Recruitment: Puyallups, [Closed] Slow and steady pbp Options

[Redjack]

Considering recruitment for a few new players for my existing games: Puyallups II [ OOC ], Puyallups IV [ OOC ] and Barrens II [ OOC ]. These games are more black hat than Pink Mohawk, more street level than professional. I will start any new characters outside of the game threads to insure a little commitment to a pbp before introducing them to the existing game threads.

400bp. Characters should be balanced; No min-maxing please. Extremely high dice pools are discouraged as your character would overshadow existing characters.

One free contact: Fixer [ R:3; L:1 ] you may spend build points to raise loyalty as high as a 4.

[Sengir]

Since you mentioned black hats in the other thread, I have this concept lying around for a character who is basically the classic hacker archetype: He "explores" hosts and tinkers with hardware for the thrill of discovery...or for money, as long as he can tell himself that it's happening on his terms and he's nobody's pawn.

Statwise an Orc TM following the Black Hat Paragon, I'd focus on Hacking and Hardware, but with an eye on working on-site and not just from the living room couch. Hardware also happens to be a nice skill for breaking those pesky maglocks.


I know hackers can be a bit...difficult, and to make matters worse it would be my first PBP, so feel free to give me the brush-off (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Grinchy McScroog...]

I have a concept that I've been developing that might fit.

The character is a street rat recently arrived from Hong Kong after running afoul of The Smoke Circle Society. He's squatting in Puyallup because he only has a few creds and there are no Triads. Now he's looking for a way to make some money and build a new life for himself.

Gamewise:
• 17-year-old human Chinese male
• speaks fluent Cantonese, with some English
• physical adept with focus on parkour and martial arts
• grew up on 1970's chop-socky trids


I'll have his character sheet up in the Cast of Shadows thread by tomorrow evening for your perusal.

[phlapjack77]

I'm interested in joining one of these games - I have a few character ideas I've been kicking around in my head (who doesn't? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

1) Noir detective mage
2) AI hacker, modelled somewhat after the librarian in Snow Crash
3) Street Sam from a previous game, not a combat monster but with some drone support

It seems like the Barrens game only has one player who is a street sam, and the Puyallups IV has a few players I can't quite tell who is what. If you'll let me play, you can point me in the direction of the game / character you think would be best.

[almost normal]

Took me long enough to find my muse, but once it hit, it was fun. Banged out the character right, and was fun letting it develop naturally.

Moses, mundane human detective, no cyber or bio at all.

Late 40's, heavy build, rock solid hands. Was on patrol last year when he witnessed two cops beating down an Orc female. Pulled over to assist and secure the scene, when he did he quickly assessed that it was two new guys taking their frustrations out on the locals. Asked them to stop, was ignored, told them to stop, was ignored. Pulled out his service weapon and shot one of the cops in the backside with a gel-round, and warned the other that his smart-select system gets mixed up some times. Unfortunately for the trio, the entire incident was being filmed by a blogger, and the trid of the incident hit the matrix quickly. The Denizens of the sprawl took to calling him 'Moses', after the biblical figure who struck down an Egyptian he witnessed beating down his people, as they had no actual name with which to call him. Lone Star HQ quietly issued him his walking papers, and he's been on his own since. Terrible waste of a pension.

Char is up in the Cast of Shadows for reference.

[Thanee]

Puyallups II right now has an ex-military (Zion), an ex-cop (Lucky), and a smuggler/rigger (Aeryn) as active characters. Characters focused on Magic and Matrix would be good.

Puyallups IV right now has a magician (Revan), a mystic adept (Kit), and a hacker with decent combat and social skills (Jazz) as active characters.

Barrens II right now only has a street samurai (Val) as active characters, but seems to be a game focused on a small number of PCs.

Bye
Thanee

[phlapjack77]

Thanks for the infodump, Thanee.

