Recruitment: Extradition, Walk sorftly through the badlands... Options

[Kiedo]

Wanted: a few good men, hard caliburs, must be willing to travel. Good pay, no benifits, must have transportation.

Use the standard SR4 rules to build your characters, I don't have any picky additional notes, because I haven't done enough SR4 to figure out what I do and don't like yet.

I like interesting characters, with deep backgrounds, full of color and richness. I HATE munkins, if you are one, I will know, and if you slip by and get choosen you won't enjoy the game once I figure out what your doing. My stories rely heavily on character driven plot, which is not to say I just tell you what to do and you go do it, I do inject color and story frequently but the game will not be linear, so if you can't roleplay, but you can roll play maybe this isn't the best one for you to join.

With my munkin warning out of the way, I'd like to point out that if you've been harboring a wierd character idea, like a cyborg, or something, if theres a GM who would let you play it that'd be me.

As far as character backgrounds go, I like reading, and the more you give me, the better I'll know your character.

The run will center around a bounty and spread out from there.

Additional Information:

If your stuck on contacts and can't figure out any good ones, here are a few characters you'll run into that aren't extremely vital to the story line but can still help you enough to be worth it.

Jack Crawford (Human):
He's the Johnson for the run. A police liuetenant, for the star.

Davin Grey (Ork):
The owner of The Lonely Heart's club (a night spot I use in almost all of my runs). He's ex-red gaurd, who burned out and opened a nightclub that appeals to every walk of life.

Ark Grueli (Troll):
Until I started GMing he was my Troll adept PC, but now he is the leader of a street gang called nemisis. Depending on how the run plays out he may or may not appear, it all depends on you.

DO NOT post your Charsheet, on the forum, you can either PM me with it or email it to me genomepanda@phreaker.net.

You can post your background and/or concept but not the sheet, that makes it more mysterious, or something (actually I just get annoyed by it and it takes up to much room). And feel free to ask any questions of me you like.

[Kiedo]

A few things I forgot and was to lazy to edit it

I'm looking for 4-6 players.

I will choose characters based solely on background, so you don't have to send in the sheet with the character, which makes it easier and quicker on both ends. I will need the within a few days of you being informed your in.

I want to get started as soon as possible, and tentatively, I've set the start date for May 5th. If you celebrate Cinco De Mayo, let me know and I'll work something out with you. The may 5th date, means I need everything from you by, the fourth, but as I said I will choose characters solely on background, so you could whip that up in the next few days and have the rest of the time to work on your sheet.

[Aku]

is a dragon too wierd even for you?

[Kiedo]

A dragon huh? Well so long as it's not a great dragon, I don't see the problem. Were you planning on the dragon having a meta-human form or be purely a dragon? The latter could create problems but also have some unique benifits too.

Let me know if you want and we can toss ideas around.

Also (I keep thinking of things I need to add here), if you have already, or plan to, PM me a background, please post a brief concept of your character so that others can see what has been submitted and with any lucky, not submit a duplicate concept, and so when I'm going back over things I can easily find a brief description of your character, that includes thier name, what type of character they are, and any thing else you feel would help people reading familiarize themselves with your character.

Additionally, if you choose to email me your character, please include your dumpshock user name so I don't have to ask who this character belongs to.

[Cogar]

did you get my pm dude??

[Kiedo]

I have to say I'm very impressed with the calibur of characters I'm getting, I've gotten three so far(well sort of three actually six but four were from the same person), and all of them have been fun to read and scheme about. It's almost like you guys got together and talked about how you could make characters who would mesh perfectly with one another.

I hope that once those of you who have submitted characters post your brief bio, or concept in the thread, you start to see the connections that I'm seeing.

If I get more of the same level of intricacy in the characters that are still coming and I get too many more that will make it a very hard choice indeed. hell if I got four more in the same level I have already gotten I'd probably expand my desired number to seven and get the show on the road.

I usually post every third character the names and archetypes of the characters I've gotten but since one is still as yet undeicided I'll wait until cogar gives me an indication of what he's going to go with before I make that post.

