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

[Machine Ghost]

I'd say don't worry about it...he was removed by GM fiat so that you had to sweat for your victory...he'll be back on his feet by 2075 (albeit a tad nutty!) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

Just looking for something to use for Oyl to base a treatment IC on at same time as Sprogget. He is out cold, so stun track filled, but that would just need a good nights rest. Physical damage would need treatment, and maybe magic to speed things along.

[Aria]

Just looking for something to use for Oyl to base a treatment IC on at same time as Sprogget. He is out cold, so stun track filled, but that would just need a good nights rest. Physical damage would need treatment, and maybe magic to speed things along.

In that case assume he's on 5 boxes of physical, stun full!

[Aria]

@MG, can you write up a quick addon to the timeline to cover the summoning, instructions, Sprogget's actions etc...? Thanks

Should be able to get an IC up by the end of the week once I've got past my deadline this afternoon (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Machine Ghost]

@MG, can you write up a quick addon to the timeline to cover the summoning, instructions, Sprogget's actions etc...?  Thanks

Should be able to get an IC up by the end of the week once I've got past my deadline this afternoon (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Initial timeline actions shown here, extended from your timeline.  That was based on the assumption that the intercepted transmission from Command to Winter about going to manual control was in 8.1, after the Citymaster did the first attack by charging the shell, but before Command killed the spirit.  The IC content does not really align well, because there it looks like the missile had been launched, but the spirit was still alive.  In the timeline, those actions were both in 8.2.  Having the instructions to Winter as Commands free action in 8.2 before killing the spirit works better.  Winter with only 1 IP means the dog brain should get at least one more action in 8.3.

Oyl and Jimson
Based on: 8.2 Command kills the Plant!
9.1 summon Plant(5)+Noxious Breath
9.2 Jimson travels in astral to Citymaster
9.3 Jimson concealment
10.1 Jimson materialize (concealed)
10.1 Oyl sends message to Sprogget about spirit replacement
10.2 Jimson attack (edge?) Command: engulf, fear, noxious breath?

Based on (assumption) 8.2 Command tells Winter to go for the manual controls
Citymaster
8.3 next attack by Citymaster?
9.1 Winter moving to physical controls
9.1 Command action

Sprogget
8.3 releases Crack Sprite, fails to compile Fault Sprite
9.1 checking biomonitor(free), message to Mordred about tacnet going down(simple?)
9.2 Instructions for Banjo
9.3 Instructions for G’Eye
10.1 Send signal to disable G’Eye wireless (free?), instructions for DR(complex), receive message from Oyl
10.2 Message to Oyl, Message to C&C(simple)
10.3 finish shutting down most of the wireless connections

Some actions of the Citymaster, Command, Winter not known, so this is getting a bit far ahead.  I was thinking we were going to be out of combat time, to leave room for that message from Mordred.  Which could be 10.1 (how many IP does Mordred get?), with response in 10.2 and/or 10.3.
Oyl’s instructions to Cam also seems to be outside the timeline.  With above, it could not start until 11.1.  The technical plan is for Sprogget to go wireless dark, but IC has left that still up, to support a bit of final interaction and support.  Also this gives a chance to change mind, depending on what is happening at the Citymaster.  Delaying Oyl’s response a bit, since with only 1 IP, she tends to lag a bit.

[Aria]

Ok, for my sanity and so that we are all clear on the situation I’m going to try and summarise the current disposition of the foe. I’m writing this from memory rather than checking so if there’s anything obvious I’ve missed then give me a nudge please (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Winter: In the Citymaster, wrestling with the manual controls
Command: In the Citymaster keeping a watch for more spirits / other foes…he failed his initial perception to detect the new concealed spirit (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)
Citymaster Dog Brain: About to have a firewall boost when it (or the rigger’s ‘link anyway) detects the intrusion. There’s a chance its standing orders are to scream for help from wherever it comes from…

Squad 1:
Fireteam 1: 2no. outside the Citymaster (one mildly electrocuted), 1no. protecting the downed mage (M2)
Fireteam 2: 3no. inside the sewers
Fireteam 3: 3no. rear guard positions…between the breech and the Citymaster, heading out of dodge
M2: Out of it, he may or may not have summoned help

Squad 2:
Fireteam 1: 2no heading into the sewers, 1no in cover in the mouth of the manhole
Fireteam 2 & 3: 6no in various states of cremation in / around APC2

Others: 2no. original APC rigger/gunners, 2no. Disonant brothers all cooked. I think there was a comms op in one of the APCs too…

2no. rotodrones with belt fed grenade launchers…one is about to go up in smoke from an HE rocket before Winter can do his thing… the other will advance inside the mall looking for targets.

