2072: Table Talk, OOC discussion thread for 2072 Options

[Combat Mage]

I'll probably throw in a character as soon as I have it done, tomorrow or so. A Wiccan mage on a quest to find his missing grilfriend. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Karoline]

Whee, I'll have to make a character for this as well. Also, if you don't mind, I'd love to make Shadow Wars a part of 2072.

I'm not seeing anything on chargen rules. I'm guessing it is just standard 400 BP rules? No Karmagen?

[unsound]

Whee, I'll have to make a character for this as well. Also, if you don't mind, I'd love to make Shadow Wars a part of 2072.

I'm not seeing anything on chargen rules. I'm guessing it is just standard 400 BP rules? No Karmagen?

That would be awesome, Karoline. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Character creation is by the book, BP only to keep things simple.

[Suicidal Street ...]

God damnit. Why am I being shot for this girl's big mouth?
Who wants to save me?

[unsound]

Combat has been initiated. Mafia goon rolls for ranged attack and scores one hit.

Suicidal Street Sam: Need a dodge roll from you. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[unsound]

By the way, you beat him on Initiative, so you can spend an action to take cover or something.

[AStarshipforAnts]

God damnit. Why am I being shot for this girl's big mouth?
Who wants to save me?

Eh, you're four hours in the future from Dahlia. If everything goes horribly wrong, you can always wake up in her garage as she's finishing sewing you closed.

[Doc Chase]

*I* said kiss the man and solve all his problems in one fell swoop, but noooooooo.

[Suicidal Street ...]

*I* said kiss the man and solve all his problems in one fell swoop, but noooooooo.

You gonna submit a character and toss me a gun, or not?

[Combat Mage]

Ok finished mine, really looking forward to playing this one.

Here's Silver, Wiccan mage on a quest to find his missing girlfriend

Description:

[ Spoiler ]

Silver is a good-looking elf of about 1,90m height. His long snow-white hair and violet eyes give him the air of the exotic and his sharply defined face with high cheekbones and an accented chin displays intelligence and a strong will.

He is of slender build and always dresses fashionably, preferring the Vashion Island Steampunk Line of clothing. On the run he often wears a stylish Urban Explorer Jumpsuit in black and red.

Around his neck is a silver necklace with a picture of Aurora and a lock of her raven-black hair inside. He never takes it off, it is both a reminder of his quest and a magical focus to stengthen his powers.

Background:

[ Spoiler ]

Silver, or Jack Leyton as his real name is, was born in London as the son of middle-class parents. His childhood was nothing outside the ordinary, he went to school, played with friends and did all the things that little boys do.

When he was 7 he awakened, displaying considerable magical potential when assensed at school as part of a routine test. He soon was offered a scholarship in a special boarding school aimed at cultivating awakened talents. His parents accepted and so Jack spent the next 2 years away from home, being taught to use the power he had developed. Officially the school was run by the english government, but in reality the whole thing was financed and controlled by EVO. They were trying to instill loyalty to their corporation from a young age on in the students so that the future mages and adepts could be recruited into EVO’s ranks.

Jack had problems with the hard discipline and the many rules present at the boarding school, and soon he had a reputation as rowdy and troublemaker. In addition he couldn’t make much sense of the way of magic his hermetic teachers showed him which led to him getting bad grades and being classified as weak in magical talent. In combination these factors finally led to EVO deciding that teaching him was a waste of money and expelling him from the school.

His parents decided to try a different path with his magical education and asked an old family friend, a mage of the Wiccan tradition, to take over as the child’s mentor. The friend, an old irishman by the name of Seamus O’Callaghan, saw that the boy wasn’t cut out for the hermetic patch and worked with him to explore all kinds of different ways to focus his talents.

Jack spent his teenage years under Seamus’ guidance and he developed a close connection to the old man, adopting his Wiccan beliefs and focusing his magic through the worship of The God, the masculine half of the duality of forces in the universe. For Jack The God was represented by the sun, which became his mentor spirit.

When Haley’s Comet passed, Jack’s hair suddenly turned white over night and his eyes took on a deep glowing violet color. At first the teenager was shocked but he soon realized the new look made him seem alluring and mysterious to the girls and after a short time he was even thankful for the change, especially since it also seemed to have heightened his acuity of thought.

As he got older Jack became a good-looking and well-like young man. He had meet a girl in his second year of college. Her name was Aurora and he immediately fell for the delicate elven beauty with the raven black hair and the sparkling green eyes. She reciprocated the feeling and they spent every minute of the following summer together. For the first time in his life, Jack felt true love and he knew he had found his soulmate, the missing feminine half of his soul as the Wiccan said. Everything was perfect and Jack though things couldn’t get any better.

