Matt Halliwell, his real name aka Matt Wyman, his long term alias aka "Doc Holliday", his net handle Hacker/NetRunner Male, 27 years old Matt wears his fairly straight light brown hair shoulder length and pulls it back into a ponytail most of the time he's not on stage. He's a bit over six foot, and wiry rather than bulky. His plugs are at the wrist and usually covered by wide silver bracelets. He is white. His eyes are brown. His features are a bit too narrow to be really handsome, and on bad days might be described as weaselly, although he prefers to think of it as striking looking in an alert sort of way. He tends to walk with a bit of a stoop, which doesn't help his attractiveness, although the stoop vanishes when he is playing. He has long and thin fingers, which are a help both when playing guitar and when working on hardware. His voice is deep and strong, good enough to sing backup when he needs to, or to try to convince a mid-level corporate goon to part with a little information about his system. Int: 10 Ref: 9/11 Tech: 9 Cool: 7 Attr: 4 Luck: 6 MA: 5 Body: 8 SKILLS: Special: Net: 1 - 1 IP Body: Swimming: 1 Cool: Oratory: 1 Streetwise: 4 Empathy: *Fast Talk: 5 - 1 IP Social: 1 - 2 IP Int: *Awareness: 4 - 4 IP Composition: 4 *Education: 5 *Expert, Comp: 3 *Hacking: 6 *Inet Know: 5 *Library Search:6 *Progamming: 6 Ref: Fencing: 1 Handgun: 3 Martial Arts: 4, Tiger Style Kung-Fu Motorcycle: 1 Sneak: 0 1 IP Tech: *Basic Tech: 2 *Hware Hack: 2 Play Guitar: 4 - 2 IP CYBERNETICS: Neuralware Processor 4 HP BoosterWare 2 3 HP Interface Plugs 1 HP Total: 8 HP MONEY: CASH: 48 eb GEAR: Leather Duster, Kevlar lined, SP 10, Covers Body, Arms, Legs Floppy Hippy/Cowboy Hat, Leather/Kevlar, SP 10, Covers Head A few changes of clothes, all in the jeans, t-shirt style. Heavy boots. Thin leather gloves. Rucksack Sleeping bag. Fender Stratocaster, named Queen Mary, vintage, his pride and joy. cables and effects box. Wyman Custom guitar hardcase: (http://pbem.avigne.org/guitar) (usually the cyberdeck is kept in the case, there's enough room for the pistols and spare ammo, in a crunch, he can take off with just the case and get by. Conversely, if someone takes the case, he's screwed. He will also hunt them down and kill them to get his guitar back.) Twin Federated Arms 454 DA "Super Chief" (http://cybereb.free.fr/pistol4e.htm) Pistol 1: 5/5 DP Pistol 2: 5/5 DP (Prec: 0, Clip: 5, Rate: 1, Ammo: .454(4d6+3), Rel: Very, Range: 60m) 100 rounds DP ammo .454 (6d6+5 Unarm, 2d6+2 Armoured, Armor/2) 100 rounds regular ammo for the .454, 4d6+3 2 shoulder holsters, for day and discrete wear. 2 hip holsters, for night time and casual wear. Mono-knife. Boot sheath. Cyberdeck, WooTang Model 320, Cellular Modem and high speed network jacks. Low-impendence cables. Selection of utility tools and programs. Music notation software. BACKSTORY: Matt Wyman was born to privilege. His parents were executives at KasaraCorp, and he was raised in the Corporative enclave in the city. His early years were spent as one might expect, at school learning the skills needed for work in the corporate world. When he hit his teen years, he went through the typical rebellious phase. He learned to play guitar and started to develope his signature retro look: classic rock and cowboy chic. He also dabbled in the hacker underground, doubtless under the benevolent eye of KasaraCorp who were grooming him for a SysAdmin job. Then, when he was 15 it all went to hell. KasaraCorp was bought out by DaiTon, and his parents were flagged as undesirable and replaceable. Possibly they were into something illegal or questionable, Matt doesn't know. All he really knows is that one day, everything was fine, the next they were all packing to hit the streets. In a rage, he did a very stupid thing. He used his accounts on the formerly-Kasara-now-DaiTon systems and his geographical position inside the enclave to hack the DaiTon system. Of course, he was detected. The raid came while he and mom were out, picking up his guitar, his prized possession, a Fender Stratocaster he called the Queen Mary, from his music teacher. Dad was home. Matt never saw him again. The guitar teacher was also being 'downsized', but he had other skills to fall back on, and a real fondness for Matt. He and Matt's mom hammered out a plan quickly. Matt would be smuggled out with Mr. Lee, the teacher, and Mom would make her own way out. They both made it out and rendezvoused a few weeks later. DaiTon was still looking for them, and everyone agreed that their chances would be better if they split up. Furthermore, Matt's mom blamed him for destroying any chance they had at finding a job with a different Corp and for her husband's presumed death. Matt would go with Mr. Lee, and Mom would go her own way. Matt has seen her a few times since then, but always by accident. Mr. Lee was, in addition to being a guitar teacher, a master of Tiger Style Kung-Fu. There was always a demand for his skills on the street, and Matt learned the style and helped out with beginner classes. He also helped teach guitar. For the next four or five years, that was the pattern of their lives. Matt moved on to gigging out with bands or by himself, and deepened his ties to the hacker underground, building a bit of a rep as "Doc Holliday." At the age of 21, Matt did a run against DaiTon again, this time to find out what happened to his Dad. He was successful. What he learned shattered him, though. His Dad had sold both him and his mother out, and was now working for DaiTon. Matt set out on his own. By now he had some reputation as a guitar player and songwriter as well as a hacker, and he was able to make ends meet one way or the other. The last six years he was moving more slowly, DaiTon had lost his trail, he thought, and he was able to settle down a little. He got a regular gig with the band "Silver Age Chronoglide", playing spacey retro rock, and build up some contacts for the hacking gigs. Life was pretty good, even if it was living on the edge. When you're living that close to the bottom, it's easy to slip. The band broke up, and the hacking gigs dried up. He sold the bike to keep himself going another week or two. Then, he got paranoid; the fall must be part of a plot by DaiTon to get him, so he slipped town. That's why he ended up in the hood. The hacking jobs can find him anywhere, of course, but meat's gotta eat, and someplace where no one is trying to kill you and you can make a few bucks playing guitar is better than not. A FEW NOTES ABOUT HIS NAMES: His handle on the net, of course, is "Doc Holliday." Netruns and so forth get to the Doc that way. His real name is Matt Halliwell. His alias since splitting from Mr. Lee is Matt Wyman. Wyman has a good fake ID. DaiTon is looking for Halliwell and Holliday, but hasn't, to the best of Matt's knowledge, connected them with Wyman. The Halliwell/Holliday connection is probably not that hard to suss out, since some flavor of that is what he still uses when and if he needs to actually do something legitimately online. Most of the time, though, he's working out of "borrowed accounts" with the information pushed out to hacker havens about the ways to contact him. Wyman is the one with the rep as a guitar player and hustler.