I've posted IC asking a couple of question

1) Is the troll girl dead?
2) Who is she?

Also, does she have anything else on her that may be deemed 'useful'

What is this room I'm in?

Cheers

Sorry I didn't get an IC together...will try to sort it ASAP...

As an aside, anyone fancy a couple of points of bonus karma for doing some data entry on my excel character generator? Let me know

I KNEW I should have learned more about Excel!

Always with the computery stuff.

Don't you have a car that needs washing or a dog that needs walking?

@Mr J - love love love your aim to get things done before ever even meeting those bad guys.

Up top, we'll keep doing all we can to pull their attention our way.

Why thank you

@Always Overkill: So what exactly is this weird relationship that you've got Jan and Lany engaged in? Is it like father/daughter or secret lovers? Currently I'm picturing you as the Natalie Portman to my Jean Reno. It starts off fatherly, but you just know they'll bang eventually

For the record - I have no problem picturing anyone as Natalie Portman...

Anyone wants to create any 'PACKs' too, that would be useful!

@Aria

You may have missed in the middle of my other ramblings but could I have an in-depth description of the 3 people in the room next to where I dropped down please? Are these patients Trolls too? All human? All young? What about the Doctor? Size/build? Armed?

Thanks

PACKs is an SR4 concept...there it was a way of having a set amount of BP to buy a package of equipemt (no discount, just a package of useful stuff...)

Some other packages that might be useful: street scum survival kit, typical runner sidearm, basic commlink package...they need to be useful to more than one character concept and are about time saving and not needing to remember every little piece of equipment that you would expect a competant runner to have access to.

@JustKelly -

thanks for saving the GeneralIC thread from falling into the abyss.

Loved your post - waiting to see what happens - are these Nikki's parents?

No - don't tell...

I just want to quickly apologise for not posting in CoP for a while. I still love the game (and the character) but with the other games so fast moving and that relatively slow paced I just never seem to get back to it. I'll try and post soon. Actually, is there anyone solely playing CoP or is everyone in there also running another character in a different game?

I just want to quickly apologise for not posting in CoP for a while. I still love the game (and the character) but with the other games so fast moving and that relatively slow paced I just never seem to get back to it. I'll try and post soon. Actually, is there anyone solely playing CoP or is everyone in there also running another character in a different game?

@Aria: I have no recording to review, but I don't want to pop up at the window. The detail you gave is more than I required, but I just imagined that if I saw enough to identify number of people and colour of clothing before then identifying size and possibly metatype would be possible from my initial glance?

@Tribes

Banging out another IC post detailing Boone's home-sweet-home and the gear he's gonna be picking up from the colossal collection of STUFF he has crammed in there, but figured I'd give our other fresh faces a chance to get in on the action before I put anything up.


~Umi

@Tribes
@Aria - anticipatory post----there are no security cameras in the Crime Mall per se - bad for biz, and what's the point - discourage crims from being crims?
Fact is, the place will never have the resources to keep such a system from being hacked by established law enforcement organizations, so it would be a liability.

This is NOT to say the place is not packed with various privately held/installed cameras, just that if Briar wants to take Frizzen's suggestion she will have to get a bit more specific and creative than just hack the Crime Mall's camera system.

@Tribes: description and background are up in the recruitment thread, but I am not entirely sure on how to introduce Patch into the current scene...

Thanks for adding those things.

How you enter the game depends on whether or not you are a member of the Mechanicals (couldn't tell from your sheet).

If you are not, then you will have witnessed the commotion surrounding the abduction, and when people come around looking to find Steamer, you can offer to lend hand. Should come naturally for a character like yours to want to help people.
Just post yourself at the Crime Mall and assume you saw the same scene that Boone saw.
IC anything else you might be doing there, and once Frizzen and Kettle are on the scene, you can offer your account of what happened and your services.

If you are already in the Tribe, then your comm will have received a group message to all members in the vicinity to render assistance to Frizzen.
In that case, just present yourself to Frizzen (currently en route to the crime scene) and we take it from there.

So either way you are good to post.

Given three characters, decided a new post would be cleaner for adding their data.

Backstory-Family was never rich, but they were happy. Lived in a low-rent area of Chicago outside the CZ, but had to deal with gang activity in their neighborhood. Mother was a waitress at a local diner, walking distance from home; Dad was a former runner (Magician) turned businessman-talismonger from Boston. He has no lingering ties from Boston, and started fresh in Chicago where he met the mother. Triplets are unusual, and of course hard to take care of relative to the one child at a time program. Life was happy. When kids were about 10, Dad's store was robbed, while Mom was visiting of course, and both were killed. Kids were moved into a local orphanage. Placing three kids together is extremely difficult, so they occasionally were separated into different foster homes. While they were good kids, they would escape to be together again. At 15, they decided to stay together no matter what and left the home. They've been living on the streets or cheap apartments when they could afford to, by working odd jobs and using their talents. While Dad was a full mage, each child received only part of his heritage. So they worked together to be a "whole" magician. Tina has an affinity with spirits, particularly with Air spirits. She treats them like "birds in the park" and feeds them whenever possible. Travis is the extra calm one, having to spend lots of time with his craft. Tommy is the hothead, wanting to always protect those he thinks need protection. With Chicago's bug spirits aplenty, Tina had to guard herself to avoid them. After one last encounter with a nasty free spirit, she begged her brothers to leave Chicago. Having no ties, they do so, hitching rides to Seattle. Why Seattle, well why not.