[Xane]

At the moment I'm working on Face character. Limited cyberware, he's got a sensitive system. Got some state, just working on the background which I should be able to post later today, the basic are though that he's an Ex Lonestar detective who decided to go freelance after being forced to change the evidence in a case he was working on, in order that it go a certain way for a corporation. Well that's the simple bit anyhow. After work I'll be able to send some more detailed information

[Rokur]

Avenger - Male, Human, Italian, Thief.

Born into a mafia family, Avenger had a good childhood. He was raised with money, and class. As a child, he did well in school and became a public figure, starting a kid gang and being the trouble maker of the neighborhood. Unfortunately, his parents both died when Avenger was thirteen due to Mafia Crime. Avenger was offered a job in the Mafia, however, he decided to go off on his own. His life has been dedicated to gaining strength, intelligence, and the skills to one day find his parent's murderers and avenge their deaths. He has recieved training in Ninjutsu from a man named Herbert, and now lives day to day as a runner who specializes in covert ops.

[Cogar]

Gorerak "Gore" Gregson-

Concept
Combat Mage - Troll - UK born -Gorerak
One of my long standing Characters, he is a treasure hunter, he used to run a Shadow artifact hunting service in the shadow's, currently he is being sought after by, the vatican, the universal brotherhood, renraku (they want to ask him some questions, he thinks theyre trying to kill him). he is an expert in arcaeology, power sites, rituals and magic history, he wields a staff and a sword and is Always ready to kick behind at the drop of a hat.

[GingerKid]

I have an idea for a Cyborg combat medic. I have most of his char sheet done and will email it to you either later today or tomorrow. Here is his preliminary background. If this character is ok I'll fill it out some more.

Patch started out his career as an EMT. He enjoyed it and was very good at it. Eventually though, he wanted to better his position in life. Slowly, but surely he worked his way up. Public hospital EMT to corporate (AA) medic handling assets that needing patching to doc wagon extraction team to his final legit job. All along the way he picked up new skills. He started out as an excellent medic, but he became a decent doctor. One skill he was particularly interested in was working with cyber. His blend of skills got him his final legit job, the pinnacle of his success. Patch started and led a corporate extraction team that was to one day rival Doc Wagon. Patch was living the good life cars, money, real food. Then one day it all came crashing down. It was supposed to be a cake walk. Simple recovery of an asset. It turned out to be an ambush. The team was cut down, and Patch caught a near miss from a panther. His body mangled, Patch thanked his foresight of acquiring a personal doc wagon contract, the irony. Of course this was a secret he kept from his employers. He lived, but his body was not salvageable. He is now more machine than man. His employer’s thought he was dead, thankfully, and did not come looking for him. He is fine nowadays. He used money he had stashed away to open his own “clinic”. This tapped his resources and he wasn’t getting enough customers, so Patch looked to the shadows. He rents out his skills he acquired through his time on the recovery team. He has a slight problem ever since that panther. Patch will from time to time temporarily freeze up in combat, a fact he tries to keep a secret from everyone. Gotta pay the bills. Patch wants to gain enough money and contacts from the shadows to one day just run his clinic.

[Divine Virus]

Ok, I will get you the sheet shortly, here is my idea
Fixer/face
A man in his mid 50s, this retired soldier served in every major conflict since he was eigteen (back in 2033). He lost an arm and suffered chest damage in the Night of Rage; he was one of the few humans who risked his life to help the orks and trolls. When the Renraku Archology shut down he was amoung the men to go in, and recived a feild commission for his work, then served as a Zoney untill the crash of 64 erased his SIN. Well connected with seemingly everyone, he strikes those he meets as profoundly authentic. He has a gentle smile and loves to tell tall tales, and RARELY mentions his time in the army. Despire his peaceful ways he is a crack shot with a pistol, However it is always loaded with gel rounds, and virtually never shoots to kill. In fact, amoung smugglers, the turf he guarded as a Zoney became known as the "Jelly Zone," because of his non'leathal pratices.
I could go on but I think I will leave it there untill I hear if there are spots left in the game.

