Oh!  My I play, then?  Let me get Kokoro for your perusal before I fall asleep:<br/><br/><br/>Name: Sachiko Hideki/Kokoro/Eudialyte<br/>Race: Human<br/>Sex:  Female<br/>Age:  25<br/>Dec:<br/>Notes: Aspected Magician<br/><br/>Atributes<br/>Body       4<br/>Quickness  4<br/>Strength   3<br/>Charisma   3<br/>Intelgence 6<br/>Willpower  6(8)<br/>Essence    6<br/>Magic      6<br/>Reaction   5<br/>Initiative 1d6(4d6)<br/><br/>Karma Pool 1<br/>Good Karma<br/><br/>Condition Monitor:<br/>Stun 10/<br/>Physical 10/<br/><br/>Combat Pool: 9d/<br/>Magic Pool: 6d/<br/><br/>Active Skills:<br/>Bike                              1<br/>Computers                         1<br/>Read aura                         3<br/>Sorcery                           6<br/>Biotech                           3<br/>Edged Weapons (Katana)            2(4)<br/>Submachiene Gun (Ingram Smartgun) 2(4)<br/>Ettiquite                         3<br/><br/>Knowlege Skills:<br/>Biotech Background                1<br/>Biology                           2<br/>Chemistry                         2<br/>Coperate Polotics                 4<br/>Criminal Orginizations            2<br/>Cybertechnology                   2<br/>English Languege                  5<br/>--Read/Write                      2<br/>History                           2<br/>Japanese Animation                2<br/>Japanese Culture                  3<br/>Japanese Languege                 4<br/>--Read/Write                      1<br/>Japanese Manga                    2<br/>Magic                             5<br/>Medecine                          5<br/>Sorcery Background                3<br/><br/>Cyberware (none)<br/><br/>Spells:<br/>Increase Reflexes +3          1<br/>Increase Will                 2<br/>Stun Ball                     6<br/>Stabalize Exlusive Action     6<br/>Treat Exclusive Action        6<br/>Healthy Glow Exclusive Action 3<br/>Entertainment With Fetish     2<br/>Improved Invisibility         1<br/>Magic Fingers With Fetish     2<br/>Analyze Truth                 1<br/>Mind Probe                    1<br/>Detect Magic                  1<br/>Mind Link with Fetish         2<br/>Antidote Exclusve Action      3<br/>Cure Disease exclusive action 3<br/>Heal Excluse Action           3<br/>Oxyginate                     1<br/>Resist Pain Exclusive Action  5<br/><br/>F 1 Sustaining Focus for Increase Reflexes +3d<br/>F 2 Sustaining Focus for Increase Will<br/>F 1 Sustaining Focus for Improved Invisibility<br/>F 5 Power Focus (Attuned to Force 2)(Permit)<br/><br/>Armor<br/>Secure Longcoat  Balistic 4  Impact 2  -0 Combat Pool<br/>Secure Jacket    Balistic 5  Impact 3  -0 Combat Pool<br/>Heavy Security Armor  Balistic 8, Impact 7  -2 combat pool<br/>-w-Heavy Security Armor -w- Security Helmet, Thermographic, Optical Magnification 3, Ultrasound, Wrist Tranciever, Tracking Signal, Head's up Display with 100 Mp of memory, Chemical Seal, Respirator, and Smartgoggles.<br/>Voice Mask Rank 3<br/><br/>Weapons:<br/>Ingram Smartgun  Conceal 5, Amo 32(c), BF/FA,  Damage 7M, Weight 3, Legal 4-G, Recoil Compensation 2(3)<br/>Katana: Conceal 3, Reach 1, Damage Str+3(6)M Weight 1, Legal 5-B(Permit)<br/>400 standard rounds  400 Gell Rounds<br/><br/>8 clips?<br/>Equipment/Gear<br/>2 Months High Lifestyle<br/>(Street Doc's Home)5 months, Middle, 2 guests<br/>(Shadowrunner's Base)Permenant Squatter Safehouse<br/><br/>Dodge Scoot (For Mai)<br/>Harley Davidson Scorpion (For Runs)<br/>Supercrombie 3 RV (Warded) Security: (Methane powered Cryslar/Nisan Jackrabit)<br/>Pocket Secretary<br/>Personal Computer<br/>Medkit<br/>Deluxe Stabilization Unit<br/>10 Rank 8 Antidote Patches<br/>5 rank 4 Stimulant patches (which she will not give a magician under any circumstances!)<br/>20 Rank 4 tranq patches<br/>2 rank 10 tranq patches<br/>10 networked bio monitors.<br/><br/>L 2 Contacts<br/>1 Wolf (Gang Memeber)  "The funny thing is, Wolf still thinks he owes me.  (I'm just relieved he has a lover so his love for me stays Lancelot-esque.)<br/>"Simply put, I broke my own rules when I found this poor kid, curled up in a ball on the ground being beaten down by three orcs and a troll.<br/>"'You know, boys, I normaly don't interfere in agressive negatiations, but something about four on one just turns my stomache.  How about you boys take go celebrate your victory with a round of Smash on me?'<br/>"I'll spare you their rather lewd responce, sufice it to say they thought I, that is Kokoro who dresses all cute and sexy under her heavy armored jacket, would make a better conquest than the boy they had on the ground.