Trample

Trample

Centaur Wheelwoman
Able to fend for herself on the matrix and on the meat
Discord	@Onebi#3563
Reddit	Onebi
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	1
Public Awareness	0
CDP	32
D.O.B.	14 April 2056
Age	29
Folder	Trample's folder
Priority	Metatype - C Attributes - A Magic/Resonance - E Skills - E Resources - A

Character Information

Summary

Trample is a centaur in the sixth world, this means that to most official entities she is considered as a pet at best. But she gets by, working as a Wheel woman and doing runs to finance her life while she is looking for a partner she had to leave behind and who ended up in Seattle.

Goals

• Get her fixer, Prof Riley, to mentor her in trying to get better at computer or cyber-combat.
• Find her partner she had to leave behind when she was freed.
• Get revenge over the ones that exploited her and her herd for so long.
• Get an official SIN, and be recognized as a sentient being as many others are.
• Find or create a group to help metasapients integrate into the society and protecting them against abuse.

Background

Trample originates from the CAS, where she lived in a nomadic herd. Growing up, she was named "Breathless currents" due to her tendency to be brash and reckless, sometimes scoring incredible feats of bravery on a split second descision but more often than not tiring herself out in the process. She had a middle position in the hierarchy of the herd, granting her a level of training above simple hunting : she was going to be a protector wielding one of the few combat weapons they had to defend themselves against external threats.

During her puberty years, she was designated to guard and set-up a camp on the periphery of the safe territorry, to isolate young females during their yearly cycles and "keep the peace" in the herd. The camp being lightly protected, it is often a target of badly intentionned groups of Metahumans looking for easy money. Most of these attacks are pretty easily pushed back due to the often inadequate equipment of those groups in the forest.

A fatefull day however, the camp was attacked by a team of experienced poachers, as soon as the camp had a reason to belive it was under attack, Breathless Currents sprung to action and started swinging her ancestral polearm at her ennemies, striking down one or two and getting the attention of the attackers while the rest of the herd scrambled. Soon enough, she started to feel light headed, as a sleeping dart had striked true in the begining of the confrontation, it was not long before she fell to the ground and passed out.

She woke up in a cage, with two other centaurs she recognized from her herd, one was slightly younger than herself and the other an adult protector, which was obviously wounded at her front legs. The months that would follow they would be "trained" with techniques that could be considered torturous and exposed in a back market circus in the CAS. Their malnourishment chronic abuse led to an incident on a set, as the older protector broke her leg and it was judged too pricy to replace, they led her out of view before a detonation was heard. From then on, they were only the two of them and their bond would only grow.

Months passes with little really changing, their bodies wasting away and moral at the lowest. In the middle of what seemed like an average afternoon however, detonations made themselves heard from a corridor connected to the room containing the cages. Faster than they could process the events they were seeing a sam and their team barged in, shooting in the corridor while a decker started looking for and unlocking the cage of a seemingly normal critter. The decker then started making it's way back towards his team, but made eye contact with Breathless currents midway, to which she responded with a cry for help in the bad, broken english she learnt over her captivity. Taken aback by the experience, the decker had a time of hesitation before deciding to plug into the lock of their cage contrary to his team's instructions. Ten seconds later, the door opened and without waiting, Breathless currents was out, but her partner was too weak to come at this point.

With no way to move her, and the runners moving out quickly, she promised that she would come to free her however long it would take and nuzzled the young one before taking off and running after her benefactors. They were pinned as cover fire kept them from counter-attacking, but Breathless currents, in her usual fashion galloped right in. Seeing her come the decker DDOS'd the ennemy's gun just in time for most bullets to miss as she barelled straight in the middle of the corridor, utterly trampling the shooter in the process and quickly finding her way outside.

There, a rigger was waiting for the team, that ended up taking her with them to their bolt hole. With this team, Trample would get her runner name, first jobs and train, accompanied with the team's decker who took her in as somewhat of an apprentice. Over the next two years she would hone her skills and learn about the matrix as well as english, with time better and better jobs came to her untill she deemed herself ready to take on freeing her partner she had to leave behind. Her instinct led her to seattle and it's larger area, now she has to turn up every stones on her way to finding her.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

• Trust Lore, Not Data - "The matrix is a world i interpret instinctively, how it actually is built eludes me."
• Gearhead - "Rolling down the highway and running free in the plains are not so different, except one is easier to find here in Seattle"
• Stunt Driver - "Ever felt like doing stupid things in moments of pressure? yea i love those too"
• Centaur qualities - "As a centaur i have the ability to see heat, AND in low light. And my hooves are painful with all of my weight ! But the best thing really is that i have a knack to find anything, like that i never loose my keys !"

Negative

• CodeBlock(HOTF) - "I don't get how but every time i try to be sneaky on the matrix, i get spotted. Really, i'm just better at forcing things to do what i want rather than convincing them."
• Disheveled - "You ever saw centaurs with elegant clothes? yea me neither, but i try !"
• Distinctive style - "Punk music is my lifeblood, and as such it's normal that i look accordingly. Fuck the man, go punks !"
• Incompetent (Firearms) - "I always mix up rifles and such, really it's just so much easier to crack heads with my amazing pole-arm"

