OOC: Insurrection, do you have what it takes? Options

[Kiedo]

Okay once again, just for book keeping purposes (mainly), here are the folks, aside form myself, invovlved in this run.

Divine Virus - human(?) - Nicholas Gats Miralda - face/fixer
Konsaki - elf - Roland "Drifter" Matthews - bounty hunter
Digital Heroin - human(?) - Yoshiro "Triplicate" Takahara - technomancer

if you see a question mark that means either I don't know a particular piece of information or I'm not sure, please help me fill in the blanks.

A few guide lines

- place a date/time/location stamp, in yellow on each post IC, unless your having a conversation and then it could get tedious. A good rule of thumb is, if you think more than ten minutes have pasted IC, stamp it. I use military time, when I post my time stamps, you don't have to if you don't want to.

- please turn your signatures off when posting IC.

- You are rolling your own dice, I trust you. When you post your results, please put the numbers rolled and not just the number of hits.

- Dice pool modifiers. if I decide that you incure dice pool modifiers, then one of two things will happen. A) I will ask you to reroll with the appropriate amount of dice, or B) I will roll the extra dice and add them to your results.

- I would prefer all dice rolls be placed in spoilers here in the OOC, it's not a biggy it just makes everything tidy.

- Spoilers and other people's characters. If there are spoiler tags with sombody else's character's name above it, I don't care if you read it, if I want to do something I don't want other PCs knowing about I'll PM. I just use spoilers again for neatness.

Getting Started

- As a mnemonic device so we all can get to know one another, and all the characters, I'd like you to do the following.

- Give us a name to call you, if your DS name is fine with you just use that.

- Tell us a little bit about your level of roleplaying expirence.

- Give us a nice physical desciption and background teaser about your character.

My name's Jacob, I've been roleplaying since 1999, and have played mostly shadowrun. I've GMed most of that time, only recently trying my had at PCs.

Now there are some things you guys need to think about. Since you are coming into the game a preestablished team, do you want a team leader, a name. Also you might want to try and interweave your backgrounds a little to help things go smoothly.

[Konsaki]

Hiya all. My name is Matt and I am 23. I've been RPing in P&P games off and on for the past 10 or so years. I've GMed a few times with a couple of novice groups to get them into the swing of playing P&P D&D and SR4 but havent GMed any epic runs. I've generally been in more Hack n' Slash groups than RP groups, though I like to try and RP even in them.
P&P Portfolio - Marvel Superhero, Vampire the Masqurade, Paladium's Hero Game(the name excapes me right now, AD&D, D&D 2ed through 3.5, little SR3 and SR4.
I am currently in Korea right now so my posting will be dependant on what shift im working. If i am working nights then I will probably be able to post more often than days, but I still plan on at least 1+ posts a day.


Char Description
Name - Roland "Drifter" Matthews
Ocupation - Bounty Hunter
Race - Elf (Caucasian)
Age - 45 but he looks 27 (My own spin on elven aging from D&D i guess ;) )
Hair/Eye - Brown/Hazel
Hight/Weight - 5' 11"/190lb

Appearance - As you look at Roland you see a man who has trained his body all his life. He is neither too muscled nor too lean, but there is something in the way he carries himself. A look into his eyes tells there is some intelligence within this tanned and weather beaten frame.
Fully outfitted for his job he looks like a bounty hunter from a old western minus the long duster. His jacket is leather looking but old and worn, while his jeans and shirt underneath look fairly clean. On his head you see a black cowboy hat that, if you picked it up, would weigh more than it should.
He speaks with a slight southern accent in a voice that would make the "Duke" proud. On close inspection you see there is no cyberware to be seen on this man but you see a scar that runs down the left side of his face from his left eye to his chin.

