Recruitment: The Heart of Africa., What is the price for blood? Options

[Johnson]

Okay I am going to try my hand at GMing, its my first time round as PBP GM. I am looking for a team of 3 to 5 players. Character generation is listed in the spoiler. I will not be requiring them, to be submitted yet as I am basing my selection on the Bio's. Once I have made my selections, then generation of stats will be excepted.

Beginner players are welcome as I am basing my selection on the Bio's only.
Bio to be submitted to seattleshadows(at)hotmail(dot)com by 16 th January 2005
1800 Bravo GMT. Notification of selections will be done by no later than the 18 th January 2005

[ Spoiler ]

Date: January 1 2063

Location: Africa, Central and Southern Parts. ( All Location details will not be that from Fanpro or FASA publications. All location settings are created by myself and infomation I have.)

Character Generation:Priority

Normal 8 Availability, 6 Rating

Books Allowed:
Shadowrun 3rd Edition
Shadowrun Companion
Magic in the Shadows
Cannon Companion
Man and Machine

Anything that isn't in those books, I will not allow.

I'm looking for a decent background and personality. This doesn't mean I want excessive, 10 page bios, however I do expect 2 pages minumum. I'd also suggest putting at least a little bit of effort into contacts. But this will be done on generation.

Players have until 31-01 to turn in sheets, I'll be accepting the best sign-ups based on bio, regardless of how the team would normally work out. As the last year the characters would be working as a team.

[Panzergeist]

What does the last sentence in the spoiler mean? You mean the player characters will have been working together for a year beforehand? Also, what language will the characters all need to speak? English, French, Swahili, or something else?

Also, is there any chance you would be getting SOTA 2064 before the game starts? There are a few items at the begining of that book that I would love to use. Of course, if you don't, then I can find plenty of other things to spend my nuyen on.

[Maxxi]

Also should the characters be African or not?

Also, I know a decent bit about African languages. I figure most people who live in tribes would have know at least their own tribal language, and then a euro language depending on the area they live in... but then again I have no clue what awakened africa is like.

[Panzergeist]

Actually, forget SOTA 2064. I think it's about time I played a straight up street sam. There's plenty of good stuff in Man & Machine for me to choose from. I'll save my spy character for another campaign.

[Johnson]

Panzergeist

Answer to first post

Yes the team would have been working together for the better part of a year. Primary languages would be English, but other african languages would also be beneficial.

SOTA64 I have on back order but it has not arrived as yet. But SOTA 64 gear and others would be very high tech for the setting. These are 3 world countries, so SOTA 64 would be corp orientated. But I will brief on character gen of the availabilities, Maybe I will have SOTA 64 in 2 weeks time who knows.

Answer to second post

All arch types and other are welcome. So play what ever you would be comfortable with.

Maxxi

African Languages
Arabic, Hausa, Swahili, akan, Amharic, fulfulde/Pulaar, Igbo, Ganda, mende/Bandi/Loki, chewa/Nyanja, Kikuyu, kpelle, krio/Pidgin, Lingala, Oromo, shona, Somali, Tigrinya, wolof, Xhosa/Zulu/swazi/Ndebele, Yoruba Bemba, Malagasy, Ruanda/rundi, temne and tsonga. That is some of the languages

African Language reference that I would be using.

Euro languages

portuguese, French and Spanish

[Whizbang]

Hmm...working on a phys adept tracker/sniper/wilderness guide...

[kevyn668]

Are we from Africa? Europe? UCAS? Does it matter?

If we're not from/starting in Africa, are we taking the job in [base city] and traveling to Africa?

I have an elf merc I'm toying around with.

This post has been edited by kevyn668: Jan 6 2005, 10:04 PM

[Maxxi]

I was thinking of a playing a ghoul (a normal one, not a long armed one). One who would work as a sort of modern hunter-of-humans.

[Johnson]

Whizbang

That sound good. Maybe Pro hunter if you from africa.(Just an idea) You are on a good track this character. I wait for your Background.

kevyn668

Where you are from is of no importance. The team will be working out of Africa. The starting point, could be any country from central to south Africa, pending background of the bio's

Maxxi

Ghouls, I have no objection to that. But but you bio's background would have to work around the rest of the teams. Hunter of human would make you a prime target if they found out. Lepprosy - can be assosiated



Please feel free to discuss back grounds with each other. You could be brother/sisters, personal friends, child hood friend, the play is open. Remember background/Histories first.

[Panzergeist]

Have you received SOTA 2064 yet? I am working on my spy character concept, but he really needs that book's content to be complete.

[Johnson]

Panzergeist

Okay... I have not recieved the books as yet... But I am going to Let people use SOTA 63. and 64. BUT you have to send me the details of the Equipment, and its uses.... As I don't have the books as yet I don't have reference to the equipment please furnish me the details and I will review.

[Aes]

When would the campaign start? I'll be out of the country at the end of jan and until early feb. Wouldn't make much sense for me to submit a character bio if I would be missing the initial meet

[Panzergeist]

I e-mailed my bio. Working on the technical side now. Is cultured bioware allowed at character generation?

[Johnson]

Aes
The IC on OOC will only be starting on 1 Feb 2005.. Things have seem to ge very slow on the recruitment side. desision is yours.

Panzer
I have recieved your bio. I have read it over... Very Interesting.

Whizbang
I have a very sketchy lay out from you, I see where you going. Please fill in some more detail when you can.

