I do character sheets in terms of points spent, from the sound of things you wanted build points for starting gear to be spent rater than build points for start of play, am I right?

Any chance I can switch out con for intimidation in the skill group, it makes more sense for my character to be ok at intimidation, but excellent at con(impersonation). Also all the stuff in the SG then would be learned together as a "side effect" of acting training.

Elf 30 BP
Phys Ad 5 BP
Magic points 40 BP
Edge 20 BP
mento Spirit 5 BP
Cash 5BP (the amount of cash I will be able to liquidate come big event, it will be spent on a commlink, fake ID, and a lifesyle in seattle, what else it could be spent on depends alot on how the big event turns out)
Mild Allergy Seawater -10 BP (in seattle)
Mild Allergy sea movement -5 BP

(90)

Attributes

Body 20BP
Agi 30BP
Rea 30BP
Str 10 BP

Cha 40BP
Int 30BP
Log 20 BP
Will 20 BP

(200)

Influence Skil Group 40BP
Close Combat Skill Group 10BP (Stagefighting Experience)
Athletics Skill Group 10 BP
Stealth Skill Group 10 BP (Stage magic/makeup etc)
intimidation (spec mental) 26 BP
Perception 4BP
Drive Water Vehicle (spec motorboat) 10 BP (I did try...)

(110)

Magic points (not there at start of play)
Kinesics (2.5 points)
Voice Control (.5 points)
improved ability, con, (.50)
improved scent (.25) (can I spend another .25 to be able to recognise artificial chemicals / improved pheromones etc. too, if not, then improved skill perception)
scent dampener .25 (like flare comp for the nose)
flare comp .25
sound dampener .25
improved taste .25

Knowledges 21 pts free, 4 pints of that spent on specialisations

English native (learned from mother)
greek 3(sp spoken)

Street
Pirates 3 (as in I know who the actual pirates are)

Academic
Plays 3 (Sp modern)
chemistry 2 (sp food additives)

interest
cooking 6 (sp Greek)



Contacts 70 BP.

4/3 Father. Alec Spiros is kind of ashamed of me, and while he is not after my getting killed, he is not as close as a family could be. He is big on the pirate scene in Europe. He is the young brother of a family of three, the eldest, his brother Orvald, is retired, and his elder sister died at sea when he was young. Heavily cybered he boasts that he is old as his tounge, and 20 years older than his teeth.

1/6 Mother. Sarthiel Spiros. Doting mother, proud of me, but under Alec's Thumb, and unable to help me as much as she would want to. She is a low level mage, perhaps magic 2, she lost a lot of magic potential as she had cyberwork done before she awakened.

3/4 Brother Mateo Spiros, Striking out as a semi-independant pirate, Very Strong, Cybered to the nines, bloodthirsty, but kind of ashamed of his "squishy" sister. Mateo is heir to the Spiros piracy empire, and practices hard.

2/5 Brother Talos Spiros, Working for Mateo as his decker/money launderer, slightly less close to Electra since he tried to do some creative accounting with her cashflow, and she pimp slapped him for it. Still they keep in touch, he used to do her taxes until the laundering incident, and now is working hard to regain her trust. Talos is also an accomplished boat rigger.

2/5 Uncle Orvald Spiros, Alec's Eldest brother. Retired Pirate, Tough as nails, mean as a rattler, but dotes on his niece who done good. Used to live with him. His and kiera' children died in a ship to ship battle durign the Euro wars of the coast of Crete, and since then they have been land locked.

2/5 Aunt Kiera Spiros, Retired Pirate, still keeps her knives sharp. While Orvald is living the high life, she keeps in trim, and still has black combat cyberware installled. Used to live with her.

2/5 Boyfriend, Trevor Brown. A big satyr rugby player who can't believe his luck. Electra met him after the crash, and was impressed with his happy go lucky view on life, and his great prowess err... 'on the field'. Trevor is a gentle giant, and off the field he likes to watch plays and eat at fine restraunts, at least when he can't convince Electra to cook.

