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[Gremish]

Detriot, Where the weak are killed and eaten.

Hey all im new to the boards been GMing for SR for about 2 years now and ide like to give GMing here a shot... ide like to run a game open to all but maxing players out at around 6-8. Prefer Bran spanking new chars if at all posible but ill take up to 25 karma 50k Y chars if someone has an existing char they would like to play.

The Setting will be Detriot (which im from) and further info will be granted as the game gets ready to open. Ide liekt o start this as quick as posible realizing that the next few weeks are going to be ruff for people ide like to get this going by January. This WILL be my first GMing experience here but i feel i should be able to handle it.

Anyone interested plz Post here if u get a char ready then post it or send it to me at archonfanatic26@sbcglobal.net. Hope to see plenty of you playing =D

Also im looking for people who are going to post at LEAST 5 times a week (yes i stole it from sphynx cause it seems like a good number) i would liek to keep this rolling fast combat being a minimal as posible i like players who do INTERESTING things to get out of situations or into them not just
" you got the Rocket launcher ready Fred?"
"DO I!"
*woosh* Building Explotion
"ok lets see if the computer survived"
*5 minutes later*
"No Mr johnson the building just blew up and there was no trace of the computer to be found, so when do we get payed?"

yeah, also the most interesting posts you do the more likly it will work and the less "ok i fire, your turn" "ok i got 3 sucesses" "ok Guards down" BS we dont have to deal with for endless posts =P

*EDIT* as an add on to my origanal post i would like to keep this SR group going for as long as the players feel like sticking around. Im here for the long hall as long as everyone ele is. one more little edit =P i was also thinking about hvaing like a night where (once we get enough pc's) everyone could make it regulkarly and use a IRC or some other program to play (AIM Yahoo MSN i dont give a ****) and spend a little time every once in a while doing that to not only speed up the game (which i would recored all that went on and post it) but also might keep things interesting =) it may work it may not but its worth a good shot =D

Also i Host a Ventrilo Server (Ventrilo is a active speach software program much like talking on the phone except through your computer) so we could also use that for times when we all wanted to play =P these are a few of my ideas and i know ill come up with more as i go but hey creativity is what this is all about!!

[Gremish]

As of current i got 4 players looking to get in this campaign. Mugzy, Morefizz, Bonk and a friend that hasnt registered yet. Im still open for anyone who wants to join plz post here ide like tog et this going asap cause im blowing my mind out writing all kinds of ideas over here and i got the shadowrun bug =P

[Ecclesiastes]

What kinda of characters have been submitted? I may toss one into the mix, but I'd like to fill a gap, as I can play just about anything.

edit: Are you avioding Deckers or Riggers?

[Mugzy]

Well, I was thinking perhaps a decker.

I would not be opposed to a razorhead or a 'slinger either. Hell, I can fill any roll, and Im gettin to the point all I want to do is play SR again. But as of right now, I'd like to run a decker.

You have any preferences Ecclesiastes?

[Ecclesiastes]

Well, if he was ok with Deckers, I was actually thinking of going with an Otaku character of mine. Beyond that, I'm fairly open (though I prefer not to play Riggers). It takes me about 30 minutes to finish a character, so once I see what everyone else wants to play, I'll take the left overs.

edit: I've got a jack-of-all-trades character that could be cool. Part Street Sam, part Face, part B&E / Electronics Wiz. He is a real pro as far as runners so though, so if the game is more for a street level, then it wouldn't fit either.

[Mugzy]

Im pretty sure hes fine with it. You'd have to get a response from him though for confirmation.

Otaku, eh? Never gave a whole lot of though to them. Guess I'm gettin old. Sounds cool though. That Sam/Face guy sounds killer. Resources, bleh, Its always cool to have a smooth talker, regardless of the guy's history.

