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grydscaen Tarot & RPG Trading Card Game
The grydscaen RPG Trading Card game is a labor of love that was created to add to the cyberpunk grydscaen series. Also a full Tarot deck that can be used for Tarot readings, the cards can be used to play the grydscaen RPG Hack the Mainframe role playing game. All artwork in the main tarot deck is done by Natsuya Uesugi. Created over a six month period, the game puts cyber terrorist hackers trying to hack the Elite government mainframe against government cyber security agents tasked to stop their infiltration.
Individual trading cards and booster packs are available directly from Natsukoarts Design Studio in a few months. Promotional cards are for marketing and only available at conventions where natsukoarts is an official vendor. Visit Natsuya Uesugi's table at anime conventions to learn more about the grydscaen RPG game.
Check out a few of the cards in the deck.
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How to Play: Rules and Guidelines
The grydscaen role playing game is a game of strategy. Collect cards and combine skills to create attack and defense postures. Design your player character's backstory and create the storyline for the game as you role play with other gamers.
Performing a Tarot Reading (excerpt from the grydscaen tarot guidebook)
Playing the grydscaen RPG game (excerpt from the grydscaen rulebook)
Major Arcana and Main Tarot Deck
The Fool
The Faid Callen Fool card highlights the leader of the cyber terrorist Packrats in all his Level 9 hacker glory. His signature flaming red hair is his calling card. Faid is the Saicho and directs the activities of the hacktivist group. Illustrated digitally done while Natsuya was in art school studying animation, this card leads the Major Arcana.
The Lovers
The Julian "Blue" Iskafiin card represents the Lovers. Blue is in love with Faid and they are mate pairs in the grydscaen series. Blue is a Psi Faction government operative who does not speak and uses his psychic power to send for all his communication. He loves motorcycles and the glam band Athens.
Strength
Sati Ima the Pacific Territories Quadrion Isshin Air Force pilot graces the Strength card. His card highlights the struggles of mental illness as he has schizoaffective disorder and must take medication daily and be screened to continue to fly. We wanted to highlight mental illnes not so much as a disease but as a challenge that can be faced to thrive and overcome.
The Sun
The Sun is an opponent card and features Zoon, the leader of the military-run Psi Faction and one of the three leaders of the Triumvirate that runs the Elite government. If you are playing as a cyber security agent, form an affiliation with Zoon early to have a shrewd negotiator on your side who has access to government resources and can stop a hacker in their tracks.
Wheel of Fortune
The Wheel of Fortune card features Wraith, the Psi Faction operative and drug dealer in the series. Wraith is an operator and plays on the hearts and minds of those that use his services. Wheel of Fortune is a fate card that affects the cards around it in a Tarot reading.
7 of Coins
The Jester hacker card from the Coins Suit marks the second hacker character that you can partner with in the game by forming an affiliation and stealing data, encryption keys and IDs during game play. Jester is the eccentric, gothic aristocrat leader of the Jester Hacker Guild and the main character in grydscaen: dark.
Queen of Wands
The Queen of Wands card is the penultimate card in the Wands suit. Featuring Omnibus Darklight the virtual reality game avatar from the gridscan game Darklight, players jack in and fight in a virtual game grid. Watch your back! The virtual game is illegal and deadly. Tournaments are banned by the government. Use this card to gain reputation tokens in the game.
9 of Swords
The Swords suit are Trap cards that can be used by the cyber security agents in the game to stop the hackers. The 9 of Swords card enables a cyber security agent to raid the hacker right as he is trying to steal government data. Use this card on your turn to steal virus tokens from the hacker.
Queen of Cups
The Cups suit includes the Attack cards hackers can use to attack the government. Gather hacker skills by collecting Cups cards from the GoTo pile on your turn. Add up your points to attack your opponent. The Queen of Cups card features Rom the Level 9 hacker as he zips the Newsfeed from the roof sending nonsense graphics and taking over the feed so he can broadcast his subversive podcast Packrat Underground.
