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post Mar 5 2014, 10:53 PM
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QUOTE (binarywraith @ Mar 5 2014, 06:46 PM) *
My gaming group has long had a declaration that Plan D is always a swift boot to the groin, followed by rolling the mark for his wallet.

So D was for Date? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
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post Mar 5 2014, 10:54 PM
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QUOTE (Tymeaus Jalynsfein @ Mar 6 2014, 06:49 AM) *
Would that not make Plan D really Plan A (Anarchy)?

Actually, it's more a case of plan A-C being considered and rejected out of hand.

Team 2 on the other hand believes in Plan A (Anarchy).
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post Mar 5 2014, 10:55 PM
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QUOTE (FuelDrop @ Mar 5 2014, 03:54 PM) *
Actually, it's more a case of plan A-C being considered and rejected out of hand.

Team 2 on the other hand believes in Plan A (Anarchy).


Gotta Love Team 2's Flaming Mohawks... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Mar 5 2014, 10:59 PM
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QUOTE (Tymeaus Jalynsfein @ Mar 6 2014, 06:55 AM) *
Gotta Love Team 2's Flaming Mohawks... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Yep. They burned so bright they attracted Lone Star into the barrens. An unfortunate side effect is that they no longer have lives outside the shadows (or in the shadows for that matter...)
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post Mar 6 2014, 01:34 AM
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QUOTE (KarmaInferno @ Mar 5 2014, 05:40 PM) *
Old Man Jones makes plans. Lots of plans. He has been known to quote, "I dislike the term 'plan b'. It suggests that I only have 26 of them."

When not planning, he sits in his batcave apartment and... broods.

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*Stares down at the ruins of the barrens, standing stock-still against a gargoyle, and whispers, "No."*
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post Mar 6 2014, 10:01 AM
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Tara (vehicle hacker/face) spends money on clothes, quality cyberware, high-performance vehicle parts or vehicle maintainance, or spas, drives street races and/or goes clubbing (apart from connection and relationship maintainance, of course).
Perry (streetpunk/budding streetsam) lounges before the trid, eating pizza and watching bloodsports, works out or trains in a gym. Occasionally, he treats himself to a block party.
Richter (madman) lives in Rat's Nest and often BBQs on the roof of his ramshacke brick shack and randomly shoots, yells and hurls beer bottles at passers-by. Think Agent Krueger from Elysium, but with a sledge hammer and a wide-rim hat.
Jason (combat medic) is a male nurse [correct term?] at the street doc's pretty much all my characters use. Also, he in vain tries to get his girlfriend out of streetwalking - in vain because she and the pimp are into exploiting him for his money together.
Kyle Shadowhunter (rich shadowrunner poser kid) hangs out in runner hangouts and likes to look super busy, all while trying to get in with actual runners, really pissing them off. He's part of the reason why runner hangouts fluctuate between clubs and bars. He also has a lifetime ban in the Penumbra.
Gaius Iulus Zachmann (black mage, predominantly conjuring) is a professor of metaplanar theory, deep metaplane research and deep metaplanar invocation at UWash. He frequently ditches his lectures, leaving his poor assistants and postgrads alone for weeks while he does research or "acquires third-party funding". He's also liaised with one of his assistants, who also acts as his housekeeper.
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post Mar 6 2014, 05:11 PM
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Not a PC, per se, but I wrote up an NPC as a full-fledged character so my runners would have a little extra help should they need it.

Rescue (real name Amy White, or so she claims) is a 14 year old technomancer who's had a bit of a rough time. She began manifesting her technomancer powers around age 10, which freaked her parents out something fierce. As a result, they pulled away from her emotionally and basically treated her as a stranger for a couple years, before eventually getting wind of some research that Shiawase corporation was doing on people who could do strange things very similar to what their daughter could do. They ended up selling her out to Shiawase at age 12, specifically a Seattle subsidiary of the Shiawase Biotech branch, for a very nice sum of nuyen.

Shiawase Biotech used her for 2 years as a test subject for researching the interactions between technomancers and devices, even going so far as to implant a datajack in her head to see if it hampered her abilities or augmented them in any way. All that really did is give her something that tends to itch when she projects her living persona. Eventually, a group of runners who had broken into the facility she was being held in to steal data related to another research project going on ended up breaking her out when she helped them get the data they needed, and she's been tagging along ever since.

Nowadays, she lives in the tiny apartment formerly occupied by the team's previous decker on the border of Puyallup and Auburn, having unofficially inherited his gear after an unfortunate incident on a run sent the decker back home in a body bag. She spends most of her free time between brushing up on skills she may need to help out the team, going out clubbing, and exploring her abilities as a technomancer.



If I ever play in a game rather than GM one, I may try to actually use her as a character.

