PC-TwitchSR2

Player Name: SuperFly Character Name: Johnny Street Name: Twitch Profession: Urban Legend/Street Samurai Race: Human

Priorities

A: Resources B: Attributes C: Skills D: Magic E: Race

Attributes

Body: 3 Quickness: 5(10) [+3d6 for all defaulted Stealth & Athletics tests] Strength: 3(5) Charisma: 2 Intelligence: 5 Willpower: 6 Essence: 0.4 Body Index: 2.3 Reaction: 7(13) Initiative: 5d6 + 13

Skills

Firearms: 6 Unarmed Combat: 5 Armed Combat: 5 Etiquette (Street): 5 Redmond: 7 Electronics: 1 Hot Wiring: 3

Dice Pools

Combat: 10 Karma: 1

Cyberware

Move-By-Wire Level 3 (5.2) Smartlink (.4) [Alpha Grade]

Bioware

Synaptic Accelerator Level 1 (.3) Muscle Augmentation Level 2 (1.6) Platelet Factory (.4)

Gear

Remington Roomsweeper (w/ internal smartlink, 39 flechette shells, and 16 slug shells) [9S(f) damage, SA, 8 conceal, 8(m)] Ingram Smartgun (w/ integral smartlink, integral imp. gas-vent II, and 64 rounds reg. ammo) [7M damage, BF/FA, 5 conceal, 32(c)] Cougar Fine Blade Short [(Str)M damage, 8 conceal, serrated edge near hilt] Armored Vest w/ Plates (4/3) [10 conceal] Secure Long Coat (4/2) [10 conceal, adds 50% to concealability of any weapon with rating 4 or higher] Aurora Racing Bike [70/210] Cell Phone Low Lifestyle (2 months pre-paid) [1,600¥ per month to pay for injected anti-coagulants]

Cash: 2,000¥

Contacts

Ares Funded Street Doc (Carl) [Twitch was "assigned" to Carl by Ares after his stint in the Arcology. He knows about Twitch and his condition, and he helps him when he comes in, for a price, of course. Carl also serves as Twitch's link to getting new gear when he wants to purchase instead of boost or salvage it. Carl relays this order to Ares who supply Twitch, albeit slowly on occasion.] Squatter (Robert) [Robert's an old changelling ork that Twitch aided when he was being hounded by a group of neo-nazi Humanists. He wanders Redmond from soup kitchen to soup kitchen, getting his meals and sleeping areas when he can. Since he gets around so much he knows a lot about what's going down and where it's going down at.] Street Kid (Cassie) [After persuading the gang that claimed turf there to leave the young millatta girl alone, Twitch won a special place in Cassie's heart. He's kept tabs on her ever since, giving her clothes, cash, or a hot meal when he finds the time. She also gives him the word on what's up around her spot of the Barrens.] Followers (Barrens Residents) [For those who despise Twitch there are many, many more who praise him. What he's done, and continues to do for Redmond gives them hope. He's earned his place as an urban legend among the younger crowd, and hero in the eyes of the older one. His followers can be anyone from an old buddy, to someone he's helped out in the past, to someone who's heard of all the good he's done.] Gang Boss (Ruffus) Mr. Johnson (Johnson)

Karma

Good Karma: 2 (7)

Physical Description

Twitch stands 5'11" tall with a slim, wirey build of about 155 lbs., sporting military-cut white hair and dark bags under his blue eyes. He wears a light gray long coat over a tucked in cotton t-shirt and jeans, which are both slightly dirty. Over his feet are a pair of scuffed jungle boots. He moves with an unnatural smoothness and the muscles where his neck meets his collar bone ripple and spasm a bit ever-so-often.

History

"The people of Redmond have no one to look after them. To the world most don't exist. They live in poverty, running from the gangs, paying their protection money, escaping the Star, and moving through the cracks of society. They need an angel, a savior...That savior is me." -- Twitch

Johnny was a slummer who grew up on the mean streets of the Redmond Barrens. Living on the streets he was forced to think fast, and grow up even faster. His slim build which borders on skinny and his quick actions earned him the nickname 'Twitch', which he eventually stuck with. His family consisted of his older sister, Cassandra, and their mother, Elizabeth. She passed away when Johnny was only 12, and the 17-year-old Cassandra had to tend for both he and the infant elven girl she'd found in a dumpster. She taught him the basics of reading and writing, and bit of math. Enough for him to get by and count his stolen credsticks for that day. At 17 he was "recruited" by Ares Macrotechnology along with a group of other young (barren-dwelling) men to be human guinea pigs. Of course most of them agreed, anything to get out of the slums. Little did they know what would follow... Ares was sadistic, they experimented with the boys, attempting to combine cyber and bioware with devastating results. Half of the boys died quick, excrutiatingly painful deaths from rejection and shorts. Another half of the remaining ones took a longer time to go out, but eventually were disposed of when the tests were done. The tests on Johnny and about 7 others were successful though. It was one of the first times Ares had successfully integrated a third level Move-By-Wire system with Synaptic Accelerators. They also augmented his musculature to handle the stress and used Platelet Factories to aid him against damage. They added the smartlink when they decided that they'd use him as a field operative/guinea pig. He was now blindingly fast, faster than he ever thought possible. Ares taught him to cope with his new speed and reflexes. He learned to try and always keep people within his line of vision and his back to the wall since any wrong move could set him off. His dirty blonde hair soon turned stark white and he began losing sleep from the effects. He was constantly alert to everything around him. At first he found it difficult to cope, but it soon became routine and habit for him. The dicipline and tactics they taught him helped dramatically, but he still has outbursts when caught off guard. Though he tries to keep them as non-lethal as possible until he's identified friend or foe. They trained him to use the smartlink with efficiency. He'd already known how to shoot and had done it on more than one occasion, but they improved him drastically again. When realeased back onto Redmond he knew he had the edge, he could drop jokers twice his size within the time it took to blink and eye. He could take out three men before they were even aware of his presence. He'd always thought about the poverty in Redmond, the way everyone either cowered from a gang, or joined them. The way that you couldn't walk the street without risking getting harrassed by Lone Star or someone even worse. Johnny didn't know what made him decide to do it, but he chose to help people. He chose to aid the sick and lonely in their time of need, to help the endangered out of their situation. And he decided to do it the only way he could do it--by protecting them. He needed money to pay the debt Ares claimed he owed them, so he had to take it all one step further by becoming a shadowrunner. He would like to enjoy the money he makes through his runs, but he instead has to wire funds to Ares and his sister. Leaving him with far more than any other Barrens resident, but not the amounts which others get to keep. Ares owns Johnny, or Twitch as all but his sister call him. They use him on jobs they want done and he informs them when there's a run against them, even sabotaging these on occasion. He also won't interfer with their agenda if they ever show up in Redmond.