2072: Table Talk, OOC discussion thread for 2072 Options

[TheDoctor]

Is there room for a hermetic mage in this group?

I've a character I've not played in 10 years I'd like to get back to. I've rebuilt him from his 3e to 4e. He had earned 30 Karma and 26K in Nuyen. I can play with or without the Karma/cash he'd earned.

[AStarshipforAnts]

We need some magic in this group now.

[TheDoctor]

Here is The Doctor. Entries in parantheses were added during gameplay with my last group using earned Karma. Please check my math.

Original: 3e character using standard chargen
4e ReBuild: 400 points

Real Name: Martin Callaghan
Street Name: The Doctor

Character History:
Martin holds a Ph.D. in mana-spell theory from the University of Illinois in the Urbana-Champaign sprawl. He'd grown up with his father, a professor of Thaumaturgy at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, telling him stories about his days before his rescue from the streets by his mentor. He'd been a street wizard on his way to burn-out and run the Shadows of Seattle. His mentor, Dr. Gottsring, had found and rescued him after a run which had killed most of his team.

Shortly before Martin was to start a teaching job at a small college in Pennsylvania, he received a dream-sending from his father. The dream-sending told him that this was to happen only upon his unnatural death. The dream told Martin that it was likely he'd been murdered for an ancient grimoire he'd found on that last run. He'd kept it hidden for years and always feared someone would track him down for it. He charged Martin to find the book, destroy it if he could--hide it well if he couldn't. His father told him to first seek his old friend, Loftus, a talismonger in Seattle...to say that Martin was a friend of his.

The next morning, Martin woke to a phone call from the St. Louis police. As the dream-sending had told him, the police said his father had been murdered-his blodd drained completely and the body mutilated with heretofore unknown symbols. Forensic mages had determined ritual sorcery was at play. The police would let Martin know more as they discovered it...but no leads presented themselves.

Months rolled past and Martin did some digging on his own. He discovered that years before; several murders like that of his father had occurred in Seattle. He left his comfortable teaching job and sold most of his belongings. He packed up and went to Seattle. Martin managed to finagle his way into the underworld of shadowrunning in the hopes of tracking clues about his father's murderers and the whereabouts of the mysterious grimoire.

ATTRIBUTES -200BP
Body: 3
Agility: 3
Reaction: 3
Strength: 2
Charisma: 3
Intuition: 4
Logic: 5
Willpower: 5
Edge: 2
Magic: 5 (-40 BP)
Initiative: 7

Karma Earned: 30
Karma Spent: 24 (Pistol 2->3; Astral Combat 1-3; add Lightning Bolt & Improved Invisibility)

ACTIVE SKILLS -120BP
Arcana: 5
Assensing: 4
Astral Combat: 1 (3)
Conjuring-Banishing: 2
Conjuring-Summoning: 2
Dodge: 2
Enchanting: 2
Pistol: 2 (3)
Sorcery (skill group): 4

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS
Mana Theory: 6
Physics: 3
Magical Threats: 2
Botany: 3
Geology: 3
20th Century British Sci-Fi: 2
Untainted Landscape Sources: 3
Seattle Shadows: 2
Seattle Safehouses: 2

LANGUAGES
English: N

SPELLS - 35BP
Manabolt
Stunbolt
Heal
Analyze Truth
Levitate
Physical Mask
Catalog
(Lightning Bolt)
(Improved Invisibility)

CONTACT -7BP
Talismonger: Connection 3; Loyalty 4

MONEY
1000 (20035)

LIFESTYLES
Middle-1 month (2 months)
(Low - 2 months)

GEAR - 5BP
At Home
Magical Lodge (force 6)
Streetline Special (in vase above desk)
4 midlevel suits
1 nice suit
Work clothes for the shadows
Fake SIN Rating 5 (hidden in bedpost)
Comlink1-Renraku Sensei with Iris Orb OS
Latex Face Mask (shaped like David Tennant)
140 (100) extra rounds regular ammo
Spare Manhunter clip
Maglock Rating 4 with Keypad and Antitamper 3 (at Low home)
DOCWagon Basic Contract-1 year

