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AppliedCheese

Nov 7 2010, 05:28 AM

Brian "Burnt Bush" Davison, currently being hopped across a border by the Vory...will be looking for work soon. (PM feedback appreciated)

There are some in the shadow community calls me a terrorist. The irony never fails to amaze me. I merely have the strength of will, the moral clarity, to open my eyes to the consequences of my actions. And still do the job. They think me a monster because, for a price, I'm willing to use the talents my life has given me to earn a living. Same as them, really. I plant a bomb, and these holier than thou runners pretend its despicable because it kills the innocent. They steal paydata or extract an exec, and never wonder why the market crashed half a continent away, or how some pissant shell corp suddenly had a massive surge in "medical research into the technomancer condition."

But, so long as they didn't directly pull the trigger, they go on believing that THEY don't shatter lives and kill the innocent...and I'm a terrorist. I have no need to hide behind their false veneer of morality. Once you enter the shadows, your doing horrible things, and there's going to be people dead or broken who didn't deserve it in any way. At least I have the courage to meet that fact head on, and embrace the job. And the same Mr. Johnsons that hire them, hire me.

Of course, I did not always have the clarity of view that I do now. Once upon a time, I was a college freshman, just trying to get in an elf chick's pants. Can't even remember her name. All about mother earth, saving the environment, fighting the man. And help me, I was young and naive and horny, and I believed her. To make a long story short, I went too far in a demonstration. Next thing you know, I'm a wanted man, SIN has been tagged criminal, the works. So a few friends of hers offer to hide me way down in South America. It'll be with some real righteous cause types, I'll do great things for Gaia, and its a hell of a lot better than staying here.

That's where I started to learn popular war. Insurgency. Terrorism. What have you. I learned how to hide in the population. How to use no-tech solutions to high tech problems. How to rig 5 pounds of plastique into a a discrete bundle that would kill a collaborator and his family. How to convince the poor and the starving that life would be better if they'd lay down their lives for a new green nation. I learned, that really, people's war is fought by a few very smart people, a few very inspirational people, and a seething mass of people who just want a better life. The latter die for the former.

All that didn't matter in the end. Kept fighting, nothing changed. Eventually the Azzies wiped them all out, mostly. I saw the signs coming, and got out early. I had some skills, some international inroads, and a belief that maybe someone else would truly fight the good fight

I hooked up with a Techno-rights group. Best guys I ever worked with. I think they have a similarly high opinion of me. I'll still go out of my way to help them if it doesn't put me on the chopping block. Not because I think they'll win their fight, but because they're my only living comrades. I spent four years with them, spent three of them as a direct action team leader. That's where I learned the advantages of some high tech solutions. Blowing up an airliner takes more skill, resources, and planning than some random bombs in a podunk village.

It's also where I learned the cold truth: any war needs money. Terrorism is no exception. We had our ways of getting it. I always found fake charities aimed at helping the forces hunting us to be particularly delicious. Especially as you can use them completely legally to buy yourself whole neighborhoods of poor supporters. I learned a lot of trcicks when it comes to money. But it was never enough. Which meant you always had to have a corp somewhere backing you. In turn, that meant maybe some of your acts aligned with some of that corps interests. Not a pretty picture for a fiery idealist, but when your fighting for the Cause, or just to stay alive, a lot of things become acceptable.

Suffice to say, after a major event in a major city, everyone had to scatter across the globe. The group reconvened, but I never made it back. Still my best contacts though. I started hiring out to various groups to survive. The only thing that ever changed was the ideology. Pretty soon, I ceased to give a damn about ideology. There's a million factions out there in the world, and they all think they have the power to change it. There's probably less than a hundred that actually can, and their version of change involves the bottom line or plots so convoluted its not worth knowing. The inevitable conclusion, if you stay alive in this game long enough, is that all the killing, all the dying, is all for that small handful. And you start to see you've been doing this for them, one way or another, all along. And that without them, you wither on the vine and die.

When you reach that conclusion, your perspective changes. You face, in simplest terms, a moral dilemma. You can try to rage back against these groups. But you'll be crushed. You can hang up your spurs. But you'll starve. Or you can go forward, with clear mind and open eyes, realizing you are about inflict suffering and death in the name of the bottom line. Once you accept that, your will crystallizes, and you can truly view your actions for what they are. Just another way to live at the expense of others. It takes a certain moral fortitude, a certainty of mind, to embrace that change. Most won't. Even my fellow shadowrunners hide from the fact, though their lives revolve around the very concept. But I changed.

But the basics, the basics never change. And there are corps that pay well for the basics. They pay a lot better than the Cause ever did. They'll happily equip you with the latest and greatest too...it makes sense in a return on investment sort of way. The groups blur. Nerve gas attacks with Basque separatists. Sitting in some shithole wahabi training camp, getting mandatory weapons training that consist of little more than how to actually look down the sights. Instigating riots in japan, then making sure the cops shoot into the crowd. A dozen campaigns in a dozen countries. I can say "bomb", "machinegun", and 'rise up against your oppressors" in 5 different languages. I couldn't tell you what happened to the groups I helped or started along the way. Given the usual life expectancy, they're probably all dead or on a corporate payroll by now.

The latest job did not go as smoothly as I might like. Actually, it involved the hasty ditching of pretty much everything I owned or associated with me, and a deal with the devil in the form of the Vory. They got me out, and made sure I got all the essentials to get back to work. Of course, they'll be wanting that favor repaid in monthly installments. Large monthly installments. So, it looks like my brand of moral clarity will be going up for hire here now. New ideology. New victims. New power-players. Same basics. Same results.

Aria

Jan 27 2011, 01:51 PM

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Silk - Changeling Artisan Adept
Game - TBC
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Profile

Name: Susanna Waters
Alias: Silk
Metatype: Changeling
Sex: Female
Age: 21
Nationality: UCAS
Matrix Icon: Lady in a silk dress
Reality Filter: N/A
Lifestyle: Low [student digs]
Nuyen: Low+9D¥
Karma Earned: 0
Karma Spent: 0
Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 1
Public Awareness: 0.3
BPs Spent
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Metatype 0
Attributes 230
Edge+Magic/Resonance 60
Qualities -25
Skills 148
Spells/CFs/Foci etc 0
Resources 23
Contacts 14
Total Build Points 400

Attributes
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Natural Final
Body: 3 ( 3 )
Agility: 4 ( 4 )
Reaction: 3 ( 4 )
Strength: 2 ( 2 )
Charisma: 3 ( 3 )
Intuition: 4 ( 4 )
Logic: 3 ( 3 )
Willpower: 3 ( 3 )
Edge: 4
Magic: 5 ( 4 )
Essence: 5.375
Initiative: 7 ( 8 ) [Reaction+Intuition]
Matrix Initiative: 7 [Response+Intuition +1IP / +1&+2IP for Hot Sim]
Initiative Passes: 1 ( 2 )
Phys CM: 10
Stun CM: 10

Qualities
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Surge I [Metahuman features, lowlight vision, extravagant eyes]
Adept
Way of the Artisan
Day job 1 [uni], SINer & Records on File [NeoNet Corp - uni sponsor]
Media junkie [mild]
Enemy [1/4 – unknown foe]
Vendetta

Active Skills
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Athletics Group 3
Climbing 3 [LA: Strength T: 5]
Gymnastics 3 [LA: Agility T: 7]
Running 3 [LA: Strength T: 5]
Swimming 3 [LA: Strength T: 5]
Clubs 3 [LA: Agility T: 7]
Hacking 2 [LA: Logic T: 5+1 PuSHed]
Electronics Group 2
Computer 2 [LA: Logic T: 5+1 PuSHed +1 adept]
Data search 2 [LA: Logic T: 5+1 PuSHed]
Hardware 2 [LA: Logic T: 5+1 PuSHed +2 adept]
Software 2 [LA: Logic T: 5+1 PuSHed]
Automatics 2 SMGs [LA: Agility T: 6]
Etiquette 1 [LA: Charisma T: 4 ]
Disguise 2 [LA: Intuition T: 6]
Infiltration 6 [LA: Agility T:10 +2 adept ]
Shadowing 3 [LA: Intuition T: 7]
Escape artist 1 [LA: Agility T: 5 +1 adept]
Perception 3 [LA: Intuition T: 7+3 ‘ware]

B&E Maglocks 8D
Infiltration 12D (-4 thermal/visual perception)

Perception 10D +3D Visual/Audio

Ranged Defence 4D+3D Gym (Full defence)
Melee Defence 8D+3D Club (Full defence)
Melee Offense 4D+1 reach +attribute boost

Automatics [Smartgun] 10D +attribute boost

Knowledge Skills
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English N
Or'Zet 3
Seattle Shadows 3 [LA: Intuition T:7]
Computer Sciences 5 [LA: Logic T:8+1 PuSHed]
Electronic Engineering 4 [LA: Logic T:7]
Matrix Games 3 [LA: Intuition T:7]
Matrix Rumours 3 [LA: Intuition T:7]

Adept Powers
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Eidetic Sense Memory*
Improved Reflexes [1]*
Analytics [1]
Improved Tech: Hardware [1]
Improved Tech: Computer [1]
Improved Physical: Infiltration[2]
Attribute Boost Agility [1]
Flexibility [1]
Great Leap [1]
Freefall [2]

* Way Power

Resources and Gear
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115,000 ¥
Cyber & Bioware
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Attention Coprocessor [R:3]
Image Link Retinal Mod
Data Jack

Sleep Regulator
PuSHed

Weapons & Armour
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Ingram Smartgun [5P BF/FA R 3/4 32 ©]
+ Smartlink + Skinlink
+ Folding stock
+ Sound suppressor
+ Personalised grip
+ Ruthenium polymer coating

