Emerging Experiment, Rules light, character driven PBP - any interest? Options

[Digital Heroin]

And here it is, the roughed up version of The Suit. It's pretty much a lift from his last incarnation, with added contacts:

Jared Engles

Sheet:

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Basics:

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Name: Jared Engles
Alias: The Suit
Metatype: Human
Age: 45
Citizenship: UCAS/Horizon
Residence: UCAS/Seattle
Occupation: Legal Consultant/Fixer

Attributes:

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Physical Mental Special

Body: 3 Charisma: 4 Edge: 4
Agility: 3 Intuition: 5 Essense: 5.09
Reaction: 3 Logic: 4 Initiative: 8
Strength: 3 Willpower: 3 Ress/Magic: N/a

Skills:

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Active Skills
Athletics Group Rate 1 + STR 3 = 5
Con Rate 3 + CHA 4 = 7
Ettiquite Rate 4 + CHA 4 (+2Corporate) (+2Legal) = 8(10)(10)
Intimidation Rate 4 + CHA 4 = 8
Instruction Rate 2 + CHA 4 = 6
Negotiation Rate 6 + CHA 4 (+2Diplomacy) = 10(12)
Perception Rate 4 + INT 5 = 9

Knowledge Skills
(Professional) UCAS Law Rate 6 + LOG 4 = 10
(Professional) Corporate LAw Rate 4 + LOG 4 = 8
(Street) UCAS Politics Rate 3 + INT 5 = 8
(Street) Horizon Rate 4 + INT 5 = 9
(Street) Security Companies Rate 3 + INT 5 = 8
(Street) Seattle Shadowrunners Rate 3 + INT 5 = 8
(Academic) Literature Rate 4 + LOG 4 = 8

Languages
English N
Japanese Rate 1 + LOG 4 (+2 Linguist) = 7
Spanish Rate 1 + LOG 4 (+2 Linguist) = 7
Korean Rate 1 + LOG 4 (+2 Linguist) = 7

Qualities:

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Positive:

Erased (10BP)
What better way to ensure your record stays just how you'd like it to, and all of those nasty little recordings of you stay off the Matrix than to have your very own hacker on retainer? Skytale does the deed in this case for Jared, and he is very, very good at what he does.

Local Fame - Seattle (5BP)
While it has been nearly a decade, plenty of people still recognize the Assistant District Attorney of Seattle who allegedly slept with a Mafioso's teenage daughter, and then tampered with the evidence in one of his collegue's cases in order to make sure the Mafioso didn't see jail time. While the allegations were false, Jared took it as a chance to bow out of public office. Oddly enough the public sees him as some kind of fading cult hero, more than likely because of his reputation before that.

Privileged Family Name (5 BP)
Before his downfall Jared was a household name in Seattle, and one that was spoken with pride. Hand in hand with Lone Star, Jared was responsible for deftly picking apart several major Mafia operations, and was seen as the city's golden boy. Though he has somewhat fallen from grace, his name still has a lot of pull in all the right places. Needless to say he doesn't get parking tickets.

Trustworthy - Negotiation (5BP)
Linguist (5 BP)

Negative:

Day Job - Income: 15000/month (15BP)

While he operates in the shadows as a fixer, Jared still maintains a lucrative legitimate law practice. As senior partner on Engles and Associates he may not see the inside of a courtroom too often, but he spends plenty of time in the office managing the substantial caseload his name has attracted.

Records on File - Horizon (10BP)
SINner - UCAS (5BP)
Bad Reputation (5BP)

While his record prior to the incident may have been spotless, the allegations surrounding trial tampering and illicit affairs within the context of the Seattle Mafia have left Jared's image tarnished. In certain strata of legal society this stain will never go away.

'Ware:

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Implant Grade Rating Essence

Shiawase ExecutiveSuite Line Silverline Aplha - .76
Sigma II Headware Commlink - - -
ATC 3318 Pearl Image Link - - -
Datajack - - -
Attention CoProcessor - 3 -
Math SPU - - -
Sleep Regulator - - .15

Gear:

Armor:

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(3) Zoe Executive Suit w. Short Jacket 5/2

On Hand:

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Glasses w. Vision Enhancement, Flare Compensation, Image Link

At Home:

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Vehicle:

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Range Rover Model 2071; Black; Limo Tinted Windows

Comlink:

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Sigma II w. Novatech Navi (Uprated)
Response Signal Firewall System
4 5 6 4
Programs: FTL Matrixware Power Suite, Eurosoft Clavicula
Gear: Sim Module


2X Disposable, 1 Active

[Aria]

And here it is, the roughed up version of The Suit. It's pretty much a lift from his last incarnation

This is excellent, thanks DH. Looking forward to seeing some of the 20 questions to go with this. I think the key ones for my purposes at the moment are

1. What happened (if anything) to you during the crash?
2. What are your principal motivations for being in the shadows (you've covered that one already i think (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotate.gif) )
3. What are your short term goals?
4. Any long term goals?
5. Any family / friends that are important enough for walking plot hooks?

