== Priorities ==
Attributes: A - 24 Attributes
Resources: B - 275,000¥
Skills: C - 28 Skills/2 Skill Groups
Metatype: D - Human or Elf
Special: E - Mundane
== Info ==
Street Name: Hawatari
Name: Suki Hashimayatsu
Movement: 18/36
Total Karma: 6
Current Karma: 1
Nuyen (¥): 1455¥
Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 0
Public Awareness: 0
Pheno/Metatype: Japanese Elf
Gender: Female
Apparent Age: 25
Height: 172.75 cm (5'8")
Weight: 53.2 kg (117 lbs)
== Lifestyles ==
The Bolt Hole 1 month
. . Low Lifestyle, Extra Secure (+20%): 2400¥/mo
Description and Background:
== Description ==
Straight waist-length hair, 5'8", 117 lbs. Athletic and well-formed, attractive, very intense personality.
== Background ==
Suki Hashimayatsu has a huge amount of experience and capabilities under her belt. She's been in the shadows for over twenty-five years, she's one of less than a handful of personal troubleshooters for The Big Name in Evo, Buttercup, she's kept her profile so low as to be nonexistent (a true feat for someone so successful in the shadows for so long), and among those who practice the art of the sword, she's considered to be one of the best with a blade. She's got keys to apartments, stashes, and safehouses on seven continents; she's personally worth nine, and perhaps ten, figures; and she has a tight bond with a free spirit (no, not Buttercup) of great strength and as-great innocence.
Yesterday, all that changed.
Twenty-six hours ago, Suki's spiritual bond with Yuri, a free guidance spirit, did _something_. The feedback knocked Suki for a loop - not unconscious, fortunately, but it did a serious number on her equilibrium. This caused her to take a seat just a few houses down from her townhome, to let her head stop spinning. The townhome's network activated as though she'd kept going, its pattern-recognition starting things up as though she were stepping up the walk and sending her recognition codes to the door. Thirty seconds later, the entire townhome blew expertly up, barely singing the places to either side.
Suki discovered that many of her capabilities had been sent into dormancy; this ... attempt on her life, not to mention the apparent capture and isolation of her bond-partner, has caused her to decide that laying low and concealing the extent of her capabilities will be necessary to discover who has been gunning for her. Hopefully, with the eruption of her house they will consider her deceased; just in case, however, she dare not access her accounts, and most of her equipment stashes, apartments-available-for-use, and contacts must be considered under surveillance, if not suspect. Save for a few very, very trusted contacts - those listed - she is going underground until she can find out who the hell she pissed off _this bad_, and then do something about it, and rescue Yuri in the process.
Note that while she is referenced as if 'Hawatari' has been her street name in the past, she has not gone by it in over twenty years.
Contacts:
== Contacts ==
Buttercup; Vladivostok*; Free Spirit (12, 5)
. . . Famous free-spirit, major shareholder in Evo (and bunches of other corporations from AAs on down), Buttercup likes things to have a personal touch - people who other people know come from her, if / when she herself cannot be there at any particular time. For over a decade, Hawatari - or rather, Suki Hashimayatsu - has been one of her personal assistants, for which read 'observer, investigator, hatchetwoman, hitman, and operative'. The two have developed a strong friendship, in part due to the fact that Hawatari's twenty-five-year-old daughter (an Evo corporate mage) is turning out to be a strong summoner with very good relationships in the spirit world; another portion of that fact is that Hawatari too has a personal tie with the spirit world.
. . . Fortunately, Buttercup understands that when something has gone insanely wrong, a person has to go about figuring out what the hell happened; she has granted Hawatari an indefinite leave of absence from work, and though she may well still send an assignment to her on-leave operative, she will still be willing to do the occasional - _occasional_ - favor for Hawatari.
Denver Walsingham; Seattle; Corporate Executive / Mr. Johnson (8, 5)
. . . Walsingham, a highly charismatic ork, is Evo's Seattle Chief of Intercorporate Operations - which is to say, he's the man that makes shadowy things happen. He's the man in place to hook Hawatari up with vitally-necessary gear or arrange access to the Evo delta clinic - though he's also the man in place to send her on a hair-raising mission because 'it's her frickin' job.'
. . . He has access and influence throughout Evo Seattle, and he and Hawatari have developed a very close relationship, both working and personal. Though personally and professionally concerned for her, he is particularly aware of her status as one of Buttercup's personal hatchetwomen, and for her own safety he wants her back in the saddle as soon as possible; consequently, he is willing to expedite msot of whatever is necessary in order to get it done.
Six; Downtown Seattle; Fixer (6, 5)
. . . A human male in his late 50's and a long-time friend of Hawatari's, Six is familiar with and has influence in almost every shadow in Seattle. A vigilant independent, he makes it well-known that he will do business with almost anyone - Mafia, Seoupla Ring, ganger, Vory v Zakone, Yakuza, cops, corps, even the occasional infected or snobby elf - but makes it equally well-known that doing business does not mean being beholden. This latter he has had to organize an emphatic response proving the point, once to a certain was-a-Count-is-now-a-Council-Prince-who-used-to-run-the-Seattle-Shadows-and -his-son-is-in-the-Ancients (not to name names, y'know) from Tir Tairngire, and once to a certain Yakuza oyabun who is not only no longer among the living, but whose gumi no longer even exists.
. . . Most importantly, Six knows how to keep his mouth shut - and Hawatari and he have done enough favors for each other over the years that keeping quiet about her survival is more a matter of 'of course' and not 'that'll cost ya'. He arranged for some quick surgery, giving her elf ears (which she never had before) and modifying her facial features, as well as (while she was under the nanoknife) putting together a gear package tailored to her typical preferences. While she didn't take everything, she has enough to work with. He's a good enough Fixer to treat her like a relative newbie in front of others, now, but she's a good enough friend that should she bite it, he'll arrange for ... punitive measures to be taken. Until that happens, though, it's her ball.
Tinsmith; Seattle; Armorer (5, 5)
. . . Tinsmith, a late-twenties ork, is a top-notch arms and armor dealer - not just dealer (though he can arrange for you to get pretty much whatever you want if it can fire, or be fired from, a weapon - and that includes rare chemicals and compounds), but also creator, particularly in the case of firearms. Hawatari has known Tinsmith (who, technically, is Tinsmith III) since his grandfather's day, and has been one of their most reliable customers. She has filled in for the Tinsmith security from time to time, acted as point agent during exchanges with nervous foreigners, and saved the lives of all three Tinsmiths several times - the current one when he was six, tracking down his kidnappers and, to put it bluntly, leaving a burning townhome with a dozen corpses behind them.
. . . Like Six, Tinsmith knows how and when to keep his yap shut, and is already starting to arrange for some gear in Hawatari's favorite styles to be shipped to him, for if and when she requests it.
Niko; Seattle (Redmond Barrens); Gang Lieutenant (Cutters, ?, 1)
. . . Niko is 'lower management' (to use the Cutters' preferred corporate terminology), operating out of a long-abandoned and since-semi-renovated firehouse nicknamed 'The Station' in the Bargain Basement section of the Redmond Barrens. Undoubtedly within limits, he can both acquire and dispose of excess gear.
Tarnish; Seattle (Redmond Barrens); Armorer (?, 1)
. . . Operating out of a heavily-secured shop in the Squatter's Mall, Tarnish is apparently an aficionado of all things that go 'boom'. Basic guns and ammo - pistols definitely, shotguns likely, other stuff maybe - are apparently his basic bread-and-butter. Or krill-and-mycoprotein, you know.
