2072 [+4 Months], Multiple Players / GMs - Recruitment Always Open Options

[Aria]

Well Silk ducked back inside so they should be shooting thin air! Her drone and tac net will try to trace them and plot their next time in view... And Siran may want to fry one too?

[AppliedCheese]

Fair enough...I guess that translates to suppressing fire ( 8 ) 9P/4I on the doorway then.

[Aria]

@SKs:
Summoning 15D = 3 hits, edge re-roll = 3 more hits
Resist 7D = 1 hit (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Drain 9D = 4 hits = no drain and 5 services - now we're talking!

I'll keep the roll above as my summoning roll for later on if that's ok, looks like we might be in trouble now though so I'll summon a Fc 6 air spirit to cover us during the day...

Summoning 15D = 6 hits
Resist 6D = 0 hits
Drain 9D = 2 hits = no drain and 6 services, optional powers elemental attack & fear

@IOAB:

Reluctant to do much more with Silk until we hear back from Seth, Zaranthan & LostProxy...guess I'll do something if we don't hear from them by mid week or so...

I think the tacnet should be able to predict where the sec guys are going and her flyspy can track them if required...I'm a little hazy about exactly where they are though and whether they will spring out at us the second we stick our noses out of the hatch?!? Can I assume they aren't between us and the lifeboats?

Just for reference I'll make some infiltration rolls for Silk now and you can use them as need be (will try and make it clear IC when she isn't sneaking!):

16D -1D Wnds (-4 to visual perception checks, -6 to thermal)

15d6.hits(5) → [6,5,6,2,2,4,2,3,6,3,2,2,1,4,5] = (5)
15d6.hits(5) → [6,6,2,4,4,3,3,1,2,3,4,3,4,1,2] = (2)
15d6.hits(5) → [6,2,3,5,2,5,2,4,3,2,3,4,2,6,6] = (5)
15d6.hits(5) → [4,1,5,4,1,6,3,2,4,4,2,6,5,2,2] = (4)
15d6.hits(5) → [6,1,6,4,3,1,1,3,1,6,5,6,3,2,2] = (5)
15d6.hits(5) → [5,2,5,1,4,6,2,2,6,2,3,1,4,4,4] = (4)
15d6.hits(5) → [1,3,6,5,3,3,4,1,3,2,3,5,3,4,5] = (4)
15d6.hits(5) → [5,6,4,1,1,5,2,3,1,6,5,1,6,4,3] = (6)
15d6.hits(5) → [3,2,5,6,3,1,2,2,3,2,5,2,1,2,2] = (3)
15d6.hits(5) → [2,3,3,5,2,2,5,2,3,5,1,2,3,4,1] = (3)

[sabs]

Milo Green "Fractal"
Human Hacker/Face
Australian Living in Seattle

Aria, here's Milo, for DF.

[ Spoiler ]

Stats:275

[ Spoiler ]

Body: 3
Agility: 3
Reaction: 3
Strength: 2
Charisma: 5[8]
Intuition: 3
Logic: 5
Willpower: 3
Edge: 4
Essebce 2.09

Active Skills: 253

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Cracking(group): 4
Electronics(group): 4
Influence(group):4
Disguise: 5 Spec: Impersonations
Pistols: 2 Spec: Semi-Automatics
Perception: 4 Spec: Visual
Pilot groundcraft: 2

Languages: 11
English: N
Cantonese: 4

Knowledge Skills:

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Street Knowledge
2 Hong Kong Area Knowledge (Wuxing Enclaves)
1 Hong Kong Corporate Politics
2 Hong Kong Triads
5 Wuxing Corporate (Matrix Assets)
2 Matrix Hangouts
2 Hong Kong Runner Hangouts

Academic Knowledge
2 Computer Theory
2 Matrix Theory
1 Medicine (Genetics)

Professional Knowledge
2 Matrix Security Procedures (Wuxing)

Contacts:28

[ Spoiler ]

