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From: scotthiller2002@*****.com (Scott Hiller)
Subject: Craith's Edges & Flaws, and History
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:21:47 -0800 (PST)
Here's Craith's Edges & Flaws, and History. I hadn't
looked though it for a long time, but when I went
through the Shadowrun books I used them as a guide to
try to cover each angle ... and use some of my
imagination, too. I realize it's a lot, so are there
areas where I could tighten it up? Or areas I could
eliminate? I wouldn't imagine there would still be
areas that I still haven't covered, but if you guys
come across any, please let me know and offer some
suggestions. Thanks.

Here it is:
Edges: Sense of Direction (1), Natural Immunity to
Strain III (3), Lightning Reflexes (2), Will to Live
(1)
Flaws: Uncommon Mild Phobia (Insects) (-2), Extra
Enemy (-1), Combat Monster
(-1), Outspoken (-1), Astral Impressions (-2)

He was brought up respecting all cultures. His ethnic
background is African American, Amerind, Armenian,
Basque, British, Burmese, Czechoslovakian, Dayak,
German, Jewish, Livonian, Scottish and Welsh. He was
raised in DeeCee, Illinois and Michigan in the UCAS
and in Portland in Tir Tairngire. Many people perceive
him as multi-ethnic, but most see his Hebrew, African
American or Armenian sides most clearly, but still
others see his northwestern European sides even more.
He is an ethnic chameleon and even passes for
Hispanic, Arab and Asian to others. He is hated by
several groups because of this and by even more people
for being an Elf.

He dresses in Earth-toned clothes that will protect
him in the Chicago CZ, that means SecureTech™ Armor
Clothing, SecureTech™ Armor Jackets, SecureTech™ Armor
Vests and SecureTech™ Armor Long Coats all of
earth-toned khaki colors and fabrics. The armored
clothing, jackets, etc. are intermeshed with
Kevlar-III. His long coat has a Kevlar III inner
lining. When he’s in his home or when there’s no
danger, he wears his ordinary and fine clothing. His
clothing style is casual. He generally goes for those
black synth-denims or baggy khakis, and a black
“Skuzzy and the Gonzos”, “Speed Coma”, “Til Es Hault”,
“Darkvine” or “Lorelei Angel” T-shirt. But he more
commonly wears a tasteful variant of the classic I
LOVE NY t-shirt as well as the traditional t-shirt.
However, he has other cloths that allow him to snazz
up for social engagements or dress down for street
work as much as a lower-class young Elf from the
Chicago CZ is able. There is one commonality
throughout his style: Low-Key Casual Celtic/African
American/Amerind/Asian/Slavic/Israeli Elvish. The
Skuzzy and the Gonzos T-shirt, for example, has words
in Sperethiel and/or Hebrew, not English, and all the
designs on his clothes that have designs have some
integrated degree of Jewish “Elvishness.” Some of his
clothing is dark and earthy and has hard-edged Celtic
designs, other clothing he has uses flowing snake-like
patterns on their fabric and have airy colors like
blues and yellows. Still other clothing he owns has
rich colors and intricate designs. These cloths often
contain spiral patterns and knotwork; a common motif
etched into any instruments, spell foci, etc. is the
burning spear that symbolizes inspiration. Other
clothes he owns use cool colors like blue, green,
light brown and silver. Some pieces of this clothing
have spidery, nebulous patterns incorporating
interlacing, knotwork, and the elongated birds and
animals of Celtic legend. He also has many Kevlar-III
T-shirts bought from many Tel Aviv rave houses. These
are wildly-designed T-shirts promoting several Israeli
punk bands ranging from soothing Neo-Electronica
Ambient to Screech Metal and Rage Electroslam. He has
many music chips bought from these clubs as well. All
of these Israeli T-shirts and the music chips are
printed in Hebrew and have Hebrew lyrics. He also has
similar T-shirts and music chips in German, Celtic,
Gaelic, Slovak, Czech and Elvish. Incidentally, all
the Hebrew, German, Celtic, Gaelic, Slovak and Czech
punk band T-shirts and music chips are of ethnic
elves.

