Recruitment : Shadows of Manchester., Puts wet in wetwork, the Mancunian way. Options

[Gretik]

Hopefully I will be able to start this relatively soon, using a setting based in 2070 era Manchester, england. The game will begin on the 15th of january, 2070 in lower level manchester.

Players will be a rag tag group of runners establishing themselves in the hustling and bustling city of manchester, the third largest city in England.

Character concepts would be appreciated first, one per player - rough guides to their history and personality. If players would like to keep some of the information private by all means message me or send an email to GretikUk@Hotmail.com.

Generation will take place after characters have been chosen, roughly aiming for a group of three to four of standard 400 build point characters. We have a perfectly functional excel spreadsheet to be used to ensure that all characters are valid and equally built.

For those people who do not live in england, a basic map of the country will give you the rough shape and lay out of major cities. Cities as they are in the current day are similar to the 2070 cities in rough shape and the names of major areas, just assume that the shadowrun cities are larger, taller and far grimier.

Oh, and it always rains - It is permanently raining in 2070 manchester.

So no change from present day then. :(

[Ophis]

Definate interest from me, probably will go for a light combat sammie or a socially skilled mage/mystic adept. Which ever seems a better fit for the group.

[Gretik]

Sounds good, your obviously the first one in so far so pretty much it'd be your choice.

[Ophis]

I'll see who else signs up and what they want to do, I am after all easy.

[Gretik]

Fair enough.

[Thanee]

I've signed up for the Ganger campaign, but wouldn't mind playing in a standard Shadowrun campaign as well. So mark me down as interested. :)

As for the character, I generally like awakened characters (shaman or adept), but since my ganger will be a street shaman already, I could also go with some cyberware (street samurai or infiltration specialist).

Bye
Thanee

[Codethulhu]

Mark me down as interested as well. I've an old gunslinger adept with a penchant for sporting/sniper rifles floating around somewhere. But if the group needs any specific role filled when everyone's signed up, it's only a few hours to think up another character and do the nuyen shuffle.

[BlackHat]

I'm interested as well (bringing my WttS total to 4 games at once... eek). :-D But I've found I *still* have time at work to troll the forums, so sign me up.

I think I'd like to play a mystic adept who is also a doctor. Will post the details later today.

[Ophis]

Guess I shall go for a Mage with some face capabilities then, as we seem to have plenty thuggery developing

[Gretik]

Random thuggery is a time honoured tradition of manchester, as is gun crime and large bombs.

[NeonWraith]

[Gretik]

Well, I can help with creation somewhat, my creation-fu is adequate if not quite fully zen-like. I have a pretty solid excel sheet to aid matters.

[Gretik]

And how can you rate fighting with leeds over the in fighting between city and united fans, or god forbid - arsenal or liverpool fans.

[Gretik]

Well, I have one friend who was already signed up before I even posted this who will put his concept down in a bit - this seems like enough people for now.

It would help if people could work on their character backgrounds a little first as to give them a reason why in specific they are in manchester, shadow running. No particular affiliation is required or particularly wanted, but the group will be tentatively under the 'employ' of a man named Ivan.

[Noia]

Ivan, Just Ivan. A tall, handsome Russian man in a fine brown suit, he has a silver tongue and is a smooth operator; but don't be fooled by his appearance, underneath he is a cold and calculating killer. An ex-hitman, he knows how to handle himself.

(Face/gunslinger)

[Thanee]

With all the interest in magically active characters, I will definitely make a mundane then. :)

I'll post up something soon.

Bye
Thanee

[Codethulhu]

Noia beat me to it with the monosyllabic, ex-hitman. (Though mine was goign to be Sven from Norway). I'll go and rework the background to something different. Adept with a bit of bio/cyber thrown in (because everyone's gotta have implants, or it's not cyberpunk!). Going to specialize in sneaking about and making people meet abrupt and painful ends. Likely mercenary or bounty hunter background.

[Gretik]

Sounds good, but theres no reason why you couldn't play as Sven - it'd make for an interesting group. :D

[Thanee]

How do you pronounce Ivan in a single syllable? :D

Bye
Thanee

[Gretik]

Very quickly. :P

[Noia]

Ivan is pronounced Eye-Van with a round V.
As for Sven from Norway, sounds like fun but I should warn you, I'm Norwegian :P

[Thanee]

Yeah, but then you are a duosyllabic ex-hitman, instead of a monosyllabic ex-hitman. :wobble:

(I was only kidding there, really.)

Bye
Thanee

[NeonWraith]

Start making quotes from that god awful PlayStation 'mech-em-up Krazy Ivan, and I swear I'll kill you all with an assault shotgun.

[Noia]

Incentive enough to investigate the game :) haha

I could get used to the nam "Crazy Ivan", though I'd have to keep looking over my shoulder :P

[Thanee]

As for a rough background idea, I was thinking of a former runner (human or elf), who has had a run go seriously wrong and had to move. She fled to england and used up most of her savings to cover her tracks, get new IDs and start a new career there. She has good cyber-/bioware and some toys she could smuggle out, but otherwise only legal or easy to obtain equipment for now, and she is seriously broke. She also has few contacts, her old ones either turned on her or were left dead... one new aquaintence would be Ivan, I suppose.

Skillwise, I will surely have decent combat skills, but other than that I thought about some knowledge needed for the breaking & entering business (Hardware most importantly to get past those pesky maglocks, maybe some computer/matrix knowledge). In addition to that, the usual suspects, like some Athletics, Stealth, Perception, Pilot.

Bye
Thanee