The Characters

The Ladle Cell (Célula Concha) is the AntiFaCa cell that took over the Descoberto-7 Station without firing a shot. Over three years, supervisor Zuleide Batista replaced, one vacancy at a time, all 41 of the station's employees with resistance members. Since then, the station has secretly sent Brasília more water than the contract allows.

The pre-generated characters are four members of the cell:

Using your own characters + contribute

Any character works, as long as they belong to the cell or work with it. A good start is to ask each player: what does the company have of yours (an arm, a name, a family) that it can take back?

“The arm is theirs. The hand that opens the gate is mine.”

Where they come from

Born in Águas Lindas, on the OmniTerra side, the daughter of reservoir workers. She lost her right arm in a sluice gate at 29; the company paid for the prosthesis, and the arm became the company's.

Why they are here

Her nephews and nieces live in Ceilândia, across the border. Every extra litre through Meter 14 is one more bath for them.

Personal hook

If the station is relocated, the prosthesis goes to Alcântara, with or without her. And if she is dismissed, the arm is repossessed.

Threads to pull

• Meter 14
• The implant is yours, the title is the company's
• The Brasília REGEST

“Nobody here is sick. Everybody's uninsured.”

Where they come from

An Aegis-Med paramedic in Lisbon, dismissed for diverting Tolerin to a patient who had lost their plan. In quarantine, he crossed the Atlantic on a cloned chip and became “Davi Rezende”, an OmniTerra contract nurse.

Why they are here

He smuggles Tolerin to the station's staff and to whoever needs it in Brasília. If the station falls, his network falls with it.

Personal hook

The auditor's implant inventory will read his chip. A cloned chip fools a gate; an audit, maybe not.

Threads to pull

• The Corporate Quarantine
• The implant is yours, the title is the company's
• Aegis-Med

“I've seen a company solve a problem. I don't want to see it again.”

Where they come from

A contract guard all his life. In 2111 he was working for Great Rift on the inland side of Djibouti when the sea came in. He followed orders. He bought the lung filter with his own money afterwards, and joined the AntiFaCa two years later.

Why they are here

He protects the cell because in 2111 he protected nobody.

Personal hook

Sergeant Takeda, who commands the auditor's escort, was with him at Djibouti. Each knows what the other did.

Threads to pull

• The Great Dismissal of the Djibouti Triangle
• Kuro-Tech
• The Valve

“Over there they've got water. Over here they've got people. I just drive.”

Where they come from

Born in Taguatinga, in the Brasília REGEST, she never had a chip. She works for the station on a supplier's pass: officially she hauls settling sludge to a landfill; in practice, she hauls clean water to the city.

Why they are here

Her mother is a nurse at the Hospital de Base. Lia knows exactly how many days of reserve the hospital has.

Personal hook

She is the only one in the cell who crosses Post 4 every day, and the first that security will search if something goes wrong.

Threads to pull

• The Brasília REGEST
• The nomads
• The Night Shift