[OOC] Eclipse Phase: A trip to Renewal Options

[Jimson]

Welcome aboard everyone. This may be old school, but would we like to do introductions? Nothing big, and we can refrain from using our real names. If not, we can just move along. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Xahn Borealis]

Is there any set posting structure? I.e actions, mesh, thoughts, speech...

Also, reposting sheet:

Stats

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Name: Jack Three
Background: Re-Instantiated
Faction: Scum
Morph: Flexbot
Gender Id.: Male
Actual Age: 3 Years (Since Re-Instantiation)
Moxie: 5
Motivations:
+Discover Past
+Adventure
+Wealth

COG 25
COO 25
INT 15
REF 10
SAV 10
SOM 10
WIL 10

Academics: Nanotechnology 70
Academics: Mathematics 70
Art: Dance 60
Beam Weapons 80
Climbing 45
Freefall 45
Freerunning 45
Hardware: Robotics 70
Hardware: Electronics 60
Hardware: Armorer 60
Infiltration 60
Interest: Spaceship Models 60
Interest: Old Earth Youth Culture 60
Kinetic Weapons 65
Language: English 85
Networking: Autonomists 55
Networking: Firewall 60
Pilot: Groundcraft 20
Profession: Squad Tatics 80
Programming 70
Seeker Weapons 65
Seeker Weapons

Ego Traits
Adaptability 2, Right At Home (Reaper Synthmorph), Situational Awareness, Mental Disorder (Schizophrenia, details below)

Morph:
Flexbot
Durability 25
Wound Threshold 5
Armour 4/4
Standard Implants: Access Jacks, Basic Mesh Inserts, Cortical Stack, Cyberbrain, Fractal Digits, Mnemonic Augmentation, Modular Design, Nanoscopic Vision, Shape Adjusting, Walker Mobility System, Hovercraft Mobility System
Custom Implants: Enhanced Hearing, Enhanced Vision, Chameleon Skin, Hand Laser, Medichines, Wrist-Mounted Tools, Ionic Mobility System, Rotorcraft Mobility System, Magnetic System, Telescoping Limbs, 360-Degree Vision, Lidar, Radar
Traits: Lemon

Gear:
3 DDR Narcoalgorithms
Desktop Cornucopia Machine
Specialized Fixer Nanohive
Flexbot Shell Blueprint
Repair Spray Blueprint
Flux SMG Ammo Blueprint
Splash Micromissile Blueprint
Scrapper's Gel Blueprint
Electronic Rope
3 Repair Sprays
Spindle (w/Climber)
SMG (w/Smartlink, 100 Flux SMG Ammo, 20 Bug SMG Ammo, Combined with Bolter)
Particle Beam Bolter (w/Smartlink, Combined with SMG, 3 Nuclear Batteries)
Underbarrel Seeker (w/Smartlink, Extended Smart Magazine, 3 HEAP Micromissiles, 3 Splash Micromissiles)

Bio (as far as he knows)

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Born on Earth, Jack <omitted> was possibly a soldier and definitely spent a lot of time sleeved in a reaper morph, to the point of being extremely used to the sleeving process in one (Right At Home). He then probably died fighting the TITANs as his backup was transmitted straight to Phelan's Recourse, as part of some contract he apparently had with Firewall, who stuck him in a morph, and told him he'd been working for them for the best part of two years. The details of this too, were lost in the time between his backup and his death. It also appears that something went wrong during the farcasting of his backup, or perhaps the TITANs were jamming the transmission, as there are great gaps in his memory and personality which manifest as schizophrenic symptoms resulting in delusions, hallucinations and other attempts by his ego to fill the void. As a result, he now believes himself to be a fictional character, subject entirely to the whims of the author. Nonetheless, he is still fortunate to retain his combat skills.

EDIT: Forgot to add the Morph Trait: Lemon.

This post has been edited by Xahn Borealis: Aug 6 2010, 08:51 PM

[Jimson]

Ahh...I knew I'd forget something. How about:

Thoughts
Speech
Mesh
Actions


Thanks for pointing that out Xahn. I know the few times I played Shadowrun, we started post with where you were, time/date, PAN info, etc. For EP, I would need to go back and read up on how date/time is referenced. For now, just include where you are. I'm assuming most are already on Phelan’s Recourse. If I forget anything else, please let me know.

[BlackHat]

Actions

It seems like if actions are in italic, a lot of what we write will be in italic.

EDIT: Character Sheet


Doctor Mathew Esterly - Async Xenoarcheologist

Concept:

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A gatecrasher, who came back from an expedition "changed" - now an async, whose mind has been rewired to facilitate an eerie understanding of mathematics and linguistics, he began also working for Firewall as an expert in xenolinguistics and xenobiology. Based on the Xenoarcheologist premade, but less of an adventurer, and more of a scientist.