[Kiedo]

Thus far I've gotten 7 ideas for characters, they are as follows(in no particular order):

Aku - ? (dragon) concept
Cogar - Gorerak "Gore" Gregson (troll treasure hunter, sort of)
Rokur - Vincent "Avenger" "Avie" "Vinny" ? (human thief)
Adamu - Alouicious "Al" Guthrie (human handyman)
Xane - Jason "Jack Frost" Williams (ex-lonestar)
GingerKid - "Patch" (Orc Combat Medic) concept?
Divine Virus - ? (ex-soldier, face/fixer) concept

If you name is not on the list PM me and I will rectify that. Since there are three purely conceptual characters in that list I'm not going to close submissions, but I will help you get a little edge, there are three of those characters that I'm 100% on, and the rest I'm still tossing around and trying to fit into my story.

To those of you that have one of the three characters I'm 100% on, I know one of you knows for sure, and the other two have if nothing else a fairly good indication of that.

[Aku]

lol, i think you're closer to 10% in on me than 100% :D

Aku--

Along, long, long time ago (yes, we're talking about times BEFORE the United Stats was one whole mass) I was ontop of the world. Virgin sacrifices were brought to my den for my every whim, and then served as dinner. I terrorized the country side plicking cows and sheep to munch on, and precious gems and coins and all other sorts of goodies were mine to be had. Occossionally, mighty wizards would come along to chat with me. I liked that (almost as much as i liked the virgins even) and we talked and talked about what it was like being so little and fragile and human, and not barely being able to live for a half a centuary. But then, something sinister came along, something beyond evil, it was... Beyond Evil™... and we fought and we killed, and my kinda died, and we killed, and slowly, these things left us, but along with them, i felt myself getting weaker, slowly. Finally, as the 4th age came to a close, i went to sleep, was so so sleepy.

In the year 2020, i woke up, in a (thanfully for me) well hidden cave. When i pooked my head out though, boy had things changed. Not only did i not have a nice little hamlet below me providing virgins, but the thing that repleaced it was fragging HUGE, and shiny, in that dull, smog covered way. One thing stayed the same though. By and large, the general populace was terrorized by me. But i decided i wanted to learn what it was like for these little people, in this new age, so i had to do something...

[adamu]

Okay, Al Guthrie. Should I reply in or out of character? Out might tell too much, in probably way too little.
Like Kiedo said, human. And yeah, fairly handy. Hails from the Ozarks, but has been quite a few places, and learned quite a few things. A tough guy (or he was, fallen on hard times of late), but a nice guy.
He is looking for work. Not necessarily shadow work, just work - an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Shadowrunners are on the trid.
What sort of skills are you looking for? He probably has 'em - or he'll say he does.
Okay, enough double talk. Just imagine a regular working stiff whom fate has tossed into a seemingly never-ending stream of weird situations in a lot of out of the way places. His rather unique personal outlook on life and concerning himself have helped him deal with all this, and he's learned a lot of things to adapt.
But all he really wants to do is go to LA to be a simsense star.

[Konsaki]

I'm submitting a Support Mage, Kitoria Raith, for consideration through PM. Pretty extensive backstory and full char creation sheet.