AZ-150 Stun Baton [7S(e), ½ Im, R1]
+ Custom look [1]
+ Personalised grip

Form-Fitting Body Armour [6/2]
+ Ruthenium polymer coating
+ Thermal masking [6]
+ Nonconductivity [3]

Helmet [+1/+2]
+ Ruthenium polymer coating
+ Visor [Flare compensation, thermographic, vision magnification, camera [4], smartlink]
+Respirator [4]

Electronics & Misc
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Novatech Airware + Iris Orb OS [3/3/3/3]
+ Hot SIM module
+ Skinlink

+ FTL Matrixware Net Wizard [Analyze 3, Browse 3, Command 3, Edit 2, Purge 3]
+ Encrypt [3]
+ Firewall [6]
+ Tacnet [2]
+ Facial Recognition [3]
+ Gait Analysis [3]
+ Visual Spotter [3]

Contact Lenses [3]
+ Visual enhancement [3]
Audio Buds [3]
+ Audio enhancement [3]

Area jammer [4]
Radio signal scanner [6]
+ Tag eraser
White noise generator [6]

Medkit [4]
Electronics toolkit
Autopicker [6]
Maglock Passkey [4]
Sequencer [4]
Wire cutters
Glass cutter
Flashlight
GPS

Grapple gun
+ 200m stealth rope
+ catalyst stick
Gecko Tape Gloves
Climbing gear

FakeSIN [4]
Fake licence [4] Electronics gear

Vehicles & Drones
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Battered Yamaha Growler

2x Tacnet Buddy I
Shiawise Kanmushi (Improved Sensor Array Upgrade)
+Camera [R:6] Low Light, Thermo, Vision Mag, Ultrasound +Radio Signal Scanner [R:6] +Motion Sensor [Senses: Sight, Hearing, Low Light, Thermo, Maginification, Ultrasound, Radio Signal Scanner, Motion]

2x Tacnet Buddy II
MCT Fly-Spy +Camera [R:6] Low Light, Thermo, Vision Mag, Ultrasound +Radio Signal Scanner [R:6] +Motion Sensor [Senses: Sight, Hearing, Low Light, Thermo, Magnification, Ultrasound, Radio Signal Scanner, Motion]

Lifestyle
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Low lifestyle [Student digs, University district – Comforts, Necessities & Neighbourhood - Low, Enertainment & Security – Middle + Hasty Exit & Quiet Neighbourhood - 5000¥/mnth]

Contacts
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Aria [L: 5 C: 5]
He-Who-Sees [L: 3 C: 1]

Character Background
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Hi, you can call me Silk, although my real name is Susanna, or Ana for short. My life was great until a short time ago... sorry, I’m getting ahead of myself, so I guess I should start with what I look like?

I’m of moderate height, sleight build with dark hair and striking eyes. They tell me I’m a changeling and that I have inherited only some of my mother’s orcish traits. The physical signs are slightly pointed ears and lower canines that any real orc would be ashamed of. Like my Mum I had a late genetic expression and look and feel human (whatever that means these days?). I’ve been told that I pass for a fairly pretty human and I’ve put that to use on occasion when looks have been able to swing things my way. I also don’t appear to age in the same way that an orc would so although I’m in my early twenties I haven’t yet seen the unfortunate decline that some orcs go through about now… in fact I’m not sure where the genetic markers fall and I’m certainly not worrying about it given everything else that’s going on in my life.

And who or what am I? Well like everyone else I’m a product of my background and upbringing but in short I suppose I can say I’m a runner now, barely. They tell me I’m an Artisan Adept, I would say that I see tech in a different way to other people, intuitively and as an integral part of magic rather than something that mundanes have created to replace magic. Hopefully I can use that to keep myself alive long enough to find the truth...

I’m a third gen runner and have been around runners from birth, although Mum tried to ensure I had as normal a life as possible and wasn’t too influenced by the shadows early on. Despite what the trids might have you believe I think that I probably turned out more balanced than most of the other street drek that populate the shadows.

When I was born my Dad was a runner, like Granddad (who probably died in some corp zero zone!), and Mum was working as a surveillance operative for the Feds. I don’t know much of the background of how they met, and it’s too late to ask now, but whilst they supposedly loved each other, it was a Romeo and Juliet relationship doomed by the divide between the shadows and the light. I’ve still got a holo of my Dad, he was a handsome orc from Europe and now I don’t even know if he’s alive or dead, probably dead… I don’t remember him really, just fragments I’ve got from pictures. He left when I was five or so, mum said he wanted to protect us from his life...

The irony is that mum became a runner herself when I was ten after some disagreement with the Bureau that meant she felt she could no longer work for them. She wouldn’t talk about it with me but I overheard things (being a quiet child that nobody notices had its advantages) and I gather that it was something pretty horrendous...probably something that the FBI as the ’good guys’ shouldn’t have been involved in.

I was yanked out of school, we ditched our SINs and disappeared. I guess mum had been prepared for this as we had fake documents and some liberated kit to hand. Rather than settling into a new dull life elsewhere mum began to work the edges of the shadows to make ends meet and to dig the dirt on whatever it was that sent us into hiding in the first place.

For me I was young enough that this was a big adventure...although I missed my friends I was able to sneak contact with them through the matrix. I was tech savvy enough already to hide my back trail (I was more worried about mum finding out than the possible repercussions from darker sources) and so thankfully nothing came of my childish indiscretion. It was also about this time that I began to see the beauty of the code itself and my love affair with the matrix was born and has never left me. My education became what mum could get from pirated edusofts but more and more what I discovered for myself.

Running and hiding coupled with the glory of the net have shaped me and shaped my magic in fundamental ways, whether it would have developed this way if we’d stayed safe in Seattle is anyone’s guess! My awakening came with my expression and puberty and as everything was so confused I’ve never really distinguished between any of them.

I began to remember everything I saw and have an intuitive grasp of how things fitted together. I saw the intricate patterns in the matrix and how these reflected and enhanced what I saw in life. I loved the feel of electronics in my hands, and as I was continually surrounded by the various technological debris that were Mum’s trade I had plenty of opportunity to tinker.

Anyway, back to my story: Mum took, or was given, the handle ‘Mother’ (although not because she was one), and teamed up with a number of people over the next few years. Never anyone for long, she was too principled to work with the majority of the dross that call themselves runners, and she was incapable of hiding her disgust which hardly made for good team mates. She worked as a rigger and in surveillance, counter surveillance.

We bounced around for three to four years, living in an RV to avoid having a permanent and traceable address. We relied on the fake documents and smuggler routes to cross borders, although we stayed in the UCAS for the most part. I remember that mum worked in Boston and some of the other East Coast cities but eventually we drifted back west and found ourselves in Seattle once more. Mum wanted me back in school in preparation for the future and she said that her issues with the Feds had blown over and were no longer relevant (I still don’t know if she managed to dig up sufficient leverage or if the people involved simply disappeared). With some judicious editing of the data trail I went back to being Susanna Waters and was enrolled in school after an extended period abroad.

It was a bit of a jolt to be immersed in normality after so long away but mum convinced me that the social skills were as necessary as the technical ones and that I needed a taste of high school (gods help us all!). I was different and I knew it, and they bloody well made sure I knew it, but it was a proving ground and looking back I was glad of the experience even if it was shitty at the time. Another effect was to isolate me from mum’s continuing shadow work...and this was probably the real intention as I know that she didn’t want me to follow in her foot steps.

Mum met Bale on a trip to the UK (I travelled on a separate commercial flight) and she had finally found a runner that lived up to her expectations. As a former special forces soldier and combat mage he exhibited a truly British display of honour, respect and good manners. A lot was put on for other people’s benefit, and he had a wicked sense of dry humour, but they clicked. They spend two years putting together a team that suited them and Balefire was born.

I gather that they were able to pick and choose their runs, because of both their professionalism and skill set. I would have given anything at the time to be more involved but mum was having none of it...she already felt that I knew too much about what they did. Escapade fulfilled the role that I used to fantasise about doing, covert op and B&E man, and Aria covered the matrix aspects of their work. Although mum disapproved I became friends with Aria and we frequently met up in the matrix... Funny to think that we’ve never met in the flesh despite her being the closest thing to a sister I could hope for. That’s a statement on the world if there ever was one!

My innate aptitude for tech meant that when the time came Mum insisted that I get a proper college education and as I had a valid SIN once more it was easy enough to win a place at Seattle U to study applied matrix technologies and electrical engineering. There was just the small matter of paying for it all! Balefire may have been a team capable of pulling in the high end jobs but they were choosy enough that they weren’t exactly rolling in nuyen. At mum’s behest Aria approached NeoNet indirectly and I guess she shunted my name up the lists that the head hunters browse through (but avoiding any false modesty I expect it was probably in there somewhere anyway, my grades were good and I have a knack that my fellow students can’t touch). Their PULSE subsidiary eventually agreed to sponsor my course and although there were some reservations about taking a corps’ money so blatantly we figured in the end that it could serve our purposes in a ‘hide in plain sight’ kind of way (Although mum was always excruciatingly careful that nothing could link her shadowrunning back to me or our family unit paranoia was inevitably a way of life to a certain degree). I can honestly say that I excelled at my studies and I’m not ashamed to say that I intend to use what I’ve been taught to further my goals in the shadows.

