Blood in the Water OOC Thread, Cyberpirates: Chatter here! Options

[Karoline]

So, I have no idea where we are in things at this point, but I'll try and do some catching up later on. Sorry for my protracted absence.

[budoka05]

Glad to have you back Karoline! We're doing the final prep before boarding the enemy ship.

[budoka05]

All ready and prepped to go!

[BetaFlame]

I'm still doing some reading of you guyses(okay, it works in spoken English, not so much in typed) and I'd be interested in joining up if you still have room.

I've played SR3, and read but never played SR4. I have built characters just for shits and giggles.

Is there anyone in particular I need to talk too? Besides Penta (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[budoka05]

Hey BetaFlame! We'd love to have you aboard. Standing rule is that we'll bring you aboard when we return to shore. Besides that, check your char-sheet with Penta by posting it up here.

Look forward to sailing with you!

[BetaFlame]

I tried PMing him to talk about character generation and so fort a couple of days ago, but no reply. According to his profile ( and I have no idea how accurate these things are) he hasn't been heard from since Oct 27thish. Has anyone talked to him, or did I miss a post saying he would be away.

Also: Is there a particular role I should look at filling out? I have a few character concepts, and I know at least 1 of them (technomancer) won't work in this setting.

[budoka05]

He's been around. I have an e-mail address, so I'll send him a reminder.

In regards to chargen, the range is 400bp to 420bp. More details are on this link http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...8093&st=300

[BetaFlame]

Did you ever hear from Penta, budoka? I sent him a PM and no luck :\

[budoka05]

I'm getting a hold of him. We'll get an answer soon.

[budoka05]

Alright, I got word back. We're going to add you during the time skip between leaving the NJ harbor and spotting the Bounty. Go ahead and post your Char concept and Char sheet. Penta will post soon, since he's taking care of something right now.

[Penta]

Hi everybody!

A status report on your GM!

Yeah, I like everybody else was made busy by the holidays, school, etc. My apologies for not saying a word - when people didn't post for weeks on end to the IC thread, I figured everybody had lost interest. As this campaign is the main reason for my frequenting Dumpshock these days, I checked frequently as a guest - then less and less as I realized nobody was posting.

On top of that!

My laptop's keyboard decided to have keys fall off and be impossible (I tried) to put back on.

It ran for 2 years, so.

My problem is that the laptop costs more to fix than it would be worth - and guess where *all* of my notes and stuff for this campaign were, as well as all of my SR books (I don't typically read RPG books in paper form anymore)?

If you said "The laptop that decided to keel over", you'd be right! The data's recoverable, but I'm dependent on others to help me do that, with the keyboard on that laptop being busted. That could take months.

So I am pressing on regardless.
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Old players:

If you're still interested in playing: Speak up. I'll give it two weeks from today. We had 8 people before...I'm looking for at least 6 to poke their heads up here and say they still want to play.

(If anybody is wondering how I'm going to run a combat with no access to SR4A or other books? Hey, so am I! I honestly have no idea - and this isn't my laptop I'm posting from (tis my dad's, a spare with far less capability - and a lot less hard drive space!), so I don't think I can even store everything on it, anyway.)
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New players:

Read the IC thread carefully. Then get back to me if you still want in! If you PM'd - my apologies, but so many of the PMs were from a while ago, I'm presuming you all lost interest.

The UCAS Navy (Your employer, though you only learn that during post-recruitment training) is likely to learn lessons from the training cruise and the group initially recruited in both who it recruits and how it trains them (off-camera) during the time from recruitment to when you join up with the ship.

Your character absolutely does not need to be ex-mil, to answer one question I saw.

What they need to be is someone the employer would actually recruit.

[budoka05]

Hey Penta, does your laptop USB ports work? Maybe an external keyboard would be a good option.

[BetaFlame]

Penta, I sent you a PM with a few questions in it for you, so I know which character to toss in, I have three.

Also, you might beable to get your HDD from your laptop to work on your dad's PC. I'll be off and on allnight, and my AIM is BtaFlme if anyone wants to talk (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Penta]

Hey Penta, does your laptop USB ports work? Maybe an external keyboard would be a good option.

I haven't been able to test that - First I'd need an external keyboard, and I have...ah....No money at the moment.

[Karoline]

Funny. My laptop's keyboard has stopped working recently as well. Wish it had happened before classes start because now I don't want to send it off to get fixed because I use it for all my notes.

[ravensoracle]

Just reading through some of the game posts and stumbled across this. Is there still any opening left? I can whip up a character, I have a few in storage at the moment. Let me read through the IC tonight and see what I can come up with.

[budoka05]

Yep, there is still room!

[ravensoracle]

Any particular additions to character creation? or is it standard 400BP from Sr4A?

Edit: Also is there any specific skillset that is lacking? Any role that needs to be filled?

