[Ed. Note; Many of these people are no longer on the net, but please attempt to contact them anyway before using their characters. This list last properly updated 2 May 1994. I have tidied up and updated a few addresses where I recognized names.] Welcome to the alt.cyberpunk.chatubo character database. --------------------------------------------------------------- Attention all you joeboys and hotshot new console jockeys out there: I intercepeted this little datagem off of Turing's satelite uplink the other day. Bigbrother is Watching, have a nice day! //PHANTOM BEGIN FILE TRANSFER... This datapulse is a registered Turing Agency transmission. The Turing Agency, in cooperation with numerous local, federal and corporate law enforcement agencies, has composed a list of known and suspected subversives. These individuals, calling themselves cyberpunks, shadowrunners or the like are nothing but criminals plain and simple. This list contains the names, and any known aliases, of some most dangerous individuals from Seattle, Chiba, BAMA and the other locals these types favor. We at Turing hope that this data wil help you get some of this scum off of the streets and the net. Expect updates as new data becomes available. [BEGIN #A Name: Aki Author: Jason Magnus Contact: rzex60@email.sps.mot.com Story Line(s): 'Silk and Steel' Description: Male Asian, 5'2", 100 pounds, elderly, ranking Yakuza crime lord, member of Seattle Yakuza council. Skills for hire: Arms Dealer / Weapons Designer. Other info: Expensive, but top quality work. Rumor has it that he may blackmail customers. Do not use without permission. Name: Argus (AKA Schitz, and several other false ID's) Author: Jason Magnus Contact: rzex60@email.sps.mot.com Story Line(s): 'Silk and Steel' (Lead Character) Description: Male Caucasian, 6, 185 pounds, dark brown hair, shoulder length, usually in a pony tail or short braid, full beard, trimmed short. Skills for hire: Decker, Rigger (multiple remotes), Martial Arts, Firearms, Explosives, Impersonation, Forgery. Other info: Freelance extraction agent. Speaks a wide range of languages and dialects. Sometimes works as a bouncer at the Chatsubo. Do not use without permission except as background character in Chatsubo. #B Name: Bang Bang Johnny Author: Jacques Chester Contact: jchester@ozemail.com.au Appeared: If I Were An Angel Description: Johnny is a slightly fried operative who's good at his job. He likes his guns and his armour and treats them like children. Only basically enhanced, Bang Bang does not reperesent the cutting edge newtech, neither does he stand out. Both traits suit his work admirably. Skills: SMG, heavy weapons, handgun, rifle, snapshot/crackshot. Inventory: Lots'o'guns and armour. Other info: Bang Bang will work for hire, on one condition: That he gets to keep one item of newtech from a run - not the target tech, no questions asked. Feel free to use him, just tell me what he's doing. Name: Thomas Blackeagle Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games' Description: Amerindian Male, age 40, long black hair that is starting to go grey. Habitually wears jeans, cowboyboots and real buckskin tunic. No visible cyberware. Skills: Firearms, Military tactics, Negotitation, Leadership, Wilderness Survival, Stealth and Hand to Hand Combat. Other Info: Blackeagle leads a band of Shadow Runners based out of the DAM (Denver-Alpine-Metroplex). Even being an ex-UN commando does not explain to his chummers how he has survived so long on the streets without ANY cyberware. He gets his edge from somewhere else, that they dont understand. Don't use. Name: Jonathon Blake (Matrixhopper) Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games' Descripton: Male Caucasian, mid-thirties, overweight, balding. Austrailian. Skills: Decker, Programmer. Other Info: Fairly Famous Decker, but known for his Programming skills rather that any hacking ability. Matrix Icon: Neon red Kangaroo. Name: Dennis D. Broskowski (aka Ski) Author: Dan McDonald Contact: danmcd@itd.nrl.navy.mil Story Line(s): Tales from the Gentleman Loser, DeliveryNet, Rubber Chicken Agenda. And coming soon, Golden Spike. Desctiption: Male Caucasian, 5'11" (I'd better check this), blonde hair, blue eyes. Slim low-fat build. Skills for hire: Console jock who can defend himself. Other info: Former grad-school wannabe. Former fraternity member, and bouncer at some of Madison's finer establishments. Will be retiring when I graduate. (People don't seem to like Gibson's universe like they do the Shadowrun one.) Name: Edmund Burke Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games" Description: Male Caucasian, mid thirties, perfectly sculpted features from this year's catalogue. An upper-mid level exec at MMI - Mitchell Machines International. Skill: Corporate ettiquette, Business Sense, Back stabbing, etc. Other Info: Vice President of Personnel Aquisitions for Mitchell Machines International. Don't use. #C Name: Helen Camberley (Techwitch) Author: Roger Burton-West Contact: roger@firedrake.org Story Line(s): Not yet appeared, but she's in Fox & Shark part 3. Description: Female, mid-thirties, short, currently wearing close-cropped dark hair. Wears anything that seems appropriate - colour-coordinated, but not usually fashionable. Eyes glow dimly in low lighting levels (usually). No apparent cyberware. Lives anywhere she can set up shop. Moves often. Skills For Hire: To the right people, medical services, implant surgery, pharmaceuticals, cybertech; also other tech, electronics, a little electronic security. Other Info: Has a strange attitude (or at least it takes some getting used to). Also has a fondness for "unusual" weapons, such as a .22 gatling SMG. I'm prepared to put her in cooperative ventures, but I insist on final approval on any scenes in which she appears. Name: China Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games' Description: Female Caucasian, mid-twenties, blonde hair. Visible cyberware: cybereyes, nailrazors, 3 chipjacks. Skills: Firearms, Hand to Hand Combat, Stealth. Other Info: Part of a group of shadowrunners led by Blackeagle. Dont use. Name: Chromedancer Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games' Description: Asian Female, early twenties, long black hair, brown eyes. Visible cyberware: twin cyberjacks on her temples. Skills: Decker, Negotiation. Other Info: Matrix Icon: silver skinned ballerina. Attacked in the matrix by a virus program and not heard from since. Don't use. Name: The Countess Author: Jen M Collins Contact:almitra@dartmouth.edu Story Line(s): ? Description: A good decker with a serious attitude. Serious to the extreme. Currently she's looking for someone, no one knows who or why. #D Name: Julio DaCosta (aka Mindshadow) Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games' Description: Hispanic Male, around thirty, dark skin and hair, no visibile cyberware. Skills: Telepathy, Investigation, Stealth. Other Info: A private detective hired by Sally Philips to find her brother. Don't use. Name: Dancer Author: Charles F. Fitzgerald Contact: cffitzge@iastate.edu Story Line(s): dancer Desctiption: Female caucasion, mid-twenties, idealistic, cyber-eyes, enhanced reflexes Skills for hire: Assassinations, protection Other info: Don't use without permission from the author Name: Richard D'Eath Author: Evan Gibson Contact: ecsceg@lust.latrobe.edu.au Story Line(s): 'When Hell and High Water Collide' Description: Unknown. No-one's seen him for years. Skills for hire: Neurologist, Bio-Chemist, Corporate Head. Other info: Head of the corporation "The Morgue", whose activities are very secretive and circumspect. Maintains private army known as the Shadow Company, peopled with the "men in black". Is a power-hungry megalomaniac looking for a way to live forever. Can be used upon consultation. Other stories about "The Morgue" or the actions of the Shadow Company welcome. Ask for more info. Name: Dennis Author: Lyndon Fletcher (aka Fletch) Contact: etllnfr@deep-thought.ericsson.se Story Line(s): 'Crude' Desctiption: Short, stocky (ie fat) white Australian. Peppered balding brown hair, beergut. Dresses in dirty beerstained clothes (clean when fresh on.) Skills for hire: Denis is the Temparary barman who runs the Chat in the mornings whilst Ratz is still recovering from the night before. He and Ratz where in the same outfit (though they won't say if they where regulars, special forces or mercs). One mission was a complette screw up which left their unit with only three survivors (Ratz, Denis, and Michael Francis Murphy (see Murphy's Marauders)). This may have been the battle where Ratz lost his arm. Ratz used to work for Denis in a bar that Denis owned but they where burnt out. Ratz is returning the favour whilst also helping Denis look for his daughter who is somewhere in Chiba. Good with most types of weapons, Denis can be thought of as a replacement Ratz Name: Micheal Dillinger, aka Hardcore, aka Pyro, aka Afterburn Author: Stephen "Cyberlok" Denoms Contact: sdenoms@gauss.onu.edu Storyline(s): The Hunt Description: Male, age 29. A solo thats been used as a pawn so many times that god help anyone who tries to do so again. Has been "reborn" twice now. 1rst Incarnation: Afterburn- red eyes, red hair, and packed a modified flamethrower. "Death" at Clone's hands. 2nd Incarnation: Pyro- exotic bodysculpted to look like a dragon. Main weapons was a hip-harnessed M-123 mini-gun. "Death" by own hands to kill Clone. 3rd Incarnation: Hardcore- Alive and killing (for a price/reason. Prefers katanas but will use anything to get the job done. The Present Incarnation. All cyberware is internal, however skin looks slightly stiff due to skinweaves, ware is also of Swiss make. Skills For Hire: Has a reputation for getting the job done no matter the price. Other Info: Please don't use him yet. Name: Drax (Donald Maximillian) Author: Nathaniel Tagg Contact: ntagg@uoguelph.ca Story Line(s): _The Golden Spike_ Description: Male caucasian, 1.78m, 75 kg, spiked orange hair, usually wearing assorted plaid (suspected color blind) Skills for hire: Demolitions, security installation/deinstallation, cyberware customization, odd jobs Other info: Young. May be psycologically unstable. Usually operates in GLACIER region, in the Toronto-Hamilton sprawl. Suspect in Oct 17, 2021 terrorist(?) bombing of Nakagura Shopping Mall, North Toronto. Always for hire. Name: DreamKiller aka Cyberlok aka Warlok