Sinning Jenny
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| Mundane Grifter Face | |
|---|---|
| A minor actress coming back to the even humbler roots (grifting). | |
| Discord | @Keeper M#0043 |
| EnigmaticOxygen | |
| Metatype | Human |
| Street Cred | 7 |
| Notoriety | -1 |
| Public Awareness | 0 |
| CDP | 0 |
| D.O.B. | March the 9th, 2060 |
| Age | 25 |
| Folder | G-Drive |
| Priority | Metatype - E Attributes - A Magic/Resonance - E Skills - B Resources - B |
| # Initiations | 10 |
Character Information
Summary
Born as a national UCAS SINner to a lower-income troubled family, a former small-time actress in fantasy and SF movies produced by Pathfinder Multimedia, fallen into the shadows after angering a sleazy Horizon exec something fierce. After having to burn her SIN and abandon what little career she could count on, Jenny has to make a living as a grifter (a conwoman face) until she can hopefully get out of the life.
Goals
Currently, Jenny just wants to survive and preferably remain "better than bad" despite having to run. She's aware runners aren't heroes, she knows she's got to eat, but she'd rather stay on the cleaner side of the business. Ideally, she'd survive for a few years and save up enough to afford a really solid (R6) fake SIN which would allow her to retire from running, find a legitimate job in some theater or doing small-time movie gigs, and start over for the second time. Working through the trauma (originally represented by Impassive as less potentially troubling other teammates than Flashbacks and Phobia qualities) is her top priority short-time. Her not-so-secret dream is working her way up to a semblance of normalcy and starting a family, biological or through adoption - she's determined to do what her parents didn't offer her as a child. For this goal, she's got to set herself up - it's only responsible in her eyes.
Background
Jenny's parents had quite a drinking problem, leading to her frequently picking up unsavory street smarts after school since coming home very early wasn't preferred by the girl. Always imaginative, with a daydreaming bent, she would typically spend most of her free time devouring theater and trid trivia while earning a little to make up for the days Mr and Mrs Voxola were too deep in their cups to bother with meals for their daughter through short cons. Who would believe a doe-eyed little girl, polite and seemingly walking innocence, would have sticky fingers and a silver tongue with lies galore? She learned from the trideo set always playing at the Comfy Teacup tea shop the family lived near and the elderly owner, Granny NY. In Granny, a small-time fixer as she discovered over time, she found a guardian figure, befriending her in the de facto absence of her own mom. Trids, tea and cats (seven, plus a rotating cast of kittens given away). The movies never turned off. Trivia related to all of them. Granny taught her about the streets, fostered her passion for acting, encouraged her to do well in school, acting classes eventually netting her a modest scholarship and the attention of one of Pathfinder Multimedia's managers, the dwarven philanthropist Harold J. Rutherford. Thanks to Harold, some talent, a lot of hard work, working late waiting tables on campus, with small-time gigs in fantasy and SF movies produced by Pathfinder Multimedia, Jenny earned her MA in Theater - it fit both passions and the hoped-for career. The manager of many of the flicks had proven himself to be quite a kindly mentor too. She fancied herself smitten with Max, her childhood friend employed by the KE Tukwila precinct as a beat cop. Things were looking up. She wasn't famous, the ware making her typical role of the lead's Humanoid Alien Sidekick (different eyes, ears, skin, hair, face - you name it) quite unlikely to result in people recognizing her, but Jenny was satisfied: unlike her parents, she was doing something with her life, she thought, and just had to keep working hard like this.
It wasn't to last.
Her last movie was directed by one Mark Pierce, an out-of-town Horizon exec with a fancy for elven starlets. Jenny wasn't his type, but the lead, Ella Lopez, was. His reputation preceded him. A disaster waiting to happen. Ella and Jenny weren't exactly friends, just buddies, but Mark gaslighting Ella to join the harem of his mistresses strained the whole team. One night, with the man getting drunk and attempting to prey on Ella when they were together in the Chez Ogino hotel, the elf pleading for help, Jenny acted on instinct, spilling some scalding hot tea in his face. While the girls fled and Pierce was just left with some facial scars and hurt predator pride, it spelled doom for both.
