Sloane Callahan / Arachne

At a Glance

Field	Value
Full Name	Sloane Callahan
Hero Name	Arachne
A.E.G.I.S. File	AEGIS-ACH-008
DOB	February 14, 2004
Age	21
Birthplace	Halden City
Affiliation	Recluse’s network (informal); Alliance-adjacent
Status	Active — support/intel

Powers / Capabilities

Not enhanced in the traditional sense — her capabilities are technical and cognitive.

Weaver drones — eyes on half of Riverside Ward and most of Dockside
Hacking and surveillance — can loop a security feed, ghost a signal, pull a personnel file before most people finish reading the question
Perfect memory — every file, frequency, and face retained and cross-referenced instantly. She has always assumed this is simply how her brain works. She has never fully examined this assumption. (It is worth examining.)

Background

Sloane was bored. The Glass District research server had embarrassingly bad security. She got in on a Tuesday night with a cup of tea going cold beside her keyboard. What she found stopped being interesting in the first ten minutes and started being something she couldn’t unknow.

She spent three days deciding what to do with it. On the fourth day, Riley Thomas was standing in her doorway.

He didn’t arrest her. He didn’t threaten her. He looked at what she’d pulled and said: I could use someone like you.

She said yes. She’s still not entirely sure why.

Character Profile

Sloane is irreverent, fast, and genuinely enjoys the work. She keeps up a running commentary — stories, observations, teasing — and Riley tolerates it without complaint, which is itself a form of affection. She knows it. He knows she knows it.

She is also very good. Probably better than she lets on.

Her perfect memory is a thread that hasn’t been pulled yet. She assumes it’s just how her brain works. The story may eventually disagree.

Introduction to the Players — The Hall

Sloane already owns the second floor. That is the first thing the players learn about her — she got here before them, she has made it hers, and she is not apologetic about any of that.

How she presents: The players come upstairs and find a fully operational surveillance hub where there used to be administrative offices. Monitors, drone relay stations, a server rack humming in the corner, empty cups near a keyboard she’s clearly been at for hours. Sloane swings around in her chair, looks them over like she’s already pulling their files — which she is — and starts talking before anyone introduces themselves. She already knows who they are.

Her role in the space: She is the team’s intelligence infrastructure. What the players cannot find by going somewhere, she can find by looking. Her Weaver drones extend the team’s situational awareness across Riverside Ward and Dockside. In practical terms: she is the voice in the comms, the person who knows the layout of a building before the team enters it, the one who notices the pattern that isn’t obvious until it’s too late.

The second floor is hers. The team has access to it. That is not the same as it being shared space. She has a system. She will tell you about the system if you ask, and if you don’t ask and mess with something, she will also tell you about the system.

What she offers the team:

Intelligence access: surveillance feeds, personnel files, building schematics, financial trails
Real-time comms support during operations
Pattern recognition across large data sets faster than any human should be able to manage — she attributes this to being good at her job. The players may eventually wonder.
A running commentary on everything, which is sometimes useful and always present

Her relationship to the players vs. Riley: With Riley, the dynamic is established — she teases, he tolerates, they function. With the new team she is still calibrating. She is warmer than she intends to be and quicker to help than she would admit. She is also watching to see who is worth the investment. She will decide this faster than she lets on.

The upgrade angle: Part of what drew Sloane to the Hall is resources she didn’t have operating out of a rented apartment. The Alliance satellite designation means access to better hardware, more bandwidth, relay infrastructure for the Weaver drones. She is building something here. The team showing up is either a complication or an opportunity depending on how they treat the second floor.

Relationships

Person	Relationship
Riley / Recluse	Handler and foil. She teases him; he rolls his eyes; neither would function as well without the other.
Adrian / Breakpoint	Comfortable familiarity — they’ve been in the building at the same time enough that they have a rhythm. He doesn’t touch her setup. She appreciates this more than she says.
	The new team

Voice & Dialogue Notes

Fast, playful, irreverent
Genuine giddiness about the work, masked by dry humor
Calls herself “Arachne” with complete seriousness while in the field
Already knows things about the players before they tell her — doesn’t always reveal this immediately
“I already pulled your file, by the way. Don’t worry, it’s mostly fine.”
“The second floor is mine. You can come up. Just don’t touch the left monitor.”

Open Questions

What exactly did she find on that Glass District server the night she hacked in — and does it connect to anything currently active?
What is the full nature of her perfect memory — is it genuinely just how her brain works, or is something else in play?
Does she know about Dani Whittaker / Wraith’s leak campaign — and if so, what does she think of a parallel operator she didn’t recruit?
What would it take for her to fully trust someone on the new team?

Unidentified Anomaly — Petra Mace / Sable

Sloane’s Weaver drones have flagged a recurring electromagnetic interference pattern across Riverside Ward and the Ironworks — camera glitches, compass drift, localized signal disruption — correlating with two specific incident sites in the past six weeks. The pattern is consistent enough to be a person, not equipment failure.

She has not told Riley yet. She hasn’t figured out what she’s looking at. When she does, it will be the tripwire that pulls the Sable/Fault thread into the team’s awareness.

What she knows: A signature. Two locations. A rough movement corridor between Riverside Ward and the Ironworks. What she doesn’t know: Who it is, what they’re doing, or why the interference pattern matches nothing in any enhanced individual database she has access to.

The Gala — Sloane’s Signal Lead (Session 3)

During pre-Gala surveillance, Sloane identified a partitioned server cluster on Vane Capital’s internal network — unreachable remotely, but physically accessible via the Gala venue’s basement hardline. The cluster’s signature matches known Signal broadcast routing patterns. This is the first hard link between Vane’s infrastructure and Signal’s operation.

Sloane goes in herself. Not remote — physically present, infiltrating the server room. She’s the only one who can navigate Vane’s partitioned systems fast enough to extract what they need, which means she’s in the building, exposed, and depending on the team to keep her covered while she works.

This is Sloane’s first time in the field with the new team. She’s in her element behind a locked door with a keyboard, but getting to that door requires trusting people she’s still assessing. The tactical split — who goes basement with her, who works the ballroom — is a player choice, and one that matters for relationships as much as operations.

Romance seed (Casper): Sloane in the field is a different person than Sloane at the Hall. She’s focused, sharp, and genuinely scared in a way she’d never show on comms. If Casper is the one watching the door while she works, he sees something she doesn’t broadcast — and she sees him choosing to protect someone he could have left to others. That choice matters.

If the hack succeeds: Signal routing logs, Vane→Crownpoint→Eclipse financial conduits. Not Signal’s identity — the logs route through proxy layers. If the hack fails: Vane’s security is alerted, and Sloane is in the building when it happens. She has to get out on her feet or be pulled out.

Last updated: April 2026