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post Sep 12 2008, 05:07 PM
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Even further tweakage....

Hawt dang, there are a lot of little quirks and odd rules for PhysAds.
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post Sep 12 2008, 05:34 PM
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Detailing my permanent High Lifestyle at the Divine Comedy bought with the Trust Fund(20) feat to represent my wonderful home life...

The top floor of the Comedy is a three-bedroom flat. Two bathrooms, huge kitchen, living room and den. It is only accessible by locked stairwell or the central elevator by access code. It includes a ground level closeable parking garage for three large vehicles, as well. He lives with Mei and Calista, a pair of fellow runners, who manage to remember to keep the house drones on track as they pass through. Mei is a master chef, and does most of the cooking, Jake maintains the CHN and home drones, and Calista sleeps with the woman who handles their rental account(among many, many other people). The place is an old warehouse/apartment combo, made -very- sturdy and which is extra-solid. Of course, the four warehouse floors are devoted to the Divine Comedy, and is the workplace of the "couple". Of course, as the building is in a reclaimed warehouse district in the L.A. Sprawl, the neighborhood sucks, crime rate is terrible, but at least the gangers are customers, and have learned to respect the dancers...and the bouncers...and Jake. The apartment has -great- AR, the computers are top of the line, but they don't keep alot of drones, mostly just a simple few for cleaning. They order real food from a supplier weekly, and have a good selection in the fridge (since Mei orders, it's mostly ingredients for her next dish). Jake subscribes to ALOT of stuff, but they're not the tickets to the new play type. Except Calista, but she goes with whoever she's manipulating this week.

Middle Comfort(3)
Low Neighborhood(2)
Middle Security(3)
Middle Entertainment(3)
High Necessities(4)

Easy-going Landlord(-1)
Perfect Roommate x2(-4)
Well Made(-1)
Workplace(-1)
Crash Pad(+1)
Rough Neighborhood(+1)
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post Sep 12 2008, 06:13 PM
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QUOTE (Coldhand Jake @ Sep 12 2008, 01:34 PM) *
Detailing my permanent High Lifestyle at the Divine Comedy bought with the Trust Fund(20) feat to represent my wonderful home life...

The top floor of the Comedy is a three-bedroom flat. Two bathrooms, huge kitchen, living room and den. It is only accessible by locked stairwell or the central elevator by access code. It includes a ground level closeable parking garage for three large vehicles, as well. He lives with Mei and Calista, a pair of fellow runners, who manage to remember to keep the house drones on track as they pass through. Mei is a master chef, and does most of the cooking, Jake maintains the CHN and home drones, and Calista sleeps with the woman who handles their rental account(among many, many other people). The place is an old warehouse/apartment combo, made -very- sturdy and which is extra-solid. Of course, the four warehouse floors are devoted to the Divine Comedy, and is the workplace of the "couple". Of course, as the building is in a reclaimed warehouse district in the L.A. Sprawl, the neighborhood sucks, crime rate is terrible, but at least the gangers are customers, and have learned to respect the dancers...and the bouncers...and Jake. The apartment has -great- AR, the computers are top of the line, but they don't keep alot of drones, mostly just a simple few for cleaning. They order real food from a supplier weekly, and have a good selection in the fridge (since Mei orders, it's mostly ingredients for her next dish). Jake subscribes to ALOT of stuff, but they're not the tickets to the new play type. Except Calista, but she goes with whoever she's manipulating this week.

Middle Comfort(3)
Low Neighborhood(2)
Middle Security(3)
Middle Entertainment(3)
High Necessities(4)

Easy-going Landlord(-1)
Perfect Roommate x2(-4)
Well Made(-1)
Workplace(-1)
Crash Pad(+1)
Rough Neighborhood(+1)


Looks good to me, vary good for character background.

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post Sep 12 2008, 06:30 PM
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Short Intro

Picture: Arrival

So, this is Seattle.

DD lets her eyes roam over the city, or what she saw from it, upon arriving at the Sea-Tac airport. She isn't as impressed as she had expected to be. Seattle, the capital of Shadowrunning. Or former capital - L.A. got much more and better coverage these days, in her opinion. Still, the sprawl carried the weight of history, so to speak.

The young woman opens an AR window, linking to an aerial live feed from a traffic drone while she walks towards the customs checkpoint.

Now this looks more impressive.

Compared to L.A. the metroplex looks denser, more concentrated - nestled between the sea and foreign countries. Not as spread out as DD is used to. And the famous or infamous landmarks are clearly visible, dominating the skyline. There is the pyramid, and there is the arcology. It really looks like in "Showdown in Hell", where Jack Runner battles his toxic half-brother terrorist nemesis on top of the arcology during a hailstorm. Well, without the storm, and with daylight. But still, very cinematic.