Fixer Hu Nan Gao "Ricshaw" 3/3
Hacker Network Group 2/7 "Golden Lotus Flower"
Shark Lawyer: 2/3 Kevin Lee

Qualities:

[ Spoiler ]

Positive:
Restricted Gear (Skill Wires 5)
Linguist

Negative:
Media Junkie(Moderate)
Records on File
SINner(Criminal)

Commlink:
Sony Emperor: Novatech Navi
Transys Avalon Modified
Response 5/Signal 5/Firewall 6/System 6
Customized Interface, Optimization Exploit, Simsense Accelerator
Programs:

[ Spoiler ]

Common Use:
Analyze 6 Ergonomic, Crashguard | Browse 6 | Command 6 | Edit 6 | Encrypt 6 Ergonomic | Purge 6 | Reality Filter 6 Ergonomic | Scan 6
Hacking:
Armor 3 | Attack 3 | Biofeedback Filter 6 | Decrypt 4 | Disarm 4 | Exploit 6 | Sniffer 4 | Spoof 4
Stealth 6 | Track 3| ECCM 3

Skillsoft:

[ Spoiler ]

Knight Errant Self-Defense Dodge 3 Unarmed Combat 3
Whiskey Noir: Forensics 4, Intimidation 3, Shadowing 2

Cyberware/Bioware 3.46/0.45

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Skillwires 5 Used Std 1.2 5K
Attention Coprocessor 3 Used Std 0.36 4.5K
Encephalon II Used Std 1.8 37.5K
PuSHeD 0.1 15K
Datajack: 0.1 .5K
Mnemonic Enhancer 2 0.2 15K
Tailored Pheromones 3: 0.6 45K

Armor:

[ Spoiler ]

Form Fitting Body Armor Full Body Suit 6/2 Insulation 3
Steampunk Overcoat 3/3

Weapons:

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Shock Gloves 5S(e) -Half
Defiance EX Shocker SA 8S(e) -half 4m 5/10/15/20
Fichetti Executive Action SA/BF 4P 18c 5/15/30/50
Walther Secura S SA 5P -1 12c 5/20/40/60

ID/Licenses

[ Spoiler ]

Fake SIN: 4 Richard Pratt
Fake SIN: 3 Johnny Cash
Fake License 3: Walther Secura S
Fake License 3: Ficheti Executive action

200 rounds Regular Ammo
5 spare clips
Contact lenses w/ Flare Composition, Image Link, Smart Link
Glasses w/ Thermal Vision, Low-light, Vision Magnification, Vision Enhancement 3
Clothes: Various Steampunk, Business.
Lifestyle: 1Month Medium

Background

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Milo Green was born in Australia, in the early 2040's. He was the oldest of 5 children, his parents were at best Upper Lower Class. When he was 17, the best that his parents could offer Milo was a job along his father as a Janitor for Happy Joy Chemicals Inc, a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Wuxing Corporation. He was outfitted with the best in Wuxing Skillwire technology, the cost of the surgery and cyberware taken out of his paycheck in low low installments. About a month before his 19th birthday, Milo became the guardian and sole bread winner for his 5 siblings. His parents dying in tragic bus accident. Their bus was used by a group of gangers as an initiation test. Things were tough for Milo, but he'd been studying computer programming and applied for a position with Wuxing proper. He was a junior programmer working on their Skillsoft line. He was transfered to Seattle, along with his siblings and all were given Wuxing SINs, renouncing their Australian Citizenship. It was a good five years for Milo. He worked hard, kept his nose clean, and made just enough money to afford the corporate housing for 5, and daily meals, and the Joyous Golden Flower® HealthCare plan. By the age of 24 Milo was the Technical Lead for his programing group, and things were looking up. There was even talk of sending him to the Wuxing Management Seminars. Unfortunately, things did not go as well as one might hope. His youngest sister was diagnosed with some major health issues that quickly burned through Milo's HealthCare Spending Accounts. Desperate, Milo used his programming skills and internal knowledge of the Wuxing Matrix Environment to increase his Medical Coverage to Platinum. Thankfully, this allowed for fairly extensive genetic therapy, saving his sister's life. Unfortunately this put Milo in a very precarious position. Every Audit Cycle he had to hack the system and undo the settings while the audit ran, then re-establish them once the audit was done.

