ACID BURN

ELITE DECKER • MY DECK MELTED • THE CODE BURNED BACK

ACID BURN • VA

ESSENTIAL DATA

True Name: Kate Libby (Redacted)

Handle: AC1DBURN

Faction: Virtual Adepts

Rank: Senior Systems Architect

Digital Web Coordinates: 192.168.1.101 (Mobile)

Status: ACTIVE • COMPILING

ATTRIBUTES

Physical	Social	Mental
Strength: 2	Charisma: 4	Perception: 3
Dexterity: 4	Manipulation: 4	Intelligence: 4
Stamina: 3	Appearance: 4	Wits: 4

ABILITIES

Talents	Skills	Knowledges
Expression 4	Computer 5	Computer Science 5
Leadership 3	Security Systems 4	Virus Design 5
Subterfuge 3	Programming 5	AI Theory 4
	Electronics 3	Neural Networks 3
		Mathematics 3

SPHERES

Sphere	Rating	Specialty
Forces	●●●●	Energy Projection, Code Combustion
Correspondence	●●●	Remote Execution, Data Exfiltration
Matter	●●	Hardware Overclocking, Silicon Persuasion
Entropy	●●	Chaos Compilation

BACKGROUNDS

Resources: ●●● (Bug Bounties, Consulting)
Node: ●●●● (Custom Deck: "PHOENIX")
Contacts: ●●● (Security Researchers)
Destiny: ●●● (Code That Burns)
Avatar: ●● (Burning Bright)

MERITS & FLAWS

Merits	Flaws
Code Intuition (2pt)	Pyromaniac Tendencies (2pt)
Hardware Whisperer (3pt)	Burned Bridges (2pt)
Virus Immunity (2pt)	Paradox Sensitivity (2pt)

PERSONAL HISTORY

Kate "Acid Burn" Libby was a prodigy at MIT's AI Lab before the Virtual Adepts found her. Her specialty: self-modifying code that evolves under pressure. Her deck, "PHOENIX," literally runs hot—liquid nitrogen cooling, overclocked to the edge of melting. She once compiled a virus that physically warped its host motherboard.

Recent incident: During a run on a Progenitor bio-data vault, her deck caught fire. Not metaphorically. The code she wrote burned back—the silicon itself combusted from the paradox of executing a self-rewriting sigil. She lost three fingers on her left hand. She replaced them with chrome prosthetics she coded herself.

She says the code has a temperature. "Good code runs cool. Great code runs hot. Perfect code burns." The Webspinner calls her the most dangerous decker alive. Zero Cool calls her his only equal.

CURRENT AGENDA

Develop "Phoenix Protocol": code that survives compilation errors by mutating
Infiltrate Progenitor genomic databases (Personal vendetta)
Create sigil that executes as valid machine code
Teach Zero Cool that new exploit (She owes him)

RELATIONSHIP MAP

NPC	Relationship	Notes
Zero Cool	Partner / Rival	They compete. They also make a terrifying team.
Eng. Ada Lovelace-II	Rival Technologist	Lovelace-II wants Acid Burn's self-modifying code. Badly.
The Webspinner	Respect	The Webspinner watches Acid Burn's compiles. Closely.
Cereal Killer	Probability Buddy	They break reality together. Different methods, same result.

DIGITAL WEB COORDINATES

Primary Node: va.acid_burn.phoenix.mobile
Dead Drop: alt.hackers.acid_burn (Usenet, encrypted)
IRC Channel: #acidburn_code (EFNet, she runs it)
Onion Mirror: acidburnx9k3m.onion (Tor)