DD frowns at the thought. By all rights she should be a star by now, basking in the limelight. Or at least pulling good coverage on a run. Instead she's coming to Seattle to get another chance at shadowrunning. DD would have preferred to run in L.A., with the superb P2.0 system, but since her first job there fell through she hasn't exactly been swimming in job offers. At least not shadowrunner job offers. Two-nuyen hacker jobs that amounted to working as a glorified search engine and some side-jobs in the adult entertainment industry as well as some creative databank hacking have paid her bills, but haven't helped a lot in breaking into high-profile shadowrunning, much less show-business. So, this trip to Seattle - temporary trip! - is her second shot.

DD logs on to the local node, picking a cab provider's ad to flag down a drone cab to get into Seattle proper, where her new apartment is waiting - already furnished, rented by a corp for employees that come to Seattle for a project or similar task, too long to make hotels cost-effective, too short to get a real flat. Rented by a fictional corp in her case, thanks to some rearranging in the adminstrative database. DD will have to reshuffle the data in a month, when the fictional corp will file for insolvency, and replace it with another corp's data.

During the ride it starts to rain. DD is tempted to filter the rain out through an AR mod, but decides against it.

Very noir, with the clouds and rain. Almost retro-shadows.


DD then remembers the data she got about Seattle's weather pattern, and rechecks it.

I'll have to buy a coat I think, with that rain.


Raindrops would look very good on the Zoé Second Skin outfit, in DD's opinion, but the Seattle scene seems to frown on such clothes, from what she gathered browsing some forums.

Looks like every runner in Seattle has a coat. Maybe I'll buy a lined duster, that would go well with boots, hot pants and a top. Jake'll ask where I left the pole, of course.

Picture: New Outfit and AR
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post Sep 12 2008, 06:33 PM
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(Going to repost it most likely when the IC thread opens.)
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post Sep 12 2008, 06:59 PM
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Very good, I liked it vary much. I'll be opening the IC thread here soon hopefully in the day or two. I don't need people to do this but your more than welcome to, I'll get everyone setup when I start the IC thread. By the way, so every knows if it works for everyone, the weekend will be the heavy day. And depending on how work is, I'll get some during the week but don't expect too much. Plus my off days are Monday and Tuesday so I will have a decent bit of time for it too.

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post Sep 12 2008, 07:27 PM
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So stealing your idea, Fuchs...*grins* Edit for intro incoming.

Los Angeles, Jake's Apartment, Top floor of the Divine Comedy. 11:21 AM, L.A. Time

"Ugh. Fuck." The portly ork slowly lets his mind grind into awareness as the dream of him and the naked elf chick breaks -right before he gets in her-...as usual. He rolls over, the whir of his cyberarm reminding him to unfilter his eyes and ears, morning light flaring through a window...

"Mei! You left the window on again..." He waves irritatedly, the window vanishing. He sits up, flicking the mental switch that fires up his implant commlink, the frosty iconography of Snowman's "SnowDrift" OS appearing during the boot sequence, then vanishing in a haze of snowflakes to reveal his AR HUD, mostly crap he left open from last night...
{Save/Close>Mei&Calista209122070.vid}...that had been fun to watch, the two beautiful women having given him quite a show that had lasted...apparently 1 hour and 9 minutes. It had seemed longer. Thank the gods for cybereyes.
{Save/Close>SeattleTraffic.map}. That would be useful. Figures someone would offer him Seattle work after Dragonflight and PAX were over...

" 'Sure, miss the gaming conventions, but come get shot up.' Ass. Holes." He brings up the chronodisplay. "11:23 AM L.A. 1:23 P.M. Montgomery." Yeah, about the same as usual. He climbs out of bed, and heads for the shower. As he sets the showerhead to near-scalding, and has a seat under its hammering flow, he messages Mei. He stretches out, enjoying the hot massage, as he waits for her to get her comm and glasses on.

{Me: Mei? Where are you?}
{Mei: In the kitchen, working on a new pork dish. Wearing nothing but that eyescorching palm-tree Hawaiian of yours from last night actually. You should come have a taste.}
{Me: Of the food or you?}
{Mei: (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Either. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lick.gif) }
{Me: Remind me why I'm going to Seattle again?}
{Mei: DD said there was work. With Judas dead, we're going to need a new lead on work, and Seattle's heating up again. So you're going to go see what contacts we can make out there, so we're not having to trip over our Horizon friends doing Hollywood work anymore. Last time we ran into the Public Eye, we couldn't figure out whether to shoot them or invite them to the club.}
{Me: And why isn't Calista doing this again?}
{Mei: She's busy, and we need her here. As good as you are, we have backup bartenders, DJs and tech support. You're also the best at taking care of yourself in weird situations that don't call for "fucking or shooting", as Calista put it.}
{Me: Okay, I'm taking my bike though. -So- sick of paying cab fare.}
{Mei: I'll be fine with the Patrol-1, and Cali still has her car too. We won't be short.}
{Me: But how am I going to get by without my girls?}
{Mei: Don't worry, I won't sleep with anyone but Cali, and if we do, I promise to send you the trideo.}
{Me: Not entirely what I meant, but, um, woot?}
{Mei: (IMG:style_emoticons/default/love.gif) Come eat.}


Jake closes the window, scrubs down and comes into the kitchen, after a quick stop to grab some cargo shorts and a shirt that reads "Multiple Orgasm Donor". Tugging the shirt on over his tattooed form, he has a seat and spends a good minute checking out Mei's form. Athletic, muscular, but not too bulky, with incredible curves...and bringing over lunch. Jake grins as she leans over the table in the -unbuttoned- shirt, giving a fine view of another potential meal before he hits the road, as the spicy szechuan dish lands gently on the table. She smiles at him, smooth Chinese hair falling over orcish, but still beautiful features. He reaches out, and guides her into his lap.

