NPC Roster I: Initiates of The Hidden Fire

NPC Roster I
Initiates of the Hidden Fire

The Initiates of the Hidden Fire are a small, Seattlebased magical group led by a magician called
Flame. There is an associated company with the group called the Alchemical Securities Group (ASG).
This company supplies magical services to a wide range of clients both corporate and private. When
the players work over a small corporation or a rich person's house, they may find that these are the
people behind the wards. Equally, if the players are looking for information, foci or even to hire an
enchanting shop or hermetic circle, the Initiates of the Hidden Fire can provide.
Initiates of the Hidden Fire
Strictures: Limited Membership (Hermetics), Fraternity, Dues (300 ¥ p/m)
Members: 4
Resources: Medium
Patron: Alchemical Securities Group (ASG)
Flame, Hermetic Magician

Human, Initiate 2
Image: Tall, broadshouldered man in early thirties, with a shock of unnatural red hair and an
alchemical nanotattoo that curves lazily around one of this piercing blue eyes. He is dressed in
decorated robes that would be cliché except for their obvious cost – red sweeping things embroidered
with gold and emerald threads. The nanimated material pulses slowly in a hypnotic fashion, like hot
coals.
RolePlaying: Confident, slightly arrogant, and irritatingly mysterious. Of course he makes a good
living being all three of these things, but still. Arrogance does not always accompany stupidity,
however and Flame is both a very competent magician and a not bad combatant. He also takes great
pride in his ally spirit. He also has quite a quick temper if he thinks he has the edge over some one.
Background: Flame, aka Jonathan Cane, was born to a corporate family and expressed his gifts in
his early teens. Consequently, he has been welleducated and his parents were savvy enough to fund
his arcane education without binding him to any corporate apprenticeship schemes. He was also
brought up to be a “winner” and deals very badly with not being the topdog. Consequently, now in
his thirties, he is running a successful business and living the good life and quite happy about it, thank
you very much. The hermetic circle which he founded substitutes for any really close friends.
Work: In addition to the common moneyspinner of ward work, Flame is licensed for court and police
work, interrogating defendents and suspects with mind probes. He is also a very accomplished
summoner.
Crucible, Ally Spirit
Image: The word monster was never more appropriate. It seems to partly be, or once have been, a
wolf. Now whatever the coal dark, smoldering thing is, it's no natural animal. Lavalike seams of heat
crack their way through its charcoal fur and its eyes burn with orange fire, as the thing crouches
toward you.
RolePlaying: Guarded and dangerous. Crucible is not afraid of anything and has the predatory
instincts of the wolf it once was. But though animallike in personality and behaviour, it is nonetheless
intelligent and will apply that intelligence well when it is hunting.
Background: Once a natural wolf, puchased by Flame at great expense, it is now the inhabited form
of his ally fire elemental. It is intelligent, but fierce, and utterly loyal to its master. For sport, its master
sometimes takes it out to a reservation in the NAAN where, for a fee, he is allowed to set Crucible
hunting, which it loves.
Haze, Hermetic Magician

Human, Initiate 1
Image: A young woman of not quite determinable age with perfect, purchased beauty and cybered,
amber eyes. She dresses in an soft, claret suit, perfectly tailored and which shimmers different shades
from time to time.
RolePlaying: Mercurial and takes pleasure in keeping people offbalance. Incredibly intelligent and
able to keep a straight face through even the most outrageous lies. Ostensibly friendly, however.
Background: Haze, aka Jane Dupont, has always been too clever for her own good. The arcane
complexities of hermetic magic are her bread and butter, and although she has developed her power to
only a limited degree, her grasp of theory and is superb. She graduated from MIT&T with a first class
honours and has now moved to Seattle to pursue a career in the lucrative security market, there. Her
life so far has been fairly studious and though she's well capable of being sociable, even pretty wild,
the sad truth is that there are so very few people who can actually understand her.
Work: In addition to the routine work of setting up wards for various corporations and wealthy home
owners, Haze runs a very successful line in designing formulas, whether for spells, enchantments or
very occasionally spirits. She also works part time as a tutor in spell craft and magical theory.
Isaac Oded, Hermetic Magician

Dwarf
Image: An immaculate little dwarf who looks like he's just rolled off the assembly line. From his
shiney black shoes to his precisely backcombed, grey hair and his perfectly pressed blue suit in
between – he couldn't be more spruce. Hypothetically, if there were dirt on him, it would be clean. A
small AR monocle is clipped to his breast pocket, fitted with a flipdown jeweller's magnifier, no less.
Probably for checking everything is straight.
RolePlaying: By the book. Can't hurry him. Can't distract him. He's methodical, precise, and when he
makes a joke it's usually so subtle it's a day before anybody notices. His favourite saying is: “You rush
a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.”
Background: Isaac was born. He found he was a mage. So he studied and learnt how to be one. Then
he worked as one. It all seems fairly straightforward to Isaac and he's never really understood why
other people find life so complicated. They're probably just not very clear thinkers.
Work: Isaac is an enchanter, and though capable of small magics, primarily focuses on producing
formula, preparing telesma, refining orichalcum, etc. He is perfectly competent at creating wards,
however.
Leo Mills, Hermetic Magician

Human, Initiate 1
Image: An unprepossessing, rather skinny, nebbishy man with little round AR spectacles and who
looks ill at ease in his smart, grey suit. From stooped posture to the slightly pleading expression on his
face, he looks like a walking apology. A commlink dangles on a chain around his neck and blips his
social networking profile to others. It indicates that his name is Leo, he is coincidentally a Leo and is
interested in magical theory, goblin rock concerts, ork culture and making new friends.
RolePlaying: Leo is awkward, bright and actually one of the nicest people you could hope to meet.
He's well liked by his friends and frequently goes out of his way to help people. He's also quite bright
and earning a good living as a mage. He's rather daunted by Flame and overawed by Haze, but once
he's comfortable in a group he can actually be quite talkative.
Background: Leo comes from a Puyullup barrens family that scrimped together just enough money
to pay for their child to undergo magical testing. Their extreme good fortune that little Leo had
magical potential got him a life he would never have had otherwise. Sadly his parents were killed
when caught up in gang warfare in Leo's seventeenth year. He has vowed never to forget his origins,
and a good portion of his income goes to various barrens social programs.
He is married to Catherine Mills, his childhood friend and sweetheart.
Work: Leo seems to have a natural gift for Cleansing and is the circle's specialist in dealing with
harmful background counts.
Catherine Mills, Samurai

