Recruitment for B&E - Not Neurosurgery, try this again Options

[tisoz]

Hey all. I'm going to try to run a game again, maybe two. I will be accepting characters with the appropriate skills to pull it/them off.

One is a stealthy B&E run. The other is some investigation and possible wetwork.

It may help to form a team if people announce what kind of character type they are interested in playing in this thread. I am going to try something a little different and ask you to PM me a sample of in character action. What I should expect if I accept you. It seems recruitment threads usually get a bunch of I'm interested's, then some lagging characters, and then people lose interest in less than a month. Hopefully the writing requirement will help me pick some winners.

I would like to complete the B&E within 2-3 weeks, so if you can't post every day, this probably isn't the game for you. It's B&E, not Brain Surgery.

The other potential game is going to be more freeform. I have some objectives and no idea how they will be achieved. But I would like to have it be an active game.

Now that I've slotted off the few who scoped this out, here's how you will be making your character:

Priority or 125 BP. If you want Becks, let me know. I may even be generous and tell you somethings you are getting will not come into play.

No Raygun guns, no custom made weapons, but modified weapons should be ok. Cultured bioware that only comes that way is ok as long as it is under standard availability 8. Can use starting spell points to initiate - even with a group and ordeal discount. Up to 5 edges and 5 flaws, if the flaw won't come into play, don't bother with it. Can tell you right now, no day job edge, er, I mean flaw.

If you want to use something from some of the recent sourcebooks, you may need to run it by me.

But...
1 Short description of type of character in this thread
2 PM me here at Dumpshock with a short example of your characters style
3 I don't need character sheets or full backgrounds and don't want you to waste time on them if you don't get accepted

Thanks and I hope we have some fun.

[kevyn668]

What do you mean by an example of a a char's style? Do you want an IC narrative style thing or an "In [situation: X] my character will [action: Y]?"

Or just a quick rundown what kind of runner he/she is? (ie. "...5K a head. No women. No kids...")

[tisoz]

Characters style: how I can expect your posts to look when you play the game. So yes, a bit of prose. "An in character narrative thing."

The Quick rundown can get posted here, you can send the "narrative thing" to me privately or if you waant to try to shame everyone else, you may post it here.

[kevyn668]

LOL. (No, really, I laughed out loud.)

I doubt I could shame anyone around here.

Deadline?

I work better with one those. :)

[tisoz]

What if I set a deadline and you are the only respondant?

[Whizbang]

Hmm...looks interesting. Too bad I don't have the time to do a character narrative justice right now. I'll see what I can do when I get in from work today. Guess I should ask you opinion on deckers. I've seen more than one GM would rather not mess with that, or prefer to simplify the rules.

[Sphynx]

1 Short description of type of character in this thread

Security Rigger - Electronics and Computers specialist who is the master of Building Security takeover.

Question though: in your world(s), is security handled more by Riggers or Deckers. If it's more Decker oriented, character may have to change professions. :P

[tisoz]

Deckers are fine. My experience last time though is going to prompt me to not allow the optional ice suppression rules by allocating hacking pool. I'm going to treat cyberdecks like weapons, no totally custom jobs, but feel free to customize existing ones.

Are security systems controlled more by deckers or riggers and CCSS? My world tries to be cost effective as the rule of thumb. Which is going to cost more, and what do you get for the money? Do you already employ personnel for parts of your overall security that could help with building security? Such as, if you have a strong matrix presence and security deckers on staff, can they check on physical security, too? Or if you have several riggers running drones on the production line, can they monitor some security drones, too? Are you behind the SotA and have not employed CCSS yet? Hope that gives a hint.

For a bigger hint (and metagame knowledge) there is a description of the target in the Shadowrun forum under GM School: Course 1.

[edit] You can count on a few changes, however. I thought of a couple a bit after I posted, and I might tweak things a little to discourage metagaming.

