 Shadowrun: Our Orks Are Cuter, I think I just got Diabetes. |
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 Oct 17 2011, 04:48 PM
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Shooting Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,598 Joined: 24-May 03 Member No.: 4,629  |
So, the people have spoken... next year's Shadowrun needs to have a throwback to classic suits and ever-lovin' hats.
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Oct 17 2011, 05:14 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
QUOTE (Faraday @ Oct 17 2011, 06:45 AM)  This just convinces me even further that Fallout is pretty much a textbook chronicling the future. On topic. I like the character and the illustration is pretty amazing. Damn fine artwork from the small SURGEd horns to the blood-spattered boots. I visualize and imagine the SR world as a combination of Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner, and Deus Ex. The Gentlemen, a gang detailed in the PDF "10 Gangs" book, are a Hong Kong gang dedicated to impersonating 1930's america gangsters. Convergence of Fallout Vegas meets Ghost in the Shell. CRAZYNESS |
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Oct 18 2011, 04:30 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 14-August 06 Member No.: 9,111 |
QUOTE (Shortcake @ Oct 16 2011, 02:53 PM) Hello, all! Hi! Personally, I like your character and hope you have a lot of fun with it. QUOTE (tehana @ Oct 16 2011, 05:26 PM) Hey guys. I thought you were dead. |
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Oct 18 2011, 08:30 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 770 Joined: 19-August 11 From: Middle-Eastern Europe Member No.: 36,268 |
QUOTE (Shortcake @ Oct 16 2011, 08:53 PM) Shortcake, is, as you all pointed out, very obvious. She is not sneaky. She is not intended to be sneaky, and in fact provides a wonderful distraction for the rest of the team. As some of you have said, she would draw fire and likely be shot at first. While some might consider this an insult, Shortcake is the tank of the group. She can handle being shot at and can handle taking bullets, providing a meat shield between the enemies and her more squishy friends. As well, all eyes are drawn to her whenever she walks into an area, and that means all those eyes are now off of her friends, which mean those sneaky-types in the group have an easier time of slipping past guards, getting into a building, etc. TV Tropes have a term for a similar thing - "Obfuscating Stupidity". When people see a ditzy ork in a pink dress, they don't suppose she's going to whip out an assault rifle and mow them down the next moment, throw a grenade and backflip into cover or just wave her hand and the next thing they know they're on their backs trying to recall what brand of truck just ran them over. Knowing cultural osmosis, Shibuya fashion is probably going to become de rigueur for rebellious teens who go clubbing instead of studying for 16 hours a day - the "useless but harmless" type. I made a similar character for Vampire the Masquerade once. Maybe not so out there, but still, she usually wore flower-print clothes and acted like a kid (looking like a 15-year-old didn't help). |
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Oct 18 2011, 12:36 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,183 Joined: 5-December 07 From: Lower UCAS, along the border Member No.: 14,507 |
QUOTE (Cenobite @ Oct 17 2011, 11:30 PM) I thought you were dead. Thought you were. |
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Oct 18 2011, 01:26 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 770 Joined: 19-August 11 From: Middle-Eastern Europe Member No.: 36,268 |
QUOTE (tehana @ Oct 16 2011, 11:26 PM) Hey guys. QUOTE (Cenobite @ Oct 18 2011, 06:30 AM) I thought you were dead. QUOTE (ravensmuse @ Oct 18 2011, 02:36 PM) Thought you were. Now ain't that shadowtalk at its finest. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) |
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Oct 18 2011, 01:38 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: 16-October 11 Member No.: 40,831 |
QUOTE (Cenobite @ Oct 18 2011, 05:30 AM) I thought you were dead. Aww I missed you too <3 |
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Oct 18 2011, 03:00 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
This is no IC-thread, mkay?
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Oct 18 2011, 04:10 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
I thought they'd be taller, myself.
