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

[Mister Juan]

After considering for a long time whether or not I should join a game, and what character to make, I've decided to finally submit something. Now, I know this character in particular might seem a bit "peculiar", but he's something I've been itching to play. He's been in two "street gang" type game, which both died off very quickly. Now, he isn't a proper runner type, and might have trouble fitting in in the grand schemes of things, so if you all would rather I roll up something else, I'll completely understand.

That being said, I do know I won't be the most active of all posters, so I have no problem with standing a bit at the periphery of things story wise.
So, anyways, that having been said:

Mahpiya “Dog” Iyapato

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The Thirty

Background

1. Where and in what kind of environment did your character grow up?
Since the very first day he was born, Dog was hated and cursed. The offspring of a rape, he never had a father (or even a father figure), and was despised, every single second of his life, by his mother. When she was in her late teens, Dog's mother was viciously raped by a gang of elven go-gangers, in broad day light. Unfortunately for her, what she thought was a nightmare only continued further when she discovered she was pregnant. Her disgust only grew when her child was born with the pointed ears of her rapists.

And so, Dog grew up in a household where he was constantly reminded of how repugnant he was; of how much of a monster he was. With time, his mother switch from the harsh words and mental torture, to straight on beatings. Her hand gave way to a broom handle, which broke many times on his back, to cigarettes, and finally to the chains and whips. Every day, she would find something about his behavior that needed to be corrected; something he wasn't supposed to do that he had to be punished for.

In a way, Dog was fortunate... With time, he began to think of the relationship he had with his mother as something normal; something every child had. He began to love the pain. He began to accept it and crave for it. Every time she would lay her hands on him, he would squirm with pleasure in the back of his mind. Serious abuse at the hands of his mother has left Dog deeply scared; not only physically, but mentally. Beside the clear pleasure he takes in receiving pain, especially from women, Dog has inherited his mother's hatred for all of elven kind... something which drove him to cut the tip of his own ears. The daily beatings and abuse he received has also impacted his psyche quite seriously; Dog, for all intent and purposes, is blindingly obedient to whom ever his “handler” is, to the extend of almost behaving like a pet. He is almost unable to connect with any other human beings.

The disgust he has for his own body has now pushed him so far he will do anything to transform himself as far away from an elf as he can. Not too long after turning fourteen, Dog came home one day to find his mother dead from a BTL overdose. He lived and cared for her body for close to 6 months, until the smell became so intense the Star finally showed up. When they took his mother away, Dog went into a mad rage, attacking both the medics and social services workers, killing some, and maiming others. The young elf then fled to the streets, where he survived alone for a few more months, making his way to the Redmond barrens.

2. What are your character’s relations with their family? (Does your character keep in touch? Where are they now?)
Dog holds his mother to the status of God. Even though she died of a BTL overdose when he was 14, Dog still hears her voice on a daily basis. Sometimes, when he finds a whore willing to beat him, he'll see her traits on the working girl's face.

3. Does your character have an ethnic background? (Is it relevant to them?)
Dog is part Sioux, part he doesn't know what at all. His ethnic background holds no nostalgia for him, and beside the tongue, he knows next to nothing of the Sioux.




Appearance

4. What does your character look like?
Dog is tall and slender, with dark skin, dark eyes, and probably dark hair (if he didn't shave his head smooth). Years of physical abuse have left his entire body covered in vicious looking scars. He has very angular and long features, with thin eyes and an equally small and thin mouth... all of which make him look like a somewhat vicious bird. Since discovering cybernetics, Dog has been quite keen on modifying his own body. The added artificial muscle mass, on top of his already somewhat impressive physique, make him look slightly disproportionate. A few years ago, Dog went ahead and decided to cut the tips of both his ears.

5. What does your character dress like?
Dog wears exclusively a set of worn out and faded urban fatigues, which are haphazardly patched up here and there. His black combat boots seem to be as well worn as the rest of his outfit. Although rarely unarmored, when he is, Dog will replace his jacket for a simple black beater.

6. What are your character’s physical quirks?
Beside the fact that he looks like a vulture on steroids, and the numerous scars....


Skills, attributes, resources

7. What did your character always want to be? (How did they go about getting this job/position/ability/image? Did they succeed?)
Dog wants to be a good boy. He wants his mother to love him.

