Dark Days in Denver [OOC] Options

[Panjandrum]

For my approved players, please begin by posting a brief character sketch as you sit at a bar in the Hub district of Denver. The Hub is adjacent to the UCAS and Sioux sectors, but is accessible from at least one location by all four sectors, and serves as the downtown meeting place for many large corporations, and a nice neutral territory for those that live and work in the Front Range Free Zone.

Please indicate in your post which sector you live in - it's fine if everyone decides to be from the UCAS, but feel free to branch out if appropriate.

Once some of the character sketches are in, you can start building some history together. Feel free to improvise, as the world is laid out for us, but the details are sketchy. Invent people, businesses, and the like. You've been a team for a short time, with the core of you at least together for three missions already. Talk about those missions some, if you like, and feel free to give me interesting plot hooks sprinkled in the result.

The players for the game thus far are:

Thanee
Seth
BlackHat
Aria
Gobogen
Red-ROM

This ought to give us a chance to have a pretty solid little team, even where your intended characters overlap.

If you find that you're overlapping too much with someone, and want to tweak your concept, that's fine.

And this is of course the place to post your character sheet for us all to see as well.

So, get to it!

Oh, and a rule that some of you have heard, and others may not have - 10 free BP in contacts over and above the 400 starting. Keep the contact and loyalty ratings reasonable - I don't want you all to have a L6/C6 contact or two as it tends to skew the legwork. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Thanee]

Felice

Character Sheet

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Felice

Metatype: Human
Gender: female
Age: 28
Height: 1.68m
Weight: 53kg
Hair: black, shoulder-long
Eyes: brown
Skin: tanned

Body: 5
Agility: 5(7)
Reaction: 3(7)
Strength: 1(3)
Charisma: 5
Intuition: 5
Logic: 2
Willpower: 2

Edge: 6
Essence: 0.955
Initiative: 8(12)
Initiative Passes: 1(3)
Physical Damage Track: 11
Stun Damage Track: 9

Current Karma: 0
Total Karma: 0
Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 0
Public Awareness: 0

Active Skills:
Automatics 6
Pistols (Semi-Automatics) 4(+2)
Dodge 4(6)
Perception 4
Athletics 1
- Climbing 1
- Gymnastics 1
- Running 1
- Swimming 1
Influence 4
- Con 4
- Etiquette 4
- Leadership 4
- Negotiation 4
Pilot Ground Craft (Bike) 1(+2)

Street Knowledge:
Denver Area Knowledge 3
Seattle Area Knowledge 3
Ares Macrotechnology 2

Professional Knowledge:
Firearms Design 4

Interests:
Club Dance 3
Fashion & Style 3

Languages:
Spanish N
English 3

Qualities:
Biocompatibility (Cyberware)
Restricted Gear (Move-by-Wire System)
Allergy (Seawater; Uncommon, Moderate)
Day Job (Freelance Escort & Bodyguard, 20hrs/week)
Biosystem Overstress
Weak Immune System

Cyberware:
Datajack, induction (alphaware)
+ Skinlink
Attention Coprocessor 3 (alphaware)
Orientation System (alphaware)
Cybereyes 3 (alphaware)
+ Image Link
+ Eye Recording Unit
+ Smartlink
+ Low-Light Vision
+ Thermographic Vision
+ Vision Magnification
Cyberears 1 (alphaware)
+ Sound Link
+ Ear Recording Unit
+ Damper
Internal Air Tank (alphaware)
Move-by-Wire System 2
Skillwire Expert System (alphaware)

Bioware:
Muscle Augmentation 2 (used)
Muscle Toner 2 (used)
Platelet Factories (used)
Synthacardium 3 (used)
Tailored Pheromones 3 (used)
Enhanced Pheromone Receptors 3 (used)
Vocal Range Enhancer (used)

Weapons:
Ares Alpha
+ integral Smartgun System
+ Rigid Stock
+ Special Chamber System (2)
+ Personalized Grip
+ Auto-Adjusting Underbarrel Weight
+ Gas-Vent System 3
+ Airburst Link
+ Skinlink
+ Regular Ammo (168)
+ Spare Clips (3)
+ Flash-Bang Minigrenades (6)
+ Thermal Smoke Minigrenades (6)
FN P93 Praetor
+ internal Smartgun System
+ Rigid Stock
+ Special Chamber System
+ Electronic Firing
+ Auto-Adjusting Underbarrel Weight
+ Gas-Vent System 3
+ Low-Light Flashlight
+ Skinlink
+ Regular Ammo (200)
+ Spare Clips (3)
Ruger Thunderbolt
+ integral Smartgun System
+ internal Sound Suppressor
+ Special Chamber System (2)
+ Underbarrel Weight
+ Personalized Grip
+ Skinlink
+ Concealable Holster
+ Regular Ammo (96)
+ Spare Clips (7)
Fichetti Security 600
+ integral Laser Sight
+ internal Smartgun System
+ internal Silencer
+ Underbarrel Weight
+ Detachable Folding Stock
+ Skinlink
+ Concealable Holster
+ Stick-n-Shock Rounds (60)
+ Spare Clip

Armor:
Leather Armor Suit 6/6 (as Urban Explorer Jumpsuit)
+ internal Music-Player
+ internal Biomonitor
+ Chemical Protection 6
+ Fire Resistance 6
+ Insulation 6
+ Skinlink
Helmet -/+2
Form-Fitting Half-Body Suit 4/1
+ Nonconductivity 6
Vitals Protector +1/+1
Leg and Arm Casings +1/+1
Forearm Guards -/+1
Shin Guards -/+1

Gear:
Renraku Sensei Commlink (2/4) with Renraku Ichi OS (2/2)
+ Skinlink
Disposable Commlink (2)
Sim Module
+ Skinlink
AR Gloves
+ Skinlink
Micro Transceiver 6
+ Skinlink
Area Jammer 4
White Noise Generator 6
Mapsoft (Seattle) 6
Mapsoft (Denver) 6
Virtual Surround Music (77)
Glasses 2
+ Image Link
+ Ultrasound
Contact Lenses 2
+ Flare Compensation
+ Vision Enhancement 3
+ Skinlink
Earbuds 2
+ Audio Enhancement 3
+ Spatial Recognizer
+ Skinlink
Gecko Tape Gloves
Survival Kit

Skillsoft:
Infiltration 4 (Personalized, Pluscode 3; pirated; Updates 1,000¥/2 months)

Vehicles:
Suzuki Mirage (Pic)
+ Morphing License Plate
+ Spoof Chip

Credits, Lifestyle & IDs:
700¥ (Roll)
Salary 2,500¥/month
Low Lifestyle (2,600¥/month)
- Comforts (3 LP)
- Entertainment (3 LP)
- Necessities (3 LP)
- Neighborhood (2 LP)
- Security (3 LP)
- Lax Security (-2 LP)
- No Privacy: Physical (-1 LP)
Fake SIN 4 (Rachel Ramirez; Freelance Escort & Bodyguard)
+ Fake License 4 (Personal Firearms)
+ Fake License 4 (Restricted Augmentations)

Contacts:
Cole, Fixer (Connection 4/Loyalty 2)
Matthew "Twirl" Moore, Barkeeper (Connection 3/Loyalty 1)

Appearance:
Felice is an attractive young woman in her mid-twenties. She is of latin-american origin, clearly visible with her lightly tanned skin, brown eyes and shoulder-long, raven-black hair, which she usually wears open with a few strands framing her pretty face, or bound back in a pony tail or a single braid. A little below average height, Felice has a slender figure and an athletic physique. Her prefered clothing is either black leather or white cloth, depending on the occasion; usually form-flattering and her casual wear is sometimes quite revealing as well.

