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Characteristics

• Very brainy with Cerebral Booster, Encephalon, and Math SPU, and a half-way decent Cyber Deck, though he was in the process of constructing himself an improved and more efficient deck.
• Kenton lived in a medium lifestyle part of south Lynnwood, in Snohomish, near the border to Downtown Seattle.
• In the north part of Richmond Highland, in Downtown Seattle, Kenton had a lock-up which houses his microtronics facility. It is about 20 minutes away from where he lives.

Background

Kenton Carrea spent 10 years working as a programmer for Cross Applied Technologies in their Matrix Technologies Division. With access to the latest programming technology and utilities he would systematically copy and take home programs and use them himself to deck, or sell them on the black market for quick nuyen.

He started off small, copying small utilities from work, flogging them for cheap, improving them himself at home and turning over a tidy sum. Over time rather than just selling the utilities to deckers, he started using them himself to find pay-data, and make even more money. It was during this time that he came across Shadowlands and started to become involved with the pooling of information; any 'pay-data' that wasn't as useful as he thought, or a little too old, could be sent to them, and in exchange he could search what they had; often he would send pay-data there even after selling it, as many deckers with access did, and slowly became a very minor part of the community.

After 10 long years working for MTD Kenton was earning more with his non-work interests than his formal job, it was at that point he decided that come another 10 years, he wanted to have made something of his life. It was surprisingly easy, from within the high-security grid of MTD, and with all the resources available to him there, it was trivial to start working on setting up new identities, tracking down the SI Ns of missing people and signing them up for various cheap matrix accounts, working on them to build up fake histories and trust-worthy credit ratings. The hardest part was in getting the right access, and when he was able to from work he worked on several sets, planning in the end to keep the best for himself, and sell the rest to finance himself 'going freelance'.

Kenton had always though Seattle would be an interesting place to live, busy and hectic and always something going on to get involved with. He spent his first year living off past and new earnings, but was living beyond his means, not having the security of an honest job (and an awesome decking environment) was harder than he anticipated, and decking for pay-data wasn't as reliable a way to earn as he had hoped. That was when he started getting involved with shadowrunning.

The first few missions he was involved with were surprisingly and reassuringly simple for him. Hours of trawling for pay-data to make a buck were nothing compared to what people were willing to pay for. Decking into a grid and simply causing a disturbance was sometimes enough of a distraction to help out a run, and earned him more per minute of work than he had ever seen before. Though of course such work wasn't always available, when it was, he became known as a reliable decker that could handle simple jobs professionally. If you wanted to raid a gas station, he was your man to scramble the security cameras.

For the first time he felt really ahead of the system, the money was rolling in regularly, he was maintaining a decent lifestyle, and was happy. While he wasn't living in first class accommodation, he had a good apartment, and even better than that he had himself a small sized lock-up in a secure and reputable part of town where he kept a microtronics facility. It wasn't much to look at from the outside, and maybe not from the inside if you didn't know what you were looking for, but it had the right gear for real hardcore programming and decking-hardware manufacture.

He was finally able to get time for his own programming, earning from quick Shadow Run missions left him more and more time to develop his own decking utilities, and design and make his own deck. It wasn't much to look at, just an old Cyber Deck case he found junked in the street and repaired, but inside was his own hardware, drek hot stuff that gave him the edge, pushed him up a notch in performance, and able to accept harder more financially lucrative missions. Moving from petty theft to the real stuff - running against real corporations where the matrix security was hot!

While he felt he had hit the big-time, he started to realise that while he was good, the security deckers with large corps behind them weren't a soft target. He wasn't getting as much of the low end business any more, it wasn't good for the rep he was trying to make, but the high-end jobs weren't coming in as fast as he would like, and they didn't all turn out as great as they could have.

He was still turning out the odd bit of pay-data he came across, still managing to sell some software or custom hardware to green wanna-be deckers, just managing to keep his head above water. But on the lookout for some new business, a new team to run with, some guys who could pull in the work and bring in some serious pay days.

Kenton found himself a team to run with, and started the most successful six months of his career to date. Like him the team were mostly newcomers trying to prove themselves on the big stage, and were a little gung-ho, all too eager to take whatever job came along, and attack it front off, guns blazing. This was just the sort of team that either succeeded, or got wiped out.

Mostly by luck the team had successes, and Kenton Carrea was able to afford extra Cyber Ware to help him keep up with the rest of them on missions, all to often he was just as much needed to wave a gun around as to deck. But with it came even more fortune and wealth, they were riding the crest of a wave when finally their luck gave out.

It was only by sheer chance that Kenton was bringing up the rear of the group when calamity fell. As the least combative member of the team he wasn't the first into a fight, and it was this that saved him. The security team has been warned ahead of time about an infiltration, they knew exactly how many were in the team, and what abilities they had - they knew there would be a decker, and the system was choked with black IC waiting... but this time Kenton was going in physically, and the security team hadn't factored for that.

The rest of the team had gotten around the corner when the sentry guns opened fire, they waited until what they had thought would be the last member of the group to catch them all in the open. As his teammates got torn to pieces in the auto-fire Kenton was just able to get back to the car, flee the scene and get away.

It took him a while to find another team to run with, and engaged in a few successful missions before he became a Vampire and killed by the party.

Ran In

• Tears Of Tarislar
• Into The Jungle
• Leibstroms Run
• Boxing Dracula [Died in]

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