The rest can be filled in through RP as we go or can be added as and when...

A

[Mickle5125]

1. What happened (if anything) to you during the crash?

Remind me about how long ago the crash was, please?

[DireRadiant]

2065

[Mickle5125]

Any problems with me taking similar, low connectivity contacts as groups (IE: prostitutes, bums)?

[Aria]

Any problems with me taking similar, low connectivity contacts as groups (IE: prostitutes, bums)?

I think this could be justified if they are from a single geographical area in Seattle and could reasonably interact as a group...I don't know the answer but Johnny over there might have seen something if you stand him a soyburger...

[Mickle5125]

ok. 3 last questions. I should have something ready for you this evening.

1) Optional rule: Adept Geasa. Is it in affect? (basically, a geasa for an adept power reduces the pp cost by 25%)

2) Are we doing any special rules for initiation at buildtime? (IE: 2 karma/Bp, one initiation at buildtime, etc. etc?)

3) Empathy software: As written, only for judge intention tests, or not at all?

[Aria]

ok. 3 last questions. I should have something ready for you this evening.

1) Optional rule: Adept Geasa. Is it in affect? (basically, a geasa for an adept power reduces the pp cost by 25%)

2) Are we doing any special rules for initiation at buildtime? (IE: 2 karma/Bp, one initiation at buildtime, etc. etc?)

3) Empathy software: As written, only for judge intention tests, or not at all?

1. Ok, no problems with this one.
2. I'm prepared to allow one or two levels of initiation at the start. I'm not sure if there are any main rules for this (anyone?) but 2 karma per BP sounds reasonable to me.
3. Again, would have to look this one up but 'as written' will probably be the way to go. Given that the rules are going to be secondary to good story in the game it might boil down to GM whim or how you want to tell the story of using the software.

Hope that's answered as clearly as i can for now

A

[Digital Heroin]

There are no rules expressly written for Initiation at build IIRC, but 2 Karma for BP is the going rate in just about every game I've seen.

If someone shows up to a meet with the The Suit with a blooming emotitoy, he will have Gabriel shoot them and mail a spot of DNA to each of their loved ones.

[DireRadiant]

Updates. Running through final tweaks, but would like feedback to respond to.

China Doll

[Mickle5125]

If someone shows up to a meet with the The Suit with a blooming emotitoy, he will have Gabriel shoot them and mail a spot of DNA to each of their loved ones.

I've never been overly fond of the emotitoys. However, empathy software with a disguised camera strikes me as a valid tactic for faces, and the prices are less ridiculous for that than the basic emotoys...

[Digital Heroin]

Apologies for it taking a while. I've had a mixed bag of stuff on my plate. Here be Jared Engles aka The Suit's 20:

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BACKGROUND

1) Where is your character from?

Jared was born on the thirteenth of Jun, 2031 at Virginia Mason Medical Center - where his father was a cardiac surgeon and his mother an executive administrator - in downtown Seattle. He is a Seattelite through and through, and holds more loyalty to the Metroplex than to the UCAS at large.

2) Does your character have a family?

Jared's mother passed away at fifty-two, succumbing to lymphatic cancer - amongst his various philanthropic endevours are sizable donations to cancer research programs. His father died during the Crash 2.0 while performing a remote surgery.
Jared has one younger sister, Elsabeth, who resides in Seattle, and is a Lone Star staff psychologist and criminal profiler. The two are on friendly terms, and have a standing monthly lunch engagement which they rarely miss.

3) Does your character have an ethnic background?

Jared's familial line is predominantly German, and can be traced back to the nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia circa the late fifteen-hundreds. Familial records have been studiously kept, and at this point there has been neither sign of metagenetic expression, nor Awakening in any member.

APPEARANCE

4) What does your character look like?

