SRM04-00: Back in Business, Recruitment thread Options

[Slacker]

Hoi Chummers. I've been out of the shadows for a couple years, but I'm sure you all know you can never truly escape them. The kickstarter campaigns for Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun Online got me interested in running some SR once more. Still, I'm a bit rusty and would like to refamiliarize myself with the world of Shadowrun.

To that end, I'd like to start off with running the season 4 Shadowrun Missions for people here on dumpshock, starting with Back in Business. I'm looking for 4 to 5 characters using standard Build Point system rules with 400BP.

If you're interested, post a character concept here and I'd be happy to help with character creation for anybody that needs it. Feel free to ask me any questions you have. Thanks.

[mister__joshua]

I've never played or read any of Missions, so this could be fun. I'll give it a go (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Slacker]

Previous I've run various groups through the first season of Shadowrun Missions and found them to be quite fun for all involved.

This one seems to be more of the same with two main plotlines that will weave through the different Missions. One involves the Ork Underground and another is tied to ancient artifacts with multiple interested parties (such as the Draco Foundation).

[taeksosin]

I'll fill a hole. Don't have a preference on what type of character, so I'll wait to see what other folks are interested in playing and take whatever role is open.

[Slacker]

Sounds good taeksossin. The Shadowrun Missions are generally don't have any particular party requirements since you never know what you'll get at a convention game; but its certainly nice to have a well rounded group to have multiple options.

[ChromeZephyr]

Sounds fun, I'll take a shot at it. Maybe this time I'll even make a character that's not an ork. When do you want characters finalized by?

[Slacker]

Well I'd like to get at least brief concept ideas from everybody in the next day or two. Then I'd be looking for finished characters sometime next week. The earlier the better. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[ChromeZephyr]

Okay, I'll think about it tonight on the way home from work.

[Forces In Motion]

I have a character that I created for SR3 some time back that I never played...I could probably get him up to SR4 without too much trouble, the character concept might actually translate better anyway. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) He's a former Lone Star rigger who got into an accident and is now paralyzed below the waist. The trouble comes with making custom vehicles for him, though...should I go with R3 vehicle creation rules for those?

[Slacker]

Sure you can use the Rigger3 rules for modifying vehicles and we'll work together to make sure its compatible with SR4.

[Kiirnodel]

I am interested in playing a Missions game. I recently started up a group to play live, but I'm just about the only one willing to run so I've been sort of itching to play. I have a character that I've already played a few missions adventures with (I got one of the CMP's in at GenCon but I had to play a pre-gen) and I went to a small convention where they were running some Season 3 missions.

Are you planning on running this with the intent to be full Missions play legal? or just to use the adventures as a leap-point? If possible I would like to keep my character legal for play just in case... I'm not sure what the policy is (or if there even is one) for playing a character on a play-by-post, and how it relates to a normal table. If anyone knows details I would be interested, even if I don't end up playing here.

If I can, I would rather play the same character I have already developed, but I can also make a new character if I need to.

My concept is a Giant Hippy, literally. He is a Giant (Troll Metavariant) magician (Wiccan tradition) who grew up in San Francisco. He's a pacifist, he prefers not to harm people (which is what leads to being a "hippy"). He is inspired by the Goddess (Great Mother) to avoid conflict and encourage growth and healing, and uses his gifts to try and bring a peaceful resolution. Because he grew up during the Japanese occupation of San Fran, he is not fond of the Japanese (particularly humans), but has learned to keep quiet about his mistrust of the meta-haters that tormented his childhood.

As I said, this character has played several scenarios already (6 from season 3, and one of the CMP's from Elven Blood) so he has a little experience and some gear to back him up. I'll be interested to find out what sort of restrictions there might be on my ability to play this character (if there are any...)

[Slacker]

Hmm.... I like your character concept kiirnodel, but I'm not sure if pbp games are legal for SRMs. I'll message the missions coordinators and see if I can get an answer back quickly for you.

[Slacker]

Kiirnodel, I've send a message to the Missions coordinators. Hopefully, we'll hear something soon. I plan to follow all the standard game rules. So I would assume this play-by-post game would be legal. Go ahead and PM me about what rewards you've gotten in the missions games you've already played in if you don't mind.

All, looks like we've got a five player team, mister joshua, taeksosin, ChromeZephyr, Farces In Motion (rigger), and Kiirnodel (troll magician).

