125: MultiMhari

ENTRY 125: MultiMhari

“The worth of a transhuman lies not in their disadvantages, but in how they overcome them.” – Mahtama Bhatusta

Flocking through the teeming transhumans of Extropia a bevy of identical pods moves in gracefully choreographed unison, five bodies networked under one mind, working the crowd. Residents on the station know her as MultiMhari, a freelance bodyguard who offers the best value (in terms of numbers) of anyone on the station. A little research will reveal her real name as Mhari Chughtai, once resident of New Varanasi on Luna, and still wanted for a host of thefts and a dozen cases of fraud and bigamy.

Originally an AGI, Mhari was conditioned as a pod-hopper for a concierge service for a hypercorp, intended to resleeve between different pods according to the client’s desires. However, resleeving never came easy to Mhari. Her first assignment saw Mhari a pleasure pod, and its appearance imprinted itself on her conscious as Mhari’s idealized self-image. Mhari became so tied to the morph that moving to anything else caused panic attacks and self harm. So she fled her indentured servitude, and fell into the criminal underworld on Luna, and when the local heat grew too intense she burned the last of her favors to flee to Extropia.

On her own, Mhari struck a balance between her pod-hopping conditioning and her pod-restrictions, and turned it to her unique advantage. Using a custom multi-tasking implant and a group of identical pods, Mhari rides herd over a group of temporary forks, seeing out of ten eyes, moving ten arms and ten legs in perfect orchestration—one mind in five bodies. A dazzling spectacle when she hits the dancefloor of the club, and a deadly one when engaged in five-fold melee, each individual iteration working in perfect coordination with the others.

COG	COO	INT	REF	SAV	SOM	WIL	MOX
14	15	20	15	20	17	15	-
INIT	SPD	LUC	TT	IR	DUR	WT	DR
7	1	40	8	80	30	6	45

Morph: Pleasure Pod

Skills: Academics: Anthropology 55, Academics: Biology 44, Art: Dancing 66, Art: Beam Weapons 50, Deception 55, Disguise 44, Fray 44, Impersonation 55, Infiltration 50, Infosec 50, Interests: Pods 40, Kinesics 55, Language: Native Basque 90, Language: French 60, Networking: Autonomists 40, Networking: Criminals 55, Networking: Hypercorps 35, Networking: Media 25, Palming 75, Perception 50, Profession: Bodyguard 50, Profession: Dancer 65, Profession: Pickpocket 55, Protocol 75, Unarmed Combat 50

Implants: Access Jacks, Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Clean Metabolism, Cortical Stack, Cyberbrain, Enhanced Pheromones, Mnemonic Augmentation, Multi-Tasking*, Puppet Sock, Sex Switch

Traits: Adaptability (2)**, Blacklisted (Luna), Identity Crisis, Social Stigma (AGI, Pleasure Pod)

* Custom implant; enables each of the five pods in MultiMhari’s network to as a fork of MultiMhari’s principal ego.

** Applies only to resleeving into another pod that meets the requirements of Mhari’s Identity Crisis trait—slipping into a new pod is extra easy for Mhari.

Seed

• Another Mhari pod has been identified stealing restricted access codes to critical Extropia subsystems, and a bounty has gone out for her capture. MultiMhari goes underground and contacts the PCs, claiming whoever it was, it wasn’t one of her—and she’ll owe them big if they can prove her innocence.