Jared is average in height, and posessed of a lithe frame covered in lean muscle. He has about him the look of a man who spends a good deal of time with a personal trainer, or at a private gym - likely because he is the type of person who spends a good deal of time with a personal trainer.
At birth he was dark haired, though by the age of twenty he started 'going grey'. His hair is now fully silver, and he is possessed of icy blue eyes. He has no distinguishing marks, and no birthmarks on record. Those that he may have had have been removed in surgery.

5) What does your character dress like?

A name like The Suit implies a certain level of formal dress - or should, as a man in a ratty seasons old suit would be called something less than flattering. Jared dresses in suits from longstanding houses, rather than on the bleeding edge of fashion. He favors suits of the Brooks Brothers cut to the Euro-blend or Oriental lines many executives wear these days, as they remain timeless. Each of his suits is custom tailored, and his accessories befit a man of his status in Seattle's society.

6) Does your character have physical quirks?

Jared is festidious about his grooming routines and appearances, perhaps due to his obsessive tendancies. Though perhaps not a quirk, he has never been seen to be armed, believing that a man in his position has better things to do than spend time in a range.

SKILLS, ATTRIBUTES, AND RESOURCES

7) Where did your character learn their Active Skills?

Some people work hard to refine their social skills. They attend prepatory academies, join honors societies, they study kinesics and gobble up all of the trid and tutorsoft information they can get their hands on. Those are people who had to work entirely too hard to get practically nothing. Jared was born with the gift for reading and manipulating people - the oft told of silver tongue - and his years of schooling only served to hone that gift, rather than impart skill upon him.
Jared's athletics, rather than a gift, came from a fierce compeditive streak, and good old fashion time in the gym and on various sports fields.

8 ) Where did your character learn their Knowledge Skills?
While his parents' professions assured that the family wanted for nothing, they did not allow for their children to receive Ivy League educations. This suited Jared well enough. Jared attended the University of Washington, with a focus on Pre-Law, and a minor in Political Science. Despite receiving offers of scholarship to Columbia and Georgetown University Law he chose to remain true to his Metroplex roots (and a doomed romance), and completed the final three years of his Law Degree a UDub. His love of literature stems from an earlier period of time in his life, however it was during his university years that he picked up his rudimentary Japanese and Korean, to feed his diverse reading habits - the Spanish came later, for business.
The shadier of Jared's knowledge skills came during his time working with Horizon's Human Resources department, as an unprepared Johnson is ofted a dead one.

9) Where did your character get his goodies?
The life that Jared has lived on both sides of the shadows has afforded him a certain standard of living to which he has both become accustomed, and is expected to maintain. Save the disposable of his gear, which is purchased as needed through Gabriel or provided by Skytale, all of his gear was legitimately purchased.

10) Where does your character live?
Jared lives in a luxury greenside condo in a small executive enclave, the One the Green Condominum complex in Fairwood Greens. He has nearly three tousand square feet, with private parking, to himself. While the balcony and large windows greenside lack for privacy he has neighbors who know better than to snoop, and is in fact an active and celebrated member of the community.

11) Who are your character's contacts?
He makes a living cultivatin contacts, and has been grooming/maintaining some of them for years, decades even. (See the attatched contact section for details).

12) Who are your character's enemies?
Having lived both as a high profile 'mob-buster' and a corporate Mr. Johnson, Jared has the veritable laundry list of enemies. There is emnity between himself and the Mafia more than any of the major syndicated, and he has some heat with the Yakuza -though his recently blooming professional relationship with Hiro Yashimoto has done a good deal to mitigate the danger on his part.

13) What is your character's attitude towards Magic?
Jared, being mundane and from a family which has never produced an Awakened member, has little hands on experience with magic. He is, however, aware of its usefulness in the trade which his employees ply, and in the world at large. That said, he does not especially trust the Awakened, as he is unable to actively defend himself against their potential meddlings in his mind and affairs.

PERSONALITY

14) What are your character's likes and dislikes?
Jared is a man of simple tastes. Football, porno and books about war. Two of those are amongst his hobbies. He holds season tickets to the Seahawks, and has a sizable collection of real-paper books on subjects beyond mere war. Pornography holds little appeal to him, as he is quite able to find female companionship.
The Leary three aside, Jared is a regular on the Seattle golf scene, and relishes the chance (at quite an expense) to play in pro-am tournaments. He has a share in a Horizon reserved box at the Seattle Symphony, and often surrounds himself with classical music.

