We're starting day after American Thanksgiving. So Friday. Sorry about that.

So ... my name's Fortune, and I submitted a character named Alistair "Gypsy" O'Shea, Sorcerer extraordinaire, and the bane of Spirits everywhere.

So emo ... can my character have Full Body Armor?

Sure.

Really? Bonus ... now I just have to do the nuyen shuffle again to fit it in.

Game starts in 24 hours.

So, do you have any feedback on the characters? Any last minute changes you want us to make? Anything you want to tell us about your vision of the Sixth World? Anything?

Other than that, expect an updated copy before the 24 hours is done.

I don't have many people who actually sent in sheets for Boy's Night Out. I might delay the game until Sunday until we have about 4-8 players.

And as for your character, I will make those spirit banes EAT you.

The point is that someone has to be able to summon them. Just throwing a Force 20 Spirit into the mix is kinda odd, because most people would be worm food after summoning it.

But the thing is, I'll have it so patrolling permabound spirits will break their patrols to attack you if you have the right spirit bane. And insect shamans will try to ambush you in your sleep to calm their spirits. And spirits using Search on you will have an easier time of it, lowered thresholds and shit.

I should nerf Spirit Banes, too. They're kinda weak as it is.

Okay, here's the nerf, since you have, like, 8 of them. No offense, Fortune, but you're really trying to push boundaries here, tenuous as they are.

Whenever a spirit Searches for you, if you're its bane, its threshold is lowered by the number of banes you have, so that they'll get exponentially more painful as you accumulate them. So if you have 5 banes and you're being Searched for by an insect spirit queen that you're the bane of, it'll have a -5 reduction to its threshold. That makes each bane worth 10 BP. And if you roll a glitch on an Edge test while passing by one, it'll randomly attack you. A critical glitch brings its friends.

There. Now it's balanced.

Ward your room. Seriously.

Already done ... it was my very first thought.

If there's room still I can try to cook up something. I was going to shed the TM in favor of my gunslinger adept, but something seems less satisfying about her when there's no conversion yet that I can see for the Thunderbolt.

Dual weilded burst only draw every cop within ten blocks to the sound pistols for the win.

Of course in reading the fact that Fortune's already sporting a character with Insect Spirit Bane, I've got an evil compulsion to re-make Immortal, my magic resistance Insect Bane hunter of all things magic and threatening...

Buddy!!!

How many people should I wait for until I start the game?

Is this a forum-based game? If yes, count me it - I always wanted to play with Fortune and emo samurai

Sweet. It is a forums-based game, actually.

Yeah!

So what is needed? Character-wise, I mean.

Fortune's a mage, Zak wants a social adept, the board's mostly open. I will allow 2 or even three of any archetype, we just need coverage of all the bases.

Ok, thanks for the info.

I'll create a sammie, an old school one with much cyber, a little bio and a lot of guns.

Alpha and Beta grade ware is available to standard cost? Or is there a chance that it might become cheaper?

Actually, delta's now available. I forgot to houserule that. Availability is gone.

Sweeet
Any chance to lower the cost multiplicator?

No can do. I'm already giving you 7500 per build point. Buy bioware instead, man.

What part of "old school" didn't you understand?

Oh, yeah.

Hehe.

I guess I'll make him an elf, that way he can be around with his cyber for a longer time and have even witnessed the rise of bioware. And still looks like mid-20.

That's perfectly okay.

Now all I need is more cash.

Dude, sign up in my IRC game. It's on again this Sunday.

I'll sign up when my Iron Kingdoms-game is finished. That starts at 3 p.m. here and I don't know how long it run.

Complaining, that's all players can do! Wait... I'm a player here too... I want more money!

Emo do you have any house rules for cyberlimbs?

Hey emo ... can I have the Incompetence Quality in three Groups? I need more Build Points!

Oh yeah, they start at natural strength +1. Now they rock ass. And they're capped only by arm capacity.

C'mon ... it's only three Groups ...

We should ask for more BP - I mean, 450, what's that? Pffff.... 500, that would be cool!

But then I'd have to make up rules for chargen initiation.

Not for me.

Because then you'd have mages with shitloads of random skills, since you can't spend 500 BP on all magical skills and Magic stats under my chargen rules, and everyone knows that once a mage has maxed out his skills, all he does for the rest of his life is initiate. Mages are supposed to be a tower of power, and if you don't introduce initiation, they don't stand tall.

I wasn't planning on Initiating (any more) at chargen. I only wanted to round out his Skills, as you said, and maybe chuck few more points in Contacts. I don't really need anything more though, as I just keep tweaking and tweaking and tweaking and ...

Can I use starting Cash for Karma? I get 16d6 x 500¥!

Okay. But only one increase between runs.

Nah, I really was only joking.

Kidding about the Karma for Cash that is ... the 16d6 is not a joke!

So, who all is playing? And who's playing what?

Grinder?
Raiko?
Digital Heroin?
Gremish?
Zak?

... and me, of course!

I'm playing an old school (all cyber, very few bio) elf sammie. Don't know about the background yet, but the char will likely be the classical urban predator.