I'd like to populate my Seattle campaign with various NPC's to make up the local runner community. I thought it would be neat to use some guest appearances (as in "You notice so-and-so at the bar" or "So-and-so walks past you on the street") of characters used by the folks here on DS. Let's hear about your Prime Runner!
I don't need stats or anything, just a brief description and a tiny bit about their career (not their origin/background/secrets) -- something they might be noted for in Seattle's shadows.
Our group might get a kick seeing some of the DS regulars Thanks.

Such ideas inevitably go wrong.

Ok, here's the line up for the upcoming SR4 game I'll be playing in.

Hofnar the Magnificent - Flamingly Gay Troll Phys. Adept and club monkey. (Inspired by the Movie Party Monster and Leonid the Magnificent from America's Got Talent). Wears a fluffy white fur armor coat with shock frills hidden in with the fur, lots of body glitter, and not too much else, usually tight, sheer, or both. Lacquers his horn for special occasions. Carries an over sized pimp cane to use as a staff. Loves zone dancing, blow, and being Fabulous (not nesceserily in that order). Early career mostly consisted of crowd control at eccentric clubs and parties.

Quote - "You, me and the bloated corpse of Madonna (God bless her soul) know that you're lowballing me."

Kotori (Means Little Bird in Japanese I think) - Tiny asian woman with a beefy, obviously cyber right arm. Preferred weapon - Ingram White Knight. The spirits of her dead parents can occasionally be seen following her and telling her to get married and give them some grandchildren. They're desperate enough to even sudgest the Fashion Oni (aka Hofnar, who she shares an apartment with) would be suitable, at least he can get her to wear some decent make-up. Former Renraku corp-princess, Red Samurai in training before she found out that Renraku had killed her parents and decided to break away. Addicted to Zen, the perfect way to wind down after a day at the corproate grindstone.

Quote - "Hofnar, get your flabby ass off the couch and put on some pants, my dead parents can see you."

Metasigil (Me) - Ork Chaos Magician raised by Ork Back-to-the-land survivalists. On a mission to save his people (Orks) from bad eating habits and genetic impurity. Dresses in heavy rain coats and wide brimmed, floppy hats. Carries a staff for self-defense emergencies. Believes that orks have poor bilateral symetry (i.e. tend to be kind of fugly, no to mention ill tempered) because of poor eating habits and an excess of human genes in the ork gemone. Has perfected a line of organically grown root vegetable based "Ork Bars" that he believes are the key to good ork nutrition. Has a mild addiction to Psyche. Early career has consisted mostly of offering cheap magical healing to Redmond dwellers and trying to convert people to the Ork Bar lifestyle.

Quote - "Ork bars, the next step in orkish evolution."

Well, that memorable enough for you?

Oh, god. This can end in no other way but badly.

Yep, they'll sure stand out.

I ran a merc turned street-sam who went by "Wall" for a long time. He retired after a big score and opened up a small bar near the docks called "The hole in Wall". People inevitably ask about the name, and he shows them the big picture of him with a hole clean through his cybertorso caused by an assault cannon round that failed to detonate (I burned a LOT of karma for that). This was the primary motivation for retirement, along with just having lost too many friends.

The bar itself is surprisingly clean and well lit. Trid screens are well placed throughout, and if theres no major sporting events on Wall tends to play classic Anime flicks from his collection. The staff is mostly college kids or recently (honorably) discharged military kids looking to get a job while going to school.

Wall's a nice guy, and even though the bar barely breaks even he loves it (He's a social guy with deep pockets). He absolutely loves hearing a good war story, and usually rewards ones he believes with free drinks. He will give out advice freely, and for a small fee he will even provide basic instruction in small unit tactics.

Some members of his old team drop in from time to time to visit. Though most are admittedly less freindly than him, a few are noteworthy.

"Jones" Human Caucasian, Looks 30ish
Jones is frequently mistaken for a Mr. Johnson, as he tends to dress, talk, and even to an extent act like a corp. This shouldn't fool you though, as he is a very capable mercenary. He is semi-retired, though he's been seen looking through luxury car catalogs of late...

