Recruitment: EVO Company TransHuMan, Working for the TransHuMan Options

[DireRadiant]

In EVO, you aren't a Company Man anymore. The terminology is updated to reflect the new world, the Sixth World(s), the Awakened World(s), so says Buttercup.

You are an Executive in the Counter Terrorism Bureau. Executives come from all walks of life and are responsible for an incredibly wide range of tasks guarding EVO's interests on, and off, the planet. Executives are highly skilled, well trained, capable, responsible individuals with excellent compensation and benefits packages and corporate support. Travel required. EVO values diversity.

Assignments will be Missions tailored to active players. You may or may not be interacting or working with other CTB Executives. CTB Executives are expected to file reports once a week. CTB Executive vacation and sick leave requires notification to the CTB Executive manager in order for personal time to be compensated. Inactive CTB Executives will be "Reassigned" to the Red Planet Division.

- SR4
- Setting, wherever EVO sends you
- 2070
- Standard 400 BP
- Standard Availability Rules
- Street Magic allowed
- Augmentation allowed
- No breaking skill groups in chargen
- No cracking or pirating software in chargen
- Electronics upgrades bought at full price
- No free contacts in chargen
- 9 to 12 dice pools are considered good or excellent for core skills. e.g. Anything you have at this you would be considered "expert" at and known for. You can certainly have a larger pool, this is not a restriction on the pool size.
- CS preferred in Text format
- BG preferred in Text format

- van_nick at hotmail.com OR PM

BG tips
- At least a couple paragraphs
- Use the Twenty Questions for inspiration
- Generally match details in your CS and BG, your GM appreciates it

Recruitment is always open
Game starts as soon as I have one approved player

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[Abbandon]

Oh hi Dire! I didnt even see you were the one running this till after I read the intro hehe.

Individual play sounds so awesome. Couple of questions:

#1. Are CTB Exec's recruited from in corporation or just from wherever.

#2. Who are some people at EVO who would make good contacts? I mean like who is the head of recruiting for the CBT. Who is the head of EVO's like non CBT security??

[DireRadiant]

[BlackHat]

This is gonna be a busy weekend, but I'll probably be tossing some ideas around and hopefully get something to you soon.

I'm a sucker for playing non-Shadowrunners in Shadowrun. :-D

I have to admit I am still a little confused as to what to expect from this game, or what you're expecting from us. Like what the day-to-day for a CTB Exec entails. Hopefully whatever I put together is close enough to what you were expecting.

[Cthulhudreams]

What does 'electronics upgrades brought at full price' mean, and are you using 'skill + program' or 'attribute + skill limited by program' (pllleeeaasseee do the second :P)

[WearzManySkins]

@Cthulhudreams
I believe he means that if you buy level 5 response you can not sell the previous response back at 30% and maybe no building things at half costs if you have the shop.

Yes good question standard matrix rules or a house rule?

WMS

[Konsaki]

I'm interested in this. Got to think about my character...

[DireRadiant]

[JDragon]

Yeah this sounds interesting. Just not sure what I want to do yet.

Maybe stretch myself and do something other than a combat machine. :-P

Or I could doom the game to fail and try to play my street sam Satchel again. (had 4 or 5 pbp games I've tried to play him in that have died) But I don't want to do that to DR.

Try to get some ideas up in the next few days.

JD

[Cthulhudreams]

A few more questions: How do you address 'shape metal' in your game. SR mentions plasisteel and ferrocrete and stuff - I can use shape metal on that stuff, right? And it's reasonably common?

[WearzManySkins]

Are Smartgun camera upgrades subject to the vision enhancement upgrades availability increases?

Is the a limit to the number of vision enhancements allowed in contact lenses, glasses, and goggles besides the availability limit total of 12.

WMS

[DireRadiant]

[DireRadiant]

[WearzManySkins]

Some have house rules that put hard limits on the number of vision enhancements that are allowed in such devices.

Ie contacts can only have a total of 3 enhancements.

Thanks

WMS

[Cthulhudreams]

I've come up with a concept and a first draft, but I neglected to decide on a tradition until after I've created a character concept, and now I'm going to have have to shake some trees until I find one that fits the concept.

I also need to do some more reading with my books and come back with more questions about 'shape' spells. If it becomes a point of contention I'll just drop the spell.

Looking at something like this

[ Spoiler ]

Name: Prometheus Northrop

Race: Ork


Sex: Male

Description: Mr Northrop is a tall, lithe and unusually dark olive colored ork. He keeps his all hair meticulously shaved, plucked and waxed, his ivories pristine white and his suits carefully pressed. No detail is ever allowed to be anything other than perfect.

Personality sketch: Prometheus is a slick, 20 something professional operator, mage, and adrenaline junkie who has worked for half a dozen corporations in his career - and not by choice. The trials and tribulations of his fragmented and eventful career in security combined with his grab bag heritage of oriental and Mediterranean descent have resulted in an equally ecceltic mix of magic and belief elements drawn from oriental philosophy suffused with catholic ideals, trans humanist beliefs, classical greek elementalist theories and other philosophical concepts thrown together seemingly at random.

In casual conversation Prometheus comes off as a reserved, well educated, phlegmatic character, while his more bizarre idiosyncratic behaviors only come under the spotlight with prolonged exposure. He tends to make bizarre philosophical comments that are only tangentially related to the situation at hand, and holds dozens of mutually contradictory beliefs about magic and philosophy

History Sketch: Prometheus' magical security skill set, excellent and reputed VIP protection skills and apparent normality make him a prime target for extraction attempts, but usually shortly after recruitment and induction security personnel realize that the facade of neatly pressed professionalism obscures a heart of lunacy, an alarming tendency to speak to invisible people in public and a history of questionable loyalties and changing employment that make him something of a risk.