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Date of Run
Museum of Plight	Sleevey	Light the Shadows	15 June 2082
0 to 60	Scranton		13 June 2082
K-10 Use in My Fight Club!?	PatGriffin	Dead Gods Stir	13 June 2082
Spitting in the Eye of Progress	Archtmag		13 June 2082
Swamp Things	Noctis		12 June 2082
Tales From the Grease Vat	PatGriffin		8 June 2082
Raging Bull	Sarcarian	It's Always Wednesday in Seattle	4 June 2082
Orchid's Past Betrayal	Aurora		3 June 2082
Black Hawk Down	Zerre de Seattle	Two Steps Ahead	3 June 2082
Caravan Train	Sleevey	La Famille Du Peintre	3 June 2082
A Sea Of Opportunities	Scranton	The Cradle Of Betrayal	2 June 2082
Murder at the Theatre	PatGriffin	ShadowHaven Shutdown	1 June 2082
Night of the Moonborn	Draknic		27 May 2082
To the Head of the Matter	Aurora		15 May 2082
Brassica Oleracea By Another Name	Aurora	A Scattering of Deadly Petals	9 May 2082
Blood Kite Eggs	Aurora	Baker Wars	4 May 2082

Affiliations

Member of a centaur herd in the CAS

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Professor Riley	4	2	Fixer	Fixer	Matrix Jockey, Above And Beyond, Tenure, Corporate Espionage, Awakened	0
Mike Malone	5	1	Gear	Mechanic,Vehicle/Drones	Vehicles, Drones, Car Lover, Need for speed, Black Market Connections, Custom Tuning	0

In Character Information

Symbols and Signatures

While not being systematic, Sp4rks like to capture data unrelated to runs and either free it on various datahavens or resell it for personnal profit. Most of the times he does the former, he will leave a virtual object in the form of osiris's eye to signify that all info eventually comes out.

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	He recently arrived in Seattle and proceeded to build a life for himself there, with his talents with matrix based tech.
3	He seem to come from France, where he was involved in local Quasi-Legal activities that he continues in Seattle. He has moved following the death of a relative of his listed as a victim of a local terrorist organization.
6	He was part of a cell of Section 89, a loose matricial terrorist organisation that fought and eventually provoked the Neo-revolution in France. He seem to have quit it following it's revendication of an attack that killed his father. he also is known and researched by the French government under the name of Syméon Bloom.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	A French Decker new to the scene, seems competent and full of goodwill with a slight disdain for Megacorps. Seems to often fall sick.
3	This Decker is talented with physical weapons too, he is heavily augmented and tries to be prepared for most situations. When it gets out of hand, he can be seen using drugs to get out of pinches.
5	He seem to be amassing funds to send a team in France for a run, given that he cannot go back himself. He also often use various drugs and hang around on the matrix, receiving regular deliveries of Psyche. Finally, he sometimes helps people pro bonno if he can defend them against Megacorps, without risking his life doing so.

SINs

[R4] Fake SIN - Jack Docherty, UCAS Citizen [Driver's Licence|Cyberdeck Licence|Restricted Cyberware Licence|Firearms Licence|Drone Licence]

European ID - Syméon Bloom, French Citizen [Driver's Licence|Cyberdeck Licence|Restricted Cyberware Licence]

Appearance

Sp4rks's Avatar

Clothing

this guy's elegant trenchcoat clashes somewhat with his purple hair-do coming straight from the fifties. on closer inspection, you can see he carries a cyberdeck on his lower back.

It's trenchcoat is usefull to hide stuff in, for infiltration, but if he is primed and ready for action you will see a modified AK-97 strapped to his back for easy access. Add to that an Armored jacket and a bunch of ordinance hidden right under the coat itself in case things really goes this way. Finally he has a custom ballistic mask that has an entirely reflecting smooth surface, and project a yellow trid model of osiris's eye a centimeter in front of it in reference to it's Persona.

Matrix Persona

His matrix personna consists of a deep black humanoid through which stars and galaxies can be seen. Around the humanoid is a large coat obscuring most of the silhouette unless the avatar interacts with something. When the avatar interacts with the matrix, it often look like pure void rays or phenomenons, in addition to visual distortions such as those that can be seen around black holes and chromatic aberrations.

Off duty, he will often program in his lobby, sculpted after a medieval observatory with a huge telescope pointed towards the matrix's depths and piles of parchments in drawers. that or he might be chilling on Shadowhaven's host.

Media Mentions

First point of Public awareness

On a social media host used by many Qubecois activists gang, a moderator published this (in French): Shout out to this new face, one of the brave revolutionnaries of the Neo-Révolution of France called Syméon Bloom, who debated with one of our speakers about the way to a better future for our great country. Listen to him explaining to us how the real culprit of our troubles is using our own infighting to keep us distracted, while they continue to destroy what makes the people of Quebec who they are !

[Rally of 18 january 2082.trid][23m04s runtime]

This is a trideo recording starting with a speaker addressing a crowd, stroking the flames of prejudice against anglophones in Québec by associating all anglophones with the effects that globalization had on their once closed off country. At some point, someone speaks up from the front row making a counter argument with a strong French accent, and is invited on the stage by the speaker.

We can see this man starting to debate the speaker on the merits of his point. Most notably the newcomer makes solid arguments about how the people of Québec should be united to have any chance at fighting against the Megacorporations manipulating them to their own benefit.

At some point, the newcomer presents himself as Syméon Bloom, one of the revolutionnaries who led France to it's Seventh republic. He argued how such a future is possible for Quebec too, but to do so it's population need to be strong and united against those who would rather see them weak and appart.

The crowd was utterly engaged, even clapping at the last arguments that Syméon made, at which point the speaker conceded an item to him, saying that he deserved to have it, as it is "the will of the people", and he was worthy to have it. Syméon congratulated his opponent, and commended him as being someone with principles, who he respect for conceding with dignity.

At the end Syméon walks out of the atrium, nearly lauded by the crowd and screams out to them passionately "Quebec is a strong nation, but only together can it's people fight back against those who want to see it down ! To the people of Québec, Unite !"