Shadowrun Wars, Episode X - The Borked Hope Options

[The Jopp]

Rigger /Smuggler

The Characters and backstory
Hanzu "Han" Sulu (normal boring japanese human)
Quickdraw Holster and a Predator pistol

Charlie "Chewie" Baccarus (Mechanic contact (2/6) (Huge orc with excessive body hair and speech impediment)
Packs a large crossbow with underslung SMG.

These two intrepid smugglers are a hunted dynamic duo with a price on their head.

Texas crime boss Jeb Hutt have put a price on their head and notorious bounty hunter Bob Fatman intend to collect it.

One of their old enemies are Dark Empire Records who wants revenge on them for a rather famous heist and smuggling run of the bootleg collection of “Strikes Back” from goth band singer Darrel “Dark” Vaden, lead singer of “The Darkside Band”.

The CEO of Darkside records Dirk Sidious lost a rather huge revenue from the supposed lost income due to the rampant piracy of underground record company Rebel Records who sold many of the “Strikes Back” songs – rebel records mysteriously lost one of their underground stores in Alaska last winter. He has given his full support to Darrel in his hunt for the illusive smuggler.

There is also a rumor floating around that Darrel have children who might have inherited his musical gift and Dirk Sidious is highly interested in tracking them down, mainly to take their fathers place as lead singers in the band – Darrel has gotten a bit too whiny as of late.

The Smugglers Vehicle & Character Qualities
The Awakening Falcon (Cascade Scraacha)
Black Market Contact Quality: Vehicles -10% cost
Black Market Contact Quality: Vehicle Modifications -10% cost
Born Rich
Restricted Gear: Cascade Scraacha (Used vehicle gives +4 Availability)
In Debt (Texas Mafia)

Used Vehicle: -20% cost
Used in a crime under investigation: -20%
Stolen Vehicle: -10%

Vehicle has Gremlins Quality II due to lack of maintenance (or need of)

Total Cost: -60% of original price from 475K to 190K

The LAV have one forward mounted Ingram and three gun ports with three pintle mounted Ingrams. It also carries an extra fueltank, middle lifestyle amenities and chameleon coating.

Hanzu Zulu has mostly second hand cyberware like Wired Reflexes II and Muscle Toner/Augmentation II.

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[KnightIII]

I think I know this back story too. But I think Darrel "Dark" Vaden was an Emo singer, not goth. All pissy because he was born with the name Annie Ken and raised by his mother as his dead beat dad, who was also a rocker with the stage name Might of Chlorine, bailed on him. I suppose being a boy growing up in Nevada desert barrens town of Tattoo and being called a girls name like Annie would be emotionally scarring.

[The Jopp]

I think I know this back story too. But I think Darrel "Dark" Vaden was an Emo singer, not goth. All pissy because he was born with the name Annie Ken and raised by his mother as his dead beat dad, who was also a rocker with the stage name Might of Chlorine, bailed on him. I suppose being a boy growing up in Nevada desert barrens town of Tattoo and being called a girls name like Annie would be emotionally scarring.

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[Valashar]

I think I know this back story too. But I think Darrel "Dark" Vaden was an Emo singer, not goth. All pissy because he was born with the name Annie Ken and raised by his mother as his dead beat dad, who was also a rocker with the stage name Might of Chlorine, bailed on him. I suppose being a boy growing up in Nevada desert barrens town of Tattoo and being called a girls name like Annie would be emotionally scarring.

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[Kumo]

Awesome...

[hermit]

Why is Charlie not a Sasquatch? Charlie Choo-Ba-Ka. A rather interesting character, coming from the Northern Crescent, Yosemite, where a Sasquatch tribe named Woo-Kee have built an extensive village among the Redwood trees - one of the very few known sasquatch settlements. He has a wife and a little kid he gets to see only on thanksgiving, which the Woo-Kee have strangely adoted as a holiday, and also a living parent. His Dad has a taste for human/Sasquatch porn BTLs and depends on his son for living his habit.

Also, Charlie loves to play videogames, but is notoriously violent whenever he loses.

[KnightIII]

Isnt the Woo-Kee tribe distantly related to that tribe of hairy pygmie dwarves living in the rainforrest? Oh what were they called? I think they were named after what the cheif researcher said when he shared dinner with them. Eww, Rocks or something like that.