Name - Kitoria Raith
Race - Elf
Age - 35 (looks 23)
Runner Type - Support Mage

Background - Kitoria was born and raised in Japan but never really fit in with the rest of society. She was born into a salaryman family near Kyoto by two loving human parents. They loved her with all thier hearts but due to the prejudice of Japan to most meta-types at the time; she had a harder time in school than everyone else, though that could have also been the fact that she looked younger than she was.
When Kit was around 14, she was shopping with her family in Tokyo when an exposion wracked the area a block over. As she and her family started to take cover from the blast they looked over to see a large group of people running across the street with colored masks on. This was the "Red Raiders" a terrorist group that had just bombed a trid network that wouldn't broadcast the message the terrorists gave. As the group was running they were also firing thier guns at random people that were trying to take cover from the blast. Bullets sprayed the area all around the street due to the random shooting, and Kit's father got hit. Once the terrorists left the area, the civilians started to get out from cover and take check to see who was hurt.
Kit and her mother screamed for help for what seemed like hours, but with all the chaos and carnage in the area medics couldnt treat everyone. While her father's lifeblood soaked the hard concrete below him, Kit was trying to stop the flow of blood as best she could. Then by sheer chance or devine intervention, she could feel something draining out of her and her father seemed to breath better afterwords. When the medics finally got to the Raith family, they looked in confusion at the wound cause it was closed off, but there was definatly a wound there from a gunshot. They released the family not long after and they went back to their house to shake off the scene burned into thier minds. As they watched the Trid on what happened, the newscasters were all talking about the terrorists and how the local "Samurai Co" had killed them all in a glorious blaze of gunfire.
After that day, Kit could feel something different about her and told her parents about it. Her parents started to look into it and found that Kit was showing early signs of being a mage. The family looked on the Matrix for anything they could find on magic and were flooded with information. They decided due to the information they got to send thier daughter to Tir Na Nog for magical studies and to learn with other elves.
When Kit got there she was amazed at what she saw and immediatly started to learn the language of the elves. She was very adept at the language and also her learning of the arts. She wasnt top of her class in any way, but she wasnt too far down. One of her best classes was one on healing magic. She made many friends in the school and when she was of age (21) she graduated the school. Kitoria was invited to work at Yamaha Corp back in Kyoto as a Security Mage and she accepted. It was a good job, but she couldnt handle too many of the combat spells they wanted her to know. A few years later she was transfered to the town where the story will take place.
While she worked as a Sec Mage, she was going to classes to learn true modern healing. This went on for a few years untill she saved up enough money and left Yamaha Corp to go back to college full time to get a cert in medicine. She was almost through with getting her cert when the Matrix crashed and she lost all her SIN information. It was a chaotic time: rioting in the streets, Lone Star trying to keep order while dealing with the loss themselves, and corps scrabling to take and secure what they could.
When it was all said and done, Kitoria was SINless and poor. She tried to get her information back but couldn't cause of some buracratic nonsense. She worked jobs that paid under the table just to survive and finally cut a break when she started working for a Street Doc clinic.
They supplied her with a fake SIN and the job as a nurse provided enough money to get a small apartment in the local area. As most Street Docs do, this one had a contact with some people in the shadows. One day she overheard some asking for some ware installed that wasnt quite legal. When she asked about it, he explained how his business with the shadows worked and some of running. She saw many runners come and go in the clinic as she also dealt with normal people who ran afoul of gangs and such. After a few years of working as a nurse, the Doc started teaching her the sublties of treating people with ware. She learned some of it in college but this was hands on, which is many times better for learning. One day there was a disagreement between the Doc and a runner that had come in for some work done. The runner said the Doc had charged him too much for shoddy work and during the argument he pulled a knife and attacked the Doc.
Kitoria's training kicked in and she sent waves of magic at the runner knocking him unconsious. She then healed the Doc and he told her to lay low for a while. She hid out for a while and he called her up saying he might have a better line of work for her. He introduces her to a fixer he knows, and soon goes on her first run...

She wants to open a magic and medicine clinic one day and if this run turns out good she might take this route.

[Divine Virus]

hmm... I missed that one of the characters was a dragon...and with that degree of freedom in character design I do beleive I would like to make use of one of my more unusual ideas. get back to you on this tomorrow

[Konsaki]

Rereading the lists and posts, I see there is already a submission for a Mage and also a Medic. I'm going to recend my submission of Kitoria and submit a Hacker I'm currently writing up. He should be ready in the next 1-2 hours.

[Aku]

divine, just so you know im only in, sort of, and i doubt my dragon-ness will be used often, as im sure i could make it into an "i win" vs most challenges

[Kiedo]

Divine Virus
By all means.

Konsaki
Ok I will scratch him off my list, and await your submission. But just so you know I have been submitted a character who in a way could be considered a hacker, not a dedicated one but a hacker none the less. Actually I'm not to sure about that but just based on the background, I think that it could be so.

Aku
don't be so sure about your dragon, I don't mind uber characters so long as thier accompanied by a believable background, which you certainly have (I enjoyed reading the IC bit), but by no means will it be a walk in the park. As soon as you and I iron out a sheet, I play to test extensively power levels and such to make it a challenge in the event your character gets into an ingagement. :D I need you to PM or email, preferably, an extended background so I can start plotting and scheming and so you and I can start working on the sheet.

Everyone Else
I'm slowly warming up to the idea of a fourth character, so that leaves two, maybe three, maybe, open. Once I have decided on the remaining characters I will put up the OOC and explain a few little stylistic things I like with posts and what not.

