Mad Max

## **Lifepath**

**Lifepath: Tales From The Street**

"Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that IT’S NOTHING PERSONAL. Well, fuck them. Make it personal." - Marco M. Kojima

### Team Members

Soda-Pop (Luke Campbell), Molly Weiland (Star Butterfly), Matt Stryker (Fixer), Serious Sam (Mentor), Jackie Lynn Thomas (Lover)

## **Background**

**Your Original Family Background**

Mad Max (hence the name) has been living in this shit hole (called Night City) for nearly ten years after his parents were murdered by Arasaka mercenaries. His obsession of finding the man who killed his parents has motivated Max to become cunning, relentless, and unstoppable. He was a good little boy, raised by a wealthy corpo family living in his beloved hometown Tokyo, to a lost orphan boy-. Slowly descended into madness whom now calls himself Mad Max. Max was later seduced by a sociopath biker gang Johnny (different NPC character) slowly maturing him into a degenerate murderer.

Marco's father sacrificed his life giving his adopted son the opportunity to evade his captors barely escaping his life. His new life living in the slums of Night City has beaten him by the system, cursed him, and bullied. Max is an insignificant being desperate cling onto life by a thread. Marco made a promise to his family that he'll find the bastard who did to his parents and restore honor to his family's name. Marco decided to adopted the name "Mad Max" as his handle nickname, a reference from a 1979 Australian film inspired him to become angry and bitter. For the following years he met one of his chooms: Soda-Pop, Molly, Matt, and his lover Jackie.

## **Role-Based Lifepaths**

**Rockerboy: Singer & Guitarist**

#### **Sons of Hellfire (Posergang in Watson Development)**

Sons of Hellfire are affiliated with another gang called "The Sons of Hell MC." Max adopted this logo when he start kicking off his first musician gig. The white demon girl depicts wearing an orange elegant dress, has spikes on her forearms, claws, fangs, amber/red pupils, red hair, horns, and wields a pair of clippers that appear to resemble like a dagger.Max soon became a musician rockerboy, ran with his own little gang of misfits so called "Sons of Hellfire." They mostly wear leather jackets modified with armor shoulder plates, sometimes wear neon collars, or wear denim sleeveless jackets showing glow tattoos or cyberized arms. Their grooming hairstyle & clothing they pose themselves as "greasers" copying other models back from the 80s. They also use hair pomade or spit grease like CHOOH2 using cheap alcohol to make a gel mixture like sticky.

They're a small group of 5-10 members. Some of the members will also pose themselves as demons representing their gang: changing their skin tone, tech hair color, use make-up, and purchase bioware to add tails or claws making them more exotic. Max's fans will adopt his clothing or style to either pose themselves as greasers- or modify their appearance to become exotic demons.

#### **Early Teen years**

Max met his lover Jackie in the streets of Chinatown District after he mistook her a street punk wanting to hurt him. They slowly formed a bond together and used to live in an old hotel building that's been condemned after the 4th Corporate Wars. Max had nowhere to go- so Jackie took him in. Max reminded Jackie like an older sister- but they were more than just siblings. Just a bunch of bad kids whom are lost and forgotten. Eventually they fled from the city when a rival megacorp managed to track down leading to his whereabouts. They were taken by The Aldecaldos after they hopped on a train where its heading to Flagstaff when a raider party ambushed the caravan by surprised. Max and his lover stayed together for years to survive until one day: him, his lover, and his nomad chooms were heading back to the Badlands transporting supplies on a train back to their tribe. Soon- a large raiding party ambushed them. His lover was killed during the explosion. Falling the assumption he had doubts whether she was killed or not foreshadowed his purpose to become a relentless killer.

He ended up joining a boostergang The Sons of Hell bikers roaming the badlands under the leadership named Johnny Klebitz. They were a bunch of bad kids like him wanting money and whores for the glory. Max was more into style over substance than hired muscle, but he's still had a lot of fighting in him. He did his spare time tuning his guitar player: playing folk songs and lyrical hard rock channeling his hatred against megacorps and government establishments during their travels, he's drawn attention to some of his fans who followed him, and has slept many women in the past. When Max returned to the streets of Night City by the age of 14, he made chooms with Soda-Pop, Johnny Bravo, Matt Stryker, his long time best choom Molly, and his estrange choombatta Sam whom she became his mentor. Taught him how to fight and use his street skills to know the criminal elements in Night City.

## **Tragic Love Affairs**

**What Happened?**
 Valentine "Vaggie" Guererro
 Hearty Athena Septarsis Toffee

* Jackie was killed during the raid. Mad did his best to aid her escape before he was shot by a stray bullet injuring him in the process. The last time he saw his lover hopping onto an off-road car before an explosion hit the gas tank. Max survived the train, but couldn't find her body from the wreckage, so he assumed she's dead before he could figure out what happen to her.