So far that all I have. So if any one is prepared for this I will run the adventure. if the submission dont increase by this afternoon.

[Johnson]

Okay Interest is small I have to players.

Panzergiest and Whizbang.

Aes if you are interested You can join when you are back... I will place you in, thats of course if Whiz and panzer have no objection...


I am going to leave the recruitment open for any of those who ready and would like to join.

Whizbang and Panzergiest

Create your characters.... If you find that 2 players is not enough discuss it, and let me know if you would like to continue or not.

[Whizbang]

I'm fine with just two players, and letting in any others who are interested afterwards.

[Sphynx]

Not sure how I missed this thread before, but I'll have a character in some time today for you. I look forward to joining in. :) What sorts of characters have we got so far?

Sphynx

[Fortune]

I figured there would be more interest, so didn't really pay attention to the thread again after the first read.

I'm interested, and second Sphynx's request for a character review.

[Sphynx]

Current character thoughts is a Shaman Warrior, A 30ish warrior who has a combat-type totem. No cyber/bio, just magic and skills. Tribe was wiped out by runners who sought a magical artifact they kept, a holy symbol of sorts. Warrior hunted them down, and returned the item, but met members (who were also after the same runners maybe?) of his current 'team' in the process. Kinda need a feel for some of the other characters to work the story out some. Guaranteed not to be 2 to 10 pages in length though unless I use a really large font. :P

Sphynx

[Aes]

If you're still short on players, I could probably cook somehting up -- But starting friday and a week on I'll be unavailable (going skiing). I'll tooss a sheet youyr way asap

[Panzergeist]

My character is a spy type. I think we definately need more than 2 players. Four to six would be ideal. I'll create my stats sometime this week.

[Fortune]

Thinking about a 'Great White Hunter' type. Details are slowly coming together, but it's a process.

[Panzergeist]

Teddy Roosevelt with an elephant gun and stupid white shorts. That would be cool.

[Whizbang]

For some reason my char is making me think of Crocodile Dundee's African cousin...

[Sphynx]

Character Background:

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Born in the jungles of Kenya, Xola was often considered by most people to be a stocky pigmy. Very few in the region, where the average height for a human is under 5 feet, realized that the dwarf was even a seperate race. Whereas Elves, Orcs and especially Trolls were treated quite differently, dwarves were treated much like Elves would be in the taller countries. Life for Xola was nice, although lacking the menial labor of other cultures, the pigmies made a good life from hunting and surviving easily in the most hostile of places. His family loved him, and his affinity for magic made for easy rising of status for the family. By the age of 24, Xola was completely at peace with the world, his Leopard totem seem to purr from such contentment. Before the age of 25 though, his world was turned upside down. White Hunters came into the forest of his people, killing everyone they saw, and stealing from the small village cave, the most sacred heirloom of their ancestors, a statue of the mother goddess. All of his family was killed in the seemingly random attack, leaving Xola with no room for anything in his heart except revenge. He tracked the murderers down within minutes, and from the protection of the forest, personally killed every one of them, but not before finding out from one of them that they'd been hired from a rather wealthy french entrepreneur who happened to also be a religious artifact collector. Xola spent the next few years of his life learning about the "outside" world, a dispicable place where man pushed nature as far as he could from his home. After years of searching, learning the subtle arts of hitchhiking, and squatting in the process, he found his family's killer, the one who hired the assassins. He sat outside the walled world that his enemy laid within, and waited until Leopard took him to a part of the wall that was being breached. Although tensions ran high at first, the Runners who were repaying the enemies negative karma by stealing that which was his, allowed Xola to sneak in with them, to avenge his family. The french lord ended his dream that night by being gutted like a pig, and desecrated like only a pagan could do. Only after having quenched his thirst for revenge did Xola realize within his soul what precisely he'd done. Since then he's sworn to never take another life, and not be so completely swallowed by such negative emotions. He has returned to Africa to cleanse his soul of the evil he's performed in the name of revenge, and although he has no family anymore, he hopes to find peace here. (Continuation of story when another player has something that I can attach to).

Character Stats:

[ Spoiler ]

Priority A: Leopard Shaman
Priority B: Resources - 400,000
Priority C: Attributes - 24
Priority D: Dwarf
Priority E: Skills

Body: 6
Strength: 3
Quickness: 5
Intelligence: 5
Charisma: 3
Willpower: 7

Essence: 6
Magic: 6
Reaction: 5
Intitiative: 1d6
Combat Pool: 8d6
Spell Pool: 6d6

Skills:
Sorcery: 6
Athletics: 5
Stealth: 5
Conjuring: 4
Unarmed: 4
Etiquette: 2
- Tribal: 4

Knowledges:
Animal Lore: 5
Astrology: 5
Herbal Lore: 5
Animal Tracking: 4
Wilderness Survival: 5
English: 4
- Read/Write: 2
French: 4
- Read/Write: 2

Gear:
+8 Spell Points = 200,000
Force 3 Sustaining Focus (Imp Invis) = 45,000
Force 3 Sustaining Focus (Incr Rflxs) = 45,000
Force 3 Sustaining Focus (Levitate) = 45,000
Force 3 Sustaining Focus (Stealth) = 45,000
Health Fetish
Low Lifestyle - 3 months

Edges/Flaws:
Cursed Karma (Must cleanse his soul of his evil deeds)
Focused Concentration
Bonus Willpower Point
Spirit Affinity (Watchers)

Spells (Outside of Spoiler because the Code tag doesn't work in spoilers):