<br/>"Well, I didn't intend to let them have that chance.  I unleashed my stun ball at full power, which is almost as likely to make me down as it is to to flatten every target in sight, but being a sprawl ganger and a bully doen'st lend itself to strength of will and I was the only one standing when it was done.  IT hurt like three kinds of hell, so I cast a minor pain reducer on myself and managed not to make my own sitaution worse in the process.<br/>"Then I dragged the ganger boy into an abandoned building.  He had more broken bones than I could count, and my Stunn Ball hadn't helped him.  I knocked myself out with the treat spell.<br/>"Well, to be perfectly honest, I expected to wake up ravished and peniless, if at all.  Instead I woke up in Kitten's bed.<br/>"Kitten's got some looks, but not enough looks to get her a SIN without selling her body to the megacorps.  She's a busty, freckled ginger blonde with some cosmetic Cat Girl implants and stripes, very cute.  She makes her New Yen dancing half clothed at what passes for a classy establishment around here.  That means she dances for the Maphia Boys and their guests, who look out for her, instead of in the brothel taverns you'll find a few blocks away.<br/>"Kami-sama bless Wolf, he's man enough to let his girl dance, and man enough to let her make more money than he, but if you lay one finger on her he'll come down on you like the foot of Dunkelzhan.  He protects his turf and his family, sometimes working for the maphia, sometimes against, for the good of his hood, his girl, his mother, his two brothers, and me, his Angelt of Mercy.  (He KOed 2 orcs I hadn't seen before I got there, specificly because they'd been making improper allusions to Kitten's body."<br/>"In any event, Wolf's got eyes and ears in the slums, and his best girl's got them in the Maphia.  More improtantly Wolf knowes that I'm also Eudialyte and keeps an eye, chain, and occaisional gun sight on Eudialyte's revamped and permenantly financed little refurbished, abandoned factory outbuilding with the various secret, bio-maglocked trunks stashed inside old bits of machienery, air ducts, and basements that contain Eudialytes bike, guns, gear, and car.<br/>"He's also a good man to share a drink and a back rub with.  The rest of his gang aren't so sweet, but 'cause Wolf say's I'm cool and i've patched up some of their minor breaks and gouges as well, they're good to know.<br/>"Oh, and it was he who pointed Ro towards me."<br/><br/>2 Rowena O’Malley  (Mafia Leader)<br/>"Probably Kokoro's best friend...  Sort of.  Wolf and Kitten are the closest friends, Ro is someone she can not only be intimate and casual with, but also someone she can carry on an intelgent conversation with.<br/>"Ro owes me quite a bit more than Wolf, 'cause it wasn't Roweena's life I saved but that of a little eight year old who caught a Triad bullet meant for Ro.<br/>"We barely knew each other, but the Triad's decker had frozen her Doc Wagon account, and I was the kids only hope.<br/>"I had the little one stable and on the mend in time to join up with Ro in a retributive strike with extreme prejudice.  That was my first and second time to kill a sentient.  I don't regret a minute of it.  Never got far enough to swear the Hypocratic Oath anyway.<br/>"Well, Roweena runs Maphia instrests in Eudialyte's part of the slums, and after that Ro didn't hesitate to provide me with anything I could come up with the money for, untraceable and state of the art.<br/>"I don't know if she knowes my real name or not, she hasn't asked, but she could probably find out if she wanted too."<br/><br/>3 Slash and Burn<br/><br/>L 1 Contacts<br/>1  Shiro Tanaka   Yakuza Soldier  --  "Shiro-san calls me Koko-chan, and Kokoro's too nice to take it as less than flattering.  (It means Cute Little Kokoro.  Try that on Eudialyte and you'll get a submachiene gun barel down your throat.)<br/>"To Shiro, to whom I pay the rent and security money for Kokoro's remarkably nice house in the land on the SINless, and from who'se hide I've pulled many a bullet or shrapnel shard, Kokoro is an object of flirtation too valuable to actualy be used and cast aside, and so we flirt and exchange favors of a more professional sort."<br/>2  Dancer  O.R.C.  (Help me out here, what would my relationship be with O.R.C?  