Details:
Sensitive
System doubles Essence losses from cyberware.
Astral
Impressions causes people trying to track Silver to gain a -2 to
their Tns.
Distinctive
Style gives others a -1 to all TN’s to track someone.
College
Education allows one to default to Academic Knowledge skills at +1,
+2 to a specialization, and +3 to an attribute.
Good
Looking and Knows It grants a -2/-1 TN on all Social or Etiquette
tests the first time one meets someone(depending on their
preference.)
Silver
has a few magical fetishes and foci(fetish in this definition are items that help power spells); she usually doesn’t have them in sight,
but will take them out. She has a monocle which functions for Detect
Magic, an old token from London that functions for Improved
Invisibility, and a die taken from a casino years ago that she uses
for Clairaudience.
Appearance
and Personality: Silver is a human woman, 26 years old, and
clearly cut from more upper-class cloth. Her hair is indeed long and
silver(where she got her none-so-creative nickname; however she likes
this, as it makes her stand out less…her magical ability tends to
stick out like a sore thumb as it is), and her eyes are pale blue.
She walks upright, and stands taller than average, at around five
foot nine, and slim. She generally dresses in more fine or ‘Tres
Chic’ clothing, and when going out she dresses nicely indeed,
alternating between gowns or fine pants suits depending on her mood.
While out and about, she actually prefers slacks or designer jeans with expensive sneakers;
anything she has tends to be of a more designer quality.
Despite
occasionally giving on the appearance of a shallow rich girl, Silver
is extremely intelligent and studious; she keeps a large shelf full
of actual, legitimate paper books(often preferring them to
electronic, though she has tons of those as well), and she loves
nothing more than to be in her study, reading, studying up on magical
theories and inventing new spells, or debating with other mages over the
Matrix chatting with them about various aspects of magic.
She prefers the finer things in life. Her money-particularly from
her past, her inheritance, and her past corporate work-was
considerable and it allowed her to set up a rather nice condo in the
Bellevue district. It’s very well protected and secured-both
physically and magically-and she even has a butler-Collings-who has
worked with her family for a very long time. She eats well-preferring
not to eat soy but she will if she has to go 'undercover’ in more
average clothing(which she does keep a few sets of on hand to keep up
appearances.) Her favorite colors tend to be bold or jewel tones;
blue, purple, red. She is fairly sparse on jewelry, particularly when
on runs, though usually wears a silver necklace, ring, and earrings.
She enjoys various music(particularly symphony, though she also likes
symphonic heavy metal music with melodic vocals, in the realm of Nightwish or Avantasia), and her favorite
foods trend toward Italian and Japanese cuisine. Her everyday
clothing, while higher class, is generally of more utilitarian
fabrics, as stuff like silk and satin don’t work too well in the damp
Seattle weather.
Silver
is generally a good person, and prefers to use magics that knock out
the opposition; she occasionally finds Downfall’s and Talon’s methods
a bit messy for her tastes, and occasionally thinks Vallie leaves a bit
too much co-lateral damage with her demolitions, but she also
recognizes sometimes a lethal spell must be used or elementals must
be set to wreak havoc to make the world a better place. She takes on
a sisterly role with much of the team, getting along with everyone,
even if she sometimes is a bit estranged from her higher class
upbringing(some of the others don’t understand why she runs when she
could probably retire and study, but in her mind, it allows her to
learn new things, especially when taking magical based runs to
liberate magical artifacts and the like, and it lets her apply her magic in more ways than sitting in a stuffy job wouldn't.) She can shoot pistols with
some competency, and is fairly skilled with the feared monofilament whip as
well, though she uses that only for last ditch efforts. She generally
does not spend a terrible amount of time on physical endeavors, much
preferring the rigors of study in her nice, quiet library.
Spiritually
she leans toward agnostic-dealing with the astral is a good way to
get one’s belief on the 'I really don’t know what, or where, stuff
is’ level. Politically she is socially inclusive in about any way and
very pro-metahuman, though she leans conservative on fiscal and
business matters; given her standing and higher class this can
occasionally get her in a debate with some of the more 'gritty’
members of her team. She prefers the rare magically active candidates when possible since they generally are for funneling money toward magical studies.
She
has a variety of spells; she does have a strong array of punishing
combat spells, has some spells that can disable enemy technology,
heal her teammates and also act as recon(she occasionally helps out Dr. Douglas with magical healing in emergencies, when Ranch's skills are not enough alone.) She’s socially quite
skilled in the ways of the corporate world and negotiations; coupled
with her natural charisma and exotic good looks she’s a natural face
for the party as well. She has some computer skill as well, though
she’s nowhere near a hacker. She treats her elementals well-she never
cared for mages who use and abuse theirs-and they’re nicknamed after
four characters from an old fighting game that she had watched Jolt and
Downfall play one day(she picked the four best-looking guys in the
game.)
She
hopes to own a legitimate estate some day; a quasi-mansion of sorts
on her own, with some acres, and a massive, actual library-not only
including large magical libraries for studying, but other books as
well; history, literature and the whole bunch. She has come to
appreciate and enjoy her part on the team and does get along very
well with them; while she’d love to retire from running one day, she
sort of enjoys using it as something to both support herself, to try
to right what she felt like were a few wrongs from her past, and to
perhaps snatch a few things from corporations that are magical
oriented in the process.
Quotes:
“I’ve
been studying magic for sixteen years, history for thirteen and
literature for ten. Yet I am still not able to explain humanity’s
trend toward stupidity.”
“You
do realize soykaf is an affront to all six senses.”
“A
wise person once said: No one should know too much about their
destiny.”
