cREbralFIX: you should find that you've been accepted to the seattleshadows. the threat level is more in keeping with reality (or the way I see reality),and hence lower than in many games I've played in where an old guy walking his dog is always a kungfu master with a sword cane weapon focus and the local BTL dealer casually wields a vindicator minigun. generally expect gangers to be wearing leathers or armoured clothing and street level weapons such as pistols, blades maybe the odd SMG or shotgun. General corp sec and lonestar normally would have armoured jackets with military grade armour conserved for special reactive forces. Non-lethal aquisition of targets may be used providing you don't barrage them with automatic weapons on sight
. But then whoever wanted to be taken alive? especially with rumours abound about the treatment the police and security forces give SINless captives!
Skillwise, I find its best to have a variety of skills around rating 4 rather than a couple of focused skills at 6, but that is entirely up to you. My adventures rarely require you to finish them in a certain way, I like to allow people to be inventive and use skills they will enjoy baring only in mind that constant use of excessive force is a sure fire way of ending up as body parts to the local black market clinic. If you want to discuss things in depth before posting a character we can talk it through via the seattle shadows site.
Chance 359: you also have been accepted. I generally use the becks version on the current version of NSCRG, as far as I know thats becks 2.0 so go for that.
As soon as you post your character sheets onto the site i'll announce their slots taken up on this thread. Providing the two runners that applied from another site also get there characters up we should have enough to start. Also feel free to post a hello on the welcome to seattle thread or just chat about shadowrun in general on the general OOC thread (as if you don't get enough of a fix on the dumpshock forums lol).
PS. any others interested still contact seattle shadows as I will accept a couple more runners.