Are they an orc gang, or a racial superiorist band.)<br/>5  Weaver      Decker  --  College friend of Sachiko?<br/>3  Holly       Reporter  --  "Holly actualy knowes that Sachiko has taken up an alternate identity as a Shadowrunner and more, she knowes why.  In fact, she wants the Corp brought down nearly as badly as I do.  If she hasn't connected me with the name Eudialyte yet, or at least Kokoro, it's probably because she hasn't tried.<br/><br/>4  Nightdancer  Talismonger --Former buisness associate of my mother and father who lost some very good contracts when the Takeover went down.  Since then he's been happy to provide Sachiko with whatever she asks for, no questions asked.  That includes gosip as well as talisman's at the going price.<br/><br/>6  Galahad      Plain Clothes Cop --  "If I still had a heart...  Oh, my Galahad, my knight in a dressy casual.  As Sachiko I got--very--close to having a very satisfying fling with him when we realized it would seriously perjure his investigation.  Every once in a while, when I'm alone in the night, it occurs to me that Kokoro could offer him a rather satisfying erotic massage or even Eudialyte could have a rather intriuging amazon encouter with him.  I haven't gotten up the guts or desperation to actualy go through with it...<br/>"Yet...<br/>"Sorry, that's called En Media Res, starting in the middle.  Galahad was the only cop investigating Sachiko's parents and brother's death who felt as she did, that it was a badly covered up assasination.  He confided in me that the higer ups in the police were rushing the investigation through or burying it in paperwork.<br/>"Galahad is the last good cop, as far as I'm concerned, very serious about protecting the innocent to the point of dealing with Shadowrunners quite favourably if said shadowrunners try to avoid an overlarge body count.<br/>"And if one word of that get's out of your lips, I'll surgicaly remove them, capiche?"<br/>"That actualy means he pointed out to me, very subtly, that I needed to run the shadows to do what neeeded doing."<br/><br/><br/><br/>History:<br/><br/>She called herself Eudialyte for the crystal dusting her armor.  In bright light it was a shimmering dark latice of cherry red and black cherry purple, but in the shadows it blended as well as any other heavy security armor.  It had to be a custom job, not just for the crystaline trim but also for the way it shifted supply with her every move and hugged every curve.  Security armors were generaly made to intimidate, these seemed almost made to dispaly the body their armored, if three inches of modern padding, balistic plastics, and depleted uranium laced ceramics could be said to reveal.  The helm was the oposite, of course, looking like a cross between a space suit helm and a preying mantis god carved from crystal.<br/><br/>Holding her katana at the inquisitors throat she growled in a noticably electronicaly altered voice, a husky alto based on some erotic romance heroine simsense who could send chills down a man's spine by simple expedient of whispering his name.<br/><br/>It didn't work half so well synthesised, or perhaps that had something to do with the folded steel katana blade shaving your throat.<br/><br/>"All right, chummer, you found me.  So why exactly should I be spilling all my deep, dark secrets to you?  Am I suposed to remove your head to protect them when I'm done so you can die satisfied?<br/><br/>"Oh...  You're G.O.D.?  Why didn't you say so?"<br/><br/>The armored figure relaxed visibly and sheated the kattana with a move not quite so smooth as she would have liked.  "Well, no use hiding anything from you, right?"<br/><br/>She lifted her glove hands to her helmet and several moments of whiring came out of the bowels of the armor before it finaly popped free, revealing a homo sapiens sapiens face that could be easily make it onto a bilboard.  The japanese beauty, her ethinicity as intimdating as it was exotic, had the quality of looks you couldn't buy at the salon or earn at the gymn.  Rather, too a dispasionate observer, she clearly indulged in both vanity-expanding passtimes.  The only sign of caucasian blood was the lightness to her sienna brown eyes.<br/><br/>Not stopping their, she unlocked one gauntlet and pulled it off to reveal, not only the supplely muscled arm beneath, but four ruby studded orichalcum rings connected by chains to a bracelet.<br/><br/>"That's all you need to see," she explained.