aka Roughtrade | Ork Fem Merk

[Roughtrade]

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Original SIN : 136G-8U6V-PK02 (Kelilah Rivka Schmidt)

ALIAS : Casbah Rae Blackwell : Kashandra Boswell : Roughtrade
DOB 12 June; AGE 27
PLACE OF BIRTH Mega City Two, Georgia Sector, Atlanta District

CURRENT OCCUPATION Mercenary / Runner
FORMER OCCUPATIONS Private (1st Class) Mega City Two Defense Force

MARTIAL STATUS Married
SPOUSE Thomas Blackwell aka Black Thom (MIA)(Presumed Dead)

BASE OF OPERATIONS Mega City One
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS None
FORMER AFFILIATIONS Tusked Rights Defense Alliance (Ork & Troll Rights with Terrorist Connections), Blue Lighting (Small Scale Mercenary Special Tactical Unit); MET2000 (Mercenary Corporation)

CRIMINAL RECORD Possession of Illegal Substances (two counts, minimal amounts), Loitering, Possession of Unlicensed Fire Arm (Sentenced to one year district jail, served eight months)

HEIGHT 172cm; WEIGHT 85kg; EYES Amber; HAIR Black;
DISTINGUISHING MARKS Burn Scars on her left arm and flank. Tattoo of butterfly on right hip. Tattoo of a Mercenary Special Forces Unit on her left breast with a ring of thorns encircling it. Tattoo of a spiky vine entwined with barbed wire that encircles her right arm, twining from wrist to shoulder. Crude Skull brand on her right shoulder blade.

Description 

This ork fem has dark skin. the color of coffee with cream, and is just under average height for her race. She has an athletic body with a hardness that comes with years training. She has an impressive décolletage (That means kind’a big boobs for you low brow types) but is otherwise of average appearance. Her eyes are stormy grey and she highlights them in Egyptian fashion, heavy eyeliner beneath, with an extended whorl from the outer corner. Her dredlocked hair falls in a mass of tangles, often hiding her features completely. There is a single line of colored beads which are braided into her hair along the left side of her face.

What Other Runners May Know About Roughtrade

Professional

Call Sign is Roughtrade, RT or Artie. Roughtrade has only been on scene for about six months to a year. (Hard to tell the exact date on these things after all) She sometimes rides 'shotgun' on a medevac subcontractor for Doc Wagon. Her primary purpose is armed support; sniper and assault weaponry. Hand to Hand capable but not a 'Street Sam' by any stretch of the imagination. She has a reputation for being easy going with professionals but a hard case on amateurs and show offs.

Social

It's possible, Runners have 'hang-outs', just like there are 'cop bars' and 'biker bars' and so on. Kashandra (Kash to her friends) prefers hang outs that are serious drinking places with pool tables over thrash metal joints or dance clubs. She listens to country music and has a stated preference for Johnny Cash. She tends to be low profile, usually dressed in nondescript clothing that is a little baggy. She often carries a fancy looking sawed off shot-gun which she rarely uses. For that matter, if she's in a dangerous area where there is no police or other sort of law enforcement, she carries an Ares Alpha which she calls her security blanket.

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Goals? If someone asked her what she wanted, Kash would first ask "What's it to you?" followed by a deep suspicion that the person asking wanted something from her. Life has not offered her much of anything that did not come with strings attached. Even her "lucky" breaks came by way of things like all of her friends dying in a backfire bomb explosion while she was in jail. Luck is not something she trusts.

Suspicions, those Kashandra has in spades. She suspects that the chain of command in MET2000 ordered the airstrike that killed her husband, wiped out most of her friends and sent her into hiding. Some mid level pencil-pushing schmuck looked at the complaints they were sending in about abuse of power and general schmuck-headed, overpowered, burn the locals to the ground tactics and decided it was easier to bury the paperwork, and bury the bodies. Would she like ten minutes alone with the pencil pusher in a location with no cameras? Sure. But how to find the schmuck is beyond her.

