Hoping like hell that I'm awakened. If not, definitely some form of corporate wage-slave in a tech department performing some manner of skilled labor. I cant even be sure I could be healthy in the world of Shadowrun, with a total VR lifestyle I'm not sure I'd be able to remember to eat, and long hours in VR space would mean bad things for my physical self. I'd definitely have all manner of non-visible augmentations including geneware, and a life savings to be put toward leonization every 30-40 years or so.

If awakened, I'd lean heavily towards logic traditions; probably hermetic.

VR life doesn't sound so bad when I think about it...

Based on past experiences with the weird and hard to explain, and based on a variety of personal skills and traits, I would probably be a Mystic Adept, and likely an elf. Definitely something security oriented, quite possibly an independent contractor.

I'm already an angry anti-corporation squatter, and lucky enough to live in Denmark to boot. Soo.. a shittier version of that?

Ed: Living the pirates life on a leaky houseboat, praying to the spirits for a bountiful catch of mutant fish and taking potshots at Tyr Security helicopters, that's the life for me!

Aren't they the same thing? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif)

I'd probably be a mage in the CAS or UCAS---people tell me I'm different in RL. Now at that point I would be an independent contractor or work for the government. I would not belong to any magical groups either.

I almost put:

"Or a corporate wage slave (i.e. dead)"

But I figured that that was explaining the joke. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I'd probably be a standard human with an even worse media addiction. If schooling went the same, I probably would have rejected a fat megacorp scholarship for medicine to pursue art. Then I'd be a mediocre illustrator who never attracted much attention in my life. I'd probably be a wageslave shading text for Japanicorp mascots.

Will probably be just a boring 'ol human. Though if lucky enough to be a meta/awakened I have no idea what I'd be due to all the genetic narglefargle I inherited (what do you even call a person with Irish-Chinese heritage?)

Would also probably be doing a crappier version of the same news gig I'm doing now, with a horrible VR addiction. Sounds a wee bit better than wageslaving I guess.

Definitely will be having cybereyes at least to counter the fact that I'm half way to clinically blind (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Realistically? Probably a quiet, ordinary citizen of the UCAS.

Ideally? A quiet, awakened citizen of somewhere relatively nice and uneventful like New Zealand, working on honing my adept powers in my spare time.

~Umi

I think, I'd be a standard human, with a definitive lean to being a ha-/decker with neo anarchist ties. I'd probably use my computer skills to do matrix artwork and slack a lot. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
I'd love me some modifications, especially for sports and hand/eye coordination, but a datajack would be a must have. Internet in my brain? Hell yeah!

Even as a mage know/linguaaofts are just to handy to pass up...

Even back in SR1 and SR2, very light augmentation was often quite desireable for the Awakened.

That's very true. I'd probably load myself up with both and be a huge know-it-all.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) You'd be pretty hard to counter in arguments.
"That's not how it happened! You're getting it wrong!"
"My late 18th century industrial revolution history knowsoft thinks otherwise..."
"But I..."

New eyes and an elbow would be really nice right about now. Hell, new arm possibly if the bone won't heal.

With my luck I'd end up Elven (tall, lithe, flexible) but given my areas of speciality, I'd end up a decker. You just don't see many elf deckers. (Although I don't think I'd mind being a techno).

Oh geez, just think of the RPG matrix forum discussions.
"Well my knowsoft implies the RAI of this passage is. . . "
"No, my knowsoft clearly states that in the most up to date RAP (rules as programmed) of SR 17E, that you do get hardened armor on programs is not vulnerable to . . . "

Really? Seems like half the official art I see for deckers makes them elves.

FastJack is an elf. Frosty is an Immortal Elf. Netcat is an elf (albeit a technomancer not a decker). /dev/grrl is an elf. Isn't the Smiling Bandit an elf? And I could have sworn Puck was too, but can't remember properly. But where are the famous Dwarf or Troll hackers? The Orks have Bull, but that's about it...

~Umi

Fastjack is Human I thought? Frosty is an IE but she's a mage. Smiling Bandit I do believe is an elf (possibly a front for Harlequin?) but he's just a poster, not a decker, I thought?

Nope, FastJack is an elf, at least according to the sources I found to double check.

I also forgot about Dodger, he's an elf too. My point is a fair number of the most famous deckers in the world are elves, and most of the regular members of JackPoint are as well. Which is kind of odd, now that I think about it.

~Umi

FastJack was born in 1999, and wasn't a Spike Baby, he's very, very human.

Peg is human and a Decker of great skill.

So why, aside from Bull, are there no famous Ork, Troll, or Dwarf hackers? Hell, are there any ultrafamous Dwarves at all?

~Umi

Double Post. Somehow.

Blarg.

~Umi

Humanis.

There's Hamfist the Decker! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)