Recruitment: Striding the Soul's Edge, Recruiting for my online game Options

[Fenris]

Hello all,

I'm recruiting for my online game. I've PM'd a few people, but I'm looking for 4 more to round out the team.

Setting: Upper end street level to lower end corporate runs. Setting will be Seattle, with possible runs stretching in Denver and CalFree State.

Time: April, 2064. If you want your character to be SURGE'd, I'll roll it. If you don't want to be SURGE'd, you won't be. For every benefit mother nature tosses out, there is a draw back. On the bright side, SURGE'd characters won't have to pay build points for their edges. On the dark side, there are drawbacks.

Build: Priority System, Sum to 10, Build Points (125), or BeCK's.

Additional: Add 50 karma and 250,000 :nuyen: (Money spent after chargen is with street index)

Karma for cash: 1 karma=5000 :nuyen: and vice-versa

Throw in any character concept you want, as my table top players know, I'm more interested in making sure everyone's having fun then playing a strictly cannon game. However, keep in mind that even metahuman's are prejudiced against the metavariants, so if you want to play a night one, expect people to stare, gawk, and remember you very clearly. Also, if you're going to play a Ghoul, keep in mind similar things. You smell like dead meat all the time, you have overly pale skin, you're blind, and it's uncomfortable almost to the point of pain to be in the sun. Bred Drakes, you'll have all that and more, including the whole automatic 6 point automatic Dragon Enemy. The only thing worse then dealing with dragons...

Since the characters are established, you can have custom gear. Just make sure it's detailed out.

I prefer the HTML or XML files that NSRCG spits out, but I'll take text files if I have to. Place character concepts in this thread, and I'll let everyone know who's in.

Here's a new twist: I'm requiring all the characters playing together to know each other and have at least a modicum of professional respect. At 50 karma you're all established runners, and I don't want any game destruction due to conflicting character types. I'm only looking for character concepts and backgrounds at this point, and I'll choose who I want in the game based on that. You guys, the players, will be expected to communicate via eMail, PM's, or whatever medium you feel appropriate and develop intermingled character backgrounds, skills, etc. Everybody knows everybody, everybody has a pretty good idea of what everyone can do, and you have to have run with at least 1 other character. Bonus karma may be awarded for exceptionally interesting or detailed backgrounds, but keep in mind that the backgrounds have to be created jointly, so you'll have to work with at least one other person to get it.

I'll be posting at least once a day, and I'll expect all my players to adhere to that, for the most part. Jobs, significant others, and dead grandmothers may get in the way, but I expect that to be the exception, not the rule.

Also, I'm taking a clue from a friend of mine running games on these boards, and I'll be bumping the storyline. If it's lagging or if things are moving too slowly, the thread will be bumped. I will always try to make sure I'm not interrupting valuable roleplaying, but I will keep the game moving.

No special house rules.

By the way, I'm God, and I don't have to be nice. If you're doing something I don't like, there will be 1 warning. Just one.

[Buddha72]

Color me there!!

You know my penchant for investment and weird characters so I will toss out a hermetic magician (earth aspected) bred drake. Bring on the strangeness. I will be taking the option of Dragon Patron (6 pt edge) with ties to the Draco Foundation as her benefactor. That's the rough sketch, let me know if it will fly.

[Joker9125]

IM IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT: My character is a Quadrapelegic albino elven hermatic mage who never goes on runs in his physical form he goes astrally and has his ally spirit handle most physical things that would come up during a meet like taking credsticks and such. He is an orphan from age 3 and grew up in a catholic mission. Im debating on weather or not to make him a Jesuite like the man hes named after, Francis Xavier.

EDIT AGAIN: anyone interested in getting together on a background please PM me.

[Eyeless Blond]

Hrm, sounds absolutely intriguing. Looks like we've got a nice cabal of wizards and the like here already, so I'll try something else. I'd do a Rigger, but frankly the vehicular combat rules scare the begeezus out of me, so maybe a decker. But a *normal* decker would be so *boring*... how about an adept? It would require a bit of, er, rules massaging, but it might just be possible. I'd need at least one of two little rule-tweaks:

1) The option to take Improved Ability in Technical skills (namely Computers.)
2) A way to Center while decking that doesn't conflict with a RAS override (a +8 modifier on the Centering roll would make it pretty worthless.)