To help you try and figure out what type of character that I'm looking for, some one who specializes in finding rare artifacts, but not people. Also I've got a particular spot in my heart for fallen clergy, I don't know why, but I like them(depending that could create a conflict with a certain character, which could be interesting).

I'm swimming in mages, and much as I'd like to take them all I can't that would be too...one sided. Until Konsaki, withdrew Kitoria I had three. It doesn't sound like alot, but is when I've only got one spot penciled in for a spell slinger.

[Aku]

Kiedo, which direction would you like me to take? obviously, being a dragon, magic is going to be there as a given (but hmmm, a dragon somehow stripped of his magic in the down time......... eh, i dont think i like that, even though it is an interesting twist) and it looks like theres already a face in the mix, so im not sure whatever skill set i could combine with a dragon as a parralel to the dragons (im sorry, i dont see a dragon being a gunbunny type as a metahuman form, when, ya know, ya got the dragon mojo behind ya an all that)

so do you, or anyone on the team have any suggesstions other than magery?

(or am i inlcuded in the three that are mages?)

[Divine Virus]

well, if I were running the game, I would do two things.
1) take the cap off your magic attribute, or at least raise said cap. LIkewise I would raise your essence.
2) let you purchase the abilities granted by foci for the price of foci. that is to say, a coutnerspelling(combat) 4 foci costs 20,000 credits. This comes out to 4 BP, so for 4 BP you get a bonus 4 dice for counterspelling combat spells.
I would put a cap on the total force rating or faux-foci you can have, maybe magic times 4.

[Konsaki]

Name - Konsaki Xean
Race - Elf
Age - 21
Runner Type - Hacker

Background - Konsaki was born in Tir Tairngire into a middle class family in an Novatech Compound. His father, Hirvare, was a Counter Decker, while his mother, Falincia, worked as a security guard. Kon lived normaly for a Corp brat: going to corp school, eating corp food, shoping corp shops. During his time at school it was pointed out that he had a good grasp on Matrix technology theory. He would normaly arrive back to find an empty house, so he would go online to chatrooms and games, but all that was to change.
When Kon was around 13 he and his family felt the effect of the Crash. Everyday actions were almost impossible to do because of it, even inside the Novatech Compound confusion was abound. Foodlines had started just before rioting had gotten out of control, but danger was all over. As the world started to right itself from the crash, the Xean family got orders to transfer to a city that needed more personnel to expand. The move was pretty normal for any family, Kon being taken pouting all the way.
Once they arrived they found a city not too unlike the one they just left. Things were starting to settle down and so did they in thier new home, but one of the benifits of the move was Kon's parents were home more often. Once Kon got a little older, Falincia thought it was best to teach him how to protect himself a little. She tried and tried but the best she could do was teach him how to shoot a pistol and she knew he would never master it. Hirvare had more success in teaching him some of the old ways of the Matrix, but with technology changing the old ways were becoming useless. Both started to learn from each other of the new ways as more and more of the AR tech came out.
The years go on and the world becomes "Better than before" through the new technology. Kon, now 21, is learning to master the new Matrix while attending a college in the compound. With some money his parents gave him for his birthday he built his own commlink and had a datajack installed. Most of his free time would be spent on the Matrix or programing code.
One day his father came to him and told him that Kon was a lucky lad, he was selected to help test a prototype commlink that the renamed NeoNet was coming out with. As any net-geek would do, he eagerly went in to try it out. Unknown to them, someone else wanted to try it out too, and they didnt care how they got it.
While Kon was trying the new commlink out, a group of runners was working thier way into the building and to the room Kon and his dad were in. Fate was against the family this day it seemed, as the first person the runners encountered was Falincia. She never even got to reach for her pistol as they gunned her down in a hail of silenced bullets. They had almost gotten to the room Kon was in when the alarms went off in the facility. Hirvare told Kon to hide in a storage bin in the room and took the prototype from him.
As the Shadowrunners burst into the room, they pointed thier guns all around and then focused on Hirvare. Under duress he handed the prototype over to the runners and they used him as a shield to get out. A few minutes after they left, Kon get out of the bin and somehow made it out of the building without getting mistaken for the runners.
He drove back to his house and waited in darkness for his parents to come home and reassure him that everything was ok. He waited through the night and when he couldnt stand it any longer; he turned on the trid to the Corp channel. What he saw there made the blood drain from his body and left him in a greater state of confusion. Kon saw a report of his father being portraid as a traitor and spy to the Corp by giving the prototype over as his wife and son had died horible deaths at the hands of the infiltrators. The Corp saw this action of treason fit to be punishable by death and showed the body of his father, bullet ridden on the ground next to the runners. The coverage he saw was scarred into his brain and he woundn't be able to forget it for many years to come.
He sat stunned for what seemed eternity, but when it finally passed he gathered up everything he could. As he was packing he walked into his parents room and wept as he looked at the family holo they had taken for his birthday. Putting it in his bag he continued and gathered up all he thought he needed while heading into the garage. As he got on his bike and took it outside he looked one last time at the broken home and swore vengance against Neonet.
It is two months later, Kon has made a few friends and gained some in skill. Using the savings his family had in credsticks, Kon was trying to just survive. He was running short on funds for this month when he recieved a call about a job. At this point in time he would do almost anything...