I pushed myself harder than my contemporaries because I love it. I soaked up all the knowledge they could give me and asked for more. I’m not saying it was easy, far from it, whilst I remember everything I still need to be able to process all that information... I asked Aria to help me get some ‘ware (I knew mum would be unlikely to agree), something that wouldn’t damage my magic too much. She cautioned me that it might be considered an unfair advantage over my peers (my magic already set me apart) but I didn’t care. In the end I won her round and she took me off grid where the ‘ware wouldn’t need to be recorded. We went to this weird Stillwater place on the far side of Redmond and they hooked me up.

A month in a bed and suddenly I was smarter than before and needed less sleep...and I could finally see the ‘trix without the bloody trodes. Purists would probably say I could have achieved this with my natural magical talents but then I’ve never been afraid of tech and I felt better and stronger and even more in tune with my gift. Aria handled the payment side of things, although they were more interested in my coding than cash and I’ve been working to pay off the debt (since what happened that debt has changed somewhat...)

…And then it all went bad when things seemed so perfect. August 2070… I don’t yet know the full story behind what happened, although I’m determined to find out, but someone targeted Balefire for something they had done or for some other reason lost in the shadows…and mum was killed…I found her in a pool of her own cold blood…I’m sorry, it’s still painful to think about…

…And so here I am. The last few months have been rough, I’d slowly slipped into a despondent state and began getting more and more behind on my college work. Concerned emails began coming in from my sponsors and I wasn’t able to tell them anything...how could I tell them my mother was a runner and she was gunned down in her own home whilst browsing the matrix? In the end we found another shooting and attached my mum’s details to it...something more prosaic to hide what really happened...I hate it but there’s no choice... They offered me counselling but I’ve been afraid to go. I’m hanging on by my fingernails and some corp shrink judging whether I am profitable or not is likely to send me over the edge!

I needed to get back on track, but whenever I thought about doing anything about it things seemed to get on top of me. Aria has pulled me along and stopped me from sinking too low but I knew this was something I needed to deal with myself. The pain is less now and has being replaced with a burning desire to find out exactly what happened to my mum, to Balefire and most importantly why!

For the last six months I’ve been snooping around trying to find leads. So far to no avail, whoever it was has covered their tracks too well but I know that they were the same ones who hit Stillwater and that the events can’t be unconnected. I’ve been hooking up with mum’s old contacts and anyone who can teach me the skills I’ll need to survive out here. I’ve even done a couple of solo jobs to bolster my confidence and help pay for the information I’ll need. I will find them, whoever they are...

Contacts:
Aria is my sanity, which is ironic as she appears on the matrix as a glowing ten year old girl with a mischievous streak as wide as the Aztechnology pyramid! On the face of it she pretends to avoid responsibility but she looks after her friends and I’m very glad to be one of them. She was Balefire’s hacker and only just escaped the destruction that was rained down on us. She has withdrawn herself from the active shadows but keeps her ear to the ground and delights in dredging up obscure information and secrets. She acts as my agent in dealings with fixers and keeps an eye out over me. We’ve never actually met in the flesh but I only occasionally regret that – she is a creature of the matrix and that is her domain.

He-Who-Sees-Within is a snake shaman, part time runner and secrets gatherer and most importantly a gifted healer. Sadly the last one is reason I see most of him now. He helped me out when I came back to the shadows and his skills have kept me out of the fire several times.

Character Sketch: Here

Ryl - Immortal Drake Hacker Adept
Game - Shadow's Dawn
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Profile

Name: Kirylle (Ryl) deBathayre
Alias: eTher
Metatype: Human (Drake)
Sex: Female
Age: Unknown
Nationality: Unknown
Matrix Icon: Celestial Dragon
Reality Filter: Ancient / technological forest
Lifestyle: Medium
Nuyen: 9,150 ¥
Karma Earned: 20
Karma Spent: 19
Street Cred: 2
Notoriety: 1
Public Awareness: 1.0
BPs Spent
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Metatype 30
Attributes 220
Edge+Magic/Resonance 30
Qualities -25
Skills 140
Spells/CFs/Foci etc 0
Resources 50
Contacts 5

Attributes
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Natural Final
Body: 3 ( 3 )
Agility: 5 ( 5 )
Reaction: 2 ( 3 )
Strength: 2 ( 2 )
Charisma: 5 ( 5 )
Intuition: 5 ( 5 )
Logic: 3 ( 3 )
Willpower: 5 ( 5 )

Drake Body 7 Agility 5 Reaction 3 Strength 7

Edge: 3
Magic/Res: 9 ( 7 )
Essence: 4.08
Initiative: 7 ( 8 ) [Reaction+Intuition]
Matrix Intiative: 11 ( 18 ) [Response+Intuition +1IP / +1&+2IP for Hot Sim +1IP Accelerator]
Initiative Passes: 2 (2 or 4 matrix)
Phys CM: 10
Stun CM: 11

Qualities
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Drake [Dual Natured, Elemental Attack, Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Low-Light Vision, Smell, Thermographic Sense), Hardened Armor 6, Mystic Armor 4, Natural Weapon (Str/2+2)P, AP 0, +1 Reach, Flight]
Adept
Restricted Gear [Dermal Sheath R:3]
Media Junkie [Moderate - Online min 4hrs / day]
Big Regret
Enemy [One of Lofwyr's drakes] + Vendetta
Day Job [Celedyr's personal quorum 10hrs / wk]
SINer

Active Skills
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Cybercombat 5 vs. Spiders (karma) +1/+2 encephlon +1 PuSHed +2 Adept Power [LA: Logic T:8]
Electronic Warfare 4 +1/+2 encephlon +1 PuSHed+2 Adept Power [LA: Logic T:7]
Hacking 6 Exploit (karma) +1/+2 encephlon +1 PuSHed +3 Adept Power [LA: Logic T:9]
Electronics Group 4
Computer 4+1/+2 encephlon +1 PuSHed +2 Adept Power [LA: Logic T:7]
Data search 4+1/+2 encephlon +1 PuSHed [LA: Logic T:7]
Hardware 4+1/+2 encephlon +1 PuSHed [LA: Logic T:7]
Software 4+1/+2 encephlon +1 PuSHed [LA: Logic T:7]
Dodge 3 [LA: Reaction T:5]
Exotic Ranged Weapon 4+2 Adept Power [LA: Agility T: 9]
Perception 3 +3 adept power + 3 cyber [LA: Intuition T:8]

Hacking on the Fly 18D +2 Exploit +2 Hot SIM +1 Jonathan’s
Cybercombat 16D +2 vs. Spiders +2 Attack Option +2 Hot SIM
Matrix Perception 15D +2 Hot SIM
Matrix Stealth 20D +2 Hot SIM

Perception 11D +3D Visual

Breath Weapon 12D + Attribute Boost [8P, AP-, Elemental Effect: Fire ½ Impact Armour]
Dodge 8D + Attribute Boost

Knowledge Skills
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Draconic N
Speretheil 4
Barsavian 1
Theran 1
English 4
Celtic / Gaelic 3

General History 3 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
History of the Fourth Age 2 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
Fourth Age Remnants 1 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
Cycles of Magic Theorem 4 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
The Ancient Fifth World 3 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
20th Century Events 3 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
Sixth Age History 3 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
Physical Sciences 2 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
Political Science 2 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
Philosophy 2 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
Wireless Matrix Protocols 4 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
Matrix Security Measures 4 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
Shadow Nodes 6
Matrix Entities 3

SOTA Technologies 6 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed
Surveillance Techniques 4
Criminal Psychology 3 +1encephlon +1 PuSHed

Visual Arts 5
Immortal Etiquette 4
Dragons of the Sixth World 6

Adept Powers
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Always Available
Attribute Boost Agility & Reaction [1] 0.5
Heightened Concentration 1
Enhanced Perception [3] 0.75
Improved Reflexes [1] 1.5
Eidetic Sense Memory 0.5
Mystic Armor [4] 2

Human Form [Geas] (2.5 Power Points)
Analytics [2] 0.4
Multi-Tasking 0.4
Improved Hacking [3] 0.6
Improved Cybercombat [2] 0.4
Improved Computer [2] 0.4
Improved Electronic Warfare [2] 0.4

Drake Form [Geas] (2.25 Power Points)
Improved Breath Weapon [2] 0.75
Combat Sense [2] 0.75
Spell Resistance [2] 0.75

Metamagics
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Initiate Grade 1: Masking
Initiate Grade 2: Dragonspeech
Initiate Grade 3: Adept Powers
Initiate Grade 4: Adept Powers
Initiate Grade 5: Adept Powers

Resources and Gear
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300,000 ¥
Cyber & Bioware
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Enchepalon [R:2 +1 to logic tests, +1 to cracking / electronics grps when in AR or VR]
Cybereyes [R:1 +image link +eye recorder +flare compensation +lowlight +enhanced vision R:3]

PuSHed [+1 to logic tests]
Sleep Regulator

Weapons & Armour
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Human Form:
Teg-mentum Holowear + Hood & Gloves [4/1]
Chameleon Cloak [6/4]
+Thermal Damping [R:4]
+Nonconductivity [R:5]

Zoé Moonsilver [Gown, cocktail dress & shawl] & Executive Suit [Jacket, shirt, trousers]

Drake Form:
Hardened Armour+Mystic Armour [10/10] + Astral Armour [4+2]

Communications
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2 x Modified Transys Avalon with Custom OS [Response, Signal, System, Firewall R:6]
1x Fairlight Caliban with Novatech NAVI & Firewall Upgrade [Response R:4, Signal R:5, System R:4, Firewall R:6]

+3x Hot Sim Module
+Skinlink, Trodes, Sat Uplink
+Optimization [Stealth]
+Optimization [Command]
+2x Nonstandard Wireless Link [R:6 - increased threshold to detect node]
+2x Response Enhancer [R:6] +Customized Interface [+7 matrix initiative] +Simsense Accelerator [+1IP]
+3x Hardening [R:6]