This went on for two years, before he was caught. The outcome was actually much better than one would expect. Milo was fired, marked as a Criminal to Wuxing, and dumped on the streets of Seattle with only the clothes on his back and the cyber in his body. His family though, lucked out. His youngest sister was 22 and a Secretary for a Mid level Executive. She was able to take both physical and financial responsibility for the remaining three simblings, allowing them to stay as Citizens of Wuxing in good standing. Except of course that Danielle had to shoulder the debt of 2 years of Platinum Mountain Spring Healthcare. Danielle is hoping to have it paid off in 50 years, maybe.

Forced onto the streets with no money, no resources and only the clothes on his back, Milo turned to Crime and Shadowrunning almost immediately. He's been heavily involved in the Matrix/Shadowrun community here in Seattle for the least 4 years.

He sends 50% of what he earns after covering his rent to his sister, through some shell accounts in the hopes of helping her payback Wuxing faster.

[AppliedCheese]

xxxxxxxxxx( Deck) xxxxxxxxx|Superstructure
LifeBoats ====(gantry)=====:(door) You []:(door) Z (stairs)
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx----------
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ->Guys went that way! ::xxxxxxx

I assumed no sneak due to the "we're sprinting down the stairs" IC.

[Aria]

Milo Green "Fractal"
Human Hacker/Face
Australian Living in Seattle

Aria, here's Milo, for DF.

Welcome on board Sabs / Fractal. If you’d like to post an introductory scene setting in the IC thread then I’ll work you into the Dysfunctional Family thread (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

@Everyone: We seem to have hit a bit of a speed bump with Seth off ill…I am considering starting two mini threads within the 2072 thread based on some of my Emerging threads. They will be set slightly in the future of the current April time stamps (summer 2072) so if anyone is interested then you can use your existing characters or make new ones…

eVolved will be a mostly matrix based thread (as we seem to have a plethora of hacker types in the game)…I’m not entirely sure how it will work yet so any ideas will be welcome

Emerging: Promised Land will be a baby-sitting trip getting hunted TMs from an undisclosed point to the Stillwater community on the edge of Redmond…

[onlyghostdancesw...]

im down for that. wouldnt mind running babysitting overwatch with a rigger or mage ive got cooked up

[JxJxA]

I'd be up for Emerging: Promised Land. I've been kicking around a changling physical adept concept based on my love of Squirrel Girl (Warning! TVTropes link) and terribly guilty childhood nostalgia. I'm still hammering out minor details, but it sounds like a good fit for Jack Montdale AKA "The Chip Monk."

[Trigger]

Emerging: Promised Lands sounds like a cool run, I have been bouncing around a Ork TM, Ælias. ( Æ is code Alt + 0198 if you want to type it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

[ Spoiler ]

Karma:
Unspent: 7
Spent: 12
Total: 19
(IC Posts: 18 ; Starting Karma: 10)

Nuyen:
Unspent: 12,550
Spent: 11,750
Total Earned, including starting wealth: 24,300
(IC Posts: 18 ; Starting Wealth: 1,800)

Sprites
Register Rating 6 Tank Sprite
Optional CFs : Shield, Black Hammer
7 Tasks Owed

Compiled Rating 5 Crack Sprite
Optional CFs: Scan
2 Tasks Owed

Metatype: Ork (20 BP)

Attributes: (160 BP)
Body 4
Agility 3
Reaction 3
Strength 3
Charisma 3
Intuitive 4
Logic 4
Willpower 5

Special Attributes: (50 BP)
Edge 2
Resonance 5

Initiative (Matrix): 7 (9)
IP (Matrix): 1 (3)