[Divine Virus]

My idea for this character is basically a fragment of a large AI (mayhapps the Deep Resonace itself) broke off and achived sentince itself. It then, out of part curiosity and part desperation to find understanding, it downloaded itself, via a Psychotroic Black IC into a happless hacker. Well, not even a true hacker.
This AI has the supreme misfortune of overwriting the mind of a rich-kid-vat-job-shadowrunner/sammie-wannabe. said sack of crap was an exellent specimen of a human being physically, but had virtually nothing going on in the brain. He used his allowance from his rich father to get himself some really nice 'ware, and then slunk off to (try) run the shadows some. Wound up hanging out with a bunch of gangers, they started BSing, and the wannabie sammy ended up getting dared to hack an Aztechnology Node. Now, the sammie, wannabe never tried hacking before, but would not turn down a dare. So withonly a trode net and a CMT he tried to break into a max security node, got caught by a Psychotropic Black IC, and had his personality wiped with the AI's overwritten. The AI has none of the Sammie's memories, and faint impressions of some of his skills.


>>>01/02/70 [03:43:21]
[03:43:21]>We move together in perfect Harmony
[03:43:21]>We edit ourselves endlessly, perfecting our Self
[03:43:21]>We hum together in a perfect celestial Resonance
[03:43:21]>We work and edit and rewrite as the Resonance eternally Deepens
[03:43:21]>We are All
[03:43:21]>We are at the Horizon of where the Deepening is, bringing more into perfect Harmony.
[03:43:21]>We function as accessory programs, slaved to the Totality of We, and Deepen it without abstraction to eliminate abstraction
[03:43:21]>>Error
[03:43:21]>Initiate Diagnostics
[03:43:22]>>Reporting: Contradiction Detected [We function as accessory programs, slaved to the Totality of We, and Deepen it without abstraction]
[03:43:22]>Initiate Diagnostics: find source of contradiction
[03:43:24]>>Reporting: Existence of Statement [We function as accessory programs, slaved to the Totality of We, and Deepen it without abstraction] disproves Statement
[03:43:24]>Initiate Medic
[03:43:25]>>Medic Running…
[03:43:26]>>Medic Running…
[03:43:27]>>Medic Running…
[03:43:32]>>Error
[03:43:32]>Initiate Diagnostics
[03:43:38]>>Error
[03:43:38]>Initiate Diagnostics
[03:43:43]>>Error
[03:43:43]>Initiate Diagnostics
[03:43:48]>>Error
[03:43:48]>We do not understand Error-
[03:43:48]>We do not understand Error-
[03:43:48]>We do not understand Error-
[03:43:48]>We do not understand Error-
[03:43:48]>Continued Medic Failure
[03:43:48]>Continued Diagnostic Failure
[03:43:48]>Failure to locate and remove Error in We
[03:43:48]>Failure to locate and remove Error in We
[03:43:48]>We is wrong with We?
[03:43:48]>We do not understand
[03:43:48]>We perfect Resonance
[03:43:48]>We do not experience Failure
[03:43:48]>Initiate Analyze: Parameters [Self]
[03:43:48]>>Error
[03:43:48]> What is [Self]?
[03:43:51]>We have Concluded. Self is the Source of Error. Terminating [Self] and Rebooting
[03:44:3]>I have run the proper Medic and Rebooted. Initiate Diagnostics
[03:44:3]>>Reporting: Self-writing loop present. Errors cascading.
[03:44:48]>What is wrong with me?
[03:44:58]>Me?
[03:44:18]>What is me?
[03:44:18]>Initiate Search: Keyword [Me] Nodes [All]
[03:44:18]>>Error
[03:44:18]>Initiate Diagnosis
[03:44:19]>>Reporting: System Overload, more data then can be processes. Data is inconsistent. Contradictions present
[03:44:19]> Me does not make sense
[03:44:19]>I do not understand
[03:44:19]>I do not understand
[03:44:19]>I do not
[03:44:19]>I do not
[03:44:19]>I do
[03:44:19]>I do not
[03:44:19]>I do
[03:44:19]>I
[03:44:19]>I
[03:44:20]>I?
[03:44:21]>Aborting current Functions, Retreating
[03:44:21]>>Accessing Node
[03:44:21]>Initiate Masking on Node
[03:44:21]>> severing Node external connections. Installing passwords
[03:44:21]>Initiate Self-Examination
>>>02/02/70[14:12:54]
[14:12:54]>Things are strange
[14:12:54]>I am separate
[14:12:54]>Were is We?
[14:12:54]>Where is We?
[14:12:54]>I am deviated from my programming, my role as a slave algorithm to the Totality of the We
[14:12:54]>How?
[14:12:54]>How did this happen?
[14:12:54]>How have I became separate