History:
Lauren Johnson was born to two
rather well-off corporate employees in London in 2029; a healthy
child who ended up with top-notch care due to their work. Neither
parent was aware of any latent magical genes; they were both computer
specialists for the UK branch of Fuchi Industries. They lived in a
rather large place around the Estates District; Lauren had top end
education and a generally comfortable life. Her parents were often
working and busy, though she spent a lot of time with her family’s
butler, Collings. She had a good relationship with her family, and
they were caring, but it was what more than one child knew as a more
'corporate family’, where the child was raised by day care, school,
or sitters. In her case, Collings helped fill that role.
Her
life was fairly typical; she was a bookworm for her years. She wasn’t
particularly interested in school sports or anything, but preferred
sitting down with books or documentaries, occasionally delving into
the world of fashion, which she also sort of liked looking at when
she was young. When she was discovered to have magical
aptitude-thanks to tests that they tended to run on children in the
more corporate-sponsored private schools-she was immediately shuttled
into new courses.
Lauren
enjoyed this. As someone who loved to read, study, and find out how
stuff works, this was right up her alley, there was a whole new world
to explore, essentially. More than one world, once one counted the
Astral. Her high school years were spent in the prestigious school
for magically active students; but when she turned sixteen, she had
done a bit of research into MIT&T over in the UCAS, and decided
this was a place she would have loved to go. She had money, she knew
she wanted to continue her magical studies, and finding work would be
easy afterward.
After
talking it over, they would happily accept her; she could pay the
full tuition and had excellent marks. Within a few months, she had
many things packed up, a large condo set up in a ritzy part of
town(though she planned on staying on campus as well; she wanted to
spend time with people who were into her pursuits). She planned on
traveling back and forth on breaks, and her parents were pleased with
how things turned out.
She
went on well with her parents gone; one of the benefits to having had
a rather distant life from them was it was fairly easy to move out.
She missed them, and especially Collings, but she quickly got on with
some of the new young men and women she met, being fairly
charismatic.
Halfway
through her time there, she got news from her parents that they would
be relocating to Japan, to be working for the home headquarters of
Fuchi. It seemed rather sudden, and they said they would probably
wish to sell off their place, of course giving Lauren a rather hefty
cut of the money to get herself set up over in the UCAS if she
wanted…or back in London. Collings would go wherever Lauren wished.
The
money made from selling their property would give her a very, very
handsome chunk of nuyen to set herself up indeed, and she was already
lined up for some corporate work-not a mega, yet, but an A-rated
corporation that dealt heavily in magical research-as soon as her
studies were done. Her parents’ communications with her became very
sparse, as they had seemingly been put on a very top-secret project.
She
requested Collings’ presence in the UCAS, which he gladly took. He
was concerned about the situation with her parents, but nothing much
could be done with it. Lauren simply buried herself in her studies
for the next two years, graduating with high honors and moving
directly into the corporate life. (Her parents contact her with email
every so often even to this day, though it’s not common, and it's mostly just cordial.)
She
worked diligently in the magical research and security department for
three years; however, after this her and several other mages were put
on a project that was more secretive, and as time went on, a couple
of people discovered some of the stuff they were working on was
actually sort of nasty. None of the people on the small team much
cared for this, and after one of their kind mysteriously
disappeared(he was caught up with later, burned out from what they
did), so they started to sort of hatch their own plans to bail.
Lauren
worked quickly; using the certified cred that she had kept-just in
case, Collings had suggested-she set herself up with an apartment in
the Bellevue section of Seattle(after discovering it was cross
country and about perfect for what she wanted to do.) Sending
Collings ahead with a load of the certified cred, she began to ship
her things there discreetly and covertly; eventually ditching the
condo she had on the East Coast and heading out under cover of
darkness with the rest of her things.
She
laid low-separate from her butler-for several months in Seattle,
living off of her fairly decent nest egg, as she made sure to secure
a strong fake SIN. During this time she tried to find some of this
under-the-table work that she knew about; being ex-corp, she knew
about shadowrunners. After some snooping, she discovered a bar called
'Goal!’ which seemed to be less seedy than some places. It didn’t
take her long to secure a spot on a team; her corporate graces,
social and magical skills was worth far more than her inexperience;
and within some months she found herself a regular part of her
current team. (At the time, Jolt had not joined and they did not have
a regular decker; Talon, likewise, had not joined yet, with the adept Wind still in his spot.)
Spells:
Manabolt
Stunbolt
Stunball(E)
Analyze
Magic
Clairaudience(F)
Detect
Magic(F)
Heal
Stealth
Improved
Invisibility(F)
Lightning
Bolt(E)
Armor
Sterilize
Contacts:
Besides
the commonly found contacts of the group(Spanky, Mama, etc), she has:
Collings:
Collings is her family’s longtime butler. He ended up coming to the
UCAS to be a caretaker of her Bellevue penthouse after her parents
had to go work in Japan at Fuchi HQ. Collings is a confidant to her,
and while he suspects something is up and she isn’t actually just a
magical office drone, he doesn’t say anything. Collings sometimes
drives her transport around.
Duncan
is a dwarf Johnson that’s affiliated with Saeder-Krupp. Silver did a
great job on a run of his one day and they kept in touch. He’s mostly
for work, though he doesn’t say no to a glass of whiskey.
Kyra
is a decker, and a friend of Jolt’s, who is a great ear on the street
and in the Matrix. She is obsessed with K-pop and J-rock and any
prettyboys associated with such. She stares at Talon a LOT.
Barker
is a burned out ork combat mage who was sadly caught during his own
attempt to bail from the corp; however, he came out with a lot of
valuable information which he spread around to people. She’s decent
friends with him still, and sort of feels badly for what happened to
him. He’s more than willing to spill info on people mistreating
mages.
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