Qualities: (+25 BP)
Technomancer: (E-Scapist, Sprites: Courier, Crack, Data, Fault, Tank)
Paragon: (Alias, +2 Spoof, +1 Crack Sprites, Must spoof lifestyle)
Mild Media Junkie
Virtual Personality 1
Sensitive System
Mild Allergy Gold
AIPS 1

Skills: (148 BP)
Tasking Group 3
Cracking Group 4
Electronics Group 3
Pistols ( Semi-Autos) 1
Dodge 2
Influence Group 1
Perception 1
Stealth Group 1


Knowledge Skills: (24 Free BP)
English N
Or'Zet 3
Corporate Matrix Security 4
Data Havens 4
Apartment Nodes 5
Matrix Chat Rooms 4
Identity Theft 4

Complex Forms: (31 BP)
Edit 3
Command 2
Analyze 4
Browse 4
Exploit 4
Spoof 5
Stealth 5
Shield 4
Smartlink CF (2 Karma)
Simrig CF (2 Karma)

Persona:
System 4
Signal 3
Response 4
Firewall 5

Submersion Grade: 1 (8 Karma, Group Submersion, Resonance Realm Search Task)

Echoes: Skinlink


Contacts: (6 Free BP + 8 BP)
Sphinx, Resident AI (Loyalty 3 Connection 2)
The Refugees, Technomancer Guild (Loyalty 3 Connection 2(6) )

Lifestyle: (7 LP, 1100 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) before Spoofing, 12 LP, 3200 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) after spoofing)
Comfort: Low (2 LP)
Entertainment: Middle (3 LP)
Necessities: Low (2 LP)
Neighborhood: Low (2 LP)
Security: Middle (3 LP)
-Qualities:
-Workplace (+1 LP)
-Free Access (+1 LP)
-Resonance Well (+5 LP)
-No Astral Privacy 2 (-2 LP)
-Sprite Magnet (-1 LP)
-AI in Residence (-3 LP)
-Crash Pad (-1 LP)

Gear: (39,960 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) spent, 8 BP)
Ares Predator IV
-8 Clips Explosive Ammo
-2 Clips Regular Ammo
-Hidden Holster
Cavalier Scout
-5 Clips Regular Ammo
-Hidden Holster
Half Body Suit FFBA (4/1)
Mortimer Greatcoat (6/5)
Shin Guards 0/+1
Forearm Guards 0/+1
Vital's Protector +1/+1
Leg and Arm Casings +1/+1
Rating 4 Fake SIN (Simon Trent, everyday use)
Rating 4 Fake SIN (Alex Random, backup SIN)
Rating 3 Fake SIN (Cornelius DeVeen, SIN when Running)
Rating 4 Gun License
Rating 4 Driver's License
Rating 5 Goggles
-Flare Compensation
-Vision Enhancement 3
-Vision Magnification
Rating 3 Earbuds
-Spatial Recognizer
-Audio Enhancement 2
3 Doses of Psyche
4 Doses of Jazz
20 Doses of Snuff
3 Doses of Red Mescaline
Rating 6 Respirator
Biomonitor
Rating 6 Medkit
2 Latex Face Masks
Small Container Nanopaste Disguise
Honda Spirit (Subcompact)
MCT FlySpy (Minidrone)
-Directional Microphone
-Camera, Vision Magnification
Aztechnology Crawler (Small Drone)
-Cyberware Scanner R6
-MAD Scanner R3
-Camera, Thermographic Vision
-Microphone, Select Sound Filter 1, Spatial Recognizer
2 Certified Credsticks
10 Datachips
3 Disposable Commlinks
Satellite Link x2
20 Stealth RFID Tags
5 Rating 6 Key Locks for Studio Apartment

-4 Bottles of Water Purification Tablets : 20
-Camping Backpack : 250
-'Horizon Frontier Line' Lined Coat : 700
--Rating 5 Chemical Protection : 1250
--Rating 4 Fire Resistance : 400
-Survival Kit : 100
-Climbing Gear : 200
-4 Rating 6 Stimulant Patches : 600
-Trauma Patch : 500
-Tent : 75
-Sensor RFID Geiger Counter : 550
-Wyrd Mantis Essence, 2 Doses : 1200

