Koschei

Koschei

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Physical adept, combat/stealth
"They never see it coming"
Discord	@Shitpostbot3000#9033
Reddit	Scranton Anchor
Metatype	Nocturna
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	1
Public Awareness	0
CDP	22
C.D.B.	27/10/2061
Age	23
Folder	[1]
Priority	Metatype - C Attributes - C Magic/Resonance - C Skills - C Resources - C

Character Information

Summary

Koshai is a physical adept with ties with the Vory, specialized in combat and stealth. The go to approach for combat is hit and run tactics, often involving the use of her enhanced mobiliy, while for inflitration it is often used the combination of the greater invisibility spell and her parkour skills

Goals

• Getting herself a big house in a nice part of town and maybe a stable relationship, better if with a fellow shadowrunner
• Open up a black market weapon shop to make easy money while still being connected to the shadows
• Increase her magical power and combat skills just for the fun of self perfection

Background

Born as Lena Baranov, daughter of Mikhail, a ex Vory Lideri weapon dealer, and Stefania, a stripper, Koshai's birth was already kind of a big deal. As for the rules, you cannot be a Vory member and have a family, so from the moment he became a dad, Mikhail was outcast from the organization, at least formally. In fact he maintained a stable work relationship with them, but as an outsider, which allowed the young Lena to learn and absorb much of the culture. In fact, Koshai assobed so much that instead of toys, she played with the father's firearms, assembling and disassembling them at incredible speed and hitting targets at the range like nobody that age should be able to do. The discovery of being a physical adept, at the age of 13, came to no one's surprise, and was celebrated with the first shot of vodka of her life. She quickly started the shadowrunner career, mostly to follow the footsteps of the father, but choosing to avoid directly becoming involved with the Vory itself, since that would have limited her freedom, but still following their mannerisms and rules. That carrer got her to, well, die, at the age of 17. It was a huge mess, the Johnson wanted a quick smash and grab in a store, but who knew it was under the protection of the fucking Yakuza. They sent one of theirs best assassin after her team and the whole runner squad was whiped out. She was left on the cold concrete of seattle with her eyes utterly destroyed by the enemy's blade and her whole intestine just spilling out of the stomach. She blacked out and found herself awake two hours later on that same street, the clothes ripped out and lying in a pool of blood, but alive and well. That's when the name was picked: "Koshai", the Undying, an evil figure of the russian folklore.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

Keen Heared

• "Dude, I like, totally heard you what you were saying from across the room"

Made (Wo)Man (Vory)

• "Never betrayed a brother, never sided with the corps"

Perfect Timing

• "I really don't know what it is, but I can feel it ya know? The chaos of battle, it has it's own weird timing. In my head it's like a 4/4: Load, Aim, Move, Shoot"

Revenant Adept

• "There was this one time where some novacoked yak bitch cut in half my eyeballs and then sliced my stomach out with a fucking nodachi and left me for dead. Fatal mistake, you always do a double tap to the head. Or else I'll just be back up in an hour or so"

Sharpshooter

• "Look, think about the craziest shot you've ever pulled off in your life. I could do that blindfolded"

Negative

Allergy (Common, Mild): Sunlight

• "Not that big of a deal bro, you shouldn't being doing runs in the day anyways"

Superhuman Psychosis

• "I am a badass undying gangster with a built-in mystical aimbot who can turn invisible and run on the fucking walls, ya know"

Mentor's Mask

• "The Oracle's power is vast, but sure as hell it is not subtle, when I start flinging the mojo, you'll see it coming"

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Six Gets Headhunted	Aurora		High	14 September 2082
The FBI Is Totally Fine	Aurora		Semi-Prime	21 August 2082
White And Red And No Blue	Aurora		High	11 August 2082
The Ghost of the Sprawl	Sleevey		High	10 August 2082
Mutaquality	Sleevey		High	18 July 2082
Bayou Bonanza	PatGriffin	Dead Gods Stir	High	2 July 2082
Minima de Malis	Zerre de Seattle		Medium	14 June 2082
A Literal Milk Run	Aurora		"Milk*" (It was High)	10 June 2082
Raging Bull	Sarcarian	It's Always Wednesday in Seattle	Prime	4 June 2082
Buoys Are For Saturday	Cutier Than Thou		Milk Run	30 May 2082
Road Kill	Sleevey		Low	26 May 2082

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Alexey Dorosov	5	3 (Made Man)	Fixer	Vory Fixer	Vory Networker, More Machine Than Ork, Armed To The Tusks, Cybork, Trog Networker, Prototype Collector	Even
Alias	5	1	Gear	SIN Forger	SIN Forger, Police Contacts, Disguise Enthusiast, Hacker, Infiltrator, College Educated	Even

In Character Information

Symbols and Signatures

The most important symbolism for Koshai is, of course, the one associated with the Vory. She bears many of their tattoos:

• A St Mary holding Jesus on the back, because she is a criminal since she was a child
• A skull fitted with a cybereye and a small dragon circling around it, because she is an assassin and has killed both augmented and awakened targets
• A pair of small blue eyes on the ribs, in the left side of her chest, signaling her homosexuality. It used to be a mark of shame in soviet times, but she chose to make it herself and bears it with pride
• Two sets of letters on the fingers, "ОМУТ" on the right (acronym of от меня уйти трудно, or it is hard to escape from me) and "МИР" on the left (меня исправит расстрел, "only execution will correct me", it means that she will never stop being a criminal)

The other set of symbols and meanings comes from her mentor spirit, the Oracle. Originally the relationship between the two of them was very distant and kind of an oversight, but since the first time the Oracle allowed her to regenerate, she has chosen to deepen the bond, assuming the mentor's mask. It shows itself in the form of a glowyng and ghastly third eye made of purple energy opening on her forehead, which shines through her custom balistic mask, giving the impression of a cyclops.

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	A nocturna adept
3	An adept bastard who loves to sneak in, overwhelm the enemy with reckless full auto fire, and get out before anyone realizes what's happening
6	Same as above, but with mentions to the thermographic vision and smoke grenades and her regenerative abilities

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	An infiltrator and ranged combat expert
3	An adept with sneaking skills and guerrilla tactics from Seattle
5	A Redmond based nocturna physical adept, with invisibility and other sneaking abilities, who fights with tactics that make use of her overall great accuracy and high mobility

SINs

Lena Tolsoj, UCAS citizen, Adept license

Appearance

Clothing

Mostly practical stuff when outside of work, an Armante suite paired with a custom black ballistic mask used to make her mentor's mask appear even more eerie

Matrix Persona

A cutting edge looking biped combat droid, decked head to toe in high tech weaponry (gotta scare those noobs in coldsim VR fps games right?)