Then Aurora vanished from the earth. One minute they were together at the zoo, holding hands and enjoying a sunny afternoon, the next minute she was lost in the crowd. He searched for her the whole day but he couldn’t find her, or reach her on her commlink. He wasn’t too worried at first, thinking that she may just have gotten lost and went home or mybe she was playing a prank on him.
But two days later, he still hadn’t heard anything from her and was getting really anxious, he got a scrambled voice message on his commlink, telling him to stop looking for Aurora and to accept that she was gone from his life and that he would never see her again. Stunned he asked a friend well versed in all things matrix to take a look at the message and see what he could find out. But the only thing his friend could tell him was that the message had been sent from Seattle.
To make things worse his mentor, the old Seamus O’Callaghan, had died a week ago and Jack still wasn’t over the loss. But the irishman had left him a little money in his will and Jack ade a drastic decision. He would find Aurora and save her, no matter what it took. He used a part of his inheritance to get some bioware implanted because he knew he would likely have to visit dangerous places and do dangerous things to save her. The rest of the money was spent on a one-way flight to Seattle.

He rented a small apartment and started his quest to find his love. He knew he would need money and connections in the criminal world to get any results and so he started to involve himself in the shadows both as a way to get to know people who could help him on his search and to finance it. He took on the name of “Silver” and became a shadowrunner, counting on his value as one of the rare awakened to offset his lack of experience.

He is still pretty new in Seattle and in the shadows, having been there for a month and only done a couple of low-impact jobs but he won’t rest until he holds Aurora in his arms again.

Character Sheet

[ Spoiler ]

Name: “Silver”
Race: Elf (30 BP)
Age: 22

Attributes: 200 BP
Body: 5
Agility: 3
Reaction: 5 (7)
Strength: 2
Charisma: 3
Intuition: 6
Logic: 3
Willpower: 5

Special Attributes: 40 BP
Magic: (5) -> 4
Edge: 1
Essence: 5
Initiative: 13

Positive Qualities: 30 BP
Magician (15 BP)
Mentor Spirit: The God (5 BP) (Rules as Sun: +2 Combat Spells, +2 Fire Spirits)
Class II SURGE (10 BP)
- Surge Positive Qualities (20 BP free):
---> Metagenetic Improvement: Intuition (20 BP)
- Surge Negative Qualities (10 BP free):
---> Unusual Hair (white hair) (5 BP)
---> Extravagant Eyes (violet eyes) (5 BP)

Negative Qualities: +35 BP
Distinctive Style I: white hair, violet eyes (+5 BP)
Lost Love One (His girlfriend, Aurora) (+5 BP)
SINer (England, “Jack Leyton”) (+5 BP)
Records on File (EVO) (+10 BP)
Mild Allergy (Gold) (+5 BP)
Sensitive Neural Structure (+5 BP)

Active Skills: 56 BP
Spellcasting : 6 (24 BP)
Summoning : 4 (16 BP)
Counterspelling: 1 (4 BP)
Assensing: 1 (4 BP)
Perception : 1 (4 BP)
Dodge: 1 (4 BP)

Knowledge Skills (27 Free):
Magic Theory: 6
Paranormal Critters: 4
Magical Security Procedures: 4
Zoology: 2
New Age Philosophy: 2

English: N
Spanish: 3
Sperethiel: 3
Japanese: 3

Spells: 24 BP
Stunbolt
Stunball
Manabolt
Powerball
Lightning Bolt (Limited Spell)
Improved Invisibility
Levitate
Heal

Connections: 4 BP
Ilyna, Talismonger and Wiccan Coven Leader (Loyalty 1 / Connection 3)

[ Spoiler ]

Ilyna is lively young african dwarf who has a talismonger shop and is also the leader of a small coven of Wiccans. Since Silver arrived in Seattle he has been trying to find someone that can supply him with magical materials. Purely by luck he met Ilyna in a club one evening and they discovered that they shared the same basic beliefs of Wiccan, even though their specific lineages are different. Since then they have met a few times but so far the relationship is still on a business level in terms of trust.

Ilyna is an open-minded and friendly character. Very outgoing and outspoken she takes pride in only selling the best quality of magical equipment she can get.

Focus Bonding: 2 BP
Binding the Power Focus: 2 BP

Gear: 49 BP

[ Spoiler ]

49 BP = 245000 Nuyen

Bioware: 160000
Synaptic Booster Rating 2 (160000)

Armor: 8550
- Urban Explorer Jumpsuit + Fire Resistance 6 + Chemical Protection 3 (1850)

- Vashion Island Steampunk-Line Outfit: Overcoat, Vest, Slacks, Shirt + Fire Resistance 6 + Chemical Protection 3 (3600)

- Form Fitting Body Armor (Half Body) + Nonconductivity 6 (2100)

- SecureTech PPP Systems: Vitals Protector (200), Leg and Arm Casings (350), Forearm Guards (200), Shin Guards (150), Helmet (100)

SIN + Licenses: 4400
Fake SIN Rating 4 (4000) “Desmond White”
Fake License Rating 4: Combat Spells (400)

