Bit Bucket

Bit-Bucket didn’t get into hacking because he was a shy kid who loved electronics. He didn’t get into hacking because he wanted to avoid the gang brawls common to his upbringing in the Noose. He got into hacking for the simple reason that he understood that in the Sixth World, that’s where the money is. As a youth (by the name of Grralk), he and his friends did some minor smash-and-grabs in the Englewod Swap Meet, and he was dissatisfied to walk away with a few pieces of fruit, or some cheap commlinks that he couldn’t get anyone to buy for more than twenty nuyen. Tens of thousands of nuyen were flowing through the Elevated District each day, and at that point he could only figure out how to grab the smallest fraction of it. He wasn’t having any of that drek. The money was there, all around him, he just needed to figure out how to get his hands on it. He made his stealing more targeted, getting himself the tools he needed to learn how the Matrix worked and how he could break it. He learned how it was different from the meat world and how it was the same—how sometimes, bursting in with a flurry of noise and tumult was as good a strategy as any. He didn’t have a teacher or mentor or anything; instead, he learned from books, from blogs, and from trial and error. He made a lot of mistakes, bricked a lot of ’links, but by the 2050s, he was ready to hack into a corporate database and have a new cyberdeck delivered to a PO box he rented. He didn’t pay for either the deck or the mailbox. Bit-Bucket’s mark is an ork fist in a studded glove coming right at you, which is how he hacks. He is bold and showy, usually very willing for his targets to know who he is and what he is doing to them. He has developed a kind of one-sided rivalry with legendary shadowrunner Bull, known as “the best ork decker you never met,” mainly because every time people found out he was an ork and a decker, they mentioned Bull, and Bit-Bucket decided he needed to show who out-ranked whom when it came to ork deckers. Now, a veteran of the Chicago shadowrunner scene, Bit Bucket has a collection of runners that have run together often enough that they've come to be a crew, and they look to Bucket as a leader. The affable Wagon is the team's medic, and conscience. Hardpoint is their wheelman and drone operator, and he's known to be a maestro at defeating security systems. Chrome Bison is a tank of a troll street samurai. Razzle Dazzle used to be alone in filling the role of team magician, though she prefers to call herself an illusionist. But now there's also Tommy Q, a former wage mage combat specialist who's new to the team. Wagon