10 of Wands
The Wands suit are skill cards that the hacker player in the game can use to enhance Cups attack cards and increase points. Ready for the Zombie Apocalypse? The Preloading card got you covered. Use this and other Social Engineering cards for role play with your main role playing character.
The World
Featuring the Level 9 hacker Rom, use the World card to forge affiliations with other hackers in the game and create alliances to take down the government cyber security agents. This card allows you an extra affiliation that can be useful as you role play your main character in the game.
Game Rules and Stats
The grydscaen RPG trading cards include stats you use to gain points as you win cards during game play.
Stats and Rules
The four card stats are: Intrusion, Social Engineering, Network and Hardware. Each card has stat points for that character, skill, or action. Player cards have 4 stats and helper cards have 2. Combine card points to attack your opponent on your turn. Cards and skill stats can be combined to perform more complex attacks and threat mitigation strategies. There is no limit to how complex an attack combination can be, it is all up to your imagination and depth of role play.
Game Tokens
The grydscaen game is a 2-4 player strategy role playing game which uses tokens and dice to enhance game play as you pull cards on your turn gaining skills and items you can use to infiltrate or defend. Tokens like Risk and Mitigate can be used to stop hackers, where the Virus and Script Kiddie tokens can be used in hacker attacks.
Game Mechanics
Using skills cards you attack while outlining your main player character's role in the role play. Card stats and tokens are used to enhance attacks based on card rules and status. Play as the hacker and attack the Elite government mainframe, or play as the cybersecurity analyst and execute threat mitigation to subvert the attacks. Fast paced play with multiple ways to win.
Promotional Hacker Cards
The Hacker cards are the main hackers from the novel grydscaen: dark. Stats on the back of cards show skill strength. If the hacker, partner with a hacker during game play to enhance your attacks.
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Jester
The leader of the Jester Hacker Guild, Jester is the insane blackhat hacker who infiltrates streetlights, government systems, hacks into cars and the stock market. He is a criminal of one of the most malicious hacker guilds in the Pacific Territories. Play Jester if you want a touch of chaos, schizophrenia, and righteous indignation in your role play.
Jazz
Jazz is the techno-fetish, straight--edge leader of The Soul Deep jet jockey underground and has one of the best trailing jock rigs in the business that can infiltrate any system. Jazz is an informant to the Psi Faction and plays both sides. Play Jazz to be privy to government secrets and use them against your cyber security opponent.
Faid Callen
Faid is the high-end host of George Shimazuri, a corporate board member of the SenseNet. He is leader of the Packrat cyberterrorist hackers and doesn't play around in bed or trolling corporate clients George orders him to attack. Play Faid if you are the hacker attacking the SenseNet thwarting government cyber security. Or, play both sides with Faid if you want to obscure your strategy and go in for the kill.
Rom
Rom is the 16 year old elite Level 9 hacker who is homeless and attacked the stock market on Jester's command. He was kidnapped by the government after he hacked into Parliament in the City and they experimented on him and wiped his memory. He has a skin job cybernetic implant in his forearm which holds his memories and Top Secret data. Play Rom to make affiliations with other solo hackers who seldom work together. The Rom card allows you to pull extra virus tokens and make hacker teams to attack the Corporation and the government.
Raven Allen
Raven is a clandestine operative and hacker for the Elite government working out of the Psi Faction. He was arrested for hacking into the Pacific Territories' military and sentenced to work for the government as his punishment. Partner with Raven for access to a plethora of hacker tools if you are playing the cyber security opponent.
Lino Dejarre (Operative)
Lino is Emperor but also a clandestine psychic operative of the Psi Faction. Play Lino as an operative if you want access to intel on Jester, Jazz or Faid and are the hacker in the role play. Lino can get you into places hackers can't go, so ally yourself with him if you mean business.
Lino Dejarre (Politics)
Lino is the Emperor of the Pacific Territories and plays a shrewd political game in Parliament. Gain intel on government targets and carry out political assassinations of Atlantea Federation enemies. Play Lino (Politics) if you are working with Zoon of the Triumvirate as a cyber security operative protecting against the hackers.