* Vaggie's a mean son of a bitch she hated Max more than his chooms. They had bad blood from the past when he first met her trying to rob him with a switchblade to his throat when he was 9 years old. Vaggie almost hates everyone she meets and has a bipolar disorder. She can care less whose attracted except she's mostly into girls. Max used to date her when he was 15 years old until she cut him out of a deal with the Valentino's betraying him. In exchange she beat Max up in a brawl fight embarrassing in front of him.

* Athena is the daughter of Toffee, a young teen celebrity corpo she befriended an outsider named Max when he was a bodyguard for hire. They slowly had a secret intimate behind her father's back and she promotes beauty & health products to make mortals look younger when they're 30-50 years old. Athena's an exotic reptile girl with grey skin, a tail, and her hair has black and blue ombre highlights. Their relationship went sour when she discovered Max's true intentions to use her as leverage to get closer to her father.

## **Nemesis & Enemies**

**Max's Enemies**
 Leopold Soros
 Camino Del Rio

* Mad Max managed to humiliate a rival corpo executive by the name Leopold Soros running an off-world mining company, shareholder of Silver Arms dealer, and founder of Soros Corporation- manufacturer of state of the art laser weapons and crystalized rocks importing materials off from Mars called "Monarch Starfield." Max created a lyrical song making fun of a fellow shareholder (valued asset to his company) causing his stock markets to disrupt his production. Max is avoiding the scum before he finds him.

* When Max was young, a psychotic borg calling himself "Maximus" affiliated with Arasaka is sent to kill his parents for some unknown, and whatever they were after- they wanted to capture him alive. Max's goal is to find the man and kill him. Fredrick Toffee (founder of CyberNet Systems & Gemini Conversions) runs a paramilitary contract and has ties with the Arasaka Corporation. Max will need to find answers why.

* Camino Del Rio is a Mexican cartel gang running the southern border of Mexico- accusing Max for stealing a briefcase full of eddies during an exchange between his gang and a group of Maelstromers down by the dock in Pacifica. He'll send his goons to kill him if Max can set him up a crime he didn't commit.

## **Your Choombattas**

**Friend's Relationship to You**
 Soda-Pop (Luke Campbell)
 Matt Stryker
 Johnny Bravo
 Star Butterfly (Molley Weiland)

* **Serious Sam (Mentor Figure/Like a mother to him) -** One of Mad Max's fans mysteriously appeared out of the bloom when she ordered a "special drink" named after his girlfriend passing on the message to Max. She wanted to meet him in person and turns out she is indeed a fan of his and started off a good start getting to know each other. Eventually they became chooms and joined his gang sometime after Matt Stryker offered a gig for Max and his gang. Sam offered Max to hone his skills as his personal trainer and soon Max became intermediate. See info (coming soon)
* **Jackie Lynn Thomas (Girlfriend/Lover/Deceased?) -** Jackie met Max at some dumpster when he was only 8 years old after his parents were murdered. She decided to take him in as her sibling and stayed at some condemned hotel building. She had a knack for toys, dolls, and gadgets. Turning this place into her own personal tea party. Jackie became a Netrunner after her parents disappeared and started learning how to operate pilot drones and accessing the NET Arch. Eventually she was killed by an explosion during an ambush between The Aldecaldos and The Raffen-Shiv. See info (coming soon)
* **Matt Stryker (Local Fixer/Choom)** - One of Max Max's reliable fixers in Night City when he decided to become an Edgerunner and took his first gig from Matt and met Vampyir (Exec), Spark (Netrunner), and Eva'Reddy (Solo). He heard Matt Stryker has become the man's most wanted man in the N.U.S.A. accused for corporate espionage and starting a civil war when his father Killian Stryker started a rebellion against the government. A lot of people don't seem to take kindly to Matt Stryker after a couple of botched gigs that turned sour or too dangerous, but he pays well. See info (coming soon)
* **Soda Pop (a.k.a. Luke Campbell/Best Choom/Gang Member)** - Soda-Pop was a street kid an met Max when he asked for a cigarette butt. He was one of the softest, twinkiest chooms he ever met. He's not much of a fighter, but Max thought of him as his little brother and enjoys having him around. When Soda-Pop disappeared. Max promised he will come looking for him if anything bad happens to him. See info (coming soon)
* **Star Butterfly (a.k.a. Molly Weiland)** - n/a
* **Johnny Bravo (Best Choom/Gang member)** - n/a

## **Gigs**

1. **King of The Fixers** (Monday, July 18, 2045) | **Payout:** Cyberware (50eb) | **DTDs:** 7DT | **IP:** 20 IP
2. **My Brother Charlie** (Tuesday July 19, 2045 | **Payout:** 450eb | **DTDs:** 7DT | **IP:** 30 IP
3. **Operation Blacklight** (Tuesday July 19, 2045) | **Payout:** 450eb | **DTDs:** 7DT | **IP:** 30 IP

* King of the Fixers
* My Brother Charlie
* Operation Blacklight
* Stranger Series: The Dangers of Drinking
* Novagoat: The Beginning