Background:
Rachel had drawn the big ticket when she got the job at Ares Macrotechnology in Seattle. She joined the firearms design team as a junior designer, where she could apply her school knowledge in practice. She had worked really hard for this in the past, coming from a poor family that often had to worry about scrambling up enough money to pay the rent and to put some food on the table. During her time at Ares, she even learned to use the arms she helped design in the facility's own shooting range. At first she really liked her job, but over time and between discrimination and harassment from her co-workers she had grown disillusioned. While Rachel was never bashful or shy about herself, she wanted to be accepted for her skills and talents and not be reduced to her good looks only. Still, she had to pay the rent and so she endured her daily life as a corporate wage slave a little longer. And since there didn't seem to be any other way, she even learned to use her feminine wiles to her advantage. A girl has to make a living after all, and this way she could also get some payback, making the others look stupid instead of herself. It couldn't go on forever, though, and it did not. When the big crash happened her life turned upside down. Rachel was approached by a group of criminals who were about to steal some prototype designs from Ares during the ensuing chaos, and they needed the help of someone on the inside. She seemed a likely candidate and it didn't take much persuasion to get her onboard, Rachel only asked for the favor to help her start a new life, because it was clear, that she couldn't stay in Seattle afterwards. Like so many others, she had lost her SIN during the crash and at this point she was nothing but a ghost anymore. She would need new papers and all that, anyways, and having seen what the life in the barrens is like, that was not what she had in mind for her future. It seemed like the perfect chance for a new beginning. Veiled by the confusion after the crash, everything worked like a charm; Rachel even got to snatch some valuable toys from the facility to sell later. Soon the runners and Rachel were en route to Denver where they were going to earn the spoils of their illicit deed. They acquainted her with a fixer contact in Denver, and from there her new career in the shadows was taking off. With her new identity, Rachel only kept her first name, otherwise seperating herself from her past, but in the shadows of Denver she would become better known as Felice. Her various skills and talents proved highly useful and here she was being judged by her qualifications rather than her appearance. She started to make a living doing some legit and a lot of not so legit work. During the following years, Felice spent a large portion of her earnings on cybernetic augmentations, she only had some headware from her corporate life before. In her new line of work she needed the edge to survive. She never regretted her choice.

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   0 Human
  40 Body 1+4
  40 Agility 1+4
  20 Reaction 1+2
   0 Strength 1
  40 Charisma 1+4
  40 Intuition 1+4
  10 Logic 1+1
  10 Willpower 1+1
  40 Edge 2+4
  24 Automatics 6
  18 Pistols (Semi-Automatics) 4(+2)
  16 Dodge 4
  16 Perception 4
  10 Athletics 1
  40 Influence 4
   6 Pilot Ground Craft (Bike) 1(+2)
   0 Denver Area Knowledge 3
   0 Seattle Area Knowledge 3
   0 Ares Macrotechnology 2
   0 Firearms Design 4
   0 Club Dance 3
   0 Fashion & Style 3
   0 Spanish N
   0 English 3
  50 Gear (250,000¥)
   0 Contacts (Cole (Fixer) 4/2, Matthew "Twirl" Moore (Barkeeper) 3/1)
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420

Positive Qualities:
  10 Biocompatibility (Cyberware)
   5 Restricted Gear (Move-by-Wire System)
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+15

Negative Qualities:
  10 Allergy (Seawater; Uncommon, Moderate)
  10 Day Job (Freelance Escort & Bodyguard, 20hrs/week)
  10 Biosystem Overstress
   5 Weak Immune System
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-35

TOTAL:
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400

Bye
Thanee

[Aria]

Masque - work in progress

- Still need to resolve contacts & knowledge skills
- Any comments welcome (slightly concerned that I'm trying to do too much and not really succeeding at one thing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) )
- Background needs finishing off...

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Profile BPs 30

Name: Beth Finael
Alias: Masque
Metatype: Elf
Sex: Female
Age: 25
Nationality: UCAS / Horizon
Lifestyle: Low
Nuyen: 10¥
Karma Earned: 0
Karma Spent: 0
Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 1
Public Awareness: 0.3

Attributes BPs 230

Body: 3
Agility: 4 ( 6 )
Reaction: 3
Strength: 2
Charisma: 7
Intuition: 3
Logic: 3
Willpower: 4
Edge: 2
Magic/Res: 5 ( 4 )
Essence: 5.4
Initiative: 6 ( 7 )
Initiative Passes: 1 ( 2 )
Phys CM: 10
Stun CM: 10

Qualities BPs -15

Magician - shaman [Drain cha+will]
Mentor Spirit - Moon Maiden [+2 illusion spells, +2 negotiation, -1 combat spells]
Mild Addiction [eX]
SINer & Records on File [Horizon Media Corp]
Sensitive System

Active Skills BPs 102

Gymnastics 3 Dance +3 [LA: Agility T: 9+3 ]
Blades 1 Swords +2 [LA: Agility T: 7+2 ]
Summoning 3 [LA: Magic T: 7 ]
Influence Group 1
- Con 1 [LA: Charisma T: 8 ]
- Etiquette 1 [LA: Charisma T: 8 ]
- Leadership 1 [LA: Charisma T: 8 ]
- Negotiation 1 +2 [LA: Charisma T: 8+2 ]
Counterspelling 2 [LA: Magic T: 6 ]
Spellcasting 5 [LA: Magic T: 9 ]
Assensing 2 [LA: Intuition T: 5 ]
Astral combat 3 [LA: Willpower T: 7 ]
Perception 2 [LA: Intuition T: 5 ]
Pilot ground vehicle 1 [LA: Reaction T: 4 ]

Knowledge Skills

English N
Classical & Contemporary dance 3
Media Personalities 2
Shadow Nodes 4

Spells & Spirits

Increased Reflexes [F/2+2] Force 2 in sustaining focus +1R +1IP
Improved Invisibility [F/2+1]
Mass Confusion [F/2+2]
Physical Mask [F/2+1]
Trid Phantasm [F/2+3]
Control Emotions [F/2]
Levitate [F/2+1]

Resources and Gear BPs 26
130,000 ¥
Cyber & Bioware

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Muscle Toner [R:2]
Synthacardium [R:1]
Damage Compensator [R:1]

Weapons & Armour

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Weapon Focus [R:2] – Wraithblade [(STR/2 + 3)P AP –1 R 1]

MGL-6 [6© Shoulder Mounted]
+Custom Look [Costume piece]
+Propulsion [Limping Self Targetting Actuators]
+Pilot Upgrade [R:2] + Camera [R:6]+ Lowlight+ Thermo+ Vision Enhance [R:3]
+Targetting Autosoft [R:3]
+Skinlink [Slaved to commlink]
+Chameleon Coating

+2 Flare Grenades, 6 Flashbang, 6 Thermal Smoke

Full Form-Fitting Body Armour [6/2]
+ Thermal Masking [R:4]
+ Helmet [1/2]
+ Mask [R:4] + Vision Magnification + Thermo + Flare Compensation
+ Respirator [R:4]

Ruthenium Polymer Cloak

Electronics & Misc

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Novatech Airware
+ Mangadyne Deva
+ Modified for hot sim
+ Skinlink
+ All Common Use Programs [R:3] + Firewall [R:6]
+ Tacnet [R:1]

Contact Lenses [R:3]
+ Vision Enhancement [R:3]
Earbuds
+ Audio Enhancement [R:3]

Radio Signal Scanner [R:6]
+ Tag Eraser

Medkit [R:5]
10 Tabs Betel [Duration: 10 x 1D6 minutes Effect: +1 Perception]
10 Tabs eX [Duration: (8 – Body) hours, min 1 hour Effect: +1 Charisma, –1 Logic, +1 Perception]
10 Tabs Push [Duration: (15 – Body) minutes, min 1 minute Effect: mild euphoric state]

Sustaining Focus [R:2]

Fake SIN [Thaumatergical Consultant R:4]
Fake Licence [Spellcasting R:4]

Yamaha Growler [Beaten up dirt bike]
2 MCT Flyspys
+ Camera [R:3]

Lifestyle

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Low Lifestyle [Gypsy Encampment]

Contacts BPs 13

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0 [L: 0 C: 0 G: 0 ]
0 [L: 0 C: 0 G: 0 ]
0 [L: 0 C: 0 G: 0 ]
0 [L: 0 C: 0 G: 0 ]

Total Build Points BPs 410

Physical Description

Character Sketch
Background

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I am Beth Finael and I am Masque, an expression of the duality of the performer and the watcher in the dark, the normal citizen and the shadowrunner. For those of you who haven’t had the wit to see me perform then I will tell you that I am a dancer, an elf, slim and athletic and pretty enough I suppose. My beauty is in my dance, my magic and my temper. I have been accused of being unpredictable but that is only by those who don’t understand me…I have come to terms with the darker side of myself by embodying it in the faceless mask and allowing myself only to feel when I set it aside.