Ork
Image: A petite ork woman, about 5'10” (1.52m), with a strong, muscular build, light skin and soft
dark hair, perhaps Japanese origin. She typically wears a vaguely military ensemble, including an
armoured jacket and carries an SMG on her hip. She looks confident in her ability to use it, too.
RolePlaying: An honourable woman, but slow to trust. Until that point, she remains quite remote and
intimidating. She doesn't take kindly to threats or violence.
Background: Catherine spent the early part of her life in the Puyallup barrens. It wasn't nice. To this
day, she remains untrusting and suspicious of people. And she sees that as a good thing. It was only
Leo's care and affection for her that gave her a bridge out of the barrens, though ironically she and
Leo both see her as the strong protector of the couple. They're an odd couple, not least because of the
genderreversed roles of their physical power, but they owe each other a lot over the years and love
each other deeply.
Work: Cathering works for the group as a physical security and bodyguard. In addition to being a
skilled combatant, she makes use of various knowsofts in order to oversee some of the circles
mundane security such as drones.
Game Statistics
Flame, Hermetic Magician
Human, Initiate 2
B A R S C I L W M E ESS Init IP CM
3 3 3 3 5 3 4 5 5 2 6 6 1 10
Movement: 10/25
Skills: Assensing 3, Astral Combat 4, Blades 2, Counterspelling 4, Conjuring Skill Group 4, Dodge 2,
Etiquette (Corporate) 3, Leadership 4, Negotiation 2, Perception 1, Spellcasting 3, Unarmed Combat 5
Metamagic Techniques: Quickening, Ally Conjuration
Spells: Analyze Magic, Armour, Astral Armour, Compel Truth, Detect Magic (Extended), Fireball,
Flamethrower, Ignite, Mind Link, Mindprobe, Offensive Mana Barrier, Stunball, Stunbolt.
Gear: Weapon Focus (Katana) 3, Sustaining Focus 5, Armour Clothing (4/0), Commlink (Transys
Avalon, Iris Orb O/S), Image Link Contacts, Eurocar Westwind.
Language: English, Latin, Greek.
Crucible
Force 3 Ally Spirit, Inhabited Hybrid Merge Wolf
5(7) 6 6 5 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 9 2 11(12)
Movement: 10/50
Skills: Assensing 3, Astral Combat 3, Counterspelling 3, Dodge 3, Infiltration 3, Perception 3,
Shadowing 3, Spellcasting 3, Tracking 3, Unarmed Combat 3
Powers: Banishing Resistance, Concealment, Dual Nature, Elemental Attack (Fire), Energy Aura
(Fire), Immunity to Normal Weapons, Magician, Natural Weapon (Claws/Bite: 4P, AP0), Sapience,
Sense Link.
Spells: Astral Armour, Detect Life, Magic Fingers, Mind Link, Ram (Door), Shadow, Stabilize.
Quickened Spells: Increase Body (Force 7)
Haze, Hermetic Magician
Human, Initiate 1
2 2 3 1 3 3 5(7) 4 3 3 5.6 6 1 9
Movement: 10/25
Skills: Arcana 6, Assensing 3, Athletics 1, Counterspelling 5, Con 4, Conjuring Skill Group 2, Dodge
1, Enchanting 2, Etiquette (Street) 3, Leadership 3, Negotiation 3, Perception 3, Spellcasting 4.
Metamagic Techniques: Quickening
Spells: Alter Memory, Analyze Device, Analyze Magic, Chaotic World, Confusion, Deflection, Fast,
Heal, Influence, Invisibility, Levitate, Mask, Mob Mood, Orgasm, Phantasm, Physical Camouflage,
Translate, Stunbolt.
Bioware: Betaware Cerebral Booster 2, Betaware Cybereyes (Image Link, Vision Enhancement 2,
Vision Magnification)
Gear: Armour Clothing (4/0), Spellcasting Focus (Manipulation) 2, Commlink (Erika Elite, Iris Orb),
Honda Spirit.
Language: English, Latin, Greek, Japanese, Hebrew.
Isaac Omed, Hermetic Magician
Dwarf
3 2 1 3 3 2 5 6 4 2 6 3 1 9
Movement: 8/20
Skills: Arcana 4, Assensing 3, Counterspelling 2, Enchanting 4, Etiquette 2, Negotiation 3, Perception
3, Spellcasting 3.
Negative Qualities: Enchanter Aspect (4 dice conjuring, sorcery, assensing, astral combat).
Spells: Analyze Magic, Detect Magic.
Gear: Commlink (Transys Avalon, Iris Orb), Honda Civic
Language: English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew
Leo Mills, Hermetic Magician
Human, Initiate 1
1 1 2 1 4 4 5 5 3 6 6 5 1 9
Movement: 10/25
Skills: Arcana 3, Assensing 4, Astral Combat 4, Counterspelling 3, Conjuring Skill Group 3, Etiquette
(Street) 3, Perception 4, Sorcery Skill Group 3.
Metamagic Techniques: Cleansing
Spells: Confusion, Cure Disease, Deflection, Heal, Healthy Glow, Invisibility, Shapechange, Stunbolt,
Gear: Armour Clothing That Wife Makes Him Wear (4/0), Commlink (Erika Elite, Iris Orb), Honda
Spirit, Harley Scorpion
Language: English, Latin.
Catherine Mills, Samurai
Ork
B A R S C I L W E ESS Init IP CM
6 4(5) 4(7) 5(6) 2 3 2 2 2 0.68 7(10) 4 11
Movement: 10/25
Skills: Athletics Skill Group 3, Automatics 3, Blades 3, Cyber Implant Weaponry 3, Dodge 3,
Etiquette (Street) 3, Infiltration 1, Negotiation 1, Pistols 3, Longarms 3, Unarmed Combat 3.
Qualities: High Pain Tolerance
Cyberware: Alpha Wired Reflexes 3, Alpha Muscle Replacement 1, Alpha Cybereyes (Imagelink,
Smartlink, Vision Enhancement 2, Thermographic Vision), Alpha Datajack, Alpha Hand Razors
Gear: Ares Predator IV, Ingram Smartgun X, Armour Jacket, Knowsofts (Home and Small Office
Security Procedures and Tactics 4), Knife. 2x Doberman Drones w/ Ingram White Knight LMG,
Bulldog Step Van.
Language: English.
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NPC Ro ster II
Info rm an ts
The below is a selection of informants and contacts for the Shadowrun game. They are not intended to
be connected in any way other than thematically. When a GM needs to feed some information to the
players following some successful Charisma + Etiquette rolls, or a new characters wants to purchase
a couple of lowinfluence contacts, the following should be able to be dropped into most games.
Ede n, th e dan cer

Human, Snake Shaman
Image: A petite, snakehipped femme with long curling dark hair, curves like a goddess, smile like a
genie. She wears snakeskin (real?) pants and a black leather waistcoat that shows a soft slight belly
and buttons tight across her chest. A small painting of an apple tree adorns the base of her spine.
Quote: 'I don't know all that fancy philosophy and theology and school stuff, but I figure if something
feels right, then it must be... don't you think? Ain't nothin' complex 'bout that.'
RolePlaying: Young, fun and possessed of a profoundly practical sort of wisdom. Kind and
supportive, but sometimes a little difficult to prise away from (or off) the bar.
Background: Born and raised in Chicago at first, but since moved to Seattle for a better life, Eden
knows one thing and one thing well – how to live and to party. Making her nuyen in the bars and strip
clubs from Downtown to Tacoma to Bellevue, Eden has two things that set her apart from the other
dancers... hips that move like a Latin American Dance Queen and the ability to cast spells. Eden first
heard the call of Snake when she was sixteen, surviving in Chicago. Snake is Eden's dark side... not
evil, just hedonistic. Snake is also a healer and a wise counsellor to her. Eden is not afraid to work her
magic into her performances, and in exclusive showings, transforms herself into a snake and back as
well as using her charmed pets in some of the shows. Eden has no problem with her sexuality and
wouldn't do the job she did if she felt it was wrong. She attracts both men and women to watch her.
Contact Potential: Eden's skills and profession get her into the oddest of places. Her friendly
demeanour and openness, lead a lot of people to confide in her. Potentially, Eden could have a line of
access to anyone from the topmost politicians to the lowest of mafia bosses. Getting her to divulge the
information to the players however, could be a whole different game, however.
Human, Magician (Shaman)
3 3 2 2 5 5 3 4 1 5 6 6 1 10
Movement: 10/25
Skills: Assensing 3, Con 2, Conjuring Skill Group 3, Counterspelling 3, Dance 4, Dodge 2, Escape
Artist 2, Etiquette (Street) 5, First Aid 1, Leadership 1, Negotiation 1, Perception 5, Spellcasting 3,
Knowledge (Seattle Clubs and Bars) 3, Knowledge (Seattle Gangs) 2, Knowledge (Insect Spirits) 2,
Knowledge (Popular Music) 3.
Language: English
Spells: Detect Magic, Critter Form (Snake), Borrow Sense, Mind Link, Mind Probe, Alleviate
Addiction, Increase Charisma, Healthy Glow, Double Image, Control Animal
Gear: Metalink Comm (Vector Xim OS), Sustaining Focus (Force 1)
Si x-Fa ce Shiha b, th e S pir it