[Gremish]

Im up for anything i got the matix book sitting in front of me atm =P Deckers are fine but thier difficult to play well with a group ... i dont know how on here will work (thinking it will work alot better because i can PM deckers and go through all kinds of decker shiz on teh side) but we will see.... as for that im open to trying anyhting i am new to this so we will have to see what works well what doesnt AHEAD of time ide liek to state that im not completely awsome at matix stuff yet seeing as in most table top its extremely hard to coordinate the matix and the RL of the game at the same time without boring one or the otehr side.

PLAYERS SO FAR

Morefizz- Sammy
Mugzy - Decker
Bonk - Physadept
Ecc - Otaku/Jack

Anyone else interested just post away whatever u like to play even if its something already here cause the group will shift and turn based on whos playing anyway =D

[Ecclesiastes]

Hmmm... No wiz yet? I'll have to bust out Jessie. My Face/Cat Shaman.

edit: Granted she has more than 25 Karma, but I can tone her down a bit. I think she's currently at around 50 karma.

[Gremish]

No wiz yet and make sure u got healing ... for some reason people just like to walk into mounted machine guns in my campaigns...

Shoot me a post on her stats ect and ill check it out if shes not nbutz 50 karma might make the cut =) Casters and karma normaly only means more spells which dont really mean shit anyway =P

[Ecclesiastes]

I think shes graded twice with a few extra spells, yeah. I don't have the sheet on me, but I'll try to talk my wife into emailing it to me here at work.

[Ecclesiastes]

What are you looking for in the way of background stories? A full page, small brief, 20 questions, etc?

[Gremish]

No sweat i cna check it tommarow if u cant get it today i got to work in 4 hours anyway =P Damn christmas 12 hour days /sigh

[Whizbang]

Hmm...thinking of trying something diffrent and going conjurer. Not sure whether a mage with high conjuring, or just a conjurer adept just yet. Will have to build a character from scratch with whatever build rules you prefer, though.

[Gremish]

well this is how i always did backrounds...

First way- Write me a page or 2 backround or as long as u like DONT make a character sheet and base it off that ake the background based on the type of char you would liek to play.... ill write ur character sheet for you based on that BR then you and shift things around as you see fit. It makes for a different world and makes it so people arnt playing the same char with a diff name every time. i like to write and i like creativity aka ur gonna get extra karma/ creation points ect plus kool stuff based on how well u write a BR. If its a clean cut backround with "this corp shot my mom, so thier all gonna die" i'll give u the nice ... and have u make a char on ur own and a piano might be part of your starting gear.

For those out there that HATE backgrounds thats kool too no worry sjust write up a char make a decent reason why you are the way you are and im happy.

PS: anyone wanting to use Edge/Flaw i MAX the points at 4. Also some of them i hate so if u use it and i say you cant have it plz dont take it personal i just think some are a little cheesy. Also taking a really nice Edge and a buncha cheesy flaws aint cutting it either you get something relaly awsome take somehting that could bone you. Backgrounds may also develope into Edge / flaws based on the writing and what i think fits which in that case you may get something relaly cool or something really shitty, either way it hightens the RP value.

Final note here if you relaly dont like a char that you get out of a BR then by all means develope your own but if u think its not the greatest but still willing to play give new things a try... you might just get addicted...

[Gremish]

[Ecclesiastes]

Whizbang and I were both wondering if you use the AIM handle you have in your profile much. We chat on there a lot to make things quicker than posting back and foward. I can be reached at Ecclesiastes76 and Whizbang uses Starfyre076.

[Gremish]

Im on aim a little ehre and there dont use it a ton cause a few poeple on there bug the helll outa me and i dont like having programs running that im not using but if your gonna be on there to tlak ill start logging on more regularly

[Maxxi]

Both these characters are people who can't adjust to living outside of prison. I like them both, and could develop them quite a bit.

I have an idea for a former Sioux millitary agent, who was 'dismissed' after a stiont in millitary prison. He's lost most of his politics, although he's more then willing to cause havoc in the UCAS and get paid for it.