On Person
Lined Coat (6/4 armor)
Colt Manhunter with concealable holster
4 filled spare clips with regular ammo
Comlink 2-Renraku Sensei with Iris Orb OS
Fake SIN 2 (Rating 5)


OTHER
Positives: Magician (-15BP)
Negatives:
Allergy Mild Uncommon (Hayfever)-+5BP
SINner (Legal) + 5BP
Force 5 Fire Spirit - 1BP
Force 5 Earth Spirit -2BP

This post has been edited by TheDoctor: Aug 28 2010, 01:44 AM

[Abschalten]

Your BP expenditures for your spirits are incorrect. When you spend BP to start with prebound spirits, you get them at a Force equal to your magic rating. Each point of BP is 1 service they owe you. So basically you have two Force 5 spirits, and they owe you 1 and 2 services, respectively.

[TheDoctor]

Your BP expenditures for your spirits are incorrect. When you spend BP to start with prebound spirits, you get them at a Force equal to your magic rating. Each point of BP is 1 service they owe you. So basically you have two Force 5 spirits, and they owe you 1 and 2 services, respectively.

Force editted.

[Suicidal Street ...]

Yes. We need a mage. Badly. I am more than willing to "bump into" The Doctor somehow; say, on a surveillance run or something.

[Doc Chase]

Hopefully stepping out of a police box.

[Notsoevildm]

Need any more mages?

I saw Doc Chase posted up Doctor Who, but I have a somewhat different idea based on a character I played a long time ago.

Character is a troll shaman with cyberarms - I'm more of a maxmin player than a minmaxer. Backstory is that she lost her arms in an explosion that also killed her father. Originally, this was a bomb or runner attack, then I read Dahlia's background which hinted she might have caused the explosion that killed her father and thought to myself, 'What if there were more casualties?'

Let me know and I'll post up stats and background.

[Doc Chase]

haah? Oh no, that wasn't me. I've been considering what to do with an AI Face that's been percolating in the back of my mind. The trouble here is that Dumpshock's got six or seven of us Docs. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Notsoevildm]

haah? Oh no, that wasn't me. I've been considering what to do with an AI Face that's been percolating in the back of my mind. The trouble here is that Dumpshock's got six or seven of us Docs. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Ooops, I think your tardis post confused me. AI face? Sounds interesting!

[Doc Chase]

I've been told that 'it must be done'. The idea of having an AI emerge from motivational speaking software and inhabiting an emotitoy...amused me.

[Abschalten]

I personally think the AI rules (and the Free Spirit rules) are crap. They're not particularly balanced with any of the chargen systems, and they seem a bit kludged in without much regard for the canon or fluff. And truth be told, AIs seem a little...boring to play.

I'd love to play a free spirit, if the rules weren't so awful.

[Doc Chase]

Oh, I have no doubt it would be a crappy character. Just interesting to play.

[TheDoctor]

So do I wait for unsound to approve TheDoctor before posting?

[unsound]

Naw, you can begin posting whenever. I'll notify you if you need to tweak your character sheet. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[TheDoctor]

Naw, you can begin posting whenever. I'll notify you if you need to tweak your character sheet. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I'm going on vacation next Friday...and I'd be completely out of contact for 10 days. I think I will wait to start posting till I come back. I don't want to hold up the game at all (unless unsound wants to NPC me or sideline me somehow during my downtime).

[Notsoevildm]

I'm still interested in getting involved in 2072 and present Copperhead, a female troll snake shaman with obvious cyberarms and dermal plating.

Background (20 question format)

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Where does your character come from, what is her lineage, who were her parents, and what did she inherit from them?
Charlie looked a lot like her father as a child, with pale skin, blue eyes and the same coppery red hair, although she wore hers long while he kept his short. While she still has her red hair, she doesn’t look much like her father anymore. She not only goblinized into a troll but sports a pair of heavily customized cyberarms and dermal armor.

Parents can be proud of their children or regret ever bringing them into the world. Assuming they could speak, what would each of your character's parents say about her?
Her father called her his little princess. Her mother calls her a monster and would freak out if she ever saw her again.