<br/><br/>"My name is Sachiko Hideki, and I'm sure the first question going through your head is, "What's a pammpered peice of tail like that doing running the shadows?<br/><br/>"I'll give it to you straight, chummer, I've got the oldest schtick in the book.  Revenge.<br/><br/>"My old man's name was Katsu, and his old man was Ranmaru, and his old man was Sano.  This is the part where I tell you how they all died.<br/><br/>"Sano was a fisherman, but that didn't stop him from crashing a plane into an American aircraft carier when the emperor said so.  Shortly thereafter, his acestral hut was eradicated by a weapon of mass destruction affectionaltly known as Little Boy, leaving his widdow to work as a laundress in Tokyo and his unborn child with nothing to remember him by but a rather cheap katana.  No, it's not this one, this one is wooten damascus steel folded ninty seven times.  But this one also happens to have an identicle hilt, scabard, tsuba, and serial number.  I'll get to that in a little bit.<br/><br/>"The Americans didn't do so badly by their conquered teritories back then and my father found himself growing into what was rapidly becoming one of the world's top puclic education systems.  Given the chance to improve his mother's lot in life, he graduated at the top ninty percent of his high school and eventualy pulled a buisness degree from Tokyo University.  Trust me, chummer, you don't get a much better education than that, nor do you fight much harder for it.<br/><br/>"His mother retired into the lap of luxury, relitvly speaking anyway, with a gandson to cuddle before she died and three domestic servants to treat much better than she herself was treated.<br/><br/>"Now truth be told Ranmaru built himself up to about as much of a fortune as I'm currently squandering.  He married late in life to a healthy young bride and begot Katsu, but in his infinite wisdom, while he gave Katsu a quality of childhood pleasures a great many people in the world throughout history would have considered princely luxury, he was actualy rather strict and tight fisted.  Katsu had to earn his generous allowance with not only good grades but also high marks in the kendo club and public service.  Katsu learned this lesson well and, by the time the family fortunes started falling into his hands, he had graduated from his father's alma matter with a GPA .03 higher, as americans measure things.  He had a shrewd mix of ambitioun, charity, and sense of duty, and quickly multiplied his family fortunes by a factor of ten, adjust for inflation.  He also had a knack for langueges and was frequently involved in international corperate affairs.  Of course, this also lead to the rapid anulment of his first marriage to a verry bored and very boring trophy wife.<br/><br/>"He pledged to content himself with massage parlors and academia for his pleasures when not making himself and his company an ever increasing bounty in New Yen.  Most particularly academia, I would say, because the world was in the midst of it's dramatic change back then and, while he lacked the personal scholarship to unravel the meaning of it all, he could keep up with the people who had it and persuade the higher ups in the megacorp that it was worth investing in.<br/><br/>"He was getting into his fourties when he met a rather ambitous young lady at the University of Berkly who was brancing out from molecular biology into some cutting edge work in the arcane sciences.  It wouldn't seem too impressive today, I covered most of it in my second year, but there seemed to be an across the board hunger back then to prove that magic was a quantifiable force that could be controled through reason and science just as readily as spirituality.  Her name was Dr. Yomiko Sandora, and her father was purto rican, her mother japanese.  Katsu was fascinated with her work and poured a great deal of corperate money into it.  He spent a great many of his semi-official and off hours in her lab, where at some poitn they discovered they were capable of sharing mind blowing sex as well as intelgent conversation.<br/><br/>"A rival in the corperatoin discovered this as well and, probably out of jealousy, persuaded the corperate elders that they should be spending their money on less theoretical work and far more applicable sciences.  