[mister__joshua]

Well, I'm not bothered what I play. I'll come up with a concept for anything. So, as we have a 5 man team and only 2 (maybe) definite characters maybe we should try and cover all our bases?

[ChromeZephyr]

I'm thinking I'll go with a stab-n-shoot this time around. Russian immigrant who doesn't like taking orders if they're of no benefit to him as well, so no Vory membership for him. Keep him human, have him ride the cyberware express. Yeah, sounds about right. Character sheets in this thread for approval, Slacker?

Oh, there's no space in my handle, either. And I think it's Forces in Motion, though Farces does make a certain degree of sense if you're a fan of Terry Gilliam, neh? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Slacker]

Lol, didn't even notice the typo.... I kind of like Farces In Motion. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Anyway, you can either post character sheets here or simply send me a private message with them if you want to keep something secret.

[Dak]

I'll be an alt in case someone drops.

[Slacker]

Sounds good Dak. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[taeksosin]

Think I might try building an adept hacker for giggles, and leave Joshua with the face role? My thought is a hacker/stealth guy, bypassing maglocks and Ice with the greatest of ease. Maybe make him a throwing master too for grins.

[Slacker]

I've considered making a character like myself before, though I never got around to doing it. I'll look forward to seeing what you come with taeksosin.

Does a Face work for you mister_joshua?

[mister__joshua]

My favourite role (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Now, to think of a concept...

[Slacker]

Sounds like we've got a nice well round team going here. I'm looking forward to seeing the character sheets everybody comes up with.

[Forces In Motion]

Well, let's try this for a first run: female street samurai. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'm trying to puzzle out the rules for rigging, which seem to have gotten a lot more complex in SR4...so I'm gonna submit this one first to see what you think of her.

[ Spoiler ]

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== Info ==
Street Name: Phoenix
Name: Rebecca Elizabeth Stanton
Karma: 0
Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 0
Public Awareness: 0
Metatype: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Height: 1.8 m (5'11")
Weight: 62 kg (137 lbs.)
Composure: 8
Judge Intentions: 9
Lift/Carry: 8 (75 kg/50 kg)
Memory: 7
Nuyen: 2400

== Attributes ==
BOD: 3
AGI: 5 (7)
REA: 3 (5)
STR: 3 (5)
CHA: 4
INT: 5
LOG: 3
WIL: 4
EDG: 2

== Derived Attributes ==
Essence:                   1.3
Initiative:                8 (10)
IP:                        1 (3)
Matrix Initiative:         9
Matrix IP:                 1
Physical Damage Track:     11
Stun Damage Track:         10

== Active Skills ==
Animal Handling            : 0                      Pool: 4
Animal Training            : 0                      Pool: 4
Archery                    : 0                      Pool: 6
Armorer                    : 3                      Pool: 6
Artisan                    : 0                      Pool: 4
Automatics                 : 3                      Pool: 10
Blades                     : 5                      Pool: 12
Climbing                   : 0                      Pool: 4
Clubs                      : 0                      Pool: 6
Computer                   : 0                      Pool: 2
Con                        : 0                      Pool: 3
Cybercombat                : 0                      Pool: 2
Data Search                : 0                      Pool: 2
Demolitions                : 0                      Pool: 2
Disguise                   : 0                      Pool: 4
Diving                     : 0                      Pool: 2
Dodge                      : 3                      Pool: 8
Escape Artist              : 3                      Pool: 10
Etiquette                  : 0                      Pool: 3
First Aid                  : 2                      Pool: 5
Flight                     : 0                      Pool: 4
Forgery                    : 0                      Pool: 6
Gunnery                    : 0                      Pool: 6
Gymnastics                 : 2 [Parkour]            Pool: 9 (11)
Hacking                    : 0                      Pool: 2
Heavy Weapons              : 0                      Pool: 6
Infiltration               : 0                      Pool: 6
Instruction                : 0                      Pool: 3
Intimidation               : 0                      Pool: 3
Leadership                 : 0                      Pool: 3
Locksmith                  : 0                      Pool: 6
Longarms                   : 5                      Pool: 12
Navigation                 : 0                      Pool: 4
Negotiation                : 0                      Pool: 3
Palming                    : 0                      Pool: 6
Parachuting                : 0                      Pool: 2
Perception                 : 0                      Pool: 4
Pilot Ground Craft         : 2 [Bike]               Pool: 7 (9)
Pilot Watercraft           : 0                      Pool: 4
Pistols                    : 4                      Pool: 11
Riding                     : 0                      Pool: 4
Running                    : 0                      Pool: 4
Shadowing                  : 0                      Pool: 4
Survival                   : 0                      Pool: 3
Swimming                   : 0                      Pool: 4
Throwing Weapons           : 3                      Pool: 10
Tracking                   : 0                      Pool: 4
Unarmed Combat             : 0                      Pool: 6