Julian "Blue" Iskafiin
Blue, the 16 year old Non Binary, decorated clandestine psychic assassin and martial arts expert from the Psi Faction working for the Pacific Territories military. "Blue" is child of a homeless prostitute sold to the Psi Faction for a cit card when they were five years old and even at that young age knew they were transgender. As a virtual human chameleon, he is deployed to kill enemies by any means necessary. If you are playing the cyber security opponent, partner with Blue to gang up and spook the hacker to reveal his attacks and turn over his malware payload.
Promotional Affiliate Cards
The Affiliate cards highlight secondary characters in the grydscaen story. Making deals and gaining intel from hackers, the affiliate characters help your cause.
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Iin (Trance Channeler)
Iin, a homeless transgender girl, hostess who works out of a transgender host club , she is Rom's best friend and lover. Rom rescued her from the streets initiating her to the Packrats who gave her psi conditioning when Packrat Leader Faid Callen saw she was a powerful Prophet Lay Priestess able to see powerful visions gifted to her as a Trance Channeler . Having to get her hormones from the streets, she is the spiritual voice of the Packrats in the timestream and can see the past, the present, and the future all at the same time in psychci dream visions. If the playing the hacker in the game, use Iin's psychic power to get the scoop on government raids. Thwart Elite infiltration with Iin's pre-knowledge of Zone Police strategy and save the day plus win "KiKi Host Pose" Reputation tokens.
Naito (Packrat Strategist)
Naito Sennish is the very Bisexual, arrogant and full of himself suave leader of the Packrat Wastes. He is militant, a sex fiend who works out of The Hole X-Rated Magazine Shop in the Red Light District. Son of a powerful diplomat family in the City, Naito's parents disowned him, revoked his citizenship and threw him out of the only home he ever knew when he came out as a Bisexual Host addicted to the psi inducer drug neurocyne right after his friends found out his was psychic and turned against him as enemies. A top tier host, playboy who plans terrorist bombing raids against government establishments for the Packrat hackers, he is strategic genius leader of the Packrats Waste Faction who took him in after he was banished from the pristine city and had to flee to the streets for his life. Naito has a strong reputation as an A++ high tier host who will sleep with anyone that walks as long as they are hot or he can up his reputation as top tier S&M Dom. If the hacker, partner with Naito on a Packrat urban warfare street fight, or graphitti tagging side mission to gain reputation tokens and increase your Host street creds.
Wraith (Black Market)
Echelons famous "drug dealer" Wraith is your ultimate source of anything at all in the underground Black Market in the Echelons. Well connected, he has a genius tongue that can get him in anywhere even halls unseen and the highest positions in the Elite government hide in the shadow. He can get you anything you want: illicit drugs, hacker scripts, tech, ware, credits, iodine pills, body parts, stolen documents, nanotech, a Clannet mafia hit to silence your enemy, you name it. Purposefully setup and arrested during an illegal Zone Police raid, he was forced to work for the Psi Faction as a clandestine psychic operative against his former "Clannet Black Market friends" for two years if he ever wanted to be "free" and "see the sky" again but his participation put a Clannet Black Market "kill die" target hit on his back and price on his head forever. Hated by the Elite, and suspected to be a spy for the deadly DNA data pirates The Black Holes, he is one of the most dangerous personalities in the Echelons that many dare not even speak to. If the hacker, partner with Wraith to be in the know and get some nice new scripts you can use to attack the government, all you have to do is ask nice and pay the Black Market price.
