Clockwork Dossiers

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Boson

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No Other Names Known

Team Specialty

  • Boson provides Matrix and technical support for Clockwork.
  • Hacker and electronician, with a high-end commlink installed as headware.
  • Specializes in subtle insertion techniques and fast IC suppression.
  • Utilizes a skill-wire system, making him a talented generalist in terms of other contributions to his team, including in the combat arena. He is known to keep his comm loaded up with high-grade skillsofts that he can download to headware memory.
  • Prefers infiltration-style hacking over immersion (that is, "long distance") missions. Unlikely to engage in VR unless provoked and suspects he is safe.
  • His deck is wired with a "dead man switch" that he can use to shut down its wireless capacity in seconds. This is triggered to a mental command, or to when he falls unconscious.

Background

  • As far as can be ascertained, Boson grew up in poverty in Redmond.
  • He might have gotten his first exposure to hacking through the Brain Eaters, though he doesn't seem to have ever been a member of that gang.
  • The majority of his hacking training he got as a member of the Reality Hackers gang, a Matrix gang.

Resources

  • Boson is known to be a member in good standing and influence with the Matrix gang known as the Reality Hackers.
  • Known to have extensive contacts in shadow-nets all over the world, as well as data havens.
  • Known to be allied with the Brain Eaters gang, as well, who he goes to for securing hardware.
  • His cyberware is of at least Alpha grade, though he is known to have secured it at a shadow clinic somewhere in Redmond.

Other Notes

  • A known stimulant abuser (patch and pharmaceutical/street drug).
  • A frequent visitor to the various nightclubs of Touristville.
  • Known to be homosexual. Tends to meet potential partners online, meeting them in person for the first time at one of the Touristville bars or clubs.
  • Maintains a "party pad" apartment about four blocks from the edge of the Touristville "safe zone." Frequently populated by friends and lovers, though he rarely sleeps there.

Cavazione

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Lucas Finnegan (known pseudonym)

Team Specialty

  • Cavazione serves as muscle for Clockwork.
  • An extremely skilled swordsman in a medieval form of Italian fencing. Tends to arm himself with a mono-blade sabre.
  • A crack shot with submachine guns; favors the Ingram Smartgun. The guns he carries with him are highly upgraded, and usually loaded with armor piercing ammunition.
  • Possesses high-end cyberware and bioware that is likely of Alpha grade (possibly better). Major enhancements include hair-trigger wired reflexes, aim enhancements, muscle augmentations.
  • All cyberware is set to skin-link for security purposes, allowing him to avoid being hacked wirelessly.

Background

  • Elven Sicilian immigrant.
  • Originally smuggled into Seattle to do work for the Finnegan family of the Mafia. He maintains connections with the mob - it is assumed that he got his start as a made man of the mob, and has simply continued to hone his skills.
  • Known to be a Catholic.

Resources

  • Cavazione is known to maintain connections with the Finnegan family of Seattle's Mafia.
  • Through these connections, Cavazione has connections with a shadow clinic capable of performing at least Alpha-grade augmentations. He has acted as intermediary between members of his team and the clinic in the past.
  • Has also performed work for St. Christopher's in the Sophocles neighborhood of Redmond before. This may have even been pro bono work. He seems to maintain a close connection to the parish priest, Father Ignacio.

Other Notes

  • Has a girlfriend who sometimes accompanies him to Mafia gatherings or socials. Her name is Maribella, a former Mafia courtesan.
  • Assumed to maintain a residence somewhere in Redmond Mafia territory.
  • Known to have used St. Christopher's as a safehouse before.

Ozone

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Darius (suspected real first name); Kade, T-bird, Ander Blackrain/Blacksky (known pseudonyms)

Team Specialty

  • Ozone provides magical support for Clockwork.
  • Shamanic magical tradition; Thunderbird totem.
  • Specializes in electrical attacks and air spirits. He almost never binds spirits, preferring to summon and use them in the moment.
  • Is a known initiate of low degree. Metamagics unknown.

Background

  • Originally from the Native American Nations (Salish-Sidhe, specifically)
  • Maintains his NAN citizenship.

Resources

  • Known to maintain at least one hidden medicine lodge for his magical work somewhere in Redmond (likely among the Amerind squatters in the Verge neighborhood of Redmond).
  • Known to maintain allies among the self-styled "kings" of the Crash Zone of Redmond.
  • Ozone has a web of talismonger and other magical contacts.
  • As a NAN citizen, Ozone crosses the border between Seattle and the NAN routinely. He is also known to have more than a few contacts among the Salish border patrol.
  • Has used a safehouse in the Salish countryside, in the Wenatchee Forest Preserve a few miles outside of Seattle.

Other Notes

  • Lives as a nomad, never setting down roots. No known residences.
  • Known to have an extremely hot temper. Very violent.
  • His only romantic interludes are the occasional prostitute (favoring Amerind or Hispanic women). These predilections bring him to Sweet Georgia's, in Touristville, every so often.

Widdershins

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Gwendolyn Marie Dennis (real name); Lilith Veyans, Acacia (known pseudonyms)

Team Specialty

  • Widdershins provides magical and social support for Clockwork.
  • Claims to be a hermetic mage, but is almost sure to be a demonologist-style magician.
  • Prefers the use of fire and controlling magics.
  • Is definitely an initiate, of at least second degree.
  • Known metamagic includes Anchoring and Masking.
  • Summoned spirits have demonstrated the ability to both manifest and possess; it is assumed she has mastered a kind of metamagic that allows her to alter the normal limitations of summoned spirits in that fashion.
  • All spirits summoned take on a demonic aspect.
  • No known mentor spirit connection.
  • Expert negotiator.

Background

  • Daughter of a university thaumaturgical studies professor.
  • Awakened in early adolescence, and immediately began learning magic, taught by her father.
  • Juvenile record shows a variety of magical-related mischief crimes, and one serious injury caused by her magic (though charges were dropped when her lawyer convinced a jury that she'd acted in self defense).
  • Disappeared when her parents' house in downtown Seattle burned to the ground. Within a few months, her SIN was inexpertly erased.

Resources

  • In addition to her magical abilities, Widdershins maintains a surprising web of contacts and connections, including highly placed corporate Johnsons and international shadow contacts.
  • She is also a member of a Bellevue-based occult society, the Antonian Knights, whose activities include Hellfire Club-esque Satanic rituals, drug use and orgiastic behavior. Rumors in the shadows place at least one Black Magic-style magician at the center of their group, and possibly more.
  • Widdershins is usually accompanied by at least one powerful spirit of fire, a deal she has with her team in order to provide them with immediate magical support should it be needful.

Other Notes

  • Widdershins' only known intimate relations have been those engaged in as part of the Antonian Knights, and a short-lived fling with Shunt, the original leader of Clockwork.