And omg, more on "Dark's" kids! Sadly, he wasted the mother for hanging out with this other singer. He heard her call out "Oh B. one... more time" and it all went downhill from there. But it confirmed that Duke Skyscraper shares his musical instincts. The daughter, while possesing potential, has instead chosen a career as a gold bikini clad stripper using the stage name "Lay-Ahh Orgasmic".

[hermit]

Isnt the Woo-Kee tribe distantly related to that tribe of hairy pygmie dwarves living in the rainforrest?

Nah, those are just Leshy in Amazonia. Amazonia loves Leshy. Everybody loes Leshy! Don't you?!

Gotta use a bounty hunter named Bob Fatman and his annoying fanbunny sidekick, Karen.

[toturi]

You guys...

Argh!!! My head, my poor head!

[The Jopp]

You guys...

Argh!!! My head, my poor head!

Our work here is done. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[Xahn Borealis]

Don't forget the dwarf fixer Loader from Tacoma. But he has a cold. It almost sounds like he's saying Yohder and Dahgober. Damn cold.

[The Jopp]

Dark Side Records is also known for having their own security force to enforce their copyright on their record labels.

Rumors have that they have alsmost perfected cloning of a fully grown human with the essential mind intact to funtion as a dumb but effective enforcer.

The drawback is they are all incompetent in handling any kind of firearm and usually die from sheer shock when hit by a bullet...ANY bullet.

They have been known to actually hit large corporate land trains of the "JawaHaul" class - even when they move.

JawaHaul have stopped all cooperation with Darkside Records.

[The Jopp]

Don't forget the dwarf fixer Loader from Tacoma. But he has a cold. It almost sounds like he's saying Yohder and Dahgober. Damn cold.

Well, living in a polluted swamp area with Neoteny and Symbiosis combined with Photometabolims isn't that healthy considering his age - what is he now? Somethign between 80 and 800 or so the old geezer.

[hermit]

Don't forget the dwarf fixer Loader from Tacoma. But he has a cold. It almost sounds like he's saying Yohder and Dahgober. Damn cold.

I heared he's an Asian gnome with abnormally pointed ears - possibly a Goblin? - who is deep into far-eastern spirituality and lives somewhere near Florida in a place called Dago's Bay. He also used to be, legend has it, a senior Executive at Temple Records and exclusively wears JediKal robes, even though they're really out of fashion these days.

He also is a master mystical adept of absolutly staggering initiative grade. He might make for a good mentor but for his geas to garble sentences so they're hardly understandable anymore.

Which, actually, is a fun Geas, come to think of it.

[Kumo]

And I heard that new drop bear species exists in Amazonia(?). Natives call them Eye-wooks.

[The Jopp]

Has anyone heard about what happened to Darrel’s old drones? You know, the Manservant Tutorbot “Goldenrod”with far too many language softs and the GM.Mr Fix “R2Detour” that he always had hanging around him?

Apparently the Fix-It drone is working as a servant in the same club as Scyscrapers sister and Goldenrod is hanging around the clubs fixer as a translator.

[The Jopp]

And I heard that new drop bear species exists in Amazonia(?). Natives call them Eye-wooks.

Yea, they are apparently a terror against logging companies.

[hermit]

Apparently the Fix-It drone is working as a servant in the same club as Scyscrapers sister and Goldenrod is hanging around the clubs fixer as a translator.

I hear both have emerged as AI. Comes from not periodically deleting the cache on drones, I guess.

[KnightIII]

Lets not even get into Hanzu's buddy at a floating offshore drilling station. Whats-iz-name... Landen Calgreasian. Hes a fixer/face, runs the Wave City mining operation with his chromed cohorts. He orginally owned the Awakening Falcon, but lost it to Hanzu. But everything still seemed on the up and up... right up until he sold Hanzu out to Darkside Records.

That'll teach Hanzu to buy a contact with loyalty 1/ connections 5. Dang munchkin.

[The Jopp]

The drawback is they are all incompetent in handling any kind of firearm and usually die from sheer shock when hit by a bullet...ANY bullet.

This is mainly because they are trained dancers and usually travel as the "Storm Troupe" dancing team.

[toturi]

This is mainly because they are trained dancers and usually travel as the "Storm Troupe" dancing team.

Win +1