Sumaiyah Cressler

Sumaiyah as s u g a r, circa 2045-2046

**Sumaiyah Cressler**, also known as **s u g a r**, is a netrunner in Night City. She currently goes by the name **Asuras Magdalena**.

## Biography

### 2027-2041

Sumaiyah was born Sumaiyah with an unknown surname. Her family has roots in Central America somewhere in Southern Mexico or Guatemala - it's not clear after the Lat-Am Wars. The family ended up as part of a nomad family based initially in SoCal - the Zapotechnos. Her memories of this time are scarce, but they're happy. She remembers her mom, Domi, but only fleeting memories. They had made their way to the SoCal/NorCal border and found a good way into the Badlands. Everything went to shit when the Zapos were attacked by a group of wandering scavs from the city. When it was all over, Sumaiyah was captured by the head scav and sold off. A pair of wealthy execs looking to model a family for PR purposes purchased her like a piece of scrap. Her adoptive parents Tsarina and Andrea Cressler provided a safe home, food, clothes, and an education, but not much else. Her educational focus was towards computers and interfacing, though she sometimes went outside of the curriculum to satisfy her personal curiousities.

### 2042-2044

A few days before her 15th birthday, the two execs were arrested and imprisoned for corporate crimes. It's hard to say if Sumaiyah fell through the cracks or escaped through them, but no one came looking for her when she fled into the underbelly of Night City. Through a series of good luck, empty basements, and her innate scrappiness, Sumaiyah managed to survive this change in lifestyle. For the next few years, she doesn't stop moving. The Megabuildings of Heywood are her roaming grounds. During this time, she developed a rivalry with a netrunner in the area named Quinta Vo, but the tense initial encounters turned to a solid friendship. They would scour the city for access points, plug in quick, hack the architecture, and blast any gonks foolish enough to get close during the netrun.

### 2045

It was during a supposedly easy score that Quinta and Sumaiyah's lives were changed. They found an access point that they learned connected them to a NET Architecture that belonged to Arasaka. They both knew that it wasn't supposed to be around, as the company's charters to operate in the United States were revoked in 2023. Sumaiyah's life went tits up after she hacked the wrong architecture and got strapped with an Arasaka file. They began to utilize her as a contact in Night City, as well as Quinta. The pair became good friends with a runner named Carbon, who was able to connect them with a lot of important people in the city. Eventually, this friendship would lead to Sumaiyah getting on Zigzag's rolodex.

### 2046

After some time of playing spy for the corp that had been banned by the US government, she got involved with a group edgerunners organized by the legendary fixer, Zigzag. Sumaiyah (as s u g a r) was a part of the crew that took out Grease and Redeye at the Astral Sea. She was one of two of the people in the crew that were aware of Zigzag's involvement, her and the solo named Blank. She was responsible for dealing with the netrunner Redeye and also securing all of the information regarding Anika from the South Night City fixer's data caches. She gravitated away from Quinta and started spending more time at the Zigzag's offices, doing jobs other with his crew. She would binge energy drinks and run job after job, getting chrome upgrades along the way. Sumaiyah did a brief stint in mental health rehab after having her eyeballs replaced by netrun-ready cyberoptics.

Sumaiyah was with Zigzag and his crew when Santo Domingo erupted into a combat zone due to in-fighting between members of the 6th Street Gang. They learned that one faction of the gang had gotten ahold of an Militech/NUSA M-33 Superheavy tank and had parked it outside an old office building which they had secured like a fortress. Sumaiyah made the call to Arasaka to inform and was instructed to get within very close range of the tank to mark it via Virtuality. Unknown to her, another member of the crew had phoned Militech who were preparing a strafing run on the building and then against the tank to incapacitate and then recover it. Militech's planes hit first, but Arasaka used a small payload mass driver to destroy the tank from orbit. Due to the experimental nature of the attack, Militech could not prove Arasaka's involvement. Eventually, the 6th Street Gang quieted down and were left largely unaffected by the conflict.

### 2047

Sumaiyah uncovered that Quinta had aims to sell out to Militech and finger Arasaka, which caused her to pull the trigger on Quinta and sack her data before it was delivered. Quinta swore revenge, but Sumaiyah was taken in for protection by Danger Gal. It was during this time Arasaka began requesting information on Zigzag and his crew, but Sumaiyah wasn't willing to turn over on her friends, such as Krystal and Ikarus. This caused her to be seen as a liability by the company, but they knew that if they tried to zero her there was a risk she could turn the evidence of their work in Night City over to Militech, possibly even posthumously. Instead, they said she could have a clean break, but locked her out of most well-to-do marketplaces and circles for netrunners in Night City by making the handle "s u g a r" synonymous with an untrustworthy netrunner. She knew she'd have to take on a new handle and spend some time in the dark to get her rep back.

### 2077

Sumaiyah returned to Night City under the name Asuras Magdalena. She rented an apartment in Vista del Rey as it was relatively affordable and had a vacancy. She had little to no contacts in Night City, but she did have a lead on a connection from her friends at Biotechnica (WIP).

## Equipment

* **GNMM.** Custom Nova Model 757 Cityhunter with Good Night Meow Meow icons.
* **Lip Stain.** Bright pink Militech Ronin standard Assault Rifle.
* **Arasaka Mk. 3 External.** High Quality Cyberdeck (9 slots).
* **Programs.** Armor, Sword, Erasor, Vrizzbolt, Flak, Shield, Worm.
* **Arasaka Shinkeino.** Neural Link with Interface Plugs, Chipware Socket.
* **Kiroshi Mk. 1 Cybereyes.** Pair of Cybereyes with Virtuality, MicroVideo. Left eyes with Targeting Scope.
* **Shift Tacts.** Color-changing fashionware lenses.