I've also got a Voodoo Shaman following Oggun. He's got political ambitions, and a taste for violence, but needs the money to back it up, so he's turned to shadowrunning. It's hard to get a job after being in prison 5 years.

[Ecclesiastes]

I've got Mojo covered and Whizbang is throwing in a Conjurer, so the Sioux would be the better fit that I can see.

[Sandoval Smith]

I have a mostly completed rigger that would probably work fairly well in this campaign, a getaway driver with a couple of drones. There would be one thing I'd have to change about him though (unless you want to fiddle with availibility a little). I was building his vehicle / drone hanger around a GMC Bulldog Step Van, security model, which is a 9/9.

[Tashio]

I got a B&E/Covert Op floating around, lemme dig him out and see what he looks like. He's got a bit of The Saint feel to him.

[Sandoval Smith]

I was putting together an equipment list, and was wondering if this was a typo: is the Ares Supersquirt really an availibility 9? Considering I could just put DMSO (which is availibilty 2) and whatever else in a capsule round and have pretty much the same effect, I can't see why the Supersquirt would have such a high avail. to it.

[Gremish]

Sand--As far as your Vehicle goes ill have to check it out and if its gonna be a Tank van then we might just give it like some outragious thing like VERY visible armor ect so people know what it is limiting its use which will compensate for the increased availablility or you could always have it started and work for the other items in game =D

Tash-- Sounds awsome Covert ops is my personal favorite =D

Max-- whatever you all decide you need as a group is all you =D Im not gonna tell anyone what to be or what not to be unless it conflicts with smethign which niether of ur charsseem to =)

[Sandoval Smith]

Well, the reason I chose the Bulldog security model is because, as Rigger 3 states, "It is the most common truck in the delivery business and its base model comes with concealed armor. Though everyone knows that the bulldog has 'concealed' armed, only the most discerning eye can tell if it's the Standard, or Security version, a mystery that has kept many packages safe that otherwise might not have been." A handy reason to have photovoltic paint, transponder library, and morphic license plate presets to mimic the appearance and license of actual delivery vehicles. I.E a Damngood Coffee delivery truck, or Stinky Pete's Biological Waste Removal Service (We step in it, so you don't have to). The character's philosphy is that 'fast getaways might be fast, but they draw attention, too much attention. The best escape is the one when no one even realizes that you are escaping." Hence why he likes the five points of concealed armor. He doesn't want to drive a tank. They're conspicuous, and draw attention, whereas no one is really going to think anything unusual if they notice the armor on the Bulldog.

As for the Supersquirt, it's my favorite gun for quiet, non lethal takedowns. I just don't remember it being an availibility 9. Either my memory is bad, or there's some errata on that. I'm wondering which is which. I suppose this is just something that he can work for once the game gets started.

Here's the background and the write up for him (and wow, I didn't mean for the story to get that long, but...)
Chauncy Gardener.

[ Spoiler ]

He's got a stare that can really set people on edge. He just sits there, doesn't blink, doesn't even seem to breath, his cyber eyes opaque, and depthless black. He just sits, and watches, and people start to get nervous, wondering just what he's looking at? Is there something wrong with them, or is it something else?

Chauncy was born in Chicago, grew up there, and was trapped there when the bugs came out and the walls went up. He'd always been a quiet boy, with a fascination for cars, and had always viewed riggers, people who could actually become the car, with a sort of awe.

He got his first piece of cyber while in the CZ. His family, part of a small group of refugees, made a run for the sanctuary of the Wrigely dome. They were set on by a group of wasps. All he remembers is screams, a flash of... something, and then darkness. The next thing he could remember was waking up in a makeshift hospital and realizing there was something strange with his vision. His brother had managed to drag him, bleeding, and with half his face torn up by a talon slash, to the Wrigley Dome. There were several doctors and cyber physcians among the refugees there, and they replaced his eyes with parts from someone who didn't need them anymore.