I grew up in a happy environment in a Horizon sponsored enclave in downtown Seattle. My parents were in the middle of the corporate food chain so I ate well, had access to a good education and some of the best recreational facilities available. My parents insisted that I dance, I think it was more about the discipline than the artistry of it, but I had an aptitude for it that they couldn’t ignore. They were disappointed that I didn’t seem destined for the media executive but I convinced them that my chosen path lead elsewhere.

Things became a little more turbulent in my teens…more so than your average moody pubescent girl I had flashes of wild temper bordering on rage. I began to hear voices in the night and was ready to convince myself that I was loosing it. Thankfully the powers that be were quick to spot my nascent Talent and work with me to understand the additional confusing changes that were being heaped upon me. Now I know that it is Moon that I hear when my mind is still.

Once my struggles with my magic were more or less resolved things might have returned to normality, indeed they did for a while…I got on with my life, mixing school with an increasing amount of dance and was pipped for a professional company. I wouldn’t be here now though if it had all gone as smoothly as that…

I was eighteen and working towards my final graduation performance. As usual, emotions were running high and it was into this heightened atmosphere that a group of what I can only assume were shadowrunners decided to crash the party. Its not exactly clear even now what their intentions were, it seems unlikely to me that I was the one being targeted for extraction but anyhow, I was caught up in it all, bundled into the back of a van and whisked off into the night with three of the other dancers. I don’t really remember much of what happened in the following week, my psychs called it a break but it seems to me it was more of an unleashing. I know that my magic spoke to me more strongly than it had ever done, before or since and awakened a darkness in me that had been dormant, probably due to the safe corp environment that I’d grown up in…

I lost my way for a while and was found wandering the streets of Redmond by a group of mages called the Stillwater Circle. I don’t want to think about why the other urban predators had avoided me before that… Although they returned me to my parents the quiet corporate haven had gone and I was no longer able to fit in. I spent the next six months flitting from one thing to the next and eventually stormed out entirely. I sought out the mages that helped me before and they welcomed me back to them, I think they had known all along that I would return to them.

They helped me to find the measure of myself by enabling to see that the darkness was as part of the Moon as the light and that I should embrace both. To help me with this they showed me how to contain the darker parts of my personality behind a crafted mask. By putting it on I have learnt to subsume my normal life and temporarily disassociate any feelings of guilt or doubt and allow me to act. Then, when I take it off, I can accept any pain that I have caused but it is tempered by the insulation of the Mask.

Of course I need to be careful that I don’t get lost in the Mask and the allure of being absolved of any actions. This nearly happened to me shortly after I first donned it and the Stillwater community were viciously attacked by outsiders in the summer of 2070.

- Left Seattle and joined a smuggler / gypsy clan travelling across the NAN / UCAS / Denver routes
- Has been doing the odd run in Denver recently, is a newcomer and doesn't know the scene yet...

[BlackHat]

"Vice" - Final (?) Draft

Description:

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As the team sat around their table, relaxing after their latest job, Vice seemed a bit more relaxed than the others. He always has something on hand to take the edge off or help his friends have a good time, but he was probably not on anything at the time. He doesn't usually party by himself, and is usually more into enabling other people's vices than indulging his own. That said, it isn't usually that hard for him to find someone to indulge. More often than not, by the end of the night, Vice ends up leaving with a new "friend". On the odd occasion where he strikes out, or too busy working on a job to bother, there are always a club full of like-minded individuals waiting on his doorstep. Literally. He rents out a loft apartment below a seedy club in a low-end neighborhood of the UCAS sector, where he also makes a few bucks on the side as an "entertainment" wagemage. The team has occasionally picked him up from there, and the street is lined with dealers and streetwalkers, but Vice doesn't seem to mind the atmosphere of the area.

Vice had an attractive mixed-race appearance, that gave him an exotic European look, with Italian and Greek features that stick out most prominently. He was dressed pretty casually, as usual. He wore some simple off-the-shelf clothing, with basic armored layers, underneath. His black shirt had the same silver "plus-sign" logo that his shoulder bag of "party favors" had on it. He has chosen a seat that faced the rest of the bar, where he could enjoy the menagerie of addiction, desperation, and indulgence that plays out in the background while the evening slips away.

Background:

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Jonathan Rizzo was wholly unremarkable until he hit puberty. It was then that his latent magical talent began to manifest itself, and the dreams began. He would be visited in the night by a woman. She showed him things, things he couldn't know, himself - things that probably would have terrified him, if she were not there - oozing charm, and guiding him, seductively, down a path he was far too young to understand. At first, Jon thought it was just a reoccurring dream. He was getting to the age where it was not uncommon for boys to dream of beautiful women. However, she visited him almost every night, and sometimes haunted him even in the day. As he matured, so did their relationship, and she became both his mentor and lover. She taught him things, of the mind, of the flesh, and of magic.

As he grew older, Jon found himself drawn to the vices of others, and, by proximity, to the darker Shadows of Seattle. Thanks to his magic, he found a comfortable niche providing service to a handful of houses-of-sin owned and operated by the mafia. He could look into a man's (or woman's) heart and see their most well-kept desires. His powers of illusion, and control of others, allowed him to bring them to life. Even their emotions were his to command, and those with the money and power to afford such luxuries paid dearly for them. It seemed that no price was too large to ease the burden of some men's souls. Of course, Jon saw only a small percentage of that action but found that the money covered his needs, and that this gave him unique opportunities to explore the vices of others. At the guidance of his mentor spirit, he dabbled it most of those vices he came across, even taking a magical oath to perform one such "ritual" as often as possible - in order to sustain his connection to Seduction, herself.

There was one such woman that he chose to satisfy his geas with, most frequently. A woman who worked at one of the pleasure-dens, named Jessica Robbins, who he felt a strong attraction to, physically and mentally. And, while no normal person would have called their relationship 'love', he began to take her on as his 'apprentice' of sorts. Over the next few years, they became very close, emotionally and spiritually - but that relationship was not meant to last.

One night, Jon had a dream where the Seductress killed Jessica. He thought little of it at first, but the following day, the house-of-sin was attacked. The mafia ran afoul of Yakuza hoping to expand their territory, and when they sent some of their men in to hit the mob while they had their pants down (figuratively and literally), Jon lost more than a comfortable job. The hit on the house-of-sin was no simple assassination. Sure, a number of mafia bosses died, but so did a lot of people who were just making a living. Jon was even caught in the cross-fire, taking a shot to the chest, and landing in a pool of his own blood. When the dust settled, his former life was in ruins, and Jessica's life was snuffed out. Jon thought he could have gone, too. He might have died there, but after he lost consciousness he saw the Seductress again, and it was the warmth of her body that brought warmth to his. When he awoke he was in agony, but managed to get away with his life.