This ex-cop character....Lucky, is his name? Sounds awesome (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Any prefs, Redjack? I could throw the street sam at Puyallups IV, or the AI hacker or mage detective at Barrens II

[Thanee]

This ex-cop character....Lucky, is his name? Sounds awesome (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Yeah, I think he would be right up your alley. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Redjack]

Here are the current characters in my games. NPC's currently round out each of the teams and could be displaced by a PC.
Barrens II
- Valery Strobokov, Male Elven Street Samurai
- Arkansas, Male Ork Rat Shaman
- Umbra, Male Ork Physical Adept
- Athena, Female Hacker
- Slick, Male Human Ganger
- Toad, Male Human Ganger

Puyallups II
- Aeryn, Female Elven Rigger/Smuggler
- Zion, Male Elven Street Samurai, former military
- Lucky, Male Human Former Lone Star Cop
- Papa Smurf, Male Troll Combat Hacker
- Cynic, Male Human Ganger Wiz-Boy

Puyallups IV
- Jazz, Female Human Hacker/Face
- Kit, Surged Female Elven Shinto Mystic Adept
- Revan, Male Dwarven Chaos Mage
- Jake, Male Human Rigger

The Barrens story has a strong subplot of Val working through his amnesia. Let me look through each of your concepts today and post back on those.

[Redjack]

I am kinda methodical about character creation for pbp. This is a story telling as much as anything. Players who has characters with a good foundation for telling a story last longer. It also helps me throw random elements into your character's lives and tell between run stories. In your history or in your character sheet I would like to see the contacts fleshed out a little more... or I can flesh them out. As we go through the process, I may negotiate with you for subtle changes via PM.

Almost Normal -> Moses: Mundane Human Detective
[x] Concept
[x] Extended concept
[.] History or 20 questions
[-] Character Sheet
[.] Introductory post
Next Step: A history that includes the contacts or answer one of the variations of 20 questions.

phlapjack77 -> ?: Detective Mage
[x] Concept
[.] Extended concept
[.] History or 20 questions
[.] Character Sheet
[.] Introductory post
Next Step: An extended concept (a paragraph or so) on your character.

Grinchy McScrooge -> ?: Physical Adept
[x] Concept
[x] Extended concept
[.] History or 20 questions
[.] Character Sheet
[.] Introductory post
Next Step: A history that includes the contacts or answer one of the variations of 20 questions.

Sengir -> Hardwire: Male Ork Tecnomancer
[x] Concept
[x] Extended concept
[.] History or 20 questions
[.] Character Sheet
[.] Introductory post
Next Step: A history that includes the contacts or answer one of the variations of 20 questions.

[ x=Completed; -=Received and In Progress; .=Not yet received. ]

[Redjack]

@Almost Normal
Here are the results of my analysis of your character. Please advise.
1) 411bp. Build should be to a 400bp max
2) Your rating 6 contact is of concern for a street level game. Rating 4 would be recommended. Loyalty 6 is fine given the connection.
3) Your glasses are availability 16R. Max availability is 12 for a starting character.
4) Your comlink does not have an operating system
5) Your System rating will be constrained by your Response rating. Program rating will be constrained by your system rating. ergo: You have a lot of rating 6 programs costing a lot of nuyen that will not function at a rating of 6.
6) You might want a simrig for VR/simsense
7) You have 21 unspent skill points for knowledge skills.

