2072: Table Talk, OOC discussion thread for 2072 Options

[TheDoctor]

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

I believe it...anything you would change to my second posting of the Doctor to make it in line with the desired format? Except adding a dec on the talismonger...which I'm too tired to do right now...

[Abschalten]

Unsound has the final call on that but it looks alright to me.

[Notsoevildm]

Copperhead
Last updated 16/04/13

[ Spoiler ]

Profile (40 BP)

Name: Charlotte 'Charlie' Manson
Alias: Copperhead
Metatype: Troll
Sex: Female
Age: 22 (12 November 2049)
Nationality: UCAS
Lifestyle: Low
Posts: 268
Total nuyen available (posts * 1250)/ Nuyen spent: 335k/25k
Total karma availabe (posts/2 +10)/ Karma spent : 144/92

Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 0
Public Awareness: 0

Attributes (150 BP + 65 BP magic + 10 BP edge)

Body: 6
Agility: 3
Reaction: 3
Strength: 5
Charisma: 4
Intuition: 3
Logic: 3
Willpower: 5
Edge: 2
Magic: 4
Essence: 3.20
Initiative: 6
Initiative Passes: 1
Phys. CM: 11
Ment. CM: 11

Qualities (-10 BP)

Magician
Distinctive style: scaled cyberarms and torso
Moderate Allergy: Sunlight
Geas: Gesture
Mentor spirit: Snake: +2 detection, +2 binding, -1 combat
Thermographic vision [troll]
Dermal armor [troll]
Intiate - rank 1 (Centering)

Active Skills (106 BP)

Summoning: 3
Binding: 1
Banishing: 2

Spellcasting: 3 (Detection+2)
Ritual Spellcasting: 1
Counterspelling: 3

Perception: 1
Assensing: 2

Clubs: 2 (Staff+2)
Unarmed Cbt: 2 (Cyber Implant+2)
Longarms: 2 (Shotgun+2)
Dodge: 2

Etiquette: 1 (Street+2)
First Aid: 1
Infiltration: 2
Intimidation: 1

Knowledge Skills (0 BP)

Corporate: Ares Macrotechnology: 2
Procedure: Corporate: 2
Criminal: Seattle Gangs: 3
Astral Research: 2
Design: Spell: 2
Magic Theory: 2
Magic Knowledge: 3
Language: English: N

Spells (18 BP)

Detection: Combat Sense: [F/2]+2, Active, Psychic, Limited
Detection: Detect Enemies: [F/2]+1, Active, Limited
Health: Heal: DmgDV-2
Health: Increase Reflexes: [F/2]+2, Limited
Illusion: Physical Mask: [F/2]+1, Realistic, Multi
Combat: Death Touch: [F/2]-2, Direct
Combat: Stun Bolt: [F/2]-1, Direct
Manipulation: Gecko crawl: [F/2]-1, F*hits m/turn

Resources and Gear (15 BP + 1 BP focus)

2 obvious full cyberarms: casemod [scales], Body 6, Agility 3, Strength 5, Armor 2, retractable razors [4P]
Dermal armor [R:2] : +2/+2 armor

Enfield AS-7 [7P, -1AP, SA/BF, 24(d)]*
+ top mounted smartlink
+ underbarrel foregrip
+Bul: 93 regular
+Bul: 24 gel
+Bul: 24 explosive
+Bul: 0 APDS

Telescoping staff [5P]* - strapped to right thigh
Pair of stun gloves [6S]* - worn
Flashbangs x2* - 1 on webbing, others in pockets/pouches
Smoke grenades x3* - 1 on webbing, others in pockets/pouches
Flashpacks x1* - on webbing

Urban camo suit [8/6, non-conduct./fire/chem resist 4]* - worn
Form-fitting half suit [4/1, non-conduct. 3]* - worn
Total armor: 15/10 (8/6 + 4/1 + 2/2 dermal plating + 1/1 troll dermal armor)

Sleeveless long coat [6/4] - left in hotel room
Steampunk corset - left in hotel room

Sony Emperor commllink with Iris Orb OS x2* - 1 in hidden mode, 1 switched off in pocket
+ sim module
+ trode net

'Snakeye' Contact lenses [R:3]* - worn
+ flare compensation
+ image link

Tacnet goggles [R:5]* - worn
+ smartlink
+ image link
+ low light
+ vision enhancements [R:3]
+ microcam [with low light]

Earbuds [R:1]* - worn
+ audio enhancements [R:3]

Medkit [R:6]* - backpack
Respirator [R:6]* - worn
Stim patches R4 x2* - medkit

Sustaining focus: detection [F:1] - 'dragon' tooth necklace* - worn
Sustaining focus: health [F:2] - worn
Sustaining focus: health [F:4] - ouroboros choker* - worn
Health spell fetish - pearl earring* - worn
Detection spell fetish - emerald earring* - worn