Spined Drakes Gangers: In disarray, many badly wounded from Crow’s grenade blast, slinking off, trying to avoid going in the direction of any combat, so predominantly heading SW or around the N side of the mall. Couple of corpses left behind…

Rather than tracking combat time now, mainly to keep the flow of the IC, the Citymaster will fire one more time before Winter gets manual control (vehicle only, not weapon systems!), then Osha’s spirit will do its thing and finally Cam will order in your backup. He will be able to chase off/mop up the gangers and probably ‘persuade’ the remaining military guys to hot foot it out of the area.

Ok, the next part might be considered spoilers for the end of 2072 so read at your own risk…

[ Spoiler ]

I’ve been thinking a bit about the Mechanicals Street Cred issue in seeing off this attack…it occurs to me that Fre∑dom are likely to want the whole thing kept quiet as they’ve had enough of red flags being raised around them! They’ve already fled persecution twice! Yes, they will shortly get to hide amongst the Mechs but until then… The Balefire runner team may be requested to ‘clean up’ the mess. Their interaction with the PCs might be interesting…although I don’t want to end on too much of an anti-climax…and I especially don’t want to take away from PC actions. This may be something that gets addressed OoC…

Command has lost half his troops! Including 2 very valuable mages! He’s not going to be able to explain that! Equally though he has got a responsibility to the wounded to get them out (and can’t rely on their normal response for reasons I’ve hinted at…), so, expect to see DocWagon HTR teams en-route to pull their arses out of the fire. You’ll have some warning that they are coming, where else would they be going around here??? Ok, the storm will reduce the time to detect them and get clear… it is likely that they will abandon their position and climb on board the HTR vehicles…well, reasonably likely… (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

If you did read this feel free to comment (in spoiler tags or by PM) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Machine Ghost]

Ok, for my sanity and so that we are all clear on the situation I’m going to try and summarise the current disposition of the foe.  I’m writing this from memory rather than checking so if there’s anything obvious I’ve missed then give me a nudge please (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Winter: In the Citymaster, wrestling with the manual controls
Command: In the Citymaster keeping a watch for more spirits / other foes…he failed his initial perception to detect the new concealed spirit (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)
Citymaster Dog Brain: About to have a firewall boost when it (or the rigger’s ‘link anyway) detects the intrusion.  There’s a chance its standing orders are to scream for help from wherever it comes from…
Probably makes no game difference, but that firewall boost will either not exist, or have limited effect, depending on the the node configure.

If the Citymaster node was slaved to the rigger commlink, it’s firewall is effectively off, and it uses the commlink firewall.  This will be a fresh alert, after the script was delivered.  That boost gives a bonus for an future events that involve the firewall, but there are not going to be any.  The sprite is gone.  In fact, that alert, after the fact, could even be an indication to the dog brain that the warned about compromised validation is in play, and one of those ‘enemy’ targets is now trying to hack it.

If the rigger was using his own login, but had not slaved the Citymaster to his commlink, the Citymaster’s own firewall is up, but the alert is only on the rigger’s commlink.  The Citymaster node was not hacked, and the spoof was a one off, with no accumulated tests to get to the detection threshold.  The IC/agent on the commlink will learn about the alert, but it will also know that the cause has already left.  Unless it is smart enough to figure out that sprite was just using the commlink as a forwarding point, and has instructions to followup, the Citymaster will not know anything about it.