This post has been edited by tisoz: Feb 3 2005, 02:06 PM

[Tashio]

Magician Adept/ B&E Expert, 50/50 spilt adept powers/magic

[kevyn668]

Here's my IC bit. I can get stats and background to you tomorrowish. Just to give you an idea, he's pretty much a light sam w/ some electronics and social skills.

[ Spoiler ]

Sloan's stomach grumbled as he walked into the McHugh's. It was 10.25. He waited in line behind an ork woman and her four whinning kids.

I always get stuck behind fraggin kids... He sighs.

The pimple faced boy behind the counter moves too slow for Sloan.

Stupid Boosteds...shoulda sprung for Wired so I could turn the damn thing off.

The woman and her pack take a solid 10 minutes to get their order straight. It's now 10.35.

Sloan steps up the counter as the woman shuffles off, each of her rugrats whinning about not getting the toy that comes with a Smiley Meal.

"Sorry ma'am. We ran out yesterday," the pimple kid says halfheartedly. He looks at Sloan without emotion. "Welcome to McHugh's," he says dryly. "Would you like to try one of our Value Paks?"

Sloan rolls his eyes and trys to be polite, "Uh, no thanks. I'd like a Bakon™ biscuit Pak...with, uh, soycaff."

The pimple kid blinks twice, "Sorry sir. We stopped serving breakfast at 10.30. How 'bout one of our lunch Value Paks?"

"But I was in line before 10.30. You don't have any Bakon™ Biscuits left?"

"Nope." The kid's eyes wander to the elf girl that's working the drive through window. His gaze lingers on her rear end.

Sloan sighs, "A'ight." He scans the menu for a few seconds. "Gimme the Double Royal with Cheese Pak. But I want a hashbrown instead of the fries."

The pimple kid manages to tear his eyes away from the drive through hoochie and looks pointedly at the clock on the wall to his left, "Uh...sorry, chummer. We don't have any hashbrowns. We're not serving breakfast anymore."

"Riiight, I get ya. No Breakfast. But don't ya have any hasbrowns left? Its only been 5 minutes." Sloan's stomach's grumbles again.

"Like I said, sir, we're not serving breakfast anymore."

Sloan takes a deep breath and hikes up his belt. He feels the reassuring weigth of the pistol under his jacket.

Why do I even carry this fraggin thing !?

He can hear the people in line behind him shift about impatiantly.

Sloan squares his shoulders. "Look, I know you don't get a special delivery of hashbrowns every morning. There's gotta be some lying around back there. Just throw one in with the fries."

Pimple kid's face is impasive.

"I'll pay extra," Sloan offers.

The pimple kid touches the earpiece that's linked to his mic. "I need a manager at Register 4, please. Manager to Register 4."

"You don't have to call the manager kid," Sloan smiles hoping to difuse the situation. "All you need to do is tell your buddy on the line to thow a hashbrown into the fryer."

The pimple kid blinks.

Sloan resists the urge to scratch the back of neck. The Boosteds were sensing his displeasure and longed to alievate the problem. Sloan then resisted the urge to bounce the kid's head off the counter.

The people behind him shifted again. There was some grumbling this time.

The manager arrives. His McHugh's uniform was crisp and pressed. It showed no signs of the stains that normaly grace the outfit as badges of...courage.

The Crisp human spoke in a cool, controled voice. "Is there something I can help you with sir?"

Sloan nodded. Finally. We're getting somewhere. "Yeah, I want a hashbrown with my Double Royal with Cheese Value Pak."

Crisp looks briefly at the clock on the wall to his left. "I'm sorry sir, but we stopped serving breakfast. Perhaps some fries or soyonion rings? There quite fresh right now." He flashes a trust me smile that would make a Johnson jealous.