== Knowledge Skills ==
Combat Tactics             : 4 [Guerilla]           Pool: 7 (9)
English                    : 4                      Pool: 9
Japanese                   : 2                      Pool: 7
Mafia                      : 5 [Politics]           Pool: 10 (12)
Mandarin                   : 2                      Pool: 7
Triads                     : 4 [Turf]               Pool: 9 (11)

== Contacts ==
Jimmy Pilleggi (Mafia Soldato) (3, 2)
Kelly Huston (Erotic Dancer) (2, 3)

== Enemies ==
The Eighty-Eights (3 (7), 4)

== Qualities ==
SINner (Standard) (UCAS)
Vendetta
Wanted

== Cyberware/Bioware ==
Cyberears Rating 3
   +Ear Recording Unit
   +Sound Link
   +Balance Augmenter
   +Damper
   +Increased Sensitivity
   +Spatial Recognizer
   +Select Sound Filter Rating 2
   +Audio Enhancement Rating 2
Cybereyes Basic System Rating 4
   +Eye Recording Unit
   +Image Link
   +Flare Compensation
   +Low-Light Vision
   +Thermographic Vision
   +Vision Enhancement Rating 3
   +Vision Magnification
   +Smartlink
   +Microscopic Vision
Muscle Augmentation Rating 2
Muscle Toner Rating 2
Synthetic Full Arm (BOD 5, AGI 7, STR 6) (Left)
   +Customized Agility Rating 7
   +Customized Body Rating 5
   +Customized Strength Rating 6
   +Armor Rating 1
   +Spur
   +Spur
Wired Reflexes Rating 2

== Armor ==
Armor Clothing            4/0
Bike Racing Armor         7/8
   +Delta-Amyloid
Clothing                  0/0
Form-Fitting Full-Body Suit6/2
Lined Coat                6/4

== Weapons ==
Ares Predator IV
   +Hidden Gun Arm Slide
   +4 Spare Clips
   +Smartgun System
   DV: 6P   AP: +1   RC: 0
Ares Predator IV
   +Hidden Gun Arm Slide
   +4 Spare Clips
   +Smartgun System
   DV: 5P   AP: -1   RC: 0
Colt M22A3
   +Airburst Link
   +Imaging Scope
   +Sling
   +Smartgun System, Internal
   +2 Spare Clips
   DV: 6P   AP: -1   RC: 1
Enfield AS-7
   +2 Ammo Drums
   +Sling
   +Smartgun System, Internal
   +Firing Selection Change, Small Mod (FA)
   +Gas Vent 2
   DV: 8P   AP: -1   RC: 2
FN 5-7C
   +Quick-Draw Holster
   +Smartgun System, Internal
   +4 Spare Clips
   DV: 4P   AP: -   RC: 1
Hammerli 620S
   +Hidden Gun Arm Slide
   +2 Spare Clips
   +Ceramic Components Rating 1
   +Smartgun System
   DV: 4P   AP: -   RC: 1
HK MP-5 TX
   +Smartgun System, Internal
   +3 Spare Clips
   +Stock
   +Gas Vent 2
   DV: 5P   AP: -   RC: 3
HK-227X
   +Sling
   +3 Spare Clips
   +Stock
   +Smartgun System
   +Sound Suppressor
   DV: 6P   AP: +2   RC: 1
Katana
   +Advanced Safety, Spring Trigger Spike
   DV: 6P   AP: -1   RC: 0
Knife
   DV: 4P   AP: -   RC: 0
Minigrenade: Flash-Bang
   DV: 6S (10m Radius)   AP: -3   RC: 0
Minigrenade: Fragmentation
   DV: 12P(f) (-1/m)   AP: +5   RC: 0
Minigrenade: High Explosive
   DV: 10P (-2/m)   AP: -2   RC: 0
Minigrenade: Incendiary
   DV: Special   AP: -   RC: 0
Minigrenade: Thermal Smoke
   DV: (10m Radius)   AP: -   RC: 0
Minigrenade: White Phosphorus
   DV: 8P/4P (-1/m)   AP: -half   RC: 0
Spur
   DV: 6P   AP: -   RC: 0
Spur
   DV: 6P   AP: -   RC: 0
Tomahawk
   DV: 5P   AP: -   RC: 0
Tomahawk
   DV: 5P   AP: -   RC: 0
Unarmed Attack
   DV: 3S   AP: -   RC: 0
Walter MA-2100
   +Shock Pad
   +Stock
   +Smartgun System
   DV: 7P   AP: -7   RC: 1