Programs [All pirated]
+2x All Common Programs [R:6 Ergonomic]
+2x Armour [R:6]
+2x Attack [R:6 Targetting, Armour Piercing R:3]
+Blackout [R:6 Targetting, Armour Piercing R:3]
+Biofeedback Filter [R:6 Ergonomic]
+Databomb [R:6]
+Decrypt [R:6]
+Defuse [R:6]
+Disarm [R:6]
+ECCM [R:6]
+Exploit [R:6 Mute]
+Medic [R:6]
+Sniffer [R:6]
+Spoof [R:6 Mute]
+Track [R:6]

+Stealth [R:7 Optimised R:1]
+Tacnet [R:1]
+Facial Recognition [R:6]
+Gait Analysis [R:6]
+Noise Analysis [R:6]

+Agent [R:6]
+Adaptability [R:3] + Cascading [R:3] + Expert Defense & Offense [R:3] + Homeground [R:3]

+Linguasofts [R:3 pirated - Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Russian]
Programs Hacked from Jonathan
Armour 8, Exploit 8, Stealth 8, Attack (2 extra opponents) 7 [Optimised R:1 so will run at R:7]

Commlink 1 (Public) - Typical Programs Running:
FTL Matrixware Power Suite [Analyze 3, Browse 4, Command 2, Edit 4, Purge 4, Scan 2] Reality Filter
Linked to fake SIN

Commlink 2 (Matrix) - Typical Programs Running:
Analyze, Command, Encrypt, Reality Filter, Biofeedback Filter, Scan
Armour, Attack, Exploit, Stealth, Decrypt
-1 Response:
Agent [Analyze, Armour, Attack, Adaptability]

Commlink 3 (Tactical) - Typical Programs Running:
Analyze, Browse, Command, Encrypt, Reality Filter, Scan
ECCM, TacNet, Facial Recognition, Gait Analysis
-1 Response:
Agent [Analyze, Attack, Command, Homeground]

Miscellaneous
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Earbuds [R:3]
+Sound Filter [R:2]
+Audio Enhancement [R:1]
Electronics Toolkit
Radio Signal Scanner [R:6]
+Tag Eraser
Respirator [R:6]
Fake SIN [R:4]

3x MCT Flyspy
+Camera [R:6]+Lowlight+Thermo+Vision Enhance [R:3]
+Clear Sight, Covert Ops, Defence [R:4]

Ford LEBD-1
+Camera R:6+Smartlink+Lowlight+Thermo+Magnification+Vision Enhance R:3 (front)
+Camera R:6+Lowlight (rear), 2 Laser Range Finders (front and back), Motion Sensor (front), Radio Signal Scanner 6
+Ares Alpha [6P –1 SA/BF/FA Rec 2 100 (Drum) Smart]
+200 rnds
+6 High Explosive, 6 Flashbang, 6 Thermal Smoke grenades
+Clearsight, Defense, Targetting [R:4]

Contacts
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Contacts (BPs 20+5)

Celedyr (Great Western Dragon) [Loyalty 5, Connection 6]
My sire, the master artificer. I have long served him to the best of my abilities in many guises through the ages. Although I currently work outside of the auspices of Transys they have proved to be a valuable tool in the research into magic and the matrix and I long for the time when they are able to allow me to view the matrix from my natural form.

Desire (Quantum Mage, Stillwater Community) [Loyalty 3, Connection 3]
The Stillwater community is one of the hidden projects in the New World that my master has an interest in and Desire is my contact with them. They are transhumanists dedicated to the merging of magic with technology and represent a potential path for surviving the coming depredations from the Enemy. They have an extensive matrix presence as well as access to cutting edge cybertechnology and some interesting magical techniques and theorems. They were nearly decimated in the height of the anti-technomancer movements of the 70s but with our aid they have managed to cling on and begin to rebuild.

Aria (Infoseeker, Matrix Coder) [Loyalty 4, Connection 4]
She is a creature of the matrix and the source of much of my net knowledge. I met her through the Stillwater community where she is one of a triumvirate with Athena and Operator. Formally the hacker for Balefire she has experience as a shadowrunner but has since stretched her web on a much wider scale and is a source of information on the most disparate of topics.

Enemy (BPs -5)

Reynshec (Western Drake of Lofwyr) [Connection 4, Incidence 1]
My nemesis and bane. Reyn was responsible for the death of my lover during the time of the dark ages as a ploy to lure me to him so that I could not complete the plans of my sire. Since then we have crossed paths many times, usually indirectly, as we battle to upset each other’s goals. Each time the conflict escalates and there can be no forgiveness now, only Vendetta.

Factions (BPs 10)

Queen Alachia, High Prince Lugh Surehand, Ehran the Scribe, Prince Sean Lafferty, Prince Jenna Ni'Fairra 0 (dislike)
My attitudes towards the rise of technology has hardly endeared me to the elven immortals. I have ever served the cause of the dragons above all else and their machinations has occasionally led to conflict with the plans of these other elders. I find them to be arrogant, which is to be expected, and full of their own self importance. I am not one to demand that they accept the Dragons as their superiors, although I know there are those of my kind who do, but I despair at their short sightedness and desires to cling to the past.

Harlequinn 3 (neutral-mild like)
Caimbuel is the exception to the rule, as ever, and his anarchic nature and general disregard for the rules of the game have meant we have found common ground on occasion. Although I don’t really recall the time now I know that I served under him as a Lightbearer during the fourth age and I look forward to working with him occasionally on whatever obscure plan that he is following at the time.

Dunkelzahn 4 (mild like)
Mountainshadow was ever the most progressive of the Elders and I have great respect for his vision, as does my master. We were greatly moved when we learnt of his monumental sacrifice to hold the Enemy back.

Hestaby 3 (neutral-mild like)
I believe my master has a fondness for the Orange Queen and I have visited her lair on a number of occasions and been impressed by her gravitas.

Character Sketch: Drake
Character Sketch: Human Form

Background Story
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Although names are less important in these times, let us just say that you may call my Ryl for now, or eTher as you are talking to my matrix persona. Despite my appearance I was born many many years ago but thanks to the miracles of science I have aged extremely well. I am of average height, slim build with silvery grey eyes and dark hair. My matrix icon as you can see is a celestial dracoform made up of swirling galaxies and nebulae. Yes, thank you, the resolution is impressive, but no I am not one of those technomancers, I merely have access to some bleeding edge technology.

The rest of what I am going to tell you you will forget, don’t worry, the laes will take effect shortly but I assure you it won’t hurt in the slightest. I feel the need to unburden myself to someone without the risk of my past haunting me, or indeed you... I can’t find it in myself to talk to the other immortals about this, yes I did say immortals, if you keep interrupting we’ll never get through this in the time we have...they know too much of our shared history and my pain.

I am a drake, sired, or created if you will, by the mighty Celedyr around ten millennia ago, before the great fall of civilisation into the horrors of the incursion. In my natural form I am a beauty of strength and power, with black scales flecked with silver, much like the constellations in my icon that you so admired.

From the Isle of Lyonesse I was sent to be my master’s eyes and ears in the realm of Barsaive, somewhere near Eastern Europe in this age. I was adopted into the house of a merchant Prince near the Kingdom of Throal and watched and waited as the Therans rose to power. There is much history here, far too much to tell you now. Suffice it to say that when the population retreated into the kaers I returned to my master to sleep away the fall in his presence.

As the mana levels dipped and it was safe, or safer at least, to return to the world I was sent back to Barsaive to see what had become of that cradle of humanity. They had more or less survived, although at great cost, particularly amongst the elves who did some terrible things to themselves in order to escape attention of Them. It was during this time that I joined a group, no, their name doesn’t matter, names have power, and we strove to further the goals of the immortals that we each represented. As the mana finally began to fade from the world we prepared ourselves with a ritual that would allow us to live out the coming cycle in human form.

Although ancient, our histories begin to coincide with the information fifth and sixth age scholars have been able to piece together and so may be more familiar to you. It is in our nature to meddle in the lives of others and we each took positions in the society that we found ourselves in. We changed as our natures dictated and the needs of the time, all in the name of staying hidden from the masses and preparing the world to survive without the magic that had been such an integral part of our lives. From a troubadour and light bearer in the fourth age, I have been a dancer, a warrior, philanthropist and spy, many many things across the span of time, far too many to recount now.

In each incarnation of myself I have foolishly fallen for a mortal like yourself...I have had many lovers, both male and female, and each time I feel the pain of their passing. The other immortals see me as foolish for my attachment to your kind but if we do not work for your benefit what is the use of our great power? There is little point in being Queen if all your subjects have died and I see myself in a far more intimate relationship with mortals than that analogy represents. That attitude has also won me the attentions of my nemesis, no names, a drake of Lofwyr’s who I have sparred with through the ages. We have battled on many fronts and the rivalry may have stopped there but has become something more when he killed Garyn just to pain me...now it is Vendetta!

But enough of that, I don’t want to talk about those parts of my past with you. I recognise the signs in myself already and perhaps you will be the one who I spend the next part of this great age with. You are young yet but your beauty and innocence has captured my heart...Enough, on with my tale...

Throughout the cycles technology has been on the rise, evening the gap between those of us with magic and your mortal brethren. Although it will never be a substitute there are those of us who feel that through it we have a hope of surviving the terrors that await us. I have long been fascinated by the potential of technology, and particularly the applications for merging the two to make a greater whole.