However, Fuchi, Ares, Lone Star Security Services, Cross Applied Technologies and most recently Evo have all seen the same combination of magic, intuitive reasoning and high performance in stressful situations that makes him a prime operative, and a strong candidate to keep around.


Skills

Stealth (Group) 1 / 4
Influence (Group) 1 / 4
Athletics (Group) 1 / 4
Binding 4 / 6
Counterspelling 4 / 6
Assensing 4 / 6
Summoning 6 / 6
Spellcasting 4 / 6
Perception 1 / 6
Automatics 1 / 6
Pilot Ground Craft 1 / 6

Knowledge Skills
Magic 5 / 6
Megacorporate Security 4 / 6
Megacorporate Politics 2 / 6

Language Skills
English N / 6
Spanish 4 / 6
Mandarin 4 / 6
Or'Zet 2 / 6

Body 4
Agility 2
Reaction 2
Strength 3
Charisma 2 / 7
Intuition 5
Logic 2
Willpower 5
Edge 5
Magic 5

<<Positive Qualities>>
Mentor Spirit (Owl)

<<Negative Qualities>>

These, are, ahem, cheesy paddy atm.

Scorched
Weak Immune System
SINner (Standard)
Incompetent Pilot: Watercraft
Allergy (Uncommon, Moderate) Gold?
Sensitive Neural Structure

Spells:

Detect Life (Active) or Shape [Material]
Heal
Turn to Goo (Physical)
Mana Static (Environ.)۞
Trid Phantasm (Realistic, Multi)
Increase Reflexes
Physical Mask (Realistic, Multi)
Control Thoughts (Mental)

Bound Foci

2 Power
3 Sustaining


Contacts:
James St. James 3/5
Evo Beijing CRT Unit Chief


Gear:

High Lifestyle

Evo Tactical Combat System (FN-HAR Assault Rifle)
Ammo for both
Evo Executive Line Tactical Weapon System Type R (Ingram Smartgun)

Evo Commando Line Stealth Suit ->

Chamelon Suit with
Helmet
Chemical Protection
Fire Resistance
Nonconductivity
Thermal damping

Evo Advanced Portable Trama Centre (Rating 6 Medkit)

Evo FMJ45R Military Jamming System (Rating 4 Area Jammer)

Evo MageSight Combat Pack Prestige Edition ->

Mage Sight Goggles

Goggles of Flare Comp, Smartlink, Thermographic Vision

Evo XVII (Sedan Car)

Hermes IKON w/HAL (commlink)

No cyber or bioware because I cannot afford it.



History: Graduated MIT&T with a Masters of Magic.
Employed by Fuchi fresh out of University into the Security Area as part of their magical security section, managing on site thaumaturgical security for secure research installations. Defected during the breakup of Fuchi after their failure in the Corp wars.

Employed by Lone Star Security Services as part of specialist VIP protection detail to provide close personal protection from magical threats. Assigned to the presidential protection team after an outsourcing contract and sponsorship deal resulted in Lone Star becoming the exclusive provider of presidential security services. Was forcibly extracted by shadowrunners working for cross applied technologies just prior to the crash in a gunfight that completely trashed the Australian hotel he was staying in.

Senior mage on CEO Cross' close personal protection detail. Was not on duty with the plane crash, and section was brought up by Ares in subsequent bidding, were he was transfered to Ares Internal Audit section as a special investigator with the power to liquidate assets.

Disappeared along with the entire staff at an Ares research establishment in the Australian outback that was being investigated for supernatural events in unclear circumstances. Several of the other staff have turned up working for a variety of different corporations, but many, including Prometheus, are now in the employ of Evo.

[Critias]

I've got a few ideas I'm always kicking around, and a non-Shadowrunner character is always a fun change of pace to me (in truth, there are times I feel like I'm stretching to always come up with a character who's got a background that would thrust them into the shadows).

I should have time to settle down over the weekend and throw something together, background and all. I've been playing an odd mixture of 360 games lately, and watching a bunch of movies, so there's just no telling what hellish mixture of sub-genres I'll come up with.

[DireRadiant]

[BlackHat]

Nearing completion over here too. I did have a couple of questions.

Did you intend for us to have SINs (or is the CTB more black-ops and might have removed all records, etc). And, if so, would we get the points for the SINner disadvantage? It seems like in a setting where we are working FOR a Corp, and are normal people, it would be more of an advantage to exist on paper, and probably not a disadvantage since we have less to worry about (as in, we're not necessarily professional criminals who worry about stuff being traced back to them).

Also, you had said resources as normal, which is cool, but should we make sure we pick up everything we think we would need to do our job at EVO, or would the company supply gear necessary for day-to-day job stuff. IOW, is there a distinction between what the character owns personally, and what EVO provides, or should we make sure we pay nuyen at char-gen for anything we'd like to have access to?

[Fortune]

[DireRadiant]

[Toras]

I would certainly be interested. I have a few ideas for a Hostage Negotiator. Right now I'm thinking a particularly smooth talking elven adept. It would certainly match with the needs of an active counter-terrorism team.

[Aku]

ok, i will admit to being slightly confused, yet interested. Is this a situation where we're more "investigators of counter terrorism" than acting againist it? are we investigating it individually and then acting againist threats as EVO see's fit?

i'm right now thinking of some form of hacker, but i donno, we'll see...

[DireRadiant]

[DireRadiant]

[BlackHat]

Wasn't sure if you wanted character submissions in email or on here, but since you put your email addy - that's where my first-draft went. :-D