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Name: Lucius Sladek
Virtue: Dogged
Vice: Corrupt

Why did you need to board a bulk transport so quickly, taking only a single holdall with you?

It was the best, if not only, opportunity to continue the search for answers. I had a gut feeling that this side job was more than it seemed and I wasn't going to let a little space stop me. I know things are getting tense, maybe even a bit spicy, something bad was coming, but I wasn't going to risk living the rest of my sorry life not knowing the answers.

What are the three most important items in the holdall?

Datacube, Handgun, and a precious metal necklace that is more than it seems

If you came across men intimidating a woman and her child and extorting her for her ration card, what would you do?

Chase the woman and her child off and extort the men for what they have. They would get helpful advice on how to not get caught next time, that or either a broken bone or open wound.

When under pressure and faced with a complicated problem, how do you react?

Persist; any task at any cost.

What was the last thing going through your head before you went in to cryosleep?

I better wake up

Personality traits: Negativistic, Unstable, Natty

Personality: Levi today is dark and often times distant; a far cry from her old excited, happy go lucky self. Her recent gifts came with a heavy cost through physical trauma and then she was tricked into harming people that most likely didn't deserve it. A side effect of Levi's gifts also causes her to suffer from hallucinations and headache episodes that can drive her to very different corners of her dark personality. Deep down the shadow of her former self still exists, but its weak with the weight of her past.

Origin:Her family, two older brothers and a sister, have fallen out of contact with the death of her father and mother that died overseas on a humanitarian mission when Levi was just 15. Born in Rhode Island, she moved to Illinois to attend the UChicago for law on scholarship.

While attending school she partied a little harder than most and met her boyfriend who got into trouble with a loan shark and she tried to bail him out by volunteering as a Swiftgarde test subject. She hated the tests she was put through and still suffers from the headaches and hallucinations. However the tests proved to be a success, granting Levi her gifts, and Skygarde offered her a job as a Runner, someone that took care of special jobs. The loan shark was paid off and the money for continued work was too good to turn down, and Levi didn't know to what extent she was being deceived.

Levi eventually learned Swiftgarde was manipulating the truth to hurt the wrong people; innocent people. However, by the time she learned, Levi had already crossed the line that bloodied her hands when she intercepted information that was meant to give advance warning of an attack on a facility that based Doctors Without Borders.

When she learned the truth including the startling similarity between the job she performed and the events leading to her parents death she broke off from Swiftgarde and eliminated the team she had been working with.

The Mysterious Man, was Levi's trusted contact. He was the same person that recruited her as a Runner, trained her to control her gifts, helped her with mundane tasks; he acted like a father to Levi. He gave her the lead about a tech that could hack into Swiftgarde's servers and transfer encrypted data to the internet exposing Swiftgarde for what it was. However, when Levi tracked down, stole and activated it, the tech, also just a small metal sphere, unexpectedly burrowed into and merged with her body. Levi was horrified and tried to phase it out, but she couldn't seperate herself form it. Moments later she was forced to flee Swiftgarde's security forces from the server room at Swiftgarde's HQ.

Levi wanting answers, tracked down The Mysterious Man and confronted him. Before she could say anything The Mysterious Man with his back to her in his chair raised his gun to his head and said, "We never had a choice," before he pulled the trigger. Levi was left with unanswered questions and conflicting feelings about her relationship with The Mysterious Man.

Current Situation: She recently completed her law degree and passed the Bar but is working as a PI and moonlights as a vigilante thief to pay the bills. She is trying to learn anything she can about the technology she has inside her while trying to simultaneously bring down Swiftgarde as penance for her past crimes. Many of her leads on the tech have been dead ends, but she has been successfully acting as a thorn in their sides at least on a street level.

Levi lives alone, in a bad part of town, and while she isn't always pleasant, the tenants of her building have come to accept her despite her dark behavior and unstable personality.

Her boyfriend Jim now ex, hasn't been seen since before Levi left Swiftgarde, not that she has given him much thought.

Villain-
Swiftgarde is a corporation specializing in espionage. They are masters of misdirection and concealing lies within truths. Their strength lies in their network, adaptability, the gifted Runners they have working for them, and their influence and power in the political and business world. Rarely are they ever in a situation where an outcome doesn't benefit them in some way. The faces that represent Swiftgarde are never simple villains, they are often just people trying to keep up in a corporate culture that runs on greed, power, and absolutes such as the Mysterious Man.

