This is the official Recruitment Thread for the latest installment of my Deep Black Sea run series.

For those curious about the previous installments:

Deep Black Sea
Pain and Gain
Sins of the Fathers
Panzerknacker

Thanks to the usual attrition of forum rpg, we once again have slots to fill



The cast contains so far:

Volker as.........bnc, the human hacker
SquirrelDude as...Hans N Francis, the dwarven wrestler
gilga as..........Anna, the human mage

Interested players so far:

Luckace (currently with the account of SgtBoomCloud) as a human mercenary
eryrwyn (from the other forum shadowruntabletop.com) as an illusion centered mage

In addition I'll open up two more slots for potential interested players.



Story location:

The game will start in the area around Munich and soon turn towards Austria

Character generation:

Sumto10 with 60 bonus Karma (can be freely converted to Nuyen)

or

Prime Runner Sumto14 (max. one initiation)

Posting rules:

Only apply if you have the time to actually play the game with regular postings - I mean it. Think ahead to the coming events in your life and ask yourself if you can take on the responsibility to post during the week at least once a day.

Build a character that wants to go on runs and risk his life - I fucking hate to have to come up with reasons to get you into the story.

Be prepared to endure some pretty heavy IP conflicts - you are plunging into an established group with some pretty messed up characters.

I know the rules and I don't mind teaching them to beginners, but I expect you to make an effort to understand what your character can do and what not.

Would there be room for a Gunslinger Adept?

Yes, but I have to ask you:
Do you really have the commitment necessary? I witnessed you vanishing from games on two separate occassions. I understand that RL has to come first, but are you absolutely, positively able to say that you will be able to commit to this game for the next half year?

Dude I only left my rp with Adamu because I had basic training. Prior I posted almost everyday he responded.

Oh right, so three occassions.

Ha. I can do it. Ok? Once a day is easy.

Alright, just wanted to make sure we understand each other (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

So do I get extra Karma in character creation if I go Prime Runner Sum to Ten?

You either go Prime Runner Sumto14 with the usual rules (35 starting karma, increased money) - or you make a normal sumto10 character and gain 60 Karma after chargen ends.

So I can start with Athlete's Way and with the initiation power from it? Oh my "gifted" amatuer archtype is about to come full swing.

Edit: Nope. Misread. But Athletes way still is a good gain.

Greetings, everyone. Hereby reporting for duty.

My character is finally complete (with Prime Runner sumto14): He's a mage (Christian Theurgist) and a local (Upper Austria). His specialties are spirits, detection and manipulation spells and he's decently socially skilled. The dude is meant to be an all-rounder, so he'll be able drive a car, survive a night outdoors, wield a gun, collect reagents... Stuff like that to get him by on his own, if necessary.
But... I assume it would be a bit early to post a character sheet. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Are you guys planning on having an IP casting-like recruiting, like you did in that other run?

Not this time. You'll see (and get a briefing) why everyone finds together (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I have a text based sheet. Can I post it here?

I'll open the OOC post next Saturday. If you want you can send me your characters per PM so I can give you feedback. (Please make sure to mark how you spend the priorities and karma)

@RaiderJ....

are you planning on using Vexboy on this run?

If so, and if Jack approves, it should be easy enough to come up with a reason for you to go to Germany that fits the current storyline...real run vastly more interesting for you than sitting around with a bunch of cat people doing training stuff....

Wait is this connected to our rp? I thought it was seperate. In that case. I may pass or use another character.

I really don't know if they are or can be connected.
That's why I said "if Jack approves".

But you said gunslinger adept, which is how you've characterized Vexboy, so I wondered is all.

Short story is - if you and Jack want to use Vexboy, I can cooperate.
If you don't, that's cool too.

Let's just say, there is crossover potential.
Kynos made an appearance recently and he is also a denizen of Stormy Waters.

I have zero problem with letting an established character in, provided the power level is not too disparat

Hm... I might...use Jessica. Vexboy's badass detective older sister.

Uhm ... I'm just realizing that bnc is going to be the only non-Awakened character. I mean, I have absolutely no problem with mages, but after we have already one mage in the group and another fix starter (luckace/SgtBoomCloud) who's connected to the story, when there's also eryrwyn with a mage and Raiderj with an adept ... isn't that going to be a bit much magic? Aren't Awakened character supposed to be rare?
Just saying...

Jessica is...a detective. She was a vatjob grown by her own father to succeed his legacy as a master security agent. She uses cyber and bioware mostly and doesn't show strong emotions but prefers to open up to those shes comfortable around. And...uh...oh shes a fucking prodigy. Sherlock Holmes tier with Monk's and Psyche's ability to spot minor detail.

Technically my character isn't done(there's a concept but I keep struggling to put it on paper, especially when Chummer won't let me fucking complete an initiation in character creation). The issue is that you just don't get enough money, even from prime runner generation to be able to afford proper kits of cyberware/bioware. At most you get 450k nuyen. Yes I could pay 5 essence and 217,000 nuyen for +3 Reaction and +3d6 to my initiative. Or I could pay 3.5 power points. The only real way to do it is with a synaptic booster rating 3 which costs, at minimum 285k nuyen and 1.5 essence. You're already at less money than being a full adept and D resources. Adepts need less gear to start with (gun, armor, comm, licenses, car, house, done), and can transform all the excess cash strait into more karma for adept powers.

Honestly, who on the design team looked at wired reflexes and improved reflexes and thought they were even remotely equivalent costs?

I don't mind having lots of mages around. You are going to Austria and there are quite a lot of anti-mages on the free market since the Ulanen regiment was dissolved (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Well, it depends on your expectations out of combat really. If you are expecting a 3rd pass I'd do it without uber expensive gear.

6 intuition + 2 cereberlium booster = 8
5 reaction + 3 reaction enhancers = 8
+ reaction optimization bioware (+1 initiative).
Boosted reflexes (just 10k and get them the best grade you can, to save essence). (+1d6)
now you are at 17 dice to dodge and you also have 17 +2d6
This is almost equivalent with the adept's combination of reflexes and combat senses- but much lighter on the budget and more versatile. Think exceptional ability/genetic optimization if you want to invest more and guarantee a 3rd pass and massive dodge pool.

Augmentations also do things that adept powers do not do very well... Think sleep regulator and pain editor, and titanium bones, augmented stats are much more reliable with Bioware than they are with magic.... and if you really want to guarantee a 3rd pass look into genetic optimization and or exceptional attribute, to get say (10) intuition and 19+2d6 regular initiative... add another d6 if you want to use cram which is not very addictive.

What would be good Bioware for a detective?