Sati Ima (Psychic Assassin)
Sati Ima a transgender male with schizoaffective disorder is a Psi Faction clandestine psychic operative and mobile frame pilot for the Naval Aviator wing of the Pacific Territories Air Force Air. He is an ace pilot sent on dangerous air recon and target elimination missions to assassinate political targets from the Atlantea Federation the government deems "Black Ops" mission critical" and a threat to the Pacific Territories homeland. Sati bucks authority, has a "black and white truth or die" moral code, some say has ADHD/Aspie and he has a mouth on him that often gets him on the wrong side of authority. Send Sati after rogue operatives. If you are playing the cybersecurity operative, partner with Sati to add a physical aspect to your threat mitigation techniques. Sati like Blue is a Level 19n Black Classified trained clandestine psychic assassin sent in to neutralize high profile political "war footing" cyber terrorist targets the Elite deem too deadly to remain alive" and a critical threat to the safety of the Pacific Territories agenda of truth, freedom and equality If playing the hacker, befriend Sati's if you can, cause he can sense BS Aspie meter to help gather military intelligence and Top Secret data from the enemy.
Riuho Dejarre (Destruction)
The definition of a "psychopath" Riuho is a terrorist plain and simple. Younger Brother o a mission to destroy his elder brother Lino Dejarre, Riuho was banished by his father the Viceroy Charles Dejarre at age 8 because Justine Charles Trance Channeler and spiritual counselor saw Riuho in a vision where he was in the garb of the Black Dragon God KuroShi known as "Destroyer of Worlds" in the Prophet Religion sacred text The Parable of Thoth. Banished as child as one of the Viceroy's sons with a lower consort who he kept as a trinket for his pleasure only, Riuho will do anything to sabotage the Pacific Territories an destroy Lino in retaliation fro being banished to the Echelons slums where he had to live in abject poverty in government housing with a House Dejarre Maid who was sent to care for the 8 year old reporting back in secret to the Viceroy as his psychic power matured giving him terrible migraines. Wracked with pain, dissociating to "save his child self," the pain warped him into a dangerous threat to humanity shaping him into the terrorist he became as a young age. Defecting to the Atlantea Federation becoming a clandestine operative, he killed the heir to the Atlantea Federation throne taking control of the Dragon Palace. The Trance Channeler Isk saw how dangerous Riuho was and brainwashed him into working with him to destroy the Pacific Territories and House Dejarre. If you have a "mean streak" partner with Riuho to devastate and destroy everything in your path to complete the mission. But be careful, Riuho can't be trusted, he'll manipulate and kill you without a second thought. Watch your back.
Promotional Cybersecurity Cards
The cybersecurity cards are the government cybersecurity players in the game. They can be partnered with the six main cybersecurity player cards to create affiliations in the game. The objective of the cybersecurity opponent is to make affiliations and not let the hacker player know who you are affiliating with in the game. If you can keep that secret, you can play masterfully your threat mitigation strategy to win.
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Zoon (Elite Strategist)
High Powered Lesbian Chairman of the Pacific Territories Homeland Security & Counterterrorist, Zoon is the charismatic leader the Psi Faction, a counterterrorist unit that hunts down any an all terrorists, cyber threats, responsible to stop autocratic threats and attacks on the homeland. She is one of the three member secret society called The Triumvirate that "actually" runs the government from the shadows unbeknownst to the Pacific Territories Emperor, Viceroy and the official members of Parliament who are the public "facade" of the Elite government. Her highly talented and deadly vetted and personally scouted Psi Faction team of clandestine psychic operatives a Top Secret Team code named "Psi:KO are not listed on any official database a total data blackout as "Level 19 Black." Her operatives are lethal and their real names are "blanked" so they are only like Blue and Sati only known by their Psi:KO code names. The two psychic assassins Sati Ima and Blue trigger only on Zoons personal voice command that triggers a special genetic sequence tagged to each operatives specific quantum DNA-mind control nanomachine signature installed in their psi signature "construct" through NLP programming "Black Nuisance Monarch" NLP programming mind control implanted in each operative during the Third Level of Psi Conditioning through an illegal outlawed process determined by the Parliament to be "too cruel" to be considered safe or humane. Known for pushing the boundaries of genetic testing on her psychic operatives she calls "commodities" and "Lab Rats," she is known to make grown men cry with her biting sarcasm and deadly Black Widow charm. Rumored to be biological mother to black hat hacker Jester who abandoned him in a box to save her high-powered career and position in the Triumvirate, a secret that could destroy her, she is the most powerful woman in the Pacific Territories. Partner with Zoon for a plethora of military tools and resources and if you want to GSD aka "Get Shit Done" by any means necessary.
