Rathound

Rathound

Loup Garou Frankenstein
Wasteland Werewolf
Slightly Radioactive
Discord	@discogoblin#9660
Reddit	[1]
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	1
Public Awareness	0
CDP	0
D.O.B.	5/13/2028
Age	57
Folder	[2]
Priority	Metatype - D Attributes - A Magic/Resonance - D Skills - C Resources - C
#Max IGs/Ascension	0
# Optional Infected powers allowed	0
Essence(Current/Max):	3/9
# Optional Drake powers available	Major Powers:0 or Minor Powers:0

Character Information

Summary

The escaped lab rat of a toxic mage hailing from the SOX; a once-proud werewolf who now feeds on roadkill, purely concerned with surviving the night. He's unstable, aggressive, and visibly monstrous, yet shows a surprising amount of care for the creatures who live in the shadow of the sprawl. There among the weeds and the flea-bitten cats, he seeks inner peace the only way he knows how: brutal, unending violence against the people responsible for killing the earth.

Goals

- Heal his mutilated body and soul (restore his essence and increase his magic)

- Get revenge on his former captor, and any other toxics he meets along the way.

- Get back into to the spirits' good graces and earn the boon of a powerful mentor

Background

[Currently editing in a separate doc]

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

• Infected, Loup Garou: The details of Rathound's mortal life are as blurry as they are unimportant: a boring mortal whelp in a boring mortal town, stuck in the undignified grind of rural poverty. Becoming loup garou was the greatest joy that he had ever known, which made it all the more painful when he was twisted beyond recognition.

• Tough as a Radroach (Tough as nails [physical], radiation sponge, dual natured defender): When you've already come back from the worst, little things like gunshots don't seem all that bad.

Negative

• Pressure Cooker (Superhuman psychosis, PSC combat monster): Regular people find Rathound unsettling, and it's not just because of the looks. His bone-deep sense of superiority, habitual use of combat stims, and borderline cyberpsychosis all make for a violent emotional cocktail. Adding a loup garou's rage on top of that turns him into a true berserker, ready to throw down over the slightest provocation.

• Off the Grid (Paranoia, uneducated, disheveled): Garou don't exactly do networking events, but even among his own kind Rathound stands out as a crazy loner. The man is practically feral, spending most of his time in wolf form. Up until recently he didn't know that the matrix had crashed a second time. He only interacts with human society when he absolutely needs to, because any one of them could be a hunter or an agent of his captor in disguise.

Run History

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Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Clay "Claymore" Nelson	1	1	Fixer	Disposable & Deniable Assets Manager	Disposable Assets, Deniable Assets, Low Expectations, Hero(?) of a Thousand Faces, I Found This On a Dead Runner, Bad Apples	Even
Cendra	1	3	Gear	Free Spirit	Treasures of the Magma, Surprisingly Animal-Friendly	Even

Allies

• Clay "Claymore" Nelson: A small, petty man, too scrawny to eat, but useful for his connections. Rathound believes he's taking advantage of the sleazy mortal fixer, but in all likelihood it's the other way around. Some people never learn.

• Cendra: It pays to have the spirits on your side, for they are notorious gossips. Rathound squats in the volcanic wastes that Cendra claims as her domain, and honors the spirit with periodic offerings of charcoal, trinkets, and questionably-sourced meat.

Enemies

• Huxley: Rathound's former captor, a mad toxic mage with coterie of spirits at his beck and call. He makes his home deep in the SOX, where no sane person dares to tread, performing gruesome experiments from a decommissioned nuclear reactor. His goal is to forcibly evolve humanity to thrive in a polluted, post-apocalyptic world. Rathound is only one little piece of the glorious new ecosystem he imagines.

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	Some rambling article from CryptidWatch about the "Mt. Rainier Mutant". Apparently he can fly and shoot radioactive laser beams from his hands.
3	Okay, maybe this is actually something. Scattered reports from around Hell's Kitchen tell of an unnaturally large white wolf, which prowls the streets after gang fights to drag the bodies away. Some more questionable sources also claim to have seen the beast take other forms, though they haven't attracted attention from any serious hunter groups.
6	One news article really sticks out, from Puyallup city about a month ago: a waste management company known for illegal dumping had their office trashed by an unknown assailant. One of the surviving employees made a rambling MeFeed conspiracy post, going on about about a monster attack before deleting his account two days later.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	The latest Puyallup urban legend, a ghost that comes in the night to defile the bodies of the dead. Can be warded off with sage, fire, or glowsticks, depending on who you ask.
3	Most urban legends have a grain of truth in them, and this weirdo is probably it. Lower profile than one might expect for a garou, he prefers scavenging to real feeding frenzies. Not affiliated with Fear the Dark or any other infected groups.
6	He sports a strange piece of cyberware with runes scratched up and down the spine. A loner, even among his own kind, he's rumored to have fled from somewhere in Europe. He's also the latest prospect of the worst fixer in town, Clay "Claymore" Nelson.

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1	Awakened, infected, and in poor health both physically and mentally. His acid-green aura looks like a liquid just about to boil.
2	Holes in the essence around the spine look like they've been chewed out by bugs. Whoever installed this cyberware did so without regard for comfort
3	Strain 2 infected, with a healthy dose of radiation poisoning on top of that. Not actually toxic, notably, just ravaged by long-term exposure.
4	His bioware almost seems alive, growing like a parasite inside his body. The strongest concentrations are in the heart and brain. Essence 3, magic 3.
5	His genes are edited in the way that a dissonant technomancer edits a host: done for a reason only they understand, incoherent to outside observers. The changes offer no apparent benefit, only a bunch of additional health problems.

SINs

• Jacques Martin (R4 Fake): A UCAS citizenship with a motorcycle license, courtesy of Clay to 'celebrate a new partnership'. This fake SIN has seen at least a dozen former (deceased) owners

Appearance

A deceptively lean amalgamation of scars, corded muscle, and patchy grey fur. His hands sport claws the length of daggers, and his mouth is a yellowed hacksaw of teeth. His watery eyes have translucent membranes which blink independently of his eyelids. Running down his spine is a brutal apparatus designed to administer combat stims, covered in knife-etched runes that glow with a sickly green light while transforming. The wolf form is just as unnerving as the human: a skeletal, mangy, rabid-looking mutt. The auto-injector takes the form of a biodrone controller on the nape of his neck.

Clothing

Rathound wears a tailored gas mask to hide some of his more monstrous features, paired with a black armored jacket, biker jeans, and brown leather ankle boots. He also rocks a gun-metal grey watch with an inbuilt geiger counter.

Character Plot Hooks

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Aspect	Information	Related Run(s)
Aspect 1	Food Motivated	Grand ambitions are all well and good, but Rathound's gotta look out for number one. He will do some insane shit for the promise of a free meal.
Aspect 2	Paranoid	The hunters, the mages, the corps, they're all after him. Rathound's constantly on the move from threats both real and imagined. If he feels the net closing in, he may start to panic and do something stupid.
Aspect 3	Urban Ranger	Rathound's got an affinity for the downtrodden wretches of the sprawl, and will fiercely protect these creatures from people who'd sicken their habitats further. This is done through- you guessed it- violence. Litterers are jumped on sight.
Aspect 4	Infected Solidarity	Though not exactly personable towards his kin, but he does feel a certain obligation to help them out when they're in need. Bonus points if they're the type who can't blend into polite society.
Aspect 5	Cocky Bastard	One could say Rathound's got the charisma of a rock, but that would imply knowing when to keep his mouth shut. The garou will never back down from a direct challenge, no matter how risky or inconvenient.