8. Where and how did your character learn their Active and Knowledge Skills?
After managing to survive in the streets for about 2 years (by scavenging what he could, stealing what he couldn't find), Dog finally hooked up with a gang. He didn't really understand what a “gang” was, but it seemed almost as kind as his mother. Always obedient to whom ever was leader of the gang, Dog became a sort of “pet”; traded or inherited by whomever took up leadership.

9. Where and how did your character get their major equipment and ‘ware?
What Dog didn't steal from others, he collected as personal trophies over the numerous bodies he has left in his path.

10. Where and in what kind of place does your character currently live?
Since Dog travels from roof tops to roof tops, at least as much as he can, he tends to live there also. Somewhat of a loner, he's never been quite keen on living amongst his fellow gang members, preferring to pick a spot, on a nice roof, somewhere close by. Generally speaking, Dog is rather nomadic, although he'll almost always stick to taking shelter in places on his gang's turf.

11. Who are your character’s contacts? (How did they become contacts? Why do they still talk to your character?)
Actually, Dog doesn't know a lot of people. He avoids talking to strangers, especially women. Mother doesn't like it...

12. Who are your character’s enemies? (How did they become your character’s enemies?)
Since Dog has mostly been used as something of an “assassin” ; a killer who strikes with precision instead of blunt raw force, he has without a doubt gained many enemies. His obvious hate for elves have put him on rather bad terms with members of the Ancients. On more than one occasion, he has been known to single out an Ancient in particular, stalk him for a few days, and finally kill him, making sure to deface him, and leave his body where others will find it.


13. For Awakened characters, how did your character learn their magic? For non-Awakened characters, how does your character feel about magic?
Dog doesn't comprehend what magic is, or stands for. He'll usually approach it with the curiosity of a child, but he has already learned that magic can hurt, and not in a pleasant way like Mother did.


Personality

14. What are your character’s personality quirks?
Dog's personality can be akin to that of a very loyal and vicious dog. Years of mental abuse have left him somewhat simple minded and dim witted. He'll always refer to himself in third person, and will talk greatly about his Mother's opinions. He enjoys keeping little “souvenirs” from whom ever he has been sent to hunt. Beside taking something that belonged to the person (an object, or something a body part), he'll always record his kill, and the aftermath, on an optical chip.

15. What are your character’s likes and dislikes?
He likes: Pain. Delicious, slow, pain. The sound pain makes. Mother. How pain feels warm. Other's pain.
He dislikes: Elves. His own body.

16. What is your character’s moral code?
Dog is loyal to whomever he recognizes as his handler. He will always do as told, in an almost blind fashion. He feels no remorse in killing, and he'll take any life without a single second of hesitation. He does not take any pleasure in killing... but rather in inflicting pain and feeling it. When he is given a target, Dog will always focus solely on it, ignoring everything else around it. Although this means he might sometimes bypass great occasions to “free up” some space in other gangs, he can be trusted to hit his target, and his target only.


17. Does your character have personal beliefs?
Mother is always right. Mother loves her boy.

18. What are your character’s personal motivations?
To find pleasure and to please Mother.

Running with the gang

19. Why does your character run with the gang?
Dog doesn't really acknowledge the fact that he is “part” of a gang, let alone some sort of family. In his own mind, the only relation that can exist are between two people; a dominant, and a submissive one (and he loves being the submissive, like Mother always wanted him to be). For all intent and purposes, Dog runs with his handler, not exactly with the gang itself.


20. When and how did your character join the gang?



21. How does your character contribute to the gang? What is his role; not just in terms of how he/she makes money, but where does he/she fit in the social hierarchy?
Dog is a stalker and a hunter. Although he much prefers to deal in pain, he has also been often used as a scout, even tho his main expertise will always remain that of an assassin.


22. What would make your character ever leave the gang?
If Mother came back to take him with her.


23. How does your character feel about their life in the gutter as part of a street gang? What is their view of the rest of the world? (i.e. Non-gangers)
Dog doesn't really “feel” anything toward his life as part of a street gang. Beside his life with his mother, it is the sole thing he knows, and cannot imagine anything else. He doesn't really like the rest of the world, because they came and took Mother away when she was taking a nap.


