Friday 13 July 2018

NecroBurn: the necro-psi hacker

Imagine a hacker that could always get physical access to the hardware. Because they are literally the shadows. Enter Pyramid #3/99, Necro-psi.

NecroBurn plugged in.
Credit: Benedict Farley
(used by permission)


NecroBurn is a hacker with a difference; he reads the minds of the recently deceased. A garrote for hire, NecroBurn is an hacker-assassin who gains admin passwords from the sysadmin's brains. Since he needs physical contact to read the thoughts of said sysadmins, he always burns the body.

A few notes on traits:
  • Low Empathy Since a child, NecroBurn hasn't been able to understand emotions. 
  • Bloodlust This comes across most often as seeing killing people as the most 'practical' option. It's easy to persuade him not to kill someone ... as long as it's really more practical
  • Amnesia (Partial); Wild Talent 1; Unknown disadvantages Reading dead minds all the time has a cost, NecroBurn has permanent lost a part of himself which is constantly replaced by his most recent read. He will sometimes quote memories from his read as his own, or even exhibit talents he has never trained in. Occaisonally, he sometimes acquires phobias, addictions or worse!
  • Assassin! From #3/107, this covers assassiny type things like assassin's weapon;s skills and various other things. (If you don't have #3/107, replace with at least Garrotte-16 and Stealth)
  • Silhouette The ability to literally turn into a shadow. See #3/99 for more info
  • Corpse Sense; Flashes of Insight The ability to read (dead) minds. See #3/99 for more info.

NecroBurn [250]

ST 9; DX 12; IQ 13; HT 9; HP 9; FP 9; Per 13; Will 13; Basic Speed: 5.25; Basic Move: 5

Traits: Wild Talent 1 (Only from alternate identity, -40%.) [12]  Unknown disadvantages [-30]  Corpse Sense 1 [26]  Silhouette 4 [72]  Bloodlust (CR: 12 (Resist Quite Often).) [-10]  Low Empathy [-20]  Amnesia (Partial) [-10]  Always burns the body [-1]

Skills:  Assassin!  16 (DX+4) [72]  Corpse Sense  22 (Per+9) [40]  Flashes of Insight (Corpse Sense)  22 (+0) [5]  Silhouette  14 (IQ+1) [4]  Computer Hacking/TL10  13 (IQ+0) [8]  Computer Programming/TL10  12 (IQ-1) [2] 

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