"Lucy" Shapeshifter (tiger), Olive complexion, looks 19-20
Lucy is Jones sort of adopted charge. Her social akwardness and lack of modern knowledge are offset by the fact that she is disturbingly cute and genuine. Magic users will quickly spot her as a shapeshifter. Jones is EXTREMELY protective of her.

Thanks HullBreach, I'm scribbling some of that info for future use, possibly this weekend.

After years of playing I've got quite a menagerie of characters and NPC's built up. I'll try to add all of them when I get time.

For Now:

Marko Hasek AKA Major Havoc

A large Orc with a background in the Czech Military, ended up in Seattle after "retirement" Somewhat notorious after being a little overzealous while running a diversion for another team, Havoc machinegunned the front of a Lonestar "neighborhood Outreach Center", and ended up in a running firefight that made the evening news. Since then Major Havoc has been laying low, and working hard at destroying his old identity. Not a terribly active character anymore he plays the part of urban legend / comic relief in our game. He lives in parks, sewers, under bridges, always on the move. He tends to randomly pop up when characters think they are alone (especially in outdoor intimate or dramatic moments) in parks or on the streets, and ask for money or food. He carries everything he owns in a large dufflebag and a back pack. By 2070 he is getting fairly old for an Ork (late 30's) and may be looking to score enough cash for a Leonization Treatment.

I can add another urban legend here:

Tinman: Human-ish
Tinman didn't start out with the name, but his horrible luck would have him leave limbs behind on bad runs. After his fourth bad run, there was only enough of him left to dump into a full borg, unfortunately the street doc they brought him to only had troll sized limbs and torso. Thats when his nickname started. Over the course of his runs, he managed to put vehicle plating over his limbs and torso, making him a walking tank to smaller firearms. Now days, he lives semi-retired in the redmond barrens, as a grumpy bastard with an LMG. He rarely goes outside his neighborhood, located near the plastic jungles, unless he needs a new part put in.

There was an Urban Brawl match was set up in the plastic jungles, that he was convinced to help disrupt. He became a centerstage disruption as the cameras were rolling. There were no survivors of that Match for either team. Since then he's become even more reclusive to avoid the Urban Brawl recruiters.

Let me get this straight, you want us to give information about some of our old characters from previous games that eventually went prime?

Our favorite character to add: Kilus, a direct copy of Sulik from Fallout 2 to Shadowrun. Complete with nose-bone, ancestor spirits and that funky way of talking, "Whatcha be needin?" We usually made him a mechanic contact and everybody had him. It's hilarious every time the GM has to speak as him. Laugh riot.

We had an interesting group of NPCs based upon the Venture Brothers characters. Kept it subtle enough that no one realized the comparison...until the Brock-ripoff wrestled a PC down and threatened to jam the PC's own finger up his ass if he didn't submit and the 'necromancer' started shouting about Immortal Souls! as a centering technique.

In my incredible arrogance, I suggest that you roughly base a couple of chars on the relationship between Emo and me.

Yin and Yang
Like their metaphysical namesakes, Yin and Yang are polar opposites of each other. As an imaginative and optimistic spell-slinger, Yang is always coming up with madcap schemes: each day, it seems as if he's comes up with a new wacky plan. But being the cold and cynical hacker that she is, Yin will often try to shoot down Yang's plans as "insane" and unworkable, forcing him to scale down some of the more fanciful steps (if not to scrap the plan entirely). The pair squabbles so often that one initially wonders why they're such close friends in the first place, but further study sheds light on how much Yin and Yang depend on each other - Yin would never have accomplished anything if it weren't for Yang's creativitity, and Yang would have ended up dead or jailed a thousand times over if it weren't for Yin's persuasive talents. Plus, as you might guess, there's a little bit of Yang and Yin, and a little bit of Yin in Yang....