All his magical training would have told him that this was a lesson. He could see the signs, everywhere, as he made his way out of the carnage. The seductress had taken her from him, because he had grown too attached to a single woman. Jon understood this, and yet, still blamed the Yakuza. Even in death, Jessica demanded a level of his attention - but one strong emotion was replaced by another. He wanted revenge, although he knew it was well out of his grasp. He wanted someone to pay for what was taken from him. Mostly, though, he wanted someone else to blame besides himself. He also wanted to know why it had happened. Making some friends in low places, and doing a little legwork, he was able to learn that the slaughter wasn't random. The Yakuza assassins had orders, from higher up, to make sure nobody lived. It wasn't long before his interest in their affairs brought him back to their attention, and it became clear that the Yakuza intended to finish the job they started. It was also clear that if he remained in Seattle, they would succeed.

He ditched his old life, SIN and all, and started a new one - in Denver. His contacts in the Shadows also helped hook him up with a new SIN, and put him in touch with some associates of theirs in the new city, to help him get on his feet. It was through these people that he began Running with a team of criminals for hire. While they were not particularly in need of a party-mage, the fact that he had any magical talent at all made him a valuable asset and he's managed to prove useful more often than not. He took the street-name "Vice" and found his magic could be put to less pleasurable uses.

Now, several months since the Yakuza tore apart what life he had created for himself, Vice has rebuilt some sort of a life for himself in Denver. He currently rents a loft-apartment beneath a private club known as "Lust" (one of seven clubs dotted around the UCAS sector of Denver, each with the theme of one of the Seven Deadly Sins). He has furnished the place with a number of relics, writings, art, and other objects meaningful to one who studies metahumanities vices, and has resumed a life of providing escape or release to paying customers, however, his main job is still Running with his team.

Character Sheet:

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[410/410]
Attributes (190)

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- STR 2 (10)
- AGI 3 (20)
- BOD 3 (20)
- REA 3 (20)

- INT 3 (20)
- LOG 3 (20)
- WIL 5 (40)
- CHA 5 (40)

Special Attributes (40)

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- Edge 2 (0)
- Magic 5 (40)

Derived Attributes

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- Essence 6
- Initiative 6
- Initiative Passes 1
- Physical Damage Track 10
- Stun Damage Track 11

Karma / Advancement

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- Current Karma 0
- Total Karma 0
- Street Cred 0
- Notoriety 0
- Public Awareness 0

Positive Qualities (35)

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- Magician (15) Black Magic Tradition
- Mentor Spirit (5) Seductress +2 Illusion/Con, Will+Cha(3) to avoid vices
- Focused Concentration 1 (10) +1 drain
- First Impression (5) +2 social tests for first encounter

Negative Qualities (-35)

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- Big Regret (-5) Believes mentor spirit arranged to kill girlfriend to teach him a lesson about becoming too attached to one person. Keeps the scar on his chest where he got shot to remind him.
- Dayjob (-5) Party-Mage at Private Club (10 hours a week, $1000/mo)
- Geas (-10) Ritual, Sex
- Pacifist (-5) Avoids needless violence, will only kill in self defense
- Low Pain Tolerance (-10) Wound penalties are per 2 boxes, rather than per 3

Skills (118)

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- Spellcasting 6 (Illusion +2) (26)
- Counterspelling 4 (16)
- Summoning 3 (Spirits of Man +2) (14)
- Binding 3 (Spirits of Man +2) (14)
- Banishing 3 (12)
- Assensing 1 (Metahumans +2) (6)
- Arcana 1 (4)
- Astral Combat 1 (4)

- Artisan 1 (Dream Spell +2) (6)

- Con 1 (Seduction +2) (6)
- Negotiation 1 (Sense Motive +2) (6)
- Etiquette 1 (4)

Knowledge Skills (6x3=18)

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- Interest: Unusual Vices 4 (4)
- Street: Street Drugs 3 (3)
- Street: Prostitution Rings 1 (Seattle 3) (2)
- Street: Nightlife 1 (Seattle 3) (2)
- Street: Drug Dealers 1 (Seattle 3) (2)
- Street: Organized Crime 1 (Mafia 3) (2)
- Language: Italian 3 (3)

Spells (9x3=27)

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- Detection
- - Mind Probe (M, T, S, F/2+2)
- Health
- - Enabler (Negative) (M, T, S, F/2)
- - Intoxication (Negative) (M, T, P, F/2)
- Illusion
- - Agony (M, LOS, S, F/2-2)
- - Orgasm (M, LOS, S, F/2-2)
- - - Orgy (M, LOS(A), S, F/2)
- - Dream (M, LOS, S, F/2-1)
- Manipulation
- - Control Emotions (M, LOS, S, F/2)
- - - Mob Mood (M, LOS(A), S, F/2+2)

Gear (4 = 19,995 / 20,000):

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- Low Lifestyle (2,000)
- - Comforts (Low, 2)
- - Entertainment (Low, 2)
- - Necessities (Low, 2)
- - Neighborhood (Low, 2)
- - Security (Low, 2)
- - Positive Qualities
- - - Workplace (+1) - A large amount of space, mostly occupied by his magical lodge
- - Negative Qualities
- - - Worse Neighbors (-1) - prostitutes and drug dealers work in and around the club above his apartment

- Magical Lodge (Rating 6, 3,000)
- - Summoning Materials for a Force 5 spirit of Man (2,500)

- Fake SIN, Rating 4 (4,000) "Cross Moretti"
- - Fake Spellcasting License, Rating 4 (400)

- Total Armor [8/3] [1,750]
- - Armored Clothing [4/0] (500)
- - Form-Fitting Body-Armor, Half-Suit [4/1] (900)
- - Forearm Guards [+0/+1] (200)
- - Shin Guards [+0/+1] (150)

- Commlink [600]
- Disposable Commlink (300)
- - Hot-Sim-Modified Simmodule (250)
- - Trodes, Headband (50)

- "Party Favors" [5745]
- False-Bottomed Attache Case (300)
- - Medkit, Rating 6 (600) [not-hidden]
- - - Medkit Supplies (50) [not-hidden]
- - 10 Stim Patches, Rating 6 (1500) [not-hidden]
- - 6 Tranq Patches, Rating 6 (720) [not-hidden]
- - BTL Dreamchips x10 (200) [hidden]
- - BTL Moodchips x20 (400) [hidden]
- - BTL Personafix x10 (200) [hidden]
- - BTL Tripchips x10 (200) [hidden]
- - Aisa x20 (300) [hidden]
- - eX x15 (150) [hidden]
- - Eros x 20 (200) [hidden]
- - Galek x10 (250) [hidden]
- - eX + Galek (speedball) x5 (175) [hidden]
- - Red Mescaline x10 (500) [hidden]

Contacts (11+10 free)

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- C3/L2 - "Madame L." (Owner of the Private Club "Lust", runs a prostitution ring out of it - reasonably connected in the Shadows)
- C2/L3 - "Beetle Betty" (BTL and Street-Drug Dealer, frequents the club, Lust - has sold to Vice in the past, but it is pretty much just a business relationship)
- C3/L2 - "Gaston" (Talismonger. Deals mostly in Hermetic tradition stuff, but has been able to get some Black Magic tradition specific materials, when Vice needed them. Has an awakened drug habit.)
- C2/L4 - "(De)Monica" (Gothy aspiring Black Magician - into some darker stuff than Vice is, but kinky stuff too so he stays friends-with-benefits - but tries not to get drawn into most of her magical "research")

Spirits (10 BP)

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- Spirit of Air, Force 5, Optional Power (Elemental Attack: Lightning), Tasks 2 (2)
- Spirit of Man, Force 5, Optional Power (Fear), Tasks 2 (2)
- Spirit of Water, Force 5, Optional Power (Elemental Attack: Cold), Tasks 2 (2)
- Spirit of Man, Force 5, Optional Power (Innate Spell: Orgy), Tasks 2 (2)
- Spirit of Man, Force 5, Optional Power (Innate Spell: Agony), Tasks 2 (2)

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Preacher will also join this fine crew.. his sheet is a work in progress

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Preacher
Real Name: Jeremy Stewart
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Archetype: Full Magician
Tradition: Distorted Christian Cult (custom)

Background information

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General description

Jeremy was a devout Evangelical on the way to becoming a priest. He even considered becoming a monk. His late awakening turned his life around, since he always thought magic was synonymous to devil worship. When he saw the awful things that he could do, his mind snapped and he became the “insane priest” also known on the streets as “preacher”. Still believing in God, in a distorted way, he preaches to remain on God's path. To make money he works in the shadows, and, in his mind, he fights the great evils of the world. Paradoxically, he believes his gift for magic comes directly from Satan, the fire-bringer, and he is convinced that using dark powers for a good cause is a good deed.