Character

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0 Human
Attributes
30 Body: 4
20 Agility: 3
10 Reaction: 2
20 Strength: 3
30 Charisma: 4
30 Intuition: 4
30 Logic: 4
20 Willpower: 3
10 Edge: 3
Active Skills
20 Stealth Group R2
10 Athletics Group R1
4 Navigation : 1
4 Survival : 1
4 Tracking : 1
20 Influence Group R2
14 Pistols (Revolvers) : 3
18 Perception (Scent) : 4
18 Data Search (Public Archives) : 4
14 Forgery (False ID) : 3
16 Locksmith : 4
6 Automotive Mechanic (Wheeled) : 1
10 Pilot Ground Craft (Wheeled) : 2
14 Intimidation (Interrogation) : 3
Positive Qualities
5 Analytical Mind
5 Fame
Negative Qualities
-15 Asthma
-20 Combat Paralysis
Contacts
5 Beat Cop (L:3 C:2)
5 Forensics Expert (L:3 C:2)
12 Sister - Magician (L:6 C:6)
31 Nuyen

Knowledge Skills

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0 English N [Language]

Equipment

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Weapons
250 Ruger Super Warhawk (+ 100%)
25 Speed Loader
30 Gel Rounds (10 shots)
250 Silver Bullets (10 shots)
Armor

Vehicles
22700 Chrysler-Nissan Patrol-1 (Patrol car)
2000 2x Shiawase Kanmushi (Microdrone)
3000 2x Lone Star iBall (Minidrone)
Commlink
8000 Commlink : Fairlight Caliban
250 AR Gloves
50 Trodes
5 Stealth RFID Tags (per 20)
2000 2x Jammer, Area (Rating 4)
150 Tag Eraser
600 2x White Noise Generator (Rating 6)
2500 Polygraph (Rating 6 5) [ Max Rating = 5 ]
1500 Camera Neutralizer Sensor (Rating 6)
800 Professional Camera
50 Wall Space
600 Analyze (Rating 6)
600 Browse (Rating 6)
6000 Decrypt (Rating 6)
3000 Empathy Sensor Software (Rating 6)
3000 Facial Recognition Sensor Software (Rating 6)
3000 Gait Analysis Sensor Software (Rating 6)
3000 Lie Detection Sensor Software (Rating 6)
3000 Noise Analysis Sensor Software (Rating 6)
3000 Vehicle Identification Sensor Software (Rating 6)
3000 Voice Recognition Sensor Software (Rating 6)
3000 Weapon Watcher Sensor Software (Rating 6)
3000 Wildlife Spotter Sensor Software (Rating 6)
Equipment
200 Magemask
1000 Magecuffs
400 Fake License (Rating 4)
100 Binocular
25 Glasses [Rating is 16R]
500 +Smartlink
1000 +Ultrasound Vision
300 +Vision Enhancement (Rating 3)
10 Earbud
300 + Audio Enhancement (Rating 3)
40 2x Metal Restraint
1200 Autopicker (Rating 6)
8000 Maglock Passkey (Rating 4)
1800 Keycard Copier (Rating 6)
800 Sequencer (Rating 4)
50000 DocWagon Contract (Platinum- per Year)
4000 Fake Sin (Rating 4)
4000 Fake Sin (Rating 4)

[Sengir]

Sengir -> ?: Male Ork Tecnomancer

Hardwire is the name, background story follows tomorrow (CET) once I'm sober (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[almost normal]

1. I'm showing 400BP, I'll have to have another look. Sorry for making you do the math on that.
2. Roger roger, I'll fix that up. I understand the feel of street level, just didn't equate the connection for whatever reason, apologies.
3. Yeah, that's another math error, apologies once more. Wasn't adding availability, just using highest.
4. No it does not. That'll be fixed.
5. I'll reduce to 4, thanks for pointing it out.
6. Reducing the software might allow me to afford that now, good call.
7. Yeah. Driving to work this morning, thinking about the character, realized I never did knowledge. Was hoping I'd have a chance to update it tonight before you saw, but you're on your A game, and I fail. Ah well. It'll be fixed tonight.

The 11BP diffrential though is bugging me. I'm in no mood to make you do any more work then you've already done, but I can't figure out where the 11 extra BP is being used. The char-gen program is reading an even 400.

As far as extras go, the second lifestyle was purchased as a place of work, I hadn't made that clear. The fake license is for his private-eye business.