If I can't get either of those maybe I'll make him an Otaku, about a year or two away from Fading. Either way, his name is Mallory Guliver, and his past is mutable, depending on who I talk to and the reaction I see in the recruitment thread. :)

[Large Mike]

Well, I've been looking for a fresh game, so you might see my semi-corperate ork face. We'll see.

[TinkerGnome]

Sounds like an opportunity to finish up that decker I was working on ;)

[CardboardArmor]

I'll throw in my Human gun-adept if you spell-slingers want some fire support.

As far as concepts go, try to imagine every Hong Kong action movie stereotype piled onto one adept. Assault rifles, pistols (a must), and grenades with wild acrobatics all over the place. The quintessential adept, yes, but a fun guy to hang around with.

Hey Fenris, you got somewhere specific you want these sheets sent to or something?

[Callidus]

It's soooo tempting *8-> I'll have a think over the weekend and see what comes up *8-> Probably either a rigger or a merc-ish type....

[Nikoli]

I'll throw my hat into the ring, if someone wants to have worked with a japanese human sneaky pistol-sam. (not that wierd, but hey it'll be playable)

Kaneda Marutestsu, former corporate 'jump-man'. Basically a corporate in house black ops specialist whose contract was dropped as a way to save face by a corporate oyabun (he saved the man's life and took a demotion to hide the cause of the danger, saving the honor of the executive. as a repayment, he allowed the runner to leave the service of the company without the usual disarming.)

if anyone wants to work have worked with him, give me a pm

[paul_HArkonen]

I'm in if possible, Mine is the gun toting meat wall, kills things dead. Troll, My body is well over ten. I'll mail the character to you as soon as i can.

[TinkerGnome]

Street name: Raton
Concept: Decker

Background summary: Raton is a slight and unimposing latino human. He grew up on Seattle's mean streets and turned to wit and usefulness to keep himself out of the gunsights of the local gangers. As time went on, he got a cheap skillwire system from a street doc and picked up some very low rating softs. With the skills this offered him, he eventually made enough money to upgrade, and that brought the cash to upgrade farther.

After a while of working on stereos, trids, and just about anything else imaginable, he scraped together the parts to make himself a cyberdeck. By this point, he was barely into his teens and used some of the technical knowhow he'd been gathering in the background while watching the skillwires work on things to good use. Without a skillchip, he was forced to learn to deck on his own, but before long he found that he had a natural talent for it.

Since then, he's turned a better and better living running bigger and bigger rackets and services. Most recently, he's been running Matrix work for local shadow teams.


This post has been edited by TinkerGnome: May 14 2004, 05:29 PM

[Panzergeist]

I think I would like to play a mage. I haven't decided on a name yet, but he would be a dwarf crab shaman. Stubborn, very grumpy, and argumentative, but despite talking like a jerk, he always acts like a team player. He's just grumpy like a stereotypical dwarf. He used to be a corporate wagemage, working in a cubicle at a typical soul-crushing corporate job in Newark, never doing anything that wouldn't have to be done again the next day or the next week. He was getting sick and tired of the nihilism of corporate culture, and when his 8 different bosses ragged on him 8 seperate times for not putting the new coversheet on his TPS report, that was the last straw. He burned the office building down, and skipped town to go to Seattle, where he started shadowrunning because he wanted some excitement in his life. Although he is presumed to have died in the fire, he does have a legal SIN, though he hasn't been using it since moving to Seattle. I think I'll give him the blandness edge to minimize this problem.

[TinkerGnome]

Let me guess, Talisman Geasa: Red Swingline Stapler?

[Bearclaw]

I've got a total pacifist phys-ad, path of the mage racoon shaman B&E specialist I've been dying to play. His magic only works when he's got his Racoon paint on, but the stealth and sense improvements always work. He's been to prison, South of Vegas, but a deal got him "dead" in exchange for services rendered. So long as he doesn't show up alive in Vegas, he doesn't have any extra flaws for it.
He loves getting into stuff he's not supposed to, and the better the security, the more he has to try and beat it. To add extra problems, he also has a 2 point compulsive flaw (steals small shiny objects). So, watch out if you're in the jewelry store with him.

[Bearclaw]

excuse me.....I believe that's my stapler....

