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[emo samurai]

My new character build takes that into account. Thanks. Would he be able to support his lifestyle by building telesma and hunting down animals with the help of his spirits in order to not have to pay for food? Wait, yes he would... Never mind.

I'm assuming that his contacts will let him hunt, fish, and gather. What would they think of him having earth spirits dig underground and dig up metals for making into alchemical radicals? It takes away, like, 2% of the total mass of the earth without even harming the land. I'm assuming his landlord will be okay with this.

[Glyph]

Yeah, a landlord would be completely okay with that, if he never found out. Most rentals don't exactly include mineral rights!

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a moment of silence for our recently-departed emo. we'll remember him forever, or at least for a few days, as the man who finally got Master Shake's retarded-ass thread shut down.

[eidolon]

Honestly though, all I could think by the end of that post was "who the hell let him have a Dr. Pepper, and why didn't they tie him down afterward so he couldn't post?"

[Dranem]

[Glyph]

Yeah, but would your landlord give you mineral rights?

[Dranem]

Why bother with your own land? If I remember correctly (combination of novels and cannon), Richmond has been deserted since it got hit by an earthquake... Dig where no one cares! :)

[Mauler]

[Witness]

I've been wondering about this too. My current game is (currently) set in Vancouver and I've had quite a lot of fun fleshing it out. (And @Dranem: it's not that much friendlier either!)

The Sixth World Wiki mentions the Richmond earthquake of 2059. In my game (set in 2063 though using SR4 rules), Richmond is a barrens district, full of crime, disease, despair etc, but probably even worse than Seattle's Payullup barrens because ever since the earthquake it's been flooded. People still live there, either because they wouldn't leave or couldn't leave (insurance wouldn't pay up- guess what real world event I'm paralleling here?), including any number of 'gator gangs'. Everyone calls that area the Richmond Swamps.

But I am curious because elsewhere in SWW it says that the earthquake was of magical origin and only affected Richmond (not in my game- the area to the east and south-east- I'm calling it all the Tsawassen district- is barrens too, just not as bad). But what's the official back story there?

[Mauler]

Thanks.

[emo samurai]

Hi, I'm baaaaaaaack.

Anyway, I have a plan for my character's development. It's a near final-draft, much of it collected from other places in this thread.

The story of his life starts in the year 2013, just two years after the awakening. His parents are simple peasantry, apparently content with their lot in life.

His part of China becomes Manchuria, and his parents are later revealed to be descended from nobility. They quickly accrue money and a deed because of this and become really, really conniving bastards. Shen also develops magical prowess and comes to be a village wise man from an early age, giving advice, healing people, and helping out with labor with his spirits. He gets a large allowance from his parents, but he rarely, if ever, spends much of it. His biggest expenditure is playing fairy godfather to the villagers, helping persecuted young couples start homes away from their overbearing parents.

He decides to leave Manchuria after wandering the countryside and speaking to the people whom he helped elope, all of whom have ceased being couples. In each case, they have broken up for some random reason or another, such as the woman becoming pregnant and the man not wanting anything to do with it, or one of them wimping out and running back to his/her family, or just plain relationship deterioration. This leaves him heartbroken, and he speaks to the man who handles his family's finances, his fixer, and gets him to buy him six plane tickets out of the Manchurian National Airport under six names, three of them his actual name, one of them a badly faked identity, and two of them under a really good one, one of which he actually took. This is before he develops any sort of resentment against his parents.

This plane lands in Seattle, and his fixer launders his money through multiple offshore banks and writes them off as "revenues" for his nonexistent talismongering shop in the Barrens. He also sets him up with a Salish shaman/ realtor who rents Shen a nice little house. Since my character's 57 years old, has 5 intuition and logic and 6 willpower, he should be assumed to be about as wise as the shaman. He doesn't let his parents know, thinking that they're simply worried. He leaves just because he needs his space; because of this, much of his time is spent exploring the wilderness, people-watching in Seattle, and idly making foci.