Bio:

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Doctor Mathew Esterly had always been fascinated by the stars, and the possibilities they held. As a young scientist, he joined the original space colonists, and traveled outward from Earth as humanity pushed the edge of its outposts further and further away from their home world. When the Fall came, Mathew was far far away - and while the near-extinction of humanity still touched his life, it was the subsequent discovery of the Pandora Gates and the arrival of the Factors that changed it, most noticeably.

The discovery of wormhole gateways, and the arrival of true intelligent alien life renewed his belief that there must be more in the universe than humanity. He didn't return to the outer-rim space colonies, and instead joined a number of Gatecrashing crews - excited to see places in the universe he would never reach, otherwise, and new forms of life. However, after a gate-jump anomaly, Dr. Esterly was changed, forever. At first, he didn't realize what had happened. He felt strange, like there was a presence with him, even when he was alone and, throughout the mission, he was exhausted, but his mind was racing. He didn't sleep often or well, and spent most of his free time scribbling down notes and equations, that only seemed to make sense to him, as though he thought they might slip from his mind as mysteriously as they had entered it. His behavior alerted the rest of his crew, who kept him under observation but didn't think he was dangerous - on the contrary, despite a few fits where he was nearly incomprehensible, his insights and analysis of the strange world seemed sharper than ever. Upon returning through the Gate, they insisted he undergo a psychosurgical examination. This was when he discovered he had been somehow infected by the Watts-MacLeod strain of the Exsurgent Virus.

Whether the virus had lied dormant in him and had been triggered by the anomaly, or whether the anomaly was actually the infection-vector is still unknown. However, his mind underwent a rapid change that altered the way he observed and understood the world around him. The mathematical and linguistic centers of his brain underwent the greatest refactoring, and he developed a low level of telepathy which was consistent with psi-gamma expressions - although he showed a remarkable ability to interact with and communicate with non-sentient minds. He continued to Gatecrash, finding that the Gatekeeper Corporation was suddenly a lot more interested in his findings and new discoveries. Although he built up some relationship with the Gatekeeper Corporation (to facilitate his research), he preferred to operate out of the Fissure Gate whenever possible, so that he would be free to publish his findings and make them available to the scientific community at large. As his understanding of ancient alien structures and languages grew, so did his prominence in the newly created fields of xenolinguistics and xenobiology.

Not long after becoming a recognized expert in these fields, as well as publishing some remarkable new theories in mathematics, Dr. Esterly came to the attention of Firewall, and was recruited when an alien device had been discovered which was releasing small bursts of low-level radiation in sequences which they suspected were not entirely random. They were not random, and Dr. Esterly was critical in assisting a team with identifying the function of the device as well as getting a rudimentary understanding of the meaning encoded in the message it seemed to be broadcasting. Since then, Firewall has found him useful on a number of other assignments, even where there is no evidence of extra-terrestrial involvement. He is a skilled scientist, and lends an unusual perspective to any situation - an eerie creativity that has been useful when a problem needed to be faced with fresh eyes. However, useful though he may be, Firewall requires his services infrequently enough that Doctor Esterly possesses a considerable amount of free-time, which he spends in research, or continually exploring the farthest reaches of this universe on the other side of the Pandora Gates.

Sheet:

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Character: Doctor Mathew Esterly
Background: Original Space Colonist (+10 Freefall, +10 Profession [Gatecrasher], +20 Networking: Autonomists)
Faction: Argonaut (+10 to Profession[Gatecrasher], +10 to , +20 to Networking: Scientists)
Gender ID: Male
Motivations: +Alien Discoveries, +Alien Contact, +Research (Mathematics)

Customization Point Breakdown

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- 40 Morph
- 15 Reputation
- 50 Traits
- 50 Psi Slights
- 410 Active Skills
- 335 Knowledge Skills
- 100 Gear

Aptitudes:

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- Cog 20 +10 Morph
- Coo 10
- Int 25 +5 Morph
- Ref 10
- Sav 10 +5 Morph
- Som 10
- Wil 20 +5 Morph

Secondary

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- Moxie 1
- Lucidity (Wil x2) 50
- Trauma Threshold (Luc / 5) 9(-1 from psi) = 8
- Insanity Rating (Luc x2) 100
- Initiative ((Int + Ref) x2) 40 (+30 if mental speed is going)

Reputation:

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- a-rep 40 (Autonomists)
- c-rep 40 (Hypercorps)
- e-rep 0 (Ecologists)
- f-rep 0 (Media)
- g-rep 0 (Criminals)
- i-rep 40 (Firewall)
- r-rep 80 (Scientists)

Traits:

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- Advantages (50)
- - Psi, Level 2 (25)
- - Math Wiz (10)
- - Hyperlinguist (10)
- - Zoosemiotics (5)
- Disadvantages (0, but 2 mental disorders from psi)
- - Mental Disorder [Insomnia] (From Psi)
- - Mental Disorder [OCD - Solving Math Problems / Finding (meaningless) Connections in Data] (From Psi)

Psi Slights:

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- Chi
- - Ambience Sense (+10 Investigation, Perception, Scrounging, Surprise)
- - Enhanced Creativity (+20 Creativity ???)
- - Grok (Strain -1, Cogx2 to get +20 to defaulting, unfamiliar, or alien device)
- - Pattern Recognition (+20 to language, investigation, research or code-breaking tests)
- - Savant Calculation (+30 math)
- Gamma
- - Deep Scan (Strain +1, Sense)
- - Ego Sense (Strain -1, Sense)
- - Subliminal (Strain +2, Control)
- - Implant Skill (Strain +0, Control)
- - Mindlink (Strain +0/+1, Control)

Skills:
- Active

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- - Investigation 60 (35) (+10 ambiance sense, +20 pattern recog, + 10 oracles, +5 morph)
- - - Specialization [Logical Deductions] (5)
- - Perception 60 (35) (+10 ambience sense, +20 cyber, +5 morph)
- - - Specialization [Auditory] (5)
- - Research 60 (40) (+20 pattern recog, +10 morph)
- - - Specialization [Aliens] (5)
- - Programming 60 (40) (+10 morph)
- - Scrounging 60 (35) (+10 ambience sense, +5 morph)
- - - Specialization [Ruins] (5)
- - Navigation 60 (25)
- - - Specialization [Astrogation] (5)
- - Networking [Autonomists] 35 (5) (+5 morph)
- - - Specialization [Love and Rage Collective]
- - Networking [Hypercorp] 15 (5) (+5 morph)
- - - Specialization [Gatekeeper Corporation] (5)
- - Networking [Scientists] 40 (10) (+5 morph)
- - - Specialization [Xenoarcheologists] (5)
- - Control 60 (40) (+5 morph)
- - - Specialization [Implant Skill] (5)
- - Sense 60 (35) (+5 morph)
- - - Specialization [Ego Sense] (5)
- - Fray 60 (50)
- - - Specialization: Total Defense (5)

- From Skillsoft
- - Beam Weapons 40
- - Spray Weapons 40

- Knowledge

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- - Academics [Alien Relics] 60 (40) (+10 morph)
- - Academics [Pandora Gates] 40 (20) (+10 morph)
- - Academics [Astrobiology] 60 (40) (+10 morph)
- - Academics [Exsurgent Virus] 40 (20) (+10 morph)
- - - Specialization [Watts-MacLeod Strain] (5)
- - Academics [Mathematics] 80 (80) (+30 math wiz, +30 savant calc, +10 morph)
- - Academics [Xenolinguistics] 80 (80) (+10 morph)
- - Academics [Xenoarcheology] 60 (40) (+10 morph)
- - Profession [Gatecrasher] 50 (10) (+10 morph)
- - Language [Native English] 95 (0) (+20 pattern recognition, +5 morph)
- - Language [Untrained] 25 (0) (+10 hyperlinguist, +20 pattern recognition, +5 morph)

Morph: Menton

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- Aptitude Max 30
- Durability 35
- Wound Threshold 7
- Death Rating (Dur x1.5) 52

Gear:

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- Starting Credits 14,850
- Bioware
- - Enhanced Sense
- - - (250) Direction Sense
- - - (250) Echolocation
- - - (250) Enhanced Hearing
- - - (250) Enhanced Vision
- - Mental Augmentations
- - - [-] Eidetic Memory
- - - [-] Hyper Linguist
- - - [-] Math Boost
- - Physical Augmentations
- - - (250) [L] Bioweave Armor [2/3]
- - - (1,000) [M] Circadian Regulation (2 hrs sleep, or 4 every 48)
- - - (1,000) Clean Metabolism (Immunity to infections)
- - - (250) Eelware (power implants and devices)
- - - (250) [L] Enhanced Respiration (0.2-5 atmospheres, hold breath for 10-30 minutes)
- - - (250) [L] Gills
- - - (250) [L] Hibernation (5% normal food, water, air - 40 days)
- - - (250) [L] Temperature Tolerance (-30 to 60 C)
- - - (1000) [M] Toxin Filters
- - - (5000) [H] Vacuum Sealing (Temps from -70 to 100 C)

