Shade

Shade is a decker

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Description:

Shade is a washed-up alcoholic ex-cop, who devides his time between drowning his bouts of self-pity with scotch, decking into places he has no idea how to deck out of again, and torturing NP Cs for information. He regards the criminal elements in the team (ie:everybody else) with suspicion, refuses to accompany them into action, but once there behaves like Rambo (but pissed).

Within Shade there are occasional flashes of the competent idealistic professional he once was, but whatever it was that motivated him is gone for good.

He is now a depressed, and bitter person who loathes the mafia for what it did to him, although he refuses to accept that he has a drinking problem. He is unsure about some of the team members jaded past but if they are willing to share a drink or three they are ok by him.

Background:

Shade grew up the son of a lone star cop and from an early age was infatuated with the force. He vowed that he would follow in his fathers footsteps and become a lone star cop. When his father was killed in the line of duty he partner took Shade under his wing and became an 'uncle' to him. He helped him with his application and fast tracked his forms.

Just before he graduatedfrom police academy Shade married his childhood sweetheart and settled down, she was not happy with his career move and was even more unhappy with his working hours and they seperated barely two years later.

Shade began investigating his fathers death and found link to the mafia. It was at this time that he met his next wife, they were married and had two children together. There followed a spell of happiness in Shades life as he was doing what he set out to do raising a family and getting the scum off the streets. He enjoyed a succesfull career and after eight years transfered to a specialist division as part of their Matrix Security and Fraud Squad. Investigating the money laundering of organised crime.

However his continued investigation into his fathers death in his spare time led him to the conclusion that the mafia were directly responsible as his father had refused the bribes they were ofering him. With this in mind he set about to destroy them whatever the cost, the long working hours and drinking habbit he picked up soon put a rift between him and his wife which he didn't see untill it was to late and then ignored it.

As he and his wife drifted further appart he became more immersed in the workings of the underworld particularly the Mafia. They soon noticed him and decided to put a stop to him by ruining his career. They set up dummy accounts and a trail of false leads that led Poilce to a large number of off-shore accounts that were apparently in Shade's name.

With his job in ruins and most of his friends not talking to him Shade went into deeper depression and started drinking even more heavily, eventually his wife left him and took his kids with her.

He became dissalusioned with life and started work as a shadowrunner, having tried and failed as a PI, as the only way he could to make money and survive in his twisted dog eat dog world.(He also needed beer money). He kept a few friends from the force, a few who he went through the academy with and knew that he would never take a bribe.

Recently he came into contact with the shedim and now has a habbit of blowing the head of every dead body to make sure that they don't get up again.

Since having a fling with Wendy she set him up as a fall guy, (when we he ever learn) and he had to go on the run. He found the b*tch and gave her over to the Yakuza to clear his name. (she came up with some crappy excuse that it was an accident and she never ment to make my life hell and betray me to the mob for her own devious evil manipulative ends. but that was all lies revealed by a mind probe).

However in the last run it was revealed that the team he hired to rescue her (yeah he hates her but doesn't think she deserves to be killed by the mafia) had done so and she was still alive living in New Orleans somewhere.

The last run went down fine and he has had to leave Seattle as there are more people trying to kill him for a crime he didn't commit. He escaped and moved to the Hong Kong underground where he survives as a soldier of fortune. If you have a problem, if your desperate (and I mean _really_ desperate) for help and if he's sober. Maybe you can hire, Shade.

Ever since the Crash 2.0 Shade found that he was getting worse headaches than normal, these weren't just the normal hangover dull throbs. He found that technology was responding to his subconcious thoughts. He was a technomancer. Somehow he got captured by an unknown corpertation who began to experiment on him.

Current Status:

Shade was recently moved to Seattle by his captors and was able to escape using his finely honed shadowrunning skills and raw natural talent. He was helped by some new kids in town, one of them seemed to have had a strange encounter with a mysterious AI. Shade offered to help her with a problem in return for information, however he only managed half a job before she dumped him and moved on. He is now scouring the matrix for more Technomancers......

Skills / Specialities:

• Knows most languages
• Very good at computer Programming
• Good with a shotgun
• Police procedures
• Good at unarmed combat

Edges / Flaws:

• Exceptional Int
• Secure matrix drop
• Night Vision
• Ligntning Reflexes

• Hunted
• Alcoholic
• Old Wound <5 Stress Points on Bod>
• Vindictive
• Smokes

Character Notes:

• Is usually always drinking or smoking.
• Wears a worn out leather duster.
• Is never in a good mood.
• Thinks Fidelity is called Violet.
• Had a one night fling with Wendy Winters (More like the start of a long term thing - Stephen)

Known Associates:

Webb Lake, Pathfinder, Blaze

Contacts

• Deckmeister Sidney Green