[Redjack]

1. I'm showing 400BP, I'll have to have another look. Sorry for making you do the math on that.

Hopefully everyone else will use the template I posted for you as an example.

2. Roger roger, I'll fix that up. I understand the feel of street level, just didn't equate the connection for whatever reason, apologies.

No problem. I just see a connection rating 6 mage as a prime runner class.

7. Yeah. Driving to work this morning, thinking about the character, realized I never did knowledge. Was hoping I'd have a chance to update it tonight before you saw, but you're on your A game, and I fail. Ah well. It'll be fixed tonight.
As far as extras go, the second lifestyle was purchased as a place of work, I hadn't made that clear. The fake license is for his private-eye business.

I caught the knowledge skills, but totally missed the lifestyle. You have fake SINs, but no lifestyle(s).

The 11BP diffrential though is bugging me. I'm in no mood to make you do any more work then you've already done, but I can't figure out where the 11 extra BP is being used. The char-gen program is reading an even 400.

Not sure what to say about that. I always run them into a spreadsheet. Tell me if you find a miss on my figures.

[Redjack]

Hardwire is the name, background story follows tomorrow (CET) once I'm sober (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Gotcha.

[Redjack]

1. I'm showing 400BP, I'll have to have another look. Sorry for making you do the math on that.

Found the problem. I caught the Athletic and Stealth Group, but missed the Influence Group. The program broke them up.

[almost normal]

In a good mood, and you're particularly responsive, so I'll fix it up on my lunch break within 2 hours. What would be an appropriate way to pay for his patrol car being equipped with working Lone Star database access? Or is that something you'd be more comfortable with him not having?

[Redjack]

What would be an appropriate way to pay for his patrol car being equipped with working Lone Star database access? Or is that something you'd be more comfortable with him not having?

This would be something I would not see a PC having full-time, unadulterated access to. I see two avenues here: 1) A PC with hacking skills access it (probably not desirable as that would be a pretty big rewrite of your character.) 2) A contact who is either a hacker specializing in access to KE's database or a contact with a high loyalty who is a dispatcher.

[almost normal]

Updated char info, Let me know if it's acceptable now.

[Redjack]

Updated char info, Let me know if it's acceptable now.

Looks REALLY close.
Knowledge skills look good. I see you moved skills around a bit; looks good. A little shift in equipment. You are 1,810 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) overspent from being spot on.
Recommendation: If you took your second lifestyle and used Advanced Lifestyles [RC, pg153] and reduced it from 15 pts [5,000 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) ] to 12 pts [3,200 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) ] we can call it a wash.

Character

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0 Human
Attributes
30 Body: 4
20 Agility: 3
10 Reaction: 2
20 Strength: 3
30 Charisma: 4
30 Intuition: 4
20 Logic: 3
20 Willpower: 3
10 Edge: 3
Active Skills
20 Stealth Group R2
10 Athletics Group R1
20 Influence Group
4 Navigation : 1
4 Survival : 1
4 Tracking : 1
14 Pistols (Revolvers) : 3(+2)
18 Perception (Scent) : 4(+2)
18 Data Search (Public Archives) : 4(+2)
14 Forgery (False ID) : 3(+2)
8 Locksmith : 2
6 Automotive Mechanic (Wheeled) : 1(+2)
10 Pilot Ground Craft (Wheeled) : 2(+2)
14 Intimidation (Interrogation) : 3(+2)
10 Computer (Edit) : 2(+2)
6 Escape artist (Cuffs) : 1(+2)
6 Armorer (Firearms) : 1(+2)
6 Electronic Warfare (Encryption) : 1(+2)
Positive Qualities
5 Analytical Mind
5 Fame
Negative Qualities
-15 Asthma
-20 Combat Paralysis
Contacts
5 Beat Cop (L:3 C:2)
5 Forensics Expert (L:3 C:2)
9 Sister - Magician (L:6 C:3)
24.362 Nuyen

