 Diary Of A Madman’s Lab Rat, Emo's campaign from a player's POV |
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 Apr 9 2006, 10:26 PM
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Dragon  Group: Members Posts: 4,718 Joined: 14-September 02 Member No.: 3,263  |
Not sure, but at least more than i have of triple posts. |
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Apr 9 2006, 10:44 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Because diamonds are forever. And they add +1 power to any of the spirit's unarmed attacks. Besides, dikote is just as easy to remove as latex, just have the spirit dematerialize and you'll be left with a spirit-shaped diamond shell where it once stood. It can then rematerialize somewhere else. I'm going to play devil's advocate here and suggest that anyone who considers flamming emo for his off the wall ideas take any one of his concepts and compare it to the plot listed below. The newly elected President of the UCAS commits suicide on inauguration day as part of a blood magic ritual to enchant the most powerful focus in the world. The late President leaves this ubberfocus to his drake physical magician protege who is having an affair with the new Vice President and her dark brown nipples but it is stolen. A bunch of stuff happens and the dead President comes back to life as a Free Spirit who then possesses Billy the cyberzombie. The cyberzombie President gets the focus back and uses it to save the world. Everyone lives happily ever after (except the dead President's running mate who got his face blown off several years latter). The End. |
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Apr 9 2006, 10:44 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
Here's a link to a poll I made to settle the "OMFG THERE ARE NO GIRLS" "OMFG YES THERE ARE LOL" debate.
Yeah, I always figured that the plot should go higher than "LOL I AM 73|-| 4VV350|\/|3 1 4|\/| 73|-| 6r117 :nuyen: LOL." There's blood mages, the Arcology, Zurich Orbital, and dragons. In D&D, they made dragons so that you could kill them. Shadowrun shouldn't be any different. (Note: I typed "LOL I AM TEH GRITTY LOL") |
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Apr 9 2006, 10:50 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,507 Joined: 27-January 05 From: ...and I'm all out of bubblegum Member No.: 7,021 |
Yeah, some things you can't unknow. Damn you for reminding me of that. |
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Apr 9 2006, 11:41 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
If only the real president were that awesome.
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Apr 10 2006, 12:18 AM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
Yeah, there are things in the DS compendium that just make sense here. Swordfish Musterdball is one of those, as are dikoted AVS manafesting ally spirits (that you can have sex with), and paratrooper deamon rats wacked up on kamakaze. |
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Apr 10 2006, 02:42 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,590 Joined: 11-September 04 Member No.: 6,650 |
or dosing a cat witgh every combat drug in the SR4 book and throwing it at somebody
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Apr 10 2006, 02:46 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 8-April 06 From: My dorm room Member No.: 8,438 |
Just for the helluvit, I made a picture of my character using South Park Studio.
linky. I don't know what she's looking at off to the side, but you can bet it's very intriguing. |
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Apr 10 2006, 03:04 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 360 Joined: 18-March 02 From: Plymouth UK. Member No.: 2,408 |
That doesn't make any sense in english let alone smegging leet! Is there anything wrong with not giving every one of your NPCs 142 cyberarms and a battery operated sex aid latex and dicote covered chainsaws. How about normal 2070 street folk with power levels based on how they should be, not how insane your campaign is? Your superiority complex is bugging me! |
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Apr 10 2006, 03:20 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
So THAT's what Ted Kennedy was talking about when he said "What ever happened to Little Billy!" Here all this time I thought it was just a drunken rant, when he was actually predicting events in 2057. |
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Apr 10 2006, 03:22 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
And don't ever forget the Drop Bear Conspiracy (currently at war with the Disney Company, we will have Michael Eisner's head on a pike!) |
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Apr 10 2006, 03:30 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 8-April 06 From: My dorm room Member No.: 8,438 |
Actually, I have an IC excuse for why my character is so skilled without ever actually having been on a run. See, Fangirl had a normal, middle class upbringing, but ran away to Seattle at age 16 (because, as I've already said elsewhere, her parents just didn't understand! Oh, the pain! The angst! The PAINFUL ANGST!) with an aim to join the shadows. Shortly after running away, she met a fixer, Mackie Messer, in a Shadowland chatroom. Mackie found himself drawn to Fangirl, finding her innocence and sense of optimism refreshing. Having been a runner in his younger days, he soon began to mentor Fangirl, helping her gain the abilities she'll need in the shadows. Thus, Fangirl has got a lot of practice and theoretical knowledge out of the past three years, but an over-protective Mackie has shielded her from getting any real, practical experience until now. How does that sound? |
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Apr 10 2006, 04:00 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 360 Joined: 18-March 02 From: Plymouth UK. Member No.: 2,408 |
You get me wrong. I'm not having a go at your char. Given the building "restrictions" it's a wonderfully balenced character. even more so considering it's your first. Its every time emo get slightly insulted he goes off on a superority complex agressive bender. For example in the hellhound thread he practicaly attacked me when I asked his age. For the record i'm trying to take everything emo says as if its the first thing i've seen him say. That way I don't judge based on past experience. |
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Apr 10 2006, 04:04 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 8-April 06 From: My dorm room Member No.: 8,438 |
I know, I'm just saying that it's still possible to have a plausible and highly-skilled newbie runner.