[Penta]

400-420BP...There were some requirements I laid out in the chargen thread (a while ago), among them the requirement for Swimming 1 or better.

Really, when it comes to chargen? Do it up to the point at which you'd be recruited by the Navy Johnson. After recruitment, you get trained prior to joining the ship, filling in the gaps.

[ntwi]

I'd like to toss my hat into the ring as well. I have a background mostly fleshed out for a Hvy Wep Sam, with an odd twist that I enjoy. It should mesh well with recruitment and chargen requirements.

[Penta]

Okay...

Some further stuff re chargen:

The group MUST have a common language - thusfar, that appears to be English. It doesn't matter if you speak only Broken English, but you need to speak the Common Language without a chip.

Most of the chargen stuff is contained in the chargen thread - Please, I know it takes forever, but read the whole threads. I value consistency, and with all my notes gone (or at least inaccessible), the threads are all there is of the decisions made.

Also - For sanity reasons, I'm taking no more than 10 people at a time. New people, if none of the oldsters drops out (or, put another way, doesn't poke their heads up within a week), that leaves 8 "slots" filled. I can expand this to 12 people, but only with reluctance, and no more than that.

When you've got concepts: PM me. I'll dispense my email address and AIM info if we can agree on a basic concept that then gets turned into a background and sheet. Or I might PM back, with thoughts.

As the "older" players can attest: I can be picky! I can be demanding! (You should have seen chargen's initial incarnations.) Both of these are true. I don't have the greatest grasp on the rules and crunch, so I make up for it by trying to put out a good story. To do that, I need detailed characters. I try to make my NPCs, even momentary ones, just as detailed...

With that said.

OLDER PLAYERS: AKA the Original 8. I know we've all forgotten about this campaign for what seems like forever! Well, I'm back. Hope you are too. PM me on your status within the next week, please. Or Email. Or IM if you got it. Point is, speak up. I'll presume that anyone who hasn't spoken up has lost interest. Karoline, Budoka, I see you two are around. Everybody else, speak up.

[BetaFlame]

Okay, here it is.


Aiden "Drest" MacPhee


Stats:

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Race: Elf Archetype: Hermetic Mage

Bod: 3 Cha: 5
Agil: 2 Int: 3
Str: 2 Will: 5
Rea: 2 Logic: 4
Edge: 1 Magic: 5
Init: 5 Init Passes 1/4 Essence: 6

Qualities

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Magician
Focused Concentration
College Education
SINner
Sensitive System
Geas (Geasture)
Focus Addiction (Mild)
Bilingual

Skills

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Active Skills
Pistols 2/6
Spellcasting: 5/6
Counterspelling: 2/6
Summoning: 5/6
Athletics Group: 1
Infiltration: 2
Computer 1
Data Search: 2/6
Clubs: 2
Influence Group: 2
First Aid: 2
Diving 2

Knowledge Skills:
History 5
Paranormal Critters 2
Cooking 2
Magical Theory 5
Knots 1
Mathematics 3
Pictish History 3

Language Skills
Scottish Gaelic N
English: N
Sperethiel: 4

Spells

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Detect Life
Physical Mask
Shape Metal
Heal
Oxygenate
Control Thoughts
Increased Reflexes
Analyze Magic
Physical Barrier
Mindprobe

Gear

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Focus:
Rank 3 Sustaining Focus (Necklace with Raven pendent)

3 Nanotattoos

Middle Lifestyle

Lined Coat
Fairlight Caliban (Upgraded to 6 System and 6 Firewall)
Browse (Rank 6)
Analyze (Rank 6)
Edit (Rank 6)
Scan (Rank 6)
Command (Rank 6)
AR Gloves
Sim Module
Skinlink
Trodes
Tag Eraser
Mapsofts x6 (Atlantic Ocean, London, New York, Washington DC, Atlanta,

Miami)
Knowsofts x5 (Carribean Islands Geography, Bermuda Triangle Legends,

Voodoo Cults, Archology, Atlantean Foundation)
Fake SIN (Rating 4) x2
Fake License (Rating 4) x10 (Two each: Stun Baton, Ares Predator, License

to cast spells, license to carry Focus, concealed carry license)
Glasses, Goggles, and Contact Lenses with the following mods
Flare Comp, Image Link, and Smarklink
Earbuds
Plastic Restraints (AKA Zipties) x10
Miniwelder
Diving Gear x2
Medkit (Rating 6)
Medkit Supplies x15
Drysuit
Glue Sprayer x2
Enclosed Breathing Helmet x2
OXSYS Artificial Gill
Printer x5
Holoprojector

WeaponsStun Baton
DV: 6S(e) Reach: 1
Ares Predator IV: Smartlink, skinlink, additional clip
DV: 5P, -1 AP, Conceal: 2
Streetline Special: Smartgun, Skinlink
DV: 4P Conceal -4