== Martial Arts ==
Kali
Disarm
Iaijutsu

== Commlink ==
Fairlight Caliban (4, 4, 5, 5)
   +Novatech Navi [Firewall 5]

== Gear ==
Ammo: APDS (Sniper Rifles) x40
Ammo: Explosive Rounds (Shotguns) x76
Ammo: Flechette Rounds (Shotguns) x100
Ammo: Hi-C Plastic Rounds (Light Pistols) x44
Ammo: Hollow Point Rounds (Submachine Guns) x122
Ammo: Hollow Point Rounds (Heavy Pistols) x185
Ammo: Regular Ammo (Submachine Guns) x130
Ammo: Regular Ammo (Heavy Pistols) x185
Ammo: Regular Ammo (Machine Pistols) x280
Ammo: Regular Ammo (Light Pistols) x100
Ammo: Regular Ammo (Assault Rifles) x360
Fake SIN (Georgia Hennessy) Rating 4
   +Fake License (Weapons Permit) Rating 4
Fake SIN (Theresa Alvarez) Rating 3
   +Fake License (Weapons Permit - Pistols) Rating 3
Medkit Rating 6 x2
Minigrenade: Flash-Bang x6
Minigrenade: Fragmentation x4
Minigrenade: High Explosive x3
Minigrenade: Incendiary x4
Minigrenade: Thermal Smoke x4
Minigrenade: White Phosphorus x4

== Vehicles ==
Thundercloud Contrail (Racing Bike)
   +Vehicle Sensor

Description

Phoenix is a tall, very leggy redhead woman with pale skin and dark blue eyes. On any given day her mode of dress can be anything, so long as it's fashionable, functional, and comfortable. Meetings, however, will always get a professional touch to her stylish glamour.

Background

The middle child, Becca was the only mundane child in a magical family, but she wouldn't have traded it for anything. Her parents loved her all the more for it, because she had the opportunity to have a more or less 'normal' life that their two sons never really had a chance at.

It made things all the more tragic when, at the age of 8, they were killed, and she and her brothers split up when they were adopted.

Becca herself was adopted by a gentleman by the name of Joseph Cordero, a Mafia underboss in the Seattle area. His son, Anthony, was a year younger, and Cordero wanted a daughter to be not only a companion, but a guardian for him as well. He saw the potential for both in Becca, and upon getting her home, he began grooming her for the job.

Treated like one of the family, it was not long before Becca settled in with her new father and brother, and over time began to love them as much as she had her natural parents and brothers. Her truly defining moment came when she saw her brother being bullied as school and took up for him, in the process injuring two other students. Joseph Cordero knew beyond a doubt that he had chosen well.

He began sending the pair to classes in martial arts for self-defense and training, then to another man he knew for training in the use of weapons - knives, firearms, and the like. Once Becca got to the age of fifteen, he began having her first pieces of cyberware installed to make her a match for any threats beyond the usual bullies at school. By this time, Becca had nearly forgotten her former life, attached as she was to her 'brother' and 'father.' She knew about the family business and the activities her adoptive father was involved in, and had made it known that she wished to make sure that the family that had so kindly taken her in was well-protected.

When she was offered that first cyberware implant - wired reflexes and muscular enhancements - she accepted with enthusiasm.

She and Anthony went virtually everywhere together, looking like nothing more than a brother and sister that were very close - which they were - rather than the son of a Mafia underboss and his bodyguard, this slender, lovely girl who looked as if she were not much of a threat.

Still, some people notice things, and have ways of finding them out. Two years after her first implants were put in, she had received other upgrades, none of which showed on the surface - being a Mafia man had some perks, after all, and Joseph Cordero would not see the young beauty's surface marred by bad surgery - and for the first time, was pushed to put them to use. Her father and brother had been left at home as she went out to meet a man who had some vital information for her father, and on the way, she was ambushed by four Chinese men.