The cyber eyes helped him live through, if not exactly survive Chicago. Everything that he saw through them seemed removed, like a trid program. He could pretend that it wasn't real, like the day the roaches tried to swarm through the Clark Street entrance, and his brother, manning a machine gun, was bitten in half, the roach running off with his legs, leaving the torso screaming and bleeding on the floor. It was just like any other bad slasher trid. They were all bad slasher trids. That was how he made himself so helpful in the makeshift hospital. It wasn't his hands helping to hold down a girl as the doctors tried to to put her insides back in. And those weren't real guts, just special effects. It made him a very reliable, and efficent person to rely on for many of the tasks of day to day life at Wrigley field.

When the wall came down, he moved in with distant relatives in Detroit. By then he had developed the stare, that way of watching the world like it was just another trid program. He recieved a job offer from Ares. His hard work at the dome had been noticed and commented on, and now that he lived in Ares home town, the megacorp was happy to reward him for his hard work. A small, rather boring site needed a security rigger. They would install the rigging deck as part of the job. He agreed.

He did a good job, earned a good paycheck, and since he was in the motor city, he put most of that towards motors, tinkering with cars. He started having problems at work though. It wasn't that he was doing a bad job, but simply that he made people uncomfortable, just by being in the same room. They started putting him on night shifts, but even that didn't work out. He had shown to be a good employee so far, so they offered a promotion. He'd be a delivery driver for sensitive materials, and they would also include the VCR.

That was a job he excelled at. He rarely interacted with other people, and proved to be an excellent rigger. He liked becoming the vehicle. Nothing made them hurt, they just existed, going from one place to another. He came to love the Bulldog step van he usually drove. It was comfortable, secure, and it, along with thousands others like it spent all day trundling along, going from place to place completly oblivious to the rest of the world.

He upgraded his VCR, and realized he liked cyber, how each time he got a new piece it cut out a little more of his humanity, made him _feel_ a little less. However, in order to keep getting more 'ware, he had to start hunting out less and less reputable places to get it installed. He had too much wire in his head, real hospitals wouldn't touch him, it was too risky. Sometimes, these 'doctors' would require 'favors' as payment, things that only a rigger could do for them. That was how he started making a name for himself in the shadows.

Problems started to arise at Ares. He was doing a good job. Actually, he was doing an excellent job, saving his cargo from liberation by runners on multiple occasions, but even the minimal contact he was having with people was causing friction. Just the amount of time it took him to get an authorizes signature before releasing his deliver could leave someone jumpy for the rest of the day. His managers were sorry to do it, but they let him go.

So for a week, he sat, staring out at the street, sometimes eating, sometimes sleeping. Then, a 'doctor' called. They needed a favor _from_ him this time, and they were willing to pay for it...

[ Spoiler ]

Dwarf
Bod: 4(5)
Qui: 4
Str: 2(4)
Cha: 4
Int: 6
Wil: 4
Ess:.05
Mag: 0
Rea: 5(6)
Ini: 1 (3 when rigging)

Combat Pool: 7
Control Pool 9
Armor - Ballistic: 6 Impact: 4

Edges:

Sense of Direction................-1
Perceptive..................-3

Flaws:
Phobia (Uncommon / Severe) Bug Spirits.....4

Lifestyle:
Middle: His real home, a converted garage in a decent neighborhood, it allows him to stay close to his his cars, and tinker on them as he feels like it. He's planning on getting a motorcycle to liven up the place.
Low: Another converted garage, this one in a not so nice neighborhood. He stays on good terms with the local gangs, patching up their bikes, or replacing bullet riddle windshields when they need it. This is where he keeps his actual working car shop.
Low: This is the rescidence he keeps for Shadowbusiness, and where he stays while 'working.'
Street: It's got four walls, a roof, enough room for the van, and may or may not have devil rats. It's the back up doss he maintains in case he needs a hiding place, fast.