Free Spirit, Force 2
Image: An overlarge head, about a foot wide with a face on every side. some moustached, some
smooth, some fiercebrowed, some fat jowled. The apparition bobs along, rotating sometimes as each
face peers to look at whatever catches it's interest. A low bubbub of muttering filters through the air
as the various faces constantly argue, complain or compliment each other.
Quote: '”Look at that... what? It's gone now. What was it? There's a rat over there. Is that what you
saw? No. You keep out of it. You keep out of it. Let's eat the rat. It's not your turn. I don't mind. What
did you see? But it's not his turn. No really it's okay. What did you see? He doesn't mind. I'm going to
eat the rat. You're not going to eat the rat. WHAT DID YOU SEE? Hey, there's an ork over there
looking at us. I just said that. No you didn't. I did – I said look at that! You're always letting him boss
you around. I'm not hungry. He's not hungry! He's just saying that. Do we know the ork? No, no, no,
don't think so, not seen him before myself, no. Oh, the rat's gone now. Let's go look at the ork.”
RolePlaying: Nosy, curious, sometimes playful, often rude. Imagine six slightly senile men glued
together for all eternity. Which is not to say that Shihab is either slow or stupid, merely short on focus
and sometimes difficult to talk to.
Background: As with many free spirits, nobody quite knows where this one came from. He seems to
have emerged sometime in the last three years to float about the city, spying on people through
windows or from the astral and to give the occasional child a fright of truly epic proportions. Each
face can talk and observe independently, though he seems to have no problem deciding what he wants
to do. If indeed it is a 'he' and not a 'they.' Incidentally, Shihabs faces are mainly middle eastern in
appearance, and though they vary widely in appearance, they are all male and all just a little too big
on his larger than human great cubic head. Aside from spying and nosing on people, Shihab's other
two joys seem to be carrying on endlessly inane conversations with itself, like two old ladies in a
nursing home, and secondly, eating rats whenever it can catch one. The sight of the spirit gleefully
descending on a rat and chomping up the morsel (only to have the bones be spat out by a different
face) is one that can disturb even the most hardened of shadowrunners.
Contact Potential: Shihab has few needs as a spirit and zero interest in money. If the players wish to
bargain with the spirit for knowledge (and the spirit can take great, meanspirited delight in being
suddenly cagey when it wants to be), they are going to have to pay it in kind. Fortunately, Shihab has
some different ideas about what value to place on knowledge and may happily exchange valuable
black mail material on the local Yakuza boss in exchange for juicy gossip about a neighbour he's
become interested in.
Free Spirit, Force 2
(Materialised)
3 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 10
Movement: 15/40 (flight)
Skills: Assensing 3, Con 2, Counterspelling 2, Dodge 2, Flight 2, Infiltration 3, Negotiation 2,
Perception 4, Spellcasting 2, Knowledge (Seattle Geography) 4, Knowledge (Seattle Gangs) 2,
Knowledge (Seattle Criminal Organisations) 2.
Language: Arabic, English, Japanese, Cantonese, Sioux, Spanish.
Powers: Astral Form, Concealment, Materialisation, Search, Enhanced Senses (LowLight), Sapience,
Confusion, Magician.
Spells: Detect Individual, Analyse Truth
Hurt le H arr y, the ta xi -dr ive r.

