Ties That Bind, OOC Thread Options

[Trigger]

This is the OOC thread for Ties that Bind, roll your dice, confer among yourselves OoC and whatnot here. :D

[Thanee]

Runner Line-Up

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Akita (Dog Shaman)

Noticing Akita is a challenge in and of itself. Not because she's particularly bland or stealthy, but because she's just the sort of person who is happiest in the background, part of the comfortable noise (or silence) of everyone else's life.

A very laid-back young woman in her early twenties with an easy smile and a dreamy look to the eyes, Akita dresses like she behaves. In well-worn pedestrian garments; a nondescript shirt, her favorite denim jeans, and a good solid pair of waterproof work-site boots - not because she's got love for construction but the realities of living in Fargo with the snow and whatnot. She keeps her hair naturally toned in its orange-ish red shade tied up and out of the way in a loose tail, which is further held down by an old black wool knit cap she picked up from the surplus store. The cap and Akita are practically inseperable.

Life on the streets that she never really left made it so Akita didn't have much in life apart from her flat, her knit cap, maybe some food when work picked up, and her talents with magic. Given that, she's learned to treasure relationships far more than tangible objects - she's the sort to go down to the wire for you, even if she knows you wouldn't do the same.

Despite being so laid back, Akita knows the score when it comes to running. She's a good support caster and far happier helping out her team-mates or healing them then engaging in combat - though, make no mistake, that doesn't preclude her from being quite vigorous in actively defending them from harm. Her totem, Dog, meshes well with her personality and lends to her deep devotion to friends and team-mates.

Belle/Dawna (Hacker/Street Samurai)

There's a woman you know. Sometimes she calls herself Belle. Sometimes she calls herself Dawna. She's attractive in a 'hot mom' kind of way, and seems to be in her mid 30s. Her hair is short and dark and cut in what would have been a corporate fasion 10 years ago.

She seems to suffer from some manner of multiple-personality disorder. The personality that manifests more frequently is Belle, a pleasant woman with some measure of hacking skill. She seems to function fairly well enough in a scrap and is very helpful when it comes to some of the more domestic parts of legwork. She'll even cook for the whole team, provided she has the ingredients. Belle dresses conservatively and in a fasion that befits a woman of her age and profession.

There are times though, when things are going really, really bad, she'll snap and go by a different moniker: Dawna. Dawna is unbelievably fast, dangerous, and seemingly fearless. The problem is that when Belle switches over, it takes considerable time for her to switch back. When going by Dawna, she won't hack at all, and will give funny looks to anyone that suggests that she can. Her style of dress changes to a more modernist manner and her attitude is likewise completely different.

Belle knows she has a problem. She knows that activiating key components of her cyberware are the root source of her personality shifts. Her studies in hacking and medicine are partially an attempt to understand her change. She often worries about what Dawna does, and has no memories of her activities when Dawna is in charge. These shifts sometimes cause trouble for the group, but her two combined personalities have each proven useful to the group on numerous occasions.

Belle has hinted in the past that she had a family. She is also very nice to younger ork and troll members of the group (if there are any).

Buscemi (Jack-of-all-Trades Hacker)

Buscemi is best described as cagey. He's got a perpetual look of guilt that may or may not be well earned, depending on who you ask. Buscemi stands just a shade over average human height, with a suprisingly athletic build. He's got thinnning brown hair and lively grey eyes, with hands wrung clean. Buscemi tends to dress in wayward fashions, to suit his various hobbies, most of wich are quite antiquated. No one's quite sure when he arrived on the scene in Fargo, but it was said the devil was on his back. Others whisper of unpaid gambling debts and former Vory handlers who are quite unhappy that one of their sponsered hackers flew the coop. All that can be said for sure is that Buscemi is a man wroght with bad habits. He smokes old fashioned cigarettes, drinks hard liquor, indulges in hookers and a little recreational blow when he can get it. The one thing he seems loathe to touch are BTLs, despite keeping a few on hand for appearances. Still, for all his habits he's a solid backup in a fight, and he's got a way of talking his way out of trouble. When it comes to hacking, he'll get the job done, he's just a wee bit blunt about it. He's more of a snatch and grab type than the sneaky type, just like in real life.

Halfpast (Ex-Military)

Human male standing 6"1' tall, muscular and his amerindian heritage is obvious. His eyes are grey and one can tell by looking in them that they have already seen a lot even though he is still a young man. He wears his black hair shoulder length and loose. His clothes are worn but serviceable and are of a military style. Halfpast looks like he is a cross between a squatter and a low level ganger.

