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Name: Dr. Hollis Edwin Daley
Street Name: "Doc Holliday" (Doc Holl' E. Da'y)
Alias (Fake Credstick SIN): Jesse James
Race: Caucasian Human (Male)
Age: 35
Birthplace: Austin, Texas CAS
Attributes [56 BP]:
Body: 4 (Suprathyroid Gland)
Strength: 4 (Suprathyroid Gland)
Quickness: 7 (Suprathyroid Gland)
Intelligence: 7 (Bonus Attribute Edge)
Charisma: 5
Willpower: 5
Reaction: 11 (Suprathyroid Gland, Enhanced Articulation & Wire Reflexes-1)
Initiative: 11 + 2d6 (Wired Reflexes-1)
Essence: 0.04
Skills [45 BP]:
Athletics: 1
Edged Weapons (Cougar Fineblade Knife): 2 (4)
Pistol: 5
Shotgun (Defiance): 4 (6)
Stealth: 3
Biotech (First Aid): 4 (6)
Electronics: 3
Electronic B/R: 3
Pistol B/R: 2
Shotgun B/R: 2
Etiquette: 4
Intimidation (Mental): 3 (5)
Negotiation: 3
Bike: 2
Knowledge Skills [35 points]
Biology: 5
Medicine: 5
Chemistry: 4
Cybertechnology: 4
History (Old West): 2 (4)
Lone Star tactics: 3
Criminal Organizations: 3
Gang Identification: 3
Psychology: 3
Gambling (Card Games): 1 (3)
Language Skills [10 points]:
English (R/W): 5 (2)
Spanish (R/W): 3 (1)
Japanese (R/W): 2 (1)
Edges [9 BP]:
Bonus Attribute Point (Intelligence)
High Pain Tolerance [1]
"Good" Reputation [2]
Daredevil
Flaws [12 BP]:
Living on Borrowed Time
Infirm [2]
Impulsive
Day Job [1] (public clinic)
Distinctive Style
Resources [25 BP; 650,000 Y)
Cyberware [279,100 Y; 5.96 Essence]
Chipjack
Datajack
Knowsoft Link
Headware Memory [60 Mp]
Cyberears
- Dampener
- Hearing Amp
- High Freq
- Sound Filter [2]
Cybereyes
- Flare Comp
- Image Link
- Low Light
- Thermo
- Vision Mag (Optical) [3]
- Microscopic Vision
- Eye Lights
- Protective Cover (1-way)
- Ultrasound Vision
Orientation System
Spatial Recognizer
Internal GPS
Olfactory Booster [3]
Encephalon [1]
Jolt Alert
Wired Reflexes (alphaware) [1]
Reflex Trigger (alphaware)
Bioware [140,000 Y; 3 Bio-Index]
Enhanced Articulation
Nephritic Screen
Pathogenic Defense [2]
Suprathyroid Gland
Synthacardium [1]
Gear [230,878 Y]:
x2 Walther Palm Pistol (20 rounds of EX ammo; quickdraw/conceal holster)
Taurus Multi-6 (Personalized Grip, quickdraw/conceal holster, Laser Sight)
Cavalier Deputy (Personalized Grip, quickdraw/conceal holster, Laser Sight)
Ruger Super Warhawk (Personalized Grip, quickdraw/conceal holster, Laser Sight)
Remington Roomsweeper (Personalized Grip, quickdraw/conceal holster, Laser Sight, Sling)
Defiance T-250 (Sling, Shock Pad)
216 rounds of Heavy Pistol EX ammo
162 rounds of Heavy Pistol regular ammo
90 rounds of Shotgun EX ammo
130 rounds of Shotgun Flechette ammo
85 rounds of Shotgun regular ammo
x2 Carry/Transport Permits (Taurus Multi-6 & Cavalier Deputy)
x2 Armante Dallas Line (shirt, pants, double-breasted jacket, vest)
Armante London Fog Professional
x2 Vashon Island Actioneer Line (pants. shirt, long coat)
x2 Form Fit Armor [3]
x3 Cougar Fineblade Knife (Short) [Dikote]
x2 Micro Transceiver [4] (ECCM [4] & Broadcast Encryption [4])
External Transducer
Wrist Cellphone (w/flip-up vid screen)
Earplug Cellphone
x2 Pager
Pocket Secretary
Shotgun Tool Kit
Pistol Tool Kit
Electronics Tool Kit
Cyberware Scanner [4]
Survival Kit
x2 Savior Advanced Medkit
x3 Savior Supplies
x2 Medkit
x3 Medkit Supplies
Bio Monitor
BMW Blitzen (Datajack port & Anti-Theft [6])
Fake Credstick [6] (Jesse James)
Doc Wagon Gold
Middle Lifestyle (3 months)
High Lifestyle (2 months)
x2 2nd Level contacts (Doc Wagon EMT & Lone Star Detective)
Contacts:
1st level: Fixer (Ms. Chani Red-Raven, SSC Amerindian Human Female)
1st level: Lawyer (Mr. Devlin O’Mara, UCAS Elvish Male)
2nd level: Doc Wagon EMT (Dr. Miguel Sanchez, Free-Cal Spanish Orc Male)
2nd level: Lone Star Detective (Detective Emma Louise Daley, CAS Human Female)
Hollis was born in Austin Texas, CAS to Edwin & Louise Daley. He was the second of three children with an older brother (by 6 years) Edwin Jr. and a younger sister (he is older by 4 years) Emma Louise. Edwin Sr., a retired Colonel of the CAS Army, is a respected medical doctor working for Ares’s Knight Errant as a trauma surgeon. Louise Daley was a Nurse also working for KE. Edwin Sr. often liked to tell old war stories and he had a particular interest in the history & legends of the “Old West”. The Daley family descended from old western pioneers who had settled in the southwest. Edwin Sr. never forgot his roots and never forgave the NAN for kicking them out of their home. Part of the family tradition was learning how to shoot a gun. While Edwin Sr. did not approve of sport hunting (he never liked needless loss of life), he was fond of target and skeet shooting. All the young Daleys became proficient in the use of pistols and shotguns.
