Mirage Sometimes what you see isn't what's there Mirage is the group Macavity has assembled to assist him as a fixer and runner in the shadows of Seattle. Born out of the death of The Finn, considered by many to be the fixer's fixer, Mirage consists of the shadow assets not divied up among seven of the prominent fixers of Seattle, as described in the SRM module: Mission Briefing, in early 2060. |
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Cerotaph (Dwarf Medic/Decker, Level 2 Contact) Macavity's resident decker & biotechnician, Cerotaph is an exotic-looking dwarf with significant cosmetic surgery, tattoos, & piercings. Her sudden employment and close relationship with Macavity suggest a hidden background, and who knows what the cosmetic surgery is covering up, but neither of them are talking. Cerotaph handles any medical issues that come up. While not quite well versed to implant surgery, she is fully capable of the maintenance and repair of cyber implants, as well as a competent paramedic. Cerotaph is currently studying medicine through the Matrix, and has a few medical contacts via the Matrix who can assist her on short notice. Cerotaph has her own bunk, aft of the conference room and directly above the medical bay. A small one-person lift descends directly from her bedside to the medbay floor. The most fashion conscious of the group, Cerotaph dresses in a range of costumes and sexy goth-wear, and frequently buys outfits for the other girls. What few suspect and even fewer truly know, is that Cerotaph was once an asset of the Finn. How she made it past the explosion and house cleaning is a mystery best left untouched. |
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Friday
Friday was rescued from the underground metahuman pit fights that were being organized in the
basement of The Edge by Humanis followers. Cerotaph patched up the ork, and she spent some
time recuperating in Macavity's old trailer, while Syn was around. When Sway left, Friday
was hired to take Sway's place, as she turned out to be a somewhat competant mechanic and
driver in addition to her knowledge of weapons.
What she lives for, however, is the chance to tinker with any weapons she can get her hands on. Friday maintained the Hauler's small armory, and with the switch to the new Monitor articulated truck, She's been given an actual weapons shop to do modifications and customizations on weapons and gear for the group.
Oracle
Oracle is an old, old friend of Macavity's whom almost no-one ever sees anymore. She does most of her
work via the Matrix, sitting out among the electrons like a patient spider sifting through data. She's
an information broker, and now that Macavity has brought her fully into his group, she data mines for
him and his team. An expert decker fully committed to the matrix, very little of the shadowy world slips
past her unremarked. Whenever the team runs a job, she invests a portion of the groups funds into stocks
that she knows will be affected by the run, buying here, short-selling there. This discretionary fund has
grown by leaps and bounds over the last year alone into a considerable fortune.
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Despite her slim build - or maybe because of it - Feathers is tough, sarcastic and a self-proclaimed bitch
even in her best moods. Many assume that her feral, cat-like appearance is the result of extensive bioware, but in fact
she is a night-one in whom SURGE has expressed thoroughly feline features.
Feathers maintains the magical wards around the vehicles that keep out astral snoopers. Her network of watcher spirits keep an eye out for anything Awakened and report back to her quickly. As the inheritor of the virtual hermetic library Macavity built for Minx, Feather's has access to a continually expanding collection of hermetic treatises and spell formulae. While she spends alot of time jacked in studying these magical texts, she makes the time to grab her bike & go for a midnight drive with Macavity several times a week. Not a morning person, Feather's spends quite a bit of her time curled up in Macavity's bed. Feathers tends to wear either strappy leather bondage ware, or flowing gowns, latex coats, and dresses. Sometimes a combination of the two. She has a couple of costumes for when she's feeling like playing the secretary, and a pair of horn-rimmed eyeglasses she's particularly fond of. |
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Syn is one of the latest strays Macavity's taken in. She's sweet, and can be impassioned on what she thinks is right, but she's also brilliant and just as smart as Macavity. All of which makes for the best conversational partner he's ever had. It's really her intelligence, and her skill and knowledge with computers that won her over for Macavity. After all, there's plenty of pretty faces out there, but few with close to the same skill Decking and programming as Macavity. Despite her inexperience in the shadows, she's a rare find, and a valuable resource, enabling him to keep ahead of the SOTA curve while juggling all of his other hats. There are times when watching the two of them discuss ideas is like watching a pair of championship tennis players on meth having a friendly pickup game, but in the late hours of the morning, they're just as likely to curl up like kittens with an old 20th century flat vid playing and fall asleep. |
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Anjyu - Skillwired Thief/Bodyguard/Driver
Anjyu was a thief and shadowrunner with an eye for the toys, and Macavity has all the best toys for her to play
with. After being rescued by his runners and some extensive medical aid, she owes her life and new identity to
him as well, but it doesn't hurt that life with Macavity is never dull or boring.
