Recrecruitment: Planar Breech, something wicked this way comes Options

[Kiedo]

Warning: this game is not for the faint of heart or weak stomached

That being said I'm looking for 3-4 runners to join another preselected group of 2-3 runner, in a horror style run. Combat expirence is a plus, munchkins need not apply.

If you are interested here are the meat and potatos:
125 build points
unlimited edges and flaws (So long as they are balanced ie. 5 edge points=5 flaw points)
Surge is welcome

Post Character Creation
150 Karma
300k nuyen
cash for Karma at a rate of 5000 nuyen to 1 karma(or vise versa)

Your runners will be either members or employees of an initiatory group call: Project Pandora, awakened or not. The group specializes in paranormal research, and banishment. That does not mean you have to have magic, quiet the contrary we need at least one person who doesn't wield mana just so you don't over specialize. I will post the specifics of the group tommorrow.

Characters will be choosen based on background and how well it meshs with your sheet. DO NOT post your sheet, just send it to me. Do post a brief background/personal description of your character.

I will award Karma weekly which can be applied without training or anything like that, and bonuses for good roleplaying.

Good luck and watch out for things that go bump in the night.

Please send your full background and charsheet to:
genomepanda@phreaker.net

[edit] Please no dedicated riggers or deckers, you can rig or deck just not exclusively.[/edit]

[HMHVV Hunter]

Hey, I've got a character based off of John Constantine that might be perfect for this. Currently, he's involved in the selection process for another game, but I could always withdraw myself from that (this honestly sounds more suited to him). Lots of Hell imagery associated with this guy.

Anyways, what do you think?

[jklst14]

Sounds awesome :) I'll try to come up with some ideas and I'll send them in to you.

[HMHVV Hunter]

Here's the gist of this guy:

Name: Jonathan Hawk
Occupation: Mage
Info: Jonathan Hawk is a mage, and ever since a car accident years ago, he's dedicated himself to stopping evil and dark magic users. The source of this mission lies in a car accident years ago, in which he was knocked into a coma. During this coma, his astral form was launched into a metaplane that Jonathan is convinced is Hell itself. His ultimate goal is to help stop an impending invasion from Hell that he believes is coming very soon. He would very much like to initiate so he can find that metaplane again and scout around, but the fact that he's neglected his magical skills for so long means that he now has a long way to go before reaching that mark. Even then, he will need much more training to make a difference against Hell's forces.

This is for the GM only:

[ Spoiler ]

That metaplane really isn't Hell according to the SR rules, it's just very Hell-ish and populated by very malevolent spirits, possibly on the level of the tzizimine from the Dragon Heart Trilogy (or maybe not on that level; your game, your rules). Jonathan, however, doesn't know that, and he firmly believes it is Hell.

However, since he's also dedicated to stopping evil magic users of all types, it sounds like he may fit well with that horror aspect of your game.

[Johnson]

Name: Doctor Clifford O'Rielly.
Former Occupation: Ex K9 Special Forces and Vet Doctor.

Cliff used work fon Kin Corp Security. As a K9 Operative and Vet Field Doctor. With the introduction of the new K9 Robo Hound, Cliff's work slowly became obsolute. Approached buy a Company to assist with Paranormal Animal Research. He was accepted into Project Pandora. This was the beginning of new research and Pandora's Box.

Basing his Theasus for his final year to become a Professor on the work in Project Pandora. All his work is scrutinised by the Project Pandora's Professors as not to breach any contract clauses.

Here in Project Pandora work is hard and time to study is few and far between. His active life style keeps him in good shape and his combat train doesn't suffer much with the work he does.

[jklst14]

Street Name: Nimble Little Minx
Info: Minx is a Quebecois human female in her late twenties. After school, she had joined the gendarmerie but quickly grew tired of the routine nature of the work and the endless amounts of paperwork. She soon found her niche as a bounty hunter. At first, her prey was human but after spending years chasing bail jumpers and dragging them back to court, she grew bored again. Seeking new challenges, she started taking advantage of the generous bounties offered by Quebec and began hunting paranormal critters.

Here is a little story I just wrote up from her POV. It's in a spoiler for space reasons only. Anyone can read it. Any thoughts and comments are appreciated.

[ Spoiler ]

Out of the corner of her eye, Minx saw a darting shape move amidst the strewn trash and rubble. Cradling her shotgun Betty, she advanced slowly. The twisted alleys and dark warrens of Montreal’s slums were a disorienting and labyrinthine mess even by day. Under the noon day sun, the shadows ran deep and black. She didn’t even want to think about what else might be prowling around here now that it was night. If she had been smarter, she would have stayed home tonight. But that bounty was just too damn high to pass up…

Steve walks warily down the street,
With the brim pulled way down low

A bounty hunter by trade, Minx was used to being the predator. How things have changed… Maybe I should have stuck with bail jumpers and fugitives…She had quickly grown tired of that kind of work though. She had moved on, taking advantage of the lucrative paranormal bounties Quebec had to offer. The only problem with critters, sometimes they forget to remember that they are the prey…

Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,
Machine guns ready to go

Turning the corner, she slowly made her way down the alley. A nearby tenement blocked the moonlight, cloaking the area in darkness. Her optics compensated quickly as she flipped through various spectrums before settling on thermographic. That’s better… Now where are you, you dirty bastard…You’re watching me, aren’t you? This fucking sucks…It’s like being a mouse trapped in some maze, trying to find the cheese… Why couldn’t I’ve been a lawyer, like mother wanted me to be? Instead, I had to join the gendarmerie… But even that was too dull for you… Too much paperwork… And now you’re hunting cannibal monsters by moonlight…

She held the gun tight as she slowed her breathing, calming herself. She was getting close, she could feel it…

Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat

Something leapt from the darkness, arms outstretched and swinging. Too slow, sucker she thought to herself as her reflexes kicked in. Easily, she side stepped him and pulled the trigger, unloading several bursts of Franchi love into the ghoul’s gut. Gotcha, you ugly bastard…

The nervous adrenaline slowly ebbed as she stood over the bounty. There were supposedly more of these buggers here in Montreal, despite the government’s best efforts to clear them out. She had heard that other countries were trying to rehabilitate ghouls and treat them like ordinary people rather than like the cannibals they were. She had laughed when she had first heard that. Silly Anglos, they get the funniest ideas. Still, it would be nice to travel a bit, see the world outside of Quebec. Maybe I’ll call that guy from the Project Pandora back… That would be a nice change of pace….

Standing over the dead ghoul, she lit a cigar and waited….

Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat

Flashlights lit up the alleyway as her teammates arrived. They were late. They were speaking and seemed somewhat annoyed. Unable to hear them, she pulled off her headphones.

“We’ve been trying to reach you by radio and you’ve been listening to fragging music! You could’ve been killed!”

“Relax. I had it all under control. Besides, it’s a good song. Puts me in the monster killing kind of mood….”

Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust

[Whizbang]

Name: Leslie Carmon
Occupation: Field Scientist (human mage)

Background: Leslie was born in the middle of a native village deep in the heart of the African jungles. Her parents, both scientists, saw to it that she got a broad education as she traveled with them as they investigated the wonders of the Awakened world. However, as she reached her teenage years, evidence of her magical powers emerged. She was sent to Boston to stay with her aunt, a teacher at MIT&T, who was to see to it that she was well educated in her new powers.

Leslie still got to spend the summers on expedition with her parents, aiding her parents in the study of the paranormal. She never questioned the fact that she would follow in their footsteps when she was grown. When in class, she threw herself into her studies, hungry for the knowledge that was there to be gleaned.

She went through her schooling with flying colors. Her highest achievement, her doctorate, was overshadowed, however, by the fact that her parents weren't there to share it with her. She had gotten notice two weeks before that her parents had not returned from their expedition to the rainforests of Amazonia. Having read the excitement in their letters over her achievement and expectaton of returning to be with her, she knew that they had not stayed willingly.

Her parents' disappearance only further encouraged her on the path she had chosen. She accepted a position on the staff of MIT&T, using the resources provided to further her studies when she wasn't sharing her knowledge with her students. Perhaps one day she would discover what had happened to her parents.

As her reputation in the field of parabotany and parazoology grew, she was recruited as an advisor for various groups. One such task led her to the heart of what was soon to be come the Chicago Containment Zone in support of a Knight Errant team. It was there that she got a crash course on bug spirits. It was close, but with the support of her team, she managed to live to tell the tale...within what Knight Errant allowed to the public, that is.

With such an impressive resume, it wasn't overly surprising that when invitation to join Project Pandora came her way. The novelty of going back to a normal life had quickly worn off, and Leslie was quick to jump at the new opportunity.


Oops...that didn't turn out to be very brief.

[Kiedo]

HMHVV Hunter: Looking good his skills or what I imagine his skills are, would be very suited to the task set upon the runners.

jklst14: send me your particulars, that goes for the rest of you too. You stole my idea! I've been tossing around a shadowrun narative with Queen's another one bites the dust, in my head for weeks now, curse you!

Johnson: Project Pandora is a highly top secret organization due to the scale of the jobs it takes and the fact that they control a lv. 5 power site, and don't want the wrong people hearing about it. So he couldn't base his thesis on the actions of the group, it would be a conflict of intrests to say the least

Whizbang: The length was fine, I have a hard time being brief when there is creativity involved.

Once you get them all polished and shiney(or not too) send your characters my way for reviewing. I just got in from the hospital, my mother had an allergic reaction to...something, I really don't know what, she's fine now, but I got about 10 minutes of sleep last night so I'm a bit groggy. When I wake up I'll post a full bio of Project Pandora for you guys to mull over. If you want to get started on you sheet though, they require an oath.

Also one quick thing, this seems like common sense to me, but one of the characters that will be joining the runners I choose here, had the flaw cursed karma. I of course made him change it, because I don't feel like rolling 150 dice (or more if you buy karma) just because you needed something to balance out ambidexterity 10.

And lastly(for this post), when and if you initiate, if you take an ordeal, you DO NOT have to roll for it, unless you do it in game. It's too frustrating to lose 20 some odd karma just due to some crappy rolls.

