Desmond's Contacts

[Stefan [GM]]

Name: Leonard Vince
Profession: Digital Artist
Calling: Exotic Weaponsmith
Noteworthy Skills:
Artisan
Electronics and Cracking
Armorer, Exotic Designs

BTL-Junky

A close friend to the Harper Family, Leonard, is an artist at heart. Like many creative minds, his wanders restlessly from one inspiration to another. Certain virtual drugs might do their part, one might think. 
He makes a living as digital artist, designing ARO software, painting new realities customized to any need one can come up with.
Though his passion doesn't stop with software. Being associated with a a group of assassins led eventually to a new desire for weapons-creation. There is just this certain something about the art of weapons. It was Leo, who came up with the design to forge the normal, clumsy snap-blade into a precise, hidden tool for the silent killer. The first prototyp almost cut off Desmond's ring finger, when the the angle of the blade was not quite adjusted right. To this day Desmond bears the scar on his finger. 
A few designs later, he came up with a mobile sheath, attached to the underside if the bracers, that slides forward a few inches past the wearer's wrist and adjusts to the angle of the wearers hand to a limited degree, to prevent accidental cuts and scraps, before the actual blade slides out.

Though Desmond is the only one taking advantage of Leonard's secret profession, the Artist consideres to make a living from this talent. After all, ARO is nice and infinite in possibilities, his fascination with weapons seems to dominate his inspiration. His newest creation, the biggest hit under the S$M fans, even features an ARO modification called "Payne Room" - a AR overlay full of edges, clubs, needles and spikes, iron maidens and all sorts of archaic weapons, to experience the pleasure of agony from these beautiful instruments. 

Good luck with that, Leo ...

[Stefan [GM]]

Name: Claudia Harper
Profession: Face
Noteworthy Skills:
Influence
Computer and Cracking

Note, that her connection rating only aids toward the Erased-quality, until the Enemy-Quality has been resolved.

Claudia is Desmond's younger sister. She was witness to what happened to her father.
From her father, she learned a great deal of business tricks from a very young age on. So much even, to be better at it than her old man, though he wouldn't let her deal with his clients or sort of business. That didn't stop her, though, and she started to build up her own ring of connections throughout the matrix. Enough to secretly help out her brother where her dad could not, especially deleting Desmond's records, when he managed to build one with the authorities. Her Network reaches pretty far throughout Seattle and is a great collection of owed favors between everyone involved, complex enough to confuse most bookies, delicate enough to stay low profile for even the most detailed investigator.

Due to recent tragedy, she decided to keep an even lower profile, not using her connections and influence within the shadows for anything but to keep her Brother's trail clean. If Desmond gets into trouble with the authorities or other organizations, it usually doesn't take her long to pull just the right strings to make things disappear.