15) What is your character's moral code?
While Jared works in a world between the legal and extralegal, he is actually an ardent defender of justice. The ADA's position was, for him, a chance to see organized crime pay for the ill had done the community. He is also a stickler for a contract, be it verbal or otherwise, and will do his best to adhere to his end of any bargain, expecting no less of the other party. Jared will also not associate himself directly with wetwork, massive property damage, or any act which might endager the larger public safety.

16) Does your character have goals?
Jared has met many of his early goals in life, and exceeded them (the move to the corporate world, and establishing his own consultancy had not been aspirations of his in his youth). With business good, both legitimate and otherwise, Jared has been toying with the idea of running for public office, if only as an exercise in personal power.

17) Does your character have personal beliefs?
As stated above, Jared has a strong belief in justice and the law, even though it may seem in contrast with his shadier career path. He is a German Catholic, and attends mass frequently, if not on a regular basis. Jared also has a philanthropic bent, and donates to a variety of charities.

18) Does your character have personality quirks?
His fastidious nature and obsessive tendancies aside, Jared is otherwise unremarkable as far as quirks go (he does have a thing for elf women, but who doesn't?).

RUNNING THE SHADOWS

19) Why does your character run the shadows?
Jared came to the shadows as a result of a smear campaign by a jealous rival, and with the stepping stone of Horizon he has found himself quite comfortable there. The extra income, albeit income he must be careful in his spending of, has allowed him to continue leading the life he was accustomed to while at the same time starting up his own consultancy.

20) How does your character view his/her role as a shadowrunner?
Jared, as The Suit, is a facilitator. He is the honest man that the criminal element need in order to bridge the gap between street and corporate/
Bonus Round:
1. What happened (if anything) to you during the crash?
Jared's father was conducting a remote bipass surgery when the Crash 2.0 occurred, and he was lost to the Matrix, flatlined along with the other attending surgeon.

2. What are your principal motivations for being in the shadows?
Filthy lurcre, and a bit of a power trip.

3. What are your short term goals?
Jared is looking to establish a retirement nestegg. Enough that, combined with the money from his consultancy, will allow him to never have to work an honest day in his life.

4. Any long term goals?
He would shoot for the White House if it was in Seattle. That said, the Gubernatorial mansion is not too shabby.

5. Any family / friends that are important enough for walking plot hooks?

His sister is alive and well and living in Seattle, working as a staff Psychologist for Lone Star. Otherwise he has a few former and on again off again paramours, but no one too close to him.

[Digital Heroin]

Apologies for it taking a while. I've had a mixed bag of stuff on my plate. Here be Jared Engles aka The Suit's 20:

[ Spoiler ]

BACKGROUND

1) Where is your character from?

Jared was born on the thirteenth of Jun, 2031 at Virginia Mason Medical Center - where his father was a cardiac surgeon and his mother an executive administrator - in downtown Seattle. He is a Seattelite through and through, and holds more loyalty to the Metroplex than to the UCAS at large.

2) Does your character have a family?

Jared's mother passed away at fifty-two, succumbing to lymphatic cancer - amongst his various philanthropic endevours are sizable donations to cancer research programs. His father died during the Crash 2.0 while performing a remote surgery.
Jared has one younger sister, Elsabeth, who resides in Seattle, and is a Lone Star staff psychologist and criminal profiler. The two are on friendly terms, and have a standing monthly lunch engagement which they rarely miss.

3) Does your character have an ethnic background?

Jared's familial line is predominantly German, and can be traced back to the nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia circa the late fifteen-hundreds. Familial records have been studiously kept, and at this point there has been neither sign of metagenetic expression, nor Awakening in any member.

APPEARANCE

4) What does your character look like?

Jared is average in height, and posessed of a lithe frame covered in lean muscle. He has about him the look of a man who spends a good deal of time with a personal trainer, or at a private gym - likely because he is the type of person who spends a good deal of time with a personal trainer.
At birth he was dark haired, though by the age of twenty he started 'going grey'. His hair is now fully silver, and he is possessed of icy blue eyes. He has no distinguishing marks, and no birthmarks on record. Those that he may have had have been removed in surgery.

5) What does your character dress like?

A name like The Suit implies a certain level of formal dress - or should, as a man in a ratty seasons old suit would be called something less than flattering. Jared dresses in suits from longstanding houses, rather than on the bleeding edge of fashion. He favors suits of the Brooks Brothers cut to the Euro-blend or Oriental lines many executives wear these days, as they remain timeless. Each of his suits is custom tailored, and his accessories befit a man of his status in Seattle's society.