Shadow's Dawn
Ryl:Immortal Adept Hacker

Finished Games
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2072
Silk: Adept GM updated version: Adept
Ember & Summer:Mage & TM, Key:Samurai

Dangerous Game
Requiem: Samurai

Low Down in Loveland
Scratch:Freerunner

Dark Days in Denver
Masque:Illusionist

Silk (1000 karmagen)
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Profile
Name: Susanna Waters
Aliases: Silk, Anna Hunt, Sasha O’Connell, Catherine Adams
Archetype: Artisan Adept
Metatype: Changeling
Sex: Female
Age: 23
Nationality: UCAS
Matrix Icon: Lady in a silk dress
Reality Filter: N/A
Lifestyle: Low [student digs]
Build: 1000 karmagen
Game: Take Two

Attributes

Natural
Final
Body
3
(3)
Agility
4
(6)
Reaction
3
(4)
Strength
3
(3)
Charisma
4
(4)
Intuition
4
(4)
Logic
5
(5)
Willpower
3
(4)
Edge
4
Magic
7
(6)
Essence
5.3
Initiative
7
(
Matrix Initiative
13
Passes
1
(2)
Phys CM
10
Stun CM
10
Qualities

Surge I [Metahuman features, lowlight vision, extravagant eyes]
Adept
Way of the Artisan
Media junkie [mild]
Day job 1 [coffee shop 10hrs / wk], SINer & Records on File [NeoNet Corp - uni sponsor]
Enemy [1/4 – unknown foe] + Vendetta

Active Skills

Specialisation
Linked Attribute
Total
Bonuses
Athletics Group
3
Climbing
3
Strength
6
Gymnastics
3
Agility
9
Running
3
Strength
6
Swimming
3
Strength
6
First aid
1
Logic
6
+1 PuSHed
Clubs
3
Staff
Agility
9
Cybercombat
2
Logic
7
+1 PuSHed
Electronic Warfare
2
Scanning
Logic
7
+1 PuSHed
Hacking
4
Exploit
Logic
9
+1 PuSHed +2 adept
Computer
4
Analyze
Logic
9
+1 PuSHed +1 adept
Data search
1
Logic
6
+1 PuSHed
Hardware
4
Maglocks
Logic
9
+1 PuSHed +3 adept
Software
2
Logic
7
+1 PuSHed
Automatics
2
SMGs
Agility
8
Pistols
1
Agility
7
Influence Group
2
Con
2
Charisma
6
Etiquette
2
Charisma
6
Leadership
2
Charisma
6
Negotiation
2
Charisma
6
Disguise
2
Intuition
6
Infiltration
6
Urban
Agility
12
+2 adept
Palming
1
Agility
7
Shadowing
2
Tail Evasion
Intuition
6
Dodge
3
Ranged
Reaction
7
+1 adept
Escape artist
1
Agility
7
+1 adept
Perception
3
Intuition
7
+3 ‘ware
Artisan
1
Matrix sculpture
Intuition
5
Pilot ground vehicle
1
Bike
Reaction
5
B&E Maglocks 15D

Infiltration 14D (-4 thermal/visual perception) +attribute boost +TacNet

Perception 10D +3D Visual/Audio +TacNet

Ranged Defence 5D+5D Dodge (Full defence) +TacNet
Melee Defence 10D+5D Club (Full defence) +TacNet
Melee Offense 12D+2 reach +attribute boost +TacNet

Automatics [Smartgun] 12D +attribute boost+TacNet

Knowledge Skills

English
N
Combat Signals
1
Or'Zet
2
Computer Sciences
4
‘trix Architecture
Logic
7
Electronic Engineering
3
Communications
Logic
6
Small unit tactics
1
Logic
5
Security Systems
3
Exploits
Logic
6
Icon Identification
2
IC
Logic
5
Matrix Games
2
Intuition
6
Shadow Nodes
1
ShadowSEA
Intuition
5

Matrix Chat Forums
1
Intuition
5

Adept Powers & Metamagics
Eidetic Sense Memory *
Improved Reflexes * [1]
Analytics * [2]
Improved Tech: Hardware [1]
Improved Tech: Computer [1]
Improved Tech: Hacking [2]
Improved Physical: Infiltration [2]
Attribute Boost Agility [1]
Attribute Boost Strength [1]
Flexibility [1]
Great Leap [1]
Freefall [2]
Combat Sense [Geas: ritual] [1]
Wall Running [Geas: ritual]

* Way Power

Initiation Grade [2]
Adept Centring [Technical skills]
Infusion [Complex action: Temp gain 0.5pts / initiate lvl to existing powers for (Mag) mins. Drain (Mag)DV Bdy+Will. Loose access to equiv. power points for (Mag) mins – GM choice. Infusion Foci work at the same time (can choose their powers) but no drain to resist. Power loss as with Infusion]

Cyber & Bioware
Attention Coprocessor [R:3]
Image Link Retinal Mod
Data Jack

Sleep Regulator
PuSHed
Muscle Toner [2]

Weapons & Armour
Ingram Smartgun [5P, BF/FA, R 3(4) 32 ©]
+ Smartlink + Skinlink
+ Folding stock
+ Sound suppressor
+ Personalised grip
+ Ruthenium polymer coating

Ares Executive Protector [Attaché Case] [5P, AP -, SA/BF/FA, RC (1), 30 ©]
+Smartlink +Sound suppressor

Onotari Equalizer [4P, AP -1, BF/FA, RC (1), 12 ©]
+Folding stock +Laser sight

Yamaha Pulsar
+Laser sight

AZ-150 Stun Baton [7S(e), ½ Im, R1]
+ Custom look [1]
+ Personalised grip

Telescopic Staff
+ Personalised grip

Form-Fitting Body Armour [6/2]
+ Ruthenium polymer coating
+ Thermal masking [6]
+ Nonconductivity [3]

Helmet [+1/+2]
+ Ruthenium polymer coating
+ Visor [Flare compensation, thermographic, vision magnification, camera [4], smartlink]
+Respirator [4]

Zoé Business Suit
+Delta-amyloid coatings [3/1]

Magical Equipment
Infusion Focus [R:1] Reaction Boost [1]

Electronics & Miscellaneous
Fairlight Caliban + Custom OS [5,5,6,5] Optimised Exploit
+Response Enhancer [3] + Customised Interface
+ Hot SIM module
+ Skinlink

+ All Common Use Programs [5] Ergonomic
+Armour, Bio Feedback Filter, Decrypt, Defuse, ECCM, Medic, Sniffer [5]
+Attack, Blackout [5] Targetting
+Exploit [6] Mute, Optimisation [1]
+Spoof [5] Mute
+Stealth [6] Optimisation [1]

Novatech Airware + Iris Orb OS [3/3/6/3] Secondary Commlink
+ Hot SIM module
+ Skinlink
+Fetch Module [3]

+ FTL Matrixware Net Wizard [Analyze 3, Browse 3, Command 3, Edit 2, Purge 3] + Encrypt [3] + Firewall [6]

+ Tacnet [2]
+ Facial Recognition [3]
+ Gait Analysis [3]
+ Visual Spotter [3]

+Agent [4]

Mirror Shades [3]
+ Visual enhancement [3]
+Smartlink

Audio Buds [3]
+ Audio enhancement [3]

Area jammer [4]
Radio signal scanner [6]
+ Tag eraser
White noise generator [6]

Medkit [4]
Electronics toolkit
Autopicker [6]
Maglock Passkey [4]
Sequencer [4]
Wire cutters
Glass cutter
Flashlight
GPS

Grapple gun
+ 200m stealth rope
+ catalyst stick
Gecko Tape Gloves
Climbing gear

FakeSIN [5]: Anna Hunt [Executive Protection Specialist]+Fake Firearm License [5]
FakeSIN [4]: Sasha O’Connell [Freelance Spider]+ Fake Security Programs License [4]
FakeSIN [2]: Catherine Adams [Student]

Vehicles & Drones
Battered Yamaha Growler

2x Tacnet Buddy I
Shiawise Kanmushi (Improved Sensor Array Upgrade)
+Camera [6] Low Light, Thermo, Vision Mag, Ultrasound +Radio Signal Scanner [6] +Motion Sensor [Senses: Sight, Hearing, Low Light, Thermo, Maginification, Ultrasound, Radio Signal Scanner, Motion]

2x Tacnet Buddy II
MCT Fly-Spy +Camera [6] Low Light, Thermo, Vision Mag, Ultrasound +Radio Signal Scanner [6] +Motion Sensor [Senses: Sight, Hearing, Low Light, Thermo, Magnification, Ultrasound, Radio Signal Scanner, Motion]

Lifestyle
Low lifestyle [Student digs, University district – Comforts, Necessities & Neighbourhood - Low, Enertainment & Security – Middle + Hasty Exit & Quiet Neighbourhood - 5000¥/mnth]

Safehouse [Renton - Comforts, Necessities & Neighbourhood – Low, Entertainment – Squatter, Security – Middle + Escape Tunnel - 3800¥/mnth - paid 2 months]

Character Background

Hi, you can call me Silk, although my real name is Susanna, or Ana for short. My life was great until a short time ago... sorry, I’m getting ahead of myself, so I guess I should start with what I look like?

I’m of moderate height, sleight build with dark hair and striking eyes. They tell me I’m a changeling and that I have inherited only some of my mother’s orcish traits. The physical signs are slightly pointed ears and lower canines that any real orc would be ashamed of. Like my Mum I had a late genetic expression and look and feel human (whatever that means these days?). I’ve been told that I pass for a fairly pretty human and I’ve put that to use on occasion when looks have been able to swing things my way. I also don’t appear to age in the same way that an orc would so although I’m in my early twenties I haven’t yet seen the unfortunate decline that some orcs go through about now… in fact I’m not sure where the genetic markers fall and I’m certainly not worrying about it given everything else that’s going on in my life.

