Shadowrun/Characters

This is a sheet for Shadowrun's NPCs. Under construction, Needs Wiki Magic Love.

Jackpointers
Jackpointers are (as it says on the tin) members of the fictional forum Jackpoint, sharing their insight in the in-character sections of splatbooks for the 4th Edition. Jackpoint itself is a successor of earlier such forum, called Shadowland, of which Fastjack, Jackpoint's founder, was an long-standing member.

Fastjack
Born in 1999, Fastjack is a veteran hacker who survived both global network crashes. "I will hammer you back to the Stone Age myself if I find out my trust has been misplaced."
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Papa Wolf: towards Jackpoint and its members. But betray him and...


 * Take Up My Sword: for Captain Chaos, founder of Shadowland who died in 2064.

Clockwork
Hobgoblin rigger and mechanic from Sarajevo, Clockwork is also a Jerkass of monstrous proportions whose actions gave him quite a few enemies on Jackpoint. Until late 4th edition and 5th edition unaccountably made him an accepted and popular character anyway.
 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: There are only three circumstances under which Clockwork will not betray you: if the return on investment would be insufficient to make betrayal worth the bother, if breach of contract would lead to him holding the short end of the stick, or if you (or any friends that would avenge you) present a credible threat to his life. If none of the above applies then he would unhesitatingly shoot you in the back for the price of a donut, and then not eat the donut.
 * Fantastic Racism: Clockwork is rabid on the subject of technomancers. He doesn't even consider them to be human beings at all, let alone people with equal rights, and openly campaigns for their being rounded up and put in extermination camps after being scientifically dissected first. He also subscribes to every paranoid conspiracy theory about technomancers that exists, even the blatantly false ones, and his first reaction to any crisis not obviously caused by something else is to blame technomancers.
 * Basically, take how J. Jonah Jameson is about Spider-Man, then square the result, then super-size that until JJJ starts looking like Aunt May... and you're still not anywhere near Clockwork and technomancers.
 * Gadgeteer Genius: he specializes in modding various easily available items for more... specialized uses. Then he sells prototypes and blueprints for a living.
 * Jerkass: Dear Lord, where do we begin? Clockwork is pretty much the Trope Codifier for Jerkass.
 * Clockwork is almost invariably rude and abusive in normal communication, and the rare exceptions are when he's being so succinct he simply doesn't have time to insult anyone. Even during Fastjack's departure from the board due to his terminal CFD infection, an occasion that literally moved other occupants to tears and had them essentially composing Jack's eulogy while he could stil hear it, Clockwork's contribution boiled down to 'You were an old guy way past his prime that I would have inevitably surpassed in time anyway but maybe you didn't completely suck at everything, possibly.' This was noted as the single nicest thing Clockwork had ever said about anyone.
 * In addition to his horrible manners there's also his complete lack of ethics. As in, they are so profoundly absent that he stands out even among the members of a hardened criminal community as a complete bastard. Clockwork spits on even the generally accepted tenets of organized crime etiquette (such as "don't sell your fellows out to the man"), let alone the behavior expected in normal society. Indeed, he is openly contemptuous pretty much any time anyone else suggests a response to a situation that isn't 'completely self-centered purely survival-focused will-backstab-anyone-the-instant-its-advantageous greedy bastard'.
 * As per the Fantastic Racism above, Clockwork's hatred of technomancers is beyond all reason or sanity and has led him to do things such as attempt to sell fellow JackPoint members to megacorporate vivisection labs. He also regularly taunts Netcat, Jackpoint's resident technomancer, about his collecting bounties on technomancers (by selling them to said labs). He takes particular relish to doing it to friends of hers.
 * But wait! In addition to all of the above, he's also a psycho creepy stalker! Yes, Netcat not only suffers through Clockwork targeting her friends and regularly threatening to sell her back to the vivisection lab she already escaped from once after he sold her there the first time, he also does things like hack the drones in her house to take pictures of her and her infant son without their knowledge and post them on the Matrix.
 * Clockwork's so extreme a misanthrope that you can't even compliment him without him swearing vendetta against you. Slamm-0, another one of his stalking victims as Netcat's husband, once (in total sincerity) posted a testimonial to Clockwork's skill as a hacker and investigator, because while he hated the idea that Clockwork was stalking his family he was still honest enough to admit that if Clockwork could succeed so well at bugging two people who were themselves experts in hacking and surveillance, he was damned good at it. Clockwork's response to what was quite frankly an extraordinary gesture of respect, given the circumstances? To explode in the worst Cluster F Bomb in JackPoint history.
 * Basically, if you can simultaneously make Kane look ethical, Slamm-0 look emotionally mature, and Glitch look socially well-adjusted, you are the most fucked up specimen of humanity that the planet has ever seen.
 * Our Orcs Are Different: he's a hobgoblin, an ork variant whose hat is being a vindictive asshole.
 * And in Clockwork's case, that's putting it lightly.

Fianchetto
International Man Of Mystery, suave superspy and another Cool Old Guy, Fianchetto's history is pretty much unknown - few more or less certain things about him is that he worked for various governments under numerous covers over the previous forty years.
 * Rogue Agent: once, he compromised an operation he was hired for to retrieve a collection of stolen art from a Russian Mafia boss.