Many people remember certain historical events for the rest of their lives. Pick a few events from recent Shadowrun history and ask where the character was at the time, what does he remember about the event, and what was he doing at the time?
NOTE: I don't know SR4 dates off by heart so some these might not quite fit the canon timeline!!!
She was a princess and she was going to marry the dragon and be his first lady. But they killed him because he wanted to tell the world a secret. It was the same day the explosion in the lab killed her father and burned her flesh arms.
There is a comet in the sky and she has a headache. Her mother is in the bath but the water is red. She screams and faints. When she wakes she has become a monster, no a goddess.
She is making love to Cutter in his squat. It is her first time. The lights go out, the matrix goes dark and she is reborn, SINless.

Very few people choose to become shadowrunners. How did your character get into shadowrunning, and why did she take that path?
When she was still a child, she was caught in a lab explosion that killed her father and badly burned her arms and torso. Rather than save her arms, Ares took the opportunity to fit her with a pair cyberarms and test out some new dermal plating technology.
Her mother already shocked at the death of her husband freaked out when she saw what the corp had done to her daughter. While Charlie grew to accept her new arms, her mother only became more and more repulsed. Guilt-wracked and broken-hearted her mother attempted suicide, but Charlie found her in a bath of her own blood. Her magic surged and she healed her mother’s slashed wrists. However, the magic triggered her recessive troll genes and she changed.
Her mother survived but was put into psychiatric care. Charlie was given an appartment and assigned to a menial cleaning job. Stuck in a job she hated and surrounded by corp drones who thought she was a freak, she was literally swept off her feet one night by Cutter. The ork street sam was in the middle of a run and trying to evade a security team. Intrigued by who he was and what he was doing, she helped him escape, fleeing with him to a new life in the shadows.

People have control over their own living arrangements. What is your character's living space like, and what has he added or changed to make it his own?
Charlie likes to keep her place clean, even though it's a squat in the barrens. Perhaps it's a hangover from her crappy job as a cleaner, but maybe she just likes to keep a tidy house. She has a few trid frames of herself as a human child, together with her parents. And she always has a big mirror.

Everyone has beliefs, and many beliefs strong enough to be convictions. What does your character believe in, what are her convictions (if any), and why does she hold them?
Charlie believes in Snake, her spirit totem. She believes in the freedom to be whatever she wants to be, no matter how strange that may be.

Everyone has aspects of their personality that grate on someone. What do you dislike most about your character’s personality?
She is nosy and a bit of a clean freak, but her worst aspect is her vanity. She likes the way she looks and has no compunctions about showing off her cyberware.

The Sixth World is considered by many to be spinning out of control. If anyone could exert control over it, it would be the “Big Ten” triple-A megacorps. Which of the Big Ten does your character hold in the highest (or least low) regard, which does he like the least, and why?
As far as she is concerned, Ares took her parents and her arms. They are bottom of her list. The rest of the soul-crushing triple-A's are right down there too.

People make acquaintances and friends; we’re hardwired for it. What is the story with your character and her contacts?
Cutter saved her from herself. He was her first lover and still holds a place in her heart and her bed. He introduced her to Lenny the rat-shaman talismonger. Lenny helped her understand and control her magic. But he should wash more often.

It’s Sunday morning, and your character has no commitments until tomorrow afternoon. What does she do for the day?
Sleep late. Have a lazy brunch then tidy the house. Commune with Snake. When it gets dark, get dressed up, or down and go find a party, or trouble!

Your character has a specific skill set, a list of Active and Knowledge skills that define what she knows and her areas of expertise. How did she come to learn those skills, and how did she develop them to those levels?
Apart from her knowledge of Ares and corp procedures, most of Charlie's skills have been picked up on the street. Cutter taught her to fight and how to shoot. Lenny and ‘Snake’ taught her about magic.

Everyone has their limits. People can be dark, but most people’s instinct is to draw the line at certain actions and thoughts, and they keep to their own moral convictions. Is there a moral limit that your character enforces on the jobs she takes, and in what shadow work would she refuse to engage?
A follower of Snake, she fights only to protect herself and others. Doesn't mean she won't kill if she has to, but she will not take wetwork jobs.

