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Posted by: nylanfs Mar 21 2010, 09:56 PM

Okay starting with a new runner group on Thurs, and I'm trying to finish up my female troll street sam and I'm stuck on the street name. Here's some particular's about her.

Real name: Elisha Berns
Meta: Troll
Sex: Female
Qualities: Toughness, Natural Healing, SINner(5), Wanted

Born: Seattle
Ex-primary employer: Ares
Background summary: Her parents were good little wage slaves for Ares, and so she was indoctrinated at Ares schools growing up, and was "encouraged" to work up the security force ladder. Her immediate team leader was arranged to be the fall guy for some nasty in-corp fighting, and the crap fell on the rest of the team (Note: This is not Firewatch, although she did have her eye on that level eventually, she was just starting on her career path). She currently has a bounty on her head (Wanted negative quality) from said in-fighting. She also sees the danger of taking too much cyber, and attempts to counteract that with keeping in touch with her humanity (should that be metahumanity?) by painting, and generally being artistic.

Stats: Bod(9), Agi(3), Rea(4), Str(7), Cha(2), Int(3), Log(3), Will(3), Edge(4)

She's going to be the ranged support for the team, everyone else is primarily hand to hand. So any street name idea's?

Posted by: AndyZ Mar 21 2010, 09:58 PM

What's her weapon of choice?

Posted by: Angelone Mar 21 2010, 10:15 PM

Beef Pork Rib,
X Knight,
Caliber X,
Thrakazog,
Susan,
Big Bertha,
Apoptygma,

All I can think of for now.

Posted by: kjones Mar 21 2010, 10:24 PM

Rhino.

Just came to me, I don't know why.

Posted by: MatrixJargon Mar 21 2010, 10:32 PM

Tiny or Princess

Posted by: Kumo Mar 21 2010, 10:57 PM

Athena?

Posted by: Method Mar 21 2010, 11:24 PM

Maybe her dad was a low level weapon designer and gun nut. Named her Remington (because he wanted a boy), but she goes by "Remmy"

Posted by: Dr.Rockso Mar 21 2010, 11:55 PM

Acrylic
Trouble
Artiste
Sister
Gloss

Could give some more info? Personality, preference of weapons...

Posted by: IceKatze Mar 22 2010, 12:09 AM

hi hi

How about:

• Wage
• Red Paint
• Pollock

Or you could do what we do when someone can't think of a street name: call the character "noob," "fresh meat," or "mook" until they earn a street name in game.

Posted by: nylanfs Mar 22 2010, 12:40 AM

QUOTE (AndyZ @ Mar 21 2010, 05:58 PM)

What's her weapon of choice?

Std weapon is going to be SMG w/ heavy pistol's as backup The Assault Rifle as very last resort for extremely heavy runs. Since she was originally trained for Sec forces she know's the kinda crap that Assault rifles draw, but at times are needed.

Hmm, I kinda like Artiste.

Posted by: Headshot_Joe Mar 22 2010, 12:45 AM

Big Mona Lisa or simply Big Mona
Pain-brush
Corpse Canvas
Happy Little Tree
Venus de Maulo
The Brush Jockey
The Skullptress
Rattle-can
Blood Stippler
The Abstractionist

Posted by: Udoshi Mar 22 2010, 01:28 AM

Black Betty(Bam-ba-lam!)

Posted by: Daylen Mar 22 2010, 01:31 AM

Trog Tug

Posted by: Navar Mar 22 2010, 02:06 AM

Lady Gaga?
It fits.

Posted by: Teulisch Mar 22 2010, 02:16 AM

personally, i tend to pick street-names from Shakespeare. you could go with Lady Macbeth, 'beth for short. 'out damn spot' takes on a funny twist when its the laser designator for a gun making the red spot.....

Posted by: nylanfs Mar 22 2010, 03:03 AM

I think I'm leaning towards Artiste or Big Mona.

Posted by: Whipstitch Mar 22 2010, 03:07 AM

Ma'am.

Posted by: wargear Mar 22 2010, 04:01 AM

Make your character's life a bit more interesting, dual spec it.

Or rather, have it create two separate personas, with two separate street names, equipment loadouts, and MOs.

It means a lot of work separating your identities, but it gives you the option of later ditching a rep and identity that gets a little hot on the Star's most wanted list...or a rep that gets totally hosed by the frag-ups of the rest of your team.

Posted by: nylanfs Mar 22 2010, 04:47 AM

Here's what I ended up using, and the background I came up with

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/mishawaka-runners/characters/84793

[ Spoiler ]

Early Years…

Elisha was born to human parents that were wage slaves to Ares Macrotechnology (Seattle Region). She got the usual schooling in the “free” Ares corporate sponsored schools. She was one of the few that still occasionally goblinized at puberty, and while this created a strain on her relationship with her family, it was largely resolved by late teens and she had a normal familial relationship with her parents and two siblings (older brother, younger sister both human). As she continued her schooling Ares was increasing the subtle but undeniable pressure to enroll in the Security Forces technical schools, which she eventually gave into rather than attempting to continue her interest in the arts.
Technical school and early corp life…

She did moderately well in the technical school, and was hired by Ares on the ground level of the security for primarily backup support. As the next few years progressed she worked her way up the corporate ladder eventually working her way off of the Knight Errant building based security arm and into the High Threat back-up squads, she believed that she had a chance at eventually obtaining rank in the FireWatch Division.
Recent events leading to her Shadow career…

While in her first year in the squad her squad was called in as backup for one of FireWatch’s response calls to an Ares heavy weapons research facility. When they arrived they received updated an situation report that called for them to enter the facility behind the original team that was already in the inside. She was never able to quite figure out all that happened after that but she was able to reconstruct the following actions with the help of a Ares secretary she had cultivated a friendship with.

* Her team had been sent in as a ploy by another manager in the corporation to attempt to damage the promotion of another mid level manager.
* FireWatch had actually been alerted AFTER they entered the building
* Her and her squad were mistaken for the original shadow team (if there was one at all) and all but slaughtered in the firefight
* She was never totally clear on how she ended up escaping, her memories of what happened are vague and inconsistent, she was labeled with PTSD by a street doc

The next thing she knows she remembers is recovering several days later in a free clinic in the Redmond Barrens. When she contacted her family, they all but shunned her for being involved in an attempt to steal from the corporation that had housed and clothed them all these years. But she did find out from them and her secretary contact that her and the remaining squad were wanted for questioning involving the “incident”. Her immediate supervisor and his manager were in custody for attempted corporate espionage. Her secretary friend put out some feelers and gathered from the corp grapevine that it appeared that she was being setup to take the fall for some nasty corporate in-fighting. Her parents had been put on a “questionable corporate loyalty” list and possibly would never be promoted again (if they weren’t edged out of the corporation within the next few years). And what appeared to be her only friend left in the world found out that there was a bounty placed on her head by the manager that had set her up as the fall guy (or girl in her case). Since she knew that the only people that would be wanting to collect on the contract would have few compunctions about using her family to get to her, she disappeared into the Seattle underground as the best option out of the many unpalatable ones available to her.
Current life

She gets by day to day, taking the odd job here and there to get by. Bitter about losing her family ties. And searching and hoping that one day the information she has been gathering will allow her to clear her name and be reunited with her family and live a normal life instead of constantly keeping a look over her shoulder. She still has her skills and cyberware that was part of her contract with Ares, but had no compunction about contacting a hacker and forking over the nuyen to have all identification in her cyber wiped so she couldn’t be tracked down in that fashion. She can’t do anything about her original corporation records, yet…