Background: (you may replace Renraku with Novatech or another corp, I'm still trying to get his story to fit with canon properly)
Maven was one of the stars of the Renraku financial department, that was until the crash anyway. He was at the stock exchange anticipating the Novatech IPO when all hell broke loose there. One of the few people to survive, his coma lasted almost 2 months. After which, he tried his best to resume his work, but something with the trauma of his ordeal had apparently snapped his brain. He would get glimpses of visions and hear voices in his head. At first he ignored it but it got so bad that he was finally admitted to a Support Group for others having similar problems from the crash. In Reality, The Crash Survivors Support Group was a research group for understanding Technomancers. It was here that Maven was first directly contacted by other TM's and made aware of what was going on. His previous hallucinations being his recieving and intercepting of WiFi signals from the growing crowd of Commlinks that were being sold after the Crash to support the new matrix topology. As the numbers dwindled from "Rehabilitation" and he pulled strings to find out what the Support Group was being used for, Maven pooled all of his money and favors from with in Renraku and asked his friend Dave from the Expendable Resources department to hire an extraction team for him. The deal was that for the hiring of the extraction, he would never contact Dave again so that Dave could maintain deniability of the whole incident. The extraction went well until the Decker from the team was killed, and Maven took over his place and helped get him and the team out to freedom giving him enough rep in the shadows to get a fixer to give him some jobs.

Notes:

• Building a TM is ungodly hard, I have never been so strapped for points in building a character before. There are a lot of things I'd like to give him, but there's just no room.
• He needs more contacts for being a Corporate mover and shaker, but I'm leaning towards the Idea that he's abandoned them all and severed his connections completely from his old life, but is still very new to the shadows to have made any real friends yet.
• The GM made me take some points in old school computing to represent his time as a Corp financial specialist.

So, what do you think?

Resonance 6 = 65 bp (1 free + 4*10 + 25)
edge 2 (human) = 0 bp
ititiative, ip, essence (calculated) = 0 bp

how'd you get 80?

remember that the cerebral booster doesn't give you addtional knowledge skills, and the pheromones shouldn't help your cyber persona.

I guess it's because of his backstory, when he worked as a normal wageslave. Rememer that the Crash created Technomancers in one way, and not all of them have been Otakus before.

The Technomancer in the game I'm running has started play with a Datajack (And in Internal Commlink, since you know...might as well spent that .99 essence in total and not let any space waste), since he was a Decker before the 'Crash and transformed while in the coma. *Shrugs some* It's 10BPS at character creation, but it means a LOT for character history.

I actually tinkered with the Technomancer rules concerning Essence loss reducing his Resonance without the player knowing. I decided that, should he still want to purchase his Data Jack, Internal Commlink, and Mneumonic Enhancer dispite the Essence loss so he could be more correct for his backstory...I would round the essence down to the nearest whole number before subtracting it from his Resonance.

It's now a house-rule I've worked in, that Technomancers basically get that first .99 points of essence for free, as long as it makes sense for them (You know, no Wired Reflexes, but Skillwires are okay).

The datajack is there because he used computers before the crash, when people still used them. Infact almost every one should still have them. If before the crash 90% of people had DJ's, 5 years later, nearly that many people would still have them, even if they aren't required. Unless you're playing a 5 year old, chances are you'd have a datajack.

The other 15 points is for the complex forms. Sorry!

The house rule is cool. I never bothered with exact numbers, since I haven't had a TM in my group now, but will use your idea.

Same goes with money for the cyber. If a player comes up with a good backstory I usually give the character some non-combat cyber or equipment for free.

It just only made sense to me (And was caused by me misreading the book the first time through of course, but I don't tell just anyone that). They're Technomancers...maybe I'm stuck too much in my old ways, but I really can't see a Technomancer losing his ability to interact with "The Machine" when he's becoming more of it, to a point, of course.

Good call, I'm not going to be shooting much anyway with 1 ip and 7 dice in pistols.

Most of his resources (71k of 90k) went into cyberware. I could drop a few points off, and outfit him for like 9k instead of 19k, but it's not going to make a big difference. I'll get his gear and then see what I can shave off.

Thanks for all the suggestions Clyde!

I would probably have the same houserule in any game I ran, but I'm not running the game so I'm playing by the book (unfortunately)

The face thing was mostly a bonus, I wanted to get him decent stats for his persona, and EVERY mental stat is used for the persona in some way, so to get a decent deck, you need to be high end in your stats. Honestly, the face part is only 20points for the skill group, and another 6 points for the cyber. I suppose I could cut out the cyber, and drop the group by 1. With that I'd be close to buying off combat paralysis. I think the social part fits the character well, but I could use some extra points. I'll play with moving the stats around a bit since all the stats of the living persona are limited to Resonance, there's not much point in having a 7 logic until I initiate twice and raise my resonance to 7.

Unfortunately, I'm building this character way early, so I have no idea what other people are going to be playing.