Dwarf, rigger.
Image: A fat little Chinese dwarf, with a range of nanotattoos, black hair receding at the front, long
and ponytailed at the back, he's typically dressed in a grubby jumpsuit and boots. He looks a little
shy of middleage so for a dwarf, he must be hitting the lifestyle pretty hard.
Quote: 'If you go fast enough, nothing else will hit you... see – totally missed that drone – it's just
common sense. What's easier to catch? A ball or a bullet? The faster you go, the safer you are....
What if I hit something? No sir, if you go fast enough, everyone will get out of your way. Take my
advice and never drop below 100kph. It's the magic number.'
RolePlaying: Friendly, gregarious, but nobody's fool. He's got the gift of the gab and can talk
extensively on urban brawl, combat biking, politics, crime and racial equality. But he knows how to
listen to the interesting fares, too, and Hurtle Harry certainly picks up some interesting people from
time to time.
Background: A Seattle native, Harry Hong loves the city like nobody else ever could. He knows the
high points and the low points (okay, maybe the low points) and cares passionately about the life of
the regular Seattlite. Making his money racing people around the city, he works long hours to provide
for his wife and kid, and if he can top up his kid's school fund by selling a little information on the
side, then that's all to the good.
Contact Potential: Quite naturally, Harry (the “Hurtle” to his friends) can provide good information
on things that are going down in Seattle. If you need to know who's muscling in on who's turf and
which politico was secretly ferried back from a bunraku parlour in the early hours of the morning, ask
Harry. Just be prepared to feed his meter a little extra in return.
Dwarf
B A R S C I L W E ESS Init IP CM
3 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 5.1 6 1 10
Movement: 8/20
Skills: Pilot Aircraft (Air Taxi) 3, Pilot Groundcraft 3, Etiquette (Street) 3, Con 1, Negotiation 3,
Pistols 1, Unarmed Combat 1, Knowledge (Seattle Geography) 3, Knowledge (Seattle Criminal
Activity) 3, Knowledge (Seattle Politics) 3, Knowledge (Urban Brawl) 2, Knowledge (Combat Biking)
2,
Language: English
Gear: Air Taxi (awaiting Arsenal), Colt American Lt. Pistol. Mapsoft (rating 5), Fake Licences (rating
24), Fake SIMs (ratings 2 – 5). Commlink (Renraku Sensei, Renraku Ichi). IC loaded in Air Taxi
node.
Cyberware: Datajack, SIM Module (Hot SIM Modified), Control Rig, Image Link,
NP C Rost er I II
Prim e Runner s
This collects a selection of advanced opposition for Shadowrun 4th edition. All of these characters are
intended to be elite rivals, resistance or assassins for the PC party. They vary in power, and as always
in Shadowrun, what one does is typically more important than what one is capable of. However, all of
them, most especially Lucia, have the potential to seriously threaten the PCs.
Du la c, th e S pec ia l Fo rc es .
Elf, Samurai
Image: A little short for an elf, around 5'10” but slimly muscular and with a lean, Caucasian face,
framed by simple dark hair. Nothing immediately stands out, except the somewhat pallid cast to his
skin and his dark, slightly redrimmed eyes. On a mission, he will likely be kitted out in a camoflage
suit, mask and goggles.
Quote: 'You mind your own business. You tell me the job, I do the job. That's where it begins and
that's where it ends. I don't need your curiosity and I certainly don't want your friendship.
RolePlaying: Intense, selfabsorbed, haunted. Driven is a word that comes easily to mind with
Dulac. Unnerving is another. For the most part, Dulac will be completely efficient and businesslike.
Sometimes he will appear very haggard and sleep deprived. Occasionally, he might break down into
tears, wail and rant. He will become very passionate and proTir if the subject of that neighbouring
country comes up. He also leans toward elf supremism.
Background: Dulac, whose real name is Francois Pitou, was born in Bordeaux in 2032, to human
parents, but in 2035, they emigrated to Tir Tairngire in hopes of a better, and prejudice free life for
their special child. To some extent, they got what they wanted. Though eternally heldback by being
human themselves, their child proved to be quite gifted and began to ascend the ranks. Raised in the
culture of Tir Taingire and further conditioned by choosing to enter the Tir Peace Force, the young
boy grew up with a deep, almost fanatical loyalty to the ideals of his country and the “elven ideal.” It
was a natural progression that he followed and by the age of thirtytwo, he had made his way into the
elite Tir Ghosts and a Paladin, swearing fealty to Prince Ehran “the Scribe.” It was to be his undoing.
Captured in a minor diplomatic indicident with the Sioux, he was held captive for eight weeks, during
which time he was brutally and repeatedly tortured. He broke under the treatment and gave up what
minor information he had. Returned in a prisoner exchange, he was accepted back into the Tir without
charges. Perhaps had he been in better shape on his return, there might have been further disciplinaries
carried out, but he never recovered from what he endured. The confrontation with what he sees as his
own cowardice and weakness (it is not), is one he has not been able to reconcile with his selfimage.
After eight months on leave undergoing therapy and treatment in the Tir, he one day simply
dissappeared, crossing two border and winding up in the Seattle underworld. His elite training and
bioware make him a valuable resource and he knows it, hiring himself out almost indiscriminately. His
neighbours in Downtown apartment complex know him only as a quiet person who does not mix, But
by in between runs and superficial socialising, he sits at home dwelling on his betrayal and slotting the
rarest of BTL's – torture simulations from the victims, view point. Sometimes he will tie himself to a
chair, gagged, with the restraints timed to release him after a set period, and he will run the SIMs.
Each time he pushes himself until he breaks down and betrays his prince once more, and each time he
blames himself. If he endures the treatment, then next time he simply sets it to run longer, or more
intensely. The experience leaves him scarred and exhausted each time. He will, however, stop at
nothing to get back to his lost state of faith in himself.
Role: Dulac can be used as a rival runner getting to the goal minutes before the players, an assassin
targeting someone the PCs are guarding or a pawn of their enemy. Best is if he can be introduced as a
character in his own right, before the players come up against him in a run, however.
Usage Suggestions: Running in parallel with the team and taking the prize from under their noses;
infiltrating the players safehouse; interrogating a captive PC with the use of drugs and BTL torture
simulations.
Elf, Samurai
4 5 (8) 5(7) 3 3 4 2 6 0 3 3.75 9(11) 1(3) 10
Movement: 10/25
Skills: Automatics 4, Blades 3, Climbing 4 (Buildings), Con 2, Dodge 4, Electronic Warfare 1,
Etiquette 2, Infiltration 5 (urban), Intimidation 3 (Torture), Hardware 2 (Security Devices). Perception
4, Pistols 4, Longarms 4, Pilot Groundcraft 2, Running 3, Swimming 2, Negotiation 1, Disguise 2,
Navigation 1, Shadowing 3 (Tailing), Unarmed Combat 3,
Languages: English, French, Speretheriel
Qualities: Guts, High Pain Tolerance III.
Gear: Commlink (Transys Avalon, Response Upgrade 6, Sim Module, Firewall 6, System 5, IC w/
Pilot 5, Black Hammer 5, Armour 5, Attack 5, Analyse 5), Trodes, Tag Eraser, Chameleon Suit, (Non
conductivity 5, Thermal Damping 5), Fake Licence 6, Fake SIN 5, Torture BTLs, Walther MA2100
Sniper Rifle, w/ APDS (7P, 8AP, 10(m), smartlink), Uzi IV (smartlink), Gecko Tape Gloves,
Hardware tools,
Cyber / Bioware (all betaware): Orthoskin III, Muscle Toner III, Bone Density Augmentation III,
Synthacardium III, Cybereyes II (Image Link, Recording Unit, Low Light, Thermographic, Smartlink,
Flare Compensation). Synaptic Booster II.
Bu ffal o, the Wa rri or .

Troll Samurai.
Image: A seriouslooking amerind troll, standing a fraction under eight feet, with a squat, powerful
frame, His straight black hair falls around two ebonypolished horns and frames a thickboned,
powerful face.
Quote: 'I wish you to understand that this is not personal. We all do what we have to do.'
RolePlaying: The classic strong, silent type on the outside, masking a quiet rage and desperation
underneath, an anger ever ready to erupt unexpectedly to the surface. Capable of acts of compassion
where able to, however.
Background: Buffalo is a citizen of SalishShidhe and native american, born a troll. He served time
in the SalishShidhe military and performed adequately. Lacking other options, he would probably
have gone all the way. But a nasty fight left him near death. It wasn't even military action – just a bar
fight that got out of hand when some of the participants turned out to be Syndicate men. Shot multiple
times on leaving the place, Buffalo lost both arms and took severe damage to his chest and a fractured
skull. Military health plan took care of the basics and pulled him through, but to pay for cyberware
suitable for his troll body, Buffalo had to get loans from the one group that would lend money to a
troll in his situation – the Yakuza. Now Buffalo's life is a spiralling nightmare of debt and repayments,
working as muscle or a hitman for his Syndicate owners. He dreams of buying his way free, but every
time he gets close, something seems to happen to make things worse. And the only collateral he has,
is expensive chrome that makes up his own body.
Usage Suggestions: Any organised crime scenario where serious muscle needs to be deployed or they
don't want to risk their own men.
Troll, Street Samurai.
B S A R C I L W E ESS Init IP CM
9 9 4 4 (6) 2 3 2 3 2 0.25 7 (9) 1 (2) 13 (17)
Movement: 25/40.
Skills: Athletics Group 3, Close Combat Group 3, Dodge 2 (+1 Dodge – Move By Wire), Firearms
Group 4, Heavy Weapons 4 (Machine Guns), Etiquette 3, Leadership 2, Automotive Mechanic 2,
Outdoors Group 2, Infiltration 2, Shadowing 2, Archery 1, Parachuting 1, Perception 3,
Cybertechnology 1, First Aid 1
Language: English, Makah
Cyberware: Synthetic Cyber Skull (Armour 1), 2x Synthetic Full Arm (Str 9, Bod 9, Agi 4, Armour
4), Synthetic Cyber Torso (Str 9, Bod 9, Agi 4, Armour 2), Move By Wire I (Alpha).
Gear: Armour Jacket (8/6), contact lenses (image link, smart link and flare comp.), Fake Licence 4,
(Firearms), Ares Predator (w/ APDS ammo), FN HAR (w/ Smart link, assorted regular, APDS and
Ex Ammo), Stoner Ares M202 MMG (w/ Smart Link, gyrostabalisation, gas vent II). Respirator,
combat knife, combat axe (not normally carried).
Total Natural Armour, incl. troll bonus: 12 / 12
Total Armour whilst wearing Armour Jacket: 20 / 18
Luci a, the San te ra.

