Bill Bacon (78points)
Age 132 (looks in his 90's), 6'; 120lbs; balding, wrinkled, bitter and
wheelchair bound.
ST: 7 (-20); DX: 8 (-15); IQ: 11 (10); HT: 6 (-30)
Advantages:
Filthy Rich (50)
Status 3 (10) one level free from Wealth.
Reputation +3 vs Classic Cinema Buffs (small group, all the time 5)
Reputation +2 vs Preservationists (large group, sometimes 2)
Disadvantages:
Reputation -3 vs Parahumans (small group, sometimes -2)
Age 132 (-126)
Lame (-35)
Biomods & Namomods:
Boosted Heart (9)
Liver Upgrade (10)
Retinal Enhancement (2)
Brain Boosters (45)
Nerve Boosters (25)
Quirks:
Has a scotch at 9am every morning as a heart starter; says "A word from
the wise" when anyone farts; talks to holograms of his lost family;
Preservationist; will not under go radical nanosurgery or other
extensive neural procedures.
Quote:
"Restricting your offspring's pool of potential reproductive partners
is not a successful biological strategy"
"Slinkies are raw data not art"
Skills:
Administration-13 (MA 6)
Area Knowledge (Australia)-12 (ME 2)
Area Knowledge (India)-12 (ME 2)
Area Knowledge (Scotland)-12 (ME 2)
Body Language-15 (MH 12)
Botany (Tropical Australian)-9 (MH 1)
Cooking-11 (ME 1)
Directing-15 (MH 12)
Driving (Car Manual Transmission TL7)-12 (PA 24)
Games (Roleplaying)-15 (ME 8)
History-12 (MH 6)
Intelligence Analysis-11 (MH 4)
Language (English)-11 (Native 0)
Language (Hindu)-10 (MA 1)
Law (Australian Personal Injury)-9 (MH 1)
Leadership-13 (MA 6)
Memetics-13 (MVH 16)
Performance-12 (MA 4)
Photography (Motion Picture)-15 (MA 10)
Politics-11 (MA 2)
Research-10 (MA 1)
Savoir-Faire-10 (ME 1/2)
Shadowing-14 (MA 8)
Typing-10 (ME 1/2)
Video Production-16 (MA 12)
Writing-10 (MA 1)
Bill spend most of his early years in the Northern Territory,
Australia. A high school dropout he spent his late teens/early 20's on
the hippy trail in SE Asia and India in an effort to avoid getting a
real job. He found himself in the UK in 1992 where he met and married
Lara in Scotland after a whirlwind romance. On returning to Australia
he settled in Darwin working as a surveillance investigator for several
local law firms. Three children were born over the next ten years.
In the 2010's Bill utilising his video camera skills
produced a run of short films that became popular in film festivals and
web broadcasts. He was the darling of the art film set by the time his
first feature film was produced in 2024 and over the next two decades
his popularity only increased. His self styled "Guerilla Cinema" had a
voyeuristic feel that proved to have a wide appeal. In the '30s as the
public begun to lose interest is his style of film making he moved from
direction into production. Founding several production houses both in
Australia's Gold Coast and in Mumbai's "Bolloywood", he became
incredibly wealthy.
During his semi-retirement and in direct response to
the public reaction to the Ares plague Bill returned to the Green
politics he dabbled with in
his youth. His "A Plough for the God of War" (2043) and "Blood and
Belonging" (2049) were amongst the most powerful and compelling
Preservationist propaganda films of their time. These also proved to be
Bills last great features as the slinkies of the '50s saw the art of
film making side lined.
The last half of the 21st century has been a gradual
slid down hill for Bill. His assets have been consolidated in
"Bolloywood" where film production is still a viable industry. Although
still a very wealthy man, he is not the multimillionaire he once was.
By 2100 Lara, his son Jake an officer in the ADF and his daughter Katya
an artist were all dead. His youngest son Connor had become a
nanosocialist academic and had undergone destructive uploading. Connor
had also been copied many times multiple ghosts, fragments and shadows
exist. With one version in each of Malaysia and Peru claiming
citizenship.
Bill as spent his time working as memetic engineer
using visual media in the Preservationist cause. In 2063 his spinal
column had degenerated to the extent that he was wheelchair bound.
Brain and Nerve Boosters have been used in an attempt to repair the
damage. These have only been partially successful, supplying feeling to
the limbs but not returning mobility. Bill has categorically refused
invasive neural surgery.
Bill can be found working in Mumbai, India or
spending down time in Australia. He spends every Christmas holidays in
what had been the family home in Scotland speaking to the holograms of
his dead family.
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