The only real physical quirk he has is that he is
rather long-winded. This is very annoying for others
and more than a few have been pushed to trying to cack
him. He also often dwells on semi-disputable issues.
Picture the Jewish stereotype made common eighty years
ago and that’s this guy. Also, his notion of tact is
analogous to a Surface-to-Air Missile being used to
geek a spider on a wall. He is direct, to the point
and blunt–almost rude. This earns him many friends who
respect his directness, but also many enemies who
resent it. No one seems to be in a gray zone when it
comes to their view of him. Either they love him or
they want to kill him. He also has a bad back from
getting hit by a truck in Carbondale in 2053. Also,
after he got into it with an ant spirit in 2057,
leaving a long slight scar from his forehead to near
the left corner of his mouth and cutting off an arm.

Craith lives in the Chicago Containment Zone, in the
old Lincoln Park neighborhood one block west of Daley
Gardens along the lake shore in the old Lincoln Park
neighborhood. He tried to make it out when the
quarantine was lifted in 2058, but the armed and angry
neighborhood militias beyond the old Containment Zone
walls scared that desire out of him real quick! He
lives east between Wrightwood and Deming in a cluster
of dressed-stone, steel and macroglass 90+ story
high-rises surrounding a taller central office
building and surrounded by parks and with a few side
streets running through them. These magnificent and
majestic structures all have hundreds of what used to
be little and not so little shops on their ground
floors up to around the tenth floors.

All these buildings are set among some of the greenest
parkland in the city (part of an ill-fated
re-gentrification effort) and express a unique Elven
style that express a mixture of the post-modern school
while being aggressively gothic in design, with strong
Celtic influences.

All these buildings are works of art and feats of
engineering that would make the builders of the Truman
Tower drool. The ceilings on many of these buildings’
lobbies and hallways reach dizzying heights, braced by
cathedral-style fan-webbing that vanishes into pools
of shadow farther overhead than the eye can see. The
private apartments and the public areas of these
buildings are linked together by elegantly-designed
hallways. Almost every wall is covered with elegant,
beautiful and slightly strange carved and painted
designs–the kind of half-geometric, half-organic
pattern you swear you’d seen in some tome on ancient
art somewhere–maybe from Celtic times or medieval
British times, only you can’t quite place the exact
culture. Animal, bird and plant shapes abound,
elongated and twisted into curves and loops and
elaborate knots. The Elf architects themselves have
even managed to set up indirect lighting that makes
the walls themselves appear to glow within the
electronic wall paper. But windows, all constructed of
the best ballistic and polycarbonate tinted glass form
the majority of the structures to allow for the best
possible light.

This cluster of neo-medieval-style high-rises is no
longer home to Telestrian and its employees, but home
to the Ancients go-gang who use the grounds as their
home turf. The former Lincoln Park Telestrian complex
is well-guarded and heavily fortified with mil-spec
weaponry and armaments.

In the past sixty years or so, Lincoln Park had gone
in much the same direction as its northern twin, Lake
View. The only differences is there is less gang
violence here, simply because there is only one real
gang: The Ancients. They rule the neighborhood and
cooperate with the Queen of Lake View, Queen
WillowThorne and her Jestyr squads. All the other
local bullies in Lincoln Park pay tribute to the
Ancients.

The only real clashes occur when other big-time gangs
like the Cutters, the Living Dead and the
Fleshmongers, the Jolly Rogers, the Nasty Grrrls, the
Blue Boyz, the Volk, the Raging Hoard and even the
Desolation Angels (whew!) feel like challenging the
Ancients’ authority. By far the most powerful
opponents are the Desolation Angels who have even
managed to add a few Ancients to their number, having
invested them with new Mantid Spirits.

Another vicious opponent of the Ancients is the Ghoul
Liberation League down in GhoulTown south of North
Avenue in the Noose. The militant League is made up
almost entirely of ghouls, but there are a handful of
others (even some in Lincoln Park, it is rumored)
working with them. The League wants equal rights and
formal recognition as a Metahuman race. The Elves of
Lincoln Park have been fighting an apparent loosing
battle against the ghouls in their efforts to try and
destroy Ghoultown. Seems Ares Macrotech beat ‘em to
the punch with Strain III Beta. These days, ghoul wars
constantly flare up here, making the neighborhood a
veritable war zone at times.