Just as things were being called into question a stoodge of his rival pointed out the aroma of wild compulation in Dr Sandora's office and the frequently changed sheets on the futon behind the desk that she, before meeting my father, generaly used only when her research kept her up too late to drive home.<br/><br/>"The old men scowled and, between quite admiration of Katsu's prowess, realocated most of the funds to Yomiko's research and reasinged Katsu to a position of lesser athority and profit with more opertunities to use his charm on single foriegn buisness women.<br/><br/>"Needless to say, Katsu was having none of that.  He and Yomiko formed a private corperation together, funded by Katsu and a few ambitious lower men in the company.  When Ranmaru sucumbed to old age with a smile two years later Katsu quit the megacorp all together and poured his full attentions into running the buisness aspect of Hideki biotech.  By the time he felt secure enough in his finacial future to gaurntee the propserity of the family, he presented Yomiko with, not only a sizeable diamond ring and proposal of marriage, but aslo this."  Eudialyte held up the jeweled orichalcum chain bracelet.  "It's even more powerful than it is pretty, or it was in my mother's hands.  I'm still trying to attune to it."<br/><br/>"To make a long story a tad bit shorter, within 26 years Katsu and Yomiko and their shareholders had a substanial fortune under their belt in biotechnology and arcane science patents.  Not that they had any entire products to their credit, but they were responsible for, and profiting off of, advancements in health-based magic, genetics, cloning, alphawear cybertech, and even talismongery."  She gestured with the bejewled bracelet again.  "This is powerful even today, when it came out it was cutting edge and top of the line."<br/><br/>"They also had an anoying habit, to some people's way of thinking, of making medecines available at discount prices when the patients need was great and credit line weak.<br/><br/>"But I'll get to that shortly, it bears mentioning at this point that they had not only a fortune but also a devoted, hard working heir and a pampered princess of a daughter.<br/><br/>"I'm flattering myself, of course.  Not every spoiled daughter, whose highest ambition in life was to marry well while dabbling in the Arete, could say she was sucessfuly pursuing a double major at a major university and could quick draw a katana without cutting off her own thumb.<br/><br/>"But I honestly lacked the ambition charecteristic of my family and was satisfied to live the luxury my parents hard work entitled me too.  My half-finished degrees in Pre-med and the arcane scieneces were just another of those luxuries.<br/><br/>"Well, a certain megacorp whose name I'm sure you know better than I got it inot their heads that we were excercising a bit too much control over our patents, and that our profits would be put to better use lining their coffers.  They offfered to buy us out, we refsued.<br/><br/>"That's when our research started becoming mysteriously preempted and our security personal started turning up mysteriously lacking in vital body parts.<br/><br/>"Tougher security measures were installed, including no small number of combat trained magi, and the shadowrunners seemed to eventualy be disuaded.  Just in case, father commisioned this modern combat worthy blade made in such a way that it could be switched with the old family heirloom he carried a permit for.<br/><br/>"We started to relax.  After five years in college I was about to complete my junior year in both degrees, so when mother, father, and my older brother Sano (yes, another Sano) took out the yatch to celebrate I stayed home to focus on my studdies.<br/><br/>"That night, there was a "freak accident" involving a carefuly placed charge of high explosive not far from the yatch's fuel tank.  There was an explosion, followed by a flash fire which was quickly extinguised as the shards of the yatch were pulled under.  Mother and father's charred corpses were pulled out by the DocWagons, which is how I came to inheret mother's talisman.  My brother's body was never found.  I hope he's dead, because the thought that either he's curently a secret corperation slave or a murderous traitor to family and company is too much too bear.<br/><br/>"I quite simply didn't have the no how to hold the company together, if it was possible to do so with all the carefuly arranged creditors coming to call and share holders pulling out.