Probably the best way to go. Once you have some characters submitted, their motivations might give you brand new ideas, anyway.

Teeheeheeheehee....

That's insane, I love it, I'm in.

Rebel actually has a skill specialization in Psychosurgery in Accelerated Simulspaces so she would be an ideal collaborator for such a lunatic experiment. With all her missing memories and mental baggage she could easily be the product of such an experiment....

Well, I'm considering either that char, who I've also decided to call Jillian Effect, or some other character who ATM is nothing more than a concept. Namely, a character who was born without a fourth wall. As in, he will have some delusion that reality is actually a role-playing game and that he is just one of the characters. He will insult people by calling them NPCs, and hope that he "succeeds on his shooting roll". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Having this guy be a heavy user of XP (VR) RPG games, who had some lines crossed (bad narcoalgorithms?) would actually make this concept fit better in Eclipse Phase than most others.

I'm thinking Neural Damage from a TITAN nanovirus.

Work-in-progress (particularly the bio), but I thought I would get something out there. Feedback/questions welcome.

Doctor Mathew Esterly - Async Xenoarcheologist

Concept:


Bio:


Sheet:

Nice.

Doc Esterly sounds like exactly the sort of guy that might need the occasional holiday to the seaside.

A Gatecrashing Asynch is likely to have a career much like a CoC Investigator....

I'm thinking that Rebel's original Titanian home is something that she might well have abandoned after discovering the truth from Firewall. Phelan's Recourse might be an ideal base of operations for the sort of mental paranoid backup plans she's likely to concoct. Particularly with it passing 'through' the Rings on a regular basis.

Sounds like you guys are really getting into the setting. Glad to hear all the excitement. But, it also makes me feel bad not everyone will get to play.

crizh, I saw you post on eclipsephase.com's forums. For those who do not get to play in this adventure might be able to find something there.

Ok, got a character worked up, including background and the like, probably gonna work on the fluff a bit in the intervening time but.... well, I like playing fairly straight forward concepts and then twisting them up during gameplay. I'm not too familar with the coding for the site so I'm just posting it in plain old "wall o' text", so I hope that is ok.
Character Concept: Freelance Operative

Name: Jackson Murphy Morph: Fury

Gender: Male Gender Identity: Male


Background: Scumborn Faction: Anarchist

Aptitudes:Cog: 15 Coo: 20 Int: 20 Ref: 20 Sav: 20 Som: 10 Will: 15

Morph: Basic Biomod, Basic Mesh Insert, *Bioweave Armor (Light), Cortical Stack, *Neurachem 2, *Clean Metabolism, *Circadian Regulation, *Reflex Booster, *SkinLink, * Enhanced Senses (Vision, Hearing, Smell, Direction Sense), *Medichines

+10 Coo, +10 Ref, +10 Som, +5 Will. +5 Sav

Lucidity: 40 Insanity: 80 Initiative: 110

Durability: 50 Death Rating: 75 Wound Threshold: 10 Trauma Threshold: 7

Speed: 2/4 Moxie: 2 Cash: 10000

Motivations +Personal Development, +Wealth, +Education

　

Skills: 30 Academics (Philosophy), 30 Academics (History), (60)50 Freerunning ,(55)50 Persuasion, 40 Deception, (70)60 Seeker Weapons, 80 Hardware (Armorer), (80)50 Kinesics, (85)75 Kinetics, (65)55 Fray, (70)60 Infiltration, 45 Interest (Music), 60 Interest (Conspiracy Theories), 45 Networking: Firewall, 45 Scrounging, 50 Profession (Squad Tactics), 50 Networking: Autonomists, 55 Navigation, 60 Networking: Criminal, (70)50 Perception, (90)80 Unarmed, (95)90 English Language, (65)60 Mandarin Language, (65)60 German Language

　

Rep Networks:

Circle-A List: 50 Quanxi: 70, Fame: 10, Firewall: 40

Armor: Bioweave 2/3, (4)Armor Clothing 3/4, Armor Vest 6/6 (optional)

Weapon: Damage: AP: Mode: Ammo:

Unarmed 1d10+2 - - -

H. Rail Pistol 2d10+6 -7 SA/BF/FA 16

Smartlink, Safety

Rail Sniper Rifle 2d10+12 -15 SA/BF/FA 40

Smartlink, Safety,

Underbarrel Seeker - - SA 6

　