What he doesn't know: his parents view him as a valuable political asset and want him back badly. He was very guileless and good, meaning that he was an invaluable opiate of the masses. He also doesn't know that his parents were gaining influence with the other houses and unscrupulous businessmen by having their secret pet mage perform memory manipulation on people, many of whom were the eloping sons and daughters of other noble houses. This secret pet mage is a wandering mage who came to Shen's home long ago looking for a patron and found one in Shen's parents. His parents were intelligent enough to realize that this man, while devoted to magic, would chafe under any sort of public duties. They struck a deal with him: do bad things for us about once every 5 months, and we'll give you everything you want, including your privacy. He agreed, and used magic to bring the prodigal sons and daughters of the noble houses back under the control of their selectively loving parents. Shen will eventually confront and possibly kill this man.

He'll also keep a running journal of his experiences in the U.S., using his outsider's perspective on his environment to hopefully bring new insights to Shadowlands BBS. I hope to do this wireless age blog on the IC forums on Dumpshock. I also hope everyone comments on it in character, signing every post with their character's name.

[emo samurai]

No one ever responds to this page. How does nobody have anything to say about my character's Spider Jerusalem/Buddha blog?

[Dranem]

Perhapse because
a) Few people like your character concept.
b) You might need to find a group, and a GM willing to accept one of your whacked out characters.
c) Why would a 57 year old shaman 'wise man' run the shadows?
d) I don't know many people here who would change their Dumpshock alias to 'post in character' for this 'forum blog' you intend to write, and to post in character, see reason (b).

Think that covers the primary points.

[Grinder]

[FanGirl]

I know I said I wouldn't look at this thread, but I was clicking on auto-pilot this morning and accidentally opened it up. It won't happen again. :oops: I didn't catch any spoilers about your character(s), but I did catch Dranem's post.

To be brief: you're a consummate jerk, Dranem. Your comments are absolutely callous and completely unwarranted.

To be long-winded:

[PBTHHHHT]

Fangirl, you made your points which are good and valid, but please if you have the chance, remove the in language portions. The foul language just takes away from the overall level. Just state that you strongly disagree with him and not use foul language. It'll sound more professional and gives you a better standing. :-)

[FanGirl]

Well, I am very, very mad at Dranem, and swearing is a good way to emphasize that. But I will remove the swearing because you asked nicely. :)

[emo samurai]

Why the hell do you post on my threads, anyway? You pretend to be a canon purist, but you shoot down my

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hellhound puppies idea even though they're canon and an old lady has one for a pet.

You ignore logic in order to insult me; you symbolize everything self-important and ignorant about this board. I would like you to get the hell away from my threads in the future, since you have contributed nothing useful to them.

[Kremlin KOA]

sadly
That should convince Dranem to follow you around the boards like a stalker from now on

[emo samurai]

Goddammit... I wonder what he's like in real life. Maybe he's Comic Book Guy, but without the 165 IQ, and even less charisma. That's entirely plausible.

[Witness]

I'll be interested in reading the blog Emo. I'll follow Fangirl's thread with interest too- if the campaign actually ever starts!

[emo samurai]

SATURDAY

[Grinder]

Countdown to Extinction.

[emo samurai]

My character will ROOOOOOOOCCCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!!!

He'll be nihilistic, but not in the "middle class white boy who air guitars and listens to System of a Down" way. He'll be much more Spider-Jerusalem-ish with a bit of enlightened philosophy.

[emo samurai]

G's character will be a chaos hermetic who speaks to voices in his head. His parents were back-to-nature hippies who lived in a sustainable cabin in New Mexico; they died in a flood one day, he didn't. He woke up mysteriously in a freaky stone wizard's tower type thing in the demilitarized zone between Tir and the California Free State. It'll be like a D&D wizard's tower, except more twisted and Lovecraftian. The wizard there will be known as the Master and he performs horrible experiments on the Awakened critters around the tower. There have been raids, all of which have been driven back by the Master's magic and twisted freaks of supernature.

I'm making a new kind of spirits for this player called Chaos spirits, which I have yet to make up stats for. He shadowruns because he's devoted to chaos as a principle, in a way that diverges from the Master, who's more devoted to the scientific aspects of chaos.