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If you blackout from BTLs or beer,
you may very well end up waking up at 3:00 am, hanging out with those who
always end the night in a gutter. Meet the scum of the social ladder.
Stub A Dub
Archetype: Human BTL Addict (M)
Stub A Dub always starts partying
earliest with the best BTL slotted, but always ends it with the worst,
barely maintaining a buzz and making him extremely unpredictable in both
mood and actions. You could be having a decent, but usually slurred,
conversation and then Stub will jump straight up in the air, land on all
fours, and then announce that he’s monster hunting before returning to his
normal self. This chaos is suppressed earlier in the evening, but becomes
pronounced the later the evening lasts and the crappier the quality of the
BTLs get. Another unusual transformation is how he starts his evening in
3,000 nuyen suits and sometimes ends it in his form fitting underwear,
having sold his original clothing for BTL money. Nobody is certain where
Stub lives, he just tends to show up at parties and his charisma (as well
as a forged invitation) gets him in. By morning, Stub can still be found
awake, chatting with those who accompanied him on his path to the gutter.
Radiant
Archetype: Elf Prostitute (F)
With specialized ‘lady parts’ that
can give a man or woman the time of their life, by the end of the evening
Radiant is worn out, strung out and often running low on internal battery
power. (Because apparently a discount mechanical vagina uses up a lot of
electricity.) Even Radiant’s mood and demeanor is pummeled throughout the
day as she starts out a sober, fit and overall attractive high class
prostitute an often ends up drunk, stoned and taking part is something
that’s probably bukkake related. Other than her naughties, Radiant also
has made heavy use of cyber and bioware to increase her flexibility,
agility and strength. If forced to fight, Radiant will pop out her spurs,
grab her smartgun equipped Manhunter and go to town. Unfortunately, she
usually has to buy a new gun every other day because she often loses it in
the haze of her social activities. But her ultimate weapon may be her bits
and pieces themselves as she can clamp down *hard* on anybody stupid
enough to try to rough her up while still inside of her.
Phase
Archetype: Human BTL Dealer (F)
Phase, an imposing woman not
afraid to flash a lot of once shiny chrome, Phase used to get the first
run BTLs, cream of the cortex crop, but that was 15 years ago and her
slippage has gone almost as far as it can go, She gets out of date BTLs,
but uses her intimidation to sell them for crappy mark-up to squatters who
don’t know any better. She’s often found psudo-comotose, filing through
BTLs like they were Skittles, looking for any way to feel. Her dealing is
automatic, her mannerisms seem scripted, and she is clearly just going
through the motions to get her fix, though she hides it fairly well. No
shaking, no begging, but sometimes the makup clears off of the burn marks
around her datajack and the truth is revealed.
Daniel Mulligan
Archetype: Human Factory Worker
(M)
Daniel Mulligan spends 10 hours a
day, 7 days a week ‘inserting chip A into slot B’ which, due to some minor
variables, strangely cannot be done robotically. So, all day, minus smoke
and lunch breaks, Daniel inserts chip A into slot B. Over and over,
constantly on the verge of going monkey shit, but keeping it together
because he knows that Friday is coming and, as he does every Friday,
Daniel spends the night experiencing new drugs, nailing prostitutes and
ultimately ending up passing out in an alley or sewer, sometimes for a
full 2 days, waking up on Sunday night and dragging himself home so he can
get some real sleep and put on a smile as he returns to inserting chip A
into slot B the following day. The factory shooting scenarios roaming
around Daniel’s head are worthy of a shadowrunner plan, but he seriously
doubts things will get to that point. Some of his inebriated ramblings
speak of these plans and he once even sold one of his scenarios to a Sammy
who, thankfully, has not used this information. Yet.
Monster
Archetype: Troll Former Street
Samurai (M)
A cyberless street samurai,
Monster had intended on retiring. Retired, actually, with a good nest egg
and a strong urge to remove his cyberware. Which he did. Unfortunately, it
was the day before an epic frame up and data steal left him penniless and
incarcerated for embezzlement. After a 5 year stint in the joint, he
emerged to a culture that no longer respected or needed him. He lives in a
squatter tenement and drinks heavily, only leaving to go to a bar, liquor
store or whore house. Or gutter, if he doesn’t make it back home. Still
imposing in height, much of Monster’s bulk is long gone, and the remainder
is weakened from decades of relying of cybered and bio assistance. Still
with a few markers out on him, Monster waits for that sweet, sweet day
when the one he doesn’t hear is the finally the one that gets him. |
