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Name: Amelia Katherine Sheridan
- “Mia” to non-underworld friends, “Kat” or “Kitten” to her father. To most everyone else, she’s “Miss Sheridan”.
Alias: Margaret “Maggie” Anne Glass
- Known generally as “Glitch” in the underworld (that is, aside from one or two friends, no one knows her as “Maggie”, even clients and fixers would call her “Glitch” or “Miss Glitch” if they’re being formal)
Online Handle: SpiderGlitch
- A play on the term "spider crack", which references the Maggie persona's surname of "Glass" and her underworld nickname "Glitch"
Age: 22
Race: Human
Father: Terry Sheridan, corporate lawyer, age 51.
Mother: Carolyn Sheridan, deceased at age 43
Time Running the Shadows: Five to six years – “I’ve been runnin’ this long and I’m not dead yet. Pretty sure that makes me a veteran on the streets. Don’t believe me? My rep should speak for itself.”
Known Languages: English, Japanese, Chinese, French
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Known “Lingos”: Legalese (used by lawyers, businessmen, politicians, etc.), City-speak (street-talk), Netspeak (used by deckers/hackers and computer programmers)
Credstick(s)*: Legit – Ebony level (unlimited max transaction amount, cellular scan required)
Forged – Platinum level (max transaction – 1,000,000, retinal scan required)
Certified – Standard level (worth 5,000, passcode required)
Advantages: Intimate knowledge of the corporations, their executives, security (physical, electronic, digital, etc.), politics, and how to find their secrets. She’s also an experienced hacker, able to find her way past almost any security measures without even being noticed. Her presence in the system, at most, will only cause a small glitch on a screen (hence her underworld name).
Equipment: Super-Platinum DocWagon contract (under “Margaret” alias) – 5 free resuscitations per year, all other expenses free
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Biomonitor – included in S-plat DocWagon wrist phone. Will alert DocWagon the instant a client’s life signs stray beyond “safe” parameters.
Pocket Secretary – cell phone (modded to block traces), digital camera, computer, and filing system. Not Matrix-compatible.
Slap Patches (variety pack)
Fairlight Excalibur - highest-end cyberdeck on the underworld market.
Suzuki Aurora – Motorbike, goes up to 210 mph, as if you’ll ever need that much. Advanced stabilization for maximum handling. The epitome of style, with a custom silver, neon purple, and midnight blue paint job. (Licensed to “Margaret”. Yes, she got a bike because it was sleek and stylish. Never mind that it’s a damn good machine, too.)
Cyberware: Wireless Datajack, Smartlink and Matrix compatible
Bioware: Replacement eyes – both are her natural, but with different retinas (left to match her legit files, and right to match her alias), low-light vision.
Trauma Damper – doesn’t keep you from feeling pain or getting hurt, but it’ll keep you from dying or blacking out long enough to get the situation under control. (Illegal, Class A Bioware, fine for possession – 4,000)
Enhanced Articulation – combination of extensive procedures, including joint-surface coating, relubrication, and tendon/ligament augmentation. Results in a muscle and join system of extreme fluidity.
Cerebral Booster – improved the efficiency of cognitive and other higher-level brain functions.
Weapons: All guns are smartlinked
Yamaha Pulsar – shoots tazer darts. FUN!!!
Narcojet pistol - shoots injection darts. Narcojet is a tranquilizer, but other chemicals can be used. It will pierce most armor. DOUBLE FUN!!!!
Ares Predator II - re-vamping of the favored gun among runners. Mia/Maggie/Glitch has 2 and would dual-wield in a firefight. Both are painted to match her bike.
Mallorean Arms Dagashi - sleek heavy pistol (like the Predator) with a curved quarter-moon blade underneath. Another bit of pretty she picked up for style points because she has the cred for it. (OOC: not in the books I have, but found on this web page. I changed "gunblade" to "dagashi". Sounds better to me.
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Survival knife Monofilament long blade (1ft.)Description: She has bright auburn hair (a reddish brown for those who don’t know) and lavender eyes. Her wireless datajack is hidden under her hair.
As Amelia, she looks the part of the respected lawyer’s equally respectable daughter – always well-dressed and professional-looking. When shopping around with friends from University, her “street clothes” are still on the cutting edge of modest fashion (that is to say, high-class and stylish – appropriately not too revealing).
As Glitch (Margaret), she goes more practical with jeans, V-neck zip-up vests, and leather jackets over form-fitting body armor and heavy boots.
Background: Born to Mitsuhama Computer Technologies’ top lawyer, raised amidst the intrigue of the megacorps, by the time she began secondary school, Amelia already showed an intimate understanding of computer workings. Her father ensured she had the best “toys” with which to hone her skills and supported her decision to attend university and get herself a few easy degrees in computer tech and programming. She shows promise as a future lead designer for the company – which wouldn’t be the case if they actually knew about her hobby of running the shadows. Her significantly substantial allowance from daddy over the years has left enough money in her savings, especially taking into account the equally substantial interest she gains each month, to live off without having to work ever in her life. Of course, that would be just too boring.
Her surname (Sheridan) is well-known, and not necessarily well-liked, so she uses an alias in the underworld, much like anyone else. She took considerable pains in her ample spare time to forge a Level Platinum credstick, complete with a false SIN (System Identification Number) and fabricated records documenting a life and credit history that never occurred. Over the five or six years she’s been having her fun in the underworld, she has transferred funds occasionally from her savings into her alias account. By now, between that and being known as the best at infiltrating corporations, “Glitch” has almost as much total money as her dad. She lives with him, but has her own high-class, luxury place under her alias ID and never meets clients there. If someone has a job for her, she gets a call and organizes a meeting place.
Her second run when she was starting out ended badly, with her being left for dead, locked in a burning building by a man she only knew as Darrel. Some corporate executive who wasn’t afraid to dirty his hands. Thus far, it doesn’t seem like he’s made the connection between Amelia and Glitch/Maggie. She can only pray it stays that way.
Flavor Text: Given her true persona is a well-educated and cultured young woman, she is well-versed in classical poetry and other literature, music, art, theater, dance, politics, law, language, and business techniques, including basic psychology. She is an intellectual at heart, but often hides that from whoever her current partners may be. It's hardly a common trait clients or other runners look for as "desirable".
*Credstick Notes: The certified credstick is her primary form of payment in the underworld. Certified credsticks are not attached to an account, instead being prepaid but usable everywhere, like a visa giftcard. The other two are used as ID for her alias (forged) and real identity (legit), and to access funds in the respective accounts.
When used as payment, any credstick other than a certified one will show the SIN and ID of the person it’s licensed to. When used as ID, they can list any and all permits, licenses, clearances, medical information, finger, palm, and retinal prints, etc. attributed to a person.