And who or what am I? Well like everyone else I’m a product of my background and upbringing but in short I suppose I can say I’m a runner now, barely. They tell me I’m an Artisan Adept, I would say that I see tech in a different way to other people, intuitively and as an integral part of magic rather than something that mundanes have created to replace magic. Hopefully I can use that to keep myself alive long enough to find the truth...

I’m a third gen runner and have been around runners from birth, although Mum tried to ensure I had as normal a life as possible and wasn’t too influenced by the shadows early on. Despite what the trids might have you believe I think that I probably turned out more balanced than most of the other street drek that populate the shadows.

When I was born my Dad was a runner, like Granddad (who probably died in some corp zero zone!), and Mum was working as a surveillance operative for the Feds. I don’t know much of the background of how they met, and it’s too late to ask now, but whilst they supposedly loved each other, it was a Romeo and Juliet relationship doomed by the divide between the shadows and the light. I’ve still got a holo of my Dad, he was a handsome orc from Europe and now I don’t even know if he’s alive or dead, probably dead… I don’t remember him really, just fragments I’ve got from pictures. He left when I was five or so, mum said he wanted to protect us from his life...

The irony is that mum became a runner herself when I was ten after some disagreement with the Bureau that meant she felt she could no longer work for them. She wouldn’t talk about it with me but I overheard things (being a quiet child that nobody notices had its advantages) and I gather that it was something pretty horrendous...probably something that the FBI as the ’good guys’ shouldn’t have been involved in.

I was yanked out of school, we ditched our SINs and disappeared. I guess mum had been prepared for this as we had fake documents and some liberated kit to hand. Rather than settling into a new dull life elsewhere mum began to work the edges of the shadows to make ends meet and to dig the dirt on whatever it was that sent us into hiding in the first place.

For me I was young enough that this was a big adventure...although I missed my friends I was able to sneak contact with them through the matrix. I was tech savvy enough already to hide my back trail (I was more worried about mum finding out than the possible repercussions from darker sources) and so thankfully nothing came of my childish indiscretion. It was also about this time that I began to see the beauty of the code itself and my love affair with the matrix was born and has never left me. My education became what mum could get from pirated edusofts but more and more what I discovered for myself.

Running and hiding coupled with the glory of the net have shaped me and shaped my magic in fundamental ways, whether it would have developed this way if we’d stayed safe in Seattle is anyone’s guess! My awakening came with my expression and puberty and as everything was so confused I’ve never really distinguished between any of them.

I began to remember everything I saw and have an intuitive grasp of how things fitted together. I saw the intricate patterns in the matrix and how these reflected and enhanced what I saw in life. I loved the feel of electronics in my hands, and as I was continually surrounded by the various bits of technological debris that were Mum’s trade I had plenty of opportunity to tinker.

Anyway, back to my story: Mum took, or was given, the handle ‘Mother’ (although not because she was one), and teamed up with a number of people over the next few years. Never anyone for long, she was too principled to work with the majority of the dross that call themselves runners, and she was incapable of hiding her disgust which hardly made for good team mates. She worked as a rigger and in surveillance, counter surveillance.

We bounced around for three to four years, living in an RV to avoid having a permanent and traceable address. We relied on the fake documents and smuggler routes to cross borders, although we stayed in the UCAS for the most part. I remember that mum worked in Boston and some of the other East Coast cities but eventually we drifted back west and found ourselves in Seattle once more. Mum wanted me back in school in preparation for the future and she said that her issues with the Feds had blown over and were no longer relevant (I still don’t know if she managed to dig up sufficient leverage or if the people involved simply disappeared). With some judicious editing of the data trail I went back to being Susanna Waters and was enrolled in school after an extended period abroad.

It was a bit of a jolt to be immersed in normality after so long away but mum convinced me that the social skills were as necessary as the technical ones and that I needed a taste of high school (gods help us all!). I was different and I knew it, and they bloody well made sure I knew it, but it was a proving ground and looking back I was glad of the experience even if it was shitty at the time. Another effect was to isolate me from mum’s continuing shadow work...and this was probably the real intention as I know that she didn’t want me to follow in her footsteps.

Mum met Bale on a trip to the UK (I travelled on a separate commercial flight) and she had finally found a runner that lived up to her expectations. As a former special forces soldier and combat mage he exhibited a truly British display of honour, respect and good manners. A lot was put on for other people’s benefit, and he had a wicked sense of dry humour, but they clicked. They spend two years putting together a team that suited them and Balefire was born.

I gather that they were able to pick and choose their runs, because of both their professionalism and skill set. I would have given anything at the time to be more involved but mum was having none of it...she already felt that I knew too much about what they did. Escapade fulfilled the role that I used to fantasise about doing, covert op and B&E man, and Aria covered the matrix aspects of their work. Although mum disapproved I became friends with Aria and we frequently met up in the matrix... Funny to think that we’ve never met in the flesh despite her being the closest thing to a sister I could hope for. That’s a statement on the world if there ever was one!

My innate aptitude for tech meant that when the time came Mum insisted that I get a proper college education and as I had a valid SIN once more it was an opportunity to push myself and get an interview at Harvard to study applied matrix technologies and electrical engineering. There was just the small matter of paying for it all! Balefire may have been a team capable of pulling in the high end jobs but they were choosy enough that they weren’t exactly rolling in nuyen. At mum’s behest Aria approached NeoNet indirectly and I guess she shunted my name up the lists that the head hunters browse through (but avoiding any false modesty I expect it was probably in there somewhere anyway, my grades were good and I have a knack that my fellow students can’t touch). Their PULSE subsidiary eventually agreed to sponsor my course and although there were some reservations about taking a corps’ money so blatantly we figured in the end that it could serve our purposes in a ‘hide in plain sight’ kind of way (Although mum was always excruciatingly careful that nothing could link her shadowrunning back to me or our family unit paranoia was inevitably a way of life to a certain degree). I can honestly say that I excelled at my studies and I’m not ashamed to say that I intend to use what I’ve been taught to further my goals in the shadows.

It was hard being away from mum and missing out on the goings on in Seattle but this was another way of keeping me safe and giving me an opportunity to forge my own path without being influenced by the shadows.

I pushed myself harder than my contemporaries because I love it. I soaked up all the knowledge they could give me and asked for more. I’m not saying it was easy, far from it, whilst I remember everything I still need to be able to process all that information... I asked Aria to help me get some ‘ware (I knew mum would be unlikely to agree), something that wouldn’t damage my magic too much. She cautioned me that it might be considered an unfair advantage over my peers (my magic already set me apart) but I didn’t care. In the end I won her round and she brought me back to Seattle to an off grid supplier where the ‘ware wouldn’t need to be recorded. We went to this weird Stillwater place on the far side of Redmond and they hooked me up.

A month in a bed and suddenly I was smarter than before and needed less sleep...and I could finally see the ‘trix without the bloody trodes. Purists would probably say I could have achieved this with my natural magical talents but then I’ve never been afraid of tech and I felt better and stronger and even more in tune with my gift. Aria handled the payment side of things, although they were more interested in my coding than cash and I’ve been working to pay off the debt (since what happened that debt has changed somewhat...)

And so I was back at uni, living the student life of parties contrasted with excessively hard study...

…And then it all went bad when things seemed so perfect. August 2070… I don’t yet know the full story behind what happened, although I’m determined to find out, but someone targeted Balefire for something they had done or for some other reason lost in the shadows…and mum was killed…I found her in a pool of her own cold blood…I’m sorry, it’s still painful to think about…

…So here I am. The last few months have been rough, I’d slowly slipped into a despondent state and began getting more and more behind on my college work. Concerned emails began coming in from my sponsors and I wasn’t able to tell them anything...how could I tell them my mother was a runner and she was gunned down in her own home whilst browsing the matrix? In the end we found another shooting and attached my mum’s details to it...something more prosaic to hide what really happened...I hate it but there’s no choice... They offered me counselling but I’ve been afraid to go. I’m hanging on by my fingernails and some corp shrink judging whether I am profitable or not is likely to send me over the edge!

I needed to get back on track, but whenever I thought about doing anything about it things seemed to get on top of me. Aria has pulled me along and stopped me from sinking too low but I knew this was something I needed to deal with myself. The pain is less now and has being replaced with a burning desire to find out exactly what happened to my mum, to Balefire and most importantly why!

For the last six months I’ve been snooping around trying to find leads. So far to no avail, whoever it was has covered their tracks too well but I know that they were the same ones who hit Stillwater and that the events can’t be unconnected. I came back to Seattle at the beginning of the year and have been back and forth since. I’ve been hooking up with mum’s old contacts and anyone who can teach me the skills I’ll need to survive out here. I got a job in a coffee shop for the summer to give me a reason to stay over in Seattle and meanwhile I’ve even done a couple of solo shadow jobs to bolster my confidence and help pay for the information I’ll need. I will find them, whoever they are...