If given a chance, would she pop two rounds in the head of the commander who had her unit burning people out of their homes? Sure, if he crosses her path and no one is looking, he's eating a bullet. But his views on brutality and "it's not murder if the government hired us to do it" attitude is more honest, if somewhat grotesque, and much cleaner than what you get from most corporate suits.

[Roughtrade]

Her mother was born human and goblinized as a young teen. Mom managed to hold onto her pride, despite much prejudice from her family, and married a middle management employee int the Autoworker's Union. Her parents kept a strictly kosher lifestyle, and her life was not really all that bad, but Kelilah felt she had to prove she was just as tough as any other ork. She started hanging out with gangers and ork's rights movement groups. As a young teen, she got involved into petty criminal activities and her associates became more violent.

She joined the Tusked Rights Defense Alliance, a semi-legitimate group that supported terrorists actions. Kelilah was being held in a county lock up for a weapons possession violation when the group took things up to 'the next level' without the skill to pull it off. Half the gang was killed while trying to make their own bombs and the rest rounded up by the cops. Kelilah didn't hear about it until after she was released, and believing that the cops would soon be after her, she joined the army. After one tour of duty, she changed her name and joined a mercenary unit.

The merc company didn't care about whatever she may have done, and they performed an expert cleaning of her data trail. With a new name and a quick lesson in tolerance based on being under fire, Casbah discovered she was pretty good at killing things and didn't mind doing it if the pay was good. She tried to not think too deeply about the people who were paying the tab. All of her 'chrome' was installed during this period, the unit being moderately progressive and invested more into bioware than hardware.

Things were moderately good during this period. Casbah married one of the other mercs, Thomas 'Black Thom' Blackwell. Their unit gave them a matched pair of sawed off shotguns as a wedding present. Nothing, however, lasts forever; especially the good things. One of the mega-sized Mercenary Organizations bought up their contracts and the greater layers of red tape and oversight made operations more difficult. Negotiations were handled through other channels, and contact with locals was more restricted.

As a smaller unit, they had been more able to pick and choose contracts and avoid some of the more grotesque field operations. Now they were setting fire to small villages and shooting unarmed civilians who made the mistake of running the wrong way. It didn't sit well with most of the company, and they were perhaps too loud in their complaints up the chain of command. A supposedly miscalculated air-strike took out half of her unit and nearly killed Casbah. Her husband is missing and presumed dead, as are most everyone else as there was no attempt made to recover bodies.

Seeing the signs upon the wall, Casbah cashiered out and once she was back in civilization, she headed into the Shadows. Changing her name again, Kashandra has been in Mega City One for almost a year and a half. She's made a few connections in the local scene but hasn't really dug in deep anywhere.

[Roughtrade]

Attached Chummer File

 

 

Kash MC1 (2bp).chum

 

[Roughtrade]

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|| Ballistic / Impact - 10/08 || Edge 0/1 || Perception (Visual) 4 (6) || Low Light Vision || Ork Fem ||

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|| Initiative 7 (8) || Init Passes 2 || Condition Physical 11/11 || Condition Stun 10/10 || Nu¥ XXX ||

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Kash speaks in Strong Red 

 

 

 

OOC

No Weapons In Hand || Current Carry: ~ BladesCougar Fineblade (short) : Right Boot
Handblades : Wrists

 

 

 

Summary 

 

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  JAFOShoulder Rig
Left Armpit
Concealable Holster
Current Load : Gel Rounds
2 xtra-Clip Regular Ammo ~ WidowmakerRight Hip
Quickdraw Holster
Current Load : Regular Rounds
12 Regular Bullets on Belt
06 Silver Bullets on Belt ~ Hold OutSmall of Back
Concealable Holster
Current Load Regular Rounds
No Spare Clips ~ Wedding PresentQuickdraw Holster Left Hip
Current Load : Flechette Rounds
5 Flechette Rounds on Belt ~ BladesCougar Fineblade (short) : Right Boot
Survival Knife : Right Shoulder
Handblades : Wrists

Character Link - Private Link

[Roughtrade]

Y'all might know other things, but this is what I could find in the public viewing areas

Things We Know

Two Story Structure with no windows on lower floor. Some windows on upper floor. No visibility inside.