Sloan's eyebrows furrow and the itch at his neck becomes more intense. "Right," He purses his lips for a second. "I know that you stopped serving breakfast. But I was in line before you stopped serving breakfast. I'm not trying bust your balls here, chummer, so I'm willing settle for a Double Royal with Cheese Pak as long as I get a fraggin' hashbrown instead of the fries. Get me?" Sloan leans across the counter ever so slightly and fixes Crisp with a nasty stare to let the man know he means business.

The grumbles behind Sloan get louder and more intense.

The Crisp manager takes a step back but doesn't back down. "Sir, I understand your situtation and I am trying to help solve the problem. Could you step over here for a second and we'll see what we can do?"

Sloan shrugs and sighs yet again, "Sure." He steps out of line.

Five minutes later, ignoring the stares of the people that were in line behind him, Sloan sat in a booth by himself eating his Double Royal with Cheese...and fries.

[Eyeless Blond]

Hm. I'd love to try this out, but I've already got two potential games, and with trainning for the new job and a pick up in business for the old one I've certainly not the time to be posting more than once a day, particularly given my characteristic slowness. It's too bad too; I'd have loved to re-tweak Pierce for this one. :) Next time, perhaps.

[tisoz]

[Drain Brain]

Try this out for size...

Nathan Sanderson, Street based Hermetic mage. Chaos theory is the school of choice, with a very "nouveaux" outlook. For inspiration, take the "dude painting on the floor, smoking a cigarette" pic from the SR2 BBB.

Very little in the way of combat magic, focusing more on healing, detection and stealth stuff. In combat is more of a "mundane with a gun" since he was a prototypical youth - obsessed with action movies, likes the whole image of the gun bunny... just turned out to be magically active. Due to his outlook on life in general, he has opted to sacrifice some of his magical ability (yes, he did know it would happen before he did it) by taking a little cyber - Data/chipjack, image link, that sort of thing. Designed for easy access to hermetic library or map-softs (he has a lousy sense of direction).

Style example will be forthcoming...

[tisoz]

The four people who have sent me their sample posts should be enough to pull off the run. So get your characters in and we can start.

Anyone else wanting in needs to hurry and catch these guys.

[Sphynx]

Seymour Butts - Human Security Rigger/Decker

Description: Standing a tall 6'1", this Human looks like a 32 year old who still lives in his momma's basement. His attempt at a beard has a rough appearance, too long to be stubble, too short to be SantaClaus. Not the most in-shape person, he spends his evenings, after sitting all day in the back room of the company he worked for as a security rigger, sitting at his computer playing video games, and chatting online. He knows he's the best at what he does, there's never been anyone with his skill and expertise, and he's even proven it. His CMT-Avatar is a prized possession, something he earned when he went into a Shadowland site and got "hired" for a job. The reward was the CMT, not so much because he was given it, but he picked it up on the job. He doesn't make alot of friends, but that doesn't hinder his attitude any. Sometimes he sits in the local bar, and when he drinks a bit too much, tells a few possibly exaggerated stories, convincing everyone that he's all-that. Other times, usually after playing a roleplaying game with his friends, he goes to the bar and sits in a dark shadowy corner, analyzing everyone and thinking how easily he could take them all, and what sort of awesome shadowrunner or smuggler he would be. After all, he'd spent over 600 hours in the firing range to receive his ExpertMarksman award. One day he intends to use the weight set he got some christmas's ago, and work out to look as buff as he feels, and maybe lose the belly some, which sitting all day didn't help. With great effort, he squeezes his way out from behind a table, to head directly for another chair.

PS. [ code ] doesn't seem to stay inside of a [ spoiler ]. I apologize for that being on the outside.

