[X] My Assistant

[Jaid]

[Temperance]

For me it greatly depends on the character. My last character was a mage that graduated at the top of his class at MIT&T. Aztechnology was very.. insistent at employing him. He'd heard the rumors. His mom was an ex-runner that currently worked for the UCAS government and warned him about them.

In the end, it forced him into hiding as a runner. In that character's case, he did the "shoots people in the face" to earn a living while hiding from the Azzies.

Of course in that game the GM had a light cash running style so we never had enough cash to retire on. It was a nice just above street level game.

-Temperance

[hyzmarca]

I started out shooting people in the feet and just worked my way up. I'm next in line for forehead shooter after Bob retires.

[Black Jack Rackh...]

I voted Other because I didn't see anything about the simple inability to view his options from a different perspective. It's not that Tunguud isn't bright, he's smarter than average (very bright for a Troll), and it isn't that he just want's to kill someone (in fact he has a healthy respect for life). His family are all runners and came from families that also ran. It's simply what is done. He is trying to branch out. He got himself a job arranging and delivering flowers. However, the runner mindset takes over and he finds himself looking at his employers and clients for their potential utility in his 'other' line of work.

[Da9iel]

I wish I could've chosen more than one. I voted survival, but freedom and too crazy (or other such mainstreem work disqualification) have also been reasons for other characters of mine.

[Eryk the Red]

My group has a fair variety of reasons. There's a couple of characters who do it because it's all they know (one's a former corporate stealth operative, like a runner with a contract, and the other is former special forces who likes the work but doesn't trust the government). There's another who does it because that's the crowd he's fallen into. It's all he can do in the culture he's now part of (Irish organized crime). It just wouldn't make sense to get a regular job. We even had one guy who didn't want to be a runner at all, but bad legal circumstances with his legitimate employers got him mixed up with helping the team with a kidnapping.

There's a character I've designed and would like to play (but never will, because I'm a GM at heart) who is like a shadow gonzo-journalist with an anti-corporate motive. She takes the jobs because that's where the stories are (and she films them when she can get away with it), and involving yourself in the culture provides opportunities to stick it to the Man.

[adamu]

My character doesn't run the shadows. Shadowrunners are those self-absorbed cartoonish types on the trid. My character just works for a living, slowly making his way to Hollywood to start his sim career. Recently some of the jobs he has gotten have been a lot like those crazy stories on the trid...what the hell - job's a job, and a man works to make his way in this world.

[KarmaInferno]

I do it to make the world a better place.

One savage beating at a time.


-karma