Life Story

Born on April 10th 2042, he was brought up in an Evangelical orphanage in Atlanta, Georgia, UCAS. He was taught the faith in Christ and he knows the bible almost by heart, even today. At age 17, he started going to a religious college, on the way to becoming a priest, and he learned more about theology and the Holy Scriptures. His studies were going well enough, but at age 20, an event occurred that would change his life forever. He discovered during a 1-on-1 discussion with his spiritual mentor that he could surprisingly read his mind. Curious about this phenomenon he talked about it, and he was able to read the first answer that came to his tutor's mind before it was even pronounced: witchcraft. “God save us, you're a witch!!!” Fury emerged in Jeremy and he was visited by the fire-bringer for the first of many, many times. A huge explosion took place, and happily, no one was injured. His days as a future priest, however, were counted. He was called a witch by literally everyone he had ever known and loved. He knew he had to leave immediately and he finally ended up in Denver.

His faith in God and in the teachings he had received was very strong and it was all he had ever known. Now realizing that he could read thoughts and create fiery explosions, he knew he was cursed. He knew that Satan had visited him on that day, and that he granted him a power he did not want to receive. Convinced that he was possessed by the devil, Jeremy was devastated and tried to commit suicide. His gunshot attempt failed and when he got out of the hospital, he could not bear with the idea to turn a weapon against himself again.

He knew that he had to find another way to make his life work for the will of God. In his distorted vision of the world, he realized that evil was rampant and present everywhere and in everyone, especially himself. He started to participate in conspiracy theory discussion groups on the matrix as well as to rethink his vision of the world and of good and evil. He understood that the world needed to be cleansed. The main evils being the corporations, he thought best to start working against them, to become a shadowrunner. He sees anyone working willingly for a corporation as someone who's doing great evil intentionally and he has no qualms in bringing them to their maker to receive the final judgement -- usually by fire.

He also started to preach on the streets of Denver. The poor deserve that someone preach to them of the goodness of God and warn them of the evils of the world. To him, no one is good in this world, especially not himself, and anyone who is evil deserves to perish and suffer in the flames of eternal damnation. Saving souls of this dire end is a goal he has.

Why Shadowrunning?

He has started shadowrunning to fight the corporations and the people that work for them. His attitude nowadays is slightly more greedy, as he sees himself as a true templar of God All-Mighty. An envoy from God to smite evil and preach the good word. Therefore, anything that helps him, also helps God in turn. Thus he uses money to improve his powers, in order to become better at performing his “blessed mission”.

Now that he's used to the shadows, he has learned to remain cool-headed during runs, something he often lacks in his other activities and interactions. You can say that he is quite a different person on runs and off the runs.

Morality and Work Ethics

He thinks that his powers come from Satan, but he intends to use them to smite “evil beings”, thus himself tricking the devil. His mind is warped to the point where he believes that since no one is truly innocent, then no one truly deserves a right to live anymore. He would want to save them all, but instead he considers that killing is never out of the question. He despises all sinners, including himself, but espeically gays. He would never admit it, but his chastity is related to having no interest in women in the first place.

As a shadowrunner, he is loyal and tries to make a good name for himself. His reputation is that of a reliable asset to a team, but his character can be seen as on the edge and risky. Let's be honest, what shadowrunner isn't on the edge of going crazy anyway?

Character Sheet

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BP used: 400

Attributes (240 BP)

Body 4
Agility 2
Reaction 2
Strength 1
Charisma 3
Intuition 5
Logic 3
Willpower 4

Edge 6
Magic 5
Initiative / IP 7 / 1
Essence 6

Skills (122 BP)

Spellcasting(manipulation) 6
Conjuring Group 4
Counterspelling 3
Assensing (aura reading) 4
Astral Combat 3
Intimidation 1
Perception 1
Etiquette(street) 1

Knowledge Skills (24 Free)

Theology 4
Magical theory 3
Spirits 3
Corporate Magical Security 2
Safe Houses 2
Conspiracy Theories 3
Area Knowledge: UCAS part of Denver 2
Classical Music 1

English N
Latin 2
Italian 2

Contacts (1 BP (10 free))

Fence/Data Broker (Conn. 3/ Loy. 2)
Pax trades in all sorts of goods, including information. He is a well-connected underworld player. Preacher came into contact with him by doing a job for him. Pax needed magical protection in case a magician he had dealt against would come after him, and Preacher handled the situation nicely. Since then, they have maintained a good business relationship.

Talismonger (Conn. 3/ Loy. 3)
Silver Star and Preacher have come to appreciate each other, regardless of their differences. The Preacher has paid a hefty sum to the Sioux shaman to get his cross enchanted as a focus, and Silver Star has been always nice to him, which can't be said about most people that he meets. Deep down, Preacher thinks that a man like Silver Star who uses magic must be a satanist of some kind, but he thinks that about pretty much everyone, including himself, so it doesn't mean anything.

Qualities (+15 BP)
Magician (15)
Mentor Spirit: Fire-Bringer (5)[+2 dice to manipulation and fire spirits, -1 die to illusion]
Preacher sees his magical power as a curse, and the entity that brought it to him as the devil, or Satan. Yet he still serves this dark master, with the intention of using fire to smite evil.

Incompetent with Firearms (+5)
Preacher cannot stand guns and is mentally incapable of using one, especially since his failed suicide attempt.

Simsense Vertigo(+10)
Preacher hates all augmented reality and AR seems to hate him too. He becomes quickly disoriented when putting on AR glasses for example. He will avoid AR when possible.

Prejudiced (outspoken) against gays (+10)
Due to his traditional Christian education, the Preacher despises gays and sees them as sinners with no chance of going to heaven. Moreover, as a closet gay himself, he hates them even more and will attack them verbally when in their presence, possibly sometimes threatening them by asking them to stop their sins or suffer the immediate consequences.

SINner (+5)
He has a valid UCAS SIN under his real name, with a lot of information about him. He almost never uses it, obviously.

Cursed Magic (+5, see Street Magic p. 26)
Due to the strange nature of his magical beliefs, Preacher often triggers unwanted magical effects when attempting to cast, summon, etc. The Cursed quality reflects how Preacher is not fully in control of his magical abilities.


Spells (36 BP)

Stunbolt F/2 - 1
Stunball F/2 + 1
Fire Ball F/2 + 5
Mind Probe F/2 + 2
Heal (Dmg Value) - 2
Increase Reflexes F/2 + 2
Influence F/2 + 1
Levitate F/2 + 1
Physical Barrier F/2 + 3
Astral Armor F/2 + 2
Armor F/2 + 3
Ignite F/2

Gear (70,000 nuyen = 14 BP + 2 BP for bonding)

- Low lifestyle, 1 month paid (2,000)

- Fake SIN Rating 4 (4,000)
+David Greenwood, seminarist

-Commlink(total: 2,580)
+NovaTech Airware with Iris Orb (3/3/3/3) (2,250)
+Programs: Analyse and Browse Rating 3 (300)
+Denver and Surroundings MapSoft Rating 6 (30)

- Armor Jacket w/ Fire Res. 6, non-conductivity 3, Insulation 3 (2550)
- Shin guards, forearm guards (550)
- Armor Clothing (500)
- Clothing (ordinary shirts, ties, jacket and pants, includes 3 sets of more or less used “preacher robes”, 635)

- Subvocal Microphone (50)
- Glasses with Lowlight Vision, Vision Magnification, Vision Enhancement 3, Flare compensation (575)
- Earbuds with Audio Enhancement 3, Spatial Recognizer (410)
- 2 latex face masks of demons and devils (1,000)
- survival knife (50)
- Medkit rating 6 (600)
- Biomonitor (300)
- 2x Stimulant patch rating 6 (600)
- 2x Tranq patch rating 6 (240)
- 4 Plasteel Restraints (200)
- Respirator rating 6 (150)

- Power Focus, Force 2 (50,000)
This is the heavy steel cross that he wears at his neck at all times. He often takes it in his hand while preaching or fighting evil.
- Magical Lodge, Force 6 (3,000)

Distorted Christian Cult (Custom Magical Tradition)

Preacher believes that all magical powers come from the Devil. Satan, the Fire-Bringer, urges him to burn, manipulate, destroy, etc., but Preacher is somehow tricking him by doing good with his powers, instead of evil. He has to be always careful with his judgement of good and evil, and thus relies heavily on his intuition for solving moral dilemmas, as well as his willpower to remain the one in control. Guidance comes from Angels who live in the astral planes as well as daemons that lure faithful servants towards evil spellcasting.

