Boole

Boole

Decker
Flicker Decker
Discord	Villiers
Reddit	Richard_Villiers
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	0
D.O.B.	JUNE 15 2054
Age	30
Folder	[1]
Priority	Metatype - C Attributes - E Magic/Resonance - E Skills - A Resources - A
#Max IGs/Ascension	1

Character Information

Summary

An academic thrust into the shadows as the result of a traumatic traffic accident.

Goals

Create a new life in the shadows of the Seattle sprawl. This will be challenging as his only contact is an artificial intelligence and he has no background in the shadows. Based on advice from Dial-Up he's purchased a submachine gun and simulated firing it at Cherry's Shakes. Eventually he wants to fire it effectively.

Background

Joshua was born in 2054 to upper-middle class parents, Michael and Winona Jackson. Joshua did well at Morrish elementary school, and Henry Hudson middle school but really excelled when he moved to Woburn Collegiate Institute for high school. Woburn is a semestered, English-language public secondary school in the Scarborough district of Toronto. Students who have been rated highly by their teachers undergo an individual assessment with the school psychologist (IQ test, typically WISC 5). Based on the results of the individual assessment, those who scored in the top 2 percentiles are offered a place in a gifted class. When Joshua entered the Gifted program in computer science he found his future. He graduated high school in 2072. After considering several universities he settled on the University of Toronto.

The University of Toronto Department of Computer Science offers Specialist programs in Computer Science or Data Science, or a Major or Minor in Computer Science. A Specialist in Computer Science goes beyond the Major, providing a broad and deep foundation to computer science, and exposes you to a broad range of upper-year computer science topics. Students enrolled in the Major or Specialist can choose to complete a Focus in a particular area of computer science, such as: Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, or the Theory of Computation, among others. Joshua chose Theory of Computation.

After completing his bachelor's degree, Joshua moved seamlessly into graduate school. The Department of Computer Science offers a graduate program leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. The programs consist of courses and research, conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. Faculty in the Department of Computer Science are interested in a wide range of subjects related to computing, including programming languages and methodology, software engineering, operating systems, compilers, distributed computation, networks, numerical analysis and scientific computing, financial computation, data structures, algorithm design and analysis, computational complexity, cryptography, combinatorics, graph theory, artificial intelligence, neural networks, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, computer vision, robotics, database systems, graphics, animation, interactive computing, and human-computer interaction. Joshua continued his focus in computational complexity and computational linguistics and dabbled in graph theory & network analysis. He met the love of his life in a PhD workshop on human-computer interaction. Janalyn Prows was in the previous year's cohort of doctoral students. She was attractive, had a wry sense of humor, and most important of all, she was significantly smarter than Joshua. After an engaging conversation over a cup of soykaf devoted to complete likelihood estimation of stochastic point processes Joshua was determined to augment his human-computer interaction with human-human interaction.

Towards the end of his degree program Joshua was faced with a choice. Jan had been offered a job as an assistant professor at the University of Washington. Joshua could travel with her and finish his dissertation as she started publishing. When he was finished, they could decide how to handle a dual career in academia. Alternatively he could stay in Toronto and finish his dissertation while hoping a long distance relationship would work out. Joshua considered the probability that he would EVER encounter anyone close to Jan's combination of high quality and poor taste in men and started packing.

They made it as far Etobicoke before Jan was killed. At the Highway 427 - Queen Elizabeth Way interchange their Chrysler-Nissan Jackrabbit was hit head on by a drunk driver in a Ford Americar using the entrance ramp as an exit. Jan was killed instantly as was the driver of the Americar. Joshua came close but was resuscitated on the way to the ER. The next year was a mix of writing and medical procedures. A synthetic right arm and four rounds of facial reconstruction later and Joshua was a PhD (Dissertation - Monte Carlo Simulation of Non-Deterministic Turing Machines) with no interest in an academic career. Unfortunately, Joshua had even less interest in a corporate career. For that matter he had very little interest in anything at all.

Then he got a comcall. He heard a click over the line, then some horrible dial-up matrix noises. A synthesized, androgynous voice hisses into his ear "Dial-Up. What can you do for me today?" Holy Moly work as a shadowrunner?! Dial-Up made a good case. After a few odd jobs to accumulate some seed capital, Joshua headed off to the Seattle Metroplex.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

Impenetrable Logic. Some would call it precognition—Joshua calls it quick thinking.

Instinctive Hack. When Joshua sees life going lopsided, his gut reaction is to hack for his life.

Ninja Vanish. Its good to be lucky at just the right time.

Perfect Time. Both parents play the piano. The sound of the metronome is always in the background.

Trust Data, Not Lore. Joshua has been an empiricist since he was a toddler.

Quick Config. Maybe he's just nova-hot at moving his fingers around...nah his mind is highly organized.

Negative

Code of Honor: Children, Innocent Bystanders. The result of a solid upper middle class background in Ontario.

Phobia (Uncommon, Mild): Spiders. Especially the big web spinners ack!

SINner (National): UCAS. Born too late to be 'murican.

Run History

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Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Dial-Up	4	2	Fixer	Ex-Renraku Artificial Intelligence	Matrix-Bound, Like a fish to water, Data Miner, Computer Jackson, Hard Drive Dealer, Briefing, Former Renraku property, Logistics, Involuntary Program Updates	Even

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	Jay Jordan is a Licensed Private Investigator
3	Jay Jordan is Licensed to use cyberdecks
6	Jay Jordan recently moved to Seattle

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	Who?
3	Who?
5	He's the n00by nerd that's been running errands for Dial-Up

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1	Mundane. The general state of the subject’s health (healthy, injured, ill, etc.). The subject’s general emotional state or impression (happy, sad, angry, etc.).
2	Cerebellum Booster, Cerebral Booster 2, Cyberears, Datajack Plus,Enhanced Augmented Reality Reflex System, Mnemonic Enhancer, Nephritic screen, Synthetic Full Arm.
3	Whether the subject’s Essence and Magic are higher, lower, or equal to your own. Whether the subject’s Force is higher, lower, or equal to your Magic. A general diagnosis for any maladies (diseases or toxins) the subject suffers.
4	Essence 3.0
5	An accurate diagnosis of any disease or toxins which afflict the subject

SINs

SIN (UCAS Joshua Jackson), Fake SIN-4 (UCAS Jay Jordan)

Appearance

Human age 30, Male, Height: 181 cm, Weight: 84 kg, Hair: Red-Blond, Eyes: Blue Skin: Pale

Clothing

Vashon Island: Synergist Business Line, Armor Jacket ("RhineGold Jacket")

Matrix Persona

Professor with red & black doctoral robe and mortar board hat. The face is a reproduction of George Boole's face.