<br/><br/>"I mourned just long enough that, were there anything I could have possibly done to keep the company, I didn't do it.<br/><br/>"Then the anger woke up in me.  I had more than enough money left to set myself up in a comfortable middle class lifestyle for the rest of my life, and become a doctor if I wanted to elevate myself, but that wasn't good enough.<br/><br/>"I finished my double degree in a year but I'd already begun confusing my accounts with friends from school and making "friends" in low places.<br/><br/>"I knew I had no legal recourse against so monolythic a corperation, I had to tear them down the way my own family was torn down, from the shadows.  I couldn't do it alone, I needed friends, lots of loyal friends, and a precious few with the power and nohow that I lacked.<br/><br/>"I stepped up my training with the katana and learned to use a pistol as well as mastering my magic and completing my pre med degree.  It was around this time that a certain SINless mage-girl started making appearences in the bad sides of town.  Occaisionaly she would drop some NuYen into the right places, but her primary conererns were with the health and well being of the SINless, destitue, orcish underground, and other people the major hospitals didn't care about but who nonetheless had the power in certain cirlces to get things done.<br/><br/>"Her name was Mai, and she had a small apartment with a clinic in the back, along with her own styling motorcyle, but did most of her work with magic.  In a rather remarkable period of time she began collecting the right sorts of friends.  Once she was sure of who was the right sort, it suddenly came clear that she actualy had a bit of ready cash on hand when it could secure her talismans, weapons, and a very nice set of unregistered armor."<br/><br/>"When she was sure she knew the right people, Mai introduced a few of them to Eudialyte, combat medic and mage wiht a dash of street samurai thrown in for good measure, aspiring Shadowrunner with a little axe to burry in a certain corperation's back with extreme prejudice."<br/><br/><br/><br/>OR, if you prefer a naive inocent girl who can incinerate an entire building and knock herself out in the process, here's Acacia, I can play either or both, depending ont he needs of the party:<br/><br/>Acacia Firebrand "Tearsong"<br/>Elven Female Magician<br/><br/>Body       1          Combat Pool 8d<br/>Quickness  2          Magic Pool  10d<br/>Strength   1          Astral Pool 10d<br/>Intelgence 6<br/>Willpower  6<br/>Charisma   8<br/>Reaction   4<br/>Essence    6<br/>Magic      6<br/><br/>Melee Weapons  0/Survival Knives 2<br/>Thrown Weapons 0/Knives 2<br/>Ettiquite      5/Astral Plane 7<br/>Sorcery        5/Manipulation 7<br/>Conjuring      5/Fire Elementals 7<br/><br/>Knowlege Skills<br/>Astral Plane/Horrors         5/7<br/>B.: Ettiqute/Astral Plane    2/4<br/>B.: Sorcery/Manipuation      2/4<br/>B.: Conjuring/Fire Elentals  2/4<br/>English                      4<br/>--Read/Write                 1<br/>Fasion/Cosmotology           5/7<br/>Knives Throughout History    6<br/>Magic/Fire                   5/7<br/>Paranormal Animals/Dragons   5/7<br/>Poetry/Tragic                5/7<br/>Spanish                      1<br/>Speretiel                    4<br/>--Read/Write                 1<br/><br/><br/>280,000  Athme: Force 2 Orichalcum Survival Knife Weapon Focus (100,000+180,000 Rank 2 Knife Weapon focus (not attuned)<br/>305,000 Diamond Tear: Force 3 Power Focus. (Attuned to Rank 2)<br/>90,000  Toe Ring: Force 6 Sustaining Focus: Armor (attuned)<br/>45,000  Niple Piercing:  Force 3 Sustaining Focus: Increased Charisma (Atuned)<br/>45,000  Ear Cuff:  Focrce 3 Sustaining Focus: Increased Will (Atuned)<br/>100,000 Rank 10 Hermetic Library<br/>100,000 Permenant Low Life Style<br/>10,000  Rank 10 Elemental Conjuring Materials<br/>+1 Spell Point<br/>2 F 4 Health Glow (Exclusive Action)<br/>4 F 6 Ignite (Exclusive Action)<br/>4 F 6 Fireball (Exclusive Action)<br/>6 F 6 Armor<br/>4 F 6 Heal (Exclusive Action)<br/>3 F 3 Increase Charisma<br/>3 F 3 Increase Will<br/><br/>Contacts;<br/>Level 1<br/>Name:  Mhariss<br/>Uses:  Give beautician jobs, minor magic, information.<br/>Places to Meet:  Elbereth Cosmetology<br/>There Contacts:  Corporate middle management and their wives, same with Maphia, Yakuza, etc.  Any one who has money and wants quality mundane and magical beauty treatment.  Mharriss and several of her (usualy elven) employies aply their elven magic towards the end of their clients beautification.  