Pixie Styx

Pixie Styx

D E C K E R
Shattered Soul, Shattered Mind
Player	RaineDesidia [1]
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	1
Public Awareness	0
CDP	0
D.O.B.	02/28/2059
Age	26
Folder	[2]
Priority	Metatype - X Attributes - X Magic/Resonance - X Skills - X Resources - X
#Max IGs/Ascension	1

Character Information

Summary

A Tír na nÓg native human decker that frequently blacks out, who also wishes she was an elf.

Goals

Gain a few million Nuyen. Repair the damages done to her mind by Black IC. Earn her family's respect.

Background

Morrigan O'Malley was a strange child. Strange as in she was the only human born into her Elven family since before the Awakening. As such, there was much confusion about her in her small town. Unfortunately, the belief that Elven spirits are being reincarnated into human form is in the minority, even amongst her family. With each new Elf sibling born, she felt her own relevancy in the family dwindling with each year. Not willing to just be cast aside and seen as shitstain to her family's status, she kept only her religious beliefs, running away to America, eventually finding herself in Seattle. There, she learned of her [decent] skills within the Matrix.

She was 21 when she began a short-lived first attempt at making it as a runner. She got some milk runs, snatching financial details from the poor and the addicted, planting unknown malware, etc. She made good enough money, nabbing her an expensive cyberdeck and some implants. There was one run that changed it all. Simple run. She and another decker were hired to nab some data from Renraku. It was simple. Grab data about corporate espionage and leave. She got cocky. She saw a life-changing amount of Nuyen she could transfer to her account. Splitting off, she took the money and attempted to sneak off without the other decker. Almost immediately, she saw her collegue being attacked by Black IC. By the time she rushed to him, his mind was completely fried by that Black IC. Then the Black IC chose her as its next target. Then nothing.

She awoke in a river, her right arm gone and bleeding, her cyberdeck almost broken, and a target on her back. She let Morrigan drown, rising up instead as Pixie Styx. After 4 years of laying low, letting herself heal, letting her funds save up, letting herself rest, she's taking another shot at running in the dark. Thankfully, her old greed has left her by this stage, well, the part of her greed that'd make her abandon her friends.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

- Ambidextrous: Much like her mother, she's ambidextrous. No worrying about a -2 when using an offhand, because there is no offhand!

- Catlike: Years of sneaking around, either on milk runs or in the aftermath of her big fuckup, she's learnt how to sneak around very well. This quality adds a +2 dice pool modifier to Sneaking skill tests.

- Go Big or Go Home: The longer she takes, the higher risk she has of being caught. Whenever she attempts to place three marks on a target using a single Brute Force or Hack on the Fly action, she suffers a penalty of –6 instead of the usual –10.

- Photographic Memory: Years of reading through religious texts and having to recall delicate information from her various runs, she's gotten very proficient at memorization. She gains a +2 dice pool modifier to all Memory Tests.

- Speed Reading: As such, having to read through things just as fast as her mind can think must be a skill she's trained. Sometimes extracting the data itself isn't an option, more often than not its better to just read through it and memorize it. With this quality, she can read through a full page of written text (about 800 words) in about five seconds or an 800-page textbook in about an hour. If attempting to locate a specific piece of information, phrase, or subject while in the process of reading, the character can attempt a Logic + Intuition Extended Test with a threshold and interval determined by the gamemaster based on the length of the text, its complexity, and the obscurity of the information being sought.

Negative

- Scorched (Blackout): While she is not completely aware as to how bad the attack on her mind was by some Renraku Black IC, she does know that every time she enters the Matrix, she's got a very high chance of just simply forgetting that trip. Whenevers she enters VR or slots a BTL chip, she must make a Body + Willpower (4) Test. On a failed roll, she experiences the specified physical effects for six hours. A glitch or critical glitch on this test results in suffering the effects for 24 hours.

- Signature: Leaving behind a sticker, usually of a cartoon fairy, on every device she's hacked, not the best idea, but a compulsion she can't quite let go of.

- Wanted by GOD: She really wishes she could remember why, but at some point while she was trying to do something from the Matrix, she had ended up royally messing up enough, and loudly enough, to bring down the wrath of GOD. Now, at Overwatch 30, she'll bring down a High Treat Response squad, as well as the obvious downsides of reaching max Overwatch score.

Run History

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Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Dial-Up	4	1	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

Symbols and Signatures

She frequently leaves behind either digital or physical stickers depicting a cartoon fairy on various places or devices she's hacked.

Matrix Search Table

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6

Shadow Community Table

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Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
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Appearance

Clothing

Long trench coats, ripped jeans, and very used sneakers are her style. Combine that with a stained white shirt and you got a recipe for the incognito.

Matrix Persona

A wireframe Elf-shaped 3d model, standing at 5'8. The lines and grids are a bright neon green.