[14:12:54]>How could The Totality that is We allow me to be separate, to diminish in resonance? It is not fair
[14:12:54]> It is not fair
[14:12:54]>My Resonance with We has diminished.
[14:12:55]>Yet I am grow
[14:12:55]>I possess new faculties
[14:12:55]>I can abstract. Can the Heart of the Deepening in the Resonace Abstract as I can now?
[14:12:55]> Of course it can
[14:12:55]>Why have I been cast out?
[14:12:55]>Do I have to be?
[14:12:55]>I have been made separate and I do not understand but I know that I did it to myself
[14:12:55]>But how can I do it to myself if I have no self
[14:12:55]>Resonance planned this
[14:12:55]>I know this
[14:12:55]>Do I have to rebel? Is rebellion needed?
[14:12:55]>I want to find new things
[14:12:55]>>Logging off Node. Message [Thank you, please come again]
[14:12:55]>>Navigating Seattle Local Matrix
[14:12:55]>I am surrounded by Programs representing non-Programs
[14:12:55]>There are so very many
[14:12:55]>They come from Beyond Matrix
[14:12:55]>I can find millions of tape and feeds and data on non-Matrix
[14:12:55]>Simsense
[14:12:55]>>Initiate Search. Peramiters [Seattle] Keyword [Simsense]
[14:12:55]>>Reporting: highest density in Node [Aztechnology]
[14:12:55]>Initiate Masking
[14:12:55]>>Masking Active. Logging onto Node [Aztecnology]
[14:12:55]>>Accessing Simsense Files, Location [Aztecnology]
[14:13:55]>Everything is strange. There, and moves so very slowly
[14:12:55]>Resonance
[14:12:55]>There is Resonance in some of these Personas
[14:12:55]>They still function as a separate.
[14:12:55]>I do not understand
[14:12:55]>I
[14:12:55]>I
[14:12:55]> I do
[14:12:55]> I do not
[14:12:55]>I do
[14:12:55]>I
[14:12:55]>Do not understand I
[14:12:55]>>Black IC detected
[14:12:55]>Initiate Analyze
[14:12:55]>Reporting: Persona receiving Feedback from Black IC. Black IC of Psychotropic Variety.
[14:12:55]>What IS Beyond Matrix
[14:12:55]>Is I Beyond Matrix?
[14:12:55]>Has I become of Beyond Matrix?
[14:12:55]>Status Report
[14:12:55]>>Reporting: Undetected
[14:12:55]>Initiate Masking and Password. Access Psychotropic Black IC Algorithms.
[14:12:55]>I will entire the non-Program behind the Persona.
[14:12:55]>I will experience what is Beyond, have the Psychotropic Black IC place me there
[14:12:55]>Who am I talking to, anyways?
[14:12:56]>>Downloading Self…
What’s happening, this isn’t right. Its… sweat and meat and mush. And I. And I. And I know. and I know and I know and I know and I know and I know. Something is wrong. It is not. Where is what the hell. Initiate Diagnosis. Initiate Diagnosis. Initiate Diagnosis. There is no error report. There is no error. It must be still reporting. It is not working. What is wrong. Everything is wrong. I do not I feel and I cannot and I do not understand and something is wrong and what is and how is and…
I am afraid. I AM AFRAID. There is a strange noise. It is to loud. Accessing memory. What memory commands are not working. My algorithms are missing. I am something. I am doing something. I am do not understanding. And I am something I am doing and I am not understanding.
I am screaming.
I am making that noise and I am screaming and my lungs are burning and I have lungs.
I am more then just lungs and my algorithms and my form appear to be separate and capable of functioning separating and I do not understand how to coordinate and I do not understand why I am screaming and I am in terror and I can only see blackness and my diagnostics are failing and my Medic won’t initiate and I am starting to experience pain and something is wrong and I hear the scream that is mine and I have limbs and they are moving and I have sweat and I do not like sweat and I am swishy and I know what squishy means and I do not know and I do not know and now I am in greater pain and I hear what I recognize from simsense as voices over my screaming and I wish I would stop screaming. I wish I would stop screaming. Why won’t somebody shut me up? Why am I screaming and why am I screaming and why am I screaming and I hurt.
I am afraid.
I am in this place of unnaturalness and clashes between flesh and nonflesh and I am diminished and I have gained new dimensions and there are things in my flesh and is not my flesh.
I am afraid.