They also, like bartenders, are both chatty and discreet, and tend to collect gossip.<br/>Race:  Elf.  (They captolise on the "glamourous elf" mistique.)<br/>Gender:  Female<br/>Dislikes:  Racisim, blatant exploitation, dirt, bad manners, disorderly behavior, hot dogs.  While not activly prejudiced against orcs or trolls, she might hold them to a slightly hire standard of proper behavior than other people.<br/>How To Contact:  Go into work, calling ahead to make sure there's work availalbe.  Ask after closing time if she'd like to go out for a late night coffee or soycaffe.  If you're in a hurry, just call and convicne her pocket secreatary that you're worth her time.<br/>Personality:  2 parts everyone's friend, 1 part everyone's mother.  For elves, make that two parts eveyrone's mother.  For young elves in trouble, make that 4 parts.  She tends to look out for her "people".  Likes both tea and coffee.<br/>Appearance:  Did you see Galadriel in the old Peter Jackson rendition of Lord of the Rings?  She looks like that.<br/>Quotes:  To Accacia: "Oh, you poor thing!  Step in back, fix yourself a cup of tea and have a sit.  We'll talk at closing time.  I've got to do a die job for young miss Peabody.  She wants neon blue this time, and did you see her ears?  Their fake, of course.  Poor thing, money can't buy you elfdom, and would she really want it if she really new the price?"<br/><br/>Harlequin and Meridy<br/><br/><br/>Day Job: Arcane Beautician.  (She works in a beauty parlor owned by her contact Mhariss, come and go when she pleases and keeping 80% of the take.  it's a high priced beauty parler wherein she cuts hair and casts Health Glow.)<br/><br/><br/>Formerly from the confederated american states, Akasha's parents were horified to discover their daughter was an elf.<br/><br/>Treating her as an emberasing scapegoat, making her hide her ears at school and blaming her for everything that went wrong in the family, she grew up with deep empathy for the pain of others, but emotionaly frail.  At 14, she finaly went through with it and laid open her own wrists with her knife.<br/><br/>Lengthwise...<br/><br/>Along the vien.<br/><br/>The doctors don't understand why she didn't die.<br/><br/>"When my pain started to fade," she confided in her fellow patients at the psychiactric ward, "I saw an elf and a feathered serpent.  They held me, loved me, gave me hope for life again, though I can't always find it.  They asked me not to go, told me that the world needed me."<br/><br/>"Years latter, still in the rehab center, I found out why."<br/><br/>At eighteen, she lay in bed for a year, in an aparent coma.  The truth was, she was astraly projecting.  Harlequin the elf and Meridy the feathered serpent with the heart-wrenching voice had brought her into the astral plane for long term training.  And they sent her otu of it with...<br/><br/>Gifts.<br/><br/>"I don't like Shadowrunning, really.  True, the corperations are a problem, and I don't feel sorry for them, but I do feel sorry for their low level people whom we injure.<br/><br/>"But there's a horror coming, a great scourge.  As the mana levels rise, the bad things on the other side of the Astral Plane get closer and closer, and I have to be strong to stand against them when they come.  I need my healing and my fire.  I need to walk in dark places, and stand ready for the coming of the Third Scourge.  This time, we won't hide.  This time, I'll stand against them.<br/><br/>"Will you stand with me?"<br/><br/>Tearsong is a pale, red headed elf, whos'e magic is alarmingly strong, and whose magical talismans, which seem to have appeared out of nowhere along with a great many Newyen, are even stronger.  Physicaly, though, she's still quite feeble from her time on the astral plane and is fighting hard to get back in shape.<br/><br/>Her orichalcum knife, which she calls an Athme, is both weapon focus and power focus.  Or at least, it's both those things conected.  She also has several powerful sustaining foci and has set herself up in the streets with all the magical gear she can get her hands on thanks to her patrons parting gift.<br/><br/>SHe believes it will be many hundreds of years before the horrors arive.  WHen they do, she has to be as strong as she can be, with many friends.  But for now she's just running the Shadows to aquire the skill, experience, and Newyen that she needs.<br/><br/>