Smart pack* - worn
Ammo pouch x2* - worn on torso
Ration pouch (3 days per pouch) x2* - worn on butt
Smart canteen (1 litre) x2* - worn on hips
Medkit supplies x4* - backpack
Tent - left behind in hotel room
Sleeping bag * - backpack
Rations x6* - ration pouches
Water purification tablets* - backpack
10 plastic restraints * - 1 on webbing, rest in backpack
Survival kit* - backpack

Gear for kids* - in backpack
2x armored jumpsuits [4/2]
2x low-light goggles
2x Seco light pistols
50 rds light pistol ammo

Fake SIN [R:3]* - Charlotte Church (active)
Fake SIN [R:3]* - Diana Rigg (backup)
Fake shotgun licence [R:3]* - Charlotte Church

Medicine lodge materials [R:4] - appartment in Tacoma
Low lifestyle [1 month]

* = gear for CZ zone

Contacts (5 BP)

Cutter, Ork street samurai [L2, C1]
Cutter came up through the ranks of the Redmond go-gangs, making a name for himself as a close combat specialist . He is one of the few who made the successful transition from ganger to runner, although he still has some contacts in the Crimson Crush. He literally ran into Copperhead when a run on her corp went bad. She helped him escape and he let her come along when she asked. He helped her get set up and the two became lovers.

Lenny, human rat shaman/talismonger [L1, C1]
Lenny is a disgusting little runt of a human. But he knows his magic and has a knack for finding the right magical gear just when you need it. Lenny helped Copperhead learn about magic, for a price of course.

Dr. Ted, Street Doc [L1, C3]
Doctor Ted is an opera loving, trigger happy street doc based in Redmond. He has patched up, repaired and enhanced Cutter on several occasions, and Cutter in return has done the occasional favor for the human.

Slater, Hacker/Technie [L2, C1]
Copperhead saved Slater from torture and probable murder at the hands of the Yakuza in her first run to rescue Cutter. The pair back talk each other something awful, but there is respect there too.

Simon Finney [L?, C?]
Dwarf shaman affiliated with Stillwater. Trying to teach Copperhead a bit more about magic.

Physical Description

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Copperhead is neither as tall or as broad as most trolls. Apart from the pair of horns curving back from either side of her head, she looks more like a tall ork. Her long copper hair is usually tied back in a pony tail or single braid. Her eyes are actually blue but are hidden behind emerald green, snake-eye contacts. However, her most obvious feature is the pair of scaled cyberarms. The scales run from dark brown to ivory where they meet her pale skin, what little of it can still be seen under the similarly scaled dermal armor that covers her torso and legs and runs up her neck. She proudly displays her cyberware with a sultry swagger that can be a bit disconcerting. Even when standing still, she sways as if to invisible music.

Background

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Charlotte was born to Human parents who worked for Ares Macrotechnology. She took her looks from her father, his pale complexion, blue eyes and red hair. Her father called her his little princess and would sometimes take her along on with him when visiting suppliers. On one such visit to a local laboratory, she was caught in an 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 was horrified at 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 surge was also enough to trigger her recessive troll genes and she changed. While her mother survived, she was going to need a lot of psychiatric treatment. So, Charlie was placed into care until she was 16 then 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.

[TheDoctor]

Who wants The Doctor on their run? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) I think dahlia needs a mage right?

[AStarshipforAnts]

We do need a mage over there. We've got a lot of muscle and not too much else. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif)

[ID_entity]

This game interests me and I like to join in. I haven't finished up reading all the IC, but soon I'll be done with that too. I'll post the sheet soon as I gather up info of what's going on in the game. See you all soon. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Atomic Communist]

Hiya, I was wondering if your team would like the services of a combat doctor. Triage is his name, and solving all your medical needs is his game. Everything from toxins, pathogens, battle wounds, plastic surgeries, cyberimplants, cybertech repair, and more! Sorry if I'm sounding like a commercial. His basic concept is a once well respected doctor who worked on many rich clientele until one day a Yakuza boss brought his daughter to him and wanted him to perform a relatively simple surgery on her. Sadly, due to an unknown condition the girl had, she died on the table. After that, Triage's rep was ruined by the yaks and he barely managed to escape with his life. Five years later, he's working the streets and is the ShadowDoc on call.

[Grimm]

Stat him up and throw him in man. Unsound will need to approve it but this game always takes people as we are hypothetically supposed to have multiple storylines running.

[Atomic Communist]

Well, I shall submit him indeed! I have him on Myth-Weavers sheet storage thingy, so it's not formatted as a text block. If I need to do that, I can, but here's the link: Triage, Street Doc of the Stars! http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=236271


Edit: Woops, I just realized he uses some house rules from another campaign I submitted him to. I could fix him, or make something else. What's really needed currently?