24. If your character could have their ideal life outside of the gang, describe what that ideal life would be.
Back with Mother, in the tiny apartment, where she could love him every single day.

I will probably alter his background a bit, to break off any tangible connection to a gang, so that he's free to roam Seattle.

[JxJxA]

@ Seth:

Demon is rocking ultrasound as well as spatial recognizers. Would that help at all in the perception test to locate the sniper/ID the ultrasound signal? I'm trying to decide whether or not to spend the simple action to actively look for the sniper as well as figure out my dice pool. I have Intuition(3) + Perception(3) + Vis Enh(2) + TacNet(2) - Sniper's Stealth Stuff(6) - Visibility(2) [- not actively looking(2)]. I don't know the rules well enough to know what ultrasound would do to all of that or whether the spatial recognizers would do anything.

@ General:

I am never insulted when people recommend to me what I should do (especially in this situation, lol)

[Seth]

@JxJxA
It's too complex for me, so just tell me you have an ultrasound and/or radar detector, make your perception roll, and I'll tell you what you see (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

@Mister Juan
That's one seriously screwed up character!

[AppliedCheese]

@ JxJa

The spatial recognizer won't help against the sniper's ultrasound emission I don't think...since ultrasound isn't blaring on the frequencies human hearing is in any way tuned to, and if it was, it'd be like a dog whistle (or being inside a church bell..I forget which end of the frequency it supposedly works on).

As for your ultrasound vision. I have no idea on how the "sonar on sonar" aspect would work. I think the main disadvantage to using it is that, like radar, it is an active source and is thereby sending out something that can be detected, as opposed to low light or thermal, which is passive. I just don't know what you use to detect it - clearly for it to work at all, there has to be a pretty high threshold against letting other sound interfere (or in the middle of a firefight all you would see is giant expanding balls of gray), and if the wave interfered at an ultrasound level, two ultrasound users looking at each other would blind each other until one looked away - which doesn't happen. So no joy there on using it sonar on sonar.

I just have no idea what the method of detecting ultrasound is.

I do know that it should provide a hefty bonus against standard visibility penalties. Because all the cool little illusions that camo or chamo creates are stripped away (no color-natch), and thermal dampening doesn't matter. You aren't picking up on heat after all. I think that's why it can detect otherwise magically invisible opponents so long as they have a material form. of course, the range sucks...your visual feedback is limited to the speed of sound. Probably why its not that common for security.

@Table talk: I need to kill the first two Alpha ites next to me before I can do anything against beta, and I'm definitely going to cover after that...which means on IP 1, count 11, if Demon is still standing on top of a car holding a champion marksman stance, all 5 beta assault rifles will have an exposed target. Since Pixel seems reasonably safe, and everyone else can clear out of the line of fire for the sniper, my vote goes to killing beta as fast as possible.

[Seth]

@AppliedCheese
Ah tech isn't it wonderful. 100 millions bats in a cave don't confuse each other with their sonar. They don't because they used "matched filters" (ignore the maths which while it is beautiful is not helpful in this forum: look at the end of the page). These are also used in "below the noise level communications" which are (almost) undetectable even if you have very good equipment.

In the good old days there were "high frequency" cyberears, but these have gone out of fashion. If you have ultrasound yourself or cyberears (but not ear pieces because I am mean) you can detect the ultrasound.

[JxJxA]

@ Seth:

Fair dues on the simplicity. That's usually my take on everything, too. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Taking a simple action to look:
Intuition(3) + Perc(3) + Vis Enh(2) + TacNet(2) + Actively Looking(3) - Sniper Stealth Stuff(6) - Vis(2) = 5d6 for 2 hits and a glitch + 1 and no glitch if Spacial Recognizers add their 2 dice because I'm looking for the sound souce.

So the good news is I spotted her. The bad news is that I probably glitched. So...does she look like my long lost grandmother or does my eyeball pop out? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

PS-I like the link. The math is elegant, but the science behind it is better. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Seth]

I spent a happy two years working with matched filters a while ago. Haven't really used them since.

[AppliedCheese]

Learn a new thing every day. I guess the implication is turning on ultrasound while sneaking is a horrible idea.

Should we start in on round 3, or hold off?

