Street Smart Climber

The Street Smart Climber is a potential recruit for the mercenary squad.

Backstory

Being raised on the streets hardened you and gave you appreciation for wanting things in life. You worked your way up without pledging to anyone - as a Blue Ox street scout and thief. When you finally hatched your own team of mercs and cutthroats and started taking jobs for the D-Cartel, you had finally made it.

+4 Reaction, +2 Will, +3 Tech, -20 Hit Points, +5% Move Speed, +5% Legwork Success and +5% XP Gained

Source

This Vanguard can be recruited through the Underworld Hub. The name is randomly generated.

Starting Attributes

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

• Reaction: 4
• Strength: 0
• Will: 2
• Tech: 3

Starting Traits

The Vanguard will start with the following Trait:

• Adrenaline Junkie 1: +1 Reaction, -10 Hit Points, +1 Initiative, -1 Move Detection Radius, +5% Move Speed and 20% chance to gain Stress if left behind on a mission if Ready Status, 10% to gain double Hype on mission completion

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

• Sleuth 1: +1 Will and +3 Legwork Success
• Below the Level 1: +5 Stress Res and +3 XP Gained
• Ferocity 1: +1 Strength, +2% Melee Accuracy and +0.1 Action Points

Tags

The Vanguard will start with the following Tags:

• Faction Insider: Due to your connections and history, you are capable of executing Legwork inside D-Street Cartel territory without undue attention.
• Street Tech: Scrappy, patch-it-together style of tech work.
• Hates Traitors: Does not make any attempt to hide it, has great contempt and hatred for those who turn against their own.
• Faction Insider: Due to your connections and history, you are capable of executing Legwork inside Blue Ox territory without undue attention.
• Trusts: Has established a lasting trust with Honey Bean (Tech Router Contact).
• Buried a Team: Things went fatally off the rails for your last team and you were the only survivor. After gathering her own team, <Vanguard> lead them on a mission that proved too much. <Vanguard> was the sole survivor of the successful mission.

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

• Stolen Shadow Site Details: You stole the site details of a Rook Technologies shadow site operating far outside the bounds of corporate law. Maybe this will be leverage or maybe someday it will turn into a heist.
• Indebted 1 (on the new Contact Honey Bean): +1 Favor per Month
• New Contact: Koma Zuul, a Fabber for D-Street Cartel, becomes a Contact

Starting Cybernetic

The Vanguard will start with the following Cybernetic:

• Chameleon Sheathe: grants Vanguard class, +20% Stealth Crit Bonus Dmg, stealth or light armor only