Site is in unoccupied/dead zone. Between 50m to 100m clear approach.

Flood Lights for high visibility. Typical security plan would include some sort of security/monitoring devices within.

Low foot traffic in area but not zero. Café busy most of the day. Coffee in morning, lunches and then afternoon breaks.

Prototype/Target in "Lab 2.4" which has a biometric scanner as extra security.

 

Main Entrance South Side. 2 Guards. Armor Vest & Heavy Pistol.

Loading Dock North Side. 2 Guards. Armor Vest & Heavy Pistol.

Café/Employee Lounge West Side Second Floor. 1 Guard. Armor Vest & Heavy Pistol.

Between 10 & 15 Interior Guards, locations unknown. Armor Vest & Heavy Pistol.

Warehouse largely automated with human monitors.

 

Matrix : One Public Access Node. All comm traffic through there. "Impregnable" No significant comms noted. "Vanilla" chatter.

 

 

Most doors "vanilla" passkey maglocks.

We have obtained IT Manager Access Code which should allow spoofing commands to most (not all) nodes in the building

 

Things I Would Like to Know

Interior Floor Plan

How Many non-Guard employees. Workforce vs Management breakdown if possible.

On Site Armory?

Does Stardust think she can control the video monitors in the flood lights once we gain access to the site?

How fast can you guys run 50 meters?

"There's a trove of info about customers ordering stock from AlIgn, would be a perfectly good wedge for someone to spoof a site visit. Obviously not without risk."

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Can anyone make use of this? /\/\/\/\/\/\/\

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We can do a hard entrance/shoot the guards and bully through. At night time would be best, fewer people to have to handle. But we do not have to do it that way. It obviously plays to RT's strengths but you all seem well designed for a softer type activity.

 

Do we want to play this out more like an episode of "Leverage" where (as example, just guessing at your strengths/inclinations) We find someone for Red to copy and dope them up in a coma for a day. Red goes in and gets Stardust access to control the doors. Red helps distract interior security while Stardust lets in the rest of the team to the warehouse through a ... I dunno.. air vent or something. Sewer access/bathroom window.

 

Anyways. Just trying to say we do not have to run at this like commandos if you guys want to try and use your sneaky/con-artist skills. I just don't really know how to make plans for your guys because I am not fully aware of your capabilities and how you prefer to play them.

[Roughtrade]

aka Roughtrade

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[Roughtrade]

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|| Ballistic / Impact -10/08 || Edge 0/1 || Perception (Visual) 4 (6) || Low Light Vision || Ork Fem

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|| Initiative 7 (80 || Init Passes 2 || Condition Physical 11/11 || Condition Stun 10/10 || Nu¥ XXX

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OOC

No Weapons In Hand || Current Carry: JAFOShoulder Rig
Left Armpit
Concealable Holster
Current Load : Gel Rounds
2 xtra-Clip Regular Ammo ~ WidowmakerRight Hip
Quickdraw Holster
Current Load : Regular Rounds
12 Regular Bullets on Belt
06 Silver Bullets on Belt ~ Hold OutSmall of Back
Concealable Holster
Current Load Regular Rounds
No Spare Clips ~ Wedding PresentQuickdraw Holster Left Hip
Current Load : Flechette Rounds
5 Flechette Rounds on Belt ~ Security BlanketCarried / Shoulder Sling
Current Load Forward Clip : Regular Ammo
Current Load Rear Clip : Gel Rounds
2 xtra Clip Regular Ammo ~ BladesCougar Fineblade (short) : Right Boot
Survival Knife : Right Shoulder
Handblades : Wrists

 

Stuff Goes Here

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Roughtrade]

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[Roughtrade]

The Friendly Fire Incident

 

Kashandra was part of a small military-special forces mercenary unit. Maybe 30 members, including support staff. (Always do your own comms) They were bought out by MET-2000; a large scale/multi-national mercenary conglomerate. MET2K is not an evil operation, just big. Like any big corporation it has good people and bad people. But mostly it meant Kash and her group had a lot less say on what sort of operations they were assigned.

