Iron Lotus
Shoko Masaru (birth name)
Alias in Japan: Tenth, Kite, Iron Lotus
Mother: Kisawa Nisama
Father: Unknown - Yakuza boss
Languages Japanese (native), Ryukyuan, English, Mandarin Chinese
Blogger StuffsAge at game start: 19
Height/Weight: 5'3", skinny
Fav Color: Pink
Fav Food: sushi!
Fav Saying: "THIS...is happening."
Totally Hates: Housework, unwashed guys, "American food"
Totally Loves: Cute boys, fashion, anything with an engine, going to bands and dancing, crashing high society parties
Spazzes Over: Muscle cars, fast bikes, anything you drive or fly.
Appearance: She always looks younger than she is. She's cute, but not beautiful. She has long black brown hair, down past her waist, nearing her knees. Every night and morning, she brushes the lengths carefully. When working, it's in long pigtails. At parties, she keeps it loose to hide her rigging ports. Beyond the rigger ports, she has no other cyberware, fresh and clean! Lotus has two tattoos currently:
- Snake in the shake of eternity on her right arm. (first image)
- Gears with the last a metal lotus about the size of a fist below her rigging ports. (second image)
When she works further in the Yakuza, she will continue her tattoos down her left arm of red and black lotus. (third image)
Personality: If you know anything about Japanese businessmen, that is a good estimation of Masaru. They work themselves to death, then party so hard they puke in technicolor. That's Masaru! She is a deeply polite and traditional Japanese girl for the changing times. She bows to her uncle and loves him dearly. She does not miss her mother, but accepts her sacrifices for her betterment. Whatever her uncle wishes of her, she answers beyond expectation. Crime is certainly not something she has embraced, being lily white compared to the Yakuza. Oft times, they think her a joke though they never tell her so. Law, order, legit business. But when work is done... BAM BAM BAM! She loves to party, cut loose, and drive. Behind the wheel, she is a speed demon, trash talker. On the matrix, she can be a terrible gossip girl, delving into all sorts of drama but over code, engines, fashion, and celebrities on trideo. She plays dubstep, wants to design her own biker jackets, and has a thing for hair accessories that rivals shoe collections.
LocationBirthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Tier of Society - Japan: Middle to low. Masaru went to the best schools, good tutors, and has learned a good deal of proper Japanese culture and manners but only due to her her "uncle's" dime! She lives and breathes on the bank account provided by them. In Japan, she had creds to blow on fine clothes, getting in with the wrong crowd in the clubs. In America, she's dirt damn poor, using every cred on her gear. She does have a SIN and works hard to keep it clean with legit work.
Tier of Society - America: The slums of the Barrens. Moving to America was hard. She lived in a tiny place, but it was clean and beautiful. Now she is practically in a slum, living out of her garage. It makes her skin crawl. As long as she can indulge in shopping, drinking, and driving lovely cars fast on occasion, she will put up with anything. As a result, a gorgeous man with money could easily get her into bed and trouble.
Personal InfoPrejudices: She isn't a fan of stupid people. Masaru can deal with them, but she really can't stand them. Metahumans she is not a fan of, but doesn't go out of her way to destroy them or anything. Too violent.
Policlub: She isn't focused on or politically part of one. She spends all of her time on blogs, dev chats, and Shadowlands.
AffiliationsFamily: In Deep with the Yakuza. Masaru could be an accidental birth or payment for her mother to get out of the Yakuza. She doesn't know and hasn't really cared. This will bite her in the ass.
Character Yakuza ties: They have given her small jobs, whether she knows it or not. Which means she is definitely on their radar. She's been to some of their parties and dinners, a few festivals, without wondering why. Just friends of her mom. She hasn't decided if she wants to get in deep with them yet.
Yakuza Uncle: She has a caring "uncle" Kakuji 'Seijo' Inagawa, who once was a boss in the Yakuza, now retired in his own way. Which means, he does his own jobs on the side and off the books. He has floated money and presents to Masaru, but hasn't "collected" on them yet.