Normal Rounds x100
Stick'n'Shock x100 AP: -half DV 6S(e)
Explosive Rounds x80 AP -1 DV +1

Background

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Aiden MacPhee grew up in rural Scotland. His family was poor, his father a dock worker and his mother a housewife. Born an elf, his family took this to be a good sign. His father was a standard Scotsman build, tall, redheaded, and large. His mother was an oddity. Small of stature, very slight with dark skin, hair and eyes. She claimed to be of Pictish descent, so much so she bullied her husband into allowing her to change their sons last name to MacPhee. (The named is a form of MacDhubhshith which means "son of the Black Fairy"). He had a fairly normal childhood, aside from his pointed ears, dark skin and bright blue eyes. His mother taught him Gaelic as he grew up, and the language came more naturally to him than any other.

He Awakened at the age of 15, during his first day of high school. Being small and different got him picked on to a ridiculous degree, which resulted in a manifestion of a Spirit of Earth standing guard over him to ward of a pack of bullies. This did not set him in high regard with the local authorities, and the rest of his high school career was hell. Given his rediculous high marks, Awakening, and poor upbringing, he was given a scholarship to Georgetown University in Washington DC in a classic PR move (Look! We helped the poor boy! LOVE US). He accepted, of course, and got the hell out of the United Kingdom, with only minor guilt at leaving his parents behind. He graduated at the age of 22 in 2067, in the top 3% of his class, majoring in Magical Theory with a minor focus in History.

During his time at Georgetown, he was required to take a Physical Education course as part of his graduation requirements. Being the overly adventurous type, Aiden opted into the SCUBA diving classes. He rapidly discovered he liked this, he began to spend more and more time at diving in his spare time. He even shelled out enough money to goto the Carribean at one time to take a Liquid Apparatus Breathing diving course during one of his summer breaks, taught by an old retired SEAL. The SEAL named Omar Jackson took a liking to the spunky boy, and decided to teach him to back up some of attitude with a little heat, and taught
Aiden the basics of firearms. He opted to keep it to pistols, since a rifle would probably break the tiny guy in half. Omar tried teaching him how to handle a knife in proper SEAL tradition, but Aiden's slight stature made him poorly suited to the task, and Omar bought him a stun baton and gave him a basic run down in the use of the weapon, which he did under severe protest ("Weapons are ment to HURT PEOPLE, not tickle!")Before he left, Omar gave him the number of a fellow in Atlanta and told him he might find better use for his magical skills, and the new found skills and learned during his summer stay, in a field other than sitting around helping grumpy old mages in their studies. Aiden saw this as an oppurtunity to see more of the world, and called the fellow, who turned out to be a Fixer in the DC area, by the name of Mark Ryan Wright (Mr Right).

Mr Right set him up with a few easy jobs, just to feel the kid out. He did come with a good recommendation, after all. He did very well with the test runs, so Mr Right desided he'd find him a REAL job that might actually pay his rent. To this end, he connected one Kevin Roberts, suggesting he had a candiate for his 'special' program, and set up a met for Drest to catch up with Kevin in Miami, so they could met and determine the his suitibility for the project.

Physical Desc: Drest is about 5'3" tall, and weighs a mere 123 pounds. His skin is fairly tanned, even in the winter. He has dark brown hair, and bright blue eyes that look slightly out of place in his coloration. His hair is long, and usually down to his midback tied back in a loose ponytail. His three are located one on each arm, and one on his chest. They are usually in the form of a raven before a moon phase, left to right New Moon, Quarter Moon, and Full Moon.

Contacts

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Contacts
Talismonger (Adam Parker) (DC area) L2 C3
Omar Jackson (Ork, former SEAL) L2 C2
Mark Ryan Wright (MR Right) L1 C3

[Knight Saber]

Life continues to be hectic and messy... much too lifelike. I'm still here though!

[Penta]

Good, KS!:)

ntwi and bmcoomes: Got your PMs, see my reply.

Old players: BetaFlame posted after I looked it over, but. Me being without books, I want you guys to look it over. Go over it like I did you guys - background, sheet, everything. If you see anything, tell me via email. (I accidentally deleted everybody's email address from my gmail, so I don't have them anymore - this will also let me get them back.) Particularly "D'oh!" worthy errors caught will win the catcher the possibility of 1 karma.

Who I see back:

KnightSaber
Budoka
Karoline

I see that other people have posted to the IC thread, but I would appreciate it if everybody checked in here, too.

[Karoline]

Only thing I see after a quick read-through is that he has a license to carry monowhips. First off he doesn't actually have a monowhip (making it rather pointless) and second I'd imagine that F grade items don't exactly have licenses for them without some exceedingly compelling reason and even with something like that the person is going to get double and triple checked.

Otherwise looks like a solid character.