　

　

　

　

Gear: Covert Operations Tool, 20 Microbugs, Disassembly Tools, Backup Insurance (no retrieval service, 2 years, 6 mo), 4 Repair Spray Canisters, Spindle w/ Climber, 100 rounds Accushot R.A.P Rail Sniper Ammo, 300, H. Rail Pistol Ammo, 30 Plasmaburst Seekers(Homing), 18 Smoke Seekers (Accushot), Mini-Farcaster, Ecto, Radio Booster, Psi Jammer

Pet Smart Monkey: Mojo

Muse: Fixit

Positive Qualities:

Negative Qualities: Blackmark (Jovian Republic Military, 20), Enemy (Captain Holtz, Jovian Military Police, 10)

　

　

History: From scummy to soldier to red market security specialist and freelance operative, no one would accuse Jackson Murphy of having it easy. His mother died in childbirth, his father was mainly absent due to work and Jack fell in to the gang scene of “Fresh Kills”, the infamous scum barge salvage base before he was a teenager. Quick witted and quick fingered he has made a pretty good go of it though, he can afford the best in custom sleeving, has his stack insured for the next 30 months and keeps himself pretty well connected in terms of information and gear, of course all of that is due to him willing to take the hottest jobs since they offer the best profits. An “Anarchist” with a heart it is conceivable to get him to do charity work, though he’ll rarely offer to do so, he was a SecOp specialist when he found a way into the Jovian Republic military and could have gone far if he had not decided to cash out, taking plenty of tech with him as bargaining chips with the Quanxi. Needless to say his former commanding officer Captain Holtz did not take this well but by the time anyone knew anything the trail was too cold and evidence to scarce to go after the former operative, legally or otherwise. In point of fact the “young” man has even done some work for Firewall, though he is unaware of how much, and it has earned him some access to the iRep network as a provisional Sentinel, though he hasn’t figured out what buttons to push and levers to pull to get everything he wants yet. In terms of personality Jack is bright, somewhat cocky and aggressive but surprisingly loyal once he considers someone “one of his people” and while he has had a fairly poor standard education he has a keen interest in improving upon that.

Unfortunately I've been met with deafening silence. It's a bit like being cast adrift in inter-stellar space over there.

Yeah, I originally went there to look for Eclipse PBP games, and found nothing. They recently restructured their forums, so now I at least know what section to look in, but I still have not seen any - but I'm sure some will pop up sooner or later, either here, there, or on http://infrno.net/ (although they seem to be more about live/chat games than PBP).

Yeah, exactly, although that could be said of anyone who works for Firewall. I was REALLY hoping to squeeze in the chi-slight that lets you heal off mental stress faster (there were a lot of chi-slights I wanted, but can only take five at chargen) - but at least the gamma-slights he took (the ones that cause stress) will rarely, if ever, come into play. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Ha! Not sure I believe that. : ) I do like the character and the detail you are putting into him. When looking through the sample characters, I really liked the Gatecrasher. Kind of makes me wish that book (Gatecrashing) was coming out before Sunward. I think the first character I tried making was part gatecrasher/part Joshua Calvert (Night's Dawn trilogy).

@crizh, Don't remember when, but I put a post on the board a few/several months back about any PbP, but nothing really came out of it. I was pointed to firewall-darkcast.com, and tried to get in on two PbP there, but they didn't take off. I do like how they restructured the forums. I'll drop a line there and see if we can generate more interest. Also, now that i know you guys are out there, I better be careful what I post, just in case I have any questions for what I'm running here.

@Sixgun_Sage, The character looks good. As with me, most of my character develop as I play them, so don't feel bad you don't have every detail fleshed out. Have a few questions:
1. Does you aptitudes include your bonus from your morph?
2. Noticed you had Kinetics listed twice ( (80)50 Kinesics, (85)75 Kinetics). I'm assuming the second one is Kinetic Weapons.
3. Also, what is the number in parentheses? I'm assuming its the bonus from your morph, but the 30 point bonus for Kinesics didn't make sense ((80)50 Kinesics).

Well, I suppose you're the one in control of how often they might come up. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

FYI, I picked most of them with the idea in mind that they would let him communicate with non-transhuman creatures (smart-pets, whatever non-sentient aliens transhumanity has managed to find, etc) using implant skill (English, but he can only keep it up for a few seconds) and mindlink , or just getting at specific information via deepscan, or finding alien "specimens" on other planets with ego scan. Not sure I have a good alien-contacting use for subliminal, but that would let him put thoughts as well as read them, which seemed fitting, and I didn't really see any other gamma-slights that fit better.