Of late, she's become Macavity's personal bodyguard, disguising herself with a variety of costumes for her to fit
into whatever crowd Macavity's currently about. She does the discrete lifts and eye-fluttering distraction to help
him seal in the deal. As far as guarding bodies goes, she's enjoying watching this one.
Anjyu keeps most of her wardrobe aboard Zenith's Wuxing Pelican, however, her signature Crimson Spider outfit she keeps in a duffel close to her at all times, as the suit greatly enhances her covert and combat abilities. The attached drone can actually pop out the top of the duffel and scuttle after her lugging it beneath like some bizzare ground spider. The skillwires she has implanted let her play a variety of roles - from webslinging spider girl to escort & bodyguard to computer programmer and wired rally driver - which means she gets to drive Macavity's customized Mitsuzuki Eclipse. A role any number of riggers find envying.
Zenith - Sorcerer/Mechanic, Vancouver Garage Owner
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Zenith aka Valentina "valya" Pavlova Nicholina, aka Niko was the owner of the Ezumrud Gostenetsa-Gahrahz [Emerald Hotel & Garage] in Vladivostok Russia. Events surrounding Yamatetsu's move to Vladivostok caused her to lose her old hotel, and move to Seattle. Macavity helped set her up with a dockside 'garage' dealing mostly in small marine diesels. The two remain distantly intimate, although each have other relationships on their hands now. Zenith lives onboard an extended version of the Wuxing Pelican that functions as a world-wide mobile base of operations. The Pelican also features a hermetic conjuring circle for air elementals in the center & wards all about it, and is equipped with an external cargo mount attached aft where the rear observation deck used to be, that contains a fully-outfitted electronics shop. Inside, seating has been removed in favor of living amenities for 4 and a small combination lounge & conference room. Zenith pilots it when it needs to be flown, otherwise it remains berthed down at the docks. Zenith tends to wear outfits that complement her tall, slim figure - especially cowboy oriented items like chaps. She has a selection of long evening gowns with lots of revealing cuts in the fabric for whenever she's out hanging on Macavity's arm, and she favors outfits that show off her long sinuous spine. |
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Zenith's Pelican is driven by six, fuel-cell powered ducted fans in the rear, and mounts a pair of ducted thrusters capable of blowing air from one side of the ship to the other for turns and enhanced manuverability. The gondola has been replaced with a custom planing boat hull that incorporates a large conference room/lounge amidships equipped with 4 CMT Avatar decks, 1 head, with an electronics facility aft, and the cockpit forward. Belowdecks are 4 crew quarters (sleeps 8) forward, full bath & master stateroom aft, with galley and dining area amidships. Fuel-cells line the bottom as ballast. The electronics shop is in an external modular section that can be removed, revealing an external deck. 115'(35m) length, 25' (7.7m) width, displacement 124,421.7kg The zepplin is 50% larger than the original Wuxing Pelican with an additional set of helium gas-cells installed midships. At 100 meters long and 40 meter envelope diameter, it contains 101,000 cubic meters of helium to offset its 130 ton weight giving it a useful payload of 4,000 kgs. The top surface of the zepplin has been covered with a SunCell system that produces 200PF/hour of sunlight.
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Vitaly is an ex-Spetznatz Raptor from Vladivostok. Vox stumbled into the attempt on Zenith's life in Vladivostok and ended up saving her life. When Zenith fled the city for Seattle, she brought the russian merc in tow with her. He in turn helped them find a transport to Seattle. The transport happened to be carrying a Snakehead metahuman cargo of orks & trolls. The two of them managed to escape, overpower the guards, and seize control of the ship. When they arrived in Seattle, Zenith got in touch with Macavity, who met the two of them outside of Seattle and helped set them up and funnel the majority of the orks & trolls into the Seattle Ork Underground. A small group opted instead to join the Cascades Orks, and were led up to the small villages in the mountains by Minx. Vox kept in touch with the orks & trolls who were newly arrived, and when he noticed that several of them had gone missing, he started investigating what was going on. The other residents of the Ork Underground had not noticed because the newcomers kept to themselves and spoke mostly Russian. Vox's search led him to the underground fight clubs being sponsored by Humanis, and he went back to Macavity. Macavity agreed to help him free his countrymen, in return for a future favor. Vox agreed to come to work for Macavity, and together they diverted a shadowrunning team to help them raid the bar where these fights were taking place. |
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This is the Mirage group's primary moble base, a Volvo-MAN Monitor articulated truck that's been customized
with living and working spaces for the core group. The forward section includes a pair of cabins directly
behind the driver cab occupied by Friday & Syn.