Combat Load Vest
Smart Ammo Pouch x2
Smart Canteen
Smart Ration Pack

Starting Nuyen: 1800 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif)


Background:
Name: Maximilian Trent
Age: 20
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 175 lbs.
Gender: Male
Handedness: Right
Skin Color: Olive Tan
Ethnicity: Mediterranean American Mutt
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Black, shaggy
Identifying Marks: Acne scars, bar code tattoo on the wrist
Birthplace: Boston, UCAS, 2052, October 13th

Ælias was born Maximilian Trent, the son of a Draco Foundation janitor. He attended a good public school on the funding of his father's work, and was an honors student, with hopes of moving up a financial tier with hard work and determination, even at 12 years old. Crash 2.0 happened while he was in his Matrix Coding class, trapping he and the 14 other corp-decker hopefuls in the virtual reality coding course. Maximilian was trapped in the classrooms node for 12 hours until someone pulled the trodes off. Max was in a coma for the next two weeks, and then in recovery for two months afterwards. When he got out of the hospital the Draco Foundation was very interested in Max, he was one of the few to come out of being caught in the Matrix without being completely broken. Sure, he sometimes saw weird images out of the corner of his eye, but they never scared him, they were just cool shapes and digits, Matrix-y things. The Draco people asked all about them, in fact they asked Max all sorts of questions. With his father's permission, Draco took him to an observation center, where they examined him and quizzed him, and prodded him and probed him. But they gave him food, and kept him going to school, in special classes with other kids who survived the Crash. At some point they told him that what he and the others were suffering from was called AIPS, or Artificially Induced Psychotropic Schizophrenia Syndrome. That was where he spent the next four years of his life, until one day, in the dead of night, he was extracted from the center by a group of runners. They were working for MCT. MCT was even more interested in Max then the Draco Foundation was. MCT didn't view him, or any of the others there, as people. They were something unknown. And that was something to be feared. Things got worse as time went on, as words like virtuakinetic started getting thrown around, and then technomancer. And the things that he saw started getting weirder and scarier too. This went on for two more years, and somehow Max never got drafted into the more extreme tests. Then, on another middle of the night, he was extracted again. This time it was by runners hired for an almost pro bono job to get technomancers out of the hands of MCT. Word was out about the experiments and now Max was being freed by runners. That or he was being brought to someone else, someone else who was going to keep him locked up, kept awake for days on end to see what would happen. He and the runners made it out of the compound, and then it hit him. The wireless matrix all around him hit him like a torrent. It was like at that moment he woke up for the first time in his life. The Matrix opened up around him, called him in. A voice spoke to him as he ran, calling from the shadows around him, telling how he could disappear into the world around him, how he could hide where they would never find him again. He was running and the voice told him where and when, and then there were a few explosions, and some technical glitches and Max escaped from the runner team into the night. He was in Seattle now, a thousand miles and years and years away from his old life. He was alone, except for the voices in the Matrix, and he was alive. That was enough for Max. He dove into the Matrix and caught up on the world, and learned many things. He was now Ælias, and he walked the shadows, another faceless voice in the Matrix, a runner. He eventually found a studio in Auburn, a real little hole in the wall, but something about the place, it made him feel alive, more present. Then he met Sphinx. Sphinx was an AI, compiled from the automated programs that create security questions, random number and letter generators, things like that. He questioned Ælias, not the way that the corps did, but in a meaningful way. He wanted to know about Ælias and Ælias wanted to know about him. From then on, this was where he lived, and where he felt at home, even with all of weird sprites and other matrix denizens who showed up. It was how he met the others, the ones he would go on with to create the Refugees, a group of other technomancers who were dedicated to helping and hiding other TMs. Now he spends his time running the shadows for what money he needs and working with the Refugees.

