A villian for your pleasure, Someone is going to kill me for this one Options

[hyzmarca]

Name: Darren aka #1163
Gender: Male
Race: Storm Dolphin


Body 4(6)
Quickness 6(7)
Strength 3(4)
Charisma 4
Intelligence 8
Willpower 5
Essence 1.02
Run Mult. 2
Swimming multiplier 5
BioIndex 2.7
Reaction 5(8)
Init. Dice 3

Bioware

Cerebral Booster[2]
Thermosense Organ
Trauma Damper
Synaptic Accel.[2]

Cyberware

Autoinjector
Radio [8]
Induction Datajack
D. Sheath Ruthenium [1]
Muscle Replac. [1]
Reaction Enhancer [3]
Eyes, Cyber Replacement
+ Eyes, Camera
+ Eyes, Disp Link
+ Eyes, Flare Comp
+ Eye Laser (High Power)
+ Eye, Laser Designator
+ Eye, Laser Mic. [6]
+ Eye, Tool Laser
Encephalon [2]
Remote Control Deck [8]
RC Encryption Module [8]
Remote Control ECCM [10]
Rigger Decrypt. Mod [10]
Tactical Computer
2 Dedicated Ports
2 Generic Ports
BattleTac Cyberlink
BattleTac FDDM
BattleTac IVIS
Octoharness*

Edges/Flaws

High Pain Tol. 3 Boxes
Lightning Reflexes Lev 2
Will To Live Lev 3
Spike Resistance 2
Vindictive
True Believer->The extermination of all metahuman life
Jack Itch
Flashbacks->Bouncing red rubber ball

Skills

Cyber Implant Combat/Snake-Spine Whip [5/8]
Underwater Combat [10]
Athletics/Swimming [3/6]
Laser Weapons [4]

Intimidation [5]
Interrogation [5]
Negotiation [3]
Etiquette [3]

Computer [4]
Demolitions [5]
Electronics [4]
Small Unit Tactics [7]
Wilderness Survival [3]

Mechanical Tentacle Operation [8]

*Unique Cyberware

Octoharness
A unique implant designed for dolphin riggers and deckers, the Octoharness can only be installed in dolphins, porpoises, and storm dolphins. The device is essentially a cybernetic jacket that wraps around the dolphin's body and is grafted to its spine. This sheath contains 5000MP of offline storage, a fairlight excalibur cyberdeck, 6/6 hardened armor, and 8 snake-spine whips (Target: Wastelands). These modified snake-spine whips can be used for locomotion on land. Dolphins with this implant have a running multiplier of 2 on land. Dolphins with this implant may only attack with their front 2 tentacles while walking and may not attack at all while running.


Darren was one of the few Storm Dolphins born in captivity. Both of his parents were mundane dolphins who were owned by a small research group with ties to Proteus AG. Darren never knew his parents. Their brains were dissected when he was just a baby. Raised by affectionate but distant human handlers, Darren was completely unaware of the cruel fate that had befallen his parents and which would befall him. Life his parents, Darren was a test subject in an experiment that intended to both create a DNI connection that dolphins could use and transform ordinary dolphins into submarine weapons. Shortly after reaching puberty, Darren was subjected to a series of painful surgeries and experiments with the complicity of the handlers who had pretended to love him.

The implants, both cybernetic and biological, greatly enhanced Darren's intelligence and understanding but they took their toll in other ways. The more he learned the more depressed and bitter he became. His anger and hatred toward humanity steadily grew and deepened until, one day, he snapped. No one was aware of the fact that Darren was Awakened. His handlers had overlooked the possibility that a storm dolphin could be born to a pair of mundane dolphins. This mistake cost them their lives when his powers manifested for the first time.

The fail-safes that kept Darren from turning on his handlers and escaping were deigned to keep a normal dolphin in check. They did not anticipate the powers of a storm dolphin. Darren slew his handlers and most of the researchers before escaping into the ocean.


With freedom came even more pain. Due to his cybernetic modifications, no other storm dolphins would accept him. His attempts to integrate himself into a pod always led to violence and he always won due to his superior abilities. Leaving a trail of corpses behind him, he fled toward land and vanished into the depths of metahuman society.

Not content with being a homeless outcast, Darren carefully built a small fortune through theft and murder. Using proxies who themselves only knew him through the matrix, Darren gained influence in the underworld and in the corporate world. Although the actual degree of that influence is rather limited, it is enough for his purposes.


Darren's single goal is nothing less than revenge against the entire metahuman species. To that end, he causes as much suffering and strife as is possible. He is a sexual sadist and will often hire expendable joytoys to satiate his deadly lusts. These victims are often dissected without anesthesia or torn limb-from-limb by his mighty tentacles. The more pain and suffering he inflicts the more pleasure he receives. While this small acts of depravity may occupy him for a short time, they cannot provide him with fulfillment. Darren's true intention is to exterminate the entire metahuman species.

[toturi]

:rollin:

[Trax]

After he killed all his handlers and the scientists, were his last words "So long, and thanks for all the fish."?

[Lagomorph]

[Adarael]

You know, I made a similar character once.

Of course, it was for David Brin's Startide Rising/Uplift universe, so it was actually perfectly in-theme. Though I did much prefer the Neo-Chimpanzee sociologist I made.

[ronin3338]

Am I the only one that thinks his first victim was a child prodigy who had a sub commander/designer as an adoptive parent?

[hyzmarca]

[Dog]

Beautiful. Thank you for this. :D

[Kagetenshi]

Sounds like we're having tuna for dinner tonight, boys.

~J

[knasser]

Reminds me of that old spoof headline from the Onion:

Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs
"Oh, Shit," says humanity.