ProfessionProgramming: While in Japan, she made her bones writing applications for riggers and deckers, pretty much anyone that needed something on the matrix. They were helpful, complex, and always interesting to her. After arriving to Seattle, she has continued this work but in a far more advanced way. She focuses on slave systems, better automation, gps signature masking, and kewl UIs.
RiggerWare: Masaru went under a few different aliases when first breaking out with her wares. She typically built rigs for other riggers, or wrote complex systems for their rigs to help with brain-tech interactions, stealthing of gps coords, and sensory displacement algorithms. Anything math fascinates her with tech, and the blurring of machine and mind is a thrill. Her aliases included Kite and Tenth. She now goes strictly by Iron Lotus, trying to show up her mother for being awesome.
Rigging: She wants to make a name for herself beyond fixing up shit for others. She wants to invent the next greatest tech, incredible slave rigs, and some rather inventive microtech. She learned a good deal about rigging while running with go gangs in Tokyo. Before heading to Tokyo, she finished getting her rigger cyberware added to her body and brain. In Seattle, she will begin serious rigging. And she's quite the natural.
Body Work: She can repair just about anything, but specializes in automotive, electrical systems, engines, and closed circuits. She also has a flair for the dramatic, which leads to automotive painting.
Performing Dubstep: Masaru is NOT a performer. But she does have a flavor for her dubstep as Catalyst Fu. She just spins tracks based on her mood or in reaction to shit around her. Her sound isn't liked by all, but she creates her own "personal soundtracks." She will blast this techno goop music in her vehicles, on headphones, and sometimes to annoy others.
Running Shadows: In truth, she is just starting out running them herself. This is her first real group.
Legit Business Chop Shop:
Little Garden - repair and build, the sign has a cheesy geisha painting on it. She will repair just about anything automotive and drone. Computers are not entirely her thing, but she can repair and install computers and electrical systems into cars, etc. She has a strong sense of duty, painfully so, that she follows to the letter. As such, she won't gouge! Everything she releases will be extreme quality. She offers reduced rates if you bring in a trade, and will often give free services for trade in vehicles and parts. If she is cheated by someone, they earn a black mark. She also designs and paints amazing looks on cars and bikes, including gang colors if they request them. To stay true to their designs, and keep everyone happy, she will be the ONLY person working on gang colors even if she brings in others. Long Term goal is to take over all of the chop shops, run out the bad ones, and solidify quality. If others wanna gouge, they will lose business. She hopes to become THE go to repair, builder, rigger in the barrens.
Possible looks for her living chambers in the back of the shop, hidden behind reinforced plating. These are areas she keeps to herself. Though a few good friends who needed to crash have been in these rooms.
Street Ice - Rent a Rigger: Protection and escape for shadowrunners literally on the run. If someone ends up in some serious trouble, they can contact Masaru through a specific matrix connection or number. She will show up and rigger run you outta whatever danger you are in. The long term goal is to create a gang or service for Street Ice that she runs.
The FlawsStar of the Show: She must be the pretty pretty princess. Even if she works hard and ends up covered in grease, with a quick shower, sexy dress, and heels, she better damn well be the center of attention. This means the vices of shopping, girl catfights, and social murder of others. Drama IS her name!
Men So Pretty: If a man has money, good looks, smart, and treat her well with presents and dinner, she will do pretty much anything. Shallow damn wench that's for sure.
Curious: Lotus will check out anything that intrigues her. ANYTHING. She will work on plans to infiltrate a mega corp, sleeze her way into parties, dig through garbage (real papers to digital), whatever it takes to dig into something she is mildly interested in...which is really a burning curiosity!
HistoryMeeting Masaru, you would find a painfully proper Japanese teen with a need to make a name for herself which ever way she can.
