Misanthrope's Masterplan Recruitment, 4e Game Options

[Mulcarn]

Alright, last thing every runner needs is an alias, a moniker or street handle if you will.

Edit: Yeah my bad about the rituals comment. Thought Ritual Spells had to be individually purchased and learnt in this edition.

[Koekepan]

Kathy "Can Opener" Gilroy.

Whether it's because she looks inclined to open the legendary can of hoop-whuppin', or whether it's a reference to her axe, the world may never know.

[Mulcarn]

I was expecting something cheesy like Kathy "Griffin" Gilroy. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[Thanee]

Thinking about a few possible directions, one of which likely needs your consent. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

That would be taking the Ally Conjuration Metamagic and have an Ally Spirit.

Would that be an acceptable choice (assuming, it even works out with the pretty steep costs)?

Bye
Thanee

[Mulcarn]

Not saying no, (at least not right away) but wouldn't that require a massive karma sink?

[Thanee]

It does. Which is part of the reason why I am thinking about it, since this is likely the only time, where you would have that amount of Karma at your disposal. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

It might turn out to be not feasible due to the cost, not sure about that, yet.

Bye
Thanee

[Mulcarn]

Ummmmmm, sure, you can. But you most follow all rules of the Ally Spirit Conjuration minus the actual dice rolling parts.

That includes the Magical Lodge Materials, Spirit Binding Materials, the Karma for the Initiation coupled with the Karma cost of the desired spirit. Don't forget to pay for the skills needed for the use of its powers. And it's home metaplane must coincide with one of the 6 usual metaplanes (air, beasts, earth, fire, man and water).

[Thanee]

Yes, obviously. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

I have something put together, just needs some finishing touches (like getting rid of 123 Karma worth of stuff (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif) ).

EDIT: Getting closer... still 50 to go. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Mulcarn]

So far its just the three of us. Know anybody else whom might be interested?

[Thanee]

No, afraid not. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/indifferent.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Koekepan]

LFG: Face, Decker, Sammy, Rigger. Apply within. Mister Johnson has cookies.

[pbangarth]

I've been away from Dumpshock and Shadowrun for about 3 years. Life took a funny turn, and then I ended up going to the Andes a couple of times, looking for an ancient settlement in the forest. Been there, done that, now looking for some virtual adventure.

I left while playing and Dming 4th edition. Missed 5th all together. I have the 6th edition core book, and must admit it is a bit of a chore figuring things out. A 4th edition game would be a nice return. I could dig all my source books out of the storage locker.

You interested in an old guy coming out of retirement? If so, what do you think the team needs?

EDIT: Seeing the previous post, I could do a sammie. I have filed away somewhere Oro, the Unstoppable, a troll from Kazakhstan who worked his way East through the Russian army and a couple of circuses, or Quick Willie, a dumpster diver who got lucky and pumped himself full of enhancements.

[Mulcarn]

Hey, welcome! Technically all roles are open. I don't mind running a group of all Magic users it would just give me an evil excuse to throw more magical based opposition at you guys (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) .

Jokes asides, a Street Sam or Phys Adept would be a nifty addition. That or some kind of Tech Specialist like a Hacker, Rigger or Technomancer. Play what you are the most comfortable with, no pressure.

[pbangarth]

Well, I think there should be -one- PC who isn't screwed over by Background Count. So, here's a possibility. I dug this up from old files, so I believe the stats are OK. I used 400 BP to generate him, but might look at the karmagen to see if I can mold him a little better.

Quick Willie vignette:

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“So what the fuck is it? Whadda ya wanna show me?”

“Not here, dickwad. Around the corner, in the alley, so’s no one can see.”

The two Halloweeners duck into the darkness behind the bar where both had drunk their fill. The smaller one, Skank, scans both ways up and down the street to be sure no one is near. Satisfied, he reaches into his jacket and pulls out a small rod that reflects the street lights with a metallic glint. “Check it out, Lance.” He whispers. “It’s a platinum credstick!”

“Fuck off, Skank. Where would you get sumpin like that?”

“I’m cuttin’ through the back of one of them fancy restaurants downtown when this old guy in a white suit steps out and starts pissin’ on the wall. Beats me why he didn’t use the bathroom, but he’s havin’ a grand old time till I decides to shiv him and check for his watch and stuff. That’s when I found this! I booked it outta there right away and checked it out a couple a blocks later. And know what I found?”

“Whut?”

“One hundred and seventy five fuckin’ thousand nuyen! That’s what. This thing is a gold mine!” Skank can’t contain his glee and starts hopping from one leg to the other.

Lance twirls and pumps his arms wildly. “You lucky sonofabitch! Party time!”

“Damn right, Lance. But you’re sayin’ it to the wrong guy,” a voice from the dumpster behind them exclaims. Mouths agape the two gangers turn to meet, face on, two bursts of automatic fire. The Halloweeners fetch up against the dirty brick wall and spoil the graffiti with their blood.

Before they finish slumping to the ground, Willie snatches up the credstick and, still chewing on the fried chicken leg he found a moment ago, dials up the street doc he met yesterday.