Personality wise he is easy to get along with, as long as no one tries to boss him around. He has been known to be stubborn about his beliefs and slow to change his opinion. When he gets drunk though he sometimes has a violent streak. Knowing this he tries to drink in moderation but sometimes you have to let loose.

Halfpast is not from Fargo but the only thing he says about it is that he has drifted through a lot of different places. The only time he talks about his past is when he is making vague references to previous jobs to help highlight a point about a current job.

His on the job skills best come out when using firearms or hand to hand combat. His only piece of obvious cyberware are his cyberspurs and datajack. Anyone watching him in action though can tell that there is more beneath the hood than nature gave him. He also has a knack for dealing with others in the biz.

Kerrigan (Raven Shaman)

Kerrigan is an attractive young woman in her mid-twenties. She is of average height and has a slender and willowy figure, with shoulder-long, ash-blonde hair, usually worn open or in a pony tail, and green eyes. Kerrigan mostly dresses in black, but her wardrobe also includes a wide range of fancy clothes. Her standard dress consists of trendy, washed-out denim pants, a black halter top, fashionable black leather boots with modest heels and her black, waisted mid-thigh length coat. On her left wrist she often wears a silver bracelet with intricate engravings, and there are a few rings on her fingers at most times.

Kerrigan is a street shaman, following the raven totem. Before she became a shadowrunner, she was living on the streets of Fargo already, but with her talent, that didn't remain so for long. The money she earned was gone as quick as she got it, though, most of it spent on better equipment and some conveniences, and so she was never shy to take a new job, needing a somewhat steady income. Kerrigan also has some minor 'ware implanted, which might not have been the best decision of her career, but when she's not complaining about what it has done to her, she most often does welcome what the implants offer.

As a mage, Kerrigan has a wide range of abilities to offer for her team. Spells to cause wounds or to tend to them, turn someone invisible, or let him/her fly, and she can also bend others to her will, then there are her Spirits, which add another level of resourcefulness, and she isn't half bad with a gun either.

Bump (Troll Bouncer)

Terry, or "Bump" as his friends call him, is a young troll - barely twenty. Of course at nearly nine feet tall and carrying over six hundred pounds, to most people he's pretty much another troll: big. He favors wearing jeans, t-shirts, combat boots and his hulking armored jacket. His brown hair is cut short and his short horns are kept polished.

Bump makes ends meet working as a bouncer at a bar called The Blitz; a trendy bar favored by the Vory. Despite the fact that he is a natural at hurting people, Bump hates the stereo-type of trolls only being worthwhile as the "muscle". To that end, he starting learning about computers and electronics. He also has two microdrones and uses them at the bar when on duty for extra surveillance.... but he is no hacker.

He can see into the astral and is fascinated by it; He used to wish he was a mage or shaman and spent several years studying with an old woman dog-shaman before resigning that his magic is in his body. He never uses a gun, sticking to his feet, fists or his katana in a fight. He dislikes wet-work and avoids jobs that focus on violence as the primary objective. To some, there may be a question as to whether or not Bump is too soft to go far as a shadowrunner...

[Trigger]

The way to get out of Fargo is up to you. There are a few major highways crossing in Fargo and the airport is always an option. You can check out a map of Fargo at:
Fargo Google Map

[Thanee]

Hey, hey! :)

How do you want the posts to look like (the time/place header in each post)?

And are we planning to take a plane? In that case, there will be quite a bit of equipment, we surely cannot get through there... though I have an idea, how to get that to our destination. :)

[Digital Heroin]

Buscemi's all for cutting and running, he's just putting up a front. Last thing he wants to entertain the possibility of is the Vory being onto him.

[amra28]

I am just role-playing. All Halfpast needs is evidence that it is time to bug out.

[Trigger]

Thanee-

I simply like to maintain the facade of appearing to allow the players a choice in the matter while subtly pushing them where I want them to go. :D 8) :P

[Digital Heroin]

Buscemi's seeking out local charter companies... and ouch: One Success, Glitched

Hell of a roll to start out with, eh. :S

[Trigger]

There is one local charter company that you come up with right, a small charter company by the name of Trotsky Flights. :D

[Digital Heroin]

Oh now that's just evil... :P Damn glitch just had to give him a company that's likely a Vory front.

[Trigger]

[Thanee]

[Digital Heroin]

I'll be posting as soon as I get off of work, which thanks to being ten minutes late is going to end up six hours after everyone else... joy...

