Paradise City:Dave Kline Got Murdered

The Setup

Paradise City, U.S.A.. 4 A.M.. Your vidphone buzzes insistently. On the screen, the psychedelic advertisement for Nettek Communications morphs into the smiling face of Jenny Darwin. The fixer is immaculate, as always. “Got a job for all of you” she announces brightly, apparently having called several people at once. “The client is very insistent on meeting you immediately. Café Roche, Seventy-Ninth Street, in the Downtown zone. I need you there within an hour”. She leans forward, causing her mouth to slide off-screen at the bottom of the phone. “The offer is $200,000 for each member of the team! Minus my fifteen percent, of course”. She straightens, her face pulling back into full view, and brushes some imaginary lint from her collar. “Do I land you guys the big money or what? Looks like I’m getting a brand new car this month after all. Easiest deal I ever made in my life – the Johnson had no idea what he was doing in negotiations” she grins proudly. “All he knows is that daddy got murdered and now he wants some justice, whatever the cost. All you have to do is find the killer. And the best part of the deal is, if you don’t want to kill them back, you can just hand them over to the cops and the money is the same! I am so good, I amaze even myself!”. She looks at her watch. “Now you have fifty-five minutes” she says.

The PCs

Jacob Alexander

Player: Toras Age: 28 Height: 6'4" Build: Athletic Points: 170 Background: Wastes

STR 10 [16] DEX 13 [14] (60pts, +1 cyber) IQ 14 (80pts) HT 11 (10pts)

HP 11 Will 14 Per 16 (15pts) FP 11

Advantages Cyberware 10pts Combat Reflexes 15pts (Background) Talent (Area Knowledge (Central Waste), Driving, Survival (all non-urban), Tracking and +1 to all mental skills with the specialization “Central Wastes)

Disadvantages Code of Honor (Chivalrous) -5 -Don’t let women or children suffer Delusion [Dead Man calling] -5 -Dead Man Calling is a minor but quirk delusion. He will occassionally get calls from members of his old squad. Just keeping in touch, never able to make it into paradise. The trick is, none of them made it back from their last mission. He's talking to dead air and a loop in his own cellular system. Enemy: Street Gang (powerful, hunter) -10pts -They are Tenth street slashers, some of the most brutal -punks this size of the Aslyum. Jacob has always had a bit of problem with those who pick on the weak (a bit of chivalrous streek). Saw a couple of them trying to rape a woman in the alley and kicked the shit out of them. And that was just the first time they clashed. He thinks their scum, and certainly wouldn't mind the chance to put them in their place. So naturally things got worse. Enemy: Enemy Sniper (powerful, hunter) -10pts - Impulsive -10pts Sense of Duty: Squad (-5pts)

Skills (30pts) Area Knowledge [Central Wastes] (Background) Armoury/TL 9 14 (2pts) Brawling 14 (Background) Camouflage 14 (1pt) Computer Operation 15 (2pts) Computer Programming 14 (4pts) Driving 14 (1pt, Background) Electronic Operations -Cyberware 13 (1pt) Electronics Repair -Cyberware 13 (1pt) Engineering -Cyberware 12 (1pt) First Aid 14 (1pt) Guns -Pistol 14 (1pts) Guns – Rifle 14 (1pts) Interrogation 13 (1pts) Karate -Muti Ti 15 (8pts) Jump 14 (1pt) Observation 14 (2pt) Savoir-Faire (Central Wastes) 14 (Background) Stealth 14 (2pts) Survival (Central Wastes) 14 (Background) Tracking 15 (2pts, Background) Tactics 14 (4pts)

Cyberware: Cybernetic Arms (Unnatural, Str 16 (+3), Dx +1) 18,000 Cybernetic Legs (Unnatural, +2 kick damage, 100% Move and Jump)] 20,000 Dataplay Socket 800, Cellular Link 500, Fear Block (+4 Strong Will, Overconfidence) 5,000; Painkiller (High Pain Threshold, no feeling) 5,000

Equipment: Ballistic Vest, Ironstate Minuteman 7.62mm+60 rounds, First Aid Kit, Flash Light, Backpack, Zippo Lighter, Orono Bushi .44 + 50 rounds. Repelling Gear. Urban Cammoflage

Squad means the people he works with. He still thinks of himself as a bit of a military man. He will go to the wall for another squaddy,

Description Jacob started out as pretty average. Brown hair cut in military buzz, hazel eyes, and average build. Not exactly someone you'd remember. He is usually in fatigues of some sort, nothing military issue but they just feel more comfortable. Along the back of his neck is where they hid his Datajack and Cellular uplink. His arms and legs are pretty much solid crome and more massive than his form suggests that they should be. The basic structures the same, but they are larger and metallic with no effort made to match definition.