Drain: Int and Wil

Combat: Fire
Detection: Guidance
Health: Water
Manipulation: Man
Illusion: Air

Edited out

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Discussion:

- As mentioned: work in progress, i.e. comments welcome.

- I also just read Vice... wow. Our abilities are somewhat similar, but not overly redundant. Everything else seems to be the complete opposite of one another. I took away Mind Probe since it's not that great to double up on spells and it fits your concept well.. it fits Preacher's as well, but I'm not attached to it.
-- well you talked me into putting Mind Probe back (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'm still not sure about my spell selection, some spells are given, like Fireball, Ignite, Heal, but many seem a bit off like Increase Reflexes and Improved Invis
-- just thought about it.. if your character doesn't mind being called a sex-crazed, disgusting sinner and pretty much agrees, we might have an easier time in our interactions; though you're still a pacifist and I'm still a damn violent maniac for a self-righteous priest, so that's still an issue

- It's a good thing Wasp is a girl and not a young boy.. I wouldn't want to play too hard on the stereotypes you know (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

- also, what's with these never growing threads? now that everyone has posted, I think we should stop this crazy edit-old-posts-instead-of-posting thing[\spoiler]

[Seth]

Hi guys. Looking forward to playing with you.

Angel is nearly ready. I haven't played a technomancer before so any help greatly appreciated. Angel is physically pretty crippled, so I plan on spending most of my time not with you, or in my evo orderly.

Character
Race Human child, female age 12

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Attributes: Body 2, Agility 1, Reaction 1, Strength 1, Charisma 4, Intuition 5, Logic 5, Willpower 5, Edge 1, Resonance 6
Skills: Electronics (group)4, Registering 4, Compiling 4, Hacking 6, Cybercombat 4
Knowledge skills: Security procedures 4, Matrix theory 4, Martial arts trid 4, Hangouts(matrix) 4, Procedure (Matrix security) 6, Fashion 4
Complex forms: Analyse 6, Browse 6, Command 6, Armour 6, Attack/targeting 6, Exploit/mute 6, Spoof 6, Stealth 6, Tacnet 4
Positive Qualities: Tecnomancer, Paragon(IO), More than metahuman
Negative Qualities: Dayjob 20hrs, Sensitive system, Virtual Personality, Pacifist
Martial arts: Capoeira / +1 gymnastics dodge, Focus Will
Armour: Form fitting body armour (+3 chemical, fire, electricity), Body armour bag
Sensory equipment: Shades/low light+vision magnification, Contacts/visual enh 3+flare comp+thermo, Ear buds/audio enh 3+select sound filter + spatial recognizer
Miscellaneous: Respirator(6), Medikit(6), Electronics toolkit, Tag eraser, GPS, Biomonitor
Weapons: Defiance EX shockers/gecko grip + smartgun x2, Ares crusader/geckogrip + smartgun+ sound suppressor + laser + smartgun
Drone: Evo orderly / walker mode + 2 arms + medikit 6 + rigger cocoon
Vehicle: Gaz p-179 pickup truck with rigger adaption and rigger cocoon
Comms: Cheap and nasty commlink, Fake sin rating 4
Contacts: The cooperative, Loyalty 4, Connection 5, Size +1

Points: Stats 160, Skills 123, Positive Qualities 20, Negative Qualities -35, Resource 7, Contacts 0/10

Life style: Spoofed medium

Backstory

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Angels first memory was the stars. They glowed, and by thinking hard she could float between them and make them sparkle. Later she found friends among the stars. First there was Gremlin. He could tell jokes, and liked playing tricks. Then there was Sleaze. Sleaze could go anywhere and do anything, and liked finding and sharing secrets. One of the secrets he found was that Angel was two people. The first person was mostly asleep living in a floating cocoon, with machines looking after her body. The second person was playing with the stars and other shapes. Then Spike turned up. Spike was fun to play with, but a little dangerous.

Sleaze found that Angel had once had two creators. This was confusing because when Angel creates things there is only 1 creator, and she hasn't met any other creators. Even though this creator wasn't around anymore, there was a creator's creator called "Grandma". With Sleazes help at first, Angel went to visit Grandma. Soon Angel had worked out how to do what Sleaze could do, and was able to visit Grandma on her own. Grandma kept asking questions like "where do you live", so Angel got Sleaze to show the documents. Grandma was very upset, and seemed to be often crying.

One day Sleaze found out some scary. The "project" was not performing well enough, and was running out of something called money. The project was to be terminated, and Angels asleep person was to be terminated. Angel didn't know what that meant, but together the four decided to leave.

Sleaze found out how to hire a team of people called shadowrunners, and three days later Angel woke up for the first time. Apparently there was a freak gas accident in the barrens. She was very weak at first, and is still struggling with this complex thing called walking. Still shes getting better: she is a quick learner. The shadowrunners gave her files, and showed that the project had been experimenting on people like her.

This physical world is complex, but thats ok she's made a teacher called Mr Chips. Mr Chips is good at explaining things. Sleaze and Mr Chips explained it was a good idea not to see Grandma for a bit: apparently the makers of "the project" would be watching her. Spike wants to chase down these watchers and makers, but Sleaze and Mr Chips don't agree, so Angel is happy to just visit Grandma in the real world. (Those watchers aren't very good at seeing things: Angel wonders why they are called watchers).

Angel has now found a group of friends that are a bit like her. They are called the co-operative, and they are nice people. They said that she should learn more about the other world. Angel knows how weak she is in the real world, so she decided to join the shadowrunners that rescued her. The shadowrunners sometimes do bad things, but mostly they are fun to be around. The shadowrunners are a little concerned that Angel is weak in the other world and have tried to "get fit". Angel likes the Capoeira lessons, they have singing and dancing, but she gets tired easily. Felice tried to show her how to use a gun. Angel doesn't like guns they hurt people. Gremlin likes guns though, so he can play with them as long as he doesn't hurt people.

Its not hard finding a place to live in the other world: Angel and Sleaze play a game called Spoofing.

What Angel thinks of you others (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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Felice:
Angel likes Felice, shes nice and she plays fun games. Gremlin likes Felice, she is better at shooting than he is. Mr Sleaze likes her too. Mr Chips says that she is clever and knows what she is talking about, which he says is very rare for humans.

Vice
Angel kind-of likes Mr Vice, buts hes a little strange. He plays funny tricks on people. Mr Sleaze says that she shouldn't be alone with him, and Gremlin likes having a gun when he is near. Mr Vice keeps strange pictures on his commlink, but Mr Chips says that I shouldn't look at them. Mr Chips says that one day I will understand Mr Vice, but until then I should be careful.

Preacher
Angel thinks that Mr Preacher is funny. He shouts a lot but he often doesn't mean it. Gremlin says Mr Preacher is nicer than Mr Vice, and hes happier if he doesn't have a gun. Mr Chips won't tell me what he thinks...he says I have to make my own mind up about religeon and stuff.