[Trigger]

Ouch, that sucks man, sorry to hear it. I have to go into work soon now too, going in for a short closing shift, then I will be back to see what has happened.

[Thanee]

Some Dice Rolling

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Summoning Force 6 Spirit of Air -> 2 hits
Force 6 Spirit of Air Resistance -> 1 hit
Drain Resistance (2 DV) -> 3 hits

Spirit of Air (Force 6, Services 1) B4 A9 R10 S3 C6 I6 L6 W6 Edg 6 Ess 6 Mag 6 Init 12(A) / 16(P) IP 3(A) / 2(P)
Movement: 15 / 75 (flight)
Skills: Assensing 6, Astral Combat 6, Dodge 6, Exotic Ranged Weapon 6, Flight 6, Perception 6, Unarmed Combat 6
Powers: Accident, Astral Form, Concealment, Confusion, Engulf, Materialization (Immunity to Normal Weapons), Movement, Sapience, Search, Elemental Attack (electricity), Fear

Casting Force 3 Improved Invisibility on Spirit of Air -> 2 hits
Drain Resistance (2 DV) -> 4 hits

3 Hits are needed on Intuition (+ Counterspelling) to see the spirit.

The spirit will use its Fear power on the bikers (the drivers preferably).

[Trigger]

Dice Rolling

Spirit of Air- Fear- The Roll 5 Succeses

Biker Goons- Fear Resistance- The Roll No Successes

The Goons flee for 5 rounds.

[Thanee]

More Dice Rolling

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Summoning Force 4 Spirit of Air -> 4 hits
Force 4 Spirit of Air Resistance -> 3 hits :eek:
Drain Resistance (6 DV) + Edge -> 6 hits (rolling 6s again is not necessary)

Spirit of Air (Force 4, Services 1) B2 A7 R8 S1 C4 I4 L4 W4 Edg 4 Ess 4 Mag 4 Init 8(A) / 12(P) IP 3(A) / 2(P)
Movement: 15 / 75 (flight)
Skills: Assensing 4, Astral Combat 4, Dodge 4, Exotic Ranged Weapon 4, Flight 4, Perception 4, Unarmed Combat 4
Powers: Accident, Astral Form, Concealment, Confusion, Engulf, Materialization (Immunity to Normal Weapons), Movement, Sapience, Search, Fear

[Thanee]

Added the descriptions from the recruiting thread to my first post here, so it's easier to find for reference. :)

Let me know, if anything there should be changed, or if the (half-guessed) archetype tag doesn't quite fit you.

Bye
Thanee

[Digital Heroin]

Alrighty, dice were a touch less evil this time. No glitches:

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Test1: 6,4,4,1,1,3,3,4,5 (3 Successes) http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=797808
Test2: 3,1,1,4,5,3,6,3,4 (2 Successes) http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=797811
Test3: 4,6,5,2,1,6,6,3,2 (4 Succceses) http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=797813

One full span of initiative and he should hopefully have his access, whether it's undetected remains to be seen. If you check the history of Buscemi's rolls in IC you'll not some false rolls. I forgot to add his hacking skill into things.

[Trigger]

Buscemi-

The system gets to make a free Firewall + Analyze Extended Test (Your Stealth...aka 2)

First Roll-Roll One 1 Success

Second Roll-Second Roll 1 Success

The System goes into Active Alert, raising the Firewall test by +4, making your extended test number 12, meaning on your third you fall 3 short

Connection Termination Test-The Roll- 5 Successes....make an opposed Hacking + Exploit to stay connected to the node

[Digital Heroin]

The dice, they be hating Buscemi.

http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=797831

[Trigger]

Ouch, booted like the skinny italian man in the russian sauna that you were. The Dice Gods hold no love for you right now it seems.

[Digital Heroin]

Strangely enough I expected as much. I've never had a character in any form who had an easy go of things early in a game.

Hell, I practically start every AD&D session of late with a critical failure, save this last one, where my undead hunting cleric was getting nothing but badass success, but only had to roll will saves.

[Trigger]

Well, here's to hoping that soon the Gods will shine their favor down on you and this party will escape Fargo intact and not in what could be a Russian death taxi.

[MrMiracle]

Perception:

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6,6,5,4,3,2,1

Infiltration:

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6,4,4,3,2,1

Dawna is currently running pistols/infiltration on her skillwires. Her WRs are also back on, with her silenced Colt Manhunter set into her arm slide. Her countdown timer is likewise reset back to a full hour.