Kane
Rigger, pirate and mercenary with a grudge against Aztlan, Kane is known as a loose cannon and a team killer and wanted in at least twenty countries.
 * Ax Crazy: 'Tactics', 'subtlety', and 'self-restraint' are things Kane doesn't even begin to prepare to get ready for the possibility of idly contemplating the use of at some point in the indefinite hypothetical future until after he's already determined that "shoot everything that moves, then napalm everything that isn't moving" doesn't have sufficient odds of working.
 * One of his favorite methods of amusing himself while out pirating is to sink the ships after looting them, then get out his hunting rifle and use the survivors floating around in life jackets for target practice.
 * Blood Knight: Kane is just as happy to take on heavily-armed opponents as he is to strafe or bomb civilians, and has never been known to back away from any fight involving opposition smaller than a dragon, a warship, or a ballistic missile submarine.
 * Cosplay: the intro story of Safehouses tells how he infiltrated Comic Con dressed as an Imperial Stormtrooper. He was not amused.
 * Guile Hero: For an Ax Crazy berserker with the subtlety of an earthquake who normally flies around in a ground-attack aircraft decked out with missile racks and gatling guns, Kane is actually a very savvy bastard when he needs to be. For an example, despite being on the Most Wanted list in at least 20 major nations his major capture-avoidance strategy is not stealth, but instead in playing off one enemy against the other in a continual round-robin so that he's always just more useful outside of jail than inside of it to whichever one of his many pursuers is closest to catching him that week.
 * Token Evil Teammate: Not quite the worst on JackPoint, but still pretty awful.

Man of Many Names
Mysterious, white-haired shaman who is said to be incredibly powerful. One of Jackpoint's resident experts in the topics of magic.
 * Magical Native American
 * Older Than They Look: most probably. His age is the subject of mass guessing by Horizon analysts who broke into Jackpoint to gather information on him.
 * The Stoic: also, The Cryptic.

Turbo Bunny
A Latino elf hailing from Pueblo, she was forced to escape to Seattle after an incident involving an illegal diamond shipment and a police chase all the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
 * Badass Driver: that's one of her talents.
 * Beauty Is Never Tarnished: would you believe that she's a VR junkie looking at her picture in "10 Jackpointers"?
 * Drives Like Crazy: and how. The "incident" in Vegas ended up with Bunny crashing her Ferrari on a DataTerm booth at presumably high speed.
 * Wrench Wench: that's her other main talent.

Tropes common to the Great Dragons
"For a period of ten days beginning on 14 February 2057, Lars J. Matthews will cease to possess any legal status. He will be stripped of all evidence of legal existence, including SIN, credsticks, DocWagon contract, bank accounts and so on. To the individual or group who ends Lars J. Matthews' physical existence during those ten days, I leave all of Matthews' assets and 1 million nuyen for a job well done. If Mr. Matthews survives and can prove his identity, his legal status and all possessions will be restored to him. Haven't you heard? Never deal with a dragon, Lars."
 * The Ageless
 * Time Abyss
 * The Chessmaster and Manipulative Bastard
 * The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Dragons. Unlike most NPCs, Dragons get Edge and can use it in ways even the PCs can't. However, the simplest way for them to do this is to simply be Only Mostly Dead after being turned into chunky salsa by the PCs. There is no way for the PCs to beat this, and the dragon can immediately turn around, hide, and from a position of complete safety, use their various pawns to completely and utterly wreck the PCs' lives. This is of course still under control of Rule Zero, of course, so most reasonable game masters will let you kill them permanently as long as you do it in a suitably awesome and/or thorough manner.
 * Our Dragons Are Different - Occasionally, Our Dragons Are PRESIDENTS: Lofwyr's the big shot at Saeder-Krupp (BMW after a few good buyouts), Dunkelzahn was President of the UCAS for a little over 10 hours before the bomb in his limo tore open a Negative Space Wedgie and Hestaby is one of the members of Tir Taingire's ruling Council.
 * Dunkelzahn was also pretty net-savvy, too. Look in any of the first edition's sourcebooks- he usually goes by 'The Big "D"', though one occasion (in the Street Samurai Catalog) saw him use his real name.
 * The Big D wasn't the only Great Dragon on the Matrix. Hestaby was a Shadowland regular under the handle "Orange Queen", and Celedyr (who is also one of the two majority stockholders of a technology megacorp) was a lurker in many forums under the handle "Stone-Diver" or "Script-Diver".
 * Dunkelzahn's will brought a number of other Shadow-talking Great Dragons out of the closet, if only to bitch about how the Big D hadn't left them anything.
 * Shadowrun's dragons may be the only dragons you actually run away from. They aren't fightable: they're stronger, tougher, bigger, and smarter than you (human average stat: 3 (max 6), dragon average: 8, great dragon average: 13--except body/toughness and strength, those are 35+). Oh, and unlike every other NPC, they have Edge (the Luck Stat, only PCs have it) and great dragons can do some nasty things with it that you can't. There's a damn good reason why you never deal with a dragon.
 * Alamais, a Great Dragon who operates in Europe, was hit with an orbital weapon system intended for use against military targets and survived.
 * They burn some Edge (permanently decrease the stat by a bit in exchange for something like a guaranteed critical success or surviving certain death) and let you THINK that you killed them, and then when you get home you discover that your entire family has been eaten, your SIN has been revoked, and there is now a bounty on your head that is so large that every shadowrunner in the time zone is now after you.
 * Maybe that's the reason for this entry in Dunklezahn's will:


 * Story-Breaker Power
 * Voluntary Shapeshifter

Dunkelzahn

 * Beware the Nice Ones - Definitely the most human-friendly of the Great Dragons... but not above completely incinerating with a single look the assassin who killed his first translator.
 * Gambit Roulette - His will amounts to this.
 * Posthumous Character - He's dead by the time you begin the game.
 * Our Presidents Are Different - Became President of the UCAS... for little over 10 hours.

Hestaby

 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech - one she gave Aztlan (publicly, at the UN Assembly) in the intro story to SOTA 2073. A great dragon thoroughly wrecked your shit? That's because you asked for it for at least a decade.
 * Take Up My Sword - she is considered Dunkelzahn's successor as the "Keeper of Mankind".