Character Creation

Choose a name that appears on your birth record

Profession

Before everything went south you did something for a living. Name it or roll from the following list.

1. Rocker, you made music and made a living from it
2. Solo, you solved problems with imagination and force
3. Medic, you healed people who could afford your services
4. Corporate drone, you worked the corporate machine for your own advantage
5. Fixer, you brokered deals and didn’t sweat the consequences
6. Security, you looked after people and property, with violence if necessary
7. Chauffeur, you got people from A to B quickly and safely
8. Coder, you created programs and data palaces in cyberspace
9. Rigger, you operated commercial drones on high-risk projects
10. Media node, you traded in news and gossip, always hoping to go viral

Hobby

You have an idiosyncratic interest, choose it or roll:

1. Origami
2. Cyberspace exploration
3. Playing an analogue instrument
4. Vinyl record collector
5. Bonsai gardener
6. Magnetic tape archivist
7. Pigeon fancier
8. Street racer
9. Graffiti artist
10. Pirate radio DJ

Equipment

You had it all once…

• Medikit
• One of a bicycle, collapsible e-scooter or a kayak
• Observation drone
• A knife or baton
• A pistol or a taser
• A shotgun, carbine or sub-machine gun
• Stun or smoke grenades
• Combat drysuit
• Respirator
• Cyberdeck
• One of a cyberlink, improved nervous system, Eyes 2.0 or an arm replacement
• Flak jacket
• Fake ID
• Combat drugs
• Healthcare
• Emergency extraction card

Now choose 1d4 + 1 things that you’ve managed to hold onto since then.

Burden

You’ve lived enough to have picked up some pains that don’t heal easy. Choose or roll on the list below.

1. Ruined lungs. The air pollution got to you, any significant physical exertion exhausts you
2. Anxiety attack. Mostly you keep the tears and roiling emotions to your private moments but there’s at least one trigger that always sets you off, what is it?
3. Repossessed. You got some leading edge tech but you failed to keep up the payments on it and the reclamation process was brutal.
4. Stripped nerves. A disease, a virus, a neuro-toxin: however it happened you can no longer neural interface to tech
5. Debit, there’s a lien on your DNA, any use of the legal financial systems allows your creditors to claim any money that is available
6. Crippled. You’ve lost a limb, it might be physically gone, nerve damaged beyond repair or atrophied.
7. Addicted. It may have started as fun or it might have been a prescription but now it haunts your waking thoughts.
8. Bounty. You’ve managed to annoy someone to the point that they’ve put money down to have you injured, killed or brought to them alive. You decide what they want and what the bounty would allow someone to buy.
9. Compromised. You’ve told a lot of lies to protect someone else, now you have to live out that lie. Who are you protecting? Who is suspicious of the truth?
10. Exile. You used to belong to some other community but something happened and you’re not welcome there any more. What was your original home? Does anyone there think of you fondly? Do you ever speak of why you had to leave?

Relationships

You’ve been betrayed by one group and you’ve burned another, you’re still on good speaking terms with one of the others.

Choose from:

• Corporate London
• Security forces
• Local politicians
• Nomads
• Criminals

And then create the specific person or group you have the relationship with.

Street name

You have a handle that people use as your name now. What is it?