Masaru was born to a courtesan assassin of the Yakuza in Tokyo. Her mother Nisama fell into a hard life early. She drank, fought, and raced hard on drugs that fried brain cells and ended lives. Something along the way broke her loose from that life. She raised herself from being a speed junkie among the go biker gangs to become a keen minded murderer.
Seemingly from no where, Nisama appeared among the gangs, using tech for refined stealth and only blades for killing. She was known to leave her kills with lotus patterns carved in their flesh, above their hearts, without leaving a drop of blood in her leaving. Thus she earned the named Pale Lotus.
Her fame with a blade became known, bringing her into the graces of the Yakuza, perhaps through specific hands and intentions. Little is known of who cleaned her up and trained her in blades and death. It was during her liasons sleeping with the many bosses she became pregnant. The father of her one child is a complete mystery.
Masaru was born and entrusted to a nanny. Pale Lotus was not a mother figure, continuing her life among the Yakuza with a promise that her daughter would one day progress when deemed ready. She paid well to have her daughter trained in all manner of proper lessons alongside mathematics, engineering, electronics, and programming. By Masaru's teens, nothing electronic was safe and her cash supply increased selling specialized spy equipment with complex algorithms for constantly shifting gps signatures to hide a stationary unit transmitting a signal.
But everything changed just a year ago. Her favored uncle arrived upon her 17th birthday, gave her a nice purse for a young lady filled with nuyen. He told her to arrive at the airport for Seattle that evening, no reason given. Hauled from Tokyo, she was relocated to Seattle with enough to get her settled and some basic equipment into her hands. The first thing she purchased was a tattoo in metal of a lotus on her back, right below her rigger ports. It stands for her runner name of Iron Lotus. She began some petty heists to build out rigs, while offering painting services for vehicles and techno mixes for music.
To get up and running legit for the barrens, she took over a warehouse, converting it into a build and repair mechanics. On the matrix, she is known as a rigger for hire (rent a rigger).
As soon as she has enough tech in hand, she'll rebuild her drones and customize a vehicle for some intense situations. Some of her plans include aviation, but that's a new area for her. Her mother still lives, killing for those that bind her, covered in tattoos from breastbone to toes with a full suit for her kills. Masaru isn't sure she wants the same life, but has time...or so she thinks.
Recently the Yakuza have sought her for minor work, which means the initiation period may begin whether she wants it or not.
Skills: repair and build, driving (stunts, get aways, etc), electronics, concept car design, blueprints, rigger app programming
Talents: graphic and painting arts, cosmetic car pimping, music composition
Professions in order: Rigger drones/vehicle, programmer/decker, automobile pimp yo, chop shop queen, corner the market for
Future goals: aviation, morph tech (transforming equipment mixing aviation and ground units), mobile decking units to sell to deckers
Contacts and ReputationsCharisma 3, pts 6
Reputation: Yakuza 2
She has a rep with the Yakuza but doesn't realize the depth of that reputation.
Reputation: Brain Eaters 1
She is working to make a name for herself as their go to rigger.
Reputation: Bargain Basement 1
THE Black Market of Seattle.
Contact: Thanh Ngo, 1
International District, between Old Chinatown and Japan area. Fashion Designer, works with the wealthy, tailoring, custom design, boutique. (Vietnamese)
Contact: Kenoma, Fixer 1
Kenoma is a cranky dwarf fixer that specializes in hiring SINless for local businesses and the crime syndicates. His work ranges from just needing muscle for an illegal job – like smuggling or BTL production, to actual runs like extractions, data steals and other small hits. While he may not get you to the big time, he's remarkably honest with his jobs, and never sells potential runners or new guys out.