Hyz., you are insane. I mean that in a good way, of course. Were you aware that dolphins don't actually sleep in the ordinary sense of the word? They sort of sleep one half of their brain at a time. Woe to the runners that try to surprise Darren.

[Wounded Ronin]

This NPC is just another argument for implementing a Sanity score in SR.

Uh, and an argument for using my various cinematic PTSD house rules once you lose enough sanity. Yeah.

[hyzmarca]

[Wounded Ronin]

[John Campbell]

Where's the smack addiction?

[Samaels Ghost]

This should be requoted:

[hyzmarca]

Hmm...

Every character has a sanity pool equal to CHA+INT+WIL. It refreshes whenever Karma Pool refreshes.

Certain stressful situations may require that characters make sanity checks. The character rolls dice allocated from the sanity pool vs a TN determined by the nature situation. Wound penalties do not apply. Should the character fail he must take a mental flaw with a point value equal to or greater than the TN of the test. Certain mental flaws (such as flashbacks) may be taken multiple times under this rule. A single success is enough to avoid a permanent flaw. However, a character who only gets one success must still take a temporary flaw until his sanity pool refreshes. Two or more successes are enough to avoid a temporary flaw.


Pedestrian Stresses
It is assumed that Shadowrunners are hardened professionals and should not be bothered by the following stresses. The same goes for most adversarial NPCs. Pedestrian NPCs are not so lucky.

-Watching someone die (in person); TN4
-Being taken hostage for less than 1 hour; TN2 +1 if weapons are brandished
-Being taken hostage for more than 1 hour; TN3 +1 if weapons are brandished
-Receiving an M wound TN3
-Seeing a thing that should not be (an obvious zombie, obvious shedim, or obvious Flesh Form insect, tentacle monster, super dolphin) (in person) TN5.
-Anything else the GM deems fit.

Major Stresses
Unlike Pedestrian Stresses, Major Stresses can test the sanity of PCs and major NPCs. These are the things that make even hardened soldiers cry at night. Add +2 the the TN if these stresses afflict a pedestrian character.

-The death of a loved one (significant other, family member, long time partner, trusted teammate, etc); TN2
+1 if the character witnesses the death
+1 if the loved one is killed by a thing that should not be
+2 if the death is particularly gruesome (skinned alive, eaten by a Wendigo, chunky salsa, flattened by a giant steam iron, etc.)
+3 if the character did it (doesn't apply if he's just a heartless bastard)

-The character receives serious or greater damage; TN2
+1 for deadly damage
+1 for each wound effect
+1 for magic loss
+1 if the wound is caused by a thing that should not be

-Temporary physical or mental violation (Unwanted fondling, control manipulation spells for less than 10 combat turns, mind probe); TN3
+1 if the perpetrator is a things that should not be

-Violating a personal code (Pacifist commits murder, Gunslinger shoots a man in the back)TN4
+1 if a things that should not be is involved

-Prolonged physical or mental violation (rape, torture, control manipulations for more than 10 CTs, multiple mind probes, memory alterations, forced Personafix use); TN5
+2 for permanent involuntary body modification (amputation, piercing, branding, cyberware instillation)
+2 for permanent mental modifications (memory alteration, personality modification)
+1 for each point of magic loss
+1 if the perpetrator is a thing that should not be


Example:Bob the pacifist combat mage is captured by Iv'Trak the extraplanar tentacle monster. Iv'trak first does what tentacle monsters do, then severs Bob's legs so he can't run away, and then does what tentacles monsters do again.
Bob has 18 Sanity dice. Chooses to roll 10 of them. His base TN is 5 because of the tentacle rapes, +2 due to the amputation, and +1 due to the fact that it is being done by a tentacle monster. His total TN is 8.He rolls 19 09 05 04 04 03 02 01 01 01 ; two successes. He keeps his sanity.

Next, Iv'Trak makes Bob choose between killing one of his children himself or letting Iv'Trak kill all three. Bob makes the tough call. His TN for keeping his sanity is 2, +1 because he is witnessing the death, +1 because Iv'Trak should not be, and +3 because Bob is doing the deed himself, for a total of 7. He chooses to roll 6 dice for is sanity test this time. The Highest roll is 5, 0 successes. Bob must now take 7 points worth of mental flaws. He chooses flashbacks (pictures of his dead son) and Phobia (tentacle monster, moderate)

But wait, Bob is a pacifist and he just committed a cold blooded murder. He must make a sanity test for that, too. He only has 2 sanity dice left so he rolls them against a TN of 5; 03 02, no successes. This time Bob chooses the easy way out and takes Amnesia for 5 points. He's still screwed but at least he doesn't know it.

[toturi]

[Toshiaki]

I can't help but think of The Pet Professional and his arch-nemesis.

[Herald of Verjig...]

[Chrome Shadow]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Of course he hates metahumanity, it because of us that he got that jack itch...

Hahahahahaha...

[knasser]

[Chrome Shadow]

I have no words...

[PlainWhiteSocks]

Let me see if I've got the insanity check system right. knasser's dolphin link would be a Major Stress Temporary physical or mental violation for a base TN 3. I am not a shadowrunner IRL so I have +2 TN for that getting to TN 5. It gets the "+1 if a things that should not be is involved" bringing my TN to a 6.

I have 9 dice in my sanity pool. Other than reading posts on DS I don't think I'll be experiencing anything else that would make me roll a sanity check before my karma refreshes. I roll all 9 dice.

I think my head is going to explode.

[Ophis]

I dread the reasons that lead to you finding that...

[Wounded Ronin]

You know, it seems like a reasonable sanity system. We should start playing with it so that we can have more tragic mentally broken characters.