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post Mar 6 2014, 06:14 PM
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QUOTE (Tymeaus Jalynsfein @ Mar 5 2014, 03:49 PM) *
Would that not make Plan D really Plan A (Anarchy)?

No, demolitions as a fallback plan are how you make exits where there were no exits. I had a character who kept a frame charge in a backpack on runs that were not ultra-low profile, since you never know when a rapid exit via a new door might be really useful. Never actually used it, but he had it handy.
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post Mar 6 2014, 06:59 PM
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QUOTE (kzt @ Mar 6 2014, 11:14 AM) *
No, demolitions as a fallback plan are how you make exits where there were no exits. I had a character who kept a frame charge in a backpack on runs that were not ultra-low profile, since you never know when a rapid exit via a new door might be really useful. Never actually used it, but he had it handy.


I get it... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
We use just such a method when we invaded the Mitsuhama Towers in Hong Kong (for the 7th Time in 2 years). Created a door (window?) from the 43 Floor, which we then proceeded to base Jump from under fire. It was quite exciting... Especially for the two characters who had refused to actually pick up the Parachuting Skill. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Mar 6 2014, 07:07 PM
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QUOTE (kzt @ Mar 6 2014, 02:14 PM) *
No, demolitions as a fallback plan are how you make exits where there were no exits. I had a character who kept a frame charge in a backpack on runs that were not ultra-low profile, since you never know when a rapid exit via a new door might be really useful. Never actually used it, but he had it handy.
Great, now I'm homesick.
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post Apr 13 2014, 02:20 PM
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My hacker spends most of his off-time either pretending to be a Matrix security consultant (to trick the super at his building into thinking he's legit), posting on a Chaos Engine node that's the in-universe version of 4chan, going clubbing with his girlfriend or watching bad action trids with his best friend. More solitary activities include reading, simsense games and AR FPSes.
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post Apr 13 2014, 05:16 PM
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One of my fictional characters: Hunter, "retired" ZDF & legitimate bounty hunter in Denver.
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post Apr 13 2014, 05:29 PM
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Awhile back I actually statted out a Corporate Wageslave who snapped from the tedium and lack of fulfillment stuck in his cubicle, bought a flamethrower, torched his office complex, and disappeared into the shadows.

Turns out an enthusiastic attitude and a flamethrower will only get you so far as a runner, especially when you're an unhinged maniac with control issues and a rebellious attitude, but either out of sheer luck or the will of the Universe he survived enough runs to actually start to get sick of his new lifestyle. Not knowing what to spend his earnings on other than spare fuel canisters and extensive dry cleaning, and finding he missed the structure and security of his old lifestyle, he did one last run to get a hold of a "peace offering" valuable enough to convince his former employers to clear his record and take him back, then retired to a comfortable life of monotony and unimportance.

So basically like "It's A Wonderful Life" or "The Prince and The Pauper", just with more burning flesh and demented laughter.

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post Apr 14 2014, 09:51 PM
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Concept I'm unlikely to ever get to play...Safehouse guard dog who is secretly a shifter( but tends more towards the Snoopy/Gromit end of the canine personality spectrum), who finds a long hidden stash of early 20th century detective novels and becomes fascinated with them. Inevitably opportunities arise to use the skills learned in the stories...
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post Apr 14 2014, 11:05 PM
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QUOTE (Ashmire @ Apr 15 2014, 05:51 AM) *
Concept I'm unlikely to ever get to play...Safehouse guard dog who is secretly a shifter( but tends more towards the Snoopy/Gromit end of the canine personality spectrum), who finds a long hidden stash of early 20th century detective novels and becomes fascinated with them. Inevitably opportunities arise to use the skills learned in the stories...

so, Sherlock Bones?
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post Apr 15 2014, 12:24 AM
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QUOTE (FuelDrop @ Apr 14 2014, 05:05 PM) *
so, Sherlock Bones?


"Booooo... Hissssss..."



I know, it was inevitable... *sigh*
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post Apr 15 2014, 01:06 AM
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See, that makes me pine for my old concept of a not-quite-legal Inhabitation tradition Free Spirit of Man in a Hybrid Form dog body.

Yes, I know, I have the weirdest character concepts.

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post Apr 15 2014, 04:25 AM
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QUOTE (Ashmire @ Apr 14 2014, 02:51 PM) *
Concept I'm unlikely to ever get to play...Safehouse guard dog who is secretly a shifter( but tends more towards the Snoopy/Gromit end of the canine personality spectrum), who finds a long hidden stash of early 20th century detective novels and becomes fascinated with them. Inevitably opportunities arise to use the skills learned in the stories...

So, Scooby-Doo?

http://drugsrus.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/t...out-scooby-doo/

Hmm, might work in a game...
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QUOTE (FuelDrop @ Apr 15 2014, 09:05 AM) *
so, Sherlock Bones?

McGruff The Crime Dog?
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