Group Knowledge

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DV - Based off the age's and backgrounds of our chars, I'm guessing that they might have gone out drinking every now and then; sharing stories while doing so. If this is true, then your char will know most of Roland's past, cause once he starts drinking and swaping stories, it just comes out.
Roland wont talk about what he did before he was a bounty hunter but he tells about his beautiful wife, Fiona, and his son. He goes on for a while with a sad look in his eyes that turns vengeful once he started talking about how they were murdered by the "Dimondhead Fangs" gang. As he tells you how he assasinated the gang leader by disguising himself as a ganger after causing a gangwar, his voice gets more harsh with each word. Afterwards though, his demeaner shifts back to a saddened state as he just looks into his drink for a while.
After time has past, he tells how he escaped the ensuing hellish battle by the skin of his teeth, waking up to see the inside of his Street Doc's office. He then goes on to explain that his street doc offered him a deal: pay up a huge cost in bills for a month's stay or track down a few people who also have huge bills and ran out on them. This is what started him down the bounty hunter path and he has kept to it all the way up to getting contacted for this shadowrunning group.
Generally, if Roland knows about your background he will give your char a good deal of respect.
DH - Roland will probably respect your character for being able to back him up by doing all the Matrix moves. He probably doesnt understand anything about how you do it, he is just grateful that you can. Even with that said, if your char doesnt have enough combat skill Roland might still treat you a little offhanded when it comes to some discussions.

Team Name - I have no idea what to throw down for this cause i dont know enough about the other chars. :(

[Divine Virus]

Hello, my real name is Zander, and I started playing RPGs 8 years ago, and I am just restarting after a one year hiatus. I am new to shadowrun, though I have been enjoying shadowrun novels for a half dozen years.

And yes, I did copy paste my intro from your other game.

Nicholas Gats Miralda

Nicholas was born in 2015. As of this year of 2070, he is 55 years old, and has seen MANY things. He has met many people. But let us start at the begining. Nicholas dropped out of school when he was 16, conviced that so much interesting stuff was happening in the world that anything he learn in school would be completely irrelavent in the next 5 years. So he traveled the newly combined states and canada till he was 18, then enrolled in the army right away. Physically fit, gutsy, and charming, the young Nicholas quickly moved up the ranks to private, first class, and was a Corperal by the time he finished his second three year term, is 2039. Before signing up for another, he decided to take some time off and see more of the country he had been risking his life for. It was on februairy seventh, 2039 that Nicholas found himself in Seattle, during what would latter be known as the Night of Rage. Nicholas always had the strong beleif that it mattered not what creed or meta-type one was, we were all people, and differences were illusionairy. Nick is a man who would die living by that belief. DUring the Night of Rage Nick did everything in his power to insure the safty of the trolls and orks, even though he was human, even agiesnt the riotous mobs.

Every person, no matter how great or how small, at some point in thier life, has had a defining moment. That is to say the culmination of thier character into a single point in time that shows their true color. Unfortunately for Corperal Nicholas Gats Miralda, his defining moment was almost his last. (sorry Kiedo, couldn't help myself).
Nick lost his arm that night, and had his chest turned into a pulp. He will never tell the story of how it happend. but it is a good tale, and it deserves to be told.

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As a last resort, Nick, and a group of mostly orks, with a few trolls scattered amoung, had "commendeered" a boat and was doing their best to make a get away. As they pulled out from the dock, a mob caught sight of them, and decided to cut off their escape. already to far to jump onto the boat, some clown in the mob had a grenade and a good throwing arm. Fish in a barrel. He threw it and it in the dim light it was perfectly clear that it was going to land cleanly into the boat. So Nick, standing at the back of the boat, leaped as far as he could and made what was both the luckiest and unluckiest catch of his life. In mid air he manged to intercept the grenage, catching it in his right hand. THen he went down, into the water, at the whim of gravity. It was a cheap grenade, and years old. thats why he didn't die. all that happened what his right arm was blown off, his chest was crushed virtually beyound a hope, and he was sinking. The mob saw, and was shamed. They did not pursue the escapees further. a brave ork clung to a lifesaver and dragged Nickolas out. By all rights he should have died, but Nicholas held onto life. On the the orks on the boat was remarkably wealthy, and grateful. He payed for the cybertorso and cyberarm, both SOTA at the time, which saved Nick's life and allowed him to continue in the army. That same ork latter became a key figure in the devlopment of the Ork Underground, and the two became fast friends. Nick has always been welcome in thte Ork Underground, though young orks don't remember why any more, but he is still a respected figure, rememered for doing... something... remarkable during the Night of Rage