Triads, the Chinese's more vicious, ruthless version of the Italian mafia, constantly at war with them, had set this up, hoping to draw the girl and the other guards away from the protection of the Mafia underboss and his son. Not expecting much from an inexperienced girl, the four men taunted her, trying to toy with her. None of them saw it coming from Becca, who had never killed a person in her life, as she pulled out a heavy pistol from her backpack and landed a shot right through the nasal cavity of the closest man, cool as you please.

The other three were stunned for a moment as she took aim again, but the sight of the girl with the large gun in her hand - while somewhat comical - spurred them into action, their movements blurred as they kicked their own cyberware on. The fight had just turned serious, and Becca, whose training had - unfortunately for the men around her - included her facing off against multiple attackers, had been drilled and even beaten into her until she could do it in her sleep, met them head on. The gun dropped and a knife drawn, as the first man charged, he found himself trying to grab onto empty air as Becca sidestepped and turned, the razor-sharp edge of the knife slipping neatly through the back of the man's neck, between the vertebrae there, and clipping his spinal cord, leaving him to fall to the ground like a puppet whose strings had suddenly been severed. The next, coming from the other side, saw this and hesitated for a moment, horrified with the cool precision and ease with which the man had been dispatched.

It cost him his life as the knife slashed across his throat in that split-second.

The last saw all this, electing not to charge in, but fleeing for his life. The knife in Becca's hand found its way from her hand to that soft hollow in the back of the man's head, plunging into his brain and ensuring that he would not be making it back to report to his overseers.

She didn't stop to think about any of it, already suspecting the worse, as she scooped up her backpack, the pistol, and sprinted for home, hoping beyond hope that she would not find what she feared.

She knew before entering the house what she would find there - the door ajar, the utter and somehow final silent stillness that surrounded the place.

The reek and aura of death, still fresh in her senses, cast its pall over her home of nine years. Entering the house, she found her father and brother, cruelly savaged by blades and bullets, an example and demonstration of the Triad's cruelty to the men of the Mafia.

It was some time before she was able to pull herself from weeping over the bodies of father and son, her brother. But when grief was gone, rage took its place.

She vanished from the house, taking only a few things with her as she went.

Some weeks later, Triad members of a group called the Eighty-Eights began turning up dead. Some cruelly torn to pieces, others found with nothing more than a bullet hole in their heads, still others so broken and battered they looked as if they might have been run over with a tank. None of them could figure out who the assassin was that was so bent on exterminating them, and fear stole over them. The only hint they ever had were images captured at a middleman's home when he was killed - what appeared to be a young, flame-haired apparition that moved with vengeful purpose.

Finally, a trap was laid to catch her, as the heads of the Eighty-Eights met and made whispers on the street of the where and the when of their meeting. Surely enough, the girl showed up, only to find that the heads of the Triad were not there, but instead a number of assassins lying in wait.

She would not be deterred, however. The fire of hatred and revenge burned in her, for the second family taken from her so heartlessly, and one by one, the assassins fell to sniper's bullets before she finally took the fight up close and personal.

Terrified, the remaining Triads barricaded the house and set it ablaze, hoping to kill her in the fire.

They found themselves disappointed as she walked out of the flames. She had not come out of it unscathed, however - in the fight with the last assassin inside, a sword had come into play, and her arm had been lost. But walk out she did, and vanished just as she had before.

A year passed. Two. The Eighty-Eights began to think perhaps their problem had been taken care of.

Until one of their number turned up missing. And another, found dead at the bad end of a three hundred foot drop. Not with any regularity, just one of them occasionally turning up dead in a variety of interestingly creative ways.

Their only clue to the mysterious killings left behind would be a single, red-gold painted feather.

Concept

This character is obviously a street samurai. She is based off of a much older character (dating back to 2nd edition) that I always liked playing, along with her two brothers (whom I may bring in to play at some point or other). In essence, she is a rebooted version of a much older, much more experienced character I used to have who is a lot of fun to play.

[Slacker]

She looks like a very capable Street Sam. I still like the idea of your rigger, but i understand if you want to go with this character instead.
One thing, in the background you mention she was jumped by 4 japanese men. I assume you meant chinese since the rest of the background describes them as Triads and not Yakuza.

[Forces In Motion]

She looks like a very capable Street Sam. I still like the idea of your rigger, but i understand if you want to go with this character instead.
One thing, in the background you mention she was jumped by 4 japanese men. I assume you meant chinese since the rest of the background describes them as Triads and not Yakuza.

Whoops! Good catch, and corrected. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)