First, Ella and Jenny lost their roles, replaced overnight - a clear revenge move on the part of the scorned exec. The elf, dreaming of being Pathfinder Multimedia's next star, didn't recover from the trauma and took her life when she found out her limited Horizon SIN would be terminated along with the contract. This, on top of witnessing the assault attempt on a movie buddy, traumatized Jenny as well - being the one to find the body in the restroom can't have helped here. Harold couldn't protect her, only recommend burning her national UCAS SIN, ditching her life and running away to avoid whatever (para)legal battle Pierce would unleash if given the chance.
That's how Jenny found herself SINless in Seattle, with barely anything apart from her talents. Time to pull herself up by her bootstraps, learn runner survival skills, not die.
Narratively Significant Qualities
Positive
- School of Hard Knocks. While she went to school and even earned herself a degree, growing up, Jenny learned much on the streets. In chargen, she buys Street skill ranks at a 1:2 ratio when using points. Afterwards, ranks 3+ receive a -1 karma discount.
- First Impression. Jenny has a knack for sliding into new situations easily - a survival skill at this point. Every social skill test when meeting for the first time receives +2.
- Alibi. Running short cons from an early age and developing finesse through her acting career, Jenny tends to come up with white lies and half-truths on the spot with ease. When she's got plausible-seeming evidence, she always receives the +2 social modifier to Con tests.
- Closer. When Blackhawk suddenly went radio silence on the 30th of December 2083, she had to take matters into her own hands, you could say.
- Rabble Rouser. On Geoff Montgomery XLII the Raccoon's run, Ez-Azael showed her that her career, however long and dusted, still has applications.
- Photographic Memory (from the Neuro Retention Amplification). Jenny saved up for this cultured bioware to memorize the script better - she can now instantly recall facts, dates, numbers, or anything else she's seen or heard. She receives +2 to Memory Tests.
- Linguist. Jenny's got a knack for languages - she can remember a lot with ease and her acting accustomed her to faking different accents. The cosmopolitan character of the campus and the nature of her work for Pathfinder Multimedia helped too. She's fluent in Aztlaner Spanish and Japanese (6 ranks - about C2?), but she doesn't plan on stopping. After all, there's no better way to get people to like you than speaking the same language and understanding the nuances of vocabulary used. In chargen, she buys Language skill ranks at a 1:2 ratio when using points. Afterwards, ranks 3+ receive a -1 karma discount. All Language skills are at +1 too.
- Analytical Mind. Having to memorize script trains the mind. Having to think on your feet and analyze patterns can save your life on the run. She makes LOG tests like pattern recognition, evidence analysis, clue hunting, figuring out traps or solving puzzles with a +2 bonus. Problem-solving takes half as long as it does other people.
- Speed Reading. Originally used to quickly go through the script to be memorized, Jenny's since taken to less on the counter applications of her knack for reading. Not only does she like reading, it's useful to be able to quickly swift through something before the mark returns and remember next. With Photographic Memory, she can speedread and recall the facts later.
Negative
- Family Curse. If not for parental neglect caused by drinking addiction, Jenny wouldn't have ever ended up picking up grifting skills. She may not have fallen into the shadows, had she received support from her parents when the Pierce trouble started. She's never ever touched any addictive substances out of fear of becoming like them, but she's still genetically at risk of ending up addicted: her Addiction Tests all suffer a -2 penalty.
- Lightweight. While a determined teetotaler just in case, Jenny's organism handles addictive substances poorly. All Addiction Thresholds are 2 higher for her.
- No Man Left Behind. Aware of the difficulties of being on your own and how much Gran NY, Harold and Max helped her avoid ending up in a dark place, Jenny feels obligated to give back. Unless she manages to pass a Threshold 4 Composure Test (CHA + WIL), she won't leave a teammate behind if they fall, regardless of how much (or how little) she likes them. Ella's death she blames herself for must be the first and last time.