Ok. I can give you information on my character that you certainly can feel free to use. I'll have it in tomorrow. I'll try to make it fairly detailed and in-depth.

Moonman & Wayland, two otaku turned Technomancer orphans, Moonman is as manipulative as humanly possible, but obsesses over the moon (Also known to yell "Da Moon rules #1"). Wayland actually was delusional and thought he was a norse diety. Both otaku suffere from sever mental disorders resulting from bad Matrix interations.

Now, I just wrote a fairly lengthy "bio" for my character in Shadowrun, which I will gladly share with you. It has various bits and pieces of her little ol' story, but certainly has a TON of story gaps. However, I feel I may be going a little too far if I share this with everyone. Should I really post it?

Well, my contribution to this will be for a current character:

Fridge

Part of the Aurora deadlands gang known as the Descendants of Chaos, Fridge stands out from them for 2 reasons. First being that of everyone in that gang, he is the only one with a name that isn't 'hot': DoC use the japanese symbol for fire as a gang marker. The second being he is the only member of the gang not bent on rampent destruction for the sake of it. In fact, he goes out of his way to stay out of fights, doing anything from smiling and acting stupid to crawling through sewers to avoid boarder crossings.

He's 700 pounds, stays cool in a tight spot and can hold 2 dozen beers easily at any given time. He usually favors his Own Two Fists for solving problems, and actively avoids guns, sticking to an axe and a bow, both of which he rarely uses regardless. Like most trolls he is large and imposing, being a wall of muscle and meat. Unlike most trolls, he actually knows something about literature, having grown up in a library converted into a shelter.

He is oh so hopelessly lost in this sixth world, and relies upon an elven decker for advice, and an elven bartender for housing (he trusts them for some reason)

He has no matrix presence, and prefers to keep it that way, and more than anything else hates the question "are you from britain?"

quote: "Look, i'm sorry i drew on your face. But i was trying to wake you up! we had an important question for you, the water didn't help and neither did the hitting. I don't understand how your magic crap works, i barely understand how his *pointing at the elf decker* crap works. But to be fair, you did wake up after i drew the mustache."

Elven Decker Ghost (aka "/.")

The quote from the introductory game says it all, one i said to my GM before the other guy had even met me IC or OOC, and he followed to a T without any prerehersal

*large troll walks into the bar, long armored coat worn, and a bow with javelin sized arrows strapped to his back*

barflyone: Who the hell is that? He's not running a pan
/.: Oh, we'll see about that *scans* lets just set the searcher to look for his devices
searcher: what pan?
/.: no, i mean on his cyberware
searcher: what cyberware?
/.: uh oh *scurries to the back of the bar*

Born in a public hospital on August 3, Bonnie Blake was a very normal kid. She went about school like a normal person with normal childhood politics and problems. Peer pressure in downtown Seattle always seemed to be an issue with kids those days. But she rose above the pressure of modern society and maintained a fairly innocent childhood.

Her years in Roosevelt High School weren't quite as innocent. She began listening to neo-punk bands such as Algeria's Democracy, Jimmy Frag and the Sweet Tarts(thanks Blackjack), and Dead Dunkelzahns. She started taking their music literally and joined up with the Holloweeners as a tagger. By her junior year in high school, she gave up her mischievous ways and started showing a lot more school spirit. She became a cheerleader and gave praise to the Roosevelt Devil Rats. At 17 during her junior year, she lost her virginity to a 23 year old engineer straight out of college. She was confused. Her drastic change in lifestyle, friends, and attitude brought her into depression, and in turn, led to her being taken advantage of. During her senior year, she dropped the school spirit act and worked at getting her grades up. While she did very well her last year, her overall GPA looked terrible.

With a high school education, she decided she need to go out into the world and do adult-like things. She had gotten a job at a smaller office building for Ares Macrotechnology. After a good few months of boring and tedious work, she decided to move on with her life.