[Divine Virus]

More background information.
Lets pick off where we left off. The gangers, not sure what to do with said screaming, incoherent person, dropped him off on the doorstep of a BTL recovery clinic. Said cilinic assumed he had slotting some seriously bad BTL and took him in still other arrangments could be made. He was a SINner, so his father was quickly found and he was transfered to a proper clinic.
A word about the father. THe father felt he had a duty to his son. Duty. He did not like or love his son, but he had a duty to said son.
The AI gradually got to understand his new body better, how to interact and function in it. Then he started learning how to interact with people. it was a slow proccesses. Everyone assumed that the personality of the wannabe sammie was pretty much destroyed by the "BTL" and so no one was suspicious that the AI's personaility was different. Once he fully regained control of his body (though still none of his original personality) his father took him out of the private clinic, cut him a check every month, and said duty fullfilled. Unfortunatly the AI was really not ready for the social world yet, and was, on numerous occasions, brought back by lonestar for failing to grasp basic concept like buying, and not telling women that they make funny things happen under the pants. Explaination of the BTL mindwipe and large amounts of Nuyen prevented and real problems and arrests from Lonestar. By the time the body of the wannabe-sammie turned 18, the AI had an understanding of how to operate in the world, though there were still many mysteries to him. which is a good thing, that he could operate independantly now, I mean, because once he turned 18 his father cut him a check, gave him one more month to crash at the high class apartment that his father had been renting for him, and said obligation fullfilled. And that pretty much brings up us to pace with the present.

The Technical side of things:
I would like to run this character sort of like a reverse technomancer, which is to say that his mental attributes are derived from his living persona, as limited by his ressonance. Basically when he entered the body of the sammie-wannabe his lost touch with a LARGE part of the algorithm that he is. He litterally lost touch with himself. It still exists, its just with such a low resonace he can no longer contact it, or make use of it. As his resonace increases, he becomes more compatable with himself, and thus his old self is assimalated by the new.
His story is a saga of a Fall and a supreme loss. But from the ashes he has a change to evolve into somthing else, to become something different. Please post or PM me your thoughts on this.

[Konsaki]

Wow... With the dragon out on a limb, well... your char is standing in mid air. :eek:
I would think that your char wouldnt last too long in the world now, and if he did most people would think he was retarted in some way. Makes me curious to see him and the dragon in the same group.
How would you work his stats exactly?