If you have an Awakened or technomancer character, consider your character’s tradition and streams. Ask yourself what drew her to that particular paradigm, how does it effect the way she views the world and her magic, how does it translate into choice of mentor spirit or paragon, and how does it affect the appearance of the spirits or sprites you conjure or compile?
Like snake she is obsessed with learning secrets and is willing to take great risks in order to do so.

While acceptance and bias vary from place to place, augmentations are increasingly common and available in the Sixth World. How did your character come to have the enhancements she has, how were they paid for, and what motivated the choices she made (if she did make the choices)?
Her first cyberarms and dermal plating were fitted by Ares after the explosion that killed her father. She has continually upgraded and further customized these whenever possible.

Life as a shadowrunner is by definition outside the bounds of “normal” life. Shadowrunners do not truly fit into the lives of ordinary people, whether they live in slums or mansions. What does your character think of ordinary life, mainstream culture, and those who abide by it?
She pities the corp drones, hates those who hold sway over them and flaunts their rules.

Everyone has nightmares. If your character had a lingering nightmare or a deep-rooted fear, what would it be, and why does he find it so terrifying?
She is stuck in an office. She is still human and is wearing a skirt suit, but has no arms.

People tend to attach sentimental value to items in their possession or people they are close to. They make an effort to keep these close by and safe. What is your character’s “sacred object” or “close one,” and how did they come to be so important to him?
She has a few trids of her childhood, when she was a princess and life was carefree.

One of metahumanity’s greatest assets is its ability to look toward the future and imagine a better life. Even small children have dreams about what they want to be when they grow up. What did your character want to become when he was a child, and what are his goals now?
She wanted to be a princess. She became one, but not exactly as she imagined. Like most runners, she is looking to score that one big hit, find that one last secret.

A person’s appearance can say volumes about him. From fashion sense, to the colors he prefers, to the way he walks and speaks. Sometimes, his personality determines his appearance, and, sometimes, the appearance he chooses to present the world affects his personality. What does your character look like, and what inspired his choices?
It's all about the arms and the armor plating. She normally wears a sleeveless long coat for protection. Underneath she rarely wears more than a sports bra, hotpants and sneakers. She does take good care of her appearance and keeps her copper hair long in a ponytail or braids. She's sleek and poised, with a sensual sway to her walk that can be very disconcerting for non-trolls to see, and rather alluring for orks and trolls.

Everyone has a name, but a runner’s street name is a representation of his connection to the shadows. Sometimes runners choose their own moniker, but more often it is given to them as a nickname or earned through some (mis)adventure. How did your character come to be known by his street name?
Charlie took the name Copperhead from her hair color and her totem as a snake shaman.

Character sheet

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Charlotte (Charlie) Manson, Copperhead

Race (40 BP)
Troll, dermal armor, thermo vision

Attributes (150 BP + 10 BP edge + 65 BP magic: 225 BP)
Body 6
Agility 3
Reaction 3
Strength 5
Charisma 3
Intuition 3
Logic 3
Willpower 5
Edge 2
Magic (6)3

Initiative 6/1P
Essence 3.2

Active skills (106 BP)
Conjuring Group 2
- banishing, binding, summoning
Sorcery Group 3
- counterspelling, ritual spellcasting, spellcasting
Infiltration 2
Perception 2
Dodge 2
Etiquette (Street) 1 (+2)
Longarms (Shotgun) 1 (+2)
Unarmed Cbt (Cyber) 2 (+2)
Clubs (Staff) 2 (+2)

Language / Knowledge skills (18 pts free)
English N
Corp (Ares) 2
Criminal (Gangs) 3
Procedure (Corp) 2
Astral Research 2
Design (Spell) 2
Magic Theory 2
Magic Knowledge 3
Music Groups 2

Contacts (5 BP)
Cutter, ork samurai L2 / C1
Lenny, rat shaman L1 / L1

Special (15 BP)
Magician (snake shaman)
Advantages: +2 dice for Detection spells, +2 to Binding Tests.
Disadvantages: –1 die for Combat spells.

