Cyndi

When Cyndi was little, she thought her mother was magic. She seemed to know everything, even more than most moms, and she had all these amazing gadgets that she kept hidden away in her closet. In fact, her mother was from the future. Many futures, really - she had gone on a spree after getting a hold of a black market chronomobile in 2148, skimming through timestreams and leaving ripples in her wake. She saw firsthand a dystopian future ruled by an evil computerized entity, looming less than a decade from her own home time.

By that point, the timecops were on her tail, and she wouldn't have long before they found her. She set the chronomobile to autopilot on a randomly winding course, and bailed out in an era that was relatively modern but still mostly analog, where data couldn't be as easily aggregated by the time cops chasing her.

She had a good run there. She kept a low profile. She met a nice man. She became a hair stylist. She raised a daughter. She taught Cyndi as much as she could explain about the future and it's advances. And when Cyndi was 12, a time cop showed up and arrested her, right in front of Cyndi. He had flashed his neuralizer to wipe her memory, but Cyndi had been taught when to blink. Instead, the memory was burned into her mind: One moment they were there, the time cop fiddling with his pad and her mother frozen in a glowing containment field. Then there was a soft \*pop\* and they were gone.

Cyndi was crushed. Her father tried to ger her to move in with him, but Cyndi kept running away. It was only after she made friends with her new neighbor Jennifer Curd that she felt she had any reason to stick around. Jennifer had her own weird secret: she could hear people's thoughts. Cyndi's mom had mentioned that talent would start showing up more often in a few generation, so she was able to accept it easily. In fact, Jennifer's ESP only confirmed that what Cyndi remembered was real, and not something she dreamed up. The two of them bonded over feeling like freaks and family dramas. Jennifer's the only one that Cyndi has trusted enough to tell about her mom.

The time cop had confiscated most of her mom's gadgets, but Cyndi clung to those she left behind, and learned their tricks. Her mother's CyberVisor gave her an incredible edge in manipulating technology, and Cyndi turned it to her advantage. With the spread of the internet, Cyndi became a hacker for hire. Despite her youth, Cyndi is already notorious in certain nefarious circles under her handle: Tyrant. Tonight is one of the first in-person jobs she's ever had to handle, and definitely the most high stakes. The client has contracted Tyrant to extract industrial secrets from the computers at Apex Vector during the release party. She was supposed to rendezvous with someone calling themself Snow Fox, but they said that plans had changed last minute and she would have to meet with Arctic Hare instead.

The promised payout is enormous, but Cyndi felt nervous going in alone. The plan would be so much better with a friend at her side. Doubting she could persuade Jennifer to drive all the way out to Apex Vector's remote Mauch Chunk campus, Cyndi hacked into the system of a resort in the Poconos and rigged a contest so that the Curd family won complimentary passes for the weekend of the release party - with an extra for Cyndi, of course. Once they were at the resort, Cyndi revealed that she had also hacked into the Apex Vector public relations manager's files to add them to the release party. Jennifer was nervous but game, and it seemed like the start of a perfect adventure - except that Jennifer's horrible little brother Kevin overheard. Kevin threatened to run over and interrupt their parents' romantic evening to tattle, unless they let him tag along. The little jerk is obsessed with Raleigh Kane and a grudge against some other kid who's supposed to be there. Hopefully he doesn't get in the way. Cyndi hasn't told Jennifer about her industrial espionage mission and having to meet Arctic Hare because she was afraid that Jennifer would freak out, but now they're at the party...

## Goals

Extract the industrial secrets

Rendez-vous with Arctic Hare

Protect Jennifer

## Items and Abilities

### Item: CyberVisor

This versatile tool will allows the user to hack any hackable device in the room wirelessly and inconspicuously using a heads-up display on what appears to be cool sunglasses, using eye movements and neural connectivity instead of keystrokes. Hackable items will be marked with an [H].

### Ability: Hacking

With or without the CyberVisor, Tyrant is a world class hacker.

Item: Phase Belt

This item, which has multiple activation buttons for ease of access, allows you to pass through a solid object, such as a wall or handcuffs. The belt has a cool-down time of 1 hour before it can be used again.

Latent Ability [Tether]: This ability is still latent.