Collection of Cyber Criminals, The Marvels of the Mundane Options

[Aria]

Ok, I've posted a number of character collections, most of which are unfinished and have turned out to be for my own records more than anything else. I thought'd I'd complete the set of major archetypes by putting up some mundane characters that use cyber or bioware to get by (as opposed to magic: Archive of Adepts and Medley of Mages or the matrix: Examples of the eVolved)

If anyone wants to post any helpful criticism back to sort out some of the more obvious mistakes / omissions / etc that would be very welcome!

In addition if anyone has some really good builds they'd like to share then that would be great! Check out UmaroIV's thread on archetypes for some great builds that use a mix of magic and cyber... <<here>>

Some Notes:

• They aren't optimised (hence posting them here for comment) and this is a work in progress.
• I am trying to avoid one trick ponies, aiming for one skill at 14D+ and a couple of others rolling 11-12D. These aren't min/maxed because that's something I'm bad at!
• Standard 400BP creation, all books and basically RAW
• I've also used the Chax2 contact BPs houserule for these.
• Some are being played pbp on Dumpshock as PCs or NPCs but karma and gear post character creation will be red

Characters

• Requiem[Elven M - Former Fire Watch]
• Key [Human F – Aquanaut & infiltrator]
• Feather [Troll M – Pugilist]
• Any more that come to me...

Thanks for reading (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Aria]

Profile
Name: Daniel Synd
Alias: Requiem
Metatype: Elf
Sex: Male
Age: 54
Nationality: Ares
Matrix Icon:
Reality Filter: N/A
Lifestyle: Low
Karma Spent: 18
Build: 400 BPs
Game: 2072

Character Sketch: <<Requiem>>

Sheet

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Attributes

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Body: 5 ( 5 )
Agility: 4 ( 6 )
Reaction: 4 ( 8 )
Strength: 3 ( 3 )
Charisma: 4 ( 4 )
Intuition: 4 ( 4 )
Logic: 3 ( 3 )
Willpower: 3 ( 3 )
Edge: 3
Essence: 0.5
Initiative: 8 ( 12 )
Initiative Passes: 1 ( 3 )
Phys CM: 11
Stun CM: 10

Qualities

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Martial Arts [2] Firefight
Restricted Gear [2] MBW2 & Milspec Armour

Mild Addiction [Bliss]
High-maintenance implant
SINer & Records on File [Ares]
Phobia Insects [common & mild]

Skills

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Active Skills
Athletics Group 1
Climbing 1 [LA: Strength T: 4 ]
Gymnastics 1 [LA: Agility T: 7 ]
Running 1 [LA: Strength T: 4 +1 armour]
Swimming 1 [LA: Strength T: 4 ]
Clubs 2 Pistols [LA: Agility T: 8 ]
Firearms Group 4
Automatics 4 ARs [LA: Agility T: 10 +1 'ware]
Longarms 4 Shotguns [LA: Agility T: 10 +1 'ware]
Pistols 4 SAs [LA: Agility T: 10 +1 'ware]
Leadership 2 [LA: Charisma T: 6 ]
Infiltration 3 [LA: Agility T: 9 ]
Dodge 3 Ranged [LA: Reaction T: 11 +2 'ware]
Heavy Weapons 1 Grenade Launchers [LA: Agility T: 7]
Perception 6 [LA: Intuition T: 10 ]
Pilot ground vehicle 1 Wheeled [LA: Reaction T: 9 ]

Knowledge Skills
English N
Combat Signals 3
Small Unit Tactics 4 [LA: Logic T: 7 ]
Ares Operations 4 [LA: Logic T: 7 ]
Bug Spirits 5 [LA: Intuition T: 9 ]
Shadow Nodes 3 [LA: Intuition T: 7 ]
Merc Groups 2 [LA: Intuition T: 6 ]

Key Skills
Primary Attack: 15D* Firearms [Firearms+Agility+Smart+'ware]
Secondary Attack: 10D* Unarmed/Pistols [Clubs+Agility+Spec]
Ranged Defense: 10D* +7D FD [Reaction+ 'ware (+Dodge FD)]
Melee Defense: 14D* +5D FD [Reaction +'ware +Skill (+Dodge FD)]

Primary Non Combat: 9D* Infiltration -4D visual -6D thermal perception
Perception: 16D* [Perception+Inuition+'ware+gear]