Note that the sprite breaks the wired link in 8.1, and the alert triggers in 8.2, so any slaved connection will be gone, and the Citymaster dog brain is on it’s own before the alert gets triggered, and the alert is on the commlink, not on the Citymaster node.  Unless the rigger had slaved the commlink to the Citymaster instead of the other way around.  Previous IC/OOC though says Sprogget found a commlink using matrix perception.  If the ’link had been slaved to the Citymaster node, he should have found the Citymaster instead, due to the automatic forwarding of connection requests to the master node.

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From previous OOC and IC, I have limited information about counts by location.  Only fireteams have been mentioned, no counts.  The described squad disposition looks reasonable.
2no. rotodrones with belt fed grenade launchers…one is about to go up in smoke from an HE rocket before Winter can do his thing… the other will advance inside the mall looking for targets.
Mechanicals C&C should have that from their own sensor input, plus what Sprogget has been feeding them (up to 10.3), so they better be passing that intel along through that link to Fre∑dom.  That rotodrone is going to need to take care, or it will bring the roof down on itself.

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Rather than tracking combat time now, mainly to keep the flow of the IC, the Citymaster will fire one more time before Winter gets manual control (vehicle only, not weapon systems!), then Osha’s spirit will do its thing and finally Cam will order in your backup.  He will be able to chase off/mop up the gangers and probably ‘persuade’ the remaining military guys to hot foot it out of the area.
If Winter only gets control of the vehicle, does the dog brain still have access to the weapons system?  Or are they just offline?

Ok, the next part might be considered spoilers for the end of 2072 so read at your own risk…

[ Spoiler ]

I’ve been thinking a bit about the Mechanicals Street Cred issue in seeing off this attack…it occurs to me that Fre∑dom are likely to want the whole thing kept quiet as they’ve had enough of red flags being raised around them!  They’ve already fled persecution twice!  Yes, they will shortly get to hide amongst the Mechs but until then…  The Balefire runner team may be requested to ‘clean up’ the mess.  Their interaction with the PCs might be interesting…although I don’t want to end on too much of an anti-climax…and I especially don’t want to take away from PC actions.  This may be something that gets addressed OoC…
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A little disjointed, but this covers most of my thoughts on follow up events and Street Cred for the tribe(s).

There are non-tribe people at the soup kitchen/clinic that have been seeing some of the results.  Including Spindle being carried in unconscious.  Oyl could ask her street contacts to not publicize things, but they are still going to talk among themselves, and information is going to leak.  The street grapevine is quite efficient and fast.  It has to be for them to survive.  Oyl already asked a contact to find out where the Spined Drakes were working out of, so that connection to events is already on the street.  Oyl will not be the only one with contacts on the street.  So far, no one outside of Mechancials/Fre∑dom C&C and the Spined Drakes, should have any real knowledge of Command and the resource he brought in.  The street people do have a vested interest in not letting information out about the damage, if that would affect the availability of the soup kitchen.  They will want Oyl and the Mechanicals to be/look strong, so that the kitchen will continue to operate.

This has not been a quiet run from the perspective of Command and his squad.  Too many people are going to know that something went down, and the general result.  Including street people that are not part of either tribe.  The surviving Spined Drakes are going to know too.  The final? part of the action is also just over the hill from Underworld 93, where there were already bystanders from the previous bombing.  Sprogget and the team were there when they heard the explosion that opened the breach in the mall wall, before moving to investigate that.  Someone is going to know that Command lost some significant resources in the barrens, and about when.  The bombings and fire fights were noisy enough to also be known fairly widely.  Even if it were not true, the conspiracy theorists and speculators would connect those 2 events.

Balefire might be able to clean up much of the physical evidence, and a chunk in the matrix, but there are a lot of eyes on witnesses to various parts.  The street is going to know something happened, if not the details.  Suppressing the information, supported by the tribes, is likely to fuel rumours even more.  Jackpoint (and other) information is known to contain truth mixed with fiction of varying qualities.  Keep this out of the street/shadow news is all but impossible.  Putting spins on it is possible.