“What’d I tell ya, doc? Somethin’ came up, and I’m ready to deal. See ya in half an hour.”

Quick Willie description and stats:

[ Spoiler ]

Quick Willie (400 BP, Availability (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

Willie earned his moniker more for his temper than for his reflexes. He is not the smartest kid on the block, and compensates for it by getting angry if anyone makes fun of his intelligence, tries to pull one over on him (and Willie actually catches on), or acts superior in any way. He has tried hard to learn how to act in public, but still on occasion farts, picks his nose, or somehow offends those around him. He has tried so hard because proper behaviour has made his life easier, particularly with women, though he does not understand why people care so much.

Willie stumbled upon a Halloweener ganger bragging to a fellow ganger about the credstick he stole. Willie surprised them and killed them both, paying for his augmentations with the cash on the credstick.

Willie loves to go fast.

Ork [20]
low-light vision

Qualities [-15]

Restricted Gear (5) – hot sim module
Restricted Gear (5) – Wired Reflexes Rating 2
Resistance to Pathogens/Toxins (10)
Vindictive (-10)
Uncouth (-20)
SINner (-5)

Attributes [200]

BOD 4 + 4 = 8
AGI 1 + 3 = 4 (5)
REA 1 + 4 = 5 (7)
STR 3 + 2 = 5 (6)
CHA 1 + 1 = 2
INT 1 + 2 = 3
LOG 1 +1 = 2
WIL 1 + 3 = 4

INI = 8 (10) (3 IP)

Special Attributes [40]

ESS 6 – 4 = 2
MAG 0 = 0
EDG 1 + 4 = 5
Contacts [14] + (6)

Street doc 3 connection / 2 loyalty
- the one who augmented QW after his big score
Mechanic 2 connection / 1 loyalty
- works on QW’s vehicles
ID fabricator (hacker) 3 connection/ 1 loyalty
- source of fake SINs
Combat Bike promoter 3 connection/ 1 loyalty
- has entertained QW’s requests for info and a chance for a tryout
- says will call QW “when the circumstances are right”
Fixer 4 connection / 1 loyalty
- this may be the way to link QW to the others?

ActiveSkills [112]
Dice Pool

Perception 3 [12] INT 6 (+3 {+2} auditory, +3 vision)
Etiquette 1 * [8] CHA 3
Con 1 * [8] CHA 3
Dodge 3 [12] REA ranged 7 / full defense ranged 12 /
(ranged combat) (+2) [2] melee 10 / full defense melee 13
Unarmed Combat 2 [8] AGI 7
Automatics 3 [12] AGI 8 / 10 (+2 with smartlink)
(subm. guns) (+2) [2]
Pilot Groundcraft 5 [20] REA 12 / 14 (+2 with control rig)
(bike) (+2) [2]
Pilot Watercraft 1 [4] REA 8 (+2 with control rig)
Running 1 [4] STR 7
Infiltration 1 [4] AGI 6
Survival 3 [12] WIL 7 / 9
(urban) (+2) [2]

Knowledge Skills (15 pts.) + [2]

Seattle street gangs 3
Sports trivia 1
Combat Bike circuit 2
Seattle water smuggling routes 2
Moonshine production 1
Orksploitation trideo 2
West Coast Beers 1
Ork Underground entry points 2
Goblin Rock 3
GEAR [27] 135,000 nuyen
Augmentations 72,250 nuyen
Wired Reflexes (2) essence 3.0 cyber/ 0.0 bio 32,000 nuyen
Muscle Augmentation (1) 0.0/0.2 7,000
Muscle Toner (1) 0.0/0.2 8,000
Sim module 0.2/0.0 5,000
Control Rig 0.5/0.0 10,000
Data Jack 0.1/0.0 500
Cybereyes (4) 1,500
- smartlink 1,000
- vision enhancement (3) 4,500
- vision magnification 1,000
- flare compensation 750
- thermographic vision 1,000
- low-light 1,000
- eye recording unit *
- imagelink *
- eyelight system 750

Other Gear 59,800 nuyen (2,950 nuyen unspent)
Suzuki Mirage Bike (control rig adaptation) 9,000 (+2 Handling)
- anti-theft system 1,200 (associated with Fake SIN A)

SC Otter Boat (control rig adaptation) 15,000 (+1 Handling)
Marina slip rental X 1 year 600 (associated with Fake SIN A)

Honda Spirit subcompact (control rig adaptation) 12,500 (+1 Handling)
(associated with Fake SIN B)

Middle lifestyle X 1 month 5,000
Fake SIN A (4) 4,000
Fake SIN B (4) 4,000

AK-97 carbine submachine gun 400
- regular ammo clips (30) X 4 240
- internal smartgun system 400
- gas-vent (3) 400
- foregrip 100

Armor Jacket (8/6) 900
FF Full-body Suit (6/2) 1,600
Bike racing helmet (+1/+2) 200
Securetech PPPsystem 900
- forearm guards (+0/+1)
- leg and arm casings (+1/+1)
- shin guards (+0/+1)
- vitals protector (+1/+1)

Armour: 17/14 (encumbrance 14/13)
Damage Resistance Pool: 25/22

Commlink for Fake SIN A: Novatech Airware Resp. 3 / Sig. 3 1,250
OS: Iris Orb Firewall 3 / Sys. 3 1,000
Commlink for Fake SIN B: CMT Clip Resp. 1 / Sig. 3 300
OS: Redcap Nix Firewall 1 / Sys. 2 400
Earbuds 10
- audio enhancement (3) 300
- spatial recognizer 100

Let me know if he would fit.