Knowledge Skills

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English : N
Street Drugs : 2
Black Markets : 2
Lone Star Procedures : 2
Accounting : 2
Data Haven : 2
Firearms : 1
Dealers : 1
Seattle Street Gangs : 2
Local Junkyards (Scrap Metal Yards) R1(+2)
Area Knowledge : 2
History : 1
Cop Trids : 1
Security Procedures : 1

Equipment

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Weapons
250 Ruger Super Warhawk (+ 100%)
250 Smartgun System, internal
25 Speed Loader
30 Gel Rounds (10 shots)
250 Silver Bullets (10 shots)
Armors
600 Armor Vest
700 Lined Coat
Vehicles
22700 Chrysler-Nissan Patrol-1 (Patrol car)
2000 2x Shiawase Kanmushi (Microdrone)
3000 2x Lone Star iBall (Minidrone)
Commlinks
5000 Commlink : Transys Avalon [R: 4; Sig: 4]
250 AR Gloves
100 Simrig
5 Stealth RFID Tags (per 20)
2000 2x Jammer, Area (Rating 4)
150 Tag Eraser
600 2x White Noise Generator (Rating 6)
2500 Polygraph (Rating 6) → 5
1500 Camera Neutralizer Sensor (Rating 6)
800 Professional Camera
50 Wall Space
150 Virtual Person
400 Analyze R4
400 Browse R4
400 Edit R4
400 Encrypt R4
4000 Decrypt (Rating 6)
1500 OS : Novatech Navi [Sys: 4; Fw: 3]
2000 Empathy Sensor Software R4
2000 Facial Recognition Sensor Software R4
2000 Gait Analysis Sensor Software R4
2000 Lie Detection Sensor Software R4
2000 Noise Analysis Sensor Software R4
2000 Vehicle Identification Sensor Software R4
2000 Voice Recognition Sensor Software R4
2000 Weapon Watcher Sensor Software R4
2000 Wildlife Spotter Sensor Software R4
Equipments
200 Magemask
1000 Magecuffs
400 Fake License (Rating 4)
100 Binocular
25 Glasses
500 +Smartlink
25 +Image Link
300 +Vision Enhancement (Rating 3)
100 +Low Light
10 Earbud
300 + Audio Enhancement (Rating 3)
40 2x Metal Restraint
1200 Autopicker (Rating 6)
8000 Maglock Passkey (Rating 4)
1800 Keycard Copier (Rating 6)
800 Sequencer (Rating 4)
25000 DocWagon Contract (Gold - per Year)
4000 Fake Sin (Rating 4)
10000 s2x Middle Lifestyles

PS: Your post in "Cast of Shadows" is missing Edge. I assumed it stayed at 3.

[almost normal]

Yep yep, and both fixes are fine by me. I doubt my char will be eating twice as much just because he has a workplace anyway.

[Redjack]

Almost Normal -> Moses: Mundane Human Detective
[x] Concept
[x] Extended concept
[.] History or 20 questions
[x] Character Sheet
[.] Introductory post

Moving right along. Once I get some history, I'll be ready to get you started on a "pre-game".

[almost normal]

Roger roger. Working on the 20 questions currently, should be sent by PM within the hour.

[Raven the Tricks...]

I'd be interested in tossing Galen Blackfeather, aka Stormcrow, my Crow shifter shaman (eagle shifter stats) into the mix. I'll put together a post for him tonight or (more likely) tomorrow morning.

[Mister Shed]

Rough character outline: Ork Bear Shaman, surged to be very bear-like. Comes from the Cascade Ork Tribe, focus on support magic (boosting allies, reducing enemies effectiveness). Bad with tech and not used to combat or violence. Is running in the Puyallups to help improve the lives of the people there, and maybe get some smuggling contacts on the side.

I'll have a character sheet and 20 questions sometime in the next day or two if the concept is acceptable.