* TacNet applies

Martial Arts

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Fire Fight [2]
-2 to 'attacker in melee' mod for ranged attack
Off Hand Training, Riposte, Two Weapon Style

Cyber & Bioware

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Attention Coprocessor [3]
Datajack
Orientation System
Move-by-Wire System [2] [Used - represents older model]
Nanohive [2]
+Implant Medics [3] (MBW system)

Muscle Toner [2]
Reflex Recorder (Firearms)

Gear

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2x Savalette Guardian [5P, AP –1, SA/BF, RC 2+Gyro, 15©] (Gyro - Cancel 3 pts recoil & movement)
+Extended Clips, Melee Hardening, Fire Modification
+Skinlink, Smartlink, Trigger Removal, Electronic Firing
+2x Hidden Gun Arm Slide, 2x Sound Suppressors
+180 EX explosive rnds

Enfield AS-7 Assault Shotgun [7P, AP -1, SA/BF, RC 4 + Gyro, 10 © / 24(d)] (Gyro - Cancel 3 pts recoil & movement)
+Skinlink, External Smartlink, Trigger Removal, Electronic Firing, Gas Vent 3, Chameleon Coating
+100 EX explosive rnds, 20 Shotgun Stick-n-Shock, 20 Shotgun Shock-Lock

FN HAR AR [6P, AP -1, SA/BF/FA, RC 4 + Gyro, 35 ©]
+Skinlink, External Smartlink, Trigger Removal, Electronic Firing, Fore grip, Gas Vent 2, Chameleon Coating, Sound Suppressor
+200 regular rounds, 200 sub sonic rounds

5x Flashbang Grenades, 5x Thermal Smoke Grenades

Medium Milspec Armour [14/12]
+Ruthenium Polymer Coating, Thermal Damping [6], 2x Gyromount, Mobility [1], Biomonitor
Milspec Helmet [+2/+2]
+Flare comp, HUD, thermographic, ultrasound, vision magnification
+Milspec Commlink, Novatech NAVI, Firewall [6] [4/4/6/4], Sat uplink, TacNet [2], Encrypt [6] Optimised [2]
Camouflage Suit [8/6], Armour Vest [6/4]
Gecko Tape Gloves

Sony Emperor [2/3] + NIX +Firewall [R:6] [2/3/6/2]
+ Skinlink, FTL Matrixware Net Wizard Program Suite [Limited to R:2 Progs]
+Fake SIN [4]

Radio Signal Scanner [R:6]
+Tag Eraser
Respirator [R:6]

Contact Lenses [3]
+Image link, smartlink, flare compensation
Mirror Shades [4]
+Vision enhancement [3], thermographic
Ear Buds
+Audio enhancement [3]

Beaten up Conestoga Dust Devil Pickup
+Anti-Theft System, Pilot Upgrade [3], Concealed Smuggling Compartments [2], Runflat Tyres

Contacts

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Jitan (Dojo Master & Blackmarket Dealer) [L:3 C: 4]
Toymaker (Esoteric Magical & Tech goods) [L: 1 C: 3]
Simon Graf (Cybertech / Medic) [L: 2 C: 2]

Background

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You can call me Requiem. Although I’d never admit it to a potential client, with you I can freely say I’m damaged goods, fragged over by my superiors and the experiences they put me and my unit through. That’s not to say I’m not lethal, I’ve honed my edge since those days and I can be a vicious, cold bastard when I need to be, it’s just that I need to disassociate myself from it all, blank it out, become less human, something that doesn’t sit well with me or my ex-wife.

I started out as a good corporate citizen for the Man, in this case Ares, and it was clear from the outset that I was bright and athletic enough for certain aspects of corporate life but that I didn’t have the right mental framework to make it as a functional wage slave. I was recruited to the security programme and after excelling at that was given the chance to join the Firewatch training school at the tender age of twenty three. Naturally I leapt at the chance to become one of Ares’ best and I strove to prove myself again and again during the rigorous training regime. They modded me to the point where I didn’t really recognise myself anymore but there was no doubt that I was a new and dangerous fighter. The move-by-wire system is a marvel of engineering but given that my wires are an early model I’ve never really worked the kinks out of them and they still require regular overhauls to keep me in check, one of the reasons I got my little friends installed later on to mitigate the stress on my system. Beyond that I have faster muscles and an onboard computer that keeps me sharp and knowing where I am at all times.