Titch (Technician)
Titch is Senior Airman in the Pacific Territories Air Force and the youngest mobile frame cadet to win the coveted Nebula Nanomachine Bio-Neural Cybernetics prize beating out the best human-machine AI interface scientists and mobile frame engineers in the world. He is like the "Tesla" or "Elon Musk" of mobile frame technicians, the best in the business who can actually "see-feel" the electrical magnetic field resonance kedek cells make when the "spin up" to fuel the fields quantum kedek engines that power mobile frames and keep the quantum psi field integrity that allow the psychic pilots to human-AI-interface "meld" with their frames when "in psi synch.". Originally from the Juniper space colony where his father was a mobile frame engineer given "honourary citizenship" thought he was a "Blank" a non-citizen with no rights at the bottom of the colony caste system. His father was famous as the as the inventor of the first mobile frame human-AI jack interface inspired Titch as a child when his father took him to see the test flights of the first skunk works Top Secret proprietary 1st Generation mobile frame engine classified test flights. Titch lied to his Air Force recruiter saying he was 18 when he was only 16 to enlist. His name disgraced on Juniper after his secret got out, he was curt martialed and stationed on the battleship Escalon on the planet banished from Juniper. Next stationed on the La Paz Military Base Space Station on house arrest as top Isshin mobile frame tech he is the only tech qualified on the 9th Generation Quadrion Isshin and the revolutionary Quantum Quadrion Ein. Titch is always in the hangar servicing mobile frames. He has a VR AI artificial girlfriend, is dyslexic, a geek and terrible gamer. If you are a military intel officer, partner with Titch to get you any system, if it doesn't exist he'll code it. living up to the La Paz nickname "Frame Wizard."
Gailen Allred (Black Ops)
Gailen is the decorated operational leader and Lieutenant Colonel of the Psi Faction who answers only to Zoon. He is a shrewd planner, and military strategist. He is the commander for hacker, Raven Allen, and psycic assassins, Sati Ima and Blue all at his disposal. Partner with Gailen to ensure your threat mitigation strategy are successful, rooting out the risk throight various sources, some legal and others unspeakable.
Omnibus (Sentient Virtual AI)
Omnibus Darklight is the sophisticated self-healing VR Gaming AIfor the online gridscan game Darklight. When a lapsed critical Zero Day patch failed to load and glitched the gridscan for 00:00:00:01 seconds, Omnibus escaped her program during the re-load diagnostic cycle as trhe patching error cycle ran nullifying her threat landscape risk rating and she rewrote a binary script bypassing BIOS controls allowing her to "break" encryption and escape through a critical system fault into the gridscan becoming the very first instance of free self-healing "living code." In her escape she gained a soul becoming sentient, what the Mainframe Administrators feared. In her awakening, she learned about "Mother" from humans adopting the moniker sparking her to brith sentient child programs she released into the gridscan. Her avatar manifests online for illegal deadly Darklight "flash mob games" where jacked-in Wastes fight battles for street cred and prestige. But Omnibus plays dirty fascinated with "human death" vowing to never be offlined as Mainframe Administrators threaten and try to regain control of her code and take her offline.
Sakama Ishida (Prophet Lead)
Sakama Ishida is Psi Faction Night Team Lead, an Esoteric Practitioner of the Prophet religion, a Class 5 Psychic Witch who uses his spiritual power to fight religious extremism. His parents were devout members of the Prophet religion which Sakama and little brother Nier were raised as. The Elite government grew concerned as Prophetinfluence grew and killed Sakama's parents, kidnapped him and Nier and experimenting on them because they were psychic. Escaping, Sakama was re-captured and forced to work as a Psi Faction psychic operative or more Prophets would die leaving him no choice but to cooperate.