Spells (18 BP)
Combat Sense (F/2)+2, Active, Psychic
Detect Enemies (F/2)+1, Active
Heal DV-2
Increase Reflexes (F/2)+2
Physical Mask (F/2)+1, Realistic, Multi
Death Touch (F/2)-2, Direct

Focus (1 BP)
Sustaining focus 1

Qualities (-25 BP)
Allergy (sunlight, mild)
Distinctive style (scales on cyberarms and torso)
Geas (gesture)

Resources (15 BP)
Cyberware
2 custom, casemodded (scales), obvious cyberlimbs (body 6, agility 3, strength 5, armor 2, retractable razors)
‘Snakeskin’ dermal plating level 2 (+2 impact/+2 ballistic)

Gear
Meta link comm. with Vector Xim OS, Response 1, Signal 2, System 1, Firewall 1
Sleeveless lined coat (6/4)
Cyberpirate tube top (1/0)
Cyberpirate hotpants (1/0)
Street Clothes x2
Defiant T-250 shotgun
30 rds regular shotgun ammo
Telescoping staff
Commlink trodes
Contact lenses (rating 3, flare comp., image link)
2 Fetish (Health)
5 Fetishes (Detection)
10 plastic restraints
Survival kit
Fake SIN (rating 4)

[unsound]

For all people submitting new characters, we have a new character sheet template that you'll need to conform to. The example provided is Ultima's sheet - to use the template, just quote this post, copy the formatting, and change the values specific to your character. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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Profile

Name: Ximena Delgado
Alias: Ultima
Metatype: Human
Sex: Female
Age: 34
Nationality: Caracan
Lifestyle: Middle
Nuyen: 20500
Karma Spent: 0
Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 3
Public Awareness: 1

Attributes

Body: 4
Agility: 5
Reaction: 3(4)
Strength: 2
Charisma: 2
Intuition: 4
Logic: 5
Willpower: 3
Edge: 3
Magic: 6
Essence: 6.00
Initiative: 7( 8 )
Initiative Passes: 1(2)
Phys. CM: 10
Ment. CM: 10

Qualities

Adept
Analytical Mind
Severe Addiction: Psyche
Moderate Addiction: Red Mescaline
Incompetant: Etiquette

Active Skills

Demolitions: 5
Heavy Weapons: 4 (Grenades +2)
Perception: 2 (Visual +2)
Pistols: 4 (Light Pistols +2)
Dodge: 2 (Ranged +2)
Throwing Weapons: 1 (Grenades +2)
Chemistry: 2
Hardware: 3
Computer: 2
Palming: 1
Electronic Warfare: 2
Infiltration: 2

Knowledge Skills

Professional: Electronic Engineering 5
Professional: Bomb Design 5
Professional: Controlled Demolitions 4
Academic: Explosives Chemistry 3
Interests: Street Drugs 3
Language: Spanish: N
Language: English: 5
Language: Portugese: 2

Adept Powers

Mystic Armor 2
Elemental Resistance: Blast
Elemental Resistance: Fire
Improved Ability: Demolitions 2
Improved Ability: Heavy Weapons 2
Analytics 3
Nimble Fingers
Increased Reflexes I

Resources and Gear

Yamaha Sakura Fubuki [4P, SA/BF, (1)RC, 10(ml)x4]
+Int: Folding Stock
+Acc: Smartgun System, External (Underbarrel)
+Bul: 260 Ex-Explosive Rounds

Ruger Super Warhawk [6P, -2AP, SS, *8(cy)]
+Int: Smartgun System, Integral
+Mod: Increased Cylinder
+Mod: Personalized Grip
+Bul: 100 Ex-Explosive Rounds

ArmTech MGL-12 [Grenade, SA, 12(clip)]
+Acc: Smartgun System, External (Underbarrel)
+Acc: Airburst Link
+Gre: 24 HE Microgrenades
+Gre: 24 Fragmentation Microgrenades
+Gre: 12 Flash-Bang Microgrenades
+Gre: 2 Flash-Pak Microgrenades
+Gre: 12 Smoke Microgrenades
+Gre: 12 Thermal Smoke Microgrenades
+Gre: 12 Tear Gas Microgrenades
+Gre: 12 Nausea Gas Microgrenades

