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Takagi
 Here's kind of an important post that I feel is way overdue. It contains all you need to recreate Takagi
(of Takagi & Fish fame) as a tabletop game character. Actually you
probably need a lot more than this, I don't entirely understand how
those things work.
This handful of notes is likely to be
added to as the character gets developed, and the same goes for other
posts of this kind. Don't worry about missing said updates - we'll
hyperlink the ever loving bejesus out of them, not only in future news
posts but in the stories themselves too.
Takagi features
(so far) in three short stories which you can read for free at
takagiandfish.com. There are more stories scribbled in various
notebooks piled high in Auckland and Melbourne but they need to be
typed, edited then published and there be way too few hours in the day. If
you'd like to help us get it all done then please go ahead and fling us some mazuma.
Izuma TakagiCyborg Class: 4 (sometimes 3)
Height: 190 cm
Weight: 100 kg - variable
DOB: 15 April 2123
Birthplace: Yokohama
Nationality: Unregistered - Pasfika Zone
Occupation: Corporate Operative
Affiliations: FutureShock, various casinos
BiographyChildhood:
Born into the upper echelons of a prominent Yakuza family, Izuma Takagi
spent his formative years immersed in a traditional feudalist
environment, developing a mindset which he would retain well into
adulthood. Takagi took an early interest in cybernetics and had his
first cellular augment by age eight.
Adulthood:
After the murder of his family Takagi inherited his father's assets.
Foremost of these was a technology company, the resources of which he
dedicated to his personal cybernetics R&D lab. In the four years
prior to going out of business the firm made several breakthroughs in
the field which were never monetised, Takagi preferring instead to
remain the exclusive owner of the technology. Chief of these advances
was a fully cybernetic body featuring a number of integrated cybernetic
weapons, and the software interface enabling a human consciousness to
interact with the new hardware. The latter of these, called the Genesis
Interface Protocol (GIP), was later developed by Takagi himself into a
fully autonomous companion AI.
Deep freeze:
Thus equipped, and out of money due to poor investments and gambling,
Takagi reentered the Yakuza underworld as a killer for hire,
establishing a reputation through the unique abilities provided by his
cybernetic body and his flair for the spectacular. Eventually forced
into hiding by an aggressive campaign by the global authorities Takagi
discovered cryogenics, using cryostasis as a means of evading capture.
Two hundred years later, after having gained an aura of reverent
superstition by the family who had been entrusted with his care,
Takagi's frozen body was sold as a collector's item to a Columbian
warlord, who had him thawed.
New life:
Quickly re-establishing his old behaviours, Takagi became known in the
global underworld for his insatiable appetite for new augments,
ultimately being drawn to the quickly developing technotropolis of
Pasfika City.
FutureShock: It was
during his first years in Pasifika that Takagi was recruited by Rimbaud
on behalf of the newly founded company, FutureShock.
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