Runt
Runt is fun to play with. Runt can do things in the real world too. Gremlin likes to play tricks on Mr Runt, but Angel tells him that's naughty. Angel doesn't know many people that can play hide 'n' seek and Runt can do that.

Others
I'll add something when I have had a chance to read their posts (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I currently live in the UCAS area

If you don't mind, the way I met the rest of you is that I hired some or all of you to bust me out of a black research facility. This was 2 years ago, when I was 10. I am an adequate hacker, so long as I don't have to get involved in the fighting (I am about as good as fighting as you would expect a 12 year old to be).

I can run your tacnet (so if you can all have lots of sensors that would be good), and am quite happy for you to slave your commlink to me or not as you choose.

In the bar

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Angel is sitting at the table, enjoying the synthi-coke that the nice waitress brought. The bar doesn't have a very good security system, and she wonders if she should offer them some advice on how to improve it. Angel likes peeping through the bars cameras. Cameras are nice 'cos they are how the real world is connected to the strange physical world.

Mr Chips thinks that Angel should have a fruit drink next, and synthi-coke is bad for you, but Mr Sleaze has agreed that when Angel orders a fruit drink, the bar will send a synthi-coke. That way Mr Chips gets what he wants, and Angel gets a nice drink.

Angel wonders where she will spend the night in the physical world. In the real world she has a job looking after lots of nodes and bulletin boards. In the physical world its time to play the spoofing game again. Mr Sleaze says there is a nice coffin hotel just round the corner, but Mr Chips says that coffin hotels have too many strange pictures, and we would be better off Mrs Dysons boarding home. Gremlin likes the idea of sleeping in their van, which can be fun as you end up in all sorts of new places.

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Runt

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Character Info:

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real name: Helmut Krieger
race: Dwarf
description:

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height: 3'6" Weight: 50lbs Age:34 hair: blond eyes: blue
Runt is a dwarf with two Blond 3'' mohawks and a handlebar moustache. He's almost always wearing coveralls loaded with tools under a leather jacket, and a pair of goggels strapped around his head

background:

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Helmut was an upstanding wage slave in Germany. He and his parents worked for Saeder-Krupp. His mother,Helania, was a chemist and a head research developer. His father,Thomas, was a maintenance engineer. He went to a decent school, although he ran in a punk crowd in his free time. Upon graduating he got on as a matrix assistant to a Weapon design team at Saeder-krupp. Although he was kept at the low end of the security clearence, he still learned a wide array of weapons engineering. so what happened? the place he worked at was put on lockdown for 12 hours, 26 minutes, 3 seconds. Two other facilities had been attacked. when the smoke cleared, His father was dead, and his mother was missing. His attemts to get answers were shunned, so he decided to go missing too. A tip from a friend higher up told him that his mother's project had its main competition in Denver. Thats all he would say. He told Helmut to skip town, and not come back to work. Runt spent everything he had to smuggle himself to the UCAS. and now he works in the shadows to make a living and try to discover what happened to his mother.Before he left Gemany, He had dumped his parent's house node onto a chip and wiped it. When he went through it later, He found a half deleted file from a NeoNet research firm. It was talking about something called "cloud link" , but the technical data left was mostly about aresol suspention methods. There was also a mysterious message from someone named "Emit Su'evig" thanking her for her lecture on industrial solvents. He vaguely remembered his mom going to a lecture in Denver, but it was almost a year ago, and the message was dated the night before the attack. Moreover, this Emit guy said he was from Ares "Environmental solutions labrotories". But all his matrix searching has turned up no such person. Runt tried to research the confrence his mother attended. The main lecture was by a Father Timothy Fitzpatrick on "The effects of industry on the Astral plane and the metahuman soul". He tried to talk to this guy too, but the church said he's been missing almost as long as his mother. He's kept an ear out for runners that might have worked in Germany too. His fixer, Football Bob, told him that he heard a chick named "Skyrunner" had been shipped that way pretty recently, But advised runt to stay clear of her. She was big league trouble. That was his words.

Karma:0/0
Essence:3.15
Physical condition(max 10)[][][][][][][][][][]
stun condition(max 10)[][][][][][][][][][]
Lifestyle:squatter(1month)
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) 160(starting cred 2d6*20= [4,4] = 8 )

Qualities(+10 net BP)

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Jury Rigger(-10)
Lost Loved One(+5)
Vindictive(+10)
SIN'er(+5)

Attributes(220 including edge)

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Body- 4
Agility- 5
Reaction-3(4)
Strenth- 3
Charisma-3
Intuition- 4
Logic- 5
Willpower- 3
Edge- 5

Skills(164)

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Active skills
Hacking skill group-3
Electronics skill group-3
Armorer-3
Chemistry-3
demolitions-3
industrial mechanic-1
automatics-3
throwing weapons-1
Gymnastics-2
infiltration-2
palming-2
heavy weapons-3
perception-1
survival-2
etiquette-1
Knowledge skills
German- N
English- 3
Saeder-Krupp- 2
Wiz Punk music- 3
Matrix clubs-2
Computer Science-4
Weapon design-4
Electrical engineering-3
Explosives-3
Chemistry-3

Ware:( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) 41,500)

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Wired Reflexes 1- 11,000
data jack-500
Encephalon 1 - 30,000

Gear:( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) 108,100)

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Ares Crusader

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(Response 4/signal 3/firewall 6/Pilot 4)(body 1/armor 1/sensor 6)
-smartlink(internal),dwarf mod,personalized grip,additional clip,tracker,pilot 4,limping propulsion,exchangable weapon mount,sound suppressor(barrel),sensors(camera/laser range finder/non-linear junction 6)

concealable holster
2 spare clips
60 stick-n-shock rounds
60 explosive rounds
Colt M23

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-smartlink(internal),dwarf mod,personal grip,tracker,powerslide mount(underbarrel),sling,gas vent-3(barrel),shock pad, image scope(vision mag/low light/flare comp)

40 explosive rounds
Ammo drum(colt M23)
-100 rounds,exchangable weapon mount

Ares Antioch-2

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-airburst link,dwarf mod,firing mode upgrade(SA),personalized grip,tracker,exchangable weapon mount

Duffle bag
back pack
4 high explosive mini grenades
4 flash-bang mini grenades
2 regular smoke grenades

Industrious coveralls(5/4)

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chemical protection 4
fire protection 3

leather Jacket(2/2)

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non conductivity 5
Shock frills

Vitals protection(+1/+1)
shin guards(+0/+1)

goggles(R6)

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img link
flare comp
ultrasound

earbuds(R3)

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select sound filter 1
Audio enhancement 2

Hermes Ikon(response 5/signal 5/firewall 6/system 5)

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hardening R6
Laser link
sat link
environmental resistence(heat)
environmental resistance(under water)

Dummy commlink
fake SIN (R3)Chad Mardigan
programs

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analyze 4
browse 4
command 2
edit 4
Encrypt 6
scan 4
armor 4
Biofeedback filter 6
attack 4
decrypt 4
defuse 4
exploit 6
medic 4
sniffer 4
spoof 4
stealth 6
track 4

MCT fly spy
Chemistry kit
demolitions kit
hardware kit
wire clippers
mini welder
respirator(R6)
medkit(R6)
survival kit

1kg foam explosive(R10)
2 detinator cords
4 radio detinators
10 slap patches
1 dose Leal
2 doses Overdrive
10 doses cram
10 sticks Betel gum

contacts:(16BP)

[ Spoiler ]

Football Bob (fixer L3/C3)
-Old Bob is a big, chrome, son of a bitch.Always wearing a blue and orange football jersey thats barley holding together. A local talent scout for the shadows, he's Run'ts main source of work since he got to town

Anarchists Black Cross,Chicago chapter
(Group L2/C3(8 ) 20-99 members/sprawl wide/active matrix presence)
-This is the group that helped smuggle him into the UCAS. He's done a few favors for the local chapter, and hopes to keep a good relationship with them.