Author: Stephen "Cyberlok" Denoms Contact: sdenoms@gauss.onu.edu Storyline(s): alluded to in the Hunt Description: Concidered by others to be the third most powerful netrunner in current circulation. Considers himself above those petty concerns. Had his mind transfered to an AV onboard computer and now remotly controls his new "body" which is a suped up fully armored and fully armed AV-7. His icon is that of a hi-tech cybered up ninja armed with a katana. Is notorious for having created Deathlok which thought the most advance Non-AI program. A mild god complex (yeah and the Pacific ocean can fit in a teacup) Skills For Hire: Nobody asks for him, he asks for anybody he wants. A runner/programmer all in one. Has been known to let high level V.I.P.s ride in his "body" though. Other Info: Please don't use yet. Name: Mark Dyson (aka Dyne) Author: Ken Stone Contact: sasami@blaze.net.au [Current] Story Line(s): Puma Description: Male. Slight, looks to be in mid to late twenties. Scruffy. Always presents himself as a loser, something he most certainly isn't. Initially the discoverer of Niko's potential as a cyberdeck, then later her lover. Nomadic, currently using a different name. There are unconfirmed reports of him being seen with a blonde cat-girl and a young girl, possibly his daughter. Skills For Hire: Prior to 2020 , as a pretty decent netrunner. Specialises in debt collection. Other Info: Dyne is NOT available to other authors unless via prior arrangement. #E #F Name: Jeanne Fox (Lightbringer) Author: Roger Burton-West Contact: ubte30e@ucl.ac.uk Story Line(s): Fox and Shark Description: Female, late 20s, average height, good-looking, long metallic-silver hair, crimson fingernails (the sort that usually have blades underneath them). Wears red-dyed denim. Usually to be found carrying a guitar case from one city to another. Skills For Hire: Guitarist, singer, anti-corporate rabble-rouser. Other Info: Dislikes cyberware. Has an on/off relationship with Tom Saguchi (Akula). I'm prepared to put her in cooperative ventures, but I insist on final approval on any scenes in which she appears. Name: Frey Author: Kathryn Andersen Contact: kat@bacchus.esa.oz.au Story Line(s): Model 66 Description: Half-elf zapped from another universe. Just entered the service of high-born elf Rain. Currently in car on the way to Mechanics Safe House with Rain and Night. (and has been for many months!) #G Name: Sarai Garrett Author: Kathryn Andersen Contact: kat@bacchus.esa.oz.au Story Line(s): ? Description: Holo-artist on holiday (actually just fired from job). Non-combatant. Short, brunette, wears a chameleon jump-suit set to decorative mode. Nice girl, doesn't belong in the 'chat at all... (see also Panu) Name: Maxwell (Max) Gibbs Author: Mark Friedman Contact: friedman@cis.ohio-state.edu Story Lines: Golden Spike, Rubber Chicken Agenda Description: Physicist/inventor(/deus ex machina) working currently as a hardware artist with the decker "Ski". Naive, but inherently enthusiastic. #H Name: Hart Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Healing Hart' Description: Hart is an ex-corporate commando. He worked for Miltron, a military weapons manufacteror based in SoCal until his commando team was wiped out in an ambush by Aztechnology. The Aztechs used some type of experimental weapon to disable his teams' cyberware and Hart was the only survivor. He was messed up so bad that Miltron dumped him. That's when Hart came to chiba to be healed in the infamous 'Black Clinics.' He is a white male in his mid- thirties with a powerful build and many scars. Visible cyberware: cyber-eyes, right arm is cybered up to the elbow and a trained eye might pick up on his sub-dermal kevlar weave. Skills: Typical solo stuff; guns, knifes, things that explode and sneaking around. More oriented to combat and assassination than bodyguarding. Other Info: Currently in Chiba, just released from the clinic where they were able to fix everything except his boosted reflexes. Hart is the character that I want to use for interactive stories, so email me if you need a solo in your story. #I Name: Ice Author: Phil Stracchino [Inactive, but keeping character live] Contact: alaric@babcom.com [Current] Story Line(s): 'Symbiosis' Description: Male Caucasian, ~5'11", ~180 pounds, military cyberoptics, extensive facial scarring. Reserved and soft-spoken as a rule. Skills for hire: General enforcer/bodyguard (martial arts, firearms etc), ex-military pilot. Other info: Has aircraft (prototype tilt-jet) available. Considerable resources available through his "employer". Not particularly motivated by money. Name: Dr. Ishita Mariko Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Healing Hart' Description: Blonde Japanese/American woman who is pretty in a scientist/bookish way. She appears mid-20's but is deffinitely older. She works at the Kawai Clinic in Chiba (which was created by Dan McDonald). Skills: She is an M.D. who specializes in cyber and biotechnology, Other Info: Available for use, provided that you ask first. #J Name: Jasmine (aka Jaz) Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games' Description: Female caucasian, 15 years old, blonde hair, green eyes, no visible