Run History
| Name | GM | Metaplot | Date of Run |
|---|---|---|---|
| You Ottern't Stay | Aurora | 4 July 2084 | |
| Of Gangsters and Tea Parties | Axiomshift | 25 March 2084 | |
| Groceries for Granny Tusk | Eva | 12 February 2084 | |
| Saving Private Blackhawk | TidanShock | 31 December 2083 | |
| New Year's Thieves | Eva | 30 December 2083 | |
| Pests for Progeny | Aurora | 29 November 2083 |
Affiliations
Contacts
| Contact | Connection | Loyalty | Archetype | Profession | Aspects | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gran NY | 6 | 4 | Fixer | Owner of the Comfy Teacup & Fixer | A Woman of Principle, Manners Maketh Man, Family Obligations, Temperance Is a Virtue, Downtown Dweller, Underworld Old Hand, Rumormonger's Network, I Know a Guy (Lots, Actually), The Proprietor, Feline Fan, Tea Ritual, Trid Trivia, Alter Ego, Infected Info, Street Clinic Network | Even |
| Harold J. Rutherford | 6 | 4 | Networking | Pathfinder Multimedia Manager | Race Traitor, Working Hours, Broad Horizons, Networking in Places High and Low, Corporate Rumors, Media Grip, Entertainment Insider, Setting the Stage, Fashionista, Wife's Wares, Wheeling and Dealing | Even |
| Maxwell "Max" Mourire | 3 | 4 | Legwork | KE Beat Cop | Rambling Study, Iterative Collaboration, Untimely Joke, The Knight Errant, Consummate Investigator, H&M, Guy Next Door, K-9 Cop, Lab Access, The Light Fantastic | Even |
| Geoff Montgomery XLII the Raccoon | 3 | 4 | Custom(A,G,K,N) | Raccoon | Raccoon Shifter, Masking, Lookit the buttons!, How the hell did he get in here? | Even |
| Granny Tusk | 2 | 3 | Fixer(A,K,G,N) | Babysitter/Bodyguard | Don't Lay a Fragging Finger on Them!, Army of Grandkids, You're all kids to me, Dearie | Even |
| Ashley Davis | 5 | 4 | Service | Lawyer | Working Hours, Defense Attorney, Law and Punishment, Multiple Degrees, Contacts with the Pawns, Legally Blond, Objection, Your Honor!, Savvy Shrink | Even |
| Niamh O'Sullivan | 3 | 4 | Custom(A,K,N,G) | Crimson Crush Matrix Support | Race Traitor, Genuine Ganger, Rambling Study, Iterative Collaboration, Cracks Computers, Daring Decker, Crushing on Crimson Crush, Info-Gatherer, Sleaze Sensei, Gamer Girl, Mathemagics, Trog Historian | Even |
| Chantal Houellebecq | 6 | 4 | Gear | EVO Miami Deltaware Clinic Head | EVO Loyalist, Working Hours, My Grandkids Were Visiting, Cybersurgeon, Beta Is Better, An Arm and a Leg, Got a Spine, Cybernetic Charm, Bioware Buff, Genemod Geek, EVO Insider, Changeling Community, This Old Drone | Even |
| Crazy Otter | 3 | 4 | Gear | Crazy Otter | FABulous, Mall Talislegger, Alchemical Bootlegging, Reagent Regent, Definitely Mundane, Powerful Magician | Even |
| Biggie Beefcake | 1 | 4 | Fixer(A,N,K,G) | Ex-Runner-Turned-Uber & Wannabe Fixer | Iterative Collaboration, Berserk Button, Swoonworthy Sammie, Shockingly Fine Fixer, Ever a Hand on the Pulse of Everett, My Hamster and I | Even |
Organizations
Allies
Enemies
In-Character Information
Symbols and Signatures
Matrix Search Table
| Threshold | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | Images of her helping around the Comfy Teacup tea shop and eatery, as much as she can be made out through the ever-present cat infestation. Likely some activity on free forums related to acting, fantasy and SF, a bit of math. Small-font job ads as Abigail Carter, a private investigator. |
| 3 | Records of some postgraduate acting courses at the Seattle University, ones making an MA in Theater, Journalism, English Philology with rather high scores mandatory upon entry. A person named Genevieve Voxola, a UCAS SINner looking very similar to Carter "after hours", can be found in the records of recipients of the Will in the World Acting Scholarship (yearbook 2078-2082), the initiative earning Pathfinder Multimedia promising young actors, one of the responsible people being Harold J. Rutherford, a limited Horizon SINner. Voxola played secondary roles in a number of fantasy and SF trids made by the corporation next. Classified deceased after a vacant building fire in Columbia, Downtown Seattle, in 2083. |
| 6 | Genevieve Voxola and Abigail Carter must be the same person. Only trace DNA was found at the site, KE assuming the fire was started intentionally and destroyed evidence. Wilson and Winona Voxola didn't show any interest in further investigation of their daughter's demise. Records from her life align closely with Carter's, however, which, paired with the sacking by Mark Pierce of Horizon shortly before the death, could imply faking it. |
Shadow Community Table