- Cyberware
- - Enhanced Senses
- - - (250) Electrical Sense
- - - (250) Radiation Sense
- - - (250) T-Ray Emitter
- - Mental Augmentation
- - - (250) Mnemonic Augmentation
- - Physical Augmentations
- - - (250) Oxygen Reserve

- Nanoware
- - (250) [L] Medichines
- - (5,000) [H] Mental Speed
- - (1,000) Nanophages
- - (1,000) [M] Oracles (+10 Investigation, +30 memory)
- - (1,000) Respirocytes
- - (5,000) [H] Skillware
- - (1,000) [M] Skinlink
- - (1,000) [M] Wrist-Mounted Tools (+20 repair/mod mechanical/lock/alarm/first-aid)

- Communication Devices
- - (500) [L] Radio Booster x2
- - (500) [L] Miniature Farcaster Radio x2
- - - (500) [L] Portable QE Comm x2 (built in)
- - - - Able to attach to a qubit reservoir, but doesn't own one

- Software
- - (5,000) Skillsoft [Spray Weapons] (40)
- - (5,000) Skillsoft [Beam Weapons] (40)
- - (1,000) Tactical Networks
- - (FREE) [H] Standard Muse
- - - INT 20
- - - Academics [Psychology] 60
- - - Hardware [Electronics] 30
- - - Infosec 30
- - - Interface 40
- - - Professional [Accounting] 60
- - - Programming 20
- - - Research 30
- - - Perception 30
- - - Language [English] 40
- - - Academics [Mathematics] 40
- - - Academics [Linguistics] 40

- Combination Tool
- - (5,000) [H] Covert Operations Tool (COT)
- - (1,000) [M] Psi Jammer
- - (250) [L] Utilitool (+10 to repairing or modifying mechanical objects, locks, alarm systems, or first-aid)
- - (50) [L] Flashlight (Normal, Ultraviolet, Infrared)
- - (50) White Noise Machine
- - (250) X-Ray Emitter

- Research
- - (20,000) [E] Quantum Computer
- - (250) [L] Investigation Kit
- - (1,000) Specialized Hive
- - - (5,000) Scouts
- - (1,000) [M] Mobile Lab (Chemistry 30)
- - (1,000) [L] Specimen Container x4
- - (1,000) [M] Smart Dust

- Survival Gear
- - (250) Breadcrumb Positioning System
- - (1,000) Spindle
- - - (250) Spindle Climber

- Pet
- - (250) Smart Rat
- - - COG 5, COO 15, INT 15, REF 15, SAV 5, SOM 5, WIL 10
- - - INIT 60, SPD 2, DUR 5, WT 1, LUC 20, TT 4
- - - Climbing 40, Fray 40, Freerunning 30, Infiltration 50, Perception 20, Scrounging 50

- Armor
- - (50) Micrograv Shoes
- - (250) [L] Viewers (+30 perception if aimed at)
- - (250) [L] Specs (+10 perception if visual)
- - (250) [L] Second Skin [1/3]
- - (250) [L] Smart Skin [3/2]
- - - (250) Reflective Glazing [+3/+0]
- - (5,000) [H] Smart-fabric Standard Vac-Suit [7/7]
- - - Specialized Maker (48 hours air, indefinite food/water)
- - - Ecto
- - - Radio Booster
- - - Sensors equal to specs
- - - Safe in temp from -175 to 140 C
- - - Self-sealing (unless 30 damage at once)
- - - (1,000) Self-Healing Modification

- - (5,000) [H] Hard Suit [15/15]
- - - Resist Vacuum and up to 100 atmospheres of pressure
- - - Miniature plasma thrusters, delivering 0.01G for 10 hours
- - - Specialized maker (air/food/water indefinitely)
- - - Utilitool in each hand
- - - Ecto
- - - Radio booster
- - - Sensors equal to specs
- - - Fixer nanohive
- - - Self-sealing (unless 30 damage at once)
- - - Safe in temp from -200 to 180 C

- Weapons
- - (1,000) [M] Stunner
- - - AP - DV 1d10/2+shock SA 200
- - - (1,000) [M] Smartlink
- - (1,000) [M] Shredder
- - - AP -10 DV 2d10+5 SA/BF/FA 100
- - - (1,000) [M] Smartlink

[BlackHat]

Welcome aboard everyone. This may be old school, but would we like to do introductions? Nothing big, and we can refrain from using our real names. If not, we can just move along. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

As far as introductions, I'm game. I'm a computer programmer for a company that is doing research in AI (not as cool as it sounds), almost 30, and live in Michigan (USA). I haven't played Shadowrun in real-life since college (my RL group only plays D&D), so I most get my SR fix here on Dumpshock. This is my first taste of EP as well.