6) Does your character have physical quirks?

Jared is festidious about his grooming routines and appearances, perhaps due to his obsessive tendancies. Though perhaps not a quirk, he has never been seen to be armed, believing that a man in his position has better things to do than spend time in a range.

SKILLS, ATTRIBUTES, AND RESOURCES

7) Where did your character learn their Active Skills?

Some people work hard to refine their social skills. They attend prepatory academies, join honors societies, they study kinesics and gobble up all of the trid and tutorsoft information they can get their hands on. Those are people who had to work entirely too hard to get practically nothing. Jared was born with the gift for reading and manipulating people - the oft told of silver tongue - and his years of schooling only served to hone that gift, rather than impart skill upon him.
Jared's athletics, rather than a gift, came from a fierce compeditive streak, and good old fashion time in the gym and on various sports fields.

8 ) Where did your character learn their Knowledge Skills?
While his parents' professions assured that the family wanted for nothing, they did not allow for their children to receive Ivy League educations. This suited Jared well enough. Jared attended the University of Washington, with a focus on Pre-Law, and a minor in Political Science. Despite receiving offers of scholarship to Columbia and Georgetown University Law he chose to remain true to his Metroplex roots (and a doomed romance), and completed the final three years of his Law Degree a UDub. His love of literature stems from an earlier period of time in his life, however it was during his university years that he picked up his rudimentary Japanese and Korean, to feed his diverse reading habits - the Spanish came later, for business.
The shadier of Jared's knowledge skills came during his time working with Horizon's Human Resources department, as an unprepared Johnson is ofted a dead one.

9) Where did your character get his goodies?
The life that Jared has lived on both sides of the shadows has afforded him a certain standard of living to which he has both become accustomed, and is expected to maintain. Save the disposable of his gear, which is purchased as needed through Gabriel or provided by Skytale, all of his gear was legitimately purchased.

10) Where does your character live?
Jared lives in a luxury greenside condo in a small executive enclave, the One the Green Condominum complex in Fairwood Greens. He has nearly three tousand square feet, with private parking, to himself. While the balcony and large windows greenside lack for privacy he has neighbors who know better than to snoop, and is in fact an active and celebrated member of the community.

11) Who are your character's contacts?
He makes a living cultivatin contacts, and has been grooming/maintaining some of them for years, decades even. (See the attatched contact section for details).

12) Who are your character's enemies?
Having lived both as a high profile 'mob-buster' and a corporate Mr. Johnson, Jared has the veritable laundry list of enemies. There is emnity between himself and the Mafia more than any of the major syndicated, and he has some heat with the Yakuza -though his recently blooming professional relationship with Hiro Yashimoto has done a good deal to mitigate the danger on his part.

13) What is your character's attitude towards Magic?
Jared, being mundane and from a family which has never produced an Awakened member, has little hands on experience with magic. He is, however, aware of its usefulness in the trade which his employees ply, and in the world at large. That said, he does not especially trust the Awakened, as he is unable to actively defend himself against their potential meddlings in his mind and affairs.

PERSONALITY

14) What are your character's likes and dislikes?
Jared is a man of simple tastes. Football, porno and books about war. Two of those are amongst his hobbies. He holds season tickets to the Seahawks, and has a sizable collection of real-paper books on subjects beyond mere war. Pornography holds little appeal to him, as he is quite able to find female companionship.
The Leary three aside, Jared is a regular on the Seattle golf scene, and relishes the chance (at quite an expense) to play in pro-am tournaments. He has a share in a Horizon reserved box at the Seattle Symphony, and often surrounds himself with classical music.

15) What is your character's moral code?
While Jared works in a world between the legal and extralegal, he is actually an ardent defender of justice. The ADA's position was, for him, a chance to see organized crime pay for the ill had done the community. He is also a stickler for a contract, be it verbal or otherwise, and will do his best to adhere to his end of any bargain, expecting no less of the other party. Jared will also not associate himself directly with wetwork, massive property damage, or any act which might endager the larger public safety.

16) Does your character have goals?
Jared has met many of his early goals in life, and exceeded them (the move to the corporate world, and establishing his own consultancy had not been aspirations of his in his youth). With business good, both legitimate and otherwise, Jared has been toying with the idea of running for public office, if only as an exercise in personal power.