Other threats include the number of free insect
spirits in the old Lincoln Park, the old zoo in
particular. These monsters are hideous to behold,
having been merged with the various animals of the zoo
the queens of the hive used as hosts for the new
sprits. After the Strain-III virus killed off the hive
queens, the insect spirits became free. There are at
least two free wasp spirits in the upper floors of the
old Daley Gardens towers in sections of the old
Lincoln Park. The entire complex stretches from the
Lake View neighborhood down to Ghoultown along the
lakeshore. Elven snipers have encamped themselves in
the towers along the North Avenue wall of Ghoultown to
kill those within, while the Ghouls have come into the
possession of at least one rocket launcher. One of the
Daley Gardens buildings still bears the scars of a SAR
being deployed.

Today, it is still the area's most garish and
pretentious of the lakefront neighborhoods, a
veritable Elven mecca. Telestrian Light Industries,
although they have a habitat in the south end of The
Core, also maintain a corporate enclave in the heart
of Lincoln Park taking up all of the blocks that once
existed between Schaffer, Clark, Fullerton and Halsted
just west of where Craith lives.

The Great Lakes Pirates are also rumored to be using
the lakefront beaches to ferry goods in and out of the
old Containment Zone. Despite all the “pretty”
buildings and tree lined streets, the neighborhood is
just as violent and dangerous as the rest of the CZ.

He used to live in a cramped garden studio before the
insect spirits plagued the Sprawl. Now, he has managed
to take over a slightly larger studio apartment on the
seventy-first floor in one of the towers. It is
moderately decorated in medieval style. A modern futon
of dark-stained oak sits against the northern wall of
the room. A long window takes up the rest of the wall
above the futon, letting in the sun’s bright rays to
lighten up the apartment like a solarium. The air
conditioning and heating systems still worked well for
the place thanks to protected power generators. The
futon cushion is covered in subtle celtic knot
patterns in black over an undulating pattern of
maroons, purples, navy blues, forest and khaki greens,
and tans that seemed to blur together like water
colors reminiscent of something from Tolkein. In front
of the futon is a coffee table made completely of
silvery cast iron with techno-Celtic designs covering
its top and engraved on its legs. Its top has areas of
glass between the loops of the cast-iron Celtic swirls
and knots. On top of the coffee table are scattered
messy stacks of papers, books, print-outs from his
computer and various chips: simsense games, music,
trid, computer program optical, etc. The papers are
mostly old bill statements, junk mail and various old
flyers from Columbia College, prospective employers
and the like that he will never hear from again.
Covering the dressed stone of the floor is an
elaborate Oriental rug of dark earth tones and lined
in gold. Facing the futon and the coffee table from
the southwest corner is a large trideo set linked to a
telecom with datajacks and interface hardware,
simsense ports, etc. and a Soonan Simsense® game
system, which sits on the carpet on the floor in front
of the black trid stand. Inside the trid stand is a
black trideo chip playback unit and another simsense
game system–this one by Jam-Bo Games™. On the floor
leaning against the trid stand is a black cyberdeck
casing he uses for his cyberdeck. Only, now it holds
several loose papers crumpled down into its pockets,
pens, pencils, notebooks and a pocket secretary.