Mika (Intelligence Officer)
First Nations Indigenous "Code Talker" Mika is a cyborg and clandestine psychic intelligence officer for the Psi Faction Night Team. A former Navy Seal, he was mortally wounded in a Black Ops spy mission behind enemy lines in the Altantea Federation lines, on mission he aquired Top Secret intel the crucial to the global conflict and Pacific Territories strategic command. The Elite military used sophisticated cybernetics, illegal banned bio-nano and DNA-based experimental gene splicing AI-tech and genetic technology that almost killed him so they could save him because the intel he had was priceless and could change the tide of the war.. Doing everything unimaginable and even inhuman, the unthinkable to keep him alive and save him, they replaced 80% of his body cells with cybernetics, nanomachines and gene-tech. A key intel asset to the Psi Faction Night Team, his keen strategic skills and intel gathering ability by any means necessary make him a critical asset to the insurgent Pacific Territories fight in the war that could end up saving the world and be the catalyst to creating a future world without war.
Takashi (Hacker Cyber Ops)
Takashi is the anti-social abrasive snotty arrogant tech genius. This 19 year old gothic hacker who would have been locked up multiple times as a "danger to society" because of his technical skill, he was recruited by Zoon as a hacker to the Psi Faction to both keep him alive and sway tech in the Pacific Territories side to counteract the Atlantea Federation threat. His ravenous curiosity for anything tech, hardware and software, the government tapped him initially at 12 when they deemed he was a threat being a homeless Blank living on the streets with his Father and younger brother after his mother died of radiation sickness sending his father into a depression spiral never able to recover from the loss of his only love. His father's Waste neurocyne addiction getting the better of him he was forced to take Takashi and his younger brother to the streets to support his habit, the abject poverty conditions warping Takashi's trust in authority who he saw take everything from his father launching him into a danger spiral of hunger, drugs and survival sex to provide for his younger brother as his father was passed out psi sick. Finding a discarded Silence VR game deck, Takashi reverse-engineered the tech with help from the dark web on the gridscan, sending him down the Black Hat hacker path. Recruited by Zoon when the Parliament solicited a Black Market Clannet mafia hit to silence Takashi's vocal anti-government views, she kidnapped him and indoctrinated him to the Psi Faction Night Team SOC as in-house technical whiz kid giving him the latest tech. He is one of the military's most powerful clandestine anti-terrorism clandestine SysOps operatives the Psi Faction has ever had. And did I say he hates authority, yeah that....
Jacqué Dupree (Clairvoyance)
Jacqué is the only daughter of the Dejarre family head maid Gizelle and the Viceroy Charles Dejarre. Living in the Hallet Hall House where Gizelle is on the house staff, Jacqué is a happy quiet child who is psychic and has prophetic dreams able to see snippets of the future. The fact that the Viceory is Jacqué's father is hidden from the Julianna and Lino because it would be a scandal but as daughter of a servant, the secret is well hidden.
Promotional Cleaner Cards
The Promotional Cleaner cards are support characters in the series that have specific skills and represent people who have had impact on the main characters at key periods during the story,
Promotional Cleaner Cards
The Promotional Cleaner cards are support characters in the series that have specific skills and represent people who have had impact on the main characters at key periods during the story,
Satoshi Yamaguchi (Martyr)
Satoshi Yamaguchi was a legendary devout believer in the Cultof Velvet Hour a radical bio-cyber hacktivist group and strict follower of the tenets of the Synthetic League which swore off toxic radiation-contaminated food and sexual contact. As member of the Velvet Hour cult he became a terrorist bombing the Astor South subway station that tagged Velvet Hour as an anti-government terrorist organization. After killing innocents on the subway, Satoshi was killed in apsychic attack by Zone Police Cybersecurity Detective Jaiden Pierce in front of his little brother Hero who joined Velvet to revenge his brother.