In general, there may be no hard proof, but the Shadow’s are going to know/suspect that a strong attack got kicked in the teeth.  The damage to the mall and bombings of the sensor infrastructure is not going to be invisible (at least not before morning).  Fre∑dom may be trying to hide, and not want to be associated with the events, but Mechanicals have lived here for a long time, and are known to be there.  This was in their back yard, and (included) hitting some of their resources.  With the physical damage and witnesses it is not practical/believable to deny it happened.  For their own protection they have to say as a minimum that 'someone' tried to get aggressive, and got smacked for their efforts.  To many predators ready to feast on anyone that looks weak.  They would generally be expected to strut some about kicking the aggressors out.  A bland 'nothing interesting happened', simply dismissing it as unimportant could be effective too, but trying to totally hide it is not going to fly.

The best option I can see to reduce external interest, is to turn the Spined Drakes into scape goats, and put it all on them.  They somewhere got additional (gang) soldiers and equipment, and tried to take back their old turf, but in the process stepped on the toes of the Mechanicals, and got trashed.  That is still going to impact the street cred for the tribe.  Those that know that Fre∑dom exists, at the mall, are going to at least suspect they were involved too.  The Spined Drakes know they were not alone.  They are going to need a reason to cooperate in that.  Possibly convince them they would look even weaker, if it becomes known that they AND Command got trashed, while they were being treated as cannon fodder and a distraction by Winter and Command.  If that is Ares equipment, Ares might add some pressure that direction, not wanting it generally known that one of their teams was working on the side.

Street Cred is about perception, not always what actually happened.  It is a lot about face.  Mechanicals are not going to want to downplay their success here.  They will only want to downplay how much it cost them.  They will not be advertising that it was an Ares team that they smacked, but they will want it known that those that attack them can expect similar.  My feel, is that they general prefer 'trade agreements', to maintain their position, being useful so that other groups do not want to 'kill the golden goose'.  They are not going to totally rely on that though.  Spindle / rat shaman, might prefer to run away from conflict, but the tribe is quite well established, and it is not practical to put all of that shop equipment in a pocket to move somewhere else.  For some, the equipment is the most important, much more than the housing and other possession.  Being known to be pushed out would only make somewhere else even less safe.

Oyl has the skills to understand strength and perception.  She is not going to let someone make the the tribe look weaker than it has to be.

[ChromeZephyr]

[ Spoiler ]

To add on to what MG said, by the time the storm blows over there will be the more artistically inclined amongst the Mechs tagging their dominance on the surrounding area, street-corner performers producing impromptu raps/songs about it (and probably lying about their participation in it, natch), and the more tech-savvy amongst them blasting their slant on the dust-up all over the pirate nets. They may be a tribe, but there's going to be "gang-like" attributes to it as well. You simply cannot avoid that at this side of the income scale, it's a pure survival mechanism: "Yeah, you tried to come fuck with the low-lifes with your fancy shit, and we stomped you." translating to "We're tough, don't try and eat us again!"

At least, that's my take on it all.

[Machine Ghost]

@Aria, E:Tribes

For Oyl
First Aid SR4A252; First Aid+Logic(2) success test, net hits each reduces 1 box of damage
First Aid(4)+Logic(3)+MedStation(6)+feng shui(3)-magican(2)+situational modifiers (2): Complex Action, takes (existing patient physical damage) combat turns
- maximum of 6 boxes of healing for the doc box rating

Heal spell SR4A208; Magic(2)+Spellcasting(5)+Mentor(2)
Drain Resist:WIL(4)+INT(5)+Limited(2) vs (Starting damage boxes - 2)
11d6.hits(5) : buy 2 hits when limiting to treating 4 physical or less

healing Spindle

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Heal Spindle using Medical station
14d6.hits(5) → [6,4,1,6,4,6,4,4,6,6,2,4,4,4] = (5) 3 boxes healed
Spindle physical damage reduced from 5 to 2

Magical healing for Spindle
9d6.hits(5) → [2,5,6,6,1,3,1,5,4] = (4)
Spindle fully healed from physical damage.  2 Combat turns base - 2 from the extra hits.

healing Sprogget

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Heal Sprogget using Medical station
14d6.hits(5) → [5,3,5,2,4,2,2,2,1,2,5,1,2,1] = (3) → 1 box healed
Sprogget physical damage reduced from 6 to 5

