Thread:Monagan/@comment-22439-20130630025853/@comment-11409158-20130702114224

So, backstory

My character grew up in the Slums of central. He has some faint memories of his parents but he must have either been sold, abducted, orphaned or got lost because he found himself on the street at a young age, scrambling for survival. He eventually fell in with one of the gangs there, the Funnel Flakes (name subject to change), a bunch of low life hackers doing small time cybercrime to get by. At first being used as a courier, lookout and shill, he quickly learned how to hack. In fact, he noticed it seemed to just come naturally to him. Around the same time he started developing a strange craving for saltwater. It wasn't until much later that he learned about the origins of his power, and the reason for his cravings.

He spent the next decade or so rising within the Gang, making it to a respected member of the group. One day, a few weeks before the current events, he noticed some big exchange going down between one of the members of a major corp (one controlling any city but central, I'll leave that up to you to figure out) and an unknown second party, via dead drop. Gray managed to get to the parcel first, which contained a heavily encoded data drive. However, he soon found himself chased by different corporate taskforces, and CorSec sent out a warrant on him for first degree cybercrime (which is the worst kind. The worst!). He had no choice but to hightail it out of the city as fast as possible, sneaking onto one of the trains heading to Temple to hide out and figure out if what he had gotten his hands onto might be his ticket out of poverty.

By the way, what exactly is on the disc I'll leave up to you, but it could theoretically be detailed plans by aforementioned corporation to take over central. Anyways, I'll add some more details later.