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Characteristics

• Skin and hair are of unusual pigmentation
• Strong and fast
• Had a Landrover 2046 Van which got trashed and replaced by a much better and free model in Whats In A Name

Favoured Weaponry

• Spurs
• Savlette Guardian

Lifestyle

19pts =

5,850 x 1.20 =

7,020/month

Contacts

• Dante - employed Pins as a bouncer, and put him together with Shade and Blaze for the run Whats In A Name.
• Dr Moore - Street Doc that checks him over when his cyberware plays up, or patches bullet holes.
• Needles - Buddy from the group of gangers that Pins used to run with, used to work together all the time before Pins left the gang
• Satoshi Nakamura - hired Pins on retainer and given Pins ID with dual corp/UCAS ID

Background

Pins started out his criminal career with petty thuggery working for the odd local gang that needed someone worked over, or small-time lone-sharks whose customers needed 'encouragement' to repay. Being naturally violent and inclined to hurt people, this was an ideal job for Pins, and he made money and reputation quickly. The nature of small time criminal gangs (that don't even get on the radar of the real criminal organisations) are cliquish and distrustful of strangers and those that are different. So it is not surprising that Pins and those he associated with were 'intolerant' of the unusual - and Meta Humans ranked as unusual. They weren't die-hard Humanis Policlub racists, they didn't mind elves.. after all they look kinda normal.. but trolls.. orks.. and sometimes dwarves.. they avoided when they could.. and if one was to be one of their victims.. maybe they tried a little harder, did a little more damage than necessary. A time went by, Pins spent his money freely on anything to make him better at his job, making himself stronger, faster - knowing he'd never afford the best speed increases, he settled for boosted reflexes.. but it was enough to eventually propel him up to real actual shadowrunning. More money was made, more Cyber Ware followed.

When surge struck, Pins was initially struck down with agonising pain, and seeing all the strange surge-related effects reported on the trid he feared the worse. When after a few days he recovered with no obvious effects, he was relieved. However surge had effected him - just in a more subtle way. Very recently his hair and skin began to change colour, and while he isn't fully aware of what is happening, his hair and skin colour will now always change after a few weeks to reflect the predominant colour of his surroundings - at the moment, being a city dweller, this is grey - meaning he looks rather ill, however does help him blend into the background when he's wearing urban DPM. The recent change, coming after his assumed belief that surge hadn't affected him, has made Pins somewhat introverted - not helped by his old friends and colleagues turning their backs on him and wanting nothing to do with a 'freak'.

Question to readers: What colour do you think would be predominant in Seattle of the SR world? Grey? or some neon colour from all the neon flashing signs? - Stephen

Pins' personality is a little subdued now.. his intolerance showing only now and again when he gets angry, money is starting to get short, and he's desperate to work with anyone.. his old intolerances half-forgotten.

Ran In

• Whats In A Name
• More Fast More Furious
• Bad Moon Rising
• Finding Yoshi
• Objects In Motion
• Power Politics
• A Pound Of Flesh

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