Magical healing for Sprogget; resist drain(3)
9d6.hits(5) → [1,5,1,1,4,3,4,2,6] = (2) → 2 boxes healed
11d6.hits(5) → [5,5,6,1,5,3,2,4,4,3,6] = (5) → resist versus 3 drain
Sprogget physical damage reduced from 5 to 3, drain easily handled

Stim wears off, Sprogget physical damage increases from 3 to 5, stun track full
Heal Sprogget using Medical station, after stim gone
14d6.hits(5) → [3,5,1,1,3,1,5,3,6,1,1,5,2,3] = (4) heal 2 boxes
Sprogget physical damage reduced from 5 to 3

General healing for how well Oyl is doing at the clinic.

[ Spoiler ]

General first aid rolls for treatments earlier this afternoon
16d6.hits(5) → [1,2,4,4,1,4,5,6,4,3,1,5,6,5,1,4] = (5) → 3 boxes healed (physical)
16d6.hits(5) → [4,1,3,5,2,5,3,6,6,6,6,1,6,2,4,5] = (8) → 6 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [5,2,4,5,1,6,1,4,5,5,4,1,2,5,4,1] = (6) → 4 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [6,2,6,1,6,4,3,5,6,5,1,6,1,4,4,4] = (7) → 5 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [3,1,5,2,5,6,3,4,4,4,4,5,3,3,4,6] = (5) → 3 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [4,6,5,2,5,1,3,3,5,2,4,6,5,2,1,6] = (7) → 5 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [5,4,1,1,4,2,4,5,5,1,4,3,5,2,6,1] = (5) → 3 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [5,3,3,5,4,1,5,4,5,4,6,1,1,3,3,5] = (6) → 4 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [4,5,5,2,6,2,3,2,4,1,4,6,3,1,1,4] = (4) → 2 boxes
16d6.hits(5) → [4,3,6,3,2,3,5,5,6,5,4,2,1,6,3,4] = (6) → 4 boxes
Oyl has been doing pretty good patching up wounds, even without any teamwork assistants.

General Magical healing for patients at the clinic, with up to 4 boxes of physical damage
9d6.hits(5) → [6,1,2,4,5,5,1,2,1] = (3) physical boxes healed
9d6.hits(5) → [3,2,4,1,1,3,2,1,2] = (0) just going to have to rest to heal
9d6.hits(5) → [6,1,6,2,2,4,1,1,6] = (3)
9d6.hits(5) → [3,4,3,1,4,4,5,2,2] = (1)
9d6.hits(5) → [3,4,6,4,5,2,6,2,6] = (4)
9d6.hits(5) → [1,1,5,2,6,6,5,4,3] = (4)
9d6.hits(5) → [4,6,5,4,4,2,5,5,1] = (4)
9d6.hits(5) → [1,5,5,5,6,2,2,2,6] = (5)
9d6.hits(5) → [6,5,4,2,1,5,5,2,2] = (4)
9d6.hits(5) → [6,3,2,6,3,4,1,2,4] = (2)
Other than a couple, the Mana has been doing good healing too.  Cam could be stretched thin right now, but should not be too short staffed in the morning.