Contacts

*Indicates one of Mother’s past associates [Metatype & Archetype – likely meeting location]

Aria * [Information Broker/Hacker – matrix meets only] [L:5 C:5]
Aria is my sanity, which is ironic as she appears on the matrix as a glowing ten year old girl with a mischievous streak as wide as the Aztechnology pyramid! On the face of it she pretends to avoid responsibility but she looks after her friends and I’m very glad to be one of them. She was Balefire’s hacker and only just escaped the destruction that was rained down on us. She has withdrawn herself from the active shadows but keeps her ear to the ground and delights in dredging up obscure information and secrets. She acts as my agent in dealings with fixers and keeps an eye out over me. We’ve never actually met in the flesh but I only occasionally regret that – she is a creature of the matrix and that is her domain.
GM Info
· A source of info or a go-between. Always interested in new bits of data. She has bailed out Silk in the past, running interference if she was in unforeseen trouble, similar to ‘Erased’
· She is an elven technomancer of considerable power
· Never meets in the flesh
· She has set herself up as a spider in a web of contacts to gather and process info
· Appearance: her icon is of a young child with very long flowing hair (refer to my character artwork)

Summer [Human technomancer – matrix meets only] [L:1 C:2]
I’ve been introduced to Summer a few times, Aria brought her along to one of our gaming sessions where she exhibited ways of tricking the code that I would expect of Aria. Although I’ve never met her in the flesh I know she’s just a kid – you can tell by the way she talks – but she has a heavy burden: I get the impression that she somehow has glimpses of the future, something about information being out there on the ‘trix and seeing the patterns, although in a different way to how I do it. I won’t be bugging her directly but there’s a chance that she may see something as she is tied up in all this in some way too.
GM Info
· A plot hook rather than a source of info (first introduced in the 2072 thread), she sees possible futures through the matrix/resonance
· She is an Info Savant technomancer
· Appearance: a young girl in slightly odd ball clothes. Her icon follows an ‘Alice’ theme (refer to my character artwork)

Samuel [Human dance instructor, gossip – Boston night club] [L:2 C:3]
I’ve always enjoyed pushing myself physically as well as mentally and Sam’s classes are legendary! More to the point now though is that he knows what is going on in the media spotlight, almost before the media corps can splash it across the ‘trix.
GM Info
· A socialite and small time glitterati he is a source of info on the media world
· Appearance: large black guy always dressed in the height of fashion

Dr Featherstone [Human transhumanist doctor – Stillwater, Redmond] [L:1 C:3]
Doctor Featherstone is the one who implanted my ‘ware back in ’68. She’s a skilled biotechnologist and thankfully she survived the devastating attack on the community in ’70. Although much of their biolab was destroyed they are still able to provide access to some implants sourced from who knows where.
GM Info
· Source of corporate info in the biotech/cyber fields and computer science. Also able to source and implant ‘ware.
· Appearance: tired lady in her mid-forties, old but impeccably clean lab coat

Wolf Pack [Initiatory Group – Stillwater, Redmond] [L:1 C: 3 G: 6]
The Wolf Pack is desperately trying to rebuild its strength and the thirteen of them welcomed me and have given me a chance to access the mysteries of initiation. I haven’t joined them as my quest prevents me from taking the oath that they require but are goals are sufficiently aligned that they did not mind sharing some of their secrets.
GM Info
· Group +1, Influence +1, Magic +4, Matrix 0
· Allows group initiation, although no ordeals until the Oath is taken to protect Stillwater, to come when summoned and to further the group’s agenda

Requiem [Elven Samurai – Redmond dojo] [L:4 C:2]
Requiem, my sensei, and for a while lover. Despite the gap in our ages we got along very well until Aria sensibly ‘stepped’ in and put us both straight. I learnt a lot from him and the military skills he has given me will serve me well when I find out who was behind Deep Watch’s contract. He’s a former Ares man and I get the impression he really didn’t like what he saw...I don’t think he was in Chicago but he has an irrational fear of insects!
GM Info
· Trainer and limited links to merc groups
· Former Firewatch officer and then trainer, his experiences have left him psychologically scarred
· He really hates bugs!
· Appearance: he still looks youthful despite his age. Tall and well-muscled for an elf

He-Who-Sees-Within [Human shaman – edge of Redmond] [L:4 C:1]
He-Who-Sees is a snake shaman, part time runner and secrets gatherer and most importantly a gifted healer. Sadly the last one is reason I see most of him now. He helped me out when I first stepped in to the shadows and his skills have kept me out of the fire several times.
GM Info
· A healer and someone to talk things through with. Very occasionally back up on a run. Street level information
· Appearance: Tatty but clean street gear, greying goatee and tied back long hair

The Brotherhood * [Fixer group – usually online] [L:1 C:4 G:7]
Balefire worked almost exclusively for Monarch and the Brotherhood towards the end. The group formed to pool their resources and get a bigger share of the shadows and although I haven’t contacted them directly yet they will be a good source of intel on what is moving in the shadows and possibly give me leads on what happened – for an exorbitant fee no doubt!
GM Info
· Group +1, Influence +4, Magic 0, Matrix +2
· Sources of information and possible runs

Cannon * [Human merc / tech dealer – back of his travelling tech haven] [L:1 C:3]
Uncle Canon was a teammate of mum’s when I was a kid and it was him that persuaded mum I should be able to shoot! We lost touch after mum started Balefire and I gather he stopped running and took over Bishop’s travelling tech emporium. He runs around in a semi with enough tech for sale in the back to land him in all sorts of strife if the wrong people caught up with him. He is justifiably paranoid about meeting and it is always on his terms but he was the one who fixed me up with most of my gear when I got back to Seattle.
GM Info
· Source of technology and weapons, usually less than legal
· Appearance: aged veteran fighter with military buzz cut and clipped way of speaking

Seth

Feb 3 2011, 06:40 PM

Character List

Down in the Barrens
Umbra
Rat thing. Sneaky. Perceptive.

2072
Jotamon
Primary: Pistols
Secondary: Hacker/Stealth/Face

Siran the Impaler
Primary: Spirits/Buffs
Secondary: Melee

Lets get gritty
Umbra link to spreadsheet
[ Spoiler ]

Race: Orc
Attributes: Body 4, Agility 5/7, Reaction 5/7, Strength 3, Charisma 4, Intuition 2, Logic 1, Willpower 3, Edge 3, Magic 6/5, Essence 5.0
Skills: Blades (cyberwpn) 4, Pistols (taser) 1, Infiltration (urban) 4, Outdoors 1, Athletics 1, Influence 4, Pilot ground vehicle (wheeled) 1, Perception (visual) 2
Knowledge skillsChicago underground (not criminals...under the ground) 1, Chicago area knowledge 1
Positive Qualities:Adept, Genetic heritage (reakt), First impression, Local fame, Mentor spirit (rat)
Negative Qualities: Computer Illiterate, SINner (criminal), Dependent (easy), Combat monster, Prejudiced (specific, biased)
Adept powers: Combat sense 4, Improved reflexes II, Improved infiltration 2
Cyberarm: Body 4, Agility 9, Strength 11, Large smuggling compartment, Hand razors (retractable: weapon focus level 2)
Bioware: Muscle toner 2
Outer Armour: Urban explorer jumpsuit + helmet. Nonconductivity 3, chemical 3, fire 3
Helmet: Urban explorer internal air tank 2 hours
Weapons:Defiance FX shocker/smart link
Ammo:8 darts
Glasses: Smart link
Contacts: Flare compensation, visual enhancement 3, thermal
Ear buds: audio enhancers 3
Other: Auto lock picker rating 6
Commlink:So what is a commlink anyway, and why would I want one?
Lifestyle: None!
Contacts: Mayor Denby Contact 3 Loyalty 3.
Starting cash: None

Backstory
[ Spoiler ]

Umbra's den was off a main storm drain that led into Lake Michigan. While messy, it had everything that Umbra needed: a stash of food, a place to keep a few spare clothers (needed when meeting posh folks), and a nice safe place to hide Umbra's small set of treasures.

Rat wasn't the easiest totem to follow. Sometimes Rat put Umbra in danger. It was safer outside Chicago, but Rat said there were things here that had to be done. It wasn't easy to get inside the wall, but Rat knew a way. There were others dangers too: there were other people living near here, and there were predators that preyed on them. Rat didn't like that, and Umbra had to do things about it. Sometimes Rat was greedy and Umbra had to go and get some treasure. Still Rat was helpful, and had taught Umbra lots of tricks.

Rat has told Umbra that he needs to grow. Umbra is a person and the people above are people. Umbra needs to learn to be with people. So Umbra is now spending more time upstairs, and is learning about people. Rat sometimes tell Umbra to look after certain people. Sometimes Rat tells Umbra to rescue certain people: it's very dangerous in Chicago.

Some of the people above don't like Umbra. It wasn't his fault that he was very big and little bit slow. They used to pick on him, and Umbra would run away. Once they didn't let him run away and he had to hurt them. Umbra hurt one of them so bad that he never walked again. Rat taught him "always run from a fight, but if you cannot then finish it". Umbra doesn't like to fight but sometimes you need to. The people above don't mess with Umbra anymore.

Some of the people above don't like anyone. Once Rat told Umbra to stop some raiders. That didn't go too well: the raiders had radar and grenades, and Rat's tricks were not enough to save him. The doctor saved most of Umbra, but couldn't save his arm. Rat really isn't an easy totem to follow. One day Umbra will be able to leave Chicago and get a new one.

Umbra likes the Mayor. The Mayor gave Umbra a shinny badge called a medal, and paid for a new arm. Rat says that the new arm is spoiling his magic, but it's better than not having an arm. The Mayor said Umbra had to get washed before he could get his shinny badge. Lots of people watched Umbra get his shinny badge. More people are nice to Umbra now. Rat was right, but not having a proper arm hurts sometimes.

Umbra likes Chicago. There are nice people here. There are no wage zombies in Chicago. Umbra doesn't like Wage Zombies.

Rat says that Umbra has to grow up more. Umbra needs to find some friends to help protect the Mayor's people.

Emerging Conflicts moving into End of Days
Private Third Class Gash, Magical Supression
Primary: Astral combat, Magical supression.

