware. Essence 5. No Magic score. |
| 5+ | No deltaware-grade implants. Has been genetically augmented to have enhanced capacity for self-expression, as well as increased susceptibility to narcotics. No nano-tech. Is a technomancer. |
SINs
| SIN | Issuer | Rating | Licenses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby Black | Evo | 5 | Cyberdeck, Drone |
Appearance
A literal mermaid - very clearly a severe case of SURGE, or else the product of extensive bio-modding beyond the ability of most clinics. Has "naturally" blue hair and aqua-coloured scales, as well as skin that glows blue-green in the dark.
Clothing
Has a tailor to custom-fit all her clothing to accomidate her unique physiology, but typically doesn't bother to wear much aside from an insulated water-proof armor jacket and a necklace of seashells unless the situation demands otherwise.
Matrix Persona
Custom-programmed with a graphics engine she wrote herself - a hi-rez mermaid with shimmering kalidoscopic scales which leaves a trail of bubbles in her wake (if interacted with, they pop and play simsense files from her archive of work).