Sphynx

[ Spoiler ]

Human Rigger/Decker (0 BP)

Attributes (58 BP)
Strength: 2
Quickness: 6
Body: 6
Willpower: 6
Intelligence: 6
Charisma: 3

Skills (42 BP)
Athletics: 4
Computers: 6
Computers B/R: 4
Electronics: 6
Electronics B/R: 6
Etiquette: 3
Gunnery: 4
Pistols: 5
Stealth: 4

Knowledges (0 BP)
Comic Books: 4
Gaming: 6
Conspiracy Theories: 5
Shadowland: 4
Security Procedures: 6
Trivia: 5

Contacts
Fixer
Bartender

Edges/Flaws (-5 BP)
Cursed Karma -6BP
Sensitive Neural System -4
Jack Itch -1

Vehicle Empathy +2
Apititude - Electronics +4
Gear (30 BP)

CODE

CyberWare              Rating    Grade      Ess      Cost --------------------------------------------------------- Vehicle Control Rig       2      Alpha     2.40   120,000 Math SPU                  3      Alpha     0.16    22,000 Obvious CyberLeg                 Basic     1.00   100,000 CyberEyes                        Alpha     0.16    10,000 - FlareCompensators              Alpha     0.00     4,000 - ImageLink                      Alpha     0.00     3,200 - LowLight                       Alpha     0.00     6,000 - Magx3 (Electronic)             Alpha     0.00    22,000 - Microscopic                    Alpha     0.08    10,000 SmartLink-2                      Alpha     0.32     6,400 - RangeFinder                    Alpha     0.08     4,000                                            ----   -------                                            4.20   307,600 LegGear                Rating    ECU      Cost   Ess   Grade ------------------------------------------------------------ RemoteControlDeck        6       5.00   30,000 - Signal Amplifier       6       0.00    1,500 - DecryptionModule       6       0.25   60,000 - ProtocolEmulation      6       0.25   30,000 - ECCM                   6       0.50   90,000 CMT Avatar                       5.00  250,000 - MPCP-7/3/6/6/6 - Analyze                6              21,600 - Armour                 6              21,600 - Browse                 6               7,200 - CommLink               6               7,200 - Cloak                  6              21,600 - Deception              6              14,400 - Decrypt                6               7,200 - Read/Write             6              14,400 - Relocate               6              14,400 - Scanner                6              14,400 - Sleaze                 6              14,400 Electronics Kit                 3.00     1,500 Computer Kit                    3.00     1,500 DataJack                        0.50     2,000  0.16  Alpha DataJack                        0.50     2,000  0.16  Alpha Nav-Dat GPS (DNI Compatable)    1.00     1,050 Transducer                      0.25     1,000                                -----   -------  ----                                19.25   628,450  0.32 MiscGear                       Cost ----------------------------------------------------------- RutheniumCloak (2x m2)       20,000 - x6 Scanners                30,000 Secure Jacket                   850 FormFitting, Full             2,000 Forearm Guards                  250 AresPredator III                650 - Silencer                      500 - Concealable Holster           100 - 4 additional Clips             20 - 100 rounds                    200 DataLineTap              6    6,000 LowLifeStyle  x3              3,000                              ------                              63,570 996,600 Starting Cash: 340 + 3d6 * 100

[tisoz]

Sphynx, little over the 125 BP, and the no vehicle skill rigger is a first for me. :)

kevyn668, finished so you can nag these other guys to hurry up.

Tashio, get me a background and you can start nagging, too. ;)

[Sphynx]

Yeah, 5 points over, but haven't gone through edges and flaws yet. I wait til I see what works best with the background. How much effort should we be putting into this background btw?

[tisoz]

Enough to have the conglomeration of skills and equipment make sense? Hopefully enough to give him some personality to roleplay.

Part of the writing requirement was to get past the, "My character does this - I"ll roll this for it." I'm hoping to get some feeling to accompany actions, how the character perceives the world as they are trying to accomplish actions.

But I'm not looking for hooks from your background, not in anything this short and hopefully, quick. If all goes well, and we decide to do a follow-up run(s), you can feel free to expand or tweak (anything that has not come into play yet) the background.

