OOC Reflections of a New Moon, OOC Thread Options

[Fenris]

Official Character List:

Reflections of a New Moon
Redjack - Ammon - Shamanic mage
BishopMcQ - Hiver - Weapons specialist
Djinni - Atlas - Troll muscle
Buddha - Widget - Technomancer / Rigger
Fletch - Michael - Close combat adept
Critias - Billy Shen - close/mid-ranged combat adept / face
Method - Vertigo - Infiiltration / Illusion specialist

This is the OOC thread, all the dice rolls, game discussion, etc goes here.

I'll basically be posting here a general idea of what I want to cover each week. When I bump forward on Monday's, I'll be bumping to finish up whatever the theme of the week was.

June 18th - June 24th

Introduction to each other and Lucky, character descriptions, IC questions about the job, IC decisions to accept or turn down.

Feel free to post any questions you have about the character, his background, the club, the job, etc.

[Critias]

Just for clarity's sake -- I'd put in my intro post that this was a second hand favor being called in, thanks to Billy's superior in the Octagon (Mushu Jiang). Maybe Lucky'd done a job for the Octagon and accepted a minor favor in lieu of payment, maybe it was something similar a generation earlier (with his dad having done a favor for Jiang, and the debt having been handed down)... However you'd like to flesh it out, what it boils down to is Billy getting sent to go do the job, because a Red Pole sees no reason to get his own hands dirty if he can send one of the kids to do the work for him instead.

Also, is there somewhere we should be posting specifically what stuff we have on us at the time, and that sort of thing (in case the poop hits the fan early on)? I don't wanna just spam the joint up with proclamations of carried gear if it's supposed to be somewhere else or handled via PMs or whatnot.

[Method]

Fenris - sent you a 2 PM's regarding Vertigo's attributes and back story.

Also a few general questions:
1.) Should we avoid reading the Full Moon threads in case of spoilers?
2.) Any preference about signatures (on/off) in the IC thread?

Everyone - just as a general note: I have been playing SR for years, but I am new to the forth edition (haven't been able to find anyone in my area to play with). One of my goals in this game is to learn the system better, so if you notice any errors in my OOC post (game mechanics, etc) please let me know. I will appreciate the feedback!!

[Redjack]

@Fenris

[ Spoiler ]

Here are the rolls for all that summoning and binding in the first post for Ammon. Since I was using a site, I went ahead and posted the resistance rolls to speed things up. Do you want me to do the same in the future?
Summoning F5 Spirit of Man (Innate spell: Healing): 4 hits
Spirit Resists: 1 hit
Buy off drain. 3 Services owed
Binding: 2 hits
Spirit Resists: 4 hits
Reroll failures with edge: +5 hits
Resist 8 DV Drain: 1 hit
Bound with 5 services owed. Suffer drain of 7.
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Rest two hours: 4 + 1 hits
Stun reduced to 2. No penalties.
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Summon F5 Fire Elemental: 6 hits
Elemental Resists: 4 hits
Resist 8DV drain: 4 hits
2 services. Suffer 4 drain. Total stun currently 6 boxes.
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Rest 3 hours, buy off all stun.
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Cast Fashion at F5: 4 hits
Buy of DV2 drain.

[Critias]

Method's post reminds me -- ditto, here. I have no idea if I made a decent, or laughable, or munchkinned up (or somewhere in between) SR4 character. I'm an SR3 guy, know it backwards and forwards and you name it (after playing both SR and SR2, mind you), but I've really never had a chance to roll my sleeves up and play any SR4.

I've been in about five aborted on-line games with Billy, and I think a whopping ONE of them involved any dice rolling at all...so I'm here to get a little practical experience with the game just as much as I'm here to tell a cool story. My apologies in advance if I wind up getting us all killed by thinking in terms of the wrong edition. ;)

[djinni]

[Fenris]

Critias - I'm not too worried about the specifics unless it's something crazy.

"Of course I had my LMG, I totally coulda slipped it by the guys at the door of the fancy French restaurant." - That sort of thing. If it's relatively small and concealable, don't care. I hate to require gear posts every scene change, and it's awkward trying to fit exactly what you're carrying into an IC post without making it sound like a gear list. I don't care which commlink you brought or how many stim patches.

If you're packing rocket launchers, full body armor, or something similarly obvious and bulky, something needs to be mentioned, just so I know how to react with NPC's.

And I actually got the exact idea you were trying to get across. I'm fine with leaving it vague for the moment. I have an idea of what the favor is for, but you don't, so it'll help for better roleplaying until it comes up in game, if it does.

Method - I don't mind if you read them both, I don't think there will be alot of obvious cross-contamination for the most part of the thread. You're not like, working directly against that team or anything.

And please no sigs in the IC thread, sort of breaks up the reading.

Redjack - I don't mind if you post the resistance rolls, I trust my players unless given a reason not to. And it does speed things up ;)

Djinni - He's definitely interesting XD

[djinni]

[Method]

[djinni]

[Method]

Oh boy... we're in trouble... :grinbig:

[Critias]

Great. Once the lead starts flying, the Face gets to do the heavy lifting. ;)

[djinni]

@Fenris:
what are the chairs and table made out of?
also had an afterthought, is the music AR or real?

[Fenris]

@Djinni - Chairs and tables are mostly human sized, but reinforced due to all of the "odd" customers. Easily support troll weight.