Matthew "Twirl" Moore, Barkeeper (L1/C3)
-Twirl is the usual barkeep at the watering hole Runt visits the most

Moe "Money" Wilson(L2/C4)
- Moe is a fence that Runt uses fairly regularly. Mostly for buying gear, but also for selling anything he comes across.

Runt is living in the UCAS sector.

[Aria]

Hmmm...3 mages, 2 illusion based, should be interesting (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[BlackHat]

copy/pasted edits from above, in case people didn't catch them.

- @Preacher: I don't mind us both having Mind Probe, but it's very central to what Vice does (learning what his clients want, and with enough hits even uncovering subconscious desired they don't know, themselves). Since it features in your backstory, I'd say keep it. It might be a cool tool for him to prove (to himself, if no one else) that just about everyone is evil or at least sinful. (Something both of these mages can agree on). I'm also surprised that you didn't take some sort of prayer geas (either as a ritual that needs to be done every 24 hours, or as a gesture that must be done when spellcasting, or both). It seems to fit the concept well, if you're interested. [EDIT: Ahh, I guess if he believes he's getting magic from Satan, it wouldn't make sense if his magic went down if he didn't pray to god... and he probably wouldn't WANT to pray to Satan (if avoidable). In that case, never-mind the suggestion.]

- @ Wasp/Angel: From my (limited) experience with a TM, you might want at least one rank in electronic warfare. Whether you need to scan for a hidden node before cracking in, or trying to break some cheap encryption... as a TM you can thread up the CF, but without the EW skill, you can't even roll (since you can't default).

- Also, so far, 4/4 PCs are human?!? Glad to see it, but this is a Shadowrun first for me.

[BlackHat]

Hmmm...3 mages, 2 illusion based, should be interesting (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I assume Masque is the other illusionist? Yes, should be interesting. Also, Vice is not a traditional illusionist, so I'm sure we'll be sufficiently different.

[BlackHat]

Hmmm...3 mages, 2 illusion based, should be interesting (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Also, this way, astral travel/combat/etc might not be a sub-system that gets glossed over. When we do astral recon, half the team could come along. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Red-ROM]

Runt is a drifter at present, living out of a duffle bag. looking for money, connections, and answers to some personal questions. I could see him involved with springing the Technomancer. He's a decent hacker. Sort of a generalist, but he fits with Felice's talents like a puzzle piece. Similar backgrounds. Runt leaning to the build/repair side, and Felice leaning to the user end. Also, she has the people skills I lack (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[gobogen]

Well this should be a fun team, very skilled, overall very powerful, slightly redundant, a bit overspecialized, and damn low in tanking capability. This last point will likely affect our typical approach preferring stealth (2 illusionists.. huh!?) and subtlety (3 mages, 2 hackers, 1 face!). Can't wait to get this thing started (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

By the way, Preacher would totally have done the extraction job for your character two years before, Seth. I think this is a good way to start the relationship between (all?) our characters. We should get started on run ideas for our past deeds together. When everyone is posted, I'll also put up a few likely first reactions of my character for each of the others, to get things started so that we get starting getting the feeling of an established team.

[Seth]

I like unbalanced teams in most games. They tend to make it easy for the GM to give you a challenging time, and avoid that feeling of invulnerability that can spoil a game. I don't know how they work out in shadowrun, but I suspect we are about to find out.

Thanks for the advice on electronic warface, I have edited my character to have it.

Thanks also for the 10 pts on contacts.

I have now bought the cheapest pickup truck I could find. I think it will help if we have a way to move around other than Kombat Kabs (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'll trick it out in game, if we get an opportunity.

[Seth]

I'd like to suggest a few previous missions as per Panjandrum's request:

Taking an urgent parcel from Mr Johnson through a couple of checkpoints. We had to go through the ghoul tunnels to get there. The parcel was 1mx1mx1m, magically warded and surrounded in lead. We were lucky and didn't meet any ghouls. We think Mr Johnson might have been employed by a subsidiary of aztech.

Rescuing Mr Johnsons daughter from a Humanis Policlub breeding centre (think the moonies). Diversions lots of thermal smoke. Mr Vice had a lot of fun with his unmentionable spells, and got a bit carried away. I'm not sure how preacher reacted. This was not the quietest job in the world.

Industrial espionage: get the recipe of the new Aztech sushi-burger from their fast food research facility. We were slick, no one noticed. The recipe was posted on many blogs simulataneously which caused aztech to loose 2% of its share price for a week.

Demolish a warehouse at 12:01am, on April 29th. The client didn't care if there was collateral damage...Angel and preacher did, I don't know about you others. (Angel is ok at demolitions - 8die). Again we were pretty good, no one got hurt.

[Red-ROM]

@ Seth: I didn't see the demolitions skill on your sheet. other skills not listed you might want, unarmed combat and pistols

Runt's Matrix persona is the black spy from Spy vs. Spy. and all his programs are cartoony like that. old fashion bombs and giant magnifying glass. that kind of thing

[Aria]

I've updated my post to put Masque up, she still needs work and I've tried to tweak one or two things to avoid massive redundancy.

She probably only joined the group fairly recently (a previous version of her is about to kick Seth's arse in my Emerging Conflict game (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif) ). Perhaps she took over for Vice when he wasn't available and they all worked well enough together for you to ask her back?!?

Comments needed! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[BlackHat]

Comments needed! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Love that someone took an honest-to-god addiction - and to eX no less. Vice will be happy to hook you up, if you happen to run low. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I also noticed you have some Betel, but no addiction to it. Since the first time you take it you become addicted, if you're planning to dip into it, yourself, you might as well take a mild addiction off the bat.

[Aria]

Love that someone took an honest-to-god addiction - and to eX no less. Vice will be happy to hook you up, if you happen to run low. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I also noticed you have some Betel, but no addiction to it. Since the first time you take it you become addicted, if you're planning to dip into it, yourself, you might as well take a mild addiction off the bat.

Given it's an auto additiction (with no real drawbacks) I figured it wasn't really worth BPs, but yes, she'll have an addiction to that too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[BlackHat]

Given it's an auto additiction (with no real drawbacks) I figured it wasn't really worth BPs, but yes, she'll have an addiction to that too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

It's probably not worth any BP, so good call. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Saint Sithney]

Runt is a drifter at present, living out of a duffle bag. looking for money, connections, and answers to some personal questions. I could see him involved with springing the Technomancer. He's a decent hacker. Sort of a generalist, but he fits with Felice's talents like a puzzle piece. Similar backgrounds. Runt leaning to the build/repair side, and Felice leaning to the user end. Also, she has the people skills I lack (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

You should switch your Chemistry skill form active to knowledge, really. The optional active version is for "If the use and abuse of chemicals is going to play a large role in your campaign, you may want to consider transforming Chemistry from a Knowledge skill to an Active Skill (part of the Technical skills category)" which, to me says "if you're a barrens gang cooking up bathtub crank..."

It's probably not worth any BP, so good call. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

It is if you play it as it's meant to be - a gateway drug to harder stimulants. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Seth]

I didn't see the demolitions skill on your sheet

Thats what tutor sprites are for (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I have 8 die on demolitions and almost any logic skills

Unarmed and pistols

I quite like the challenge of a character without. I am not sure if its viable, but I am going to try. I think that machine sprites can be good enough to save my ass, but we'll have to see.

Thanks for the feedback.

[BlackHat]

@Seth: Curious if Mr. Chips/Sleaze/Gremlin are bound sprites, or if you plan to just call up sprites that go by those names as needed.

[BlackHat]

2 doses Overdrive
10 doses cram
10 sticks Betel gum

Just noticed Runt is carrying drugs too. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Pleased to see it.

[Thanee]

JUNKIES!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

Bye
Thanee