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Full Name

Handle: Zathena | Name: Serenity Maxwell Henderson, "Max" to her close friends

Race

Elf

Gender

Female

Special Abilities

Edges: Perceptive, Photographic memory | Flaws: Day Job, Phobia (Cockroaches)

Occupation

Writer, Day Job, Middle lifestyle

About Zathena

Handle/Street Name: Zathena

Name: Serenity Maxwell Henderson, "Max" to her close friends

Gender: Female

Race: Elf

Legal Status: Legal citizen, has a SIN

Archetype: Street Samurai / Razorgirl?

Skills: (see Skills below)

Special Abilities: (see Edges/Flaws below)

Description: With her helmet off, the book-jacket picture of "S. Maxwell Henderson" is called to mind. A smiling elf with a white-blonde messy bob, wearing a biker jacket and standing beside a motorcycle. Middle class rebel. When on a run she wears her heavily-customized helmet.

Thumbnail: Citizen with a flexible-hours dayjob starts running for the experience, has since become a regular, but has to conceal her "secret identity" from her other "real" life.

Personality/Philosophy: Zathena writes urban adventure novels, and started running to get the authentic "feel" of the whole thing, but since then has become a true believer in helping the SIN-less masses and improving their lot. Her publisher knows about her running on a very general level, and would be willing to bail her out of a small legal problem, because it is just for the experience to make her novels more gritty and real, but if they knew she was an insider on something big, they would be less enthused about defending her, especially if she spouted anti-corporate philosophy in public.
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=== Attributes ===
Body 4
Quickness 6 [+1 Elf]
Strength 5
Intelligence 6
Willpower 3
Charisma 6 [+2 Elf]
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Essence 6 [Everyone starts at 6]
Magic 6 [Equal to Essence]
Reaction 6 [Quickness + Intelligence divided by 2, rounded down]

=== Edges/Flaws ===

Day Job -3 (40 hours/week, 5,000+ salary)
Perceptive 3
Phobia: Cockroaches -3 (common, mild)
Photographic Memory 3

=== Active Skills ===

Bike (Motorcycle) 5
Build/Repair (Motorcycle) 3
Edged Weapons 5
Etiquette (Corporate) 5 (3 from free Etiquette points)
Etiquette (Street) 4 (3 from free Etiquette points)
Negotiation 3
Projectile Weapons 3
Stealth 5

full list of skills:

(Is there a default roll for things you don't have points in, like Pathfinder?)

Assault Rifles (Quickness)
Athletics (Body)
Aura Reading (Intelligence)
Biotech (Intelligence)
Bike 5 (Reaction) [specialized motorcycle skill?]
Build/Repair 5 (Intelligence)
Car (Reaction)
Club (Strength)
Computer (Intelligence)
Conjuring* (Willpower)
Cyber-Implant Combat (Strength)
Demolitions (Intelligence)
Diving (Body)
Edged Weapon 5 (Strength)
Electronics (Intelligence)
Etiquette--Corporate 5 (Charisma)
Etiquette--Street? Elven something? 5 (Charisma)
Gunnery (Intelligence)
Heavy Weapons (Strength)
Hovercraft (Reaction)
Instruction (Charisma)
Interrogation (Charisma)
Intimidation (Charisma)
Laser Weapons (Quickness)
Launch Weapons (Intelligence)
Leadership (Charisma)
Lighter-than-Air Aircraft (Reaction)
Motorboat (Reaction)
Negotiation 3 (Charisma)
Pistols (Quickness)
Polearm / Staff (Strength)
Projectile Weapons 3 (Strength)
Rifles (Quickness)
Rotor Aircraft (Reaction)
Sailboat (Reaction)
Ship (Reaction)
Shotguns (Quickness)
Sorcery* (Willpower)
Stealth 5 (Quickness)
Submachine Guns (Quickness)
Submarine (Reaction)
Throwing Weapons (Strength)
Unarmed Combat (Strength)
Underwater Combat (Strength)
Vector Thrust Aircraft (Reaction)
Whips (Quickness)
Winged Aircraft (Reaction)

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=== Knowledge Skills ===
30 points (Intelligence x 5)

** Street **

** Academic **
History
Literature
Politics (Speechwriting)
Psychology

** Sixth World **
Elf stuff
Corporate communications?

=== Language Skills ===
9 points (Intelligence x 1.5)

Sperethiel 4 (spending one knowledge point)
English 4 (spending one knowledge point)
Japanese 4 (spending one knowledge point)