The music is a combination. There is an audio and visual component that is real, but there are also visual components in AR, and if you have are connected to your commlink via a chipjack or trodes, there are extra audio/tactile/olfactory/visual components as well.

[djinni]

easily support troll weight cool...but even big trolls don't weigh as much as me. lets just hope it holds, and Atlas doesn't lean back in the chair ~.^

since my commlink fizzled out mysteriously I just wanted to make sure he could hear the music. sadly he doesn't get to look in the mirrors to see if he would look different or normal...

[ Spoiler ]

Atlas is a Massive Hulking beast of a troll, with spiral horns that look and feel like they are stone curled around like a dragon's, protruding out a little ways and then curling forward pointing the dangerous end in the right place, that is of course if he didn't shave them off so he could wear a battle helmet. now they just appear to be marble patches on his head, the dermal calcium deposits every troll has are equally as hard as his horns. Asymmetrically formed on his body producing hard knots and lumps, easily felt to the touch, but they rarely pierce the skin. His muscles are toned and athletic akin to greek and roman artists redition of an adonis instead of the more common samoan look individuals of his size normally possess, the most noticable feature is the lack of an oversized adbominal section. One hand is large enough to grasp a normal person around the head and hold them securely. Which comes in handy for his hobby of dwarfball blitzer. His features are akin to the early European culture, although there are a few differences the similarities refute any claim by the authorities on history that he did not originate from that continent. Characteristic of that culture he has a high forehead, high cheekbones, strong chin with prominent cleft, and even a prominent gap between the two front teeth, enlarged tusks (even for a troll) predominantly a kurgan descendant trait. A unique feature among the historical artifacts of his culture is the Double Dentition (two rows of teeth one behind the other) which is indicative of the legendary giants heard about in myth and legend, further proof of his heritage shows in the extra finger on each hand, and extra toe on each foot, for a total of 6 digits per hand and foot, 24 in total. Horns are common to trolls and since he didn't goblinize at puberty it is unknown if he would have shared the horns trait with the myth, or if he simply has them from being a troll. However he does have a need for action and in less civilized areas this need would materialize as violence, however since he gets to hunt wild and dangerous creatures he has found a healthy release for his pent up emotional flood.

[Method]

Descpription:

[ Spoiler ]

Vertigo is an atractive human female of hispanic descent in her mid-20s. She is small (5' 2'' 110) in stature with an athletic build. She usually has brown skin and eyes and shoulder length black hair, but currently she is sporting neon blue hair and matching irredecent eyes. She wears a trendy top and tight leather pants, both black, that aren't all that unusual in this setting. She also wears a black leather jacket and antique-looking silver broach.

[Critias]

Ditto.

[ Spoiler ]

Billy's only a little taller than your average elf, but his suit is tailored loose enough that it hangs off him and, combined with his height, makes him seem much taller (or at least thinner) than he actually is. Outside of it (rrwowr!) he's certainly very fit, but the rumpled, oversized, layers of clothing give the illusion of a lankier-than-normal build. The collar is perpetually askew, his tie only half-heartedly tied and with the knot dangling a good inch or two below where it should be. His sleeves are almost always rolled up (particularly in the heat of a club), and if he has any tattoos they're not visible on his forearms at least. His hair is black (often, though not tonight, dyed a different color), and is swept back from his face and supposed to be slicked back, but often turns spiky instead. His features show him to be at least half Chinese, and are every bit as sharp, fine, and handsome as any other elf you're likely to see off a tridscreen.

His posture, unlike the cut of his suit, downplays his size; his shoulders are slumped whenever he's not fighting, his hands jammed into pockets and his back slouching. He's often leaning against any surface clean enough, sprawling out in whatever chair he's in, and generally just looking very casual and maybe even lazy, often even just a hair away from tripping over his own two feet... His voice is, while generally polite, often hiding just a hint of a sardonic drawl to it, an air of casual disinterest. Whatever he's talking about, and whoever he's talking to, is nothing but a moment's entertainment -- he stopped caring about the game a long time ago, and now he's just spinning his wheels and passing the time.

[Redjack]

Description for Ammon

[ Spoiler ]

Ammon is an elf that stands six foot tall and weighs in at 150# and built like a typical wiry elf. His hair is medium shade of brown and his skin betrays a strong anglo heritage.

He shows up to the first meet wearing a very trendy pair of slacks, a white collarless shirt and a sport jacket, carrying his armor jacket.

During a run, he does not carry a gun and always wears fashionable clothes that tend to instantly change during the run to fit the situation. He is extroverted, though not pushy and usually maintains a good disposition.

[Buddha72]

Sorry for the late posting but it is up and away. Don't want to hold things up anymore than necessary. :D

[WearzManySkins]

Pssst Buddha72 Full Moon....nudge wink nudge wink..... :)

[Critias]

Just to clarify for myself -- is Fixx a guy or a girl? I'd been thinking female from earlier posts (particularly the OP itself), but was I mistaken?

No big deal either way, really, just a little corn-fused.

[Buddha72]

LOL! I was getting there. :P

Fixx is a guy.

[Method]

[Critias]

*shrugs* I guess "gorgeous" just tends to have a feminine overtone to it. At least I wasn't the only one. :)

[Critias]

So how do we handle this assensing stuff? Is there a die roller somewhere, or do we all just tell him stuff on our own, or what? *is a noob*