This post has been edited by Atomic Communist: Aug 29 2010, 10:40 PM

[Grimm]

We currently have a bunch of Street Sam oriented characters. But really it doesn't matter, pick what will interest you for awhile. And there is a template that unsound wants us to use for character submissions. Lemme find it for you. I'll edit the link into this post.

Edit: http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?s=&a...st&p=980322

[unsound]

Thanks, Grimm. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) The FAQ in the database thread has been edited to include the character template to make it easier to find. Any existing player who has some spare time and wants to lighten Abschalten's work load, feel free to convert your character to the template and send it to him.

Edit: As of this posting, he's completed Scar's sheet, so no need to do the same work twice there!

[Grimm]

Woohoo. Hooray for moar laziness.

[Abschalten]

Thanks, Grimm. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) The FAQ in the database thread has been edited to include the character template to make it easier to find. Any existing player who has some spare time and wants to lighten Abschalten's work load, feel free to convert your character to the template and send it to him.

Edit: As of this posting, he's completed Scar's sheet, so no need to do the same work twice there!

The most brutal and time-consuming aspect is going over all that gear. I have to price tag all of it and then add it up.

Scar's sheet didn't have much gear on it. PURELY BY COINCIDENCE, his was also the one I got done with first. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[unsound]

Abs, do you have DamienKnight's spreadsheet? It oughta help with the resource calculations.

[unsound]

Weekly awards posted.

Also, important news: I'm contemplating a story thread for this game that will eventually pit players against each other, which may lead to character death. I understand that while some people relish the unique challenge that only PvP can bring, others do not find it to be their cup of tea. This game uses all rules as written in the book, including the burning of Edge to survive otherwise lethal encounters, so death is not permanent as long as you have Edge to burn.

This is what I will need from all of you: a declaration of whether to toggle your PvP flag on or off. If you have it off, it will be a signal to GMs that you wish to be excluded from all scenarios that involve a player-versus-player encounter. If you have it on, you're fair game for all such scenarios. If you turn on your PvP flag, you are expected to follow all standards of the code of honor intrinsic in such matters - for example, you should be able to separate player knowledge from character knowledge and not take advantage of information that you read in the IC thread that your character would not be privy to. Each character will have their own PvP flag status, which means if you're playing multiple characters, you can turn it on for some and leave it off for others.

Edit: Actually, for all undeclared individuals, including new players, I'm going to set the default status of the PvP flag to off. If you wish to turn yours on, please contact me in this thread or via PM.

[AStarshipforAnts]

Go ahead and toggle my PvP Flag Off.

[Grimm]

Set mine to off as well. I understand you're going for some realistic interaction here but all it is going to take is one munchkin'd character to fuck up the game for other players, even with a choice to opt in. And personally, I don't know the rules well enough to participate against people that have been playing awhile.

[Atomic Communist]

You know I've wondered why Adepts get free points towards their abilities whereas Technomancers have to spend BP on complex forms. I'm sure there's a great reason why, I just don't see it. I hate spending a lot of my BP on programs (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Atomic Communist]

Here's my character, Red the Technoshaman:

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Name: Katherine "Red" Cattleby
Alias: Red
Metatype: Human
Sex: Female
Age: 22
Nationality: Caucasian
Lifestyle: Low
Nuyen: 750
Karma Spent: 0
Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 0
Public Awareness:

Attributes (260 BP)

Body: 2
Agility: 3
Reaction: 3
Strength: 2
Charisma: 4
Intuition: 5
Logic: 5
Willpower: 4
Edge: 3
Resonance: 5
Essence: 6
Initiative: 6 (11)
Initiative Passes: 1
Phys. CM: 10
Ment. CM: 10

Qualities (5 BP)

Technomancer 5 BP
Technoshaman Free: (Fading Cha + Res, Sprites: Crack, Data, Machine, Paladin, Sleuth)
Paragon (Pulse) 5 BP: (+2 to Matrix Init, -2 Hacking Tests when not hacking on the fly)
Analytical Mind 5 BP (+2 to DataSearch and Software Tests)
CodeSlinger 10 BP (+2 to Hacking on the Fly)


Reality Impaired +5 BP: (-1 to RL Social Tests)
Distinctive Style +10 BP (Circuit board tattoo covering most of body, except for face/head)
Braggart +5 BP
Wanted +10 BP (Wanted by Ares Macrotechnology for the hacking and trashing of one of their corp nodes)


Active Skills (114 BP)

Computer: 5
Hacking: 5
Pistols: 3 (Semi-Autos +1)
Perception: 3 (Matrix Percep +1)
Software: 2
Bike: 2

Resonance skill Group (30 BP)
Registering: 3
Compiling: 3
Decompiling: 3



Knowledge Skills (0 BP)

