Freeman Boyd

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Freeman Boyd is a technomancer that worked with Musser.

Relationships

Some of the people investigating Kennet's supernatural side online late became the St. Victors practitioners.<ref>Several of those people investigating are students at St. Victor’s. Have Freeman focus on those. He could even pass on his own knowledge. Make it worth his while. Some young technomancers. Learning city magic too, perhaps? And divine practices? We can waive the responsibility costs for looping them in.”- Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.y</ref>

He's currently teaching Adrian technomancy. He gets annoyed about how helpless he seems to be and struggles to impart his teaching into the boy.

Appearance

He wears sunglasses as well as a long draping black coat with calligraphy on it with clasps at the neck and a Chinese style sleeveless tunic. He has long arms and legs and walks with a stoop, on his wrist he has a tattoo that says "PHREAK". He has greasy hair in a ponytail.<ref>The third really didn’t fit in, locally. He was a guy who wore sunglasses at night, with long arms and legs that, with the way he walked all stooped over, seemed even more ungainly. He wore a long draping black coat worn with the clasp connected at the neck. His arms weren’t through the sleeves, making the coat act like a cape, and the skin of the arms were tattooed with large letters in a calligraphy script. The one arm Verona could see had ‘PHREAK’ with a P at the elbow and a K at the hand. He was white, but had a sleeveless tunic that looked like it was Chinese, with the hard collar up against the throat, and the way the front folded over. A scraggly ponytail was set near the nape of his neck.- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.12</ref> He has ripped jeans and wears mag boots.<ref>wearing his long jacket with calligraphy on it, sunglasses, ripped jeans, and mag boots, hair combed back to a ponytail that was exaggerated in length here, spiraling around his body. - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.b</ref>

Abilities

He's capable of fending off the Turtle Queen.<ref>“Quick important question,” Verona whispered. “Who do you think it is that’s fending off the Turtle Queen right now?”
“Guy with the sunglasses just told them to keep their phones on and charged. Might be it,” Lucy said. “Now he’s leaving. He knows he looks suspicious.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.12</ref>

He's able to mess with security camera as well as watch things through them.<ref>One security camera, verified by the guy who absolutely has to be a technomancer. Probably watching or handling things on the outside, making sure we don’t get a rescue, maybe, Verona concluded. McCauleigh gets up to a vantage point the camera can’t see from, and tears out the wires. Feed dies, and the last thing on the camera? Avery running up toward the camera just before the feed stops, and Lucy and me around this one jerk who ends up injured.- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.12</ref> He can also help enable communications.<ref>“We’ve got a map, we can distribute that. Phones are out, so communication will be key.”
“Freeman can help us there,” Estrella said, indicating the technomancer with the ‘Phreak’ tattoo down one arm.- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.x</ref>

Capable of pulling strings to manipulate law enforcement.<ref>He’s pulled certain strings with the law and the karmic pendulum relating to law enforcement is all set to knock his teeth out in the backswing, so he’s going to stay away. Phreak flutters in and out around the edges like a butterfly that thinks he’s a nine when he barely rates.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.12</ref>

His sight turns the world into pixels and jpeg artifacts, creating square reticules and allowing him to zoom in.<ref>Spiritually, if he used his Sight to view it from another angle, it was a Carpocalypse Max desert, unforgiving, deceptively empty.  The world devolved into artifacts, pixelated and blurry, clearer where he needed it to be clear.  As he fixed his eyes on things, targeting reticules formed- squares framing them, then flickering as they adjusted zoom, clarity, and supplementary information. - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.b</ref>

He's able to use city magic.<ref name=":0">In one of the cabins, the technomancer Freeman had taken a dozen cheap computers and phones he’d found and bought and dismantled them, screens arranged in a circle around a center screen. As lines appeared on each, Lis felt the spirits align with the city’s ebbs and flows. City magic, backed by technomancy.- Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.y</ref>

He can astrally project himself, drawing on powerlines as a power supply.<ref>The arrangement that was astrally projecting them was drawing on the power in the power lines. - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.b</ref>

He knowns how to temper items.<ref>Freeman, decked out in items with at least some magical potential, tempering, or things he’d worn enough they were part of his Self - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.b</ref>

Tools

• He's armed with a stun gun infused with spirits.<ref>Freeman pointed the stun gun at her, needles poking out, ready to shoot electricity through her.  Spirits pulsed inside the weapon.- Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.y</ref>
• He can draw diagrams using laser etching.<ref>The diagram his programs had been finishing was laser-etched into the center of the circle. The lines flared-- Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.y</ref>
• He has a technomancy made generator.<ref name=":1">Every monitor flashed red with a fresh alert, alarms setting off, a technomancy-made generator in the corner screaming its way to life. Freeman, in the same moment, leaped to his feet, pulling out a technomancy stun gun.- Exceprt from Wild Abandon 18.y</ref>

Chronology

He helped out Musser when he invaded Kennet, getting trapped in with the rest of his forces.

He attempted to summon Lis,<ref name=":0" /> looking for her help with dealing with the Turtle Queen. He agreed to help her stop the paranormal side of Kennet from affecting it's innocents, to do this he agreed to trash a haunted arcade, help arrest Trinity Conway and bind the Countdown Cassandra, and investigate people searchign for online rumours about Kennets supernatural side. In return she agreed to give him access to an alternate network that allowed him to avoid the Turtle Queen.<ref>“He captured the Countdown Cassandra.”
“I’m aware.”
“Then why ask?”
“Tell me about the arrangement.”
“For that, I’ll give him access to an alternate network. It costs a bit of power, but he’ll be free of the Turtle Queen. They plan to ransack the Arcade in daylight hours when the most people are asleep. There are some magical items in there. I can give them a boon, city magic, to let them move and escape more easily within Kennet. Special doors that allow quick shortcuts.”
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“People are out looking for magical information online. Freeman Boyd offered to interfere with them, stalling their access to practice, keeping Kennet more predictable. If they learned, there would be a chance they’d join the local practitioners.”- Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.y</ref>

Afterwards he left the Carmine Exile's Domain.<ref>- Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.y</ref>

He and Adrian helped disarm a car bomb returning the damage to the original sender.<ref>- Let Slip 20.b</ref>

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