The game system in the tinted-glass trid stand is very
dusty and looked like it wasn’t used much. Stacked in
a semi-orderly manner were numerous trideo chips
maintaining the genres of all the Tolkein trids and
medieval fantasy (both animated and real-life) like
“Elven Lords”, “Dragonslayer IV”, “Willow I-IV, “The
Last Unicorn”, the “Dungeons & Dragons” series,
“Krull”, “Legend”, “Labarynth”, “Excalibur”, “Merlin”,
“Robin Hood”, “The Dark Crystal”, the Hobbit and Lord
of the Rings series which include trid chips of “The
Dark Tower,” “The Hobbit,” “Lord of the Rings” and
“Return of the King” as well as “Tomes of Fire”,
futuristic and post-apocalyptic epics like the “Star
Wars” trid chips, “Mad Max XVII” and “Apocalypse
After”, comedies like “I Hate My Boss” and “Glerethiel
Morkhan Shoam” even old slots like Jerry Seinfeld,
Chevey Chase, the Saturday Night Live series and Steve
Martin, specific Science Fiction trid series like
“Star Trek: Beyond the Frontier”, “Cybercop II” and
“Coalsack Invaders IV”, Action trid chips like
“Indiana Jones XII”, “Protector”, “Tyee!” and “Ramboid
VI”, “Batman”. He also has trid chips of “Jesus of
Nazareth”[a 2045 re-make], “Solomon”, “David”,
“Abraham & Sarah”, “Noah”, “Babel”, “Moses”, “Sons of
Abraham”, “Gideon”, “Joseph”, “Ruth”, Samuel”, “The
Ancient Kings of Israel”, “Elisha & Elija”, “Ezra”,
“Nehimaiah”, “Esther”, “Job”, “Isaiah”, “The Prophets
of Israel”, “Jonah”, “Revelation” and “The Jesus
Factor.” He also has several Disney animated classics
like “Beauty and the Beast”, “Pocahantis”, “Mulan”,
“Tarzan”, “Moses”, “Hunchback of Notre Dame”, the
“Hercules” remake, “Persius”, “Hiawatha”, “Beowulf”,
“Cuchulain”, “Little John”, “Sinbad”, “El Cid”, “Road
to El Dorado,” ”Hannibal”, Alexander the Great”,
“Charlemagne”, “Spartacus”, “Richard the Lionheart”,
“Belisarius”, “King Arthur”, “Jack the Giant Killer”,
“Orion”, “Merlin”, “Circe”, the “Teutonic Knights”,
“Ali Baba”, “Aladdin”, “Reynard the Fox”, “Robin
Goodfellow”, “The Shogun”, “Ghengis Khan”,
“Cleopatra”, “Attila the Hun”, “The Sultan”, “The
Shah”, “Ernest Hemingway”, “The Tsar” and “The
Maharajah”. He also has several quality remakes of
classics like “The Little Rascals: 2044”, “Leave It To
Beaver’s Great, Great, Great Grandkids”, My Thirty
Great, Great, Great Grandsons” and “I Still Love
Lucy”. Lastly, he has more Seinfeld, Saturday Night
Live and The New Spiderman Adventures on several
encased recordable trideo chips. He also has at least
one chip called “The Cultures of Medieval Earth.”
These are all on the bottom shelf. Also on the lower
shelf are chips with recordings of various Saturday
Night Live, Seinfeld: A Century About Nothing and
Original Seinfeld episodes.

On the top shelf of the closed trid stand are a
scattered collection of simsense games like Mortal
Kombat 51, Shadowrun 14, Onyx II, Zelda XXV, The
Sword of Thornbane, Escape from Skull Keep, The
Hobbit, Knights of Greyhawk, The X-Men Series, Exile
>From Northern Vale, Harry “Ironjaw” Bartlett’s
Baseball, Bane of Llywelyn, Lord of the Rings,
Alerelean, War Rafts of Kron, Ravenloft, “Lock-on”
Lorenzo Hayes Baseball, Circus of Fear, Search for the
Pegasus, Virtual Chess, Robin Hood, Dragon’s Lair,
NABA Basketball, “Gorgo” MacGuiness Football,
Dragonlance, Willow, Soulforge, Charles Patterson
Combat Biker, Urban Brawl World Cup, The Arena,
Legends, The Throne of Istar, Shining Force 42, The
Epic Quest, Final Fantasy 56, Phantasy Star 70, The
Siege of Kalaman, Flight of the Dragon Orb, Road Rash
XXXV, Star Wars Epic, Golden Glory, Mystara, Forgotten
Realms, Might & Magic MXIV, Dark Sun and Planetscape.

On the dressed stone walls hung various large
tapestries of English Crests and Coats of Arms as well
as one of Celtic design in cool colors, favoring blue,
green, light brown and silver. It is decorated with
interlacing, knotwork and the elongated birds and
animals of Celtic legend. This Celtic tapestry took up
the whole wall behind the trideo and the telecom, from
the door to the edge of the kitchen area.