When Hollis was 11, a sudden outbreak of VITAS hit Austin and, as a good public relations move, Ares opened its low security wards to help deal with the overflow of patients. It was during this relatively brief outbreak that Louise contracted VITAS. She was quarantined with the rest of the cases. Her husband could see and treat her but dressed in a medical “space suit” he could not offer much comfort. Her family was only allowed to “visit” her via vid screen. Hollis always remembered her brave struggle but was also emotionally scarred by the sight of the pain she was in. Despite beating the odds of survival for several days, Louise eventually lost the fight and died as another of the countless victims of VITAS. Hollis was determined to follow his parents’ footsteps and enter the medical field (he had boyish dreams of one day finding the cure to the disease that had cost him his mother).
Edwin Jr. disappointed his father by choosing a different path, he had set his sights on joining Lone Star. As a bright and capable young man with strong athletic ability, Edwin Jr. was a prime recruitment target for LS. Edwin Jr. completed his LS training near the top of his class and at the age of 20 he was hitting the streets as a patrolman. He was quite good at his job and he took the stories of the old western marshals to heart by trying to treat his position as a duty rather than just a nuyen earning job. Two years later, when Hollis was 16, Edwin Jr. was killed in the line of duty.
He and his partner were responding to an emergency request for backup at a Cross Applied Technology lab, which LS was contracted to protect. They arrived just as the Shadowrunner team was making its explosive exit form the site. They had barely exited their vehicle and were drawing their side arms when the Rigger’s aerial drone fired two rockets at their patrol car. While his partner survived (although badly wounded), Edwin Jr. was declared DOA when the LS medivac team showed up. Edwin Jr. had been very close to his younger sister Emma. Emma had admired Edwin Jr. for his dedication to duty and for his attempts to keep the streets safe for his little sister. After a week of heavy mourning, she declared that she would follow her brother’s example and continue his “good work”. No matter what either her father or Hollis said, her feelings never wavered.
When Hollis finished college (at the local “public” Ares school), he was determined to become a medical doctor like his father. The only problem was that the family’s savings had been hit hard when a decker made a run on the local Ares mainframe. In the process of avoiding IC during the datasteal, the decker launched his own countervirus into the system which ended up wiping a lot of the lower security data including the low to mid level pay accounts for the local Ares employees. Due to both Ares trying to weasel out and the difficulty in putting the wiped data back together, many employees ended up losing a good deal of their family savings. The Daley family was one of those affected.
So in order to fulfill his dream, Hollis decided to join the CAS Army just like his father and then go to med school on the CAS GI Bill. Hollis served for 4 years as a combat medic, he was involved in military action during two “minor” border disputes. One was along the Texas border with Aztlan and the other was in Southern Florida between the CAS and the Caribbean League. Hollis did his duty and learned how to perform first aid under stressful combat conditions. It was also during this time that he developed a taste for action and excitement. It was also during this time that Hollis earned his working name “Doc Holliday” which was derived from Holl’ E. Da’y. He was given the name when he earned his 3rd purple heart defending 5 badly wounded men awaiting medivac from Aztlan soldiers using a combat shotgun in one hand and his personal revolver sidearm in the other hand.