cyberware. Skills: Pickpocket, Trailing (on foot), decker apprentice. Other info: Orphan, lived on street until hooking up with Ronny Philips. Don't use. Name: Jazz Author: Charles F. Fitzgerald Contact: cffitzge@iastate.edu Story Line(s): jazz Desctiption: Male Caucasian, wears a trenchcoat, smokes a lot, plays electric guitar, acts kinda like a forties detective, cyber right hand, mid-thirties to lower forties. Skills for hire: Lead Guitar Other info: Don't use without permission from the author Name: Jeanette. Author: Fletch Contact: etllnfr@deep-thought.ericsson.se Story Line(s): 'Crude' Description: Jeanette is short (5' 6") with dark brown hair and hazel eyes. Initially she was very thin but has leanings to being slightly overweight. She speaks French as her first language, though it is uncertain if she originates in Europe. Skills for hire: Jeanette was the first of the Chat's long line of temparary barstaff. Originally, Ratz found her living rough in the alleyway that is outside the Chats side door. She was hired as temparary barmaid and helped clean and decorate the place before openning. In the end she stayed a long time (ie >5 years) before finally marrying a runner and settling down. To be used only for reference and "just visiting" cameos. Please note that she has a strong French accent. Name: Brandon David Jumper aka Darkman Author: SeanMike Whipkey contact: smw4s@virginia.edu Description: "Countersecurity" man working for an unspecified company (in Afternoon Diversion). Dark crew cut hair, always wears dark clothes. Muscular, tall, caucasion. Cynical. Story Line: Afternoon Diversion Skills: Various combat Other info: Do not use without permission #K Name: Kane (real name unknown) [Active] Author: Kane (Daniel J. Harty) Contact: kthar@ix.netcom.com [Current] Story Line(s): Replies to Fisherman Sheperd Description: Old Solo from Cyberpunk. 28 yrs old, 5'11" 200lbs. Dark-Dirty Blond Hair(Neck length) Beard and Moustache. Steel blue eyes Thin scar passing from brow to cheek on right eye. Wears a black armoured drover coat, blue jeans and black engineer boots(Over the pants.) Carries a Desert Eagle .50 AE Occasionally a high quality japanese blade. Cyberware includes reflexboosters, cyberoptics and a smartgun link. Is wanted dead by several major drug dealers and corporations. Rides a custom Harley (FXSTC]. Skills for Hire: Solo. Smallarms expert. Former USMC Force Recon. Will do extractions, acquisitions and sanctions. Other Info: Ask Before using, will supply detailed background. Name: Kidd Author: Sean Jameson Contact: strake@dartmouth.edu Story Line(s): Riding High Description: As a driver of anything, he's one of the best. He's only 17, never had sex and is on the run from the corp that made him. Also has some serious emotional problems and fucked up morals. Currently looking for a job #L Name: Vanessa Logan Author: Jacques Chester Contact: jchester@ozemail.com.au Appeared: Operation Winter Hammer, Maraklov - Angel Of Death, Junkie for the story (not published) Description: Vanessa is actually the whole foci for my CP trilogy of OPWINHAM, MAR_AOD and junkie. Vanessa is beautiful, knows it and uses it. She is easily one of the world's most beautiful women. Her manipulation of her former boss (Ivan Maraklov) enabled her to assume his role once he committed suicide. She's felt love but once: for Joe Phelps, the tenacious little reporter who took on Maraklov one camera-handed, and nearly won. Although Joe was killed by Simon Red during a raid, she still loves his memory. However, she is usually dating about four to five other men. Skills: Intrigue, seduction, appearance, accounting, forgery, handgun. Other info: Vanessa is strictly off bounds to other writers until I say. This is because she is, along with Red Simon and Ivan Maraklov, my most complex published character. #M Name: James MacDonald Author: Fletch Contact: etllnfr@deep-thought.ericsson.se Story Line(s): 'Crude' Description: Unbelievavbly old. Tall (6ft 2) long black hair peppered with grey and pulled into a short ponytail. Short Goatee beard and moustash. Sharp piercing blue eyes. Clothes:- Bushmans coat, battered broadrimmed hat. Skills for hire: MacDonald is a mage (or so he claims). Though he won't do fireballs and the like, there are some pretty strange coincidences when he's about. Also he has studied much ancient lore from primative people around the world (language, primative weapons, and survival skills are excellent) To all that know him MacDonald is a lucky Bastard. Know that the new Uzi has a 0.001% operational failier rate? Well it becomes closer to 100% when pointed at MacDonald. He is surprisingly strong and very quick. For those that know of it MacDonalds archetype is Magus from "The One Game." Name: Angus MacNeil (aka BigMac) Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games' Description: Caucasian Male, 5' 2" tall, wears a full beard and his long, red-brown hair in two braids. Usually wears a black heavy metal t-shirt, kilt and combat boots. Has an ancient Celtic pattern tatooed around the rigger jacks on his wrists. Skills: Rigger, Mechanic, Electronic/Mechanical Design, Firearms, Gunnery, Swordsmanship. Other Info: Hangs out with Hector