Cyber:
Remote Control Deck (7)................(.3)
RC Encryption Module (6)...............(.2)
Vehicle Control Rig (2)................(3)
Datajack...............................(.2)
Cyber Eyes.............................(.20)
Ultrasound.....................(.5)
Microscopic vision.............(.1)
DIsplay Link...................(.1)
Retinal Clock..................(.1)
Protective covers (black)
Smartlink II...........................(.5)
Chipjack, multi-slot 2.................(.25)
Knowsoft Links.........................(.1)
Skillwires (3/54MP)....................(.6)
Memory 60MPS...........................(.2)
Transducer.............................(.1)

Bioware: Enhanced Articulation

Skills:
Active:
Car: 6
Etiquette / Street: 3/5
Athletics: 3
Stealth: 4
Negotionations: 3
Guunery: 5
Rifles: 3
CarB/R: 4
Elec / Control Systems:4/6
Elec B/R 3


Area knowledge - Denver-Street Layout 3/5
Arms Dealers: 3
Car: 4
Gang Identification: 2
Gang Turf: 4
Police Procedures: 3
Safehouse Locations: 2
Engineering: 3
Corporate Security: 3
Megacorporate Security: 2

English: 5
Japanese: 2
German: 2

Drones:
Steel Lynx w/AK 98
A.S. Condor LDSD-41
Sensors (3)
Power Amplified (2)
Lone Star Stratos-9 Survelliance
Renraku Arachnoid Mini

Vehicle:
GMC Bulldog Step-van (security model)
Rigger Adaptation
Storage Memory 200 MP
Signal Amplifier 8
R-C BIofeddback Filter: 3
Rigger Decryption Module: 4
Rigger Protocol Emulation: 6
R-C ECCM Rating: 3
Audio/Visual Screen Display
Intercom System
Crash Cage
Folding Bench Seat
Drone Rack
Sensors: 5
Autonav: 4
Electronics Port
Anti-theft system: 9
Electric Shock System
Small Turret, pop up (Ares Aplha)
Morphing Liscense Plate
Transponder Library
Runflat tires


Resources 1000k

FOrm fitting body armor
Thermal Dampening 4
Camo Full Suit (urban)
Chem Seal 7
Ruthenium Cloak
Rutehnium Scanners 8
Vehicle Kit
Electronic Toolkit
Medkit 7
Antidote Patch 8
Stimulant Patch 6
Tranq Patch 5
Tranq Patch 10
4xJazz
2x Long Haul
Ares Supersquirt (smartlink II)
200xDMSO
200xGamma-Scopolamine
3xSpray Tank (smartlink II)
20x freeze foam
20x splat glue
5x slip spray
5xFreeze foam solvent
5xsplat glue solvent
Heckler & Koch MP-5 TX (smartlink 2)
Franchi SPAS-22
Sling
Remington 950 (smartlink II)
Sling
Silencer
Imaging Scopex3
Skillsoft Jukebox:75 mp/4 ports
Activesofts:
Shotguns 3
Rifle/Sniper 3
Pisols/PRedator 3
SMG 3
Intimidation/Mental 3
Fixed Wing Aircraft 3
MOtorboat 3
Bike 3
Knowsofts:
Disguise/Cosmetics 3
Spanish 4
Spethiel 4

[Mugzy]

This is great. Looks like its coming together nicely.

Nice writeup by the way Sand.

Ecclesiastes and I have got together on AIM to go over a few character things, and if you wanted to ping me, my SN is GabrielAfr.

Also, I do have a headset microphone (Thanks to all the Battlefield '42 and 'Nam and Diablo 2) and use Teamspeak2, as its simple and free.

Currently Im planning out a Decker, even though building a deck is a pain in the ass. (Thank god for guys like McMackie to make NSRCG)

One thing- Gremish, are there any books you are prohibiting in character creation? (certain cyberware or spells, guns, etc.) Or are you sticking with straight Avail 8?