[Sixgun_Sage]

25, engineering student, martial artist, scifi geek.

[Jimson]

It seems like if actions are in italic, a lot of what we write will be in italic.

Oh...I think I took action as meaning something else. By action, we are referring to:

"Charlie wakes up in the morning and takes a deep breath..."

If that is the case, just keep it in normal text. I did forget about your muse. Should we do that in a different color, or just keep it in blue and state the muse is speaking. Or maybe Blue and Italics for your muse.

As for me, I'll be 31 in a few days. Married and have 1 kid (3 years old), and live around St Paul/Minneapolis, MN (USA). Work in IT for a bank. As far as gaming in RL we've played a lot of D&D, and then the past 3-4 years we've been playing Shadowrun, however, we only meet at most once every other month. We were in the middle of Ghost Cartels and a buddy stepped out of the country for a year. If he doesn't come back, we'll continue on without him. For now we are back to playing D&D. I wanted to start them on Eclipse Phase, but no one was interested in learning a new system. Other than that, I enjoy all things geek, as well as a Chicago sports (Cubs, Bears, etc.) (I grew up in IL).

I'm happy to have you guys aboard for this, as now I finally get to play EP.

[crizh]

Bio.

I'm 37, a dad, don't game much anymore, DnD once a fortnight and drive a cab at weekends to put food on the table. I live in sunny Scotland and am basically a bit of a Homer Simpson wannabe...

Here's Rebel again.


Markov

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The probe slowly gathered speed as it began it's long journey. The exhaust from it's massive fusion engine was shrouded by a tail of streamers designed to reduce the probe's signature and to recycle the light the hot gases emitted as power for the probe's many on board systems.

For several days it barely seemed to move but as it dived below the plane of the ecliptic it rapidly shrank to a barely visible dot of light which also disappeared after a week or so when the main engine swung away from Markov. It continued to accelerate inexorably as it slowly curved back up towards Saturn.

Periodically big chunks of the converted proto-comet flaked off under the enormous stress and were quickly left behind in the darkness. Eventually it was pointed almost exactly at Saturn and the giant engine cuts out.

The universe seemed to hold it's breath for what seemed like an age whilst the speck in the dark grew to a spark and then a light and finally the familiar winking eye of the ringed giant. An inflection point is reached as Saturn's huge gravity takes hold and suddenly it is rushing towards the tiny lump of dark rock, filling the whole sky with terrifying rapidity.

In the blink of an eye it is over, a journey that began nearly two months previously, the Hill sphere is pierced and in under an hour Saturn is reached, the proto-comet surrenders to enormous tidal forces by splitting into two unequal parts. The larger slides past the former Deity in under ten seconds and is fired up out of the ecliptic like a baseball from a batting machine. The smaller piece ploughs through the upper atmosphere and bursts out the other side, glowing like a coal, into an orbit that will cause it to drift into one of the many coloured rings as so many millions of it's predecessors have done over the aeons.

Sensor-nets, tweaked by such an unnaturally fast object ploughing through the system, were swift to spot the emergency beacon that began broadcasting as the darkening cinder began to cool. Automated rescue bots performed a graceful slow motion ballet for over an hour.

Eventually the lump of cometary rock was dragged aboard an atmospheric skimmer and medical personnel began to examine this strange visitor. Some tiny change, perhaps atmosphere or temperature triggers a tiny sensor. The rock starts to boil and steam, tiny streams of dust flow from newly apparent cracks in it's surface as nanites dissect it from within to reveal some sort of exotic survival bubble.

Medics cautiously approach, querying medical sensors whose interfaces start to appear in the mesh. An iris opens and the arm and shoulder, dripping with acceleration gel, of a vac-suit flop into view. A head rises and the arm opens the suit's visor to reveal a red-haired human female.

'G'day mates, name's Rebel, I don't feel too good.'

And then she died.

Rebel

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Her memory was badly damaged and the emergency pod had little useful data. The best the Plurality could determine she was hitching a lift on an unusual proto-comet being shipped in-system for research. AGI modelling suggested that combined failures of both navigation and propulsion could have caused the strap on booster to drive the comet through the wrong system at twice it's intended speed. No definite conclusions could be reached and a week later what appeared to be a catastrophic engine failure tore the remains of the proto-comet to pieces.

Her morph spent a month in the tank and her Ego spent a month in and out of an old busted up clank working off her debt to the Plurality.

Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark was apparently a crackerjack Wet-programmer and a wizard at programming nano-fabricators so she did not have any trouble building up a decent Rep but all her skills were worthless in recovering the massive chunks of her identity she had lost. She knew her name and knew that she was a spacer that grew up in the Kuiper Belt but nothing else, not even fragments.

She combed through her own Ego with all the Psychosurgical tools at her disposal and came up blank. The memories weren't damaged, they were just gone.

She did learn a lot about herself though. Her neural tree had been altered by someone even more skilled than herself. Her mental make-up was unique, her mind fragmented into four parts, a Tetrad, four distinct personalities each with their own voice and awareness but all part of the same whole. She could see vague shapes in her mental structures that meant something but she didn't know what. She did know that she was blocked from altering them, in fact she seemed to be unusually resistant to divergence. None of her forks ever displayed any desire to change it's core personality. They got twitchy after four hours without a merge and after a week they were verging on mono-mania.

Whenever her mind wandered her hands were busy making little knick-knacks. She sculpted all sorts of strange stuff which almost always folded or twisted or opened to reveal some sort of useful tool or piece of equipment. Sometimes they didn't do anything until three or four were slotted together in the correct configuration and then suddenly they merged to form some highly complex device.

She has a theory that she has forgotten many things about psychosurgery and nano-fabrication but that the skills remain somehow as an emergent harmonic pattern floating in the gaps in her Ego. She has kept such ridiculous speculation to herself.

She has fitted right into Titanian culture. Her Rep has rocketed in various fields, she's the go-to gal if you need your Ego tweaked or Mental Trauma eased. She has released dozens of blueprints into the Open Source community under her moniker Rebel. Advanced Protean Swarms that whip up General Hives, Neutrino Transceivers, Multi-channel Qubit Reservoirs, Ego Bridges or Healing Vats that all bear her iconic swooping 'R' logo.

A number of unsigned designs that might be useful for darkcasting operations have built her a solid Rep amongst less salubrious elements and her Psychosurgical skills have drawn attention from the Pax Familiae. While she could make use of the favours this earns her she rarely does. She has no idea of how to deal with people of that persuasion and fears opening a door she can never shut. Any dealings she has with such groups are through forks she has amped with implanted skills and courage.

Her involvement with Firewall is recent. She was contracted to repair a number of badly fractured Egos that had suffered sanity shattering mental traumas. Her limited success in recovering crucial data led to her recruitment as an Agent. She mostly performs after action psychosurgery on more hands on Agents. Infomorphs are Ego-cast to her, treated in accelerated simulspace and ego-cast back to their home habitats ready to return to operational status.

The profits from her activities have allowed her to pursue her own long term goals. Her repaired Morph has been substantially augmented and she uses it to explore the alterations to her own Ego. She can easily be running six or more Forks simultaneously which are constantly being re-merged back into each other. The old battered clank that the Plurality lent her has been purchased outright. It's limited intellect makes alterations to her own Ego substantially easier to perform and she occasionally uses it with exceptionally resistant patients. She also has a couple of flats in hibernation for emergency use.

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Meanwhile in the depths of space, one hundred million clicks from the ecliptic, dozens of anonymous chunks of proto-comet are slowly transforming under the direction of millions of pre-programmed nanites.

Stats

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Background: Original Spacer
Faction: Argonaut


Primary Morph: Remade

CODE

COG COO INT REF SAV SOM WIL MOX
30  10  25  10  15  20  40  1

CODE

INI SPD LUC TT  IR  DUR WT  DR
70   1  80  16  160  45  9  68

Active Skills:

Hardware (Electronics) 55, Hardware (Robotics) 55, Infosec 55, Interfacing 55, Networking (Autonomists) 85, Networking (Scientists) 85, Programming 99, Psychosurgery [Accelerated] 85

Knowledge Skills:

Academics (Nanotechnology) 70, Academics (Psychology) 70, Art (Sculpture)[Hidden Nano] 65, Profession (Psychotherapy) 70

Language Skills:

English (Native) 95, Cantonese 65, Spanish 65, French 65, Others (the 30 next most common) 26


Reputation:

@-Rep 80, F-Rep 30, G-Rep 80, I-Rep 30, R-Rep 80


Traits:

Ego: Psi Defence II, Expert (Programming), Exceptional Aptitude (WIL), Edited Memories, Modified Behaviour III

Morph (Case): Addiction (XP feed) III


Implants:

Remade: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Cortical Stack, Emergency Farcaster, Direction Sense, Echolocation, Enhanced Hearing, Enhanced Smell, Enhanced Vision, Eidetic Memory, Hyper Linguist, Math Boost, (3x) Multiple Personalities, Bioweave Armor (light), Circadian Regulation, Clean Metabolism, Enhanced Respiration, Gills, Grip Pads, Hibernation, Skin Pocket, Temperature Tolerance, Toxin Filters, Vacuum Sealing, Anti-Glare, Electrical Sense, Radiation Sense, T-Ray Emitter, Access Jacks, Ghostrider Module, Mnemonic Augmentation, Medichines, Nanophage, Oracle, Respirocytes, Skillware, Skinlink, Wrist-Mounted Tools, Bodysculpting

Case: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Cortical Stack, Mnemonic Augmentation

Flats: Cortical Stack, Hibernation, Skin Pocket, Mnemonic Augmentation, Medichines


Gear:

(2x) Miniature Radio Farcaster, (2x) Portable QE Comm, (5x) Specialized Hive (Guardians, (4x) Proteans: General Hive, Neutrino Transceiver, Ego-bridge, Large Qbit Reservoir), Blueprint: Spec' Hive, Blueprint: QE comm, Blueprint: Farcaster, Simulspace Subscription, Skillsoft: Palming

Remade Morph, Case Morph, (2x) Flat Morph

[Xahn Borealis]

Maybe for mesh communications we can assign ourselves colours like in the Lack and Melt? Dibs on orange.

I'm Jon, 18 years old, brilliantly british, life falling apart in a way you couldn't make up. This is the second time I've ever played an rpg. The first is In Neptune's Realm in this very forum.

[BlackHat]

That ended up a lot longer than I had planned. :-/

Let me know if anything doesn't match up with your view of Phelan's, or of the universe at large - I took some liberties with what might be going on, but I figure that since there are 10,000 craft in the swarm, just about anything could be.

I also didn't use the itallics, since this was more of a summary of an evening, rather than any actions the doctor was taking, presently. Hope you don't mind.

[Xahn Borealis]

Seems like exactly the sort of thing that would go on at Phelan's.

[pragma]

I'm an electrical engineering graduate student in my mid-twenties in California.

My current RL group runs D&D, but I've gotten to play RL Shadowrun on and off over the past couple of years and have participated in some really spectacular Dumpshock games. This is the first I've touched EP and I'm intenstely curious how it will work as a game -- doubly so since it wasn't on my radar in the slightest before the EP threads sprung up here.

I have a few thoughts regarding posting conventions. Most are kind of radical proposals compared to a lot of other stuff on the board, so I'm very open to debate and will, of course, defer to Jimson on the final set of posting rules. Ideas are below:

• Can we use quotation marks for speech instead of a color? I hate fiddling with color tags and the English language already has the problem of indicating speech pretty well solved.
• I agree with Blackhat that a separate format for actions may be overkill. I always liked reserving italics for thoughts as is the convention in many books.
• Mesh actions definitely deserve a different color (I'd like yellow if using Xahn's suggestion), but the muse can probably be indicated by combining the speech and mesh format along with a brief introduction in the text.

[Jimson]

BlackHat, I'm sure you post is fine. Don't have time to read through it yet. As for posting, I think we maybe should step back from IC postings till we come up with our groups standard.

I'm an electrical engineering graduate student in my mid-twenties in California.

My current RL group runs D&D, but I've gotten to play RL Shadowrun on and off over the past couple of years and have participated in some really spectacular Dumpshock games. This is the first I've touched EP and I'm intenstely curious how it will work as a game -- doubly so since it wasn't on my radar in the slightest before the EP threads sprung up here.

I have a few thoughts regarding posting conventions. Most are kind of radical proposals compared to a lot of other stuff on the board, so I'm very open to debate and will, of course, defer to Jimson on the final set of posting rules. Ideas are below:

• Can we use quotation marks for speech instead of a color? I hate fiddling with color tags and the English language already has the problem of indicating speech pretty well solved.
• I agree with Blackhat that a separate format for actions may be overkill. I always liked reserving italics for thoughts as is the convention in many books.
• Mesh actions definitely deserve a different color (I'd like yellow if using Xahn's suggestion), but the muse can probably be indicated by combining the speech and mesh format along with a brief introduction in the text.

I do like the separate color for talking as it makes it stand out more, but I do get what you are saying about finding the color and such. It can be frustrating finding the right shade of blue (or whatever color it may be). Whatever is easier for you guys, I'm game.

Also, thanks for the introduction guys. Its good to know a little bit about who you are gaming with. Again, thanks for the enthusiasm for EP. I really hope I don't let you guys down.

