Tran Hien

Tran Hien

Office Lady
You'll be surprised at what gets said in the break room.
Contact Owner	Dejapes
Connection	5
Public Contact?	Yes
Archetype	Legwork
Location	Seattle
Metatype	Human
Awakened/Emerged	Mundane
Gender	She/Her
Age	30
Preferred Payment Method	Nuyen or Information
Hobbies/Vice	Serialized Trideo
Personal Life	Engaged
Faction	Shiawase
Aspects	The Shell Game The Faces Stay the Same They Write their Emails the Same Way Everyone Knows the Rules Want me to Write That For You? Detectives Princes and Zombies

Overview

Trần Hiền is by most accounts a hard-working office lady. A 'Media Coordination Officer' in the Seattle branch of Shiawase & Rubicon Advertisement, she has the unremarkable day job of collating key headlines, patent notifications, and article abstracts into an easy-to-read digest for consumption by upper management. By all accounts, she is good at this job.

Those in the shadows know her better as an information broker keyed into the byzantine minutiae of mega-corporate politics. Hien displays an encyclopedic knowledge of corporate staffing, from mundane postings and ordinary retirements to juicier tidbits about headhunting attempts and internal disciplinary measures. She also displays a canny awareness of policy changes that might seem ordinary to outside observers, but signal deep and rumbling changes in the corporate eco-system.

Hiền sells this information with the hefty pricing of a woman confident about the value of her goods. However, she is also open to trading for interesting and not widely known bits of information from areas which are not her specialty - such as the political events of the shadow community or Seattle's criminal underworld.

Appearance

Physically, Hiền is a slender, dark-haired Vietnamese-American whose diminutive frame disappears easily into a crowd. Aside from a datajack, she has no obvious ware.

She rarely consents to be seen physically, however, outside of her daytime persona. Hiền instead goes by the matrix moniker of 'Featherfall,' using a persona of a black-necked swan with clipped wings.

Personality

For both a corporate wage-slave and an information broker, Hiền has a languid, unhurried way of speaking. She mulls over word choices, sometimes repeating ones that stand out to her, as if tasting the flavor of sentences.

Otherwise, she is straight to the point and business-like, especially on 'work calls.' She's sometimes quick to name a price even before the request has been fully vocalized. Hiền does not respond well to threats or aggressive negotiation, and has no qualms about simply hanging up if a conversation is not going well.

She is a fan of procedurals, period pieces, and the occasional zombie thriller. Successfully referencing contemporary trideo connected to these genres will brighten her mood.

Aspects Description

Aspect	Description
The Shell Game	+2 to Knowledge Checks concerning corporate subsidiaries, shell companies, and tracking lines of ownership.
The Faces Stay the Same	+2 to Knowledge Checks concerning staffing at corporate organizations.
They Write their Emails the Same Way	+2 to Knowledge Checks related to identifying the author of a text, assuming the author is a public corporate figure.
Everyone Knows the Rules	+2 to Knowledge Checks involving megacorp law and the rulings of the Corporate Court.
Want me to Write That For You?	+2 to Active Checks involving fabricating text that resembles a corporate missive.
Detectives, Princes, and Zombies	+2 to Knowledge Checks regarding media relating to procedurals, period pieces, or horror thrillers.

Dicepools

Dicepools
Knowledge Checks	13 + Loyalty + Aspects - Notoriety
Active Checks	9 + Loyalty + Aspects - Notoriety
Gear Acquisition Checks	3 + Loyalty + Aspects - Notoriety
Networking Checks	5 + Loyalty + Aspects - Notoriety

Network

Player Characters with this Contact

Name	Loyalty	Chips
Bleach	2	Even

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