He could obviously find a lot of non-alien-oriented reasons to use them (interrogating a bad guy with deep-scan, helping another firewall agent with implant-skill, etc), which is probably a lot of what he would *actually* do for Firewall - but at ~6 stress points per use, he won't be doing it a lot, when he can help it.

Speaking of which, I had meant to look at getting a smart-dog or smart-monkey or something. I don't imagine it would ever have much interesting to share, but its a neat idea (and a smart dog would make a pretty good guardian, as well).

I'll probably be making some changes to the sheet, but if/when I repost it, I'll summarize the differences there.

Ha...learning something new everyday. I haven't read up on smart-pets yet. Back to the book I go. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Just curious, how are most of you generating your characters? Scratch papaer, Excel, character generator (Excel based or other kind), etc.? I have been using Tony Lee's sheet (http://www.eclipsephase.com/resources#homebrew).

I have my charsheet made up in the Excel spreadsheet I got from the EP site. I just haven't moved the information over to a text file yet. Been... kinda busy.

I just made a google-doc a while ago that I use as a template - nothing fancy, basically scratch paper.

Not sure this is the finished product, but I too wanted to get something out there.

Didn't want to convert the spreadsheet to DSF format, so here's the link to the google doc with all the crunchy numbers stuff.

I'm not entirely happy with the set of skills and I think there may be some traits or skills that I could grab to round out the background better, but this is a tolerably complete first draft. Also, I'm afraid that I, mechanically, step on many of Blackhat's toes with the async aspect of the character. However, the two are worlds apart in personality, so that should mitigate the similarity somewhat.

Jonah Queequod

Concept:


Bio:

Not much there, but you'll find them on pg 330.

Other than being an async, I don't think there's much overlap at all (even the slights are mostly different). Also, Firewall seems likely to work with more asyncs than other factions, so the fact that they're supposed to be like < 0.001% of the population isn't all that relevant.

I like what you did with the character, too. It's a bit pricy (High, per dose), but it might be interesting if a character like that had some psi-inhibitor's around. Can't think of when it'd ever be in your best interest to take the drug, but for a character who is trying to hide or suppress his psi-talents, that seems like a reasonable thing to reach out for - even if he finds that it doesn't work, and just makes him feel loopy and depressed (maybe he already did, and you can save yourself the 5-grand).

I've edited my first post to tweak my skills a little. Suddenly realized that Language is a knowledge skill so I've reduced some of my knowledge skills to better reflect someone with the Hyper Linguist trait.

Now, back to Ego Braiding....

1: I list the bonuses my morph gives me seperately from my ego's aptitudes as the book dictates, as you can see I did spend more than a few points on making the character rather solidly above average at base.
2: You are right, Kinetics is in regards to Kinetic Weapons
3: The reason the secondary number for Kinesics is so high is because of enhanced senses actually, Smell gives a +20 to Kinesics in addition to the increase in smell based perception tests. I figured for a troubleshooter that often works in security being able to pick up on the chemical byproducts of fear or stress people give off would be a sensible choice.

I did have a question about smart pets and muses, I was thinking of making Jack's muse a bit of a hybrid, not a true Security AGI, but with beefed up protocols than is standard, is this allowed and if so how do you want me to handle that? Also, was wondering if I could get my smart monkey pet skillwired....

Just have to say it, but I hope you go with the more... Deadpool-ish character concept with no "4th wall" Xahn, it would be fun to play Jack as the "straight man" to that sort of crazy.

I was just concerned that we overlap on Grok, Savant Calculation and Enhanced Creativity -- three out of five seemed a bit worrisome. However, given that I prefer Jonah to be a failing artist to a successful one, ditching enhanced creativity might make sense. I'm also intensely interested in the filter and predictive boost sleights and may switch those in to increase differentiation. (I'm hoping that all of the sleights, taken together, build a picture of a startling and intuitive grasp of the how things work. Predictive boost and savant calculation serve the same role in that way.) Also, taking both savant calculation and math wiz struck me as a bit heavy handed.

Any rate, the key point is that the character is a work in progress and that your input is entirely welcome.