Swiftgarde is a complex enemy in the way that they do some good but they achieve it, more often than not, with greater consequences than most people find acceptable. For example they find college grants, charities, and provide services to improve communities and make the streets safer. However they do a lot of those nice things to cover up the bad stuff like framing, extortion, blackmail, murder, robbery, and many other heinous crimes that I can't think of right now.

Levi, before Swiftgarde, was a thrill seeking youth entering into college to pursue law, but she landed herself in a bit of debt rather quickly with dangerous people. Levi was close to losing a finger or being sold into slavery by her debtors until a friend referred her to a position that would help solve a lot of her problems. The position was with Swiftgarde in their experimental research labs as a human test subject for a new drug.

Levi took up the offer and gained her powers from the Swiftgarde experiments and in turn was given a nice paying job working with Swiftgarde using her powers to do various jobs.

Levi at first thought she was doing good work, but would discover that the odd jobs she was performing turned out to be criminal and hurt a lot of people that probably didn't deserve it. So Levi stopped showing up to work, and found out that no one just quits the company especially people with special powers; Swiftgarde internal security came after her.

Levi was forced to turn against the team she was working with, but and found allies in former enemies. I can flesh out the allies, enemies, and unknowns if youd like in a separate post. Again, I like to keep it loose so it's easier to establish ties to npcs for the sake of the story telling.

In order to get Swiftgarde to stop putting pressure on her, she had to gain leverage. In issue 5, Levi gained information from the Mysterious Man, a frenemy working with Swiftgarde about something which would be sufficient leverage to get Swiftgarde to stop actively trying to kill Levi. This something turned out to be a small metallic sphere the size of a tennis ball. Levi's curiosity got the better of her and activated it by pressing the button on the sphere which caused it to be absorbed into her body. Swiftgarde son realizing they failed to keep the device from Levi, stopped going out of their way to kill her the time, but they also used Levi's success against their organization to receive more power and influence in the US.

Hopefully this is what you are looking for and gives you more tp work with. What else can I do to make a better player for your game?

When the jann blood in Drazan manifested the mountain people of Fire Peak mistook him for a divine spirit of the great volcano they venerated. In turn, Drazan’s Suli heritage earned him salvation from slavery. The people granted him freedom, power and influence in his community, but Drazan wanted only revenge against his former masters. He abused his power to kill his old masters which upset the most powerful and influential people of the community. The backlash was sudden, and swift: the elders banished Drazan from his homeland.

‘The only good slave trader is a dead slave trader’ is Drazan’s credo and it is the reason Drazan has settled into Three People. During the course of his travels he “stepped in” when foreign slavers were taking victims from the well travelled roads in and out of the valley, and while his original intention was not necessarily to save anyone, one of the consequences was having saved a prominent figure. Ever since the gracious family of the victim has taken to ensuring he stays in Three People providing food, lodging, and ample supply of activities.

Drazan was quickly accepted as a hunter at the advisement of the grateful family and has been eager to learn the trade since. He is happy to serve in a slave free society, though the rigid caste system does have one too many similarities with Fire Peaks so it has, on occasion rubbed him wrong. The organized government, the family previously mentioned is closely tied to, provides well for its people and makes a useful tool when used properly. However, Drazan’s past leaves him ever wary of the power the people at the top have and how easily it can be abused.

NPCs of note
Helaya: All but the promised bride to be, Helaya is the eldest daughter of the influential family Drazan spared from slavers, though she is just shy of becoming whatever is considered “of age”. Drazan and Helaya are friends, but neither are romantically mature enough to be a good match, or really interested in pursuing such on their own accord despite Helaya’s father’s best wishes.

Lijart: Helaya’s father and owes his life to Drazan, Lijart is very grateful and is largely responsible for Drazan leaning towards trying to be a better man than his upbringing would normally have allowed.

Sarre: Child of Damballah, but an Anaisa Pye faithful and close friend of Drazan. She is slightly older than Drazan and she has a complex relationship involving mentorship, friendship, and an agenda to convert Drazan to her following’s fold.