17) Does your character have personal beliefs?
As stated above, Jared has a strong belief in justice and the law, even though it may seem in contrast with his shadier career path. He is a German Catholic, and attends mass frequently, if not on a regular basis. Jared also has a philanthropic bent, and donates to a variety of charities.

18) Does your character have personality quirks?
His fastidious nature and obsessive tendancies aside, Jared is otherwise unremarkable as far as quirks go (he does have a thing for elf women, but who doesn't?).

RUNNING THE SHADOWS

19) Why does your character run the shadows?
Jared came to the shadows as a result of a smear campaign by a jealous rival, and with the stepping stone of Horizon he has found himself quite comfortable there. The extra income, albeit income he must be careful in his spending of, has allowed him to continue leading the life he was accustomed to while at the same time starting up his own consultancy.

20) How does your character view his/her role as a shadowrunner?
Jared, as The Suit, is a facilitator. He is the honest man that the criminal element need in order to bridge the gap between street and corporate/
Bonus Round:
1. What happened (if anything) to you during the crash?
Jared's father was conducting a remote bipass surgery when the Crash 2.0 occurred, and he was lost to the Matrix, flatlined along with the other attending surgeon.

2. What are your principal motivations for being in the shadows?
Filthy lucre, and a bit of a power trip.

3. What are your short term goals?
Jared is looking to establish a retirement nestegg. Enough that, combined with the money from his consultancy, will allow him to never have to work an honest day in his life.

4. Any long term goals?
He would shoot for the White House if it was ain Seattle. That said, the Gubernatorial mansion is not too shabby.

5. Any family / friends that are important enough for walking plot hooks?

His sister is alive and well and living in Seattle, working as a staff Psychologist for Lone Star. Otherwise he has a few former and on again off again paramours, but no one too close to him.

[Aria]

Updates. Running through final tweaks, but would like feedback to respond to.

CD is looking great! My only real comments are that the contacts that i listed in one of my original posts come free to the group so you can recoup those points to spend on yet more contacts if you want? Thanks for putting in the effort to work out your connection to them though. Are you happy to be the new member coming to the 'fraternity' ?

[Aria]

Apologies for it taking a while. I've had a mixed bag of stuff on my plate. Here be Jared Engles aka The Suit's 20:

Thanks for this! We should be about ready to roll out the initial encounter just after Easter if that suits everyone. Crank and Mickle...how are you guys getting on?

A

[DireRadiant]

CD is looking great! My only real comments are that the contacts that i listed in one of my original posts come free to the group so you can recoup those points to spend on yet more contacts if you want? Thanks for putting in the effort to work out your connection to them though. Are you happy to be the new member coming to the 'fraternity' ?

Thanks for the review, I'll think about what I might do with that then. It'll be useful to have some contacts focused on other areas.

[Mickle5125]

sorry about that. RL caught up, and disease showed up for a visit, and things got a little crazy there. On the plus side, SC's slowly getting there.

[Crank]

Sorry, but I think I'm going to have to bow out of this one. It sounds like a cool concept, but I've taken on too many other games while trying to run my own.

[Aria]

Sorry, but I think I'm going to have to bow out of this one. It sounds like a cool concept, but I've taken on too many other games while trying to run my own.

No problem Crank, I'll keep your slot open for a bit and you can possibly step in later on if you get some more time.

A

[DireRadiant]

Thanks for the review, I'll think about what I might do with that then. It'll be useful to have some contacts focused on other areas.

If it's ok I'd like to keep the back story for the free contacts, and I'll switch those points to some new contacts, and add some back story for them too of course.

[Aria]

If it's ok I'd like to keep the back story for the free contacts, and I'll switch those points to some new contacts, and add some back story for them too of course.

Yep, that's what I intended (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Aria]

IC Posting ‘Rules’

I’m going to adopt a slightly amended version of what seems to be normal on the DS boards so hopefully it won’t cause too much confusion. This isn’t set in stone yet and I’d welcome any comments you have.

Local time, date and approx location (bold & orange) – obvious enough

POV and PAN mode (grey) – I’d like you to tell me whose point of view you are writing from (third or first person don’t mind which) as I want you to be able to ‘tell the story’ from multiple angles if you want. Usually it will be your main character but you might also want to tell it from the perspective of one of your contacts or even a passer by in the street (might be interesting!). I’ll also use this so that you know which NPC I’m talking through. If POV is N/A then I’ll be the GM voice setting the scene but I’m not sure yet how often I’ll do it that way and how often through an NPC.

