Cricket
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| Technomancer, Data Thief, and Aspiring Revolutionary | |
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| "There's a special kind of thrill to learning things you aren't supposed to know. Disarming data bombs, dodging IC, feeling the adrenaline spike as you brush with death for a couple lines of code... Nothing makes me feel more alive." | |
| Discord | @disco goblin#9660 |
| https://www.reddit.com/user/Discowhor | |
| Street Cred | 0 |
| Notoriety | 0 |
| Public Awareness | 0 |
| CDP | 70 |
| D.O.B. | October 12, 2060 |
| Age | 25 |
| Folder | [1] |
| Priority | Metatype - C (Oni) Attributes - D Magic/Resonance - A Skills - B Resources - E |
Character Information
Summary
Cricket is a gangly, permanently-disheveled Oni with a passion for making trouble on the Matrix. A talented technomancer specializing in data theft, she runs the shadows to build contacts and gather resources. She considers the Matrix her home, and is determined to free it from megacorp control. It's a suicidal pipe dream, but she thinks that if something ain't worth dying for, it ain't worth living for either. She'll succeed whatever the cost, or at least raise hell trying.
Goals
- Break the corporate stranglehold on the Matrix
- Liberate any data that the corps want to keep hidden
- Build a group of likeminded technos and deckers
- Find more ways for everyday people to bypass GOD's rules
- Create a single, unified grid free of private property
- Move into an apartment with fewer Devil Rats
- Learn how to 3D model
- Get platinum ranked in Ultimate Brawl IV
Background
For as long as Cricket can remember, she's felt out of place in the world. Everything in meatspace felt wrong; somehow both painfully slow and utterly overwhelming. Growing up in the misery of the Barrens didn't help, and neither did her family. Her parents were creatures of pent-up frustrations, with a tendency to take them out on their child. They were less than understanding of their child's condition, and would constantly belittle her for her tendencies. Their efforts to "fix" her often devolved into outright abuse, and Cricket spent most of her early life was spent convinced that she was some kind of mistake. Once her powers awakened, though, she discovered a world where things finally felt right.
Cricket immersed herself in the Matrix, marveling at a place where it felt like she actually belonged. Her parents didn't take her awakening well, but she didn't care anymore. She had a real home. By the time they tossed her out, she was good enough to start plying her trade for the many small time gangs of the Barrens. None of them lasted too long, but the talents of a technomancer are always in high demand. She spent a couple of years polishing her skills and hopping from gang to gang, but she quickly grew tired of the lifestyle. She hated gang politics and thought that, quite frankly, most of the people she worked with were assholes. She didn't want to just eke out a living doing petty crimes, she wanted to work towards something greater. It didn't take long for her to find her cause.
Just as Cricket discovered the wonders of the Matrix, she also witnessed its injustices. She saw how the Matrix was divided up like a piece of real estate, throttled by GOD and their Megacorp masters. She's seen her fellow technomancers get fried and arrested, even killed, just because the powers-that-be saw them as a threat to their margins. The idea of Megacorps bringing their "meatspace shit" into Cricket's paradise made her livid, and soon she decided to start doing something about it. Her acts of resistance started small; illegally hopping grids, vandalizing small-time hosts, leaving a few gremlins here and there; but by the time she was ducking IC and bricking corporate servers she was a full-on aspiring anarchist. Shadowrunning was a natural career choice, both to pay rent and to further her goals. She alone isn't enough to hit the megacorps where it really hurts; she needs contacts, resources, and reputation if she hopes to do any real damage. She knows how quickly idealism can get you killed, but she's more than willing to risk it.
Narrative Significant Qualities
Positive
Matrix Scrapper (Hair Trigger, Instinctive Hack, Better on the Net [Sleaze]): What Cricket lacks in formal education, she makes up for in instincts. Her skills have saved her from death before, and she's confident that they can do it again.
Fish in Water (One With the Matrix II, Hi-Rez): Cricket isn't just acclimated to the Matrix, she's built for it. Her living persona feels like more of a home than her actual body.
Negative
Rebel With a Cause (Data Liberator, Driven): For better or worse (usually worse), Cricket is dedicated. She's willing to take any risks if it means furthering her cause.
Not Built For Meatspace (Disheveled, Reduced Sense [Eyesight]): Cricket doesn't care much about her appearance, and it shows. Her clothes are shabby, her tusks are crooked, she has permanent bedhead, and her oversized glasses make her eyes look like a bug's (hence the name).
PTSD (Flashbacks I): Cricket's upbringing left her with lasting trauma, which mainly manifests as an aversion to touch. Most physical contact makes her uncomfortable, and being grabbed suddenly is likely to trigger a panic attack. She's working to get past it, but it's a long and difficult process.
Striking Skin Pigmentation: Cricket would have a remarkably forgettable appearance, if it weren't for the fact that her skin is bright red.
Run History
Affiliations
Contacts
| Contact | Connection | Loyalty | Archetype | Profession | Aspects | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millipede | 2 | 5 | Legwork | Decker | Selective, Shadow Decker, Anarchist, Barrens Rat, Vandal | Even |
| Priest | 3 | 3 | Fixer | Activist Fixer | Temperance is a Virture, All are Welcome in the House of the Lord, Show no Fear, Soldiers of God!, Bring me your Huddled Masses, Know Thine Enemy, Preserve the Peace | Even |
Organizations
Allies
Her roommate Millipede, and anyone else fightin' the good fight.
Enemies
Just about everyone associated with the corps
In Character Information
Symbols and Signatures
When Cricket wants to leave a calling card after stealing data, she'll make an empty copy of the file filled with bugs, which will swarm the first persona that opens it. She often delivers data in the form of little crickets.
Matrix Search Table
| Threshold | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | Scattered reports of a hacker in Redmond's gang scene going by the name. No concrete details. The Sixth World Encyclopedia defines crickets as Orthopean insects distantly related to grasshoppers. |
| 3 | The hacker is a technomancer, and doesn't seem to have any particular gang allegiances. Most crickets are a part of the Grylloidea superfamily. The largest members of the family are the bull crickets, which can be up to 5cm long. |
| 6 | There is a frequent user by the name of "Cricket" in several Neo-Anarchist forums. They've taken credit for a few acts of data theft and corporate vandalism. In certain countries in Asia and Europe, crickets are sometimes kept to fight for entertainment. |
Shadow Community Table
| Threshold | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | Not a whole lot of details. If they're not new to the scene, then they've been keeping a low profile. |
| 3 | Some sort of hacker that operates in Seattle. Doesn't seem like they have a particularly notable reputation. |
| 5 | They're a new shadowrunner, but they've been doing shadowrunner-adjacent work as a technomancer for a while. They're based in Redmond. |
SINs
Jessie Elwood (UCAS) (R4 Fake)
An Oni of a similar build and skin tone, but with a noticeably neater appearance. Works low level IT for small businesses in Renton.
- Driver's License (R4 Fake)
- Firearms License (R4 Fake)
Appearance
Physical
Cricket is a tall, gangly Oni with cherry red skin and dull green eyes. Her grey hair hangs like kelp down to her permanently-slumped shoulders. Her horns are stubby, her ears are droopy, and her tusks are slightly crooked. She's charming though, in her own way,
Clothing
Cricket's typical outfit consists of bootleg track pants, ratty tank tops, VERY worn athletic shoes, and her big round glasses. The nicest thing she owns is her armored jacket. It's black and has rainbow ants drawn across the back.
Matrix Persona
Cricket's Matrix Persona is a short humanoid cricket wearing a 70's style suit that changes color with her mood.