Upon completing his tour of duty, Hollis joined Doc Wagon. The reason was that Doc Wagon had an on-the-job training/teaching program where Hollis could work part-time as a medic and go to med school the other half of the time. It took Hollis 5 and 1/2 years to get his med degree (almost a year ahead of schedule for the part-time program). He was given his choice of assignments since he had done so well. While he could have gone back to Austin, his home had too many painful memories. He also could have chosen to be a regular doctor working in a secure medical facility. However Hollis was enticed by the HTR teams both for the extra hazard pay and (when he admitted it to himself) because he wanted to taste some action again.
He was assigned to a HTR team S-19 operating in Seattle where a lot of Doc Wagon contracts and business was located. His team leader was Dr. Miguel Sanchez who was originally from San Diego Free Cal. He moved soon after the Aztlan military occupied So-Cal. He was always complaining about the loss of his home and he reminded Hollis of his own father talking about the NAN and the loss of the southwestern Daley roots. Miguel and Hollis were the only two full doctors on the team, the rest were paramedics, riggers and “backup support”. Hollis got along well with Miguel who also could have taken a hospital job but liked the excitement. For 3 years Hollis worked with Doc Wagon HTR team S-19. They had their slow days of responding to traffic calls or heart attacks, but they also had their share of under fire extractions (often skirting the edge of legality).
During this time, Hollis’s younger sister Emma Louise was true to her word and completed her Lone Star training. She had worked the streets as a patrolman in Austin for 5 years before she was promoted to detective sergeant and reassigned to Seattle (where LS was having trouble dealing with the brewing Mob Wars). She had proved herself to be the bane of many careless Shadowrunners who left enough clues in their bloody wake to be tracked down. Even though she was now a detective who often arrived after the fact, she kept her weapons/street skills sharp. Whenever possible she would backup the LS patrol units and SWAT teams assigned to raid suspected Runner hideouts. She is dogged and relentless. She also worked hard to trace back the employers of the runners but often came up against a bureaucratic wall if the trail led towards the corps (especially those corps who had contracts with LS for security). Still despite this “favoritism”, Emma kept her spirits up by knowing she was putting away criminals who would not be killing anyone else’s brothers.
Hollis and Emma became reacquainted when they both found themselves working and living in Seattle. Being a UCAS city, they both missed the unique flavor and culture of CAS and specifically Texas. They could both commiserate about being pegged as “rednecks” due to their Texas accents. A couple of times they came up against each other as Doc Wagon was trying to fly someone out that Lone Star wanted for questioning. Thankfully these conflicts of interest never actually led to exchanges of gunfire between the siblings (depending on the location and the crime, usually either Doc Wagon or LS would be forced to give in as neither company wanted bad blood).
Hollis was just about to turn 31 when his life changed and he was once again faced with his old enemy who had taken his mother. Team S-19 was responding to an emergency call near a Universal Omnitech research facility operating out in the Barrens. By this time Hollis was the 2nd in command of the team. S-19 reached the location of the Doc Wagon signal only to find the research station in a shambles. The place was on fire and people were running away from the facility in all directions. UO refused to acknowledge the Doc Wagon request for information about the facility. Despite the fact that the medical alert had been triggered by UO execs, UO would not divulge what hazards the Doc Wagon team might be subjected to.
Against Hollis’s better judgment and arguments, Dr. Sanchez ordered Hollis and his squad of three paramedics into the facility to pick up the client (who was a Platinum Contact holder). Hollis and his squad found the UO exec near the entrance of the main building, he had been shot in both legs and was in bad shape. Hollis did what he could to stabilize the patient but the exec kept screaming that they had to leave immediately. The look of terror on the exec’s face convinced Hollis to expedite the first aid and get the hell out of there. Unfortunately Hollis and his squad did not get out in time. They were only 25 feet from the building when they were thrown to the ground by an underground explosion. The exec was screaming something about death coming from underground labs but the only thing Hollis was paying attention to were the plumes of dark misty smoke that had shot out of air ducts sunk in the ground. This dark mist covered the area including Hollis, his squad and the exec.