Hiro Yamaguchi (Bio-Hacker)
Ardent follower of the Synthhetic League who condoned strict abstinence, fasting using there sustenance of sustenance pills and ion supply drinks to avoid radiation exposure. He is a bio-hacker, script kiddie who does hacking jobs stealing money on the grydscaen and becomes a devout member of the Velvet Hour hacktivists. Driven to get revenge after seeing his eldest borther Satoshi killed by the Zone Police, he partners with the dangerous Black Holes DNA data pirates to create "The Seal" a toxic gas-nanomachine technology that destroys DNA instantly if on exposure. Able to spout Velvet Hour mantras andslogans by heart he has no hesitation to kill others to get revenge forhis brother and carry on Satoshi's mission and Velvet Hours righteous vision of cleansing humanity but willng to sacrifice those they see unworthy for those they see as "clean."
Akira Yamaguchi
A street thug, Black Market Yazuka muscle man and murderer who killed the mother and son of Xander Storm who was the partner to Cybersecurity Detechive Jaiden Pierce who killed Satoshi when he bombed the subway killing innocents. Arrested, tried and convicted of murder, he was sent for hard labor to the kedek mines but escapes and after hooking up with youngest brother Hero he goes on his last mission to kill Jaiden Pierce to take revenge for Satoshi. Arrogant, rude, a punk who will kill anyonewho gets in his way, killing Jaiden was the only thing that kept him sane toiling in the kedek mines before escaping.
Acolyte (Acolyte Hackers)
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Leader of the Packrats Acolyte Faction a group of tech savvy hackers. He is a cutting edge DNA-based AI nanotech scientist with Top Secret intel on human-machine interfaces from his time in the Terror Hack. He is also a neurocyne addict who was devastated when his gay lover and mate pair died of a neurocyne overdose. He worships code and swears he will never love a human agai, married to the binary. He says code doesn't lie but people do. He worships Jester as his personal "Code Savior" and calls AI Omnibus Darklight the DemiUrge a divine sentient angel.
Anj (Runners)
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Anj is leader of the Packrat Runners responsible or data messengers and smugging code, intel psi inducer drugs and communications, messages. Runs the Packrat Processing Center where the psi inducer drugs are inventoried and kept safe. Even though he is the Runners leader he has been known to go on Runs himself because he likes to "remain on the ground" and be "in the weeds" with his people. He is mate pair to Naito Sennsh the Leader of the Packrat Wastes. Was mastermind behind the Packrats City subway bombings that put the Packrats on the map in the City. The leader of the Packrats Faid Callen trusts him with his life and often consults Anj when making strategic decisions on Packrat armed interventions.
George Shimazuri (SenseNet)
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George Shimazuri is a the high powered Corporate Board Member of the SenseNet bio-pharm corporation and is responsible for strategy for the Bio Weapons Gene Tech Control Group. Powerful, respected and has more money that pretty much anyone in the City, he is one of the most powerful men in the Pacific Territories. He "bought" Faid Callen as a host at age 18 and is considered Faids "Lead" in host culture. He owns Faid who he sends on hacking jobs to destroy the competition or level the playing field by any means necessary. Faid is Georges host and boy toy who he both uses and loves intimately. George shows off Faid as his token boy and they are a power couple in Elite high society. George lavishes presents and money on Faid and has an insatiable sex appetite due to a deep hole in his soul left when his wife died in childbirth with his first born son. He never got over that death and sometimes if drunk will call Faid by his dead son's name when they are having sex. This is George's tragi flaw and the only thing that could bring him down. Faid is deadly protective of George and will do anything to ensure George is never sad and at times allows Faid to beat him to take out his anger and soul pain from intolerable grief.
Berlin Macelroi (Painbox Band)
IHS Art College Attendance: Absent
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Arrogat, narcissistic lead singer of the goth band Painbox and abusive college on-again off-again boyfriend to Lino Dejarre. Coke fiend, arsehole. Dumps Lino and they have an emotionally and physically abusive relationship.
June
IHS Art College Attendance: Absent
Detail Available: November 2021
Actress with a rich real estate father who is classmate at IHS Art School and best friend to Lino Dejarre. Very protective of Lino and does recreational drugs when she is not making a living with her soap opera acting career and skipping college classes between sleeping with her boyfriend Nigel and working by day as a waitress.
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