During her search for new work, she met up with a gentleman by the name of Damien Rayner, known in the shadows as the "Red Riot" for loud fashion sense involving flash red clothing and a reputation for causing a scene in most of his runs. Charismatic and powerful, Bonnie took a fascination to him, adopting some of his traits, his look, and eventually ended up dating him. She was given the street name "Kepone" because she was "as deadly as Kepone and just as bad for the environment"(which really wasn't all too true). Due to indifferences and issues with the relationship, they split apart, and "Kepone" started taking up work on her own.

Eventually she inherited the nickname "Akimbo" because she was known for putting her hands on her hips frequently. Her stern attitude and cold demeanor discourages some, and attracts others. While on the outside, she tends to be a little moody, and in some cases, some may call her a bitch, she really is a friendly and an overall good person. If you show her respect, she will warm up to you and give you equal respect. If you act cold and shallow, she will throw that back in your face.

Her skill is primarily in firearms. Handguns, rifles, submachine guns, heavy weapons. She's handled them all more than once. It's hard to be good at anything else with no formal training. She owns a good deal of firearms and is an active member of the NRA. She feels that guns are the tools that even the playing field. Guns can help even the smallest and weakest person overcome some of the biggest trolls around. She is also a student of Tae Kwon Do, and a fairly decent one at that.

Like Red Riot before her, Akimbo likes red clothing. She has a plethora of deep red skirts, and sports a solid red lined coat, which she usually rolls the sleeves up on. Fairly conservative, she avoids revealing clothing, wears plenty of t-shirts, primarily white with a band name or an Ares logo. She tends to favor skirts over pants. She is shy to having any tattoos. Her ears are pierced, but she infrequently wears earrings.

Akimbo has a special place in her heart for those who cannot seem to defend themselves. She takes great pride in not harming innocent people, and often finds herself volunteering at orphanages and children's hospitals. While it is not hard for her to take a life, she usually finds herself using gel rounds in her weapons. As she puts it "If you can show someone the error of their ways rather than simply killing them, you can change the world". She understands she is a hypocrite for being a shadowrunner, but feels she is not skilled in anything else to make a living out of.

Bonnie as a person, suffers from depression. She has tried committing suicide on multiple occassions, primarily to get attention. Because of her depression, she also finds herself with an alcohol dependency. It's not uncommon for her to drink herself into a lethargic stupor and cry herself to sleep.

Ocassionally, Bonnie enjoys visiting her parents Norman and Amanda Blake at home. To their knowledge, she is still a secretary for Ares. She is afraid to tell her parents of the hideous crimes against modern society that she commits. She fears the sheer disappointment her parents would have in her, and fears they may decide to "disown her".

Bonnie lives with her younger brother, Crystal, and her current boyfriend, Randy Parker. Crystal is awakened, which completely blows Bonnie's mind. She is fascinated with magic, but cannot seem to fully grasp the concept. She herself is a physical adept, but does not realize it. Randy is awakened as well, but not to a very high degree. Both Randy and Crystal do not appreciate Bonnie's line of work, and often scold her for her actions, which further drives her into depression at times.

Stuff I posted on Squinky's Character Drawing Page:
Dress up(or down) game I made in flash of her:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/25872472/
Anyone know how I can make an object with flash where part of it is under one layer and the other part is above that same layer? I can't make her coat without that knowledge unfortunately. frown.gif

Image of her drawn by a friend and inked(poorly) by me:
http://img51.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aa0ad.jpg

And this cool neato Batman-esque roll in and out thing I did of her that we use for our games during scene changes:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/27564435/

Squinky's rendition of Akimbo: http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=akimbo3tw.jpg

Mintcar's rendition of Akimbo: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/mintc...tcar/Akimbo.gif

If you do your homework, you'll see some inconsistencies in streets names in some posts. The truth is, I've given this character 4 or 5 different street names in total, but applying that much backstory is pretty much overdoing it. Now with over 3 and a half years of play and 400+ karma, she's a fairly experienced runner. This character itself is part of the reason why I even play Shadowrun still.