AttributesBody 3
Quickness 6
Strength 2
Charisma 3
Intelligence 7
Willpower 4
Essence 4
SkillsFollowed the skills based on book reqs and Marissa rules,
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44 spent on skills, 4 on merits, 9 pts flaws, 1 pt on 20,000 nY
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Vehicle(c) ground/car 4 (s) get away 6, (s) stunts 6, (s) remote operations vehicle 3, (s) drone 6
(c) bike 4 (s) get away 6, (s) stunts 6
(c) aircraft (s) drone 6
Stealth Skill(c) Urban (s) Vehicle Stealth 3 (s) Drone Stealth 3
Gunnery 2
Computer Technical Trade Skills(c) decking 6
Music(c) electronic music (s) Dupstep 3
Appraise (c) Vehicle 4
Build/Repair(c) ground vehicles 4
(c) aircraft 4
(c) engine 4
(c) electronics 4
Etiquette(c) Organized Crime (s) Japanese Yakuza 3
(c) Street 2
Art(c) painting (s) vehicle art and decals 6
KnowledgesPhysical Sciences (c) Engineering (s) Electrical 6
Computer Theory(R&D)(s) Software (s) Matrix Programming 6
Criminal Procedures(c) Tactics (s) Vehicular 6
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Edges/FlawsEdge - Vehicle EmpathyValue: +2
Characters with Vehicle empathy seem to understand vehicles and are able to coax more performance from vehicles than most people can, simply by being in physical contact with them. Whenever such a character is in physical contact with a vehicle, (either through manual controls or jacked into the vehicle), reduce the Handling of the vehicle by 1.
Bonus Attribute PointValue: +2
Chosen Attribute: Intelligence
A player can gain 1 bonus Attribute Point for his or her character. The bonus Attribute Point can be added to any Mental or Physical Attribute.
A bonus Attribute Point can be used to raise the character's starting Attribute above the Racial Modified Limit (see Exceptional Attribute below and Improving Attributes, p. 244 of SR3). Only one Attribute per character may be increased in this manner, and only one bonus point can be applied to any single Attribute.
Flaw - ClippyValue: -5
Evil application and enemy with it. The points pay for the uber deck.
Flaw - CuriosityValue: -3
Your natural curiosity is strong enough to override your common sense, even if you possess that Edge. To resist the temptation to investigate mysteries, make a Willpower roll. Resisting "I wonder what's in that cabinet?" requires only a 4, but "I'll just peek into the Renraku mainframe— no one will notice!" requires an 8.
Flaw - FavorsValue: -3
Owes her uncle within the Yakuza so very much, even her life.
Matrix AddictMild -2
The character must spend a minimum of 4 hours per day online or suffer a +1 modifier to all target numbers. Each day the character is deprived of his online time, the modifier increases by 1, to a maximum +8.
As many computer users have learned over the past century, immersing one’s self into a virtual reality can be quite addictive, leading to obsessive and anti-social behaviour. This hazard is particularly heightened by the realistic nature of many Matrix systems and the use of hot ASIST interfaces.
A character with the Matrix Addiction flaw is addicted to spending time in the Matrix. On a basic level, the character attempts to jack in as much as possible, often for a length of time considered unhealthy. The character becomes adept at finding excuses for spending time online and easily becomes cranky if deprived of Matrix access. Because the character spends so much time in the Matrix, he or she also tends to let their real-life social skills lapse.
Flaw - Distinctive StyleValue: -1
Style: All of her vehicles are marked, leaves a painted mark
The Distinctive Style Flaw indicates that a character has a flair for the dramatic in dress, behavior and speech, and simply can't stand not being recognized for his or her work. Understandably, this makes the character dangerously memorable at times. The character must choose a way to display this style, for example, by cultivating a distinctive appearance (costumed superhero anyone?) or by leaving a calling card (like a literal playing card, the Joker for example). Whatever type of flair a character selects, it must enable other individuals to easily remember and pick out the character.
Any individual who attempts to track or physically locate the character receives a -1 target modifier on all tests made during such attempts.
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Would be baaaad assss if I could eventually get my hands on a helicopter and work on a morphing flyer/racer.
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