Oriental Opportunites
Dr Yang
Primary: Healer
Secondary: Unarmed combat martial artist

Eye of the Beholder
Jens Svenson.
Primary: ...
Secondary: Mage, Face, Hacker

Post or die
Jade Tiger

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ttributes: Body 4, Agility 5, Strength 3, Reaction 4, Charisma 1, Intuition 4, Logic 2, Willpower 4, Edge 3, Magic 6
Skills: Spellcasting 6 (combat), summoning 4 (task spirits), Perception 2, Assensing 4, Influence-group 1
Positive qualities: Mentor spirit, Restricted gear, Made man, Perceptive, Mystic adept (psionic)
Negative qualities: Nano intolerance, Sinner, Scorched, Spirit bane, Gremlins 1, dependent easy
Knowledge skills: Criminal (yak) 4, Fashion 4, Local street gangs 4, Criminals (mafia) 1, Criminal (triad) 1, Criminal (vory) 1, Romance Trids 3
Spells: Increase reflexes, Increase charisma, Increase reactions, Resist Pain (me), Heal, Vehical mask, Levitate (physical), Stunbolt, Stunball, Shatter, Fashion, Stench
Foci: Power 4, Sustaining 3 (healing)
Adept powers with geas (Hunt and killed or counted coup something in the last 24 hours): Heightened concentration, Enhanced perception 4
Adept powers without geas: Improved sense(visual), Improved physical ability (perception)
Armour: form fitting body armour, half body suit with nonconductivity 3 and auto injector (4 doses of kamikaze), Urban explorer jumpsuit, non conductivity 3
Medical: Medikit 6, spare supplies 2
Fake sin rating 3 Elaine Teegray
Shades: Image link, vision mag, thermographic
Contact lenses: flare comp, vision 3, low light
Earbuds: Audio enhancement 3, spatial recogniser
Mage sight goggles
Middle of the road commlink: firewall 3, system 3, analyse/browse/edit at 3
Contacts: Lone star detective (homicide) John Star 30 age(L3C3). I saved his daughters life, and we are currently dating: which causes him problems. So long as he doesn't move into Vice, the Yaks are ok (even happy) with this relationship. He sometimes hits me for info, and I sometimes help (and vice verse). Fixer: Flash Harry L2 C2, a new wannabee fixer. Hes a smooth talker, but not very good yet. It's nice to have a guy outside the Yaks.
Points: Stats 90, Race 75, Skills 78, Edge 2, Magic 108 Positive qualities 35, Negative qualities 35, Resource 29,ontacts cost 0
Dependant: John Star.
Spirit bane: Insect spirits don't like me, and feeling is mutual

First Run
Cindy
Primary: Musician
Secondary: Combat/Face

Darkdays in Denver
Angel 316
Primary: Technomancer
Secondary: not yet

Angel 316 as a PDF
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HIBvTlOjVe...iew?usp=sharing

Angle 316 as a stats block

Angel 316 (Gnome Technomancer)
B 3, A 1, R 1, S 3, C 4, I 5, L 5, W 6, E 2, Ess 6, R 5, Init 6, IP 1
Condition Monitor boxes (Physical/Stun): 8/11
Living Persona Condition Monitor: 11
Armor (Ballistic/Impact): 6/6
Skills: Compiling 6, Cracking Group 4, Electronics Group 4, Gunnery 4, Perception 4, Pilot Ground Craft 1, Registering 4
Knowledge Skills: Business 1, English N, History 4, Journalism 4, Law 6, Mandarin 3, Parazoology 4, Physics 4, Security Systems 4
Metatype Abilities: Enhanced Senses: Thermographic Vision
Qualities: Allergy, Common (Mild): Silver, Arcane Arrester, Combat Paralysis, Neoteny, Reality Impaired, Technomancer
Complex Forms: Analyze 5, Armor 5, Biofeedback Filter 4, Browse 3, Command 5, ECCM 2, Exploit 5, Shield 5, Smartlink 1, Stealth 5
Gear:
. . Earbuds (3) with Audio Enhancement (1)
. . Glasses (2) with Flare Compensation, Thermographic Vision
. . Identity: Specify Name with Squatter Lifestyle
. . Tool Kit, Automotive Mechanic
. . Transys Steed
. . Urban Explorer Jumpsuit with Chemical Protection (3), Fire Resistance (3), Nonconductivity (3)
Weapons:
. . Attack of Will (vs. Spirits) [DV 4P vs. I]
. . Unarmed Strike [Unarmed, DV 2S vs. I]

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Transys Steed (Transys Steed)
Body 2, Sensor 3, Handling +1, Firewall 3, Pilot 3, Response 3, Signal 3, Initiative 6, Initiative Passes 3
Physical Condition Monitor: 9
Armor (Vehicle): 6 [6]
Gear:
. . Armor (6) with Environmental Resistance: Water
. . Assembly Time Improvement
. . Rigger Adaptation
. . Rigger Cocoon, Basic
. . Run Flat Tires
. . Weapon Mount (Fixed, External, Manual)
Weapons:
. . Whisper [Assault Rifles, DV 6P vs. B-1, SA/BF/BF-L/FA, RC 4, 100 (d)] with Easy Breakdown, Manual, Gas-Vent 2 System, Signal Upgrade (1), Smartgun System, Internal

marcgarc

Feb 5 2011, 11:50 AM

My character
Tenzin Dhargey
Warrior's Way Adept, Kung Fu Master, Lotus Throne Buddhist Sect Member

[ Spoiler ]

Gloin

Apr 27 2011, 04:23 PM

Game: Legacy
Character: Russell "Fix" Hartmann

[ Spoiler ]

Titus

Jun 6 2011, 06:52 PM

Game :Dis
Character: Marcus Aldrich aka Brick - Picture of Brick
Role: Male Troll, Club Security

[ Spoiler ]

Gerzel

Jul 22 2011, 04:05 AM

Ok I'm throwing my hat into the ring by putting out a character to see if anyone needs a physad following the way of the ferret. I've not finished the background as I'm not sure what game and setting I'll be playing in. Most details related to background for my flaws and such are sketched in and can be changed.

Name: Alice Nicole Surrey
Alias: Kill-Ferret
Race: Human [0]
Sex: Female
Nationality: UCAS
Lifestyle: Low
Karma Spent: 0
Physical Description: XXXXX
Personality/background XXXXX

Attributes

Body: 5 [40]
Agility: 5 [40]
Reaction: 4(6) [30]
Strength: 2 [10]

Charisma: 4 [30]
Intuition: 3 [20]
Logic: 3 [20]
Willpower: 2 [10]

Edge: 2
Magic/Resonance: 6 [65]
Essence: 6
Initiative: 7(9)
Passes 3

Positive Qualities
Adept [5]
Mentor Spirit: Ferret [5]
Negative Qualities
Bad Rep [-5]
She's known as being a Saeder-Krupp schill. Haveing worked with the corp steadilly in the past. However, her contact with the corp was killed in a hit at which she was present and subsequent contacts have dried up. It wasn't her fault but she still takes much of the blame. She didn't know the sniper was there.
Big Regret [-5]
Alice had a romantic relationship with her SK contact. Never even having learned his real name she allowed herself to get in bed with SK in more ways than one. She knows that he liked to record things and suspects that he had files of their relationship stored somewhere.
In Debt 1: 5000:nuyen: [-5]
Poor Self Control: Braggart [-5]
Poor Self Control: Thrill Seeker [-5]
Records On File: Saeder-Krupp [-10]

Active Skills
Skill Total Ranks Attr Misc[/i]
Agility
Automatics 8 = 3 + 5 + 0 [12]
Blades 9 = 4 + 5 + 0
Clubs 9 = 4 + 5 + 0
Escape Artist 12 = 1 + 5 + 6 [4]
Gymnastics 9 = 4 + 5 + 0
Infiltration 9 = 4 + 5 + 0
Palming 11 = 4 + 5 + 2
Pistols 6 = 1 + 5 + 0 [4]
Throwing Weapons 6 = 1 + 5 + 0 [4]
Unarmed Combat 9 = 4 + 5 + 0
Reaction
Dodge 6 = 0 + 6 + 0
Pilot Ground Craft t 0 = 0 + 6 + 0
Strength
Climbing 6 = 4 + 2 + 0
Running 6 = 4 + 2 + 0
Swimming 6 = 4 + 2 + 0
Charisma
Con 5 = 1 + 4 + 0
Etiquette 5 = 1 + 4 + 0
Intimidation 0 = 0 + 4 + 0
Leadership 5 = 1 + 4 + 0
Negotiation 5 = 1 + 4 + 0
Intuition
Artisan 0 = 0 + 3 + 0
Disguise 7 = 4 + 3 + 0
Perception 0 = 0 + 3 + 0
Shadowing 7 = 4 + 3 + 0
Logic
Arcana 0 = 0 + 3 + 0
Armorer 0 = 0 + 3 + 0
Computer 0 = 0 + 3 + 0
Data Search 0 = 0 + 3 + 0
Demolitions 0 = 0 + 3 + 0
First Aid 0 = 0 + 3 + 0
Willpower
Survival 0 = 0 + 2 + 0

Skill Groups
Athletics: 4 [40]
Close Combat: 4 [40]
Influence: 1 [10]
Stealth: 4 [40]

Knowledge Skills ([Logic + Intuition] x 3 = 18 free points)
Street
Seattle Street Gangs 5 = 2 + 3 + 0
Security Companies 5 = 2 + 3 + 0
Street Rumors 4 = 1 + 3 + 0
Academic
UCAS Law