I think he's a sophomore in college, so probably 19 or 20. |
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Apr 10 2006, 04:08 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 360 Joined: 18-March 02 From: Plymouth UK. Member No.: 2,408 |
Yeah he eventually relented. |
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Apr 10 2006, 04:14 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 314 Joined: 25-February 06 Member No.: 8,307 |
It's not random. Convert it to hexadecimal notation, and you'll get the moniker I used to use back when I spent all my money at arcades instead of my FLG store. So :P And yes, I'm married, yes, my wife games, and yes, I'm too old to be trusted :D FanGirl: Have you played any other systems? And was a TM your first choice of character? |
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Apr 10 2006, 04:31 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,150 Joined: 19-December 05 From: Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex Member No.: 8,081 |
That's something i wanted to say for three pages or so ;). |
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Apr 10 2006, 04:31 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Well comeon man! Speak up! Just because she's a girl doesn't mean you can't talk to her! ;)
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Apr 10 2006, 08:37 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 8-April 06 From: My dorm room Member No.: 8,438 |
1. I played one session of DnD a couple months ago. I was an childlike, pyromaniac gnome sorceror who traveled around with a halfling rogue who constantly tried to pick people's pockets, as well as a noseless human ranger who only traveled with us to keep us from stealing and/or burning everything in sight. Unfortunately for me, the tavern we started out in was magically fire-proofed, but I did get to kick a drunk guy repeatedly in the torso during the obligatory tavern brawl (the drunk had picked up my halfling friend and thrown her across the room for trying to pick his pocket). Good times. Other than that, I have no real table-top gaming experience. 2. Well, yes and no. I might have picked a mage or a shaman character when I first agreed to join Emo's campaign, but one of the other guys had said that he wanted to play a magic-wielder and I didn't want to deny him that choice. Emo suggested a TM, and I was amenable to the idea, but it wasn't until I studied the section on TMs that I truly fell in love with them. I really can't claim much credit for the fact that my character is well-balanced: I just took the TM sample character sheet from SR4, replaced the negative qualities with reasonable equivalents, switched the languages around a bit (the sample TM's first language is Spanish, and there's no way I'm pulling off a Latina character), and tacked on the extra points Emo gave me. Come to think of it, I just realized that I now have 6 more Knowledge skill points to tack on, now that my Logic and Intution have been boosted. Where shall I put them? |
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Apr 10 2006, 08:44 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,150 Joined: 19-December 05 From: Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex Member No.: 8,081 |
Probably where the sun does shine ... but i suspect that comment would only be funny for the people half-fluent in english :rotfl: .
I would suggest to use them as interest knowledge skills, just to make your char that much personal. |
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Apr 10 2006, 08:45 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Invest the points into some languages other than your first language. It's never bad to know at least a few bits of japanese (the main corp language) and spain.
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Apr 10 2006, 08:47 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
And klingon. If you think it's useful nowadays, try it in 2070! ;)
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Apr 10 2006, 08:49 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
If her character is a nerd, than it's a proper choice :D
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Apr 10 2006, 08:50 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
You mean when that run takes you into a startrek convention and everyone can access that klingon dictionary on their contacts, which is probably a bit less insane compared to those who memorized it... |
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Apr 10 2006, 09:25 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 8-April 06 From: My dorm room Member No.: 8,438 |
Hm. . .I think it's going to have to be Music. Sorry, role over rollplaying!
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