pdf files for each character can be found at this link
http://1drv.ms/RcVaPK


character creation details for each character can be found at this link
http://1drv.ms/1q2DgPk


They've been in Seattle an short period of time, getting work at a local diner and meeting people who worked or ate there. They each have different contacts which I need to detail a bit more. They have taken other jobs, and while creating foci and alchemy preps could be a good money maker for Travis, he hasn't really found a good place to sell consistently yet so has a hard time buying the materials. Tina has the most consistent of income generation right now by working in the diner. Tommy occasionally will work at the diner too, but sometimes gets into more accidental trouble than anything else. The siblings are very close and won't allow themselves to be separated again.

Insertion into the game---While at any one time, all three could be available, once they find a home, they may only show up as their skills need them. So Travis may sit back a bit to work his alchemy for the tribe behind scenes more often than not - he could become a money maker when the Tribe wants another cash flow source. Tina's resources with spirits would be useful in some scenarios, not all. Tommy being the hothead he's tagged with would jump into whatever frek he could find that his siblings will let him. Given their relatively young age, finding mentors to guide them in their learning of magic, or other mundane skills, would be useful.

Again, feedback is welcome on the three characters, their story, as well as how they can fit into the game. I don't really have a preference on which Tribe they join. While the Mechanicals seem an obvious fit due to the magic, Freedom may actually be better to balance the active players. I'll let the GM and current cast of players provide input on this one please.

Given three characters, decided a new post would be cleaner for adding their data.

Backstory-Family was never rich, but they were happy. Lived in a low-rent area of Chicago outside the CZ, but had to deal with gang activity in their neighborhood. Mother was a waitress at a local diner, walking distance from home; Dad was a former runner (Magician) turned businessman-talismonger from Boston. He has no lingering ties from Boston, and started fresh in Chicago where he met the mother. Triplets are unusual, and of course hard to take care of relative to the one child at a time program. Life was happy. When kids were about 10, Dad's store was robbed, while Mom was visiting of course, and both were killed. Kids were moved into a local orphanage. Placing three kids together is extremely difficult, so they occasionally were separated into different foster homes. While they were good kids, they would escape to be together again. At 15, they decided to stay together no matter what and left the home. They've been living on the streets or cheap apartments when they could afford to, by working odd jobs and using their talents. While Dad was a full mage, each child received only part of his heritage. So they worked together to be a "whole" magician. Tina has an affinity with spirits, particularly with Air spirits. She treats them like "birds in the park" and feeds them whenever possible. Travis is the extra calm one, having to spend lots of time with his craft. Tommy is the hothead, wanting to always protect those he thinks need protection. With Chicago's bug spirits aplenty, Tina had to guard herself to avoid them. After one last encounter with a nasty free spirit, she begged her brothers to leave Chicago. Having no ties, they do so, hitching rides to Seattle. Why Seattle, well why not.


pdf files for each character can be found at this link
http://1drv.ms/RcVaPK


character creation details for each character can be found at this link
http://1drv.ms/1q2DgPk


They've been in Seattle an short period of time, getting work at a local diner and meeting people who worked or ate there. They each have different contacts which I need to detail a bit more. They have taken other jobs, and while creating foci and alchemy preps could be a good money maker for Travis, he hasn't really found a good place to sell consistently yet so has a hard time buying the materials. Tina has the most consistent of income generation right now by working in the diner. Tommy occasionally will work at the diner too, but sometimes gets into more accidental trouble than anything else. The siblings are very close and won't allow themselves to be separated again.

Insertion into the game---While at any one time, all three could be available, once they find a home, they may only show up as their skills need them. So Travis may sit back a bit to work his alchemy for the tribe behind scenes more often than not - he could become a money maker when the Tribe wants another cash flow source. Tina's resources with spirits would be useful in some scenarios, not all. Tommy being the hothead he's tagged with would jump into whatever frek he could find that his siblings will let him. Given their relatively young age, finding mentors to guide them in their learning of magic, or other mundane skills, would be useful.

Again, feedback is welcome on the three characters, their story, as well as how they can fit into the game. I don't really have a preference on which Tribe they join. While the Mechanicals seem an obvious fit due to the magic, Freedom may actually be better to balance the active players. I'll let the GM and current cast of players provide input on this one please.

@Tribes, Always Overkill

Kettle is an elf.

I don't really mind if you edit anything - all observers' view of the scene will be different - just fog of war - but just so you know - it will be clear once you start treating her!