=== Background Skills ===
(3 less than active skills)

Bike (Motorcycle) 2
Build/Repair (Motorcycle) 0
Edged Weapons 2
Etiquette (Corporate) 0
Negotiation 0
Projectile Weapons 0
Stealth 2

=== Interests ===
Writing (urban sci-fi/fantasy)
Downfall of literacy as it affects plotlines and politics

=== Contacts ===
Publisher who can help her get gear, permits, and information (for her stories, at least theoretically), or bail her out of scrapes (if she has a good story to explain it, and she is still turning out good work). Most of her stories get turned into holovids... hardly anyone actually *reads* it, but her work is the basis of a lot of wildly popular sims and holos.
Doctor Big fan, might have a crush... willing to do almost anything for her, and she tries not to take advantage of it too much, but she keeps coming back for more, and he is glad.

Cyberware:

*** Headware ***
Datajack [Essence .2 | 1,000¥ | Street Index .9 | Legal]
Memory 100 Mp [Essence .3 | 15,000¥ | Street Index .9 | Legal]

*** Ear Enhancements ***
Hearing amplification [Essence .2 | 3,500¥ | Street Index .8 | Legal]
Recorder [Essence .3 | 7,000¥ | Street Index 2 | Legal: 12 P-N]
Select Sound Filter Level 5 [Essence .2 | 50,000¥ | Street Index 1.25 | Legal]

*** Eye Enhancements ***
Camera [Essence .4 | 5,000¥ | Street Index 2 | Legal]
Opticam [Essence .5 | 20,000¥ | Street Index 2 | Legal]
Retinal Clock [Essence .1 | 450¥ | Street Index 1 | Legal]

*** Bodyware ***
Handblade (retractable) [Essence .25 | 10,000¥ | Street Index 1.5 | Legal: 3P-R]
Voice Modulator [Essence .2 | 45,000¥ | Street Index 1 | Legal]
Dermal Plating (Level 3) [Essence 1.5 | 45,000¥ | Street Index 1 | 5P-N]
Reaction Enhancer +6 [Essence 1.8 | 360,000¥ | Street Index 2 | Legal: 6P-R]

I still don't get the difference between Reaction Enhancer above and these things (need to read more), but if they all work together, then add some of these also? (Maxed out on essence, but could make some alphaware, and move some things to my helmet rather than my body... like more of the eye and ear stuff?

Boosted Reflexes
Wired Reflexes
Reflex trigger

Total Cyberware:
Essence 5.95 (before alphaware discount)
Cost 512,450

(Alphaware for some items would be essence cost -20%, but double monetary cost. Have to total the money up from other gear and figure out if I can save some essence.)

Armor:

Secure Long Coat [Conceal 10 | Ballistic 4 | Impact 2 | Weight 2 | 650 Y | St. Index .9 | Legal]

Secure Clothing: Made by Securetech, this discreet armored clothing can be tailored in any style you please.
Long Coat/Lined Coat: These coats, in the style of an old western duster, adds 50% (round down) to the concealability of a weapon.

Security Helmet [Ballistic +1 | Impact +2 | 250 Y | St. Index 2

Helmet vision enhancements:
Electronic Magnification 3 (900¥)
Optical Magnification 3 (1,200¥)
Thermographic (700¥)
Ultrasound (1,000¥)
Smartgoggles (3,000¥)

Communications:
Helmet or Wrist Transceiver (2,500¥)
Heads-Up Display with 100 Mp of memory (1,000¥).

Other Gear:

Motorcycles Gaz-Niki White Eagle (for offroad), Yamaha Rapier (for speed) [GN 10 klicks/liter / 35-liter tank / 13k ¥ | Y 9.6 km/liter / 30 liter tank / 14.2k ¥]
PANICBUTTON (Manually turn tracking on and off.) [Conceal 10 | 1,000¥ | Street Index 1 | Legal | PANICBUTTON™ System: This keychain-sized device is a dedicated cellular phone that connects directly to Lone Star or whichever security provider is covering the area. It also acts as a tracking signal (see p. 291). It has a Device Rating of 2 for jamming purposes.]
Voice Mask [Conceal 6 | 3,000¥ x rating | Street Index 1.5 | Legal 5P-V | This small disk (3 cm in diameter), when worn or held near the throat, creates a resonating frequency that distorts the timbre and pitch of the user’s voice. This device cannot be used to imitate others’ voices or to bypass voice recognition.]