[Nikoli]

I'll burn down the building, I'll do it this time, excuse me, there seems to be a problem with my paycheck, I did not receive last week and Margaret said I could lpay my radio between the hours of 8 and 11 as long as I kept the volume to a reasonable level so I don't see why I shoul dhave to turn off my radio.

Meanwhile a coyote shaman is chanting "Corporate accounts payable, Mina speaking, just a moment" over and over...

[Medesha]

Steel Lotus...a haunted woman with a mysterious past and a pair of katanas. She has her own goals, which she only reveals to a select few trusted compadres, but she's happy working in a team setting and is nice to have on your side in a fight. She likes swords, guns, her motorcycle, and the rush she gets from her enhanced cyber speed. A simple woman who likes the simple things in life, like kevlar bone lacing.

[BishopMcQ]

Fenris--

If there's still an opening, I'm in.

Jake--Combat Shaman, he's one of Carvaggio's boys. I'll send you the full bio via PM.

Edit: Or if we have too many mages, Fixx would be fun.

[Buddha72]

Nah stay all mage-like my friend but with so many submissions for mage types I will throw out the action decker Iblis into my choice tree.

Hey Fenris!!!

Give out some GM guidance - are you looking for a balanced team or a team built along a certain theme or skill set?

[Panzergeist]

Hehe, yep, I did indeed watch Office Space last night, though the character is intended to be more like Ron than like Milton. I'll give the shaman the demolition skill, maybe rating 4 or so, and an intense hatred of cubicle farms, people who say mmm, mmkaaay a lot, and guys named Lumbergh. Also, I think I'll make his centering skill complaining if I initiate him. The linked skill would be english, but instead of chanting like most language centering skills, he would have to gripe about something to center. Add in the gesture geas so he sticks out his middle finger when he casts, and what you've got is basicaly a proffessional asshole. Although, the possession metamagic is something I've been dying to try. I think I'll name him Wally, after the guy from Dilbert. Still working on a street name though. And what was that movie with Charlie Sheen as the deranged office worker?

A few questions Fenris. Can we buy cultured bioware with chargen money (as opposed to the extra 250k, which I assume we can buy anything reasonably available with, factoring in street index), can we avoid using street index for stuff bought with the extra money if we have a contact who could reasonably procure it for us, such as a soldier who could pilfer a bit of c-12 from his base, and if we use the karma to initiate, what prices do we use? IE, do we assume we had an initiatory group or underwent an ordeal? And what about karma pool, does the 50 include it, is it in addition to karma pool, or o we start with a karma pool of 1?

[Shadow]

Fenris,

Creche and I have an idea for a duo. I PM'ed you the details, I hope that was ok.

My understanding is that based on the basic backgrounds, he is going to chose four people to be in the game. At that point everyone will build their characters together along with their backgrounds. An integrated team from scratch.

[TinkerGnome]

That's also my understanding, Shadow. Which is why I posted a background sketch instead of a background :)

[Buddha72]

I know but I wanted to razz him a little. ;) He gives me lip all the time so it seemed fair to return the favor, albeit through a different medium.

[Beast of Revolut...]

I have a character concept I would like to try as well. The character is an otaku, in high school, probably a sophomore. His tribe is a new one, having been founded only 5 years ago, and as such it has only 3 adult members, the oldest of whom is only 21 and has not yet begun to fade (passed his first fading test.). Since there are no elders in the tribe, the character is a senior member, and has a dependents flaw to represent his tribal duties. The tribe is fairly well-off in spite of it's age and membership, and maintains a low or middle group lifestyle. The character is also, like many high-school aged boys, desperate to get laid. He'll hit on just about any hot woman he sees, even if he knows he is way too young for her. He has been a scrawny wimp most of his life, but has recently been working out to attract girls. Also, he used to have a SIN, but managed to get it erased from all computer records, having run away from his abusive parents a couple years ago. Probably still a paper record of his SIN in a storage room in Washington DC. He'll have a low-level hunted flaw to represent his parents looking for him, though Lone Star has given up, not to mention forgotten he existed. He looks a bit different from when he ran away, but former close associates such as his parents would still recognize him.

[Beast of Revolut...]

I should clarify that. The character is not attending school, but he would be a sophomore if he was. I'd say he's 15.