Current Citadel Stats:

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Attack 4
Strength 3
Defense 4
Toughness 3
Skill 6

This post has been edited by Trigger: Apr 13 2012, 09:44 PM

[pbangarth]

@Friendbot2000 for Hunters' Pursuit

Do you need anything more for the Assensing of the gang's HQ? Yazata has 3 hits, looking to identify why the place feels off.

[Seth]

I am sorry to inform you all that I will no longer be able to take part in Dumpshock games.

I have enjoyed my time playing with all of you, and have many fond memories of interacting with you.

Unfortunately as some of you know, my business collapsed this year, and I am having to deal with the fallout from that. We went from a 70 man company to 50 to 20 to none in a short time. The financial and emotional fallout from that was and still is considerable. In addition I am starting a new business. As you are probably aware, the stress levels and time requirements of a start up are severe. I am working 16 to 18 hour days, and just don't have the intellectual capacity or imagination to spare to play a RPG.

I feel bad about leaving this game in a mess, but I am just unable to devote any time to it. My guilt over neglecting my GMing and playing reponsibilities is quite considerable.

I hope to be able to start playing dumpshock in a year or two (this is my third start up...so I have a good idea how the lifecycle goes, and in a year or so the work will tail off, one way or another).

This has been quite a hard post to write, as I have quite an emotional attachment to all the people I have played with: bizarre as we have never met, but still...

I wish you all the best, and hope you are all still here in a year or two when I can come back.

[JxJxA]

I'm sorry to hear about the real life stuff, Seth. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) Best of luck with the new business, and I'll look forward to the opportunity to game with you again in the future. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Notsoevildm]

@Seth: Hope the new business works out and understand only too well how much time running your own business can take. Look forward to running the shadows with you again hopefully in the not too distant future.

[pbangarth]

Been through some tough times myself, Seth. Thinking of you. Remember the Chinese: "This too shall pass."

[Foxx]

I will be praying for you Seth. I hope to see you again some day and successful once again.

[Aria]

I am sorry to inform you all that I will no longer be able to take part in Dumpshock games.

To reiterate what I've said in other threads, we will all miss you - feel free to come back any time, there will always be a slot in one of my games!

Good luck with the business!!!

[Aria]

Emerging: Promised Lands sounds like a cool run, I have been bouncing around a Ork TM, Ælias. ( Æ is code Alt + 0198 if you want to type it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

Welcome on board Trigger. With Seth leaving us we have some juggling to do on this thread and the Suicide Kings have some decisions to make on how we resolve that part of the thread. Bear with us while we sort it out and I will push my E:PL forward to try and get it going sooner. Dysfunctional Family has some free space too and has links to the E:PL so we should have something going shortly.

@All: Any other budding GMs out there? Notsoevil, did you have something you wanted to run?

[JxJxA]

@ Aria: Yeah, I was thinking about maybe plugging Demon into E:PL with SK coming to an end. Should I maybe draft a new PC instead? I like Demon's personality, so I could always clone him and switch some stuff in and out... It might make for some interesting stuff game-wise. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Aria]

@Suicide Kings:

I propose that we assume a degree of success on the mission and leave the final result open ended. I’m not sure I was clear enough about what was going on to write some sort of ending for it so we can be vague about how it all went down… If you want to heroically kill off your PC now and start a new one then I suggest a full karma refund would be acceptable (it helps keep book keeping clear but equally I'd understand if anyone thought that it was a bit of a cheek...). If you want to continue as you are then great!

