Clockwork Dossiers

Boson

No Other Names Known

Team Specialty

• Boson provides Matrix and technical support for Clockwork.
• Hacker and electronician, with a high-end commlink installed as headware.
• Specializes in subtle insertion techniques and fast IC suppression.
• Utilizes a skill-wire system, making him a talented generalist in terms of other contributions to his team, including in the combat arena. He is known to keep his comm loaded up with high-grade skillsofts that he can download to headware memory.
• Prefers infiltration-style hacking over immersion (that is, "long distance") missions. Unlikely to engage in VR unless provoked and suspects he is safe.
• His deck is wired with a "dead man switch" that he can use to shut down its wireless capacity in seconds. This is triggered to a mental command, or to when he falls unconscious.

Background

• As far as can be ascertained, Boson grew up in poverty in Redmond.
• He might have gotten his first exposure to hacking through the Brain Eaters, though he doesn't seem to have ever been a member of that gang.
• The majority of his hacking training he got as a member of the Reality Hackers gang, a Matrix gang.

Resources

• Boson is known to be a member in good standing and influence with the Matrix gang known as the Reality Hackers.
• Known to have extensive contacts in shadow-nets all over the world, as well as data havens.
• Known to be allied with the Brain Eaters gang, as well, who he goes to for securing hardware.
• His cyberware is of at least Alpha grade, though he is known to have secured it at a shadow clinic somewhere in Redmond.

Other Notes

• A known stimulant abuser (patch and pharmaceutical/street drug).
• A frequent visitor to the various nightclubs of Touristville.
• Known to be homosexual. Tends to meet potential partners online, meeting them in person for the first time at one of the Touristville bars or clubs.
• Maintains a "party pad" apartment about four blocks from the edge of the Touristville "safe zone." Frequently populated by friends and lovers, though he rarely sleeps there.

Cavazione

Lucas Finnegan (known pseudonym)

Team Specialty

• Cavazione serves as muscle for Clockwork.
• An extremely skilled swordsman in a medieval form of Italian fencing. Tends to arm himself with a mono-blade sabre.
• A crack shot with submachine guns; favors the Ingram Smartgun. The guns he carries with him are highly upgraded, and usually loaded with armor piercing ammunition.
• Possesses high-end cyberware and bioware that is likely of Alpha grade (possibly better). Major enhancements include hair-trigger wired reflexes, aim enhancements, muscle augmentations.
• All cyberware is set to skin-link for security purposes, allowing him to avoid being hacked wirelessly.

Background

• Elven Sicilian immigrant.
• Originally smuggled into Seattle to do work for the Finnegan family of the Mafia. He maintains connections with the mob - it is assumed that he got his start as a made man of the mob, and has simply continued to hone his skills.
• Known to be a Catholic.

Resources

• Cavazione is known to maintain connections with the Finnegan family of Seattle's Mafia.
• Through these connections, Cavazione has connections with a shadow clinic capable of performing at least Alpha-grade augmentations. He has acted as intermediary between members of his team and the clinic in the past.
• Has also performed work for St. Christopher's in the Sophocles neighborhood of Redmond before. This may have even been pro bono work. He seems to maintain a close connection to the parish priest, Father Ignacio.

Other Notes

• Has a girlfriend who sometimes accompanies him to Mafia gatherings or socials. Her name is Maribella, a former Mafia courtesan.
• Assumed to maintain a residence somewhere in Redmond Mafia territory.
• Known to have used St. Christopher's as a safehouse before.

Ozone

Darius (suspected real first name); Kade, T-bird, Ander Blackrain/Blacksky (known pseudonyms)

Team Specialty

• Ozone provides magical support for Clockwork.
• Shamanic magical tradition; Thunderbird totem.
• Specializes in electrical attacks and air spirits. He almost never binds spirits, preferring to summon and use them in the moment.
• Is a known initiate of low degree. Metamagics unknown.

Background

• Originally from the Native American Nations (Salish-Sidhe, specifically)
• Maintains his NAN citizenship.

Resources

• Known to maintain at least one hidden medicine lodge for his magical work somewhere in Redmond (likely among the Amerind squatters in the Verge neighborhood of Redmond).
• Known to maintain allies among the self-styled "kings" of the Crash Zone of Redmond.
• Ozone has a web of talismonger and other magical contacts.
• As a NAN citizen, Ozone crosses the border between Seattle and the NAN routinely. He is also known to have more than a few contacts among the Salish border patrol.
• Has used a safehouse in the Salish countryside, in the Wenatchee Forest Preserve a few miles outside of Seattle.

Other Notes

• Lives as a nomad, never setting down roots. No known residences.
• Known to have an extremely hot temper. Very violent.
• His only romantic interludes are the occasional prostitute (favoring Amerind or Hispanic women). These predilections bring him to Sweet Georgia's, in Touristville, every so often.

Widdershins

Gwendolyn Marie Dennis (real name); Lilith Veyans, Acacia (known pseudonyms)

Team Specialty

• Widdershins provides magical and social support for Clockwork.
• Claims to be a hermetic mage, but is almost sure to be a demonologist-style magician.
• Prefers the use of fire and controlling magics.
• Is definitely an initiate, of at least second degree.
• Known metamagic includes Anchoring and Masking.
• Summoned spirits have demonstrated the ability to both manifest and possess; it is assumed she has mastered a kind of metamagic that allows her to alter the normal limitations of summoned spirits in that fashion.
• All spirits summoned take on a demonic aspect.
• No known mentor spirit connection.
• Expert negotiator.

Background

• Daughter of a university thaumaturgical studies professor.
• Awakened in early adolescence, and immediately began learning magic, taught by her father.
• Juvenile record shows a variety of magical-related mischief crimes, and one serious injury caused by her magic (though charges were dropped when her lawyer convinced a jury that she'd acted in self defense).
• Disappeared when her parents' house in downtown Seattle burned to the ground. Within a few months, her SIN was inexpertly erased.

Resources

• In addition to her magical abilities, Widdershins maintains a surprising web of contacts and connections, including highly placed corporate Johnsons and international shadow contacts.
• She is also a member of a Bellevue-based occult society, the Antonian Knights, whose activities include Hellfire Club-esque Satanic rituals, drug use and orgiastic behavior. Rumors in the shadows place at least one Black Magic-style magician at the center of their group, and possibly more.
• Widdershins is usually accompanied by at least one powerful spirit of fire, a deal she has with her team in order to provide them with immediate magical support should it be needful.

Other Notes

• Widdershins' only known intimate relations have been those engaged in as part of the Antonian Knights, and a short-lived fling with Shunt, the original leader of Clockwork.