Elf, Voodoo Tradition.
Image: A disarmingly pretty young woman, supplelimbed and graceful. Long curling black hair
doesn't conceal the delicate tip of an elven ear and the dark latin eyes and full lips are merely
accentuated by the slim proportions of the elven face. She typically dresses simply, in a white dress
and gold bangles that complement her dark skin.
Quotes: 'When the loa ride me, I warn you – I will be different.'
RolePlaying: There are two sides to Lucia. In one aspect, she has a light, warm personality, sweet
and strong. When ridden by her loa, however, she becomes wild, savage and revels in unleashing her
her primal instincts. That is not to say that the latter side is less intelligent or perceptive. Both aspects
of Lucia are as competent as the other but they couldn't be more different. Both aspects understand
themselves to be part of a whole, respecting each other and sharing goals. Their methodology and
modes of expression are merely diametrically opposed.
Background: Lucia grew up poor in El Paso but her parents always taught her right from wrong and
she kept herself respectable, charitable and hardworking. Nor did she ever capitalise on her beauty or
become vain. She was an angel amidst devils. At sixteen, she met a man, a practitioner of Santeria,
who led her to a celebration on the outskirts of town. And there, she was stunned and amazed to
suddenly see the “Invisibles” for the first time, soaring around and amidst the people who partied
unaware of their astral guests. Lucia called out to them and they heard her. Her first possession was
that night.
From there, her power grew. She came to Seattle and lived amongst the poor, gathering followers and
adherents, still spreading light in a dark world. Even the local gangs pay her a certain respect,
allowing her a neutrality that they would never accept from anyone else. In return, she has helped
many who suffered injury, addictions or even just fears and doubts.
But sometimes, other methods seem appropriate. It is not a concious decision on Lucia's part –
without thinking through the implications of what she is doing, she performs the rituals and invites
her loa into her body or into the bodies of her adherents that volunteer. And then she will unleash Hell
before returning to her other aspect without qualm or concern over what the other aspect has done.
The two aspects of Lucia regard each other as completely distinct, accept no responsibility for each
other, yet work together perfectly.
Role: Lucia is capable in combat, though is reasonably stealthy (particularly making use of levitation
or wall crawling) and more likely to spring upon a lone team member by surprise than a direct attack.
She is particularly adept in astral combat and cunning enough to trick a hapless mage into exposing
himself to attack. She also has many loyal friends in her community who help to serve as eyes and
ears and even allow themselves to be possessed by her loa when she asks. Both Lucia and Lucia are
accepted as angels by those they help. Lucia should always be played intelligently. In the one aspect
she is wise and thoughtful, in the other aspect she is cunning and feral – not stupidly violent or
wanton.
Usage Suggestions: Lucia can make a terrifying adversary for the players to blunder into when they
become involved in gang politics or work for a corp or Syndicate that threatens Lucia's people or
interests. They could also run across her if they have someone or something that she wants. She is a
power unto herself, however and should be treated as such. Even the Syndicates and Lonestar avoid
crossing her or meddling on her turf. The counterbalance to her power is that she is mainly benign
unless provoked, and that she could be vulnerable to a surprise attack if well planned. Note that Lucia
normally has a few bound spirits ready to be summoned into her followers (mostly gangers) or to
sustain spells for short periods.
Elf, Magician (Voodoo), Initiate 4
2 5 5 1 8 3 3 5 7 4 6 8 1 10
Movement: 10/25
Skills: Assensing 4, Astral Combat 6, Banishing 4, Binding 4, Blades 1, Dodge 5, First Aid 2,
Perception 4, Shadowing 2, Summoning 6, Infiltration 1, Influence Group 4, Counterspelling 4,
Ritual Spellcasting 4, Spellcasting 6.
Languages: Spanish (N), English
Drain Attribute: Charisma + Willpower.
Qualities: Spirit Pact (Formula).
Spells: Alleviate Addiction, Antidote, Area Thought Recognition, Deflection, Astral Armour, Cure
Disease, Decrease Willpower, Detect Life, Detox, Heal, Increase Willpower, Manaball, Manabolt,
Orgy, Mass Sense (Sight) Removal, Slay Spirit.
Metamagic: Ally Conjuration, Channelling, Centering (Dancing), Sympathetic Linking
Gear: Medicine Lodge 9.
Dark Lucia, Free Spirit, Former Ally
Force 7
Powers: Astral Form, Banishing Resistance, Realistic Form, Sapience, Sense Link, Fear, Magician,
Elemental Attack (Air), Spirit Pact (Formula), Movement
Metamagics: Shielding, Absorption
Skills: Assensing, Astral Combat, Dodge, Perception, Unarmed Combat, Spell Casting, Exotic
Weapon, Counterspelling.
Spells: Levitate, Magic Fingers, Fling, Elemental (Blast) Aura, Interference, Blast Ball (Ball
Lightning w/ Blast Elemental Effect Substituted), Death Touch, Blast, Poltergeist
Possessed Lucia Statistics
9 12 12 8 7 3 3 5 7 7 7 15 2 12
Movement: 10/25
Immunity to Normal Weapons (14).
NP C Rost er I V
The Bu gs
This NPC collection details a complete group of Insect Spirit possessed individuals. They have yet
to invoke a queen spirit and so are not yet a hive. There is potential however, and the group is
moderately dangerous, though unlikely to pose a threat to experienced Shadowrunners. They are
probably of most interest as components of a larger run, or even as twoedged allies for teams that
wish to take the chance.
The Setu p
In Downtown, Seattle, there's a little club called The Velvet Glove. It caters to those whose
sexual tastes are a little less straightforward than most. Sure, you can get a SIM chip and live out
your fantasies, but it's not the same as being in a club of living, breathing comrades who share your
fetishes. Or at least have compatible ones of their own. Behind the fairly nondescript yellow door, is
a close set of rooms, bar and dance floor, where people can dance, and play, their night away. It is
presided over, as it has been for the last two years, by an elven woman known as The Poison
Maiden. She pays her small tithe to the local Yakuza syndicate and even does a little business with
them when one of the clients wants to have the experience of being a bunraku slave. The Velvet
Glove caters to all tastes, though it's mostly consensual (admittedly the lines get a little blurred some
times) and it attracts people across the social strata.
There's only one thing wrong. A few months ago, a recently awakened shaman, besotted
with the Poison Maiden, decided she would be the perfect host for a slightly more than perfect
spirit. Once again, the bugs were rearing their ugly heads.
Lo uis Lev it t, aka Gim p.

Elf, Insect Shaman (Wasp)
Image: A young, caucasian male elf, thin dark hair, a whitish pallor and intense, dark eyes. He has a
way of staring that makes it seem as though he's not quite there... and yet there is a certain presence
about him, a hint of power that suggests to people he could be dangerous if provoked. Typically, he
wears tight, black synthleathers around his lean, stickinsect body and heeled boots.
Quote: ”Better to serve in paradise than to reign in Hell.”
RolePlaying: Emotionally withdrawn, as if everything lacks intensity, much like a typical BTL
addict needing another high. Yet quite intense at the same time and highly intelligent. A little
sociopathic too and somewhat alien in his thinking, liable to come up with offthewall, highly
lateral ideas.
Goals: To do everything he can to preserve the secrecy of his true calling and his insect spirits,
whilst gathering the power to invoke Simone into a true Queen that he can serve.
Background: Louis Levitt comes from a uppermiddle class corporate family in Bellevue. He's had a
good education and a financial start in life, but his parents have more or less given up on him by this
point. He has not talked to them or his younger sister in several months. He ran with small time
thrill gangs growing up and maintains a few criminal contacts. His chief driving force in young
adulthood was his sexual fetish for being dominated by powerful women. Nothing really seemed to
satisfy his need for complete submission of the self, until one night, the whispering began. Now he
is a fully fledged insect shaman, in willing thrall to an alien mistress. Daily, he becomes more
removed from his own humanity and his most desperate desire is to bring his mistress through to the
real world. For now he slates his fantasies in mock servitude to the Nymph spirit that he summoned,
but in his heart he knows she is bound to him and not the other way around. Soon though, he hopes
to set her free of such restraint, so that she can rule him completely.
Si mo ne De rrin ger, aka the Poi son Ma id en.

Wasp Nymph Spirit, Flesh Form Elf
Image: A beautiful elven woman, fullfigured, waspwaist, ice blonde with cold, greyiris eyes. She
dresses in fauxmilitary gear – form fitting black body armour – and carries a visible taser weapon
on her belt. Two tiny silver datajack ports on her left temple are the only thing that mar her perfect
complexion.
Quote:”You can be trained.”
Roleplaying: Ruthless, dominant, predatory. Also intelligent and socially adept. Sexuality is very
much a part of her demeanor, but so is sadism.
Background: Simone was a rich brat from an abusive family. Her teenage years were filled with
BTL and drug fuelled rebellion. Testament to her strong will however, she pulled through and put
herself back together again. She still had a strong streak of revengedriven sadism in her sexual
makeup, however, exulting in her power over others. Happily, UCAS in the 2070's provided a
lucrative market for such tastes. Simone worked first privately, then branched out into running her
own club, tailoring for more jaded tastes. Her clients ranged from the almost vanilla submissive
business men to those who wanted to be made (temporarily) into bunraku slaves and experience full
abuse. Life was going well for Simone until it ended. Regrettably she almost perfectly filled Louis
Levitt's fantasies... but not quite. She fought against the transformation into a wasp spirit host with
everything she had, but the result was her emergence as a near perfect flesh form. Now she
continues to manage her small business, whilst the group bide their time, planning great things
when Simone can finally grow to become a true queen.
Bo sto n Jo hn.
Wasp Soldier Spirit, Hybrid Troll
Image: A true monster from a horror SIM, eight or nine feet of mutated insecthumanoid. The
heavy, longarmed frame of a troll, but chitinous plates of armour adorn its body, antennae project
from its head and it's eyes are bulging, segmented things, like compound eyes but gristly, with little
tiny pupils. Stubby, useless wings buzz and whine furiously as it lumbers forwards.
Quote: “...”
RolePlaying: Smash, kill, rend.
Background:Boston John was one of the bouncers at The Velvet Glove before it became something
more than a 2bit fetish club. In fact, he worked a number of clubs and bars around the area but has
now vanished. The reality is that the attempted inhabitation of his body by a wasp spirit did not go
as well as hoped and he's now unable to pass in public for anything other than what he is. Louis and
Simone keep him hidden in the club most of the time and plan to use him as an emergency
rearguard if they need to make a fast retreat. He has (or had) two children and a wife (all trolls) who
believe that he is now probably dead. The most accepted story is that he had unsuspected debts with
a syndicate and has made the ultimate repayment.
Do nn a Levi tt , ak a St in g.
Wasp Scout Spirit, True Form Human
Image: It's a wasp. But it's a wasp that's over three long. The magnification of its segmented body
and compound eyes show the insect hideousness of the thing in a way that couldn't be guessed at on
a naturally sized creature. It's plated thorax swells and collapses as it breathes and is tipped with a
curving, injecting stinger. And it's fast.
Quote:”Buzz, buzz.”
RolePlaying: Spy, seek, sneak. If there's a need to kill, do some from a careful ambush.
Background: Donna is, or was, Louis's illegitimate eightyear old daughter. She sometimes lived
with him, sometimes with her exganger mother. Life wasn't great in either case, choosing between
onelevel above a squat or seeing the lifestyle of her degenerate father. It would have been difficult
for life to get much harder, but it managed it anyway. Donna was Louis' first attempt to impregnate
someone with a wasp spirit. If it's any consolation, Donna's transition was a peaceful one. The
inhabitation was an outstanding success and she now exists as a loyal scout for the group.
Sa lma n, ak a Ca nni ba l
Wasp Soldier Spirit, Flesh Form Ork
Image:An athletic looking ork of Indian origin. He has a serious look to him, wearing simple
clothing and no ornamentation. Even his head is clean shaven and lacking in stylistic preference. His
sole distinguishing feature is his pronounced set of tusks, which are large even for an ork, and
appear to have been sharpened with tools.
Quote:”Pay me enough and I'll do the job.”
RolePlaying: Dispassionate in any circumstance but violence or its anticipation. Only then does his
face light up in real emotion. Show as little empathy for common human affection or need to
socialise as possible.
Background: Salman was an average ork ganger, pulling in a bit of legit security work on the side. A
little bigger and stronger and more skilled than most, but nothing truly exceptional. That changed
when he took a job working security for The Velvet Glove nightclub. The story he's told his old
gang mates is that he has discovered his adept powers. It's a good cover story for his newfound
abilities. As far as his former friends are concerned, it also accounts for his recent aloofness, as they
see him as thinking himself too good to associate with his old gangers. Salman now brings in money
for Louis working as a heavy hitter for local petty criminals. His ferocity and rumours that he eats
people he kills have made him hot property. There is a risk that he has gone too far, however. His
inhumanity has severed a lot of useful ties to his former community and those threatened by him
now see their only hope to be striking back with lethal force.
Gam e S tati st ics
Lo uis Lev it t, aka Gim p.

Elf, Magician (Shaman)
2 3 3 1 4 3 4 4 3 2 6 6 1 9
Movement: 10/25
Skills: Arcana 2, Assensing 2, Con 3, Conjuring Skill Group 3, Counterspelling 3, Dodge 3,
Etiquette (Street) 4, Leadership 2, Negotiation 3, Perception 3, Pistols 1, Spellcasting 3, Summoning
3, Knowledge (Seattle Clubs and Bars) 3, Knowledge (Seattle Gangs) 2.
Language: English
Spells: Alter Memory, Armour, Bugs, Heal, Invisibility, Mana bolt, Powerbolt,
Gear: Eurocar Westwind, Colt American Light Pistol, Erika Elite w/ Mangadyne Deva (Response 3,
Signal 4, Firewall 2, System 3), Contacts w/ Image Link, Armour Clothing (4/0), Assorted cred
sticks and suchlike.
Si mo ne De rrin ger, aka Poi so n Ma id en.