| Threshold | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | A face and conwoman running short cons around Downtown Seattle and Tacoma, taking private eye gigs as well. A good deal of fast talk and decent legerdemain action. Mundane, with some ware - they're a dime a dozen. |
| 3 | She's got the gift of the gab, but also worked for it for years, starting grifting very early on in the vicinity of the Comfy Teacup tea shop and eatery. She still visits on the regular, with a good relationship with the proprietor. Not caught? Luck, some skill, friends with that one troggy nerd detective working at the KE Tukwila Precinct. |
| 5 | She used to have a real UCAS SIN and worked in several Pathfinder Multimedia productions. No blockbusters, entry gigs, really. You won't recognize her on screen, because she'd always play the role of the lead's Humanoid Alien Sidekick - amazing how much acting ware can change the looks. Burned that SIN after helping this elven starlet, Ella Lopez, in self-defense when Mark Pierce, a Horizon exec in overseeing the filming of "Infrared", got handsy with her. Chummer sacked them both, Lopez hanged herself in the restroom when she couldn't cope with that and losing her limited SIN, Voxola allegedly killed herself in a fire started in some empty squat. But of all the ways to off yourself, would you go for such a grueling death? ...I didn't think so. Carter cropped up suspiciously soon afterwards too. An educated guess: Voxola faked her death to dodge corpo Legalese and lives as Carter and Richards now. |
Assensing Results
| Hits | Information Gained |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mundane, healthy (short of fluctuations related to the scene). Ask for the general mood please as you get it for one hit, but it fluctuates depending on the run. |
| 2 | If you've assensed her before, you'll probably recognize her. |
| 3 | Alphaware: on the scalp (fiberoptic hair). Whether or not her remaining essence is lower or greater than yours. |
| 4 | Betaware cyber: on the left temple (datajack), in her meat eyes (smartlink), ears (cyberears), across the body (reaction enhancers). Something in her skull (math SPU, skilljack and orientation system) and skin (skin toner). Her facial muscles and smaller bones have been replaced with beta grade cyberware (false face). Bioware alterations to her pores (tailored pheromones), to her eyes (perfect eyes), muscles (muscle toner) and the brain (sleep regulator, mnemonic enhancers and Neuro Retention Amplification). Exactly 1.875 ESS. |
| 5+ | Everything plus her being subject to genetic treatment (attribute optimization: CHA, synaptic acceleration and tetrachromatic vision). Not a technomancer! |
SINs
- Abigail Carter (UCAS, R6). Licenses: Restricted Augmentations, Restricted Armor, Concealed Carry Permit, Firearms, Driver's, Private Investigator. This SIN is used for her legal life. She hopes to survive long enough to retire on it.
- Charlotte Richards (UCAS, R6). Licenses: Restricted Augmentations, Restricted Armor, Concealed Carry Permit, Firearms, Driver's, Private Investigator. This SIN is for running in general.
- Aiko Arasaki (Shiawase Toys - Seattle division, R6). Licenses: Restricted Augmentations, Restricted Armor, Concealed Carry Permit, Firearms, Driver's, Shiawase Toys Security Consultant. This SIN is for running with her Aiko Arasaki looks.
Appearance
Not using any of the ware from her past life as a minor actress, Jenny is actually quite average. Average height, on the skinnier side, gray eyes, straight brown hair about neck-length, not much in terms of curves and other "feminine" features. Nothing to write home about. However, she has a way with words and can prove herself to be a rather compelling, dedicated actress. As Aiko Arasaki, she's Japanese, with a slightly rosier skin tone, fiberoptic hair turned black in an updo, polychromic lenses set to black as well, discreet makeup, including some reddish lipstick.
Clothing
She prefers more covering clothes, pants over dresses, something comfortable and on the classy side, rarely in garish colors. To meets, she tends to wear an anthracite women's suit, white dress shirt, slim wine red tie, black synthleather belt and a beige coat plus a trilby and wooden bangles over her wrists on both hands (nothing special, just broad wood with simple abstract patterns etched in it). As Aiko, she tends to wear clothes made by Shiawase and its subsidiaries, including a Vashon Island (Ace of Cups, mechanically) business kimono style dress.
