Recruitment: Mirrors in the Shadow, sr4 semi open game about the players Options

[Cold-Dragon]

Mirrors in the Shadow is a campaign about, well, the players characters themselves. There are runs, there are bad guys, there are super powers and not-so superpowers.

And if you work for it, you might become one of them.

Since this game focuses more around the characters when determining events and consequences, what you do as a player can drastically change things. Taking the steps to being a burn out will lead you to burning out, but it will have opportunities to recover too (would be silly to kill you slowly - you'd take up game space that way). If you take Steps to try and take over a megacorporation, you may very well reach it if you have the guts and possibly cold edge of business law to take it. Don't think only the mundane are going to have the fun here: there are magical super powers as well, and one could, in theory, become a superpower of that nature as well.

What you can use:
SR4 book
Street Magic book (*clings to owned one posessively*)

As per creation rules, you basically follow the standard rules presented in the book. 400 points, no items above this rating or whatever, etc, etc. No initiating beforehand, yadda. if you want to be creative in some way, you have to run it by me first, but I'm not entirely stingy about imagination. If you want to do makes sense you can supply a method of making it work by SR standards, you may very well find it within your grasp.


Now, for the important technical details.

This is a relatively small game, as far as players go. I have one player in reserve (who really wants to play, and had her chance spoiled before from 'problems' of other players committing), and I will take 2-3 more here to join her. If for some reason she drops out, I will keep the game up and take one more person (to the max of 4) if desired.
I would prefer that players try and make character that can get along on a basic level: they will work together, not neccessarily betray one another without damn good reason, etc. If you make a person so grossly incapable to work with the others, or events turn that way, I will intervene in some unlisted fashion (from telling you to remake the person, or by splitting the roads until your character 'learns' to play along).
In case you think that means you have to always be in a party, it does not. This is about the characters, and if there's a private, one person story line to work with for awhile, it can and will be done (as such, metaplanar travel may become an entertaining break for the rest of the group).

In the case of rules and rules lawyers, I will listen to initial complaints or suggestions or questions about things and try to give an honest answer as best I can. I am flexible with some things when it comes to odd moments in the rules. Repetitiveness may change my mind if it somehow comes up, but not for genuine issues (I will get annoyed if you try to bend rules solely for your benefit all the time. I will be pleased if you try to be creative in how you deal with situations where the rules get tricky). I don't know what variant rules I will be using as of yet. Chances are most variants will be from street magic, since the ones in SR4 are usually more about making things more challenging.

The one exception to variants is how edge regenerates and karma is gained: you gain back edge with very clever actions (the less edge you have available, the less cleverness needed). A safe nights sleep will recover all edge, whereas a bad nights sleep might only give you a point or two. Karma is awarded in the traditional sense, but since mages tend to be karma costly, 'good will' or 'bad will' (if you're one of those types) can gain you bonus 'latent' karma. This karma is only good for magical purposes such as enchanting, binding, etc, etc (basically, just about anything magical that doesn't involve learning). Learning in this case implies learning new spells, initiation, and metamagic techniques outside of initiation (one of the Street magic variants). This does NOT include increasing your magic attribute.
Keep track of Latent karma separately from regular karma.

Edit on Latent Karma: Latent karma is suppose to be friendly to all, not just the Awakene (whoops, forgot, lol). As of now, latent karma is available to all that perform deeds and whatnot (in case I said otherwise) and can be used on any upgrading of character that does not involve learning or education. This means it applies to all attributes you can boost and non related things, but not to skills (skills imply a training that also involves refining and advancing your know how of doing it. An attribute is more of expanding your potential, but by pushing it to the limit rather than learning to do it a different way).

In addition, you can also gain true karma through gambling (in general, not Las Vegas style). If you give donations of true intent, you might get real karma for your efforts. the larger the donation, the more likely you get it. the amount of karma, however, is secret. Donations don't neccessarily have to be in nuyen either, so when I say gamble, I really mean putting in a special act and seeing if it pays off.

Lessee...I think I covered most things. ^-^; this is my first online SR game to be the controller of. Pardon the technical run around above. If you're interested in the game, you can post a summary blurb of what sort of person you want or intent to try making. You can supply more than one if you like, in case you're not sure which you want to do. Any character is accepted, technomancer or otherwise.