Wasp Nymph Spirit, Flesh Form Elf, Force 5
2 5 3 1 4 4 2 4 5 5 5 7 2 9
Movement: 10/25
Skills: Assensing 5, Astral Combat 5, Con 3, Dodge 5, Negotiation 3, Perception 5, Spellcasting 5,
Knowledge (Seattle Business Community) 1, Knowledge (Seattle Gangs) 2, Knowledge (Seattle
Criminal Organisations) 2, Unarmed Combat 5.
Language: English, Sperethiel.
Powers: Animal Control (Wasp), Compulsion (Mating), Enhanced Senses (Smell, Thermographic),
Hive Mind, Immunity to Normal Weapons, Realistic Form, Aura Masking, Innate Spell
(Invisibility), Sapience, Venom
Weaknesses: Allergy (Insecticides, Severe).
Gear: Datajack, FormFitting Body Armour (5/1), FIchetti Pain Inducer, Erika Elite w/ Mangadyne
Deva (Response 3, Signal 4, Firewall 2, System 3)
Bo sto n Jo hn.
Wasp Soldier Spirit, Hybrid Troll, Force 4
12 7 7 13 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 11 2 12
Movement: 15/35
Skills: Assensing 4, Astral Combat 4, Counterspelling 4, Dodge 4, Perception 4, Unarmed Combat
4.
Language: English
Powers: Animal Control (Wasp), Fear,, Hive Mind, Immunity to Normal Weapons, Magical Guard,
Natural Weapon (6P, 1AP), Sapience.
Gear: Dermal Plating III (+3/+3), Troll natural armour (+1/+1).
Do nn a Levi tt
Wasp Scout Spirit, Human True Form, Force 3
Materialised
3 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 8 2 9
Movement: 10/45 (Flying)
Skills: Assensing 3, Astral Combat 3, Dodge 3, Infiltration 3, Perception 3, Shadowing 3, Unarmed
Combat 3.
Powers: Animal Control (Wasp), Astral Form, Concealment, Confusion, Enhanced Senses (Smell,
Thermographic Vision), Materialisation, Hive Mind, Sapience, Venom.
Sa lma n, ak a Ca nni ba l.
Wasp Soldier Spirit, Flesh Form Ork, Force 3
7 4 3 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 6 2 9
Movement: 10/25
Skills: Assensing 3, Astral Combat 3, Automatics 2, Blades 2, Dodge 2, Perception 2, Pistols 3,
Unarmed Combat 3.
Language: English
Powers: Animal Control (Wasp), Concealment, Fear, Hive Mind, Immunity to Normal Weapons,
Magical Guard, Natural Weapon (6P, 1AP), Sapience, Venom.
Gear: Armour Jacket, AK97 Carbine SMG, Colt America L36 Lt. Pistol, Metalink w. Vector Sim
(Response 1, Signal 2, System 1, Firewall 1).
Usag e Hi nt s
The group as written are low in power. Most particularly, the two main players are quite vulnerable
to physical assault. However, this is true of most NPCs in Shadowrun when players have sufficient
time to plot and plan. The critical thing is to keep information from the players so that they are
unaware that these characters actually are ones that they may choose to confront. Louis, and
especially Simone, can be presented as contacts and informants. She has excellent reason to know
things from a variety of clients and club frequenters. Likewise, Louis has some reasonable gang and
petty organised crime contacts. The thing that is interesting is that the group is on the cusp of being
genuinely dangerous. Louis needs to initiate. Once he does so, his immediate aim will be to invoke
Simone into her Queen form. At this point, she will become considerably more powerful, even as a
flesh form, and will be able to start building a powerbase in earnest.
NPC Roster VI
The Free
This roster contains a list of Free or Wild spirits. They range in power from the mediocre
(Slink) to the utterly deadly (Medusa), but should all be able to add a bit of colour to a game. They
need not be treated as opponents though they can be.
Slink, Wild Spirit.

Image: Crouched in the shadows, a glittering blue form, a spirit in the shape a slender girl or young
elf. There's something aquatic about her, in the fluid way she moves, the subtle ridges of bone that
grow from her flesh like some strange fish creature and the softlooking spines that hang from her
slender neck and arms. Mostly all you ever see are two great lambent green eyes in the dark.
Quote: 'Boo!'
RolePlaying: Lurk in the shadows and the dark waters, be secret, be silent, watch, listen and
occasionally play little tricks.
Background: Slink dwells under the City, swimming through the sewers and sometimes the outlets
in the harbour and the Puget Sound. She listens and she lurks and finds a lot of things that people
think they've flushed away. She has never been known to appear on the surface, though it's possible
that she has wriggled up people's wastepipes from time to time – as a water spirit, she is inhumanly
flexible and can squeeze through incredibly small openings.
Free Spirit (Wild), Force 3, Materialised.
B S A R C I L W E ESS M Init IP CM
5 3 3 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 8 2
Movement: 10/25 (30/75 swimming)
Powers: Astral Form, Banishing Resistance, Concealment, Confusion, Magician, Materialisation,
Movement, Sapience, Search, Accident, Venom
Skills: Assensing 4, Astral Combat 2, Counterspelling 2, Dodge (Whilst Swimming) 3, Etiquette 2,
Exotic Weapon (Poisonous Spines) 2, Infiltration (Subterranean) 4, Swimming (Underwater) 5,
Navigation (Subterranean) 1, Perception 4, Shadowing (Subterranean) 3, Spellcasting 2.
Languages: English 3, Japanese 3, Spanish 3, Cantonese 3, Korean 3, Merrow 3, Sperethiel 3
Spells: Oxygenate.
Colha, Free Toxic Spirit of Man.

Image: A thousand slim little razor blades, ten thousand, it's impossible to count. They coalesce
from the air to take the rough shape of a human being with distorted, elongated proportions a man
shaped cyclone of edges; the face is not a face, but a hollow mask of steel with nothing but gaping,
serrated holes where the eyes and mouth would be. A scalpelfingered hand flicks toward you, the
arm extending across space grotesquely to cut at your eyes.
Background: Whatever Colha once was, it is now nothing more than a spirit of murder and an
embodiment of the alienation of modern urban life at its darkest. Flitting from city to city across the
UCAS and CAS, Colha haunts the urban blights, sating himself with the murder of those he finds
alone. But Colha needs more than that. To gain energy [karma], Colha must be granted it by a living
being, typically through a ritual involving his formula, though a spirit pact would be conceivable if a
sufficiently depraved (meta)human could ever be found. The ritual of energy transfer [karma] is
normally a two stage process. Firstly, Colha secretes a victim somewhere he hopes the two of them
wont be disturbed and begins a process of excruciatingly careful disection, ensuring that the victim
is not killed. Medical technology is sometimes used for this. At the same time parts and fluids of the
victim's body are used to decorate the room with the pattern of Colha's formula. At this point, it is
highly unlikely that the victim will survive for much longer, but the agony is unimaginable. Colha
demands the victim cede their energy to him for the simple favour of ending their pain. A few hardy
souls refuse him until the end, and as often, they slip away into unconciousness and death before
anything can be done, despite everything the spirit can do to hold them there. But when Colha finds
someone strong of body, will and soul, then he will do anything he can to retain them and feed from
them.
Colha is always careful to disturb the arcane arrangements of organs and viscera when done, lest
some magician see it and perceive the meaning behind the intricate configurations and bind him.
Free Toxic Spirit of Man, Force 5, Materialised.
5 3 7 8 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 13 2
Movement: 10/25.
Powers: Astral Form, Banishing Resistance, Concealment, Elemental Attack (Metal), Elemental
Aura (Metal), Enhanced Senses (Low-Light), Fear, Magician, Materialisation, Sapience, Search,
Regeneration.
Skills: Assensing 5, Astral Combat 5, Climbing 5, Counterspelling 5, Dodge 5, Exotic Weapon
(Elemental Strike) 5, First Aid 5, Infiltration (Urban) 5, Knowledge (Torture) 5, Medicine (Surgery)
5, Spellcasting 5, Perception 5, Shadowing 5, Unarmed Combat 5.
Spells: Hibernate, Magic Fingers, Oxygenate, Stabilise.
Notes: The Elemental Aura (Metal) represents the unusual composition of the spirit, this power adds
+6 DV to the spirits unarmed strikes and changes the damage type to Physical (7P total), but gains
+2 to half impact armour resistance. On any successful Melee attack, the attacker must also resist 7P
damage but gains +2 to half impact armour resistance.
The Elemental Strike (Metal) represents the ability of the spirit to project parts of its body at
opponents (like a Slinky, but less fun), and is treated as a ranged attack using Agility + Exotic
Weapon, inflicting a base 7P damage, but +2 to resist with half impact armour.
Medusa, Free Earth Spirit.