Friday is the team's weapons specialist and maintains the armory in the rear trailer. Syn is the youngest
and newest addition to the group, and works as a decker & drone specialist. The two share driving duties for
the rig, which mostly consist of watching over the autopilot for anything unexpected.
A compact galley follows with a set of stairs on the right leading up to an upstairs conference room and another set on the left leading down to a well-appointed bath. A large bedroom is situated beneath the conference room, which converts into a living room, by means of a folding bed & couches along three walls. The conference room has an expanding ceiling that raises to give proper headroom for meetings.
Aft of the bedroom/living room is the medical clinic. A small loft occupied by the lascivious goth decker,
Cerotaph is situated above this clinic, which also expands to accommodate more/larger
patients. A large cylindrical coupling connects the forward section
with the trailer. This room contains a large stone slab floor into which a hermetic circle is engraved, said circle
created by the Ancients ganger & mage Minx and Macavity's live-in cat-girl
mage, Feathers. Folding benches attached to the side posts of this area
are laden with cushions, curtains and clothing hung from a ring that runs around the inside hide the metal walls, and
rugs normally drape the floor turning this area into Feather's almost geisha-like nest.
While the living spaces inside the trailer are relatively small, the mainframe has a vast array of DirX simsense sculpted rooms
resembling that of a large mansion. A hermetic library full of virtual leather-bound books occupies one virtual wing for Minx.
An addition to this library is an ever-growing node of medical literature being used by Cerotaph as a medical library. Another
wing contains a large programmable practice room for matrix combat, and Minx, Syn, Cerotaph, & Macavity each have his
or her own set of rooms. The sculpted rooms occupy one of the virtual hosts inside the mainframe. The mainframe itself is
protected from the Matrix by a triggered vanishing SAN in the adjacent telecom unit, a choke point node loaded with black IC,
and a virtual machine containing dummy files loaded with viral worms.
A second trailer is attached to the cylindrical coupling containing workshops and storage. At the front of this second trailer is the armory and above it, a weapons shop. Form-fitting body armor is stored for Macavity, Syn, Friday, and Cerotaph. Rapid-Transit jumpsuits that go over this form-fitting body armor are outfitted with a ruthenium-based chameleon system and thermal dampening that complete the Mirage team uniforms. This armor has decent ballistic & impact protection, but more importantly aids the wearer's stealth. In addition to armor, the armory contains racks of weapons. Browning pistols that Macavity favors are racked on pull-out drawers on one side, and SMGs on the other. The armory has several assault rifles, a pair of sniper rifles, a heavy machinegun, and even a rocket launcher.
In addition to weaponry, the armory also contains several sets of custom communications gear. Tactical systems come with datajack
& headset options. A AOD Signal transmitter gives the location of each comm setup, and plug-in biomonitors & microcamcorders with
a seperately transmitted vid channel complete the information link. The entire system is also tied through cellular transmitters to the
Matrix, enabling each comm setup to be monitored via the Matrix, at the user's option. The weapons shop overhead has a roof that
raises for proper workspace and to permit access to an enclosed firing range necessary for checking alignment and accuracy of the
firearms.
Just past the small armory is an automated chemistry facility capable of producing most materials and compounds out of basic chemical components stored in overhead tanks. A small automated machine shop further back can take these materials and form them into whatever shapes are required.
The back of the trailer contains a fully outfitted Microtronics Facility with room for two individuals to work in this area. Beneath this facility is a container area with fold away sides and a pair of retracting fork-lifts. This area is built to recieve and store the customized Mitsuzuki Eclipse that Macavity drives, and is capable of launching and retrieving the car while the Monitor is in transit. Two smaller storage containers behind this large one contain storage space for motorcycles, and drone racks for ground and aerial drones, also capable of in-transit deployment.
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