Ramirez(aka Ramrod) alot in his free time. Belongs to a shadowrunner group led by Blackeagle. Don't use. Name: Manimenesh the Slaver Author: Joel Benford Contact: joel@easynet.co.uk Story Line: Bar interraction only (my current face in the bar). Description: Bones and muscle, medium frame. Beduin arab. Two gold teeth and a scar over his lip. Italian silk suits and flashy accessories e.g. lapis lazuli lighter. Exageratedly formal and polite manner. Skills: White slaver of some description, apparent head of organisation. Other Info: Sometimes has bodyguards, Mercedes. In virtual chatsubo reads stories on goatskins. Tips well. Name: Ivan Maraklov Author: Jacques Chester Contact: jchester@ozemail.com.au Appeared: Maraklov - Angel Of Death, Operation Winter Hammer, Junkie for the story (Not published.) Description: Maraklov is a dark, dark man. Born in Russia and first getting a taste of power as an elite Spetznaz soldier, Maraklov turned his eyes to the land of opportunity and soon his skills brought him to corporate life. Black eyes, black hair, with dark, heavy slavic features. Maraklov has a slighty english accented voice. Has a nasty reputation, as Joe Phelps found out... Maraklov is not afraid to do his own dirty work. Skills: Martial arts, handgun, rifle, stealth, survival, lying and backstabbing. Other info: Maraklov has a defenite timeline: He dies in MAR_AOD. MAR_AOD ties in with junkie, and also OPWINHAM. All happen roughly concurrently. Maraklov may be used as a 'hands on' corp. Just email me. Name: Frederick (Freddy) Marx - "Klone Crimson" Author: Mark Friedman Contact: friedman@cis.ohio-state.edu Story Line(s): Trance Entrance, 21st Century Schizoid Man, Three of a Perfect Pair Description: Ex-corporate decker turned musician. Still does some dirty work on the side. Selfish, greedy, arrogant, and not entirely honest. Name: Jack Mills Author: Kathryn Andersen Contact: kat@bacchus.esa.oz.au Story Line(s): UN Patrol Description: Information broker. Aristocratic face, light brown hair. Psion. Other hidden abilities not disclosed. Currently in car with Colonel Jenna Crane and Boswell. Name: Dr. Ken Moriarty (Dr. M. makes much better titles, though) Author: Dan McDonald Contact: danmcd@itd.nrl.navy.mil Story Line(s): Phyllis R's storyline. Desctiption: Male, that's about it for now. I'm thinking of making him a world-person, a little of everything, though. (It'll make sense to explain some of his circumstances.) Skills for hire: Some sort of physician (what kind will become clear later.) Other info: Very new character, I want to strike out into more original material, and he's my current means of doing that. (Gibson fan- writing doesn't get you noticed as much as other's, I guess.) Other Info: Please don't use yet. Name: Fiacho Muerte, aka Clone Author: Stephen "Cyberlok" Denoms Contact: sdenoms@gauss.onu.edu Storyline(s): The Hunt Description: Take Robocop2, the Terminator, the Cyborg, throw in every non-pacifying (catatonia) cyberpsychosis, and quadruple the meanness and you got Clone. It is said the only use he would have for a dick is if he could shoot napalm out of it. Made before "one surgery Full conversion" was perfected clone has barely enough meat left in him to make a hamburger (even one that was only 50% real meat). His weapons have weapons. Made bye Arasaka, they still use him when they don't care who is killed within 10 blocks. Has been reported to have been killed over 13 times. Skills for Hire: Kills people, kills lots of people, kills them for no reason, kills anything, even if its not even alive, would use a rocket launcher on a gerbil if he thought he'd get a kick out of it. Kills wantonly and loves every nanosecond. Other Info: Please don't use yet. Name: Maxemillian Mumm aka Max E. Mumm Author: Stephen "Cyberlok" Denoms Contact: sdenoms@gauss.onu.edu Story Line(s): The Hunt Description: 5'11'', and average weight. Of Hispanic decent. Operates in Chi Town and Night City. A Fixer (rating 10) that even the Dons of the old mafia pay tribute, not to mention even respected by the gang bosses. A ladies man at all times. No visible cyberware. Skills For Hire: Can get anything, and can somebody that can do anything Other Info: Please don't use him yet. #N Name: Niko (aka The Angel of Cyberspace) [Active. Cleaning tables in fact] Author: Ken Stone Contact: sasami@blaze.net.au [Current] Story Line(s): Puma, Take Two, Tales From the Street. Description: Female. Slight, looks to be in early twenties. Blonde hair, brown eyes. Has feline rather than human ears. Rather attractive, though not an example of current trends in plastic surgery. Often wears an abbreviated China-mini. Skills For Hire: Waitress, odd jobs. Other Info: She is a mysterious girl who appeared around 2020, and not much is generally known about her. She has no recorded past. She has been seen leading a nomadic existance in the company of a man and a young girl. Currently she is hanging around the Chatsubo for reasons unknown. Net Legend "The Angel of Cyberspace":- From 2016 up until 2020 she was visible on the net as a stunning blonde super-model, changing briefly to her natural appearance before disappearing altogether in 2020. Only a handful of people know "The