The sleeping area is off to the west of the futon and
is large enough to fit his single-sized bed and a
large desk. His bed is always in a chaotic state of
never being made. When he isn’t sleeping in it, it is
a place where he tosses books, papers, pencils, dice,
etc. he is using, but not at the moment and may use
again. The frame is the same style as the futon. The
foot of the bed is facing the futon with the head in
the corner. On the other end of the sleeping area is a
large and sturdy desk. The desk is made of the same
wood and stain as the futon and the bed. On top of the
desk is a “modified” dark gray Fuchi Orbital personal
computer fiber-linked to a monitor that sits on top of
the hutch. It has a miniature keyboard and is linked
to a stylus. There is also a pad used to recognize
handwriting. A full-color printer is attached to the
computer, which is the size of a standard antique
keyboard. The monitor is a standard fold-up monitor
that accepts on-line input and standard chip
cartridges. It functions as a standard display screen
for the computer, a television, a trideo player or a
simple data reader. Clinging to the top of the monitor
is a gray ceramic sleeping dragon, some of its horns
and a wing is slightly chipped. To the right of the
computer, there is a music playback unit, which is
only slightly larger than a standard compact disk,
able to accept several music chips at one time. Next
to the music playback unit is a case of music chips
ranging from 1980’s retro to the most current tunes.
Here are several Celtic music chips, rage electroslam
music chips, retro music chips, ambient New Age, old
Art of Noise, old Ministry before they went screech
metal, Hebrew Elvish rock, etc. as well as chips cut
from Carrickfergus, Lorelei Angel, Rí na Cuinni,
Atlantic Realm, Herne, Opus for Four, One Earth, Speed
Coma, Invisible Limits, Til Es Hault, Deep Peace,
Minstrels of Tralee, Darkvine, Violent Playground,
Windhorse, Concrete Dreams, Comfortably Numb, Spirit
Evermore and Maria Mercurial. His current favorite
albums are Time To Die by CrimeTime, Body Rhythms by
Eddie Mwabe, Elektron Welle by Synaptic, Áitiú by
Deirdre, and Who Calls the Nightbird Home? By Ghost
Bear. There is also a flat, roll-out screen for chips
with video tracks. Tucked away in the shelves of the
desk, Craith has several Shadowrun™ and AD&D®
Role-Playing Game books, many older and the few dusty
books that make up his various original Magical
Libraries he never looks at anymore [he used to use
the ones at the De Paul: Lincoln Park Campus as well
as Columbia College], several iridescent dice and
optical program and game chips scattered about on the
surface of the desk, five Bugs Bunny coasters and a
circular wooden pencil holder currently holding only
one pencil. A couple of stickies are stuck at various
spots on the edges of the hutch. On the hutch is a
figurine of a Black Bear sitting on a fallen tree
truck. On the cut portion of the tree trunk is a green
liquid crystal display of the current time. Also
located here is an electric pencil sharpener. Fastened
to the dressed stone wall over the desk a Tolkein
Calendar portraying the best of the late artist’s work
for the entire year of 2061. Several framed pictures
hang throughout the apartment. There’s a knitted
picture of a cat bearing a striking resemblance to
Arlanna, a photo of a sunset on the Tir Tairngire
coast, a knitted picture of a scripture from the Bible
and an Amerind watercolor painting of a grizzly bear,
named “Ancient Voices: Wilderness Spirit.”

Craith’s “modified” Allegiance Sigma cyberdeck lay
cockeyed off to the side on the desk by the music
playback unit and several scattered music optical
chips. The cyberdeck looks like a standard keyboard
but with fiberoptic chords running into it. The chords
are currently dangling down over the front edge of the
desk. Surrounding his computer monitor are several
pewter, glass and crystalline objects made to look
like small castles, wizards, knights, dragons and
eagles. One looks like three star-tipped crescent
moons with faces of men holding up a crystal ball.
There is also a copper candle holder resembling a
tight-lipped bowl with plain vertical slits carved
through its rounded sides. A scented white candle,
melted down halfway, is still inside. On top of the
telecom, he has a medium-height green statue of an old
man wizard holding a clear crystal ball and carrying a
star-tipped magic wand. Also on top of the telecom is
a green statue of a reclining dwarf in the shape of a
crescent moon. There is also a painted figurine of a
Troll-king sitting on his throne stroking his white
beard. A huge window sits right over the Tolkein
Calendar. In its windowsill is a pyramid glass prism
that refracts the sun’s light into several beams of
brilliant colored light through out the sleeping area.
In the cabinet of the desk is his white noise
generator he uses for sleeping and masking
conversations, and his Ares Consumer Electronics
camera with Low-light, Ultra-violet, expert systems
and primitive AI software capabilities.