Matrix Persona
Jenny actually adjusts hers on the regular. On burners, she tends to cycle through the freely-available default personas like Metalink's Michelin Man. On the Avalon commlink, it's usually a bioscan of a mandrill or a Caucasian elf with light coppery brown hair in a thick braid, wearing vantablack Lennon glasses, a gold-brown cocktail dress and matching pumps. Many just take it to be Jenny's bioscan, which is precisely the appeal.
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 she's in use. If you want to use them in a run unrelated to Jenny, please ask first.
| Aspect | Information | Related Run(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Consequences Matter | I like consequences, because they lend weight to the game. Obstacles needing surmounting are what makes playing worth the while. Don't be afraid to create runs which aren't milkruns! This is, incidentally, why I pay minute attention to disguising and would like the effort made recognized. | This applies everywhere and isn't really tied to any specific run. |
| Contacts for Life | Contacts matter a lot. They're people. This is why Jenny hangs out with them in downtime and generally tries to do favors for them. | This applies everywhere and isn't really tied to any specific run. |
| Antiheroes | Jenny doesn't delude herself she's a hero(ine). She knows she's the anti- bit, breaking the law to put food on the table. She wants to be better than bad and do damage control with her crimes. The world is not black and white - we operate in the shadows of it. Feel free to introduce emotional oomph. | Of Gangsters and Tea Parties, for example. We were hitting the oyabun for the Finnigans and his daughter was an innocent, so Jenny worked around scaring her (or introducing her to the life). |
| Careful Around HMHVV | Jenny has the "be sympathetic if not given the reason not to, but extremely careful" around infected. She always wears a bangle from real wood (unless specifically stated otherwise). She wants to be respectful, but her healthy fear of HMHVV is a relevant character trait. Strain 1 feeding, for example, would probably freak her out big time - consider this if you want infected NPCs other than gnawers and non-feral ghouls, who can believably sustain themselves off graveyards, for example. | Saving Private Blackhawk is best, Pests for Progeny starting, You Ottern't Stay as an example of working with an infected PC too. |
| Children Are Innocent | As per her negative qualities, Jenny really doesn't want to see kids suffer, let alone contribute towards it. On all runs, expect her not to want to engage in plans which would put them at risk. She's also very likely to interact with child NPCs encountered. | Of Gangsters and Tea Parties, Groceries for Granny Tusk - in both cases, she tried to limit dangers to kids and enjoyed interacting with them. |
| Ren Tanaka | On her first job with the Finnigans, Jenny met - and, looks like, actually befriended - Ren Tanaka, the daughter of the Shotozumi-gumi oyabun. Ren knows her in her Aiko Arasaki SIN, a Shiawase SINner, and has one of the burners with a few digits of the commcode changed. It's up to Axiomshift if the girl fixed it and thus can contact Jenny when the burner is online. Frequently - on jobs, really - it isn't. | Of Gangsters and Tea Parties - really, the run explains it all. |
| Cute and Fascinating | She really enjoys learning about animals and magic, which bleeds into all sorts of runs. Sometimes, it's out of "forewarned is prepared". In other cases, it's a matter of fun interactions like with Geoff Montgomery XLII the Raccoon, Crazy Otter and so on. | Pests for Progeny freaks her out with invae and leads to research of magic despite being mundane. New Year's Thieves marks meeting Geoff (and interest in food). You Ottern't Stay kickstarted the partnership between Geoff and Crazy Otter (as well as increasing connections). |
| Cooking with Class | Deep down, Jenny really misses a normal home - which, with her negligent parents, she never had. Part of that normality manifests as interest in cooking, which she's trying to learn to do better, prompted by contacts like Gran NY, Geoff Montgomery XLII the Raccoon or Granny Tusk. Besides, tasty noms make excellent bribes! | Groceries for Granny Tusk would be the best example. New Year's Thieves would also count. |
| Pathfinder Multimedia | Jenny doesn't really have negative qualities associated with that anymore, but her time at Pathfinder Multimedia could maybe result in a slightly harder time if you somehow made Mark Pierce make a comeback. In the flicks, she's effectively impossible to recognize, because she would be an alien sidekick in full makeup, with ware to boot, but she cannot conceal her aura. (Poor mundies, us.) I don't mind hardships I can overcome, so if you want her past to return to haunt her, why not? Saying something OOC beforehand is very welcome, but if it makes a lot of sense, I won't whine if you don't either. | None yet, really. |
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