[JxJxA]

LOL, that it is. I was going to switch it off when trying to get out of the building before the Alpha goons (may their souls rest in peace) burst into the diner.

[Seth]

OK I'm moving to round 3.

Hansai's interactions with the fire elemental

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IP 1
Elemental's attack 3 successes.
Hansai's full defence 6 successes

IP2
Elemental's attack 4 successes
Hansai's full defence 5 successes

Ember's interactions with the fire elemental

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(gave you +2 for friends in melee)
IP 1 Astral combat 4 successes vs 3 defense
Damage 5S, 2 soak
IP 2 Astral combat 2 successes vs 4 defense
IP 3 Astral combat 5 successes vs 2 defense
Damage 7S, 2 soak.

Air spirit interactions with the fire elemental
IP 1 Astral combat 3 successes vs 4 successes
IP 2 Astral combat 6 successes vs 1 success
Damage 5P Soak 3
IP 3 Astral combat 3 successes vs 5 successes

The guests lay down some suppressing fire on initiative 9 (Dealer you might be in the line of fire)

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vs the single Alpha: 5, 1 and 2 successes
vs the twin Alpha's (and Dealer if he is still near there): 3, 2, 1
You will be sad to here that this had precisely no effect on the heavily armored Alpha Squad (I actually did this to help the goodies, but it looks like it will end up helping the baddies. Ah well that's amateurs for you)
Base damage 5, AP -1

@Xarin
The jamming stopping, and lights going out, that sounds like a Decker has got into Molly's system and is Pwning it.

@JxJxA
Sorry for the incoming pain. I couldn't see that she had any other option. You can abort to a full defence, as your ultrasound tells you what is about to happen.

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Base 17 die
Visibility -2 (even with Ultrasound/radar there is chaos going on)
I think that's it for modifiers but if anyone can think of other's I'll retro them
ouch 7 successes
Base damage 7P AP -7

@General
I'll do Alpha and Beta when the rest of you have had a chance to do stuff

Edit: I forget that the guests wouldn't have good vision enhancers, so their attacks would be even less effective than I posted. The only possible person affected by that is Dealer, so if you are still there, I'll sort out the die later

[JxJxA]

@ Seth:

Yikes! Okay, aborting to full dodge and spending edge for the extra dice and rule of 6:
Reaction(5) + Dodge(4) + Edge(3) = 12d6 for 4 hits. So if I understand, that's 10P damage, and I'm rolling 10-7 for 3 ballistic armor and 4 body

Damage resistance:
Body(4) + Armor(3) = 7d6 for 0 hits, Edge reroll for 0 hits. I take all damage, but my trauma dampener shifts 1P to 1S for a total of 9P and 1S. I'm still alive, but I'm probably out for the count.

Bye guys, it's been fun. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/spin.gif)

[AppliedCheese]

Erm...its seems like retconning now that we've seen the rolls, but Jx could have burnt edge to go first?

[JxJxA]

Yeah, I thought of that after rolling. x_x

I should probably also mention that I am all paid up on my Docwagon Gold contract. Perhaps help is on the way? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Seth]

@JxJxA
Sorry Snipers are really dangerous, and as I said I couldn't see anything else she could sensibly do.

I think I am going to do a bit of GM fudging in the interests of keeping you in the game: if you burn an edge to go first, you can have 2 die of cover for throwing yourself flat. With the die she rolled, that means you took 7 damage. Still a very nasty blow, but much less crippling.

Edit:

I should probably also mention that I am all paid up on my Docwagon Gold contract

I suspect you took your bracelet off: it has a GPS chip and is constantly transmitting your location. I suspect Knight Errant Firewatch would be here if you still had it on.

I looked again at your rolls: you were quite unlucky there...14 die and no hits on soak...

[JxJxA]

Sure, I can do that but it'll put me at 0 edge total. Would I still be able to permanently burn a point for "hand of God" to survive?

Also, is there any way I can convince her that I'm just shooting up a free t-shirt to her? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Ok, I guess the DocWagon bracelet is gone. :'-(

Wrt the soak dice:

Yeah, I finally figured out what Invisible Castle was doing: Luring me into a sense of security before hammering home the point that it really does not like any of my characters. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[AppliedCheese]

Ok.