The kitchen area is just opposite the sleeping area
and off to the side a bit. It has a refrigerator and
freezer, auto-range, microwave and a limited amount of
cooking toys. Dirty dishes are piled up in the sink.
On the floor is a small trash basket lined with a
plastic shopping bag, a food and water bowl for
Arlanna his five-year-old cat. A “Guinness” drying
towel hangs over the edge of the countertop in front
of the sink. Cupboards line the walls. Atop the
cupboards are cardboard boxes and a large black duffel
bag full of microtronics shop tools and things he
never got around to unpacking. A rack of washed dishes
sits on an old paper towel to the right of the sink. A
broom, mop and dust pan are stacked next to the
garbage and Arlanna’s food and water bowls. The tile
floor is kept moderately clean. The cupboards are
fairly empty, stocked only with a few spices,
vegetable soy oil and proto-Ramen noodles. The fridge
and freezer are just as bare. The fridge has a light
stock of soy-asparagus, jelly and several other
condiments, a loaf of protobread and soy-ginger-sesame
seed teriyaki sauce.

Between the kitchen and the bathroom next to it is his
oak-stained dresser. On top of the dresser are more
papers and a similar-colored frosted-glass lidded
wooden box. A can of deodorant, several commuter maps
of Chicago’s elevated and subway train, and bus
systems and a candle holder are also on top of the
dresser.

The bathroom’s got a nice little science experiment
growing in the tub. The tile floor needs mopping
desperately. Arlanna’s litter box is crammed between
the tub and the standing open door. A hairbrush,
toothpaste, toothbrush sitting inside a large
densiplast “Saduharu Oh” Golden Archers restaurant
franchise baseball cup. Under the sink, in the clean
wooden cabinet are barely-used cleaning supplies. The
shower curtain is dark gray, but used to be white.

The closet between the bathroom and the futon has a
sliding wooden door with horizontal slits across it.
Within the closet, Craith hangs his clothes and
stashes his Light Crossbow. Here also are his spell
fetishes and armor clothing, armor jackets and the
like. The shelves of the closet are also stocked with
more old books from his original libraries.

Note:
He is a big fan of the Seinfeld: A Century About
Nothing trid series and is a big Saturday Night Live
fan, though he dislikes the dirtier humor. He
especially enjoys classic SNL before the Crash of 2029
whipped out most of the show’s archives. He still has
recordings of the show’s 50th Anniversary in 2024.
Many of the old fogies were there: a 70+ year-old
Steve Martin, Jane Curtin and Bill Murray. Several
others had passed away by then: Garrett Morris, Dan
Akroyd, John Lovitz and several others. There were
always the regulars for the time: Pedro Trofimuk,
Michael Cusick, Fis Harris, Colleen Pendergrast,
Cynthia Stephens, Ayanna Cyr, etc. Marshall Escot, the
show’s new head honcho after the passing of Lorne
Michaels, continued in the traditional Lorne Tradition
of laughs with a modern flavor. He also enjoys the
current SNL pirate feeds he gets into the Containment
Zone every so often.

He enjoys the 2061-2062 Saturday Night Live season
with its parodies of popular shows like Medicine Hour,
Perspectives On the Day, Metahuman Rights Review,
Baking with Aunt Sally, This Week on Council Island,
Arcology Today, Mitsuhama vs. Oldfield Petroleum, The
Odd Coven, Let’s Learn Lakota, Wall Street Watch,
Sports in Review, Nova-HOT, Hour of the Magi, Home
Recycler Almanac, Ramboid VI and Madonna: A
Retrospective, well-known product commercials like
those for Fuchi Industrial Electronics, VITMOE™, the
Renraku Mall, Merlin’s Lore, DeGear’s Electronics,
Circa Opticode Electronics, etc. as well as social
quirks recognizable in both urban and rural, Human and
Metahuman, Mundane and Awakened, etc. But his
favorites are the parody sketches making fun of
shadowrunners. He loves all the more-famous-than-life
cast members for the various characters they have
become known for: Jonny Gonzalez (The Minority); Hart
Hyde (Lorenzo Hayes); Mania Ankenbrandt (Darkvine);
Sammy Harris (Average American Father); Marissa
Viola-Vitek (Sandra Willowfall); Dave Burton; Korbi
Lantman; Dave McBride (Weekly News); Christina-Roge
O’Leary; Irene Dunn; Carlos Marshall; Zoe Rosenburg;
Cohen Scott; Eva Duran; Amanda Handa; Kamar Five;
Regina Papotti; Lula Patel; Yong Kim; Tony Tomaschek;
Joey Gersheim and Ziobro Zimuda. It also so happens
that these celebs of SNL have achieved a new level of
longevity on the show and are known the world-over for
their side-splitting comedy. He even has bootleg chip
copies of pre-21st Century classic SNL!