"Remind me... why I'm going to Seattle again?"

The answer wasn't any better...but the way she put it was -incredible-.
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post Sep 12 2008, 07:36 PM
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I think that fixes it
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post Sep 12 2008, 07:47 PM
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(Just a FYI: What DD thinks is often highly biased, and could be totally wrong.)
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post Sep 12 2008, 08:19 PM
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Anyone know where i can get any pdf's for equipment? actually any sr4 pdfs would be appreciated so i can take my books with me on my laptop when i travel.

note im not trying to get out of buying books as i like to have actual books i just want to have a more portable format for when im not home.
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post Sep 12 2008, 08:22 PM
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Catalyst sells the books as pdfs. Battlecorps website.
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post Sep 12 2008, 08:29 PM
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So I am collecting BP donations for buying group vehicles. They are expensive (especially if you want a fast car that can outrun the Lone Star patrol cars).

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post Sep 12 2008, 08:53 PM
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QUOTE (Divine Virus @ Sep 12 2008, 04:29 PM) *
So I am collecting BP donations for buying group vehicles. They are expensive (especially if you want a fast car that can outrun the Lone Star patrol cars).


What have you got your eye on? I'm finalizing Truth's gear and I'm pretty sure I'll have at least ten or twenty grand left that I'd otherwise be spending on even more of the same types of drones, which I'll gladly contribute.
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post Sep 12 2008, 09:14 PM
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If Brent allows buying pirated programs at char gen that'd free up about 50'000 nuyen from DD for a team vehicle (pirated programs cost 10% of list).
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post Sep 12 2008, 09:24 PM
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QUOTE (Fuchs @ Sep 12 2008, 04:14 PM) *
If Brent allows buying pirated programs at char gen that'd free up about 50'000 nuyen from DD for a team vehicle (pirated programs cost 10% of list).


I have all Common, all Hacking, and an Agent and OS all at 6. Happy to make illegal copies for you. You'll have to crack them yourself...but hell, we're pirates. ARR.
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post Sep 12 2008, 09:28 PM
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I'm fine with that aslong as the cash saved is for the group vehicle. Plus only if others are going to pitch in too.

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post Sep 12 2008, 10:05 PM
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I should be in for 25 grand or so all i need is armor , stealth suit com and a cpl guns. can somepne give me a price on a trivked out HK sniper rifel with bells and whistels from arsonal? I can get the priceson the rest.
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post Sep 12 2008, 10:06 PM
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As I said, I was thinking a fast well-armoured car, and a well rounded van. My defensive tests in a van should be 14 dice+/- handling, so I am not too worried about being hit- the armour on the car being so I can run people over without worrying about damaging the car. I haven't really been crunching different set ups for vehicles yet, since I don't know how much I have to work with, or how much you guys think is worth sinking into a vehicle. I know I could easily spend a 100k nuyen on just these two vehicles alone.
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post Sep 12 2008, 10:43 PM
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Sounds good, mark 50K down for the vehicle from DD - can't really use non-pirated programs to ahck anyway, so don't have to change anything atn the sheet for that. Assume it didn't come in character as nuyen from her though. SHe might have arranged for some parts or so, maybe.
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post Sep 12 2008, 11:09 PM
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I'm pretty tapped as far as build points for a group vehicle is concerned. I'll put it to you guys to decide, I can ditch my Binding skill and conjuring materials to pitch in 25k to the group vehicle, but I'm worried that since I'm the only mage not having the ability to put spirits on tap would be a problem.
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post Sep 12 2008, 11:14 PM
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Think we should have enough for a vehicle.
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post Sep 12 2008, 11:17 PM
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Well, here is my character sheet except for equipment and knowledge skills. There will be much tweeking but it gives people an idea.

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And a sixty-second history, just to give you an idea
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post Sep 12 2008, 11:24 PM
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Sorry for the last-minute entry, but spellcasters don't shave their own BP. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Apologies for the whole-cloth formatting, but the first week of school doesn't leave me much spare time. I'll clean this up and add backstory tomorrow afternoon after work.

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2008.09.18.15.15: Added Ochir
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post Sep 12 2008, 11:47 PM
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If DD pitches in 50k, I'll toss 50, and that 100k and that should be enough. Thanks!
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Here's the updated Truth.

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