After that Nick served three more terms, quickly reaching the rank of Sergeant, First Class. Sargent Miralda then worked as a drill sergeant, untill the Cermak Blast, when he assinged to lead Squad into the remains of Chicago and help clean up the mess there. He won further distiction during those combats, and when the situation was more secure he did a few more years of of training, earning the repuatation of the best damge drill Sergeant in the camp. FOr this reason he was called from the role of Drill instructor again when the Renraku Archology went into lockdown. He was amoung the forces that cracked the Renraku Archology and amoung the first inside. He won't say a word of what happend in there, and neither shall I this time. but he lost his cyberarm, and recived a full field-commission to the rank of Major, as his arm was replaced by the army.
Now, lets turn back the clock a bit. Dunkelzahn was Miralda's personal hero. The only time Miralda got truely shitfaced was when he heard of Dunkelzahn's death. He has never drank since.
After the Archology was liberated Maj. Miralda was assigned to be a Zoney, and did remarkably well, earning himself a permotion to Lieutenant Colonel. Unfortunatly, this brought him under the command of pretty much the one and only man who resented Miralda. The Colonel that Miralda served under resent Miralda rapid rise through the ranks, resented his feild commision. Resented that everyone seemed to naturally like Miralda and resented that he sorta liked Miralda as well. Miralda still fared well, earning himself a reputation for his nonleathal methods in apprehending smugglers and the like.
When the crash of '64 came Miralda's SIN was earased. The Colonel took advantage of this to try to have Miralda arrested for impersinating an officer. However certain people, those sent to arrest him, happened to let Miralda escape, as they knew that he wasn't, impersonating and offer, and also because they really liked him, most people did.

SINless, Miralda heading to Seattle, got intouch with his Ork chummer, and tried to build a new life...

Miralda is a tall man, well past his best years. The stress of leaving the army, which he was in for 37 years, took a grave tool on him. Miralda's hair is almost completely grey, and his face is weatherbeaten. But the lines on said face are from smiling, not from frowning. he has a slight stubble as often as he is cleanshaven, and has a ready laugh and deep brown eyes. he still has the build of a soldier, even if most of the muscle and fittness has left him.

Edit: I was actually still working on this when Konsaki posted. Well, Miralda doesn't drink but he does love listening to stories. He goes to bars sometimes, sipping water and pretending its vodka. (he knows many bartenders so they don't mind to much. He tips well, for water, and tends to draw a bigger crowd, rithout making things rouwdy.

[Kiedo]

Oh, I forgot to mention, shadow had to back out for....personal reasons, so it will just be the three of you. I hope that doesn't hinder anything. At least this time, you've got a face (Zander you can appreciate that, lol).

And with three PCs you almost won't need a team leader, so that might save you some trouble voting on things like that (that is of course if there are still at least three PCs).

If somebody else backs out, I'm going to post a new Recruitment thread and try to get at least two more players quickly, but I hope we're still three strong.

[Divine Virus]

I'm still good. still working out the details of my character. I never seem to have all the points I need for attributes.... then the bioware calls....
So yes, I will have my character in hopefully later today, and he will certainly be `a good face. Far better then a 3 dice default. My main problem is working out contacts. which reminds me. expect a PM about that soon Kiedo.

[Divine Virus]

Digital Heroin, how long ago did you work for Renraku, cause Miralda was with the forces that invaded when Deus shut the plce down. Its possible that there is a link there.

[Kiedo]

I'm going to wait until I hear from everybody to post the IC thread, in case I still have to recruit a few more folks...

[Digital Heroin]

Appologies for my lack of response here, it's been that kind of weekend...

As for how long ago Yoshi worked for Renraku, he was part of the corporation back when the Arcology was shut down, but as a ward, not an employee... he grew up in a corporate orphanage in Japan, and only came across the ocean vast following the Crash 2.0.

[Konsaki]

Good to see you are still in DH. Could you give some some general info about your char: name, age, appearance and such. It would help me fine tune my own char's relations and maybe give me some ideas about team names if any.

[Kiedo]

I have a question. Will you guys be okay with three people or should I try and get one or two more? I'll leave it up to you.

[Divine Virus]

well. We pretty much have everything covered except for magic.
I see two options:
1) we recruit a mage, and possibly a rigger (unless you got that covered DH)
2) I shelve Miralda and whip up a face/shaman, and triplicate (if needed) gets a few ranks in pilots skills.