[HMHVV Hunter]

An oath?

How do I reflect that on my sheet? And what would that oath entail?

[HobbeGoblin]

I have 2 concepts

1. A mercenary( pretty much your mundane good with weapons type)
2. A combat decker...and i mean combat as in mercenary work

I'll send whatever BG you find more interesting or needed.

[Streak]

Name: William Burke
Occupation: Paranormal Creature Specialist

Background:
Lieutenant William Burke served in the USAS military and made a name for himself as a tactics specialist. Burke exhibited a natural affinity for leadership, prowess under fire, earning him his rank in a very short period of time. After his tour was up, he returned to his home town of Seattle, and was hired by Lonestar to serve in the SWAT division. It was during this time that SURGE swept the globe, setting of a malignant gene within Bill's DNA, giving him the gift of magical sight. (ASTRAL SIGHT). With this gift, he was able effectively hunt and track some paranormal creatures. This prompted him to reevaluate his chosen career and lead to his decision to leave Lonestar. Now working freelance, he offers himself out as a Tactical Leader/Advisor/Hunter/Tracker for Paranormal assignments and has found that hunting these magical creatures, curbs his appetite for danger, not to mention provides a comfortable livelihood.

[jklst14]

[HMHVV Hunter]

I'm sending my NSCRG files and a word file with my 20 questions/character history.

Advance notice: He does have a custom weapon (a shotgun). The stats are on another word file I'm sending (as well as the NSCRG file)

[HMHVV Hunter]

Sent and sent :)

[Kiedo]

HMHVV Hunter: Oath means that when you initiate the first time you have to take the oath ordeal(which can only be taken once). Stuff recieved now you just need to send in your karma-ized sheet

Hobbegoblin: There won't be much use for a decker so send me the merc.

Streak: I don't care what the other people on this forum say I like surge. It's because I like to customize things to my own personal liking (which is why I like linux so much) and surge is a means to an end so to speak. That really didn't have anything to do with your character but I felt it needed to be said, send him in when you get a chance.

jklst14:I can live with that, after all I am a genius, lol. But take your time I haven't set a deadline yet, and you guys have ALOT of karma to spend, but you'll need it.

[HMHVV Hunter]

A question about the karma: does this mean we get 150 Good Karma and 15 Karma Pool, or 135 GK and 15 KP?

[The Grifter]

I've got a rigger I'd like to get in if you need one.

[Streak]

By the way, is this game going to be forum based or chat based? Can you posted the info on your plans for the game please Keido!? Thanks man! :S

[HMHVV Hunter]

Oh damn...

If it IS chat based, I can't do it. I don't use IRC.

[Kiedo]

I despise IRC beside that would mean I'd have to coordinate everybody to be online at the same time, and if there was someone say in the UK that would mean when I'm up and ready to run it would be some ungodly hour of the night for them. So it's forum based. I'd really prefer everyday posters, but if you can only squeeze in once everycouple of days thats fine too.

As far as karma goes it's 135gk and 15kp, if the other way it might be too easy. But trust me you'll need every last karma you get.

[Ecclesiastes]

Name: Paladin
Role: Adept - Hunter of Evil Things™ and Orc Underground Activist
Background:
Asset DC598 always loved his job. He was cold, calculating, and fast. He was the best assassin Ares had. Then they sent him someplace he wouldn't ever return from.

The job was a simple one. There was some leader down in the Orc Underground, some modern day Martin Luther King Jr., was causing problems. He kept claiming that Ares was a racist company and in return, Ares wanted him eliminated. Being that Asset DC598 was an Orc, he seemed the perfect assassin to go into the Underground. That was their mistake. Asset DC598 tracked the leader's every move for a month. Also during that time, he heard every speech and message the orc leader had to give. It spoke to Asset DC598, the message reached him, down to his soul, and told him that what he was doing was wrong.

Asset DC598 went AWOL. He left his old life of assassination behind him and decided to take the high road. He used his time and skills to help those who couldn't help themselves. He went to O.R.C. demonstrations and stood up for the rights of his people. He was doing what was right and with his old life dead, so was his name. Now he was Paladin.

[JaronK]

I don't have time to post a full backstory, but a character I've been knocking around is based on Van Helsing, though a much more evil take on him. Basically, a non-magic witch hunter style character with magic resistance edges, who's surged to be dual natured. Intense hatred of magical threats of all kinds, and a pitbull mentality. I can post more detailed information (and the backstory) later tonight if I get the time.

JaronK

[HMHVV Hunter]

I added my karma and all that stuff, but NSRCG is acting goofy - giving me 55,000 extra nuyen after I finalized the karma usage. Not sure what you want me to do about that Kiedo, but just thought I'd let you know.

Other than that, I've applied the karma and am ready to send it if you're not bothered by the goofiness of the program.

[jklst14]

Kiedo:
With initiation, what is your opinion regarding magical groups? Is there a limit to the number of times you'd want us to initiate?

And do you allow the purchasing of adept powers at 20 karma for each power point?

[Ecclesiastes]