Personally I think Ember will meet with a sticky end – possibly summoning a spirit too strong for him as I have a notion that I’d like to try playing a free spirit in someone’s game (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Let me know and I’ll update the character rosters at the beginning of the OoC.
___

@Everyone:

Matrix Game:

I’m trying for an abstract system that doesn’t get overly complicated – this is intended for a bit of light relief during the game and so that everyone can post something (if they want to) even if there are delays waiting for other players to post…if it’s not in character for you current PC to post then there’s no reason why you couldn’t have a PC solely dedicated to the game and no real need to flesh the stats out. I intend to use the game setting for the occasional meeting location on the matrix and there will be other events going on in there that will impact the real world so it’s not entirely frivolous (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

The Citadel Game Zone has already been established IC as the best new game of 2072 and so I’d like to expand on that. So that it potentially appeals to everyone I will say that it has multiple realms inside it (with portals between them) that allow you to play in a high fantasy genre or move to a space theme or a cyberpunk one as you choose (or any other type that you come up with…). You can play solo or in groups and PvP is perfectly acceptable as there is no risk to real characters. You can change your avatar as you see fit but need to buy a new copy of the game to change your stats (see below):

Skill: Computer or knowledge ‘Matrix Games’ used to play it legally. Hacking can be substituted if you want to cheat

Program: When you buy (pirated copies available) the game (50¥) you get a total of 20D that have to be split up over the following 5 stats, max is 6 min is 1:

• Attack skill [covers ranged and melee attacks, spells etc]
• Attack strength [as above]
• Defence skill [for dodging all incoming attacks]
• Toughness [for then resisting incoming attacks]
• Technical skill [covers lock picking, scroll reading, anything else that gets dreamed up…]

That should cover the broad list of likely actions. When I’m feeling braver I may add in some adept like abilities that can be gained during game play as advancement incentives.

I haven’t yet considered what the in-game objectives might be, most MMOs seem to be about levelling your character up but I think something more shadowrunny might be better here?!? I might steal the idea of ‘NewCap City’ from the Caprica series and have the objective obscure – you just need to live the game…or survive it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

Any thoughts/comments/suggestions welcome!
___

Emerging: Promised Land

I’m not going to start a separate recruitment thread as there seems to be sufficient interest here. I’m open to any number of players at the moment (although I don’t want to spread myself too thinly!). @SKs, you’d be welcome to join this if it appeals or pick up the DF action (if you can cope with doing another ‘run’ only a couple of days after the Teague debacle resolves itself one way or the other…)

My intention at the moment for this to be episodic with large gaps between as the ‘run’ will be an extended baby-sitting / travelling kind of thing (with opposing forces hot on your heals!). It also probably won’t be one big group of PCs but we’ll split you into ones/twos and perhaps at the outside a three (depending on how many of you want to play), that way the action can continue even if someone can’t post for a bit.

___

@Sabs: You’d be welcome on the E:PL thread or I can continue the DF thread for you and anyone else that comes along. It’s all thematically linked so no problems there, just let me know what you’d like to do!!!

[sabs]

I'm happy either way..
I gave you a starting scene (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) you can move me in any direction you like.
DF/E:PL plug Fractal in where ever you like

Just read the IC post, and all I could thing was, "I am the Key Master"

[Aria]

Ok, will keep you on the DF thread (may have to think of a new name as all the mob characters have disappeared...), should have something for you by Monday...

@Applied Cheese, Notsoevil & OGWD let me know what you guys want to do!

@pbangarth & any other hunters, as Friendbot also seems to be AWOL let me know if you want to join E:PL too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Anyone else I've missed?

[pbangarth]

@Aria
I'd like to wait a bit to see if Friendbot is just temporarily out of touch. Support your Friendly non-local GM, and all.

[Trigger]

@Aria:

What kind of test would you like me to roll to spoof access to an account for Citadel? That sounds like somewhere Ælias would hang out and play, maybe looking for another like-minded TMs.

[onlyghostdancesw...]

i think i'll assume that MCt captures jacob and that he meets an uncertain end. Ill take the karma etc for my new mage who I'd like to have join E:PL if you dont mind?

[JxJxA]

If all the SK crew are getting fragged with the success of the operation, I'll have Demon join the KIA/MIA crew and try rebuilding him. If you guys don't mind me running a carbon copy personality of him, I might try having the new character be an escaped clone from Shiawase (based on one of his negative qualities). (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)