Data Havens 4
Black Market Dealers 3
Matrix Rumors 4
Street Rumors 2
Street Drugs 2



Technomancer Complex Forms (28 BP)

Edit 4
Browse 5
Exploit 5
Stealth 5
Spoof 5
Attack 5



Resources and Gear (2 BP)

Wireless Adapter (150)
Ares Viper Silvergun (8P(F), +2 AP, SA/BF, 30 © Ammo, 500 Nuyen)
Fletchette Ammo (x4) (400 Nuyen)
Armor Jacket (8/6 900 Nuyen)
Goggles (Thermo/Low-Light/Flare Comp) (400)
Respirator (Rtg 6, 250)
Medkit RTG 5 (500)
Suzuki Mirage (+2 Handling, 20/50, 200 Speed, P 1, B 6, A 4, S 1, 6500)


Contacts

Petrov (Black Market Dealer, 1/4)
A rather shady Russian immigrant who has gotten his greedy hands into a lot of pies in Seattle.
Luckily, he's on relatively good terms with Red. Always good for the odd fence.

Jammah (Data Broker, 2/3)
A relative newcommer to the Seattle Scene, Jammah set up shop on the Matrix as a data broker. Red uses him to fence
her ill-gotten information on the internet, as well as using him to find out about people that she meets.

Physical Description

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A rather attractive girl who's looks disguise her true age. She looks much younger than she really is, as if she was still in high school.
Her hair is deep, dark red and in very tight braids that hang down past her shoulders. Her body is dominated by a series of interconnecting
circuit board tattoos, all of them in different shades of red. She wears a black leather mini-skirt over black and red
stockings. A leather jacket hangs down to just above the edge of her skirt and it's covered in pins, stickers, badges,
and red drawings done in paint. Her nose is pierced, as well as her ears and one eyebrow. A pair of expensive looking goggles
are strapped to her forehead, the lenses of which are, of course, rose tinted.

Background

[ Spoiler ]

An outcast from an early age, Red was never one for polite society. Her parents were the average middle class sheep of Seattle.
Her parents argued incessantly and Red grew sick of it. Then the crash happened. On top of the fighting, the loneliness,
and the disregard of her peers, she now experienced severe hallucinations and delusions. It took months of hiding it to
realize that she wasn't the only one experiencing it. Not only that, they weren't hallucinations. Somehow she could commune
directly to her one escape in life: The Matrix. It was a godsend. Red was convinced that the spirits of the Matrix had
taken pity upon her and given her a new life amongst those like her. Another technoshaman was born. She made a name for herself
in the Matrix by doing damn good background checks on various people. She was sought after by Johnsons, runners, corporations,
anyone who needed information on another person, and she was still only 18! Four years later she makes a living as a runner herself,
having decided that the best information, and the best way to serve the spirits of the net, was inside the nodes of the corps.

This post has been edited by Atomic Communist: Aug 31 2010, 02:20 PM

[Suicidal Street ...]

I don't mind Seti being toggled On, but Grimm's point about munchkin'd characters bites a little true. So let's say, On with the condition that he's only thrown against characters he might have a chance against.

[Abschalten]

@Atomic Communist

I was going to reply to you in PMs but you're on Probation and can't use it yet. So I'm going to put what I was going to say to you here.

You've spent too many points on your mental and physical attributes. They're adding up to 210 for Phys/Ment attributes. You can only spend 200.

You also overcharged yourself on special attributes. 2 Edge for a human costs 0. 5 Resonance costs 40 BP, since the first point is free.

So you've really only spent 250 points so far. But still, you are over 10. You could take a point from Body and move it into Edge, maybe. Or just drop it altogether.

And why are you taking the technomancer quality for free? You've really only got an extra 5 BP, not 10 BP.

If you really had taken 260 points of attributes you'd be over 5 points. Right now you are under 5 points.

[Notsoevildm]

I don't mind Seti being toggled On, but Grimm's point about munchkin'd characters bites a little true. So let's say, On with the condition that he's only thrown against characters he might have a chance against.

As my character is more maxmin than minmax, I agree with SSS.

But I am willing to be toggled PVP on as soon as she's approved, hint, hint! And just to show how keen I am, I updated the correctly templated version to include mentor spirit and BP costs!

[Aria]

Request for Unsound: Really enjoying the IC thread but having trouble keeping up with all the posts...is there any chance that the database could contain a list of story arcs, who is the GM and who is on them and perhaps a recruitment list too for those as yet without work and archetypes wanted?!? For example Silk needs a hacker or TM and whislt Abs looks like he'll provide an NPC to keep the story moving it would be great to have another player on our B&E job (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'd also like to try my hand at GMing a scene or two as Emerging has gone quiet but have no idea who would like a scene writing for them...

Thanks

A

[TheDoctor]

Additional request...where is the database thread?

[Grimm]

Here ya go.

http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=32218