Once the simpler healing is done, Oyl moves on to those that (like Sprogget) have more physical damage that needs healing, where buying the hits for drain is not enough.  Here are some drain resist rolls to get a feel for how long she lasts, until she is risking physical damage, and being down longer than just over night.  Actual stun will vary, since the order of these healings will be prioritized by who needs it the most, who is needed the soonest, and when the wounds occurred.  These will all be against at least 5 physical damage, so at least 3 drain to resist.
Drain Resist:WIL(4)+INT(5)+Limited(2) vs (Starting damage boxes - 2)
11d6.hits(5) → [1,1,6,1,2,3,3,6,3,3,2] = (2) at least one stun
11d6.hits(5) → [1,1,2,2,5,1,5,4,5,2,3] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [5,2,4,2,1,6,3,1,6,4,1] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [6,5,5,4,5,4,6,1,4,6,4] = (6) drain? what drain? that is good enough to ignore healing someone with 8 boxes of physical, even after the med station and first aid.
11d6.hits(5) → [5,4,6,3,2,1,2,1,1,4,4] = (2) at least one stun
11d6.hits(5) → [3,3,1,5,4,4,6,3,5,4,3] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [4,4,1,5,6,2,2,6,3,4,6] = (4)
11d6.hits(5) → [4,4,3,3,1,6,4,3,3,1,2] = (1) at least two stun
11d6.hits(5) → [5,3,4,1,3,2,3,5,6,2,6] = (4)
11d6.hits(5) → [5,5,2,1,6,2,6,1,3,5,5] = (6)
Once she is tired enough that, despite the stim(6), the wound modifiers are decreasing her ability to heal effectively, she will quit for the night.  She can do more again in the morning, since she has 12 hours from the initial wounds to do the healing.  She is starting at 4 actual boxes from summoning the spirits, and can go as high as 8 without the stim wearing off knocking her out.  That is also about the limit for effective healing before modifiers cut in again.

Healing with Assensing AU123
Shiatsu(5)+Assensing(2)+Perceptive(2)+Enhanced Perception(2)
General Healing with Assensing
11d6.hits(5) → [6,2,2,2,4,3,4,6,4,6,4] = (3) extra dice for body tests for healing through rest
11d6.hits(5) → [2,5,3,5,2,2,2,5,3,3,5] = (4)
11d6.hits(5) → [2,2,3,1,4,5,2,6,4,6,5] = (4)
11d6.hits(5) → [4,6,1,1,2,5,4,3,5,1,4] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [6,6,5,5,5,5,5,6,6,4,1] = (9) (capped at 5 for skill rating)
11d6.hits(5) → [2,4,6,3,6,6,2,3,5,4,4] = (4)
11d6.hits(5) → [2,1,3,2,1,5,5,2,3,2,5] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [6,1,2,4,3,5,4,6,4,1,4] = (3)
11d6.hits(5) → [2,1,1,2,2,6,2,1,6,3,3] = (2)
11d6.hits(5) → [3,1,5,1,3,2,6,5,6,2,4] = (4)
Doing very good at getting extra dice for 'heal after rest' tests

The ‘status’ that Oyl is passing to Cam about Mechanicals tribe members being treated is for him to do scheduling.  It is based on the boxes of physical and stun damage left after treatment.  The treatment is only for physical damage, but the status will include reference to the stun too, indicating how ‘tired’ they are.  Someone that came in with only physical damage, like a gunshot wound, could be treated and immediately released, as fit for regular duties.  They are healthy.

Physical damage
Healthy; no remaining physical damage
On Call; 1 or 2 boxes of physical damage remaining, no wound modifier
Needs rest; 3 to 5 boxes of physical damage remaining
down-checked; 6 or more boxes of physical damage remaining

Stun damage
now; less than 3 boxes stun damage
tired; 3 to 5 boxes of stun
weak; 6 to 8 boxes of stun
exhausted; 9 or more boxes of stun
morning; currently unconscious

So Spindle’s status went from 'needs rest, in the morning', to 'healthy in the morning'.
Sprogget went from 'down-checked and weak' to 'needs rest and weak', then 'needs rest, in the morning', with no change after the final treatment.

Priorities will be to stabilize anything life threatening (tribal or not), then to get actives back out the door, then the rest, which will include non-tribal members.

[Aria]

Grand! Your final posts seemed to me to wrap things up nicely so I propose that we all jaunt over to 2075 now! Don't worry if you haven't had a chance to convert characters yet, that's no reason not to start posting IC in my book (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Always Overkill]

Runner Looking for Work

Name: Genry von Tresckow

Race: Human

Archetype: Gunslinger Adept

Hometown: Berlin

A former soldier who fought in the Anarchist Movement that took Berlin in 2039. Served in the Berlin Anarchist
Defense Force until the city's fall to Megacorp/AGS forces in 2060. He has kept low ever since, taking any
opportunity to get back at the corporations who destroyed his home.

[Machine Ghost]

2072 (SR4) thread mostly shut down. Moved over to 2075 (SR5), where I see you posted for some other characters.