Joshua C. Daystar

* **Name:** Joshua C. Daystar (*Valasámë Amaurëaél* in Sperethiel)
* **Position:** Freelance Financial Consultant to the Great Question Foundation; Temporary Financial Officer at Goldmark-Craig-Schlossman
* **Metatype:** Elf (*Homo sapiens nobilis*)
* **DOB:** 1/1/2030 (location not on record)

If you had to paint a picture of the perfect ‘elven face’, you couldn’t go far wrong starting with Joshua C. Daystar. Smart, well-spoken, classically handsome, easily charming, well-dressed, open and sympathetic at the drop of a hat, he’s one of those annoying people who seem to know the mood of a room before they’ve entered it, who you would instantly hate if you didn't like them so much. He’s got a lot of friends, a busy social calendar and the kind of job you would think would leave very little time for either. And that’s not even counting the time taken up by his romantic life, which if even half of rumor be believed, would be a full-time job in and of itself.

Not much is certain about Joshua Daystar’s background. Its not that he refuses to talk about it, once you’ve got him on the subject, its hard to get him to shut up about himself. Its just that his stories are long on narrative and short on hard details. But with a lot of his personal details and datatrail wiped out in the Crash, its hard to prove (or disprove) much of it.

According to Joshua, he spent much of his early years on the road, going from place to place and job to job ‘learning the economy from the ground up’, an experience he claims gives him a unique perspective on financial matters. He appears in the MSPlex, offering tax advice online, about the time the Matrix 2.0 comes back up in 2065. Reports from this era tell of a lot of partying, fairly expensive partying for a guy who was supposedly making his money off part-time online tax advise. During the mid-to-late 60’s he was dragged up in contract court several times on various charges of false advertising, contract violations and straight-up fraud, but managed to talk himself out of them every time.

By the late ‘60’s/early 70’s, however, all his partying was beginning to pay off and the networking he’d done at the wildest parties and fanciest nightclubs had yielded him an altogether better class of client, specifically a class of client with a lot more money.

By 2072, he had attracted the attention of Dietrich Sibich (who he had supposedly met at one of the infamous ‘rooftop Tempo’ parties held by the power couple “Josifer” in ‘71) and was retained by the Great Question Foundation as financial representative, handling contract negotiations, loan deals and all the grubby ‘this-world’ stuff the self-help guru was now too spiritually-enlightened to take care of himself. This was Josh’s key to the big time, and the class of client he found himself helping jumped up at least a couple of tax brackets.

Its not known precisely where or when he met Rachael Schlossman-Martin (or what the depth of that involvement might be), although its a pretty safe bet that it was probably at some Great Question seminar or event (there’s another rumor that Nelson Klein himself might have introduced the two). It is known that for the last few years she has been heavily involved in the Great Question and the two have been seen together at most of the seminars and meditation retreats she’s been to in the last few years. While it came as quite the surprise to the world at large when she tapped him to head up GCS finances during Kendra Westby’s absence, for those few who knew her, it was a fairly obvious move.

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