The Regional Commander had a grudge of some sort and started putting Kash and her group into just crap assignments. Not always dangerous, but often distasteful. Things like being set upon Cursed Earth enclaves which had little resources or ability to fight back. Miserable ops in the jungle where their support and supplies were 'lost' or misdirected in delivery. There was evidence that someone in the chain of command was skimming funds and using assets for personal gain.

When the unit reported things up the chain of command it went nowhere. Continued reports were deemed complaining without merit but eventually a filing must have hit close to the target. On a jungle operation Kash's unit was hit by 'friendly fire' in the form of napalm and fuel-air explosives. Kashandra survived mostly because as the unit Sniper, she was stationed half a kilometer away and under cover. At the same time, the support staff in a supposed safe zone was targeted by an enemy assault.

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It is possible that other members of the unit survived. Kashandra was unable to enter the area of the bombing until the flames died down and the enemy ceased their own activity in the area. Anyone who could have survived would not have stuck around. Not all members of the support staff were accounted for, some might have been taken prisoner. Or escaped. But with their communications taken out at the exact same time, there were no means for anyone to try and make contact.

What Kashandra suspects is that the Regional Commander targeted her friends for removal due to their exposing his graft. Delta, who lost her twin brother, thinks that it was someone lower in the organization. They have uncovered the data which proves the order was given to drop bombs on the coordinates but the originating point of those orders is falsified.

She also suspects that the support unit was murdered by operatives on their own side and the scene staged to be blamed on the enemy. The timing was too perfect. Kashandra doesn't blame the fliers who bombed her friends and husband, they had no way to know what was under the jungle at the location. She does, however, want revenge on the ones who killed the support staff if she could find them. Knowingly going in and assaulting members of your own side does not sit well with Kashandra.

 

 

[Roughtrade]

The Usual Suspects 

Delta: Riot Grrl/Razor Girl turned Street Fixer. Her twin brother and Kashandra's husband both killed in the same 'friendly fire' incident.

Cueball: aka Que. Delta's street-sammie boyfriend.

Goldthorn: Delta's 'brother from another mother' raised in the same orphanage. Street Doc/Combat Medic.

Sunny: Decker. Uninterested in most 'runner' work but excellent with SIN creation. Also money laundering and investing. Also a Nudist.

Mayday Maggie: Decker/Hacktivist/Anarchist.

Lars: Heavily chromed street sam. This is what happens when you lose too much essence. Every team needs a "Jayne"

 

[Michael]

Great as usual. Some setting tweaking

jail -> iso-cubes

cops -> judges

villages -> cursed earth settlements

[Roughtrade]

5 hours ago, Michael said:

Great as usual. Some setting tweaking

 

Also it appears to be Mega City South instead of Mega City Two.

I'm going to figure out which one of those yellow blocks is closest to Atlanta and change the first three numbers of her SIN.

[Roughtrade]

24 minutes ago, Roughtrade said:

Also it appears to be Mega City South instead of Mega City Two.

I'm going to figure out which one of those yellow blocks is closest to Atlanta and change the first three numbers of her SIN.

Hmm. Looks like Mega City doesn't even reach South Carolina.

Unless there actually is a Mega City Two, Kash will have to be from Charlotte. Around block 136.

[serraph]

There is a Mega City 2, but it's on the west coast. Unfortunately the nukes got to Georgia before MC1 did. =(

 

Edit: there might be some oasis around the Atlanta area which might serve your purposes?

Edited June 7, 2023 by serraph (see edit history)

[Roughtrade]

6 hours ago, serraph said:

Mega City 2

I will let Michael decide on those details. As I said to him in the other thread, the actual label isn't as important as having my character be from a place with enough of an accent to qualify as noticeable.