Ingram White Knight [6P, -1AP, BF/FA, 5(6)RC, 50(clip)/100(belt)]
+Acc: Smartgun System, External (Top)
+Bul: 300 Ex-Explosive

Gyro Stabilization Harness

Urban Explorer Jumpsuit [6/6]
+Helmet [-/+2]
+R:6 Fire Resistance

Novatech Airware
+R:5 Response Upgrade
+R:5 Signal Upgrade
+R:5 Firewall Upgrade
+R:5 System Upgrade
+R:3 Analyze
+R:3 Edit
+R:5 Encrypt
+R:5 Scan
+R:5 Stealth
+R:4 Data Bomb
+R:5 ECCM
+R:5 Sniffer
+R:5 Decrypt
+Subvocal Microphone
+Trodes

Smart Area Jammer (R:4)
Directional Jammer (R:2)

Goggles (R:3)
+Low Light
+Thermographic
+Flare Compensation

Contact Lenses (R:3)
+Vision Magnification
+Vision Enhancement (R:3)
+Smartlink

Earbuds (R:1)
+Audio Enhancement (R:3)

Handheld Sensor [Signal 3]
+Olfactory Sensor (R:6)
+Radar Signal Scanner (R:6)

Wire Clippers
Monofilament Chainsaw
Psyche, 10 doses
Red Mescaline, 10 doses
Freeze Foam (R:6), 10 cannisters

Contacts

Abdul El-Sayed, Fixer [C:3/L:2]
Formerly a supporter of the New Islamic Jihad, Abdul El-Sayed threw off the life of zealous self-sacrifice out of disdain for the inevitable matyrdom expected of him. Why did he have to be where the bombs were when they went off? Still, he retained his excellent knowledge of explosives and heavy weapons and became a reliable name in the shadows for getting stuff for those who need a bit of extra oomph, no questions asked. He also gets word occasionally on jobs that need done by clients looking for a particular skillset. While still a deeply religious man, he has no qualms about selling weapons for people to kill each other with. How he justifies this with his beliefs is anybody's guess.

Physical Description

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Ultima stands of taller-than-average height, with a lean and sinewy build borne of trials and perserverance. Her shoulder-length blonde hair is usually combed straight back, though as the day wears on it takes on a wind-tossed appearance. Green eyes like jade stones stare at the world in a steely glare, enhanced by her stand-offish poise and blithe disgregard for the opinions of others. Old, pink burn scars cover her arms and hands in patches, and half of her pinky and ring fingers on her left hand terminate prematurely into smooth stubs. A handful of scars likewise line her otherwise smooth, oval-shaped face as horiztonal slashes. One scar in particular, a diagonal slash in the corner of her mouth across her top and bottom lips, further mars her fair complexion.

Background

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Ximena Delgado was a caraqueña, a native of the autonomous city-state of Caracas, situated in South America. As a young child she was drawn towards a fascination with electrial devices and repurposing them for alternative means. Where most children grew up playing with toys, she learned to take things apart to study their insides and how they operated. The few real toys she had been given she disregarded as worthless, except to find inventive ways of destroying them.

Destruction, in fact, would become a core of her philosophy as she got older. Not in an uncontrolled and wanton, chaotic sort of way. But she saw the act of destruction as being an opportunity for rebirth, giving way to new life and new opportunities. As she advanced in her teen years, she trended towards chemistry, electronic engineering, and a fascination for explosives. She downloaded pirated teaching materials from the Matrix and gorged herself on the knowledge therein, teaching herself not only how to build explosive devices, but also how to counteract those built by otheres. Ultima had a knack for this. She could examine a complicated bomb schematic or see an actual device built by somebody else, and with just a cursory glance she could slice it down to its weaknesses and figure out how to disable them.

Her affinities caused her to be noticed by the nationalist Caracan gang, Bolivar '49. She was sympathetic to their cause and was glad to lend her support in keeping Caracas independent of the yoke of other nations, and in fighting corporate influence in the area. The gang encouraged her education, and it was by happenstance that a magician in the group discovered the source of her abilities, her awakened Talents.