# Newsflash # (normal) – eg. # Newsflash – Dunklezahn sighted in diner in Memphis – source Memphis Star # This bit is optional and will add a bit of colour to the game but I will also use it to drop clues, red herrings etc. You can use it for generating plot hooks, being silly or anything else! Sources could be KASF, Horizon Media or any other outlet from the SR world

“Speech” (cyan) – speech marks please, makes my job easier if I copy stuff in to word to work on it offline.

<<Digital Comms>> (yellow) – as the usual posting rules

Everything else (normal) – and that’s it, any thoughts or other stuff can be in here.

[DireRadiant]

Added the following

Metroplex Guard Border Patrolman
Seattle DoT maintenace crew chief
Seattle City Planner
Combat Bike Fan club Organizer
Grid Guide Engineer

China Doll

Couple more finishing touches on the gear I think.

[Mickle5125]

20 questions on

Dryden "Smooth Criminal" "SC" Mitchell

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BACKGROUND

1) Where is your character from?
Dryden “Smooth Criminal” “SC” Mitchell grew up in a Seattle ghetto.

2) Does your character have a family?
Not anymore. His father developed a rather nasty drinking habit when SC surged. He began blaming SC for all of the problems that developed as a result of his drinking (job loss, friends leaving, etc etc.). SC stuck around to make sure that his mother didn’t have to deal with things on her own. One night, his father flew into a drunken rage while SC was out dealing with some issues with his gang. SC came home to find the kitchen a mess and his mother dead. Several months later, SC caught up with his father and allowed him to experience what SC’s mom did. Luckily, his father was one of the unfortunates who slipped through the cracks during the Crash, so SC got away with it.

3) Does your character have an ethnic background?
SC shows signs of a latino somewhere in his family tree, though no one will admit to anything of the sort. So, as far as anyone knows, SC’s pure white ghetto trash.

APPEARANCE

4) What does your character look like?
Dryden’s a fairly average male from the shoulders down. His body is not overly bulky, but it is clear that he takes care of himself. His thick black hair is a little past his shoulders and is usually pulled back into a pony tail, though he allows two clumps of bangs to hang down over his forehead. His smile is easy and likable most times, though it can be the most frightening thing imaginable at times. His eyes, however, are the most eye-catching feature on his face. All three of them. That’s right. He has three eyes. Each of them is pure black, except for a brilliant green ring for an iris.

5) What does your character dress like?
SC’s clothes match his street roots. He’s never been one for fancy suits, much preferring street garb and armored jackets. He always wears a headband to hide the eye in the middle of his forehead and a pair of sunglasses to conceal the other two. It’s easier to deal with people if they aren’t running in terror from the creepy changeling, after all.

6) Does your character have physical quirks?
The only big oddities when it comes to SC are his eyes, but we’ve already covered that, chummer.

SKILLS, ATTRIBUTES, AND RESOURCES

7) Where did your character learn their Active Skills?
SC is a proud graduate with honors from the school of Hard Knocks. Everything he learned, from arnis de mano to his social skills to control over his aura abilities to focusing his adept powers to get the most out of them, has been fought for, tooth and nail. He was forced to prove his worth to the old man practicing Arnis de Mano in the park to convince him to teach SC to defend himself. He worked himself to exhaustion, studying people, learning to recognize what buttons to push and what signs people give off that indicate how best to get them to do what he wants. His adept powers and glamour/nasty vibe were brought under his control through thousands of hours of practice, simply because he had no other choice. Either he learned to control them, or they would have resulted in his existence ending miserably at the hands of gang-based lynch mob.

8 ) Where did your character learn their Knowledge Skills?
All of his knowledge comes from carefully accumulated information. SC has spent years gathering information about anything and everything that could be useful in keeping his gang alive and well, and has now turned that knowledge to improving his personal power.


9) Where did your character get his goodies?
SC's oldest gear came largely from what he managed to lift from those around him. As his gang, Death Road Ministry, expanded and began bringing in income, he began acquiring better and better gear as the money came in to do so. His most recent acquisition, a microcamera concealed in a ring, was gifted to him as a thank you from DRM for finishing the negotiations with the other gangs to ensure the cessation of hostilities.