Angel" and Niko are one and the same. Niko is NOT available to other authors without prior arrangement (except for table cleaning/bar serving cameos at the Chatsubo). #O Name:P.T O'Neil Author: Fletch Contact: etllnfr@deep-thought.ericsson.se Story Line(s): 'Crude' Description: Female, late 20's, Short stylish black hair, 5ft 8 and painfully thin. Dresses in standard female suits which fit badly on her wasted frame. Supprisingly strong and resilient. Prison barcode (3 lines) tatooed on right wrist. Skills for hire: P.T. is one of Chiba's principle information brokers. She has access to the best runners and specialists. By the current timeline she will probably be first call for information (at a price of course!!!) Long time friend of Ratz. If used in future stories please contact author first. Name: Obaasan (Grandmother) Author: Jason Magnus Contact: rzex60@email.sps.mot.com Story Line(s): 'Silk and Steel' Description: Female Asian, 5', 110 pounds, elderly, ranking Yakuza crime lord, member of Seattle Yakuza council. Skills for hire: Influence peddler, Information broker, former madam. Other info: Regular patron at the Chatsubo. Usually attended bu one or more bodyguards or mercenaries. Do not use without permission. #P Name: Panu Author: Kathryn Andersen Contact: kat@bacchus.esa.oz.au Story Line(s): Description: Panu is a Vadin-cat; looks rather like a gold-dusted panther. Highly intelligent, telepathic, but lets people think she's dumb. Watch out for those teeth and claws! Sarai and Panu are inseperable. Name: Ronny Philips (aka Phantom, Cypher) Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games' Description: Male Caucasian, 18 years old, long red hair, freckles, slight build and not exceptionally tall. Visible Cyberware: datajack behind right ear. Skills: Decker. Other Info: Inexperienced Shadowrunner, but excellent decker. Wanted by the Fuji Corporation for skipping on a contract. Matrix Icon: a skelatal wraith that resembles the grim reaper. Belongs to a group of shadowrunners led by Blackeagle. Don't use. Name: Sally Philips Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games' Description: Female Caucasian, late twenties, tall, strawberry blonde hair, no visible cyberware. Skills: Leadership, Investigation, Military Tactics, Corp Ettiquette. Other Info: A security agent for FujiCorp, she is obessed with finding her brother Ronny. Leads a four man security team. Don't use. #Q #R Name: Hector Ramirez (aka Ramrod) Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games' Description: Hispanic Male, 6' 2" tall, mid-twenties, wears a crew-cut and favors military style clothing. No visible cyberware. Is currently badly wounded and may lose his left leg below the knee. Skills: Firearms, Demolitions, Mechanic. Other Info: Belongs to a group of shadowrunners led by Blackeagle. Best friends with Angus MacNeil (aka BigMac). Don't use. Name: Ratz Author: Taken from the book _Neuromancer_ by William Gibson. Description: Ratz is the owner and bartender of the Chatsubo bar. Ratz is an older man, probably East German, and ugly. "...his teeth [were] a webwork of East European steel and brown decay." "His Ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it." Ratz also has a cyberarm. "It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator. cased in grubby pink plastic." Other Info: Ratz runs the Chatsubo and appears (or at least should be mentioned) in most stories/scenes that take place there. The above quotes are from _Neuromancer_. Name: Simon 'Napalm' Red Author: Jacques Chester Contact: jchester@ozemail.com.au Appeared: Operation Winter Hammer, Maraklov - Angel Of Death, Junkie for the story (not published) Description: Napalm is an ex-cyberpsycho who was a chronic pyromaniac. Nowadays, he's a typical, cynical chracter who hates his boss and likes to kick butt. He's the leader of a long running investigation into the life of Ivan Maraklov, and appears in this role mainly during the investigation in Junkie for the story, and after Maraklov's suicide in MAR_AOD. He makes a few cameos in OPWINHAM. Skills: Burning things, shooting criminals, awareness/notice, practical faith. Inventory: One custom turbo-forced flame thrower, one standard NCPD side arm, one suit of composite ceramic/Carbon-carbon fire exposure armour. Other info: Red's always available for stories. His character can be referenced back to any of the stories he's appeared in. Just email me. Name: Johnathon Reynolds Author: Jacques Chester Contact: jchester@ozemail.com.au Appeared: Operation Winter Hammer Description: Son of A. Reynolds, founder of DARCO. John is now a HyperCannon capable fighter, with a lot of cyberware: Arms, Legs, Omega frame, chips, gun. He is a friend and boss of Michael Smythe. Skills: Leadership, persuasion, glory, HyperCan. Other info: John is off bounds. #S Name: Tom Saguchi (Akula) Author: Roger Burton-West Contact: ubte30e@ucl.ac.uk Story Line(s): Fox and Shark Description: Male, early 30s, fairly tall, Asian features, crewcut dark hair. Usually wears an armoured jumpsuit, with a shark patch on the left shoulder. No immediately obvious cyberware, except for standard interface plugs. Brought up in orbit, and moves as if in freefall - this will be immediately obvious to people who know. Drinks weissbier. Skills For Hire: Guns, mainly. Qualified sniper with his own hardware. Questions WILL be asked about the job. Other Info: Has an on/off relationship with Jeanne Fox (qv). I'm prepared to put him in cooperative ventures, but I insist on final approval on any scenes in which he appears. Name: Inquisitor Gabriel Saint Michael Author: Jacques Chester Contact: jchester@ozemail.com.au Appeared: Adeptus - The Second Coming Description: Overpowering in his bulk, the Inquisitor is a seven foot enhanced fighter, having undergone Space Marine transformation. He is a wise but suspiscious investigator, with a deep and abiding hatred for Heretics. He always carries his Codex Lexis, his book of law. Skills: Melee, Bolter/Plasma usage, feat of strength, mind strip, mind detect, mind probe, mind attack and quoting from imperial literature. Resistance to inhalation gas, food/drink poisons. Inventory: Codex Lexis, Bolt gun, Plasma gun, chain sword, MkVII armour with power runes. Other info: The inquisitor is not really a story character in the chat. He is more of a face, and he's not planning to do any runs. Besides, he's a bit powerful as most characters go. Name: Dr. Saito Hiro Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games' Description: Japanese Male, Middle aged. Skills: Doctor of Cybernetics, Electronics, Robotics. Other Info: Recently skipped on a contract to United Robotronics, dissappeared, beleived dead. Dont use. Name: Sciomnis Author: Jacques Chester Contact: jchester@ozemail.com.au Appeared: Operation Winter Hammer Description: Sciomnis' world is a MUD game in the future, and he's a 'bot program. He thinks his universe is real. However, in OPWINHAM Sciomnis learns the truth, and his struggle is to survive and escape before he is 'killed' and his hard-learnt information is deleted in a 'rolling reset'. He later helps the data assault against SenoTech. Skills: Netrunning, sounding wise. Other info: Sciomnis is strictly off bounds to other writers till I say, simply because he is so much in the air still. Keep posted. Name: Shadowcat (aka Kimiko, Catrherine Black, Kimberly Lyons) Author: Jason Magnus Contact: rzex60@email.sps.mot.com Story Line(s): 'Silk and Steel' (Lead Character) Description: Female Caucasian, 5'6", 130 pounds, various hair styles and lengths. Fond of wearing silks. Skills for hire: Martial Arts, Decker, Simstim Production Engineer, Impersonation. Other info: Corp contract jumper, seeking her sister's murderer. Has a nearly pathological hatred of rapists. Do not use without permission. Name: Mr. Smith (aka The Legend) Author: David Palmer Contact: dmpalmer@clark.net [Current] Story Line(s): Remoras Description: He's a very good cowboy, but his rep is even better than he is, due to a massive p.r. campaign. Hates anybody who falls for his p.r., especially wilsons (to the extent that he uses them as ablative shielding on some runs.) (See Remoras, July 1992) Name: Michael Smythe Author: Jacques Chester Contact: jchester@ozemail.com.au Appeared: Operation Winter Hammer Description: Michael Smythe is a guns man. He's worked for a number of legal and ... others in his time, and has developped a hardened, realist view of life on the street and those who inhabit it. Is on retainer to DARCO. He is smitten with Vanessa Logan. Skills: SMG, Heavy weapons, rifle, handgun, brawling, public speaking. Other info: Smythe is available for use at any time. Just email me. Name: Spinner Author: Jason Magnus Contact: rzex60@email.sps.mot.com Story Line(s): 'Silk and Steel' Desctiption: Male Caucasian, 5'5", 150 pounds, gang tattoos on hands and face. Member of 'Street Screamers' go-gang. Skills for hire: Motorcycles, Martial Arts, Muscle, Firearms, Rapist. Other info: Cheap hire. Coward. OK to use, just don't kill him. Name: Bobbi and Ian Stone (sorry, they usually come together) Author: Dan McDonald Contact: danmcd@itd.nrl.navy.mil Story Line(s): Golden Spike Desctiption: Both caucasians, Bobbi's 5'6" with brown hair. Ian's 6'2" with black hair. Imposing "power couple". Skills for hire: Command and organization of espionage operations. Other info: Ian's former muscle, Bobbi's former console whiz. Will be retiring after Golden Spike, but I could write about previous stuff. #T Name: "Tara" (aka Viviane DuFoe) Author: Fletch Contact: etllnfr@deep-thought.ericsson.se Story Line(s): 'Crude' Desctiption: Young (early 20's), 6ft, sandy blond hair, fine complexion, Dancers body. Skills for hire: Tara is a puppeteer, A woman who is trained to manipulate other people (especially men) in order to get what she wants. Born into a wealthy Boston family she went to Berkley to study psychology. Whilst there it was found that she had the lowest Voigt Compassion (Voight Comp) rating of any previous tested person. Recruited by the CIA and taught all sorts of mean tricks, she is now a renegade selling her manipulative skills to the highest bidder. On going villain DONT KILL. Name: Tarren Author: Kathryn Andersen Contact: kat@bacchus.esa.oz.au Stroy Line(s): Virtuals Description: Dead cowboy, accidentally Uploaded to the Matrix. Hazel eyes and curly hair. Currently talking with the