Innis

The Hunt Continues

New plot idea!

Neon Lights

I'm almost done with a netrunner character! I'm just running into one small problem: netrunning rigs are expeeeeensive. Any advice? My chick's got nothing but the cheapest clothes and light pistol, but I'm still having trouble building a rig with what's left.

What I have so far

Gwen "Cipher" Potts

"Sometimes I dream in code and even those dreams are lightyears faster than you pathetic meat lumps."

LOOKS

Gwen Potts is a short, slight woman, her frame low on both fat and muscle from days of nonstop netrunning. Her skin is milk pale, a sharp contrast to her hot pink hair and eyes. There is nothing imposing about the netrunner in person, except maybe her sharp wit and sharper tongue.

ICON

On the net, Cipher appears as a hot pink cat, complete with whiskers and a coat of flickering and changing hexadecimal code.

PSYCHE

Cipher is a highly competitive, egotistical adrenaline junky who spends her time on the net pushing herself to go further in the unexplored potential space, to break more rules, to get more secrets. She's smarter than anyone else she knows, faster than anyone else she knows, and more than a little paranoid. Gwen trusts no one, a lonely pastime, and lives for the next run. In person, Gwen is sarcastic and prone to saying exactly what she thinks when she thinks it.

HEAT

Gwen Potts is a nobody, wanted by no one. Cipher, on the other hand, is an enigmatic net entity wanted from the theft of millions in corporate secrets. She hasn't cracked the feds yet, but its on her bucket list.

STREET CRED

Gwen is a nobody, but Cipher is slowly gaining a mixed following of fans and people who'd gladly fry her brain through her neon pink interface plugs.

THE STORY: NETRUNNER

Gwen Potts was born to corporate technician Rache Potts and his wife, Eva. She has an older sister, Robin, but hasn't bothered to check in with the fam in quite some time. As a kid, she was shy and reclusive, often bullied for her preference for machines over her fellow students (not that it was her fault that they were slow and stupid as a whole). By the 3rd grade, Gwen had mastered everything the school's computer literacy department had on hand and was hacking into the system to give herself straight A's.

Halfway through high school, Gwen gave up on the redundancies of public education and dropped out to continue her growth as a netrunner on the only real place to learn: the net. By 18, she was hired by Militech as a combat programmer during the third corporate war. Despite being the youngest programmer in their arsenal, Gwen quickly rose through the ranks by destroying Militech's enemies on the net.

Then she disappeared, taking a bunch of stolen Militech netrunning gear, gear their computers don't remember ever existing.

A few months later, the cyber entity Cipher was born, a cute, pink cat icon that's made quite a bit of trouble for the corps by hacking into their netspace and stealing sensitive information. Gwen supposes she could always sell this information if the going gets tight, but the main idea is the thrill of the run, avoiding NetWatch and corporate netrunners alike, getting faster, getting smarter.

ARMED IN THE ONE AND TWENTY

Weapons (Total Cost:50)

• Light Pistol: Dai Lung Cybermag 15

Clothing (Total Cost: 145)

• Pants (20)
• Top (15)
• Jacket (35)
• Footwear (25)
• Glasses (50)

Netrunner Gear (Total Cost: 1805?)

• Interface Plugs (30)
• Cybermodem:
• Cyberdeck:
  
  • Option A
  • Option B
  • Option C
• Programs
  
  • Program A
  • Program B
  • Program C

Total:

EDIT: Nevermind. I see you have a netrunner.

Alright, Alright, Alright

Welcome to the underworld! Mwa ha ha ha....

Power Over - Crime through Coercion

Elise spent the train ride trying to have as little to do with the others as possible. The captors were pretty low on her list of people she'd enjoy interacting with, and the others coerced into this grand farce were unlikely to have any helpful information on the situation.

The cellist felt her pulse spike with anxiety when she heard about the plan. She had known that whatever these people wanted from her wasn't going to be strictly legal, but hearing them talk about the theft still made her hands clammy. She was a musician, for Christ's sake, not some cat burglar. For a bizarre moment, Elise had a vision of the three employees knocking on the door to her cozy hole and manipulating her into burglarizing Smaug's treasure. Too bad they lacked the brightly colored cloaks, but then it wasn't like she had a large coat rack at hand.

And there was no telling who the wizard was, to mark her front door with a strange symbol to draw these suave criminals in.

Then, the first one-- Archie-- outlined her part in this scheme and the sleight woman was stunned.

"All you want me to do is play?"

To be entirely honest, Elise had not expected that her captors would ask her to do the one thing she was made to do. In fact, she was a bit floored. Maybe memorizing top secret info like she'd been trained to memorize concertos, or maybe using her quick thinking and impressive learning abilities in some other way.

But Bach?

"But I didn't bring my cello," she blurted. "Not to mention, its Bach. Anyone could do it. Why not just let the poor "suddenly ill" cellist do his job?"

There had to be some catch in her part of the plan, but Elise couldn't see it. Was it really that important to infiltrate the entertainment?

The Gladiators of Arlen

I return!

And am currently trying not to get overwhelmed by all that's happened while I've been gone.

Deadland Wasteland: //START Recruitment.exe [OPEN - APPLY]

I'm back!

Switzerland was beautiful, but lemme tell ya folks, it is not the place to travel if you're on a budget.

Anywho...

I'm working on getting caught up as we speak, but you may have to be a tad patient with me.

Power Over - Crime through Coercion

She's back!!!

And completely lost. And talking in third person.

But she's back!!!

And slogging through the new posts determinedly.

The Gladiators of Arlen

I'm good with discord, but you may have to be patient with me until I'm stateside. I don't get to check my phone often. Sadly (and happily too because I miss you guys) my classes are almost over.

I'm ambivalent towards Ansgar.

Power Over - Crime through Coercion

Very cool! I love Enigma and Variations, but I haven't played the other pieces. Good luck on your tour!

I'm sorry I haven't been able to write yet, but I will when I catch a moment to breathe. I'm working on my master's in Performance but I feel out of my league in these classes. I'm working my ass off to keep up.

Power Over - Crime through Coercion

My class is one on one for solo works, like a two-week master class haha, so I'm playing flute lit. Frank Martin's Ballade, Ibert's Flute Concerto, Eldin Burton's Sonatina, CPE Back's Solo Sonata in A minor and Catherine Hoover's Winter Spirits.

I love orchestra though! It's definitely my favorite ensemble to play in. What are you all working on?