By the time Hollis and his squad were able to reach the main gate of the facility, they were met by Metroplex Guards in full HAZMAT suits pointing their assault rifles at the five of them. Hollis realized then that he and his boys were royally screwed, whatever that mist was it had to be very illegal and very dangerous. The five of them were placed in a positive pressure containment unit and transported to a quarantine zone at Ft. Lewis. By the end of the day, the exec and two of the three-man squad were dead. It appears that a “rogue” scientist had been secretly working (without UO’s knowledge of course) on a new strain of artificial VITAS. This strain was designed not to be contagious but almost 100% lethal upon initial direct exposure. This new VITAS would only affect those it contacted in the first 2 minutes of being released into the air, after that it was destroyed (it apparently had been created to be highly sensitive to UV light and could not survive outside a human body or a nutrient container for more than 2 minutes). This made the new strain of VITAS a “perfect” bio-weapon as it would strike quickly but then not remain a long-term problem (there was no risk of having one’s own troops catch the disease).
It took some time to get the “whole story” form UO who protested that they were a victim as well and were only just now being able to piece together what happened. For over a month Hollis fought off the infection going from chills to fevers and back again. The only other survivor was also going through the same thing but it seemed he was in much worse shape. Nobody could explain what was happening except that according to the “rogue” doctor’s notes there was a small percentage of the population for whom this strain was not immediately lethal but according to the notes sooner or later the subjects all died (even the ones who appeared to recover). In an effort to control the severity of the disease, bioware replacement therapy was used.
UO graciously offered to supply the bioware if Doc Wagon and Hollis signed a waiver stating that UO was not responsible for the actions of a lunatic and therefore not liable for damages. Hollis figuring that the bioware might be his only chance, decided to swallow his pride and sign. While Hollis was able to accept the bioware implants which did alleviate several symptoms, the other survivor was too far-gone and his body kept rejecting the bioware. Eventually at the end of 2 months, Hollis was the only one still alive and to everyone’s surprise it seemed that the modified VITAS had gone into remission. As UO had declared Hollis safe to return to society (one of the demands Hollis made before he signed) with UO stating on the record that there was no way for Hollis to transmit this modified version of VITAS, Hollis was released. Hollis was very surprised that the Metroplex Guard would allow him to walk out. However about 6 months later, Hollis heard rumors that the Metroplex Guard was brokering a deal between the UCAS Army and UO for “research materials” as part of a push against bio-terrorism.
So Hollis was “free”, alive and “well” for the time being. The problem was that Doc Wagon refused to keep Hollis on, as they were afraid that he might not be up to carrying out his old duties. In truth they were worried that UO did not understand this new type of VITAS completely and they did not want to be responsible for causing the infection of top paying Doc Wagon contract holders. So Hollis was out of a job, had lost his squad and was likely to die anytime in the near future to a mutant version of the monster that had taken his mother. He would not go back home as he did not want to risk spreading something (Hollis had his doubts about UO’s “certainty”).
His sister Emma and his friend Miguel refused to abandon Hollis, she because he was family and you don’t leave family behind and he because he felt guilty for ordering Hollis into an unknown situation just to cover the bottom line. Strangely they each blamed someone else for the incident, Hollis blamed UO and the corps in general for creating the stuff, Emma blamed the Runners for having set the place on fire and shooting the exec with the contract, and Miguel blamed Doc Wagon for being willing to risk their employees lives needlessly just to avoid possible law suits.
With nowhere to go and most likely not much time to live, Hollis took up the only life left to him and became a Shadowrunner. He had skills as a doctor but without a reference from Doc Wagon, no respectable hospital was going to hire him. He could put his skills to use in a shadow clinic but while he did not object to working part-time at the local “charity medical clinic”, he wanted to feel alive and that meant finding some action. He figured that at worst he would die on a run and some corp would have to clean up the mess that their ilk has created, in the meantime he was going to live life to the fullest and the consequences be damned.
Despite their mixed feelings about Hollis’s choice of lifestyle, Emma and Miguel decided to help as best they could by introducing Hollis to some people he might need. Miguel introduced Hollis to Mr. O’Mara an Elvish lawyer who did a lot of pro bono work for the Orc Underground (which Miguel belonged too). Mr. O’Mara had been a corp lawyer until he realized that the same corps he was defending were the ones that had caused the pollution in his own neighborhood leading to the death of his younger sister. He has since become an “eco-lawyer” fighting the good fight against the “big boys” whenever he can.
Emma introduced Hollis to Ms. Red-Raven an Amerindian emigrant from SSC. It appears that the SSC had not approved of some of her more profitable business deals and she reached Seattle only a few steps ahead of the SSC cops. She has worked with Emma from time to time when their interests did not conflict. It never hurts to have a friend inside LS and there is info that only those who work on the streets in the shadows possess. While Emma does not approve of everything Chani does (although Emma has never been able to “prove” that Chani is anything but a small time information broker), Emma knows that Chani has the contacts necessary for Hollis to survive in the shadows. So for the past 4 years “Doc Holliday” has been saving some lives, taking others and most importantly living his own on the edge to the max.