Rather than being jarred by the knowledge, she doubled her efforts, seeing this advantage as a way to become the best bomb tech in the world. Not wanting to become too focused on any one thing, she also took up heavy weapons training, seeing machine guns, assault cannons, and other large weapons as natural extensions of her area of expertise. She also rounded out her skills with some basic electronic warfare techniques, in order to keep her remote devices from being backhacked or jammed when she needed them to go off.

Unfortunately, her organization was just a gang, and they were good for pushing drugs through Caracas. She had ready access to street drugs, and found herself relying on Psyche to help her concentrate on building and disabling bombs. Over time, the concentration aid became more of a crutch, and she found herself unable to concentrate or function without the drug in her system. Her withdrawal symptoms are becoming more and more severe, and the monster she becomes when she cannot find a fix is something to dread. She has also recently begun speedballing psyche with red mescaline into locos in an effort to "expand her mind" and help her reach another level of ability. Though she won't admit it to herself, she's become hooked on the red mesc as well.

She envisions herself as an agent of Change. If she destroys a building, she thinks only of the glorious structure that will eventually take its place. If she has to take a life, she imagines that the soul will be reincarnated into a new form and that the atoms and molecules of that person's corporeal form will only become parts of other things. Her beliefs were founded on traditional Roman Catholic orthodoxy, but over time as she has reevaulated her life and opened her mind up to more New Age beliefs, her current religious thoughts are almost unrecognizable. She prays to God and may quote scripture, but her deviations from church dogma are so drastic as to be a new religion all its own.

"My Father above, let Your will be done. Let this object be a measure of Your desire for Change and Rebirth, and let me be an agent thereof. Let me tear down the ugliness of this world so that You may remake it in Your true image and bring about Beauty. Let the babes find succor in Your love and glory, and let those who would work counter to Your will be stricken down and banished into the Outer Darkness. Amen."

[unsound]

Also, I would like to say that I've seen some great GMing going on in the IC thread, and would totally like to see more of you GM for one another. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Our player base is slowly getting bigger and bigger, and I anticipate that a lot of my time with this game is going to be spent on administrative duties in the future, so GM posts from me won't be coming as frequently as they used to. I'll still write whenever I can, but my main job is going to be running and maintaining this platform - like I've said, this is your game, so don't hesitate to take the wheel! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[TheDoctor]

The Doctor...

[ Spoiler ]

Name: Martin Callaghan
Alias: The Doctor
Metatype: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Nationality: UCAS
Lifestyle: Middle (1mo)
Nuyen: 1000
Karma Spent: 0
Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 0
Public Awareness: 0

ATTRIBUTES

Body: 3
Agility: 3
Reaction: 3
Strength: 2
Charisma: 3
Intuition: 4
Logic: 5
Willpower: 5
Edge: 2
Essence: 6
Magic: 5
Initiative: 7
Initiative Passes: 1
Physical CM: 10
Mental CM: 11

Qualities

Magician
Allergy Mild Uncommon (Hayfever)
SINner (Legal)

ACTIVE SKILLS

Arcana: 5
Assensing: 4
Astral Combat: 1
Conjuring-Banishing: 2
Conjuring-Summoning: 2
Dodge: 2
Enchanting: 2
Pistol: 2
Sorcery (skill group): 4

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS

Mana Theory: 6
Physics: 3
Magical Threats: 2
Botany: 3
Geology: 3
20th Century British Sci-Fi: 2
Untainted Landscape Sources: 3
Seattle Shadows: 2
Seattle Safehouses: 2

LANGUAGES

English: N

SPELLS

Manabolt
Stunbolt
Heal
Analyze Truth
Levitate
Physical Mask
Catalog

RESOURCES AND GEAR
At Home

Streetline Special (in vase above desk) [4P, SS, 6©]
+Bul: 6 reg ammo

Colt Manhunter [5P, -1AP, SA, 16©]
+concealable holster
+Bul : 80 filled spare clips with regular ammo

116 extra rounds regular ammo

Lined Coat [6/4]