Perception Enhancements: 3025
-Contact Lenses Rating 3 with Image Link, Vision Enhancement 3, Vision Magnification and Skinlink (505)
-Glasses Rating 3 with Image Link, Ultrasound, Flare Compensation and Skinlink (1200)
-Earbuds Rating 2 with Audio Enhancement 3, Select Sound Filter 3 and Skinlink (970)
-Optical Binoculars (50)
-Periscope (50)
-Endoscope (250)

Magical Equipment: 53000
Magical Lodge Rating 6 (3000)
Power Focus Rating 2 (50000) (Necklace with Aurora’s picture and a lock of her hair in it)
Fetish (Combat Spells) (200) (A chain with a small rock crystal at the end)

Commlink: 2500
Novatech Airware + Iris Orb + Browse 3 + Skinlink + Subvocal Microphone (2500)

Vehicle: 6500
Yamaha Suzuki Mirage (6500)

Lifestyle: 5000
Middle (1 Month) (5000)

Misc Equipment: 800
Gas Mask (200)
Medkit Rating 6 (600)

Total: 243975 / 245000 // 1025 left = + 10 on starting money roll

By the way I would totally help Suicidal Street Sam's Seti if my character can get worked in that quickly. Maybe by a twist of luck I was dining there too? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

But of course I don't want to push out one of the already existing players on this so if someone's already planning to help out don't mind me.

[unsound]

Combat Mage: Feel free to write Silver into the scene, everyone else is somewhere else at the moment and Seti could definitely use the help. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

One down, four to go.

[unsound]

Also, SSS, please make an Agility roll with threshold 2 to grab the gun before the next initiative pass. For future reference, you can post all rolls and OOC business in this thread. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Suicidal Street ...]

Also, SSS, please make an Agility roll with threshold 2 to grab the gun before the next initiative pass.

Oh. My. God. Not Seti's night.

1 Hit.

Yes, I could definately use that help from Silver.

[Combat Mage]

Here we go:

Initiative: 13d6.hits(5) → [4,2,4,4,6,3,6,5,2,2,2,4,4] = (3)
3 Hits + 13 = Intiative 16 / 3 IPs

Casting Force 8 Stun Bolt on one of the mafiosi that still has his gun (Not the one with the stiletto heel in his foot (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ):
14d6.hits(5) → [6,2,3,4,1,5,4,3,3,1,3,5,5,6] = (5)
5 Hits

Drain: 3 S
11d6.hits(5) → [2,2,2,5,5,6,2,4,4,6,2] = (4)
4 Hits = No Drain

[Suicidal Street ...]

Well, at least I can dodge. Next dodge roll, back into cover (since I'll probably need it):

5 Hits.

[Red_Cap]

Guess who's at the club, looking to make contacts in the runner scene?

Initiative

9d6.hits(5)=2

2+9=11 (only 1 IP)


And then take a Free Action to kick the fumbled Predator over to Seti.

[AStarshipforAnts]

Way to have a party without inviting everyone, guys. I'll just go over to my corner and do science.

[Suicidal Street ...]

Thank god. Second attempt to grab the gun gets me 3 Hits. Thanks, Red_Cap, you're a life-saver.

2 Hits for firing at a mafioso. It's, uh...it's because of the stress. Yeah, that's it. The stress.

Also, should one of us get hurt, we can drag Starship into this, too!

[unsound]

Oh what the hell, here I was stroking my evil GM moustache in a very evil manner, looking forward to killing one of you buggers within the first week of the game, and now two more show up to kick some ass? My poor bastard Mafia goons don't stand a chance. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

By the way SSS, not that you need it, but taking cover gives you an extra 4 dice for your dodge roll. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Doc Chase]

You gonna submit a character and toss me a gun, or not?

If I did, it wouldn't be one that could toss you a gun. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Karoline]

If I did, it wouldn't be one that could toss you a gun. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Same here (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Though I am going to submit one.. just not tonight, I needs sleep.

[unsound]

Invisible castle page updated with all relevant rolls. Seti's goon aced his damage resistance test and takes no damage.

Incoming ranged attack rolls for each of you: 1 hit at Seti, 2 hits at Silver, and 1 hit for at Rhodes.

[unsound]

Also, instead of making a link for every single roll, I think it would be easier to just create an Invisible Castle account, which allows you to have a profile with a complete history of all your roller activity. I'll link your name in the master database to your profile, and if anyone wants to double-check any individual roll, they can just take a gander at your profile. That way, all you have to do is report the results here without having to deal with creating a million links. Let me know your Invisible Castle name when you create an account and I'll hook you up.

[Suicidal Street ...]

By the way SSS, not that you need it, but taking cover gives you an extra 4 dice for your dodge roll. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Ha, I don't think I've actually been in cover yet. I'm just sort of...laying on my side on the floor.

3 Hits on that Dodge, by the way.

[unsound]

I know that I myself like to tweak characters long after I've made them, so I've taken the liberty of rolling everyone's status back from finalized to approved. You have one month to settle into your character and figure out any changes you want to make before they become finalized again. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)