[dice:1i5ws99w]48343:4[/dice:1i5ws99w] - Underworld & Black Ops: I Know a Guy Edge, +2 on all Connections rolls to contact and gain assistance.
[dice:1i5ws99w]48343:5[/dice:1i5ws99w] - Experience & Wisdom: Strong Willed
[dice:1i5ws99w]48343:6[/dice:1i5ws99w] - Training: +5 Skill Points to Fighting, Shooting, or Throwing
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Greedy (Major): Is miserable in this unexpected exile and wants to reclaims his lost riches, power, and prestige (this is presently his key psychological motivation in life)
Delusions (Minor): Paranoia (Security). Fearful of losing everything (again) takes extreme measures to protect wealth and self from unforeseen circumstances.
Vengeful (Minor): Never lets anyone off the hook for a debt.
Edges
Scholar: +2 K/Politics and K/Accounting
Investigator: +2 Investigation, Streetwise
Arcane Background (Psionics): 10 ISP, 3 powers
Major Psionics: Double base ISP and use ISP to increase Psionics Rolls or range of powers
Strong Willed: +2 Intimidation and Taunt, +2 to resist Test of Wills
Connections (Black Market): Call on connections once per session
Connections (Ravenshome Thieves Guild): Call on connections once per session
I Know a Guy: Call on connections from anywhere once per session
Scrounger: Can make a Streetwise check, once per session to obtain goods.
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Theo, a young up and comer, weaves his way through the crowded bar. The banker was at the back. Nervously he pulls back the curtain to a private booth. It takes him a second to shake off the shock. At the table behind the curtain a giant alien snake looks at him with uninterested, but creepy, eyes. Four tentacles are all in motion at once. Two are draped over a pair of scantily clad reptilian d-bees, while one holds an over sized chalice full of some foul smelling drink, and the fourth has a live rat by the tail. Opening his mouth the snake-man drops in the rat.
The snake looks up, smiling as the still squirming rat goes down his gullet. Finally, the snake speaks with a hint of a Spanish accent.
"So you need a loan?" As he speaks a black card mysteriously floats up off the table.
"The boss says the vig is thirty percent. But I can give you twenty five if you cut me in for twenty on your job."
Unable to hide his reaction Theo flounders for words and nods begrudgingly. The boss told him twenty percent and no cut, but he doesn't dare challenge the numbers. He needs this money to make his first big score. The snake has him by the short hairs.
With a hiss the snake floats the card into Theo's hand.
"Remember, thirty days to pay. Or my next meal will be a city rat."
Gulping, Theo nods, grabs the card, and scurries away. The quicker he finishes this job the better.
As the curtain closes the snake starts talking. More to himself than the girls.
"Reduced to extorting the manure from the cattle. How I have fallen."
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On the Vernulian home world the elite enjoy decadent lifestyles while the poor are kept in line by the iron might of the military. Crótalo was one of those elite. A successful business man trading in exotic metals from off world locales. He enjoyed the finest of things and the circles of power.
However, one bad move brought it all crashing down. Leveraged to the hilt on a deal to bring a newly discovered material to the military, Crótalo stood to triple his fortunes in one grand stroke. Instead, a band of dimensional raiders made off with his whole shipment, leaving Crótalo with no payday and a huge debt.
Humiliated, Crótalo sold all his possessions to cover his debts and was shunned from high society. Friendless and broke, Crótalo cobbled together what little he had left and smuggled his way off world to a new dimension.
The Vernulian refugees in Mexico were a pitiful bunch of mammal lovers. Staying with them only long enough to fleece them of some wealth Crótalo made his way north hooking up with the Black Market Bandito Arms faction in New Mexico before finally being given a chance to work with his own crew out of MercTown.
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