[Mulcarn]

Solid Character. Fairly well rounded and performs his role as a close quarters fire support specialist and tank. I'd recommend rebuilding him using Karmagen whilst using his BP-gen as a blueprint. Not mandatory though but I consider it to be superior to the BP system.

Edit: In case it was missed, all PCs get Charisma x 2 free contact points.

[Thanee]

Welcome! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Was that character created under stricter equipment limits than normal?

Just wondering, since you have Restricted Gear for Wired Reflexes 2, which has an AV of 12R, and Hot Sim, which is AV 4F. Neither requires the quality.

Bye
Thanee

[pbangarth]

Oh, yeah. In the campaign for which I created him (but which never got off the ground) there were stricter limits than the book. I'll fix that when I take a karmagen look at him. One challenge for me will be to play a character who doesn't come up with the ideas all the time. It's tough to shut off my idea engine. Or my mouth. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

And if I don't need Restricted Gear, I have more points! Min-max Min-max Min-max Min-max Min-max Min-max!

Hey! I was the 5000th member to join after Thanee!

[Thanee]

Hey! I was the 5000th member to join after Thanee!

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Koekepan]

If the team needs more flexibility, I can shelve Can Opener and go back to Robodoc. Whatever his issues are, flexibility isn't one.

[Mulcarn]

I'd wait for Thanee's char sheet before scraping or shelving anything yet.

[Thanee]

Shouldn't be too long...

I delliberately tried to not have too much overlap with Kathy. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Mulcarn]

Mages and Shamans have a bit of a natural overlap as it is. The same way Gunslinger Adepts and Street Samurais kinda do. Typically, in an almost stereotypical manner, Mages tends to be more offensive oriented when it comes to their preferred spelled and shamans are more defensive with theirs. Although, a Dragonslayer Shaman and an Earth Mage might disagree with that very sentiment (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) .

[Koekepan]

NON-CANONICAL

.... three months ago ...

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Kathy sighed as she shoved the footstool another two feet along the floor, then got up on it to dust the top shelves. Little crystal gewgaws twinkled and clinked while the synthetic fibres collected dust and crud from their surfaces.

A dwarf one inch high manifested, sitting on the edge of the top shelf, and looking down at Kathy while sharpening an axe. Of course - it was one of Kathy's watchers that she'd summoned out of sheer boredom. "Hey, boss, customer incoming."

Sure enough, a second later, the door opened. Kathy was already getting down, and peering through the shelving. She got a view of a shirt, and a midriff. Judging by what she could see, she already knew what to expect; an elf with delusions of being magical, and another elf fawning on him and using him as a wallet for pretty, pretty things. Kathy was well familiar with their auras, and knew perfectly well that both were just as mundane as the footstool that she'd been standing on a minute ago. But money is money, so she stepped out from behind the shelving and said: "Magickal folk, welcome to Aeolwyn's Talismongery! The master is out, but I'm happy to fetch you whatever mysteries you seek."

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[ Spoiler ]

George looked impassively at the rich kid standing at the lab bench, and the puddle of vomit on the floor.

"Look, kid, I can't make you dissect this piglet. Nobody can. All I can do is give you a failing grade on this class. The piglet is already dead, understand? But if you don't understand basic anatomy, how the frag do you expect to be plumping up the breasts of elven simstars?"

The rich kid's eyes widened, and he started to stammer something.

George held up a broad hand. "Save it. I saw your bragging on the 'trix. Working on flesh is not like whatever sim you think you ran through your trodes. All that stuff is sanitised for morons. You wanna plump up boobies? You have to know where to put the needles. That means you have to understand it yourself. And that starts with anatomy."

"But ... but this piglet was killed for no other reason than ... than ..."

"Than you learning to be a good enough meat mechanic so that you help more people than you kill." George turned away and started walking down the line of benches, where other students were hacking out bits, identifying them, and filling their charts. "Oh, and clean up your vomit before you get started. And all your tools. Never work with dirty tools."

[pbangarth]

Wow!

Well, I just recalculated Quick Willie as he is (minus the Restricted Gear Qualities he doesn't need) in Karmagen not BP, and as-is he comes to 450 karma points. I've checked it twice. I'll check it some more, but this leaves 300 points to spend!

If this is right, he can afford what he has dreamed about since they first called him "dumb trog": a Cerebral Booster!

And a bit more BOD (to soak even more damage!)
And more STR!

And more Skills!

Oh! Oh! and a -really- fast bike!!