10) Where does your character live?
His primary home is a well-secured home in a middle quality neighborhood. He chose the house because it's his dream home from when he was growing up. He also maintains a well secured house with the DRM for when he's feeling the pressure, and maintains a safehouse for those few times when he feels it's best to complete disappear off the map.


11) Who are your character's contacts?
a) Death Road Ministry - A gang formed by SC and a few friends for self defense. more info TBA.

b) Halloweeners - former enemies of DRM, now allies. more info TBA

c) Cutters - one of three Big Seattle gangs. more info tba.

d) Spikes - second of three big Seattle gangs. more info tba.

e) Generic Neighborhood Gang - matrix gang SC & DRM helped. more info tba.

f) Tanamous - Distasteful, but useful when bodies need to disappear.

g) Drug Dealers - DRM used to work for them. SC maintains contact to purchase drugs and information

h) Hookers - SC buys info from them. Contact goes both ways.

i) Bartenders - SC buys info from them. SC approaches them.

j) Trip, Pawn Shop Owner - reliable way to move stolen goods. more info tba.

k) Markus, Armorer - cool customer. Works with weapons, armor, explosives, electronics. too uptight to be friends with SC, but reliable, fair, and perfect for a business relationship.

12) Who are your character's enemies?
The Ancients have a special hatred of him for ruining their plans for wiping out the Halloweeners and the DRM by talking th Halloweeners into taking a truce with DRM to deal with the onslaught of Ancients.

13) What is your character's attitude towards Magic?
Just another tool. Dangerous in the wrong hands, but miraculous in the right.


PERSONALITY

14) What are your character's likes and dislikes?
Likes: gambling, women, alcohol, recreational drugs, power, manipulating people, hanging with the boys.

Dislikes: needless violence, "Suits", Wageslaves, losing control, being out maneuvered (though he can respect someone who does manage to out maneuver him).


15) What is your character's moral code?
SC's morals depend entirely on who he's with at the time. He's spent too much time on the street to ever have a solidly defined moral code, though he generally avoids forced prostitution and anything involving violence and children (granted, his definition of child is based largely on his own childhood and when he thinks someone stops being a child).


16) Does your character have goals?
See below.


17) Does your character have personal beliefs?
Do what is necessary. Nothing and Nobody is without price.


18) Does your character have personality quirks?
SC can usually be found idly shuffling a deck of cards. He'll have up to seven decks on him at any time, and will use his still-complete decks for anything, from gambling to divination, as the mood strikes him.


RUNNING THE SHADOWS

19) Why does your character run the shadows?
The shadows, or more specifically, the streets, are all SC's known. He grew up there, and will never forget his roots.


20) How does your character view his/her role as a shadowrunner?
SC's fully aware of what he does. He's there to make sure that DRM (or whoever he's working for) never have to face incoming gunfire. He is the talker. The face. And he knows how much more powerful words are than the average gun.


Bonus Round:
1. What happened (if anything) to you during the crash?
SC slipped through the cracks and lost his SIN, just like his father did. Luckily, SC was already used to the streets and had a support network in DRM that enabled him to land on his feet, as compared to his back as his father landed.


2. What are your principal motivations for being in the shadows?
Power. SC understands that, as guttertrash, he's likely to be forgotten quickly. However, SC is not going to go quietly into the night. He will fight his hardest to make sure that he is NEVER forgotten. The shadows happen to be the arena in which he has chosen to make his stand.


3. What are your short term goals?
Short term goals really depend on what needs to be done. SC has a bad feeling that the Ancients aren't going to accept their defeat at the hands of the Halloweeners and DRM quietly. At the moment, his focus is on making sure that DRM survives the oncoming storm. Any personal power and acclaim that comes is secondary to that, really...


4. Any long term goals?
Make sure that he is NEVER forgotten. He will make a mark on this world that will ensure that his name stands out in people’s memories for centuries.

5. Any family / friends that are important enough for walking plot hooks?

SC still has close ties to the Death Road Ministry Gang and is more than willing to pull strings and do what he can to help the DRMs maintain, or even expand, their power.

I had full paragraphs for each of the contacts, but lost power before I could save it. I'll get them re-expanded upon when I have the will to do so.

The character is completed. I'll get him posted when I finish translating him from excel into a simple text format, but I wanted to get this much up now.

TO Aria: do you have an e-mail I can send the excel file to? it'd give you a chance to start looking over him so that you can ask any questions you might have...

[Digital Heroin]

Oooh, SC is going to love 'The Suit' ...heh.