4/2 Talent Agent, Sara Smallman (human). After declining a few too many inappropriate advances, Electra decided to go for a female agent. Sara works hard for Electra, but as the biggest female talent agent in the UK, she has not that much time to socialise with her.

1/6 Rachel Frost, Sara's Best friend from school, While Electra hit the stage, Rachel became a minor cube corp. They are always meeting up for drinks/going out on the town. Electra acts somewhat wild and Rachel keeps her grounded.

1/3 Joe Johanson, Dwarf, and Head of Electra's fan club. Computer geek, Sara dosen't really know him, but tolerates his flowers and so forth as he also gets her a lot of free publicity. Also she keeps vaguely in touch as sometimes she can convince him to keep some of the more embarrassing parts of her private life from the public eye.

3/1 Fernandez Depp, often plays opposite Electra, most recently in "Pirates of the Carribean." On the stage they can keep sparks of sexual tension flying between themselves, and they are "officially" dating according to her fanclub, but in reality Fernandes pefers the company of his boyfriend when out of the public eye. It is a mutually beneficial arrangement as neither Electra, nor Trevor want to be seen to be dating, Trevor does not want the attention, and Electra finds the publicity from "dating" Fernandez to be good for her career.

I´m not finished with my pc´s timeline, yet, but he probably will have worked inhouse for a specific corp in the 50´s and only got independant in the 60´s. Off cause even during his inhouse time, he could have consulted for a friendor friend of a friend. But your character would have to be quiet rich to afford him (that luxury lifestyle isn´t payed from tax refunds alone ). Or else, you´d have to have good conections, i.e. to british nobility (any time, but it might be a bit of a stratch) or Ares, Novatech/Neonet (after 64, as they probably where his mayor clients in the mid-60´s). Off cause if you are famoust enough, my PC´s consulting company might have helped you for free, for publicity reasons. BTW, the name is John Francis Fitzalan-Howard (he is the grand son of both the Duke of Norfork and the Countess of Snowdon, but hair to none and a bit of an outsider among nobility, because he is indish/japanese from his mother´s side).

As a high profile lawyer, John would have been in the situation to funktion as a Mr. Johnson for a client more then once. Usually he would go through a Fixer or even multiple ones, but when the sitiuation asked for extrem discretion beyond the norm, he would beet shadowy people in person. In 63 one possibility would have been, that your pirates stole something of particular worth for Novatech. John would have been send to retrive it and as the meeting coincided with your characters troubles, her family asked for assistence in return for the item (or maybe person).

Another posibillity would be, that the greek pirates know some scotsh pirates, whose clansmen have conections to the british aristocracy. Through these channels they could have gained access to John, who might have helped the pirates in return for a future favour.

In any case, we could (probably should) both know the same contact or two contacts, that know each other.

On a general note. John usually dos not apear at court himself, but instead is more of the brains behind the scenes in his corporation. He is the paragraphe nerd who whispers into the front-man´s or -girl´s ear. He´s quiet a good talker as well, of cours, but he likes to stay in the background.

If you want to share contacts, my brother Talos Spiros is a decker / money laundere for the spiros pirate family, connection 2, My other Brother Mateo is 2nd in command of the Spiros Pirate clan, conneciton 3, and my father alec Spiros is one of the more powerful pirates off the shores of europe, connection 4. Any could have met you to do the tech trade you mentioned. The only other person I know who you might know is Sara Smallman, most connected talent scout in the Uk, connection 4. If you have any contacts that you think a 19 year old elf stage star may know, throw 'em at me, and I'll see...

Went through London in early 2066, mid January somewhere and was actually having the opposite of amicable dealings with the Tir. So unless your corner of Wales had trouble with revolutionaries then they are likely to know nothing of one another

I took the Sara, the Talent-Scout as a contact (4/2), which metatype is she? She was probably the one bringing John and Electra together then. He might have helpedher out of sympathy and publicity reasons.