209: Juan Diez-Cancel

ENTRY 209: Juan Diez-Cancel

It’s an exciting time to be a dental surgeon and technologist. Dental implants are some of the earliest augmentations that transhumans have ever played with, with archaeological evidence showing tooth modification practiced by a number of prehistoric societies. Nowadays dental augmentation specialists are in high demand, not just for the design, installation, maintenance, and repair of transhuman teeth and tooth augmentation, but in gatecrashing expeditions—where xenoteeth and teeth-analogues are usually highly informative, portable, and safe compared to most other biosamples of advanced life forms, and adventuresome dentists are called upon to evaluate and collect samples.

Dr. Juan is an jack-of-all-skills in the dental trade, and done everything from pulling denticles off Europan kraken-sharks to designing the modestly popular SuperTeeth augmentation that allows some exalts to chew through and help digest metal bars, from helping to educate about good dental augmentation care on the ‘Mesh to performing pro bono dental surgery on the Ilvanna conjoined hextuplets on Luna. He was on the front lines when the supercavities hit after an antibiotic strain of bacteria showed up on Titan, sharpened the teeth of cannibal street musicians on Extropia, and helped break up a tooth-harvesting operation on one of the Venusian aerostats. Nowadays, he’s been looking to get back into gatecrashing—visiting strange alien worlds, meeting strange new teeth, and pulling them out with his trusty “jaws of life” pliers.

COG	COO	INT	REF	SAV	SOM	WIL	MOX
17	16	18	15	16	15	13	-
INIT	SPD	LUC	TT	IR	DUR	WT	DR
6	1	26	5	52	30	6	45

Morph: Splicer

Skills: Academics: Biology (Teeth) 66, Art: Dental Implants 57, Fray (Avoid Biting) 33, Hardware: Medical Equipment 50, Interests: Dental Augmentations 46, Interests: Dentistry Education 42, Interests: Tooth Disease 34, Interests: Xenoteeth 36, Intimidation (Dentistry) 44, Kinesics (Bedside Manner) 30, Language: Native Spanish 84, Language: English 76, Medicine: General Dentistry 65, Medicine: Dental Surgery 70, Networking: Medical Community 63, Networking: Scientists 47, Perception 45, Profession: Dentist 65, Scrounging 35

Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Clean Metabolism, Cortical Stack

Using Juan Diez-Cancel

In the future, even dentistry is exciting. Dr. Juan fulfills the niche roll of a medical-type that is adventurous and low-key; read between the lines and most people realize that he moves on about one step ahead of his reputation, chasing fast and loose opportunities where people need a skilled dentist and aren’t too picky on questions or qualifications beyond skill. As an ally or a contact, Dr. Juan is loyal until his past catches up to him—legal suits, allegations of illegal experimentation with anesthetics and dental regenerators, the time he kidnapped six hypercorp brats and ripped their platinum grills off—and then he’s gone. As an enemy, Juan tends to be unpredictable but practical, willing to write off losses that the PCs inflict until and unless they capture something he needs…then he breaks out the pliers and drill and goes old-school on anyone he can get to, striking at friends, family, and contacts instead of the PCs directly.