Character Creation Challenge 1: CY_BORG

The goal of the Character Creation Challenge is to create 31 new characters in the month of January. I don't know if I'll actually do them all (not least because I'm away at ConTingency for several days in the middle of it) but I'm going to pull random books off my shelf and create characters when I have time.

So I'm kicking it off with CY_BORG, where character creation means going to PUNKMAKER and seeing what I get:

YOU ARE DUZI

@math_duzi_571655

A gutterscum Burned Hacker; holomorphed face, fiddles with jewelry, and geeking out over explosives. You desire change. On a deep dive of the Cyber Cosmos, you’ve found a terrible truth: Nanobacteria is seeping into the Net. What does that even mean? Who’s covering it up?

You have a 39,000¤ debt to a death cult run by a board member from a powerful corp.

 

Strength ±0

Agility -3

Presence ±0

Toughness ±0

Knowledge +2

HP 6/6

Glitches 2 (d2)

 

BURNED HACKER

You were one of the sharpest deckers in Cy. No one could use tech or warp the world with an App like you could. You don’t know what went wrong. You messed up. Maybe you were tricked; maybe you got sloppy.You glimpsed a terrible truth, and now you’re burnt. No collective, no fallback, nothing.

MerzApp
Assaults every sense with noise. Test Toughness DR16 or be blind, deaf and unable to act for d3 rounds.

 

GEAR

• 100¤
• Custom cyberdeck covered in glue, with 6 slots
• Coupon for 10% off 4 doses of your favourite drug
• Crowbar, d4 damage
• Small but jailbroken Robo-K9 (5 HP, bite d4, only obeys you)
• Monosword, d8 damage
• StyleGuard, -d2 damage (Looks just like clothes!)

APPS

• MerzApp
  Assaults every sense with noise. Test Toughness DR16 or be blind, deaf and unable to act for d3 rounds.
• CTechAttak
  d3 nearby cybered targets lose a total of 4d10 HP.

That bit about discovering nanobacteria seeping into the net sounds like the reason Duzi got burned. Somewhat ironically, the debt to the death cult is probably something to do with Duzi still being alive. They've fallen foul of some very dangerous people, which required a complete change of identity. The death cult are very good at making people disappear, and people don't tend to ask a lot of questions afterwards, which is just what Duzi needed. Of course they now live in fear of missing a payment. Nobody wants to have their life repossessed.