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Oct 18 2011, 05:04 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 15-October 11 Member No.: 40,815 |
QUOTE (Seriously Mike @ Oct 18 2011, 01:30 AM) TV Tropes have a term for a similar thing - "Obfuscating Stupidity". When people see a ditzy ork in a pink dress, they don't suppose she's going to whip out an assault rifle and mow them down the next moment, throw a grenade and backflip into cover or just wave her hand and the next thing they know they're on their backs trying to recall what brand of truck just ran them over. Knowing cultural osmosis, Shibuya fashion is probably going to become de rigueur for rebellious teens who go clubbing instead of studying for 16 hours a day - the "useless but harmless" type. I made a similar character for Vampire the Masquerade once. Maybe not so out there, but still, she usually wore flower-print clothes and acted like a kid (looking like a 15-year-old didn't help). Gotta love TV Tropes. Thank you, that's a good term to describe her. I'm ashamed to say I've never played Vampire, though I'd love to some day. Your character sounds very disarming, in all senses of the word! Hurrah for obfuscating stupidity. |
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Oct 18 2011, 05:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 770 Joined: 19-August 11 From: Middle-Eastern Europe Member No.: 36,268 |
QUOTE (Shortcake @ Oct 18 2011, 07:04 PM) Gotta love TV Tropes. Thank you, that's a good term to describe her. I'm ashamed to say I've never played Vampire, though I'd love to some day. Your character sounds very disarming, in all senses of the word! Hurrah for obfuscating stupidity. Yeah, you don't expect a fifteen-year-old to suddenly whip out a pistol from her cute backpack, do a backflip behind the couch and shoot two mooks armed with submachine guns, then shout "That was fun!" to another PC who was searching a nearby room. Also, she was a very sane Malkavian. All three of her personalities were. During a PBF campaign that was a little more epic than expected, she also had an interesting method of shaking off mind probes. |
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Oct 18 2011, 10:43 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
"Want to probe my memories? Fine, I've seen John Diefenbaker naked!"
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Oct 19 2011, 06:44 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 770 Joined: 19-August 11 From: Middle-Eastern Europe Member No.: 36,268 |
QUOTE (CanRay @ Oct 19 2011, 12:43 AM) "Want to probe my memories? Fine, I've seen John Diefenbaker naked!" Well, almost. Ponies, bubblegum and stuff like that. If she was nice. |
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Oct 19 2011, 07:50 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
QUOTE (CanRay @ Oct 18 2011, 06:10 PM) I thought they'd be taller, myself. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif) |
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Oct 19 2011, 01:11 PM
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Old Man of the North Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 10,178 Joined: 14-August 03 From: Just north of the Centre of the Universe Member No.: 5,463 |
QUOTE (CanRay @ Oct 18 2011, 06:43 PM) "Want to probe my memories? Fine, I've seen John Diefenbaker naked!" *shudder* I can just imagine where else he had hanging jowls. |
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Oct 31 2011, 01:19 PM
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Old Man Jones Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,415 Joined: 26-February 02 From: New York Member No.: 1,699 |
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Oct 31 2011, 01:25 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: 16-October 11 Member No.: 40,831 |
QUOTE (KarmaInferno @ Oct 31 2011, 01:19 PM) Weird timing! Totally just posted this in the Ladies thread. |
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Oct 31 2011, 04:14 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,001 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Michigan Member No.: 1,514 |
Things like that weapon are why characters that use them, or use a style like the Ork earlier in the thread would quickly end up quickly dead, under arrest or as a volunteer for some sort of corporate program that's test driving the latest cybergadget or retrovirus in mine own game. Distinctive style say hello to the modern world.
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Oct 31 2011, 05:33 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
QUOTE (KarmaInferno @ Oct 31 2011, 08:19 AM) "Where the bloody hell did you get that?" "Stole it off some little girl at the gun range. I figure after this job, we'll have to ditch all the weapons, so I wanted something I wouldn't feel bad tossing away." "Oh... That makes sense." "SQUEE! Jimmy! You brought me a present!" "Oh, um, yeah, here you go. Sorry it's not in Troll size, but I figure Dan can fix that. ... Damnit, now I need a new weapon. And headache tablets, Troll Girl Squees always give me a headache."
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Oct 31 2011, 11:25 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 935 Joined: 2-September 10 Member No.: 19,000 |
can't make myself unsee
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Nov 1 2011, 02:34 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 9-October 11 Member No.: 40,280 |
I love Shortcake. I'm always trying to imagine what the world of Shadowrun would look like and it depresses me that most people tend to go with the over saturation of Matrix people styles. Characters like this really give me a sense of individual and cultural identity within the world.
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Nov 1 2011, 03:02 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,654 Joined: 29-October 06 Member No.: 9,731 |
For the record, I'd totally tap Shortcake. Ork girls are hot.
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Nov 1 2011, 04:46 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
I'll freely admit that a lot of my characters are given to lined coats, but a lot of them give some individuality to them. Buttons, zippers, chains, airbrushed art, studs and spikes, stuff like that. They also have a few other outfits, some for work, some for personal time. The longcoats are for when they're packing heavy for the most part.
Also, being as I have most of my characters in Seattle, the coats are perfect for the perpetually cold rain. Nas is the one exception, as he mostly wears a heavy high quality synthleather armoured jacket (Bike Cop Cut) most of the time, that's heavily scuffed and beaten up, but well cared for. |
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Nov 1 2011, 05:00 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Validating Posts: 7,999 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,890 |
I can't remember the last time I saw a "Matrix" stylized character in a game whatsoever.
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Nov 1 2011, 05:16 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
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