OoC Evolution, Out of Character - Epoch, Survival, Revolution Campaigns Options

[Kliko]

Blindfox is/was stationed in Iraq.

[SneakyJoeKDB]

I did one tour out there myself back in 3/2003 - 7/2004. No more military service for me. What unit are you with Blindfox?

[Mister Juan]

@Bastard
I was wondering, did you want me to relocated Ludmilla to California? Because her background puts her in Seattle...
Anyways, just curious (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Bastard]

Yes. Everything is based in the East Bay Area. Wiki Linki This game was originally based for my table top group so I based it out of where we all lived. Now they are all gone, but the game continues here.

[Mister Juan]

Consider it done (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Bastard]

Been a long week for me guys. In the middle of 13 straight 12 hour days. Blarg. 9 down, 4 to go.

I will be handing out some goodies this weekend, hopefully. And yes, by goodies I mean Karma, and other things like your E&F Points. At the latest, you will have this Wednesday.

I also need some more character information from some of you. I will be posting that sporadically over the weekend, because I am exhausted and my desk is too messy to organize it into one post! So (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Off the top of my head I know I still need this:

KLIKO

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Description of your contacts
Add one Enemy and description
Description of your lifestyles

BUBBA off the top of my head is complete. I especially enjoyed rereading his background. Hide the donuts sounds like a fun game! (Don't worry guys... it is nothing like the other hide the food games.)

EVERYONE add Jaxx as a contact and finish his description (Bubba is complete). This is also an example of what your contacts and enemies should entail.

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Archtype Fixer
Contact Level 1
Street Name Jaxx
Real Name Jake Jackson
Race Human
Age 29
Appearance Averaged height human, skinny, with long light brown hair. Seems to be able to blend in or stand out in a crowd at will.
Description Complete this field. Should include how your character and Jaxx know each other, how they met, their work relationship, and/or what does your character do in return for information and favors (in a fixer's case it would be payment in nuyen), etc.

Here are examples taken from Bubba and Duster

Contacts

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Archtype Donut Shop Owner
Contact Level 2
Street Name Tubbs
Real Name Franklin Delano Donut
Race Ork
Age
Appearance 6'5'' and a red skinned rolly polly with no hair and a jolly smile. Green eyes. He has an aura about him like Santa Clause.
Description The only doughnut shop that seems not to mind Bubba, and can tolerate Bubba's near daily visits. Tubbs feels for Bubba, and has taking a pitty liking to him and will help if he can. Bubba has been buying donuts at Frank's Donuts for years now.

Archtype Mr. Johnson
Contact Level 1
Street Name Mr. Johnson
Real Name Michael Reed
Race Human
Age 30
AppearanceShortish, stoutish light-moccacino black man in his early 30s. Always dressed very well, even for a suit.
Description Always smiling, always chipper, always willing to help his fellow man…that is Mike's carefully constructed persona. He is one of those guys who you always wonder what exactly he does. He seems to know when you need to find him, and can be found at the casino at such times. Everybody knows Michael, and he knows them.

Archtype Fixer
Contact Level 1
Street Name Dante
Real Name Dante
Race AmerIndian Human
Age 48
Appearance Frazzled late 40s man, sunburnt old clothes, funny mix between calm and frantic.
Description Does 'work' for others on the Reservation. Only uses pay phones for business. Dante is great to know, he can (and has) pulled a rabbit out of his hat for you. And so much more out of that magical garage of his. Of course, it costs. You have to listen for hours to the 'history' of the white-mans subjugation of the red man and the 'latest' conspiracy theories…

Enemies

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Archtype Gang-banger
Enemy Level 1
Street Name Blade-Rider
Real Name Gaku Masafumi
Race Oni (Ork)
Age 26
Company/Association Wild-Eyes Biker Gang
Appearance Bikes and outfits stylized in traditional Oni mythological styles. Gaku is extremely powerful built, has bright blue skin and large horns
Description With the (secret) backing of the Seoulpa, the Wild-Eyes thought to take ownership of a ocuple of Yakuza outfits through force. It didn't work out too well. In the fight, Gaku took on Jeremy [Knuckle Duster], and got his tail handed to him. In front of the rest of the gang. Whom he used to be the boss of, but not anymore.

