Assessed: Total Loss

Assessed: Total Loss is a potential recruit for the mercenary squad.

Backstory

After being caught in a deadly and mysterious explosion at the hands of Que Milieu, you were shelved by Matsumoto as a total loss. Unable to accept rotting in a medical ward, you severed your citizenship and found a private clinic who would rebuild you.

+2 Reaction, +2 Strength, +4 Will, +2 Tech, +50 Hit Points and +10% of Kinetic as Pure Dmg

Source

This Cybersword can be recruited through the Underworld Hub. The first name is Cas, the second name is randomly generated.

Starting Attributes

These Attributes come from the character Backstory and may be modified by the Starting Traits.

• Reaction: 2
• Strength: 2
• Will: 4
• Tech: 2

Starting Traits

The Cybersword will start with the following Trait:

• Rebuilt Killer 1: +1 Will, +30 Hit Points, +2% Built-in Armor, -7% Move Speed and Unless you personally kill 1 enemy during a mission, chance of additional Stress at end of mission

Recruitment Dialog allows the player to choose another Trait from the following:

• Bull-Built 1: +2 Strength and +30 Hit Points
• Cold Killer 1: +1 Will and +5% Crit Chance
• Not Much Time 1: +1 Will, +1 Initiative, +5% XP Gained and 10% chance to gain Stress if left behind on a mission if Ready status, 5% to gain double Hype on mission completion

Tags

The Cybersword will start with the following Tags:

• Faction Barred: Due to bad blood and history, you are incapable of executing Legwork inside Matsumoto Global territory without drawing the wrong kind of attention.
• Faction Exiled: Left Matsumoto Global and burned all the bridges and is unwilling to join any job working for Matsumoto Global.
• Scars of Betrayal: Bears the scars of betrayal and won't forget it any time soon.
• The Wards: Has worked in the Wards outside of the New Boston Dome and knows their dangerous ways and occupants.
• Megacorp Protocols: Well-informed and practiced at the rules and channels used for megacorporate security and military operations.
• Faction Barred: Due to bad blood and history, you are incapable of executing Legwork inside Que Milieu territory without drawing the wrong kind of attention.
• Hates Faction: Regardless of the price, you refuse to join any job for Que Milieu and revel in any chance to harm their interests.
• Respects: Has professional respect for <Doctor Contact>. You put your life in <Doctor Contact>'s hands and <Doctor Contact> saved you by spending 2 years rebuilding your body.

Recruitment Dialog allows the player to choose an additional option from the following:

• Obligations: Owes <Doctor Contact> 2 Obligations.
• Lung Slot Locked: An N-Filament SME Filter keeps <Cybersword> alive; it doesn't add any benefits but it cannot be removed from the Lung Slot.
• High Pay Rate: Demands a starting Pay Rate of 5%.

Starting Cybernetic

The Cybersword may start with the following Cybernetic if the correct recruitment dialog option is selected:

• N-Filament SME Filter (Lung Slot - Cyber Lung): This implant grants no effects but cannot be removed.

Starting appearance

To return Assessed: Total Loss to their default appearance, copy this text to the clipboard and select "import" from their appearance tab:

---BEGIN CYBER KNIGHTS APPEARANCE---

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---END CYBER KNIGHTS APPEARANCE---

Recruitment dialog

(This recruit can be introduced by any doctor contact)

Doctor: Let me introduce <recruit>.

CK: I understand you're just getting out of a long-term surgery and recovery ward.

Recruit: Yes ... How long has it been, <doctor>?

Doctor: Over two years now

Recruit: And every U-Dah I could scrape up, borrow or beg. It wasn't cheap to rebuild this body.

Face: Tell us about what happened

Recruit: I was a lifelong bodyguard and blade for Matsumoto. I gave them everything. Then I was assigned protection duty on a nano-scientist. Nothing new. The science was in cloning ... I don't know anything about that stuff. Anyway, he was involved with the Que Milieu, selling them secrets, I'm not sure what. Anyway, I got dragged to a few meetings, ordered to keep my mouth shut. At the last one, the package they gave him wasn't the usual trade, it was an some kind of nano-explosive.

Doctor: At least that is what the corporate doctors told you when you woke up. Having treated your extensive damage, I am not sure I agree with their assessment. But I am still unclear what the destructive agent was.

Face: But it was enough to kill your charge and put you out of action.

Recruit: Yes and ... Forever out of action. The Matsumoto bastards just ruled me as a total loss. I would survive and they'd be generous enough to keep me on life support and all that crap.

CK: Classically corporate. Did they remind you to be thankful?

Recruit: Of course, they did! All I knew was that I wasn't going rot in that bed but they refused to help me, no matter what I offered. My pitiful life savings were nothing to them. So, I severed my citizenship and checked myself into a private clinic.

Doctor: You were lucky to land in my capable hands It took a long time but, <recruit> has been completely rebuilt

Make your choice and continue:

• I'm thicker and tougher than I ever was - I'm Bull-Built and nothing is going to put me down again. (+2 Strength and +30 Hit Points)
• I've been to death's door and come back, so I don't get stirred up about it anymore. I'm a calm, quiet, Cold Killer. (+1 Will and +5% Crit Chance)
• I might be rebuilt but ... I feel like I can't sit idle. I know I Don't Have Much Time left so I need to stay close to the action. (+1 Will, +1 Initiative, +5% XP Gained and 10% chance to gain Stress if left behind on a mission if Ready status, 5% to gain double Hype on mission completion)

Recruit: I might be rebuilt but ... I feel like I can't sit idle. I know I Don't Have Much Time left so I need to stay close to the action. I didn't drag myself out of that hospital hospice bed just to sit on my hands. Put me in the heaviest fighting, I'm ready.

CK: In our line of work, that can be the difference between a score and a disaster. What do you think, <face>?

Face: I've got one more question - how you were able to afford the procedures to repair your body ... But Matsumoto wouldn't front the bill? Your corporate savings couldn't have covered those bills. Where did you get the money?

CK: And before you answer, let me be clear - if you want in this company, trust is our baseline. So, even if you don't like your own answer, it better be the truth.

Make your choice and continue:

• I couldn't afford it - I owe <doctor> 2 Obligations that you'd have to carry now
• I had to opt into trial cybernetic, an N-Filament SME Filter ... It is keeping me alive and can never be spliced out (Lung Slot Locked).
• I had to take loans from different people - family, friends. I need money to make things right, I need a 5% Pay Rate (can be reduced over time by Hype Limit Breaks).

Recruit: I had to opt into trial cybernetic, an N-Filament SME Filter ... It is keeping me alive and can never be spliced out (Lung Slot Locked).

Face: An inconvenience but not going to stop your from being effective.

Recruit: All of my other combat cyberware had to be spliced out - the nano-explosive the Matsumoto used destroyed everything.

<recruit> won't ever be able to remove the Lung implant but is ready and willing to implant other cybernetics.

CK: A private word, <face>?