Dragon. Name: Technix (Technomaster/Tech'master) Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'April's Folly' Description: Technix used to be the cyberspace cowboy known as Technomaster. Before he died, the company he founded (Cyberscape Games) copied Tech'master's mind to disk. Over the years, many layers of programming have been added, so that Technix is more than human. It refers to itself as a Digital Intellegence. Skills: Can do pretty much what it wants to in cyberspace. It thinks in terms of games, since it was programmed to design them. Other Info: Available for use, provided you ask first. Name: Thunder Author: Evan Gibson Contact: ecsceg@lust.latrobe.edu.au Story Line(s): 'When Hell and High Water Collide' Desctiption: Male Caucasian, 6' exactly, long black curly hair, usually in a green army great coat whose back patch has a picture of the Grim Reaper and the words "Be Seeing You". Inevitably has a bottle of Scotch somewhere nearby. Skills for hire: Poet, Musician, Storyteller. Your basic Bard, out of time. Other info: Very confused and enigmatic. He knows less about himself than others do. Can be used upon consultation. He has a very definite history and future. Name: Alice Tyler Author: Fletch Contact: etllnfr@deep-thought.ericsson.se Story Line(s): 'Crude' Description: Alice is thin and statueque with blonde hair and very fine features Her clothes are tailored to fit perfectly and she is fantastically beautifull which can be a problem in a place like Chiba. Skills for hire: Alice is a "Frame Monkey" (ie a phone Phreak). Her skills are to do with the illegal connection, monitoring and zipping of communication's systems including the Matrix. In the day's before Cybermodems when hackers had enough to do just writing cracking programs and making runs, Phreaks formed the hardware part of the partnership. These days their job is split between the cowboy and his Techie. #U Name: unknown Author: David Palmer Contact: dmpalmer@clark.net [Current] Story Line(s): Description: Referred to as 'The Kid' in Remoras (July 1992). Only survivor of the St. Louis cowboy community after The Legend (Mr. Smith q.v.) used up everyone else on a run. #V Name: Viadd [Seen recently] Author: David Palmer Contact: dmpalmer@clark.net [Current] Description: Viadd is a communications specialist. If your target communicates Viadd can control him. If you need to communicate, Viadd can handle that too. Name: Visage [Active] Author: Joel Benford [Active] Contact: joel@easynet.co.uk Story Lines: "Searching for Neko" and "Fiction Space". Description: Tallish, thinnish. Always wears grey fedora with black band and ballistic cloth trenchcoat, usually mirrorshades. Never blinks, pupils never vary. Obviously a Pretty Technical Boy but precise occupation unknown except to Niko (he searches raw data to extract useful information). Rarely visibly armed, but has shown passable weapons skills. Gadget Freak, always bringing new toys in. Other info: Author would be delighted have him used in stories, but email first to check 'coz he's active. #W Name: B. Richard Wallace (aka Brick aka Brick Wall) Author: David Palmer Contact: dmpalmer@clark.net [Current] Storyline: ? Description: He's big (223 cm tall, and sturdy enough that he doesn't look overdressed in 70 kg of reactive armor). Unfortunately the world is full of sizist asswipes who think that big==stupid. Skills for Hire: His specialty is programming hardware control computers. Won a Newbury. Name: Carter Washington, Inspector Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'Shadow Games' Description: He is a black male, mid-30's. Works for Centurion Security Services, the corp that is contracted for law-enforcement in the DAM. He holds the rank of Inspector and is a 'corporate liaison' officer, which means he handles cases involving other Corps. Skills: A very good detective, can be street tough and intimidating or smooth and polished for the boardroom. Other Info: Available for use, provided that you ask first and the story is set in Denver (that's where he'd be). Name: April West Author: Russell T Brown Contact: rtbrown@nyx.cs.du.edu Story Line: 'April's Folly' Description: Young, probably in her 20's, female decker. Brown hair, blue eyes. Haven't really decided too many details yet. Skills: Decker, normally works as a cyberspace datacourier, Other Info: April's Matrix Icon is a blue skinned mermaid. She is currently (1 April 2068 in my timeline) trapped in the matrix by the DI (that's Digital Intelligence) called Technix. Don't use her, since I still have to figure out how she gets free. #X #Y #Z Name: Lonny Zone Author: Taken from the book _Neuromancer_ by William Gibson. Description: Lonny Zone is a local fixer/pimp type that works the Chatsubo area, Though rarely seen in the bar himself, some of his girls can always be found there. Other Info: I dont think he was ever described by Gibson, and does not appear in any a.c.c stories that I know of, although he is mentioned now and then. END] If you have information Concerning these or other cyberpunks in your area, forward the data to Turing's Athorized Representative at: joel@easynet.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ END FILE TRANSFER --