Archtype Mr. Johnson
Enemy Level 2
Street Name Mr. Johnson
Real Name Travis Hargrove
Race Human
Age Mid-30s
Company/Association Previously MedaTech
Appearance A naturally bulky man, but not fat, nor very tall. His hair is always well gelled and combed to the side. He wears glasses, nice pants, button-up shirts usually of a bold color, and a nice looking leather jacket.
Description He was the VP of the bioengineering department of MedaTech that originally hired the team to capture an escaped piasma, in "Where the Wild Things Are" [which was the very first mission in Evolution: Epoch]. Hargrove was fired when MedaTech lost valuable biological data and specimens when Jeremy and his team (V, Relentless, Yoshi) hit the lab a few years later in "Evolution" [which was the fourth mission in Epoch].

Lifestyles

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Type Apartment - Residence
Level Low
Monthly Cost 1,000 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif)
Months Paid 1
Location Clyde
Description Smells like poop. 1 bedroom, 1 bath, cramped especially for Big Troll. Bedroom is the size of Bubba's mattress. Lots of food wrappers and donut boxes laying around. Trash can always over flowing, and bugs skitter here and there. A lonely, musty aura. One over used couch sits directly across for a medium size TV on a simple wood stand. The unit is musty, appears lonely, and dim lit.

Type Warehouse Loft - Safe House
Level Low
Monthly Cost 1,000 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif)
Months Paid 1
Location Martinez
Description There happens to be a huge lone fridge in the warehouse and an old TV a unstable TV stand. The fridge is locked with a high level and is actually used to store large weapons and donuts.

LUDI and SUGAR - feel free to post what you are doing or where, time stamp it around 1230.

If you do not know how to do a time stamp, it looks like this, except use [ and ] for ( and )

(color=orange)12:11:03 Tuesday, December 06, 2061 - Kliko's Home(/color)

[Bastard]

Dont all reply at once. IC is open as I organize.




Going over Ludi tonight... looks great so far!

[Bastard]

Thanks for ICing Kliko - will be back on Wednesday, if not Tuesday night. Busy, busy, busy at work! Going to shower and take a nap now.

[Mister Juan]

Still alive! Just REALLY ridiculously busy with work.
I'll post as soon as I have more than 30 seconds free time.

[Bastard]

Ahhhhh.... hopefully that is my last day of work until Saturday. I may get a call out tomorrow. Bastards. Still going over Ludi, will go over Sugar tomorrow as well as Kliko and Bubba.

Karma awards tomorrow sometime!

[Bastard]

Hey Kliko-

Now that I think about it, credsticks would have something common like a usb port or the 2060s version of. Anyone should be able to go to a bank/atm or probably even use a computer with some competence and be able to transfer funds on an unsecured credstick.

What say you?

[Kliko]

Well, it would be very difficult if you couldn't swap amounts per credstick. Even, or especially for certified cred. Shall I edit, the relevant posts? He still has to meet up with Jaxx for giving the 15k in escrow for V, RG end Rthough.

[Bastard]

I would think that since everyone uses credsticks for everything, from keys to identification to money, you should be able to transfer information yourself. How many people pay their bills online, transfer all their phone and camera data to their computers, even just shop on line? Now and compared to five years ago or ten years ago. I would think with credsticks being so abundant and so versatile, you should be able to put information on it. I see it like an advanced flash drive that has a bit more security.

I believe all money is linked to an account somewhere via the matrix, so you cannot just add numbers to it, but you can transfer money from another credstick/account. A lot of things in Shadowrun are open to interpretation and those interpretations have probably changed as technology is always advancing (as my example above) at an exponential rate. Personally, I would think maglocks would be obsolete. Or at least those that use a card with a magnetic strip. I would assume with advancing computers, it would be simple enough in 50-60 years to just use thumb print maglocks or QuickPass (PayPass, FasTrak, etc.) technology, which is a small card, or device (like sensors on store products), where you just have put it within a certain distance of the device, in this case a maglock, for it to operate.