[pragma]

I do like the separate color for talking as it makes it stand out more, but I do get what you are saying about finding the color and such. It can be frustrating finding the right shade of blue (or whatever color it may be). Whatever is easier for you guys, I'm game.

Also, thanks for the introduction guys. Its good to know a little bit about who you are gaming with. Again, thanks for the enthusiasm for EP. I really hope I don't let you guys down.

If you like the separate speech color then do it, though I feel that speech doesn't necessarily need to pop out of the post (which is really the purpose of formatting). But the more important point is that, however much I have opinions on posting formats, I'm much more interested in spending posting cycles in character rather than working on how posts should look; my recommendation is that you give us at most a day to bicker about the posting details, then make a binding decision and get the game rolling in whatever direction you want.

By the way, don't worry about letting us down -- we wouldn't be playing if you hadn't stepped up to bat and having a game is much less disappointing than not having one.

[Xahn Borealis]

Let's just keep it simple. Actions are formatted normally, speech is in speech marks, thoughts in italics, including muse conversations, and mesh messages are (as stolen from Melt and Lack) [bracketted] and coloured. That's how I'll be posting, anyway.

[BlackHat]

Let's just keep it simple. Actions are formatted normally, speech is in speech marks, thoughts in italics, including muse conversations, and mesh messages are (as stolen from Melt and Lack) [bracketted] and coloured. That's how I'll be posting, anyway.

I like that, particularly the idea that, when in doubt, we can look to Lack for inspiration. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I would point out that any conversation or message from your muse, is really a mesh action, though (the muse runs on your mesh inserts). In Lack, the muse talks in [brackets] that are light-blue (a different color than Sava's). Interestingly enough, its not symmetrical, as Sava talks to her muse in italics (same as thoughts).

[crizh]

All I've got to worry about is how to format four different personalities all thinking in the same skull at the same time....

... and a Muse and a Ghostrider and a Multi-tasking implant.....

[Jimson]

All I've got to worry about is how to format four different personalities all thinking in the same skull at the same time....

... and a Muse and a Ghostrider and a Multi-tasking implant.....

Ha! Good luck with all that. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) The IC post are looking great. The formating is also good. I'm sure its a lot easier to post, without digging through and trying to find the right color.

[Xahn Borealis]

as Sava talks to her muse in italics (same as thoughts).

That's what I was implying, I thought that any thought you have can also be directed to your muse as conversation.

[Xahn Borealis]

I have a question requiring a GM ruling. Do synthmorphs need to sleep?

[BlackHat]

That reminds me, I had a DM question too. Dr. Esterly bought a Quantum computer. How big/portable is that? Laptop? Desktop? Mainframe?
Obviously, ideally, its a powerful laptop that is bigger than (and more capable than) mesh inserts, but I don't plan to use it enough that I would mind if Jimson wants it to be a closet-sized mainframe I leave back home.

[Jimson]

I have a question requiring a GM ruling. Do synthmorphs need to sleep?

Nope, they do not.

EP Core Book, p.143

"All synthmorphs have the following advantages:
- Lack of Biological Functions. Synthmorphs need
not be bothered with trivialities like breathing,
eating, defecating, aging, sleeping, or any similar
minor but crucial aspects of biological life."

I find it funny they specifically mention defecating.

That reminds me, I had a DM question too. Dr. Esterly bought a Quantum computer. How big/portable is that? Laptop? Desktop? Mainframe?
Obviously, ideally, its a powerful laptop that is bigger than (and more capable than) mesh inserts, but I don't plan to use it enough that I would mind if Jimson wants it to be a closet-sized mainframe I leave back home.

I think it would fall in the Medium category, but I'm open to any disagreements to this.

EP Core Book, p.297
Medium
Medium size items are cumbersome to hold
with one hand, ranging from the size of a 2-liter
bottle to the size of a medium dog. They do
not fi t in pockets, but they may be concealed
by larger coverings.

For some reason, this was the first thing that came into my mind when you were asking about how big a Quantum computer, and if it is portable: http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html
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[Xahn Borealis]

For some reason, this was the first thing that came into my mind when you were asking about how big a Quantum computer, and if it is portable: http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html
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That's fucking gorgeous. Thanks for putting on your GM hat, I'm still gonna have him 'wake up', or at least pretend to. He's pretty eccentric, as you'll find out... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Sixgun_Sage]

Was wondering if it would be cool for Murphy to be on the same habitt as Jack Three, Xahn, I just can't help but think interactions between the two will be entertaining.

[Xahn Borealis]

Well, sure, it's up to you, surely? Besides, what he's doing will probably end up on the local mesh soon enough.