Blackjack's People #020
Brave New World
By Blackjack [Blackjack's Shadowrun Page: www.BlackjackSR.com] [BlackjackSRx@gmail.com] [@BlackjackSRx]

Posted: 1996-11-25

Trey

Archetype: Human Philosopher

Trey's philosophy is simple: Everybody's going to die anyway, so why not speed up the process? Actually, it's a bit more complicated then that. He believes in what is called Perpetual Suicide, a state of progressive self destruction. Since all actions eventually lead to an inevitable death, every thing we do and every moment we exist is self destructive. Essentially, we are killing yourselves merely by existing.

Any attempt to confront Trey with the fact that since he's still alive he violates his own philosophy is futile. He has a bewildering array of arguments backing his positing and even if these fail there's still the fact that he's psionic. Oh, didn't I mention that before? Well, he is, and his powers center around mental manipulation, giving him the ability to persuade most people into a virtually suicidal state.

Visually, Trey is in his late twenties, somewhat short and fairly ugly. He maintains a patchy beard and is already beginning to go bald. Although fairly reserved a majority of the time, Trey becomes furiously imposing during debate. If he begins to lose the upper hand in an argument you can almost visually perceive him engaging his psi powers as he calms and begins to stare down his opponent.

Costello

Archetype: Dwarf Chemist

Costello is in the process of attempting to convince Trey to form a clandestine organization devoted to, basically, killing everybody. They were old friends in college and continued to meet and debate until the day Costello inhaled a bit of Compound 32421 Zeta while working for Fuchi, a mixture which shorted out a majority of his brain functions and creating a personality which is now locked on the idea of ridding the world of everybody. Another side effect is the fact that he pisses himself when he's nervous. In any case, Costello needs the psychological support of Trey before he's willing to do anything drastic, like fill Seattle's water supply with a compound he developed during his final days at Fuchi, Compound 7261342 Krag, which causes the simultaneous hemorrhaging of every blood vessel in the brain. As Trey solidifies his philosophy, Costello's ideas are looking better and better.

Texas

Archetype: Human Street Samurai

Currently paid by Costello to sit around and wait for Trey to make up his mind, Texas and the rest of his team will be instrumental in the deployment of any chemicals Costello has concocted. Texas is somewhat spindly looking, which translates to "quick", and possesses a low level move by wire system which makes him as jumpy as a flea on cocaine. His specialty is ambush, and he'll wait, shaking with nervousness, until his target approaches and then pounce and tear it apart with a wide array of protruding cyber spurs.

Grenada

Archetype: Ork Street Samurai

Grenada isn't especially pleased with his current duty of sitting around watching the trid and is eager to get back to what he does best, namely, shooting people with machine guns. His tendency to light his cigars with his flame thrower of a Zippo mere inches from belts of exploding ammunition makes his colleagues a bit nervous, but they usually get over it when they remember how well he utilizes that ammunition on the streets. Personalitywise, Grenada is cynical and complains a lot and, for some reason, has the inability to accurately construct metaphors resulting in drivel like the following: "My machine gun is my catapult, helping me succeed in missions during which I probably would have had to use explosives instead, or perhaps even a flash grenade.".

Eclipse

Archetype: Human Rigger

For the most part, Eclipse thinks everybody in the entire world is a moron and thus wants very little to do with any of them. He spends his time encased in his mobile home of an Ares Dragon, communicating solely by radio transceiver unless it is absolutely essential that he speak with somebody face to face. And then he just opens the door a crack.