Witness:

To which the aforementioned individual pops his triple Dikoted titanium steel spurs and says:

"You wanna MAKE somethin' of it, Bub?!?"



--Foreigner

Interestingly I just had an NPC who was kind of like that.
He wasn't a total mess-up; in fact he was very good at his job (which was a Face)- charming guy, Brad Pitt-alike, pheromones, voice modulation & retinal duplication etc, went by the name Baldur. He and a female (middle-aged dwarf) PC were to go into a very swanky hotel as guests (to help others get in less visibly), and it was only as he was going in that he bashfully admitted that the fake SIN he was using had him down as a porn star. You should have seen her blush. Though charming he had an air of sadness about him, sometimes. As if he could have been a real star, but it was never quite explained what drove him to the shadows.
Still that doesn't really qualify as a properly messed-up character. But...

One of my players' characters (in the same game) is a quadraplegic rigger (& drone rigger) + medic (using drones), whose meat body moves around in a slow clunky anthroform 'wheelchair' (with built-in life support). It must be said that despite this he is a pretty fucking versatile and dangerous Shadowrunner.

Another PC (the aforementioned female dwarf) started out as a mad old homeless dwarf woman who fed and talked to the pigeons in the park, while wheeling around a knackered old shopping trolley full of trash. Turns out she was a Pigeon shaman (in fact in my game world she is the only Pigeon shaman), and in the first part of the campaign, boy did she play up the madness! It was great fun. She's since had a bit of road-to-Damascus moment with her Totem, and has become a bit less mad and oblivious (the game has moved on to higher levels and it wouldn't have been fitting any more).

And yet another PC in the same game was/is also majorly messed-up: he was a high school jock who was failing badly in school, so Wealthy Dad got one of his clients to install some special headware (Mysterious Cyberware flaw- a prototype called the 'Inner Beauty' Neuroencephalon) to give him a leg up academically. Unfortunately it totally screwed up his mind. He became like an autistic savant (with psychotic qualities) and had heaps of fun freaking out the other PCs. One of them woke up one night in the safehouse to find this guy standing over him just watching him- and on other occasions he kept on scrawling weird mathematical shit on the walls and mumbling to himself. He too has had to pull himself together a bit (with some personafix help), and has become a pretty fearsome decker. He recently found out that his headware was a prototype for the Node technology used by Deus. (And that's just a weird coincidence: we talked about that character and the cyberware long before reading about the Nodes, but in terms of what the headware did, it turned out to be an almost exact match for the stuff built into a Node).

What's been interesting here is watching these last two characters (who both started out really messed-up) grow and develop through a really long campaign. Both are pretty awesome now, but because of their messed-up origins they remain really interesting memorable characters, I think.

EDIT: The rigger is cool too, although he joined the campaign more recently and at a higher level, so he doesn't have that messed-up history.

Does my addled memory fail me, or was the the game where I played Jimmy "Underfoot" the 40BP decker?

Also created with the same amount of BPs was Mr. G, the Ghoul Pimp... sad, how my brain works at times...

I should also mention an enemy NPC that the players once found stalking young women in the depths of the Ork Underground.
A massively cybered troll freak with a giant retractable blade that slid out of his crotch. Now he was messed-up. And I'm happy to say he got what was coming to him. In spades.

Sorry Ronin, done it. With players.

Male Porn-Star Dwarf Adept.
Female Cybered Porn-Star Minotaur Enforcer
Female Satyr Porn Star Face

-Lets just say that the Pron industry of 2060 has a lot of..."Niche"...interests.

Sadly, the boxes had to undergo a wipe about a year ago, so much of the sheer insanity was lost.

One of the things that HAS continued is the use of in game "music" to indicate a player is strolling down a street/into a mall/into the meet...


"Ha ha ha ha, Stayin' alive, Stayin' alive....Ha, ha ha ha, Staying Alliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiveeeeeeeeeeee......"

or:
(Imaginary Wah-wah pedal)
Wokka wokka woooooow, baw-wow wow....
<For those who haven't experienced old-school 60's-70 pron, there is a thing called porno music. And it's a lot more fun to listen to than you'd believe.)

-Tir. (Good times:))

I do like that one, I must say!

It was legal under starting rules. Initiated three times with Spell Points bought with nuyen, combined with custom spells and Edge-boosted high mental stats to make a holy terror..

You know, if he were voodoo than his loa really could "transform this decayed form to Mumm-ra the everliving! WRAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa"

Oh...an ALF Poser!

Bonus Karma Awarded

The Gods are watching what you do stevebugge...

And they are most displeased.


-Tir

Yep, I remember him. Ironically, Cage Fight was a pretty long-running game, and Rat was actually pretty successful within that low-powered setting (well, low-powered other than Ehran the Scribe ).

We had a physad like that in a game I ran. He was called "The Amazing Goldfield" and was one of the best charicters I had ever seen. He had active and knowledge skills that backed up his profession and could sneak and shoot competently (plus thrown weapons mastery). One of his highlights was hideing a car in an 18 wheeler so that when a customs inspector opened the rear door, the container looked empty.

*shakes head sadly and walks away*

...

Usually.

Nah, he's just using the teleportation spell from the Xbox game...




















... I'm going to Hell for that one, right?