I wasn’t directly involved in the infamous creation of the Chicago containment zone in ’55 but as Ares responded to increasing pressure to clean up the mess our unit was deployed against at least six nests in the next three years, culminating in "Operation Extermination" in ’58. I will never forget the things I saw over those years and my dreams are still haunted by those images today. The doc says my fear of insects is understandable given the circumstances, although I think he’d prefer it without the overwhelming rage that fills me at the same time!

I won’t say that Ares weren’t good to those of us who were less able to cope with events. I saw a stream of shrinks and quacks in an effort to purge all my fear and self-loathing, all at the company’s expense. But it never seemed enough. I withdrew from the world and for a while became next to useless to myself and everyone around me. My wife was a psychiatric nurse that I met during my extended convalescence and plenty of people have told me it was a mistake to marry someone in those circumstances. But she did manage to pull me out of my despondent pit and help me sort my life out. We lasted six years together which is no mean feat and I’m impressed she put up with me that long.

Once I was back on my feet Ares put me on the fledgling Firefight programme as an instructor. Here was something where my martial skills, anger and problems with disassociation could be safely channeled. Ares did an excellent job of creating a functioning martial art more or less from scratch and I am proud to have been a part of those initial stages. Apathy still struck me every now and again and I would relapse in to a semi fugue state but more and more I was able to hold it together.

When the crash happened at the end of ’64 everything was going to shit, Claire had left me and Ares didn’t seem like a safe haven any more. I took the opportunity of a glitch in records to slip away from the corp and head out for new horizons. I know now that the corp had an eye on me all along and I’ve worked for them several times since, but I guess that they no longer wanted a liability on their official books and I was more useful to them as a freelance operative.

I made my way to Seattle eventually, pitching up in Redmond a couple of years ago. Although I plied my skills as a shadowrunner from time to time I preferred to have a steadier income and found work at a dojo in Touristville, keeping street kids out of trouble and helping the odd fellow runner to up their game. It was from here that I hooked up with the Stillwater group and was on hand to see it all go to shit when a merc force blew them to hell. I even took a couple of bullets in the fallout despite the fact that I had told myself not to get too involved. I stuck around long enough to get a real attachment for the place, even when things were falling apart and it was there that I met first Aria and then Silk.

Now I may still look twenty, (my gods do I not feel young any longer), but I really should have known better than to get involved with someone as young as Silk even if she did make me feel youthful again. Although it didn’t go far as Aria ‘stepped’ in and sorted me out. Now Aria is like the daughter I never had, as ridiculous as that may be given what she is, and I had no choice but to heed her advice. I headed out of town for a while just to allow things to cool off but I found that I missed rainy old Seattle too much and I’ve gravitated back here…

This post has been edited by Aria: Dec 14 2011, 01:34 PM

[Aria]

Reserved for Key

[Aria]

Reserved for Feather

[Seriously Mike]

OK, looks like I have to build a rigger based on my VtR Nosferatu Wheelman. Gotta say, she was pretty scary. And now she'll be a) faster and b) wired to her muscle car. Not invisible, but I believe that can be fixed with some well-planned gear and/or friends.

[Aria]

Bring it on (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Seriously Mike]

I think I should get her through the Character Clinic first.

[Aria]

I'm all for that...the only reason I haven't posted in your thread is I have far too many characters rattling around in my brain to overwhelm a single thread (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Seriously Mike]

Well, Character Clinic is for the characters that you feel are badly built but you're missing what's wrong with them.
Today I figured what is wrong with mine. The ride. The Requiem version had a real rustbucket, one of those 70s muscle cars the dad bought back in the day and never got around to fixing. It was handwaved in Requiem, but SR4 is pretty heavy on resource management, the cars of 2050 aren't as reliable as those of 1970 and new ones are insanely expensive. And today I had an epiphany: a very similar character I played earlier in Masquerade had to quickly replace her trashed '71 Mustang and got a retired cop Crown Vic.
"It's got a cop motor, 4.6 litre. It's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. Reinforced gearbox and transmission, goes 25 miles per hour faster than the civilian model. What do you say? Is it the new Brujahmobile or what?"
So instead of dumping 60k on a sports car, I'll spend less than 25% of that on a retired pursuit vehicle. Civvie repaint, some James Bond goodies, ditching the Rigger Cocoon and problem solved.