He loves the classic Seinfeld episodes starring Jerry
Seinfeld, Michael Richards, Julia-Lewis Dreyfus, Jason
Alexander and some macro fat slot named “Newman”. But
he also loves the remake, “Seinfeld: A Century About
Nothing” starring Dave Grossman as Jerry Seinfeld,
Jeff Gregory as Cosmo Kramer, Angela-Bryant Station as
Elaine Benness, Edward Anthony as George and Rich
Irving as Newman. He enjoys the new Seinfeld because
it has more relevance to his generation as a “story
about nothing in the 21st Century–A Century About
Nothing…”

His newest Seinfeld chip, “A Non-Awakening,” is among
his favorites.

Many of these episodes he downloaded (read: pirated)
from the Matrix while jacked into one of the trid
network hosts. These are virtual reality codes he has
managed to convert to play on his trideo.

He got his datajack and his headware memory in the
summer of 2050 before he started his first semester at
SIU in Carbondale. He had to get it to attend the
college. His mother paid for this in the tuition.
He got his music chip player and microwave for
Christmas in ’52 while he was still attending SIU in
Carbondale, IL, UCAS.
He got his cyberarm after an Ant Spirit attacked him
right after the Quarantine in Chicago in 2055.
He got his first trid-game system and games while in
Carbondale, IL, UCAS while at the Meadowridge Town
Homes just east of the SIU Campus.
He got all the cyberarm installments after he moved up
to Chicago and got his own place up near WrigleyDome.
This helped get him into massive debt with many
financial institutions.
He got the Bow and the arrows after he moved up to
Chicago.
He had always had ordinary and fine clothing, but he
got the SecureTech clothing after moving to Chicago.
He had spent most of his time in Chicago having
someone build up a cyberdeck from an old Allegiance
Sigma, but had acquired his programs from a chummer of
his, named VanLeer Gilligan, at Columbia College.
Craith and VanLeer had since fallen out of touch.
He got his Personal Computer from the same dealer
through Columbia College. He was still paying it off
when the quarantine was enacted. Who knows the status
of this debt now.
He got his Sorcery Library and his Conjuring Library
through the various Talismonger Shops in Lincoln Park
and Lakeview, he had gone to several and compiled the
information onto an optical chip. He went to an
Amerind Talismonger Shop, an African Talismonger Shop,
a Celtic Talismonger Shop, a Scottish-Gaelic
Talismonger Shop, an Asian Talismonger Shop, a Slavic
Talismonger Shop, a German Talismonger Shop and a
Jewish Talismonger Shop to get data to build his
Sorcery and Conjuring Libraries.
He got his trid, trid recorder, music-chip White Noise
Generator, Maglock upgrades, bug scanner and voice
identifier from one of the tech shops in Lincoln Park.
He got his Camera, with Low-light, Ultra-violet,
Expert Systems and Primitive AI software at one of the
Clark Street tech shops in Lincoln Park.
He got his Trid Screen and new Playback Unit, his 7
Trideo Chips, his 8 Music Chips and his 3 simsense
recordings (90 mins each) at one of the trés chic
Lincoln Park simsense malls before the quarantine.
He got a new trid game system and new games after a
couple of vengeance runs that hurt a couple of CZ
Fixer’s bottom lines. (A young woman for whom he has
developed feelings had gotten a permanent assignment
from one of the Fixers, but the Fixer could not pay
her for her decker runs until he recouped the losses
Craith had imposed upon him. Ironically, though the
Fixer wouldn’t mind seeing Craith dead, the young
woman seems to have taken a liking to him). She has
now relocated to Mapperly and Gedling neighborhoods of
Nottingham, UK.
In 2063, Craith had finally gotten a regular shadowrun
gig at Midway International Airport providing Astral
and Thaumaturgical Security for the Riggers manning
the VTOL and V/STOL craft since the Strain III Astral
virus seems to have no effect on him. With the nuyen
he’s been able to earn from these Midway Riggers, he’d
been able to get odds and ends like trid games, new
trid movies, and new music chips from the CZ Black
Market just to make life more bearable for him inside
the CZ. He also started searching out his friends from
his college days from Meadowridge.
He has a Middle Lifestyle, paid for month to month to
Fin and his wife Nessa.
He has 4,735¥ on his credstick.

The people he still owes cred to would love to take it
out of his hoop since he has neglected his debts. This
may be the reason why he refuses to leave the CZ…

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