Image:(Flesh Form) A truly beautiful woman and not merely the fashionable pouting beauty that
can be purchased from a cosmetic surgeon, but a natural seeming face full of interest and a figure
full of grace. She moves like a goddess, possessed of the most extraordinary charisma – a
confidence and majesty that takes the breath away.
(Hybrid) It is the woman you once knew, but changed hideously. Lumps of stone grow from
her flesh, whilst her eyes have become hard, grey orbs lacking life of any sort. Even the hair seems
to have pertrified somehow, thin brittle lines of stone, breaking off in pieces. One hand is entirely
transformed into a heavyfingered, stone fist that flexes as if trying to remember what it feels like to
be flesh.
(True) The astral or True form of Medusa is hideous. A creature made of living stone, with a
distorted visage that might once have been truly beautiful but is now twisted like clay. Feather like
patterns grace broken, calcified stubs as if the malformed creature was once an ariel spirit. The air /
astral space around it is almost palpable with emotions of loss and desparation and a terrible,
blistering hatred.
Quote: 'Tell me I'm beautiful.'
Background: Whether or not this spirit is the original inspiration for the myths of ancient Greece,
or if those myths actually explain in some way the origins of this spirit... that may never be known.
But the parallels between this spirit and the myths are beyond dispute.
Medusa seems to care for one thing – beauty. But she can only acquire this by inhabiting the bodies
of beautiful women. So powerful is the spirit however, that only with the most strongwilled of
individuals can she achieve what she desperately wants – a perfect Flesh Form merge. Most of the
time, some semblance of Medusa's true appearance breaks through the victim's original form,
disfiguring and destroying her hopes, or worse, the vessel is destroyed entirely and Medusa
manifests as the fallen, mishapen creature that she so despises. In the former case, Medusa may
pitifully try to salvage the remnants of the vessel's destroyed beauty for a time, before seeking out a
new vessel, and in the latter case will likely try to find some way to kill herself in despair more
immediately. The 21 days it takes her to recover from disruption and return from the metaplanes is
one of her few weaknesses. As her true form is a creature of stone itself, the partially petrified
remains of her hybrid forms after her death can be greatly puzzling.
When Medusa does achieve a full, Flesh Form merge with a vessel, she enters a period of elation
and satisfaction with herself. Even though her spirit nature is concealed, her charisma and will are
overpowering to those around her. In the past, she has been a powerful fashionista, a talented
sculpteress, a media executive. The role varies, but what she inevitably wants in some form or other,
is to be the centre of influence, attention and to be adored and envied by everyone. This, however, is
something she is able to acquire with devastating speed.
Plot Ideas: #1. A number of models and minor Trid and SIM actresses disappeared over the last
year. Some, but not all, of the bodies were later found, each of which was hideously disfigured to
some degree, their bodies partially or wholly petrified into stone. Some of these bodies, naturally,
remain preserved, their faces displaying expressions of terrible anguish. Now it's been over two
months since the last disappearance but the husband of one of the victims suspects that a rapidly
rising media executive and formermodel, a friend of his late wife, may have some involvement.
With noone willing to investigate the popular executive, he has to turn to Shadowrunners to help
him.
#2. A local hermetic mage of considerable power has had a slowburning rivalry with a
western dragon for some time now. His spies have recently witnessed the dragon meeting with the
head of a fashion agency late at night, and he suspects that this woman is serving the dragon in
some way. In fact, it is the other way around. Shadowrunners are hired to remove another of the
dragon's allies and get in over their heads.
#3. Karl Brackhaven has acquired a new endorsement to his campaign. The mayorial
candidate's chances seem to be inexplicably rising through the agency of a talented and very
beautiful young sculptress who doubles as one of Seattle's newest and most dazzling socialites.
Free Earth Spirit, Force 9, Inhabited Vessel, Human Flesh Form.

1 1 3 2 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 11 1 9
Movement: 10/25
Free Earth Spirit, Force 9, Inhabited Vessel, Human Hybrid Form.
10 10 12 11 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 20 2 13
Movement: 10/25
Free Earth Spirit, Force 9, Inhabited Vessel, True Form.
13 13 7 11 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 20 1 8
Movement: 10/25
Powers: Astral Form, Aura Masking*, Banishing Resistance, Binding, Fear, Guard, Inhabitation,
Movement, Possession, Realistic Form*, Sapience, Search.
* With Flesh Form only
Skills: Artisan (Sculpture) 9, Assensing 9, Astral Combat 9, Con 9, Counterspelling 9, Disguise 9,
Dodge 9, Etiquette 9, Gymnastics 9, Intimidation 9, Leadership 9, Negotiation 9, Perception 9,
Spellcasting 9, Unarmed Combat 9,
Languages: Greek, English, Hebrew, Arabic, Perisan, Mandarin, Cantonese, Ancient Egyptian,
Japanese, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, Sumerian.
Spells: Animate, Armour, Astral Armour, Control Emotions, Death Touch, Decrease Reflexes,
Detect Life (Extended), Earth Wall, Fashion, Fix, Healthy Glow, Increase Willpower, Influence,
Knockout, Makeover, Mana Barrier, Mass Animate, Mob Mind, Mind Probe, Orgasm, Petrify,
Shatter
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Initiates of the Hidden Fire

Flame, Hermetic Magician

Haze, Hermetic Magician

Isaac Oded, Hermetic Magician

Leo Mills, Hermetic Magician

Catherine Mills, Samurai

Ede n, th e dan cer

Si x-Fa ce Shiha b, th e S pir it

Hurt le H arr y, the ta xi -dr ive r.

Bu ffal o, the Wa rri or .

Luci a, the San te ra.

Lo uis Lev it t, aka Gim p.

Si mo ne De rrin ger, aka the Poi son Ma id en.

Gam e S tati st ics

Lo uis Lev it t, aka Gim p.

Si mo ne De rrin ger, aka Poi so n Ma id en.

Slink, Wild Spirit.

Colha, Free Toxic Spirit of Man.

Medusa, Free Earth Spirit.

Free Earth Spirit, Force 9, Inhabited Vessel, Human Flesh Form.

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