Trades

Trades

Archetype: Aspiring Sourceror/Generalist
Former Otaku, New Technomancer
Discord: Elayne(Trades)	@Elayne_Malachite
Reddit: Elayne_Malachite	[1]
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	6
D.O.B.	January 14th, 2054
Age	31
Folder	[2]
Sum to 10	Metatype - E Attributes - A Magic/Resonance - C Skills - E Resources - A
# Optional Infected powers allowed	0

Character Information

Summary

Trades is a matrix infiltrator who uses her living persona and extensive augmentations to help her crack systems. She barely has a spark of the resonance in her, but she's eager to develop the new matrix powers to replace what she had before. PAAR for Clever Pun About Docks: Chum, that was a great reintroduction into the shadowrunning scene. First time I got to blast a spirit with an assault cannon. Hopefully it won't be the last. Standing on the deck of that boat and controlling it like a puppet was novahot. I can't wait to get my hands on another vehicle to puppet.

Goals

Become a sourceror.
Develop mastery over the resonance alike to what she had as an otaku.
Upgrade and add more ware, Trades is a trans-transhumanist. She started during her days as an otaku, and she's happy to be able to continue on her path as she get's involved in shadowrunning once more.
Get her skillwires geared up. She needs activesofts and better wires if she wants to make something of herself.

Background

Born in Seattle, Trades was identified by her former tribe around the age of 7. She spent the next two years slowly being initiated into the mysteries of the matrix. Finally, it was time for her initiation into the resonance. When she returned from her time in the deep resonance, she could see the matrix in a new way. Where some might have seen the cluttered and patchwork symbology, Trades saw the elegant construction of underlying code. She took to her new skills with a great appetite leading a brief, but successful career as a shadowrunner leading up to Crash 2.0. Crash 2.0 also drew the curtain on her career as a shadowrunner since her abilities didn't translate into her emerging as an early technomancer. As data was gathered on technomancers and their relationship to essence, Trades began to suspect that her extensive augmentation may have been responsible for why she didn't emerge like many of the other otaku. She spent the next 2 decades working in Retrofit's clinic as her assistant using their skillwires.
In late 2084, Trades started to notice that she was able to do more in the matrix than should have been possible with just her datajack. It felt a little like how it had been to be an otaku, so she attempted another pilgrimage to the deep resonance in the hopes that maybe she might find answers. The deep resonance was lost to her like every other otaku, but she did manage to reach the resonance realms. When she arrived at Kernel Panic she was struck by another transcendental moment. It was as if she had been looking at the new matrix through a pair of blurry glasses and things had finally come into focus. Things slotted into place in her brain and her living persona sparked to life for the first time. Now she's back on the streets, and eager to restart her career as a shadowrunner.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

Like a lot of former otaku, Trades has a razor sharp mind. The resonance feels familiar to her even if it's a little bit off and a lot more muted.
She's a ronin. She'll never be the first to break under pressure, and she'll never leave anyone behind. If that means getting captured in order to stabilize a team-mate, then that's a trade she's willing to make.
A lot of matrix specialists can't move and hack; Trades can do both at the same time. She's not afraid to be on-site with her team.
She has a teacher who's been helping her master her complex forms.

Negative

Her trip to the resonance realms awoke her powers as a technomancer, but she's also caught part of the dissonance in her wake. It follows her leaving a mark visible to beings of resonance.
Trades is afraid that maybe her powers as a technomancer will fade like those of an otaku. Viewing the world through her living persona's augmented reality helps her feel a little safer. It reminds her that she still has her powers. She despises the time where she has to disconnect her living persona from the matrix.
Did you know there was so much cool info on the matrix? Trades loves chasing down factoids and tid-bits of news. If someone is talking about something interesting, then she'll probably go listen to that.
A lot of otaku were weaker than their mundane counterparts. Trades is just about as strong as a particularly perturbed cat.

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Date of Run
Ghost Train Part 1	Villiers		28 April 2085
Resource Extraction	Sarcarian		23 April 2085
Clever Pun About Docks	Dawnfire		14 April 2085

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Heward Smith	1	6	Fixer	Street Punk	Unlicensed Vendor, Criminal Connections	Even
Retrofit	1	6	Gear	Shady Street Doc	Augmentations, Cyberware	Even
Norville Craddock	6	1	Custom(G,K,N,A)	Elder Mage Talislegger	Wanted, Abilities Considered Unnatural, Dreamland Voyager, Lost Faith, Hard to Reach, Sins of the Flesh, The Bitter Water of Marah, Keeper of the Vaults, Esoteric Tastes, All-Seeing Eye of God, Silver Tongued Devil, Armor of God, Peddler of Arcane Esoterica	Even
KAPTAIN KILLDOZER	2	1	Service	Street Pirate Kaptain	RAISE THE FLAG!, KAPTAIN'S ORDERS!, FIRE ALL CANNONS!, SET SAIL!, YOU ARE A PIRATE!	Even

Organizations

Contact	Position	Connection	Faction Rep	Archetype	Health	Location

Allies

Retrofit- They've been working with Trades since their days as Ultrabyte the Otaku. Retrofit helped Trades find a new life after crash 2.0 as well as providing gender-affirming care. They were able to secure vat time for Trades to complete their physical transition in late 2075
Heward Smith- A frequent visitor to Retrofit's clinic. Trades has spent a good part of the last 10 years helping put him back together. He serves as the clinics liaison with criminal elements helping to keep it safe from the predations of nearby gangs. Trades has served as his back-up during countless tense meetings.

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	Until early 2085, she was employed by Retrofit as a surgeons assistant.
3	Before Crash 2.0, they were a cyberadept of one of the Seattle tribes, and led a brief but successful career as a shadow-runner. She's also somewhat active in trans BBS.
6	She's got some niche posts in some otaku BBS after Matrix 2.0 about rumors of technomancers. In early 2084, there's a brief resurgence questions surrounding them, the deep resonance, and the possibility of emergence later in life.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	Trades is an up and coming novahot decker. She's started doing some odd jobs for people in early 2085.
3	Her symbology in the matrix is that of an architect. She makes adjustments to her blueprints in order to alter the fabric of the matrix.
5	They used to be an otaku known under the alias Ultrabyte. If you want to embarrass her, then bringing up the moniker she chose as an otaku is a safe bet. They fell off the radar for 20 years after Crash 2.0. In early 2085, she began making new appearances under the alias Trades. Nobody has reported her getting a deck, so it's a pretty decent guess that she's finally emerged as a technomancer.

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1	Trades is Mundane
2	Trades possesses a R1 cyberear with 3 antennae and a translat-ear, a datajack, an EARRS, a R3 skilljack, R2 skillwires, R3 Reaction Enhancers
3	Trades possesses no alphaware
4	Trades is currently at 1.2525 essence. They currently possess R1 Cerebellum, and R2 Cerebral boosters.
5	Trades is a technomancer who possesses the Narco geneware as well as genetic optimizations of her logic, intuition, and willpower. She also possesses two R1 nanohives supporting R2 Neocortical and R2 Limbic neuroamplifiers

SINs

Rating 4 (Eleanor Reeds, UCAS)

Rating 2 (Sarah Breeks, UCAS)

Appearance

Clothing

Trades generally wears her green jacket, although a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'd recommend taking a peek at her profile. She keeps a lot of her devices connected to her skin in order to take advantage of her ability to directly connect with things simply by touch.

Matrix Persona

Trades matrix persona is currently an architect. When she is engaging in traditional hacking, she tends to use symbology related to construction. She generally uses a blueprint as a symbolic focus for navigation and interaction. Her MARKs are small glass buildings.

Character Plot Hooks

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

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