[Sphynx]

I've added the Edges/Flaws. I realize that a Sensitive Neural System and Jack Itch are going to cause problems, but I can accept those faults as I like what it does to the character. :P

[kevyn668]

[nag] Hurry up, guys. [/nag] <taps foot, looks @ watch> :)

[ Spoiler ]

Sloan Rourke


Attributes
B: 5 (6)
Q: 6 (8 )
S: 4 (6)
C: 3
I: 5
W: 5
Bi:
E: 2.65
R: 6 (8 )

I: 1 (3)

Lifestyle: 2 months Low (x2), 1 month Middle

Active Skills
Athletics 4
Car 4
Electronics 3
Electronics (B/R) 4
Etiquette (Street) 3 (5)
Intimidation (Physical) 2 (4)
MA: Brawling 6
Negotiation (Fast Talk) 2 (4)
Pistols 6
Stealth 5
Submachine Guns 6

Knowledge Skills
English 4
Korean 3
Corporate Politics 2
Corporate Procedures 2
Corporate Security 3
Criminal Organizations 4
Gang Identification 4
Psychology 2
Urban Brawl 4

Cyberware (Alpha Grade)
Bone Lacing: Plastic
Boosted Reflexes: 3
Cybereyes
-Flare Comp
-Low Light
-Rangefinder
-Thermographics
Datajack
Knowsoftlink
Smatlink II

Bioware
Muscle Augmentation: 2
Muscle Toner: 2

Gear
Ingram Warrior 10: External SLII, Rangefinder, Sound Suppressor, Folding -Stock, Shock Pads, Personalized Grip, Sling
Ingram Smartgun M20t: Internal SLI, Gas Vent (2), Folding Stock , Sling
Browning Max Power: Internal SLII, Silencer, Quick-Draw/Concealable Holster
Knife
IR/Smoke Grenades: 6
Flash/(IPE) Bang Grendes: 6
FFBA: Full
Secure Jacket
Camo Full Suit (Black)
Ordinary Clothing (x5)
Fine Clothing (x2)
Pocket Secretary
Pager
Handset Cell Phone
Electronics Toolkit
Antidote Patch: 6
Stim Patch: 6 (x4)
Micro-Transceiver: 4
Personal Comm Unit: 4
Subvocal Microphone


Ammo
10 Clips Reg (Warrior)
4 Clips Gel (Warrior)
10 Clips Reg (Smartgun)
10 Clips Reg (Browning)
4 Clips Gel (Browning)



Contacts
Dawn Crikes: Plain Clothes Cop (lvl 1)
Jon Farkus: Corp Secretary (lvl 1)
Kelly (aka: Amber): Stripper (lvl 1)
Leslie Lobos: Fixer (lvl 1)
Marky: Street Doc (lvl 2)
Mike Asetti: Bartender/Matchstick’s (lvl 1)
Pat Maddigan: Mafia Capo (lvl 1)
Perry: Gang Lieutenant (lvl 1)

Haven't fleshed out details on Contacts or Lifestyles. I didn't know if it was necessary. If it's needed I can whip it up. :)

[tisoz]

[kevyn668]

The details or the contacts?

[tisoz]

Sorry, posted that without looking. A little accustomed to having characters without contacts. But if you have an idea of how the contact acts, it needs noted or I may play it differently.

[tisoz]

I have most of the character stuff from you guys. Sent an email back to Drain Brain, I think, about addendums for gear and spells that didn't come through.

Waiting on Sphynx' background, maybe a name for his character.

You can choose to know each other or not. If so work out the relationships and post them or get them to me.

Are you 4 able to play over the weekend? If so, let's try to get the last of this prep work done tomorrow. If weekends are out, let's shoot for a Monday start.

[kevyn668]

So, who's in and what is he/she palying? I wouldn't mind assuming that we know eachother.

For the contact details, I'd rather just leave 'em as is. If this thing goes somewhere we (or you) can decide how they act, what quirks they have, etc. Is that cool?