Klik-you can edit your posts if you like, or you can exchange them with Jaxx. This is mostly for future reference.

[Bastard]

KLIKO - still need some information - see post 456. Did you send me an IC Background with your 35 Questions?

MISTER JUAN - finished going over Ludi. Great work, will email you some additional information I need.

BLINDFOX - Going over Sugar right now. Still need your Contact and Lifestyle information, plus one Enemy. See post 456.

SNEAKY - Bubba looks up to date. Will double check that tonight.




EVERYONE - New IC will be up, bringing everyone in the mix later tonight!!!

[Bastard]

Ok... more needed information:

BUBBA

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Did you write an IC background? Or just the 35 Questions?

KLIKO

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Did you write an IC background? Or just the 35 Questions?

LUDMILA

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Remove Luna from your contacts, but fill out the same information. List her as a dependant and add another contact.
I got some more detailed information/questions which I will email you.

SUGAR

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IC Background?
Edges and Flaws - I don't see any.
Add Distinctive Style (arm tats), Phobia (minor, magic) and any others you see fit. Remember to end with a 3 more flaw points than edge, with a max of 6 edge/ 9 flaw.
Got some other things for you which I will email.

EVERYONE - The Karma boat is on the horizon and will arrive tomorrow.

[Kliko]

I did the 35 questions. Could be I setup the framework for a background but never got completed. I'll whip something up in the course of this weekend.

[Bastard]

Take your time Kliko. It is your Karma points though. I am glad you didn't do it and I didn't lose it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[SneakyJoeKDB]

Only the 35 questions...

[Bastard]

Same thing for Bubba. So I only have Backgrounds from Yoshi, Duster, Vreia and Ludi. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/question.gif) And only Ludi is currently in game. Blarg. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sarcastic.gif)

Anyways, its worth a good chunk of change - at least in Karma terms. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)



By the way, I am changing how I will run the Karma Pool. Everyone dump all your Karma Pool into Team Karma Pool.

When using Karma Pool for additional dice or successes, they are purchased as such:
- 1st die/success costs 1 Karma
- 2nd die/success costs 2 Karma
- 3rd die/success costs 3 Karma
- etc., etc., etc.

Minor uses of Karma Pool refresh at a rate of one-half at the end of the encounter. This is will be rounded to the players' disadvantage, of course. Minor uses include:
- Reroll one die on failure
- Additional dice (before roll)

Moderate uses of Karma Pool do not refresh until the end of the mission. Moderate uses include:
- Oops
- Add one success
- Hooper-Nelson Rule (Lower a Target Number of 12 or more)

Major uses of Karma Pool are permanently burnt. The amount of Karma spent is dependent on the situation and is determined by the GM.
- Hand of God - will not burn all Karma Pool and Good Karma. It will however, permanently an equal share of the Team Karma (if there are 3 players, 1/3rd burned, 4 players, 1/4th burned). In addition, that same amount is spent as Moderate Karma Pool used. Permanently burnt Karma can be divided up however the players see fit, but we will be always using Team Karma, so it shouldn't matter, so I would disperse it as evenly as possible.


Are there any other uses you guys wish to employ?


This post has been edited by Bastard: Aug 6 2009, 04:32 PM

[SneakyJoeKDB]

I Just took a look at the Character background and 35 questions document I sent you and it was all filled out. So apparently I did submit a background. So, besides the fact that I cant remember anything, I am the perfect gamer! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[Bastard]

You are correct sir!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

I was looking for a separate file. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif)

[SneakyJoeKDB]

Well maybe I am confused, what is the difference to the background write-up as in question 1 as opposed to the IC background? I assume the IC background is for all?

[Bastard]

No, Sneak, Bubba is good. You put your background into question #1, I was just looking for another file, so I did not see it.

[Kliko]

Darn, I put Kliko's background in there as well!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

But I don't mind extending it somewhat (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Bastard]

Sneaky and Mister did their full IC Background in that section.