4 midlevel suits
1 nice suit
Work clothes for the shadows

Fake SIN 1: Rating 5 (hidden in bedpost; Kenneth Croagh)
Fake SIN 2 (Rating 5; Colin Jameson)

Comlink1 (for home)-Renraku Sensei with Iris Orb OS
Comlink 2 (for running)-Renraku Sensei with Iris Orb OS
Latex Face Mask (shaped like David Tennant)

Maglock Rating 4 with Keypad and Antitamper 3

Magical Lodge (force 6)
Force 5 Fire Spirit (1 service)
Force 5 Earth Spirit (2 services)

DOCWagon Basic Contract-1 year


CONTACT
Loftus; Talismonger[C:3 / L:4]

Loftus is a short little dwarf that had had his shop for the last 30 years. His legitimate business consists of selling occult kitsch to the mundanes and sleight of hand trickery as well as low powered magic. His real business though is conducted late at night and in the back room, where he sells high-powered (and illegal) magics to those he knows well. Martin was able to use selected information about his father in order to gain Loftus's trust...and hopefully his first contacts into the shadow world.


Physical Description

The Doctor stands about 5'8" with average build. Physical exercise had never been his thing so his frame is thin. Irish ancentry shows through in his starkly angled face and black hair and fair skin. To hide his identity, he walks around using a Mask spell to look like David Tennant or wearing a latex mask with the early 21st century actor's face.

Character History:

[ Spoiler ]

Martin holds a Ph.D. in mana-spell theory from the University of Illinois in the Urbana-Champaign sprawl. He'd grown up with his father, a professor of Thaumaturgy at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, telling him stories about his days before his rescue from the streets by his mentor. He'd been a street wizard on his way to burn-out and run the Shadows of Seattle. His mentor, Dr. Gottsring, had found and rescued him after a run which had killed most of his team.

Shortly before Martin was to start a teaching job at a small college in Pennsylvania, he received a dream-sending from his father. The dream-sending told him that this was to happen only upon his unnatural death. The dream told Martin that it was likely he'd been murdered for an ancient grimoire he'd found on that last run. He'd kept it hidden for years and always feared someone would track him down for it. He charged Martin to find the book, destroy it if he could--hide it well if he couldn't. His father told him to first seek his old friend, Loftus, a talismonger in Seattle...to say that Martin was a friend of his.

The next morning, Martin woke to a phone call from the St. Louis police. As the dream-sending had told him, the police said his father had been murdered-his blood drained completely and the body mutilated with heretofore unknown symbols. Forensic mages had determined ritual sorcery was at play. The police would let Martin know more as they discovered it...but no leads presented themselves.

Months rolled past and Martin did some digging on his own. He discovered that years before; several murders like that of his father had occurred in Seattle. He left his comfortable teaching job and sold most of his belongings. He packed up and went to Seattle. Martin managed to finagle his way into the underworld of shadowrunning in the hopes of tracking clues about his father's murderers and the whereabouts of the mysterious grimoire.

This post has been edited by TheDoctor: Aug 28 2010, 12:59 PM

[unsound]

Doctor: The character looks good, but you'll have to roll back his karma since this is a new game, though it looks like you kept track of his expenditures so this shouldn't be a problem. Also, when you find the time, please convert his sheet to the format posted above. Thanks! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[TheDoctor]

Doctor: The character looks good, but you'll have to roll back his karma since this is a new game, though it looks like you kept track of his expenditures so this shouldn't be a problem. Also, when you find the time, please convert his sheet to the format posted above. Thanks! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Cool...nix the nuyen too? And I'm working on a conversion...

Could someone please explain the Physical and Mental CM notation? I'm still learning 4e...just bought the book.

[unsound]

Affirmative on the nuyen. CM stands for condition monitor, which is how many boxes you have on your respective damage track. Stun CM is calculated by 8 + Willpower/2 and Physical CM is calculated by 8 + Body/2, and I believe you round up.

[Grimm]

You might want to put the character sheet into your Database thread unsound. Otherwise it's just going to get buried in lost in this thread.

[Abschalten]

Yeah, it was cumbersome to write "Physical Condition Monitor Boxes" out, so I just truncated it.