IP 1

Kill the two alpha goons I'm laying next to unceremoniously. 15 and 14 d6 for the 1st and second long wide bursts respectively.

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3175157/
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3175162/

9 hits, 4 hits. I think that puts paid to them two. Get back inside through the window!

Watch Demon take a shot to the face like a champ.

Watch a hail of guests gunfire go zipping by the window.

IP 2 + 3 to follow

[Seth]

@JxJxA
Yes: hand of god is fine

Also, is there any way I can convince her that I'm just shooting up a free t-shirt to her?

Sure: just stand up again with your hands in the air and blow her a kiss. She'll respond well to that I'm sure

@Applied Cheese
The 4 hits isn't quite enough to get him, but he has 1 mental box left. Even with kamikaze, that's enough for him to consider his options, and I am going to treat him as a combat kill. The 9 hit guy goes down like a sack of potatoes, but there is a disturbing lack of blood and gore

[JxJxA]

The 9 hit guy goes down like a sack of potatoes, but there is a disturbing lack of blood and gore

Vampires! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[onlyghostdancesw...]

Sure, I can do that but it'll put me at 0 edge total. Would I still be able to permanently burn a point for "hand of God" to survive?

Also, is there any way I can convince her that I'm just shooting up a free t-shirt to her? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Ok, I guess the DocWagon bracelet is gone. :'-(

Wrt the soak dice:

Yeah, I finally figured out what Invisible Castle was doing: Luring me into a sense of security before hammering home the point that it really does not like any of my characters. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Sorry to comment on anothers misfortune but i cant resist... if his character is for the grave maybe bring his new character and mine in if you are willing to open your game up a bit? no pressure if not ofc.

[AppliedCheese]

No blood on the nine, the guy who soaked two grenades and 4 hits is still up? Holy crap. After tonight, Dealer is going to seriously consider getting a Barret, and then having someone pay for the custom work to change it from SA to FA, add an extended clip, and a personalized grip. 9/-9 on 3 round burst might finally get some of these guys...

[Seth]

Actually I would look at it a different way: you need to get some armor like theirs!

I think the main issue with the armor is that in my experience in less than 1 encounter in 3 would you be wearing it...

[LostProxy]

Now my character is completely done. Weapons on paper and contacts flushed out. I'll be posting either tonight or early tomorrow.

[AppliedCheese]

IP 2 consists pieing off an angle from the window and long bursting the last alpha survivor. Note: to pie, for future reference, means not exposing yourself like a t-bone in an entrance, but starting parallel to the wall of the entrance/window and working the angle out from there, picking up a great and greater field of view until you have a target, thereby preventing the "pop up target in the window" that you get from the typical 90 degree head on idea.


(14 DP + 2 Smart + 2 tacnet - 1 stun - 1 from cover - 2 enemy partial cover (the pie won't be perfect, I'm sure) - 2 recoil) = 12d6

Which I will roll once invisible castle stops being annoying through the proxy...

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3175453/

3 hits. Well, if my math and track assumptions are right, at least he can't dodge one of them

Regardless, he then gets out of the window, grabs a commlink off of one of the corpses and slaves it from their net to pixel's - she should now have all the data she needs to crack their network on the fly.

[Notsoevildm]

@Seth:
Copperhead actions are to cast 2 F6 stunbolts at the spirit. This might actually be in next combat round but it's after Hansai does his rambo charge.

Cast spells: Cha 3 + Magic 3 - mentor 1 = 5d6.hits(5)=2, 5d6.hits(5)=1 - not great but Snake isn't into combat. Then again, fire elemental is a little harassed at the moment.
Resist drain 2P: Cha 3 + Will 5 = 8d6.hits(5)=4, 8d6.hits(5)=2 - no damage.

[Seth]

@NotSoEvil
Just a reminder. Casting is Spellcasting + magic, but in your case both 3, so no difference.

Good think about fire elementals: no counterspell. Elemental rolls 1 and then 2 successes. So the first hits
Soak: 2 hits. Nett 4s damage
I think that combined with the astral combat from Ember and Tempest will mean the Mr Fire Elemental will be extinguished at the end of the round.

@General
Don't forget to spend xp! Remember its 1 xp and 2500 nuyen per 2 IC posts.