EDIT: just thought up a third....
3) Remember in your other game Kiedo, how you said that if you have any unusual ideas, you would allow them? does that work here to? cause I can tell you that if Aku didn't beat me to the dracoform idea, I would have asked it myself. My longstanding love of dragons is what got me into RPGs in the first place. I could use the same houserules you gave Aku to whip up a dracoform face/magic user.
cheers everyone

[Kiedo]

No that won't be nessicary, I think you'll be fine as three. It'll be easier on me anyway not having to keep track of ten players and only eight (5 from extradition of course).

Like all my runs I don't plan far enough ahead to require any certain type of character so what ever you lack, you probably won't wind up needing, and if you do I'll NPC it out.

Today, I'm going to post the IC, a little later once I work out the kinks in the briefing. I have tons of stuff for Houston, since that's were I live and all my local group runs take place. So there should be a little bit of color that Extradition lacks (not that it's noticable with such good players).

Since my games all acknowledge the existance of one another and exist in a single time line (albiet very loose and shakey), this run will be the culmination of an entire episode of history (in my little world), and no doubt NPCs will speak the names of your characters frequently in other runs, in quiet revrence.

[Konsaki]

Ah i can see it now... "Drifter was a good runner in his day. Too bad he tried to bounty a dragon and was snuffed out with a twitch of it's tail..."

So you live in Houston huh? I lived in the San Antonio before i enlisted.

[Kiedo]

Cool, yep the Bayou City, horrible place, but it's all I've got, lol.

[Divine Virus]

crap. I can't get the stuff (knowedges and contact detail) done tonight, got a paper due in tomorrow, and another on friday. will try my best to get it done asap

[Divine Virus]

I'm pretty sure that getting a suit from one of Miralda's many contacts doesn't really warrent a roll, or the like, given the 6 odd hours he has to do it.

same goes for getting the bartender to pour him some water without complaints. not really worth a nedatiation roll.

[Konsaki]

How long do you think it has been since our characters have seen each other, couple of weeks to a month?

[Divine Virus]

I'm guessing a good month, seems about right to me.

[Digital Heroin]

By way of introduction, I'm Steve, I've been gaming in some manner or another for the better part of seventeen years. I'm currently serving in the Canadian Navy, but try not to hold that against me, eh.

Breif character bio:

Name: Yoshiro Takeshi
Streetname: Triplicate
Age: 26
Sex: Male
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 175lbs.

While not physically strong, Yoshiro keeps himself in good shape. He has a keen, often transformational sense of style, but is rarely seen in anything that could be considered commonplace. Some mistake this for a sense of vanity, but it instead an expression of a freedom he has only come to appreciate in the last decade.

Skillset:

Triplicate is not a combat oriented decker, instead he is the storied Ghost in the Machine. He prefers a subtle approach, but when it comes down it, he is not afraid to fight. The same applies to his physical presence. While often unassuming, he is no pushover, skilled in both ranged and melee combat.

He speaks little of his past, but will show no shame of his corporate roots if confronted with it. Suprisingly, to some, he shows no bias against those with no corporate background, and he remains quite open minded.

[Kiedo]

I didn't know Canada had a navy, lol.

But seriously my girlfriend is a canadian citizen so I'm fairly canadian friendly.

[Digital Heroin]

We've got two canoes and a beaver per coast, eh. Used to be we here on the West coast had a killer whale, but she got taken out in the great tubboat battle of '05.

[Divine Virus]

Keeping in mind that Canada is pretty much the only contry with connects to 3 different Oceans, it brings out Navy's total firepower up to 6 canoes and 3 beavers, truely a force to be reckoned with.

[PBTHHHHT]

sorry, had to interject because your canadian navy jokes made me laugh. :-) I'm gonna use it on my canadian friends.

[Kiedo]

I'm sorry I never really think of Canada as having any armed forces, I've been a few times and everyone is so nice and it's so clean that I couldn't see why anybody would want to attack Canada. Well except maybe the French, but they're push overs.

[Konsaki]

Heh, go to Google, type in French Victories and then hit the "Feel Lucky" button. :grinbig: