An Elven J-Pop Star PC, With Karma creation rules... Options

[HunterHerne]

No, not a knock-off nor cheap. Imagine this: MCT buys some SINless orphan from some Southeast Asian hellhole. They pretty her up, dress her up and wire her up, just so they can plug some skillchips with "musical talent" and a marketing dept.-designed p-fix into her. They give her an impenetrable corporate SIN. They promote her. When the idoru expiration date comes, they take away the chips, wipe the SIN and boot her out or, preferably, arrange a convenient "accident". Drunk driver, drunk driving, sudden depression, this kind of stuff. And then, they buy themselves another SINless orphan and start anew.

Sounds like a cheap knock off to me. Even cheaper if they try to second hand her ware.

[Bigity]

Sounds like the Disney Channel. Except replace 'accident' with some scandal with boyfriends punching them in the face or nude photos.

[CanRay]

"Choked to death on her own vomit.", now that's a classic.

Here's who should really be running Shadowruns and being a musician!

[Mardrax]

A J-Pop star needn't be Japanese.

Also, CalFree was Part of the JIS for quite some time.
Seems like LA and J-Pop could just be closest friends.

[Krojar]

Here's one way to do it. This character actually works for the Dawkins Group and is based out of LA where she's popular in LA, the PCC, Seattle, Atzlan, and what's left of California.


Name: Eva Fring
Alias: Hikaru Rodriguez, Ms. Pink
Race: Dryad (Elven metavariant)
Height: 1.7 meters
Weight: 72 kg
Resources: 30,000 (6 BP)

Attributes:
Body 3
Agility 4
Reaction 4
Strength 3
Charisma 7
Intuition 4
Logic 2
Willpower 4
Edge 3
Magic 4
Essence 6

Positive Qualities:
Fame (National)
Symbiosis (Metagenetic)
Glamour (Metagenetic)

Negative Qualities:
Day Job (12500/20 hours)
Sinner (standard)
Pacifist (-5)
Media Junkie (Moderate)
Thrill Seeker

Active Skills
Unarmed Combat 4
Disguise 3
Gymnastics (Dancing) 3
Perception 3
Con 5
Etiquette (Music industry) 3
Negotiation 3
Artisan (Singing) 4

Knowledge Skills
English N
Japanese 3
Pop Music 5
Intelligence Agencies (Dawkins Group) 3
High Society (LA) 2

Adept Powers
Critical Strike (2)
Enthralling Performance
Improved Unarmed Combat (1)
Kinesics (3)
Voice Control
Facial Sculpt (2)

Contacts
Blackwell Productions/Dawkins Group 4/11

Gear
Moonsilver Evening Gown/Shawl
Steampunk Corset/Blouse/Skirt
Erika Elite w/Custom OS (Firewall 5/System 3) and Biometric Lock
Analyze, Browse, Command, Edit, Encrypt, Purge, Reality Filter, Scan, and ECCM at 3
Sim Module
1 month High Lifestyle

[Mardrax]

Positive Qualities:
Fame (National)
Symbiosis (Metagenetic)
Glamour (Metagenetic)

Symbiosis is a negative quality. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Saint Hallow]

I'm surprised no one has named the Japanese Virtual Idols that exist currently. Change them in AI's & you have them ready & done.

[Krojar]

Or the AR persona of a Technomancer showing what their Edit CF boosted the hell up with threading can do.

[Fortinbras]

I'm surprised no one has named the Japanese Virtual Idols that exist currently. Change them in AI's & you have them ready & done.

There is an Emergence adventure with one of those. My runners deleted her from the Matrix they were so freaked out.
There is also the Gibson book Idoru.

And what do you mean Japanese? That concert was in LA!

[Krojar]

There is an Emergence adventure with one of those. My runners deleted her from the Matrix they were so freaked out.
There is also the Gibson book Idoru.

And what do you mean Japanese? That concert was in LA!

That Idol is from Japan and is pretty big there. This particular concert was in LA but the Virtual Idol thing hasn't really caught on big in the US. We got Autotune the News though.

[HentaiZonga]

Why steal them off the streets, when you can get better results from genegeneering your own?

[Seriously Mike]

Why steal them off the streets, when you can get better results from genegeneering your own?

Genegineering is too expensive for creating disposable one-season wonders. Plus, more variety. Plus, IT'S SO DYSTOPIAN! (and covering the fact is SO POST-DYSTOPIAN!)
Now, where are my hipster glasses?

[Werewindlefr]

Thanks a lot for the help; with this, we were able to create the character (which ends up being a face/combat adept). With Trust Fund, Fame, Distinctive style -25, and artisan 5 (singing songs with terrible lyrics) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) .

I have a question about distinctive style: the first level (5 BP) gives +3 to all attempts to track the character's meat body. What about the next levels? I thought the max bonus was +6, so why can distinctive style reach 35 BP? How does it work mechanically?

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

Thanks a lot for the help; with this, we were able to create the character (which ends up being a face/combat adept). With Trust Fund, Fame, Distinctive style -25, and artisan 5 (singing songs with terrible lyrics) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) .

I have a question about distinctive style: the first level (5 BP) gives +3 to all attempts to track the character's meat body. What about the next levels? I thought the max bonus was +6, so why can distinctive style reach 35 BP? How does it work mechanically?

The more Distinctive a single Distinctive Style is, the more points it is worth. You can have MULTIPLE Distinctive Style Negative Qualities. You top out at +6 to be tracked with the 2nd Distinctive Style you obtain. You could, in theory, have 7 5-Point Distiinctive Style Qualities. But even still, your opposition will only get +6 DP to track you, not +21.

[Werewindlefr]

The more Distinctive a single Distinctive Style is, the more points it is worth. You can have MULTIPLE Distinctive Style Negative Qualities. You top out at +6 to be tracked with the 2nd Distinctive Style you obtain. You could, in theory, have 7 5-Point Distiinctive Style Qualities. But even still, your opposition will only get +6 DP to track you, not +21.

What justifies the BP for the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th distinctive style if the don't harm the character in any way? You just confirmed to me that I understood the quality well, but that there's not drawback for the extra distinctive style beyond the first 2.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

What justifies the BP for the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th distinctive style if the don't harm the character in any way? You just confirmed to me that I understood the quality well, but that there's not drawback for the extra distinctive style beyond the first 2.

They are an additional way to be recognized. They just do not receive Additional Modifiers to be tracked beyond the 2nd. It is an MO thing. The more distinctive your MO, the worse it is for you. Hard to argue that you are not the one doing it if the MO matches on all 7 points.