Name: Jeff MacIain Race: Human Occupation: Director of Security Age: 38 Sex: Male Height: 5'10" Weight: 140 lbs. Favorite Food: Japanese Least Favorite Food: Hamburgers Hair: Silver Eyes: Blue BASE CP: 25 DEFECT CP: 4 EARNED CP: 0 TOTAL CP: 29 Body: 5 HP: 55 Attack: 5 Mind: 6 EP: 50 Defense: 3 Soul: 4 -Attributes- Level Cost Effect Damn Healthy! 1 1 HP +10 Heightened Awareness 2 2 -4 bonus to awareness checks Highly Skilled 4 4 +40 Skill Points Organizational Ties 1 1 Madison Network Services Personal Gear 2 2 2 major, 8 minor items Supernatural Ability 4 4 Unknown -Skills- Level Cost Specialty Burglary 2 4 Breaking and Entering Computers 5 10 Intrusion/Security Cooking 2 2 Ethnic Driving 2 4 Car Electronics 2 5 Computers, Security Forgery 2 4 Electronic Documents Intimidation 1 3 Street Linguistics 2 2 Japanese, Code Language Melee Attack 1 5 Improvised Weapons Navigation 1 2 Urban Sleight of Hand 2 4 Lock Picking Unarmed Attack 1 5 Strikes Unarmed Defense 1 5 Throws Urban Tracking 2 4 Underworld Writing 1 1 Technical -Defects- Level Bonus Details Marked 1 1 Large scar on back Nemesis 1 1 xExCeLx, hyatt_ Physically Unappealing 1 1 Skeleton in the Closet 1 1 Computer crime -Personal Gear- Major: Minivan of Doom A 2000 Mercury Villager with most of the standard features plus tinted windows, an integrated GPS unit, radar detectors, and cellular phone docking. Tomato A high-end Alienware Area-51m laptop, in Cyborg Green. It has an Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM, a 60 GB hard drive, a DVD/CD-RW drive, 10/100BaseT Ethernet, two batteries, and a 56K V.92 modem built in. An 802.11 wireless networking card is installed, and Jeff carries a cellular phone adapter for the modem. It runs a heavily customized version of OpenBSD, and weighs in at ten pounds. Minor: Wiring equipment A full set of telephone and network wiring equipment and supplies, suitable for telephone, cable TV, or Ethernet maintenance/phreaking. Usually found in the Minivan of Doom. CD collection Jeff owns a large collection of computer software and electronic music. The originals are kept in his apartment, and copies in the Minivan. Cooking supplies Jeff's apartment is well stocked for cooking gourmet meals. Cell phone A simple but high-end cellular telephone, with SMS messaging and modem hookup capabilities. Lockpicks A fairly good set of lockpicks, designed for handling a wide variety of situations. Mundane: Clothes, pens, computer supplies, etc. -Appearance- Jeff is, in general, unattractive. He's careful about personal hygiene, but otherwise pays absolutely no attention to his appearance. His prematurely silvered hair and bright blue eyes make for a disconcerting presence. -Personality and Background- Jeff grew up in a comfortable, middle-class suburb of Denver, Colorado. His family was pleasant but eccentric - some time after he left home, his parents went to Africa as missionaries. He excelled academically in school, but has always been a natural loner. The complications of this led him to become interested in self-defense at a fairly early age. To this day, he's in good shape and is a competent martial artist. In college at MIT, Jeff discovered the world of computers - at that time, still a fairly obscure field. He rapidly became entrenched in MIT's early hacker culture, and went overboard. He discovered that two professors had completely fabricated the research for a grant application, and happened to mention this discovery to a friend. Soon enough, much of the MIT hacker community was blackmailing the professors, in order to obtain higher grades. Feeling uncomfortable about this, Jeff disclosed the information to the dean of students. The professors were soon dismissed. Since Jeff had accessed the university's private records, and was seen as being responsible for the blackmail, he was given the choice of being prosecuted or expelled. He chose to leave MIT. Jeff worked at a few odd jobs until his connections found him a job in computer security. He's worked in the field ever since, slowly but surely becoming more of a "white hat." He's been the Director of Security at Madison Network Services, a large local Internet service provider, for some years - he now mostly works from home. Despite having matured, he's still known to engage in cracking and phone phreaking for what he considers a "good cause." Local law enforcement authorities owe him quite a few favors, and are likely to stay away. Jeff does have some social graces, but tends to be very blunt, which can cause some problems in Japanese. He doesn't particularly care what people think of him, preferring to concentrate on his computers and music. As long as they stay away from his network, he ignores most other hackers; spammers and script kiddies are likely to end up on the wrong side of a very specialized virus attack. Two such script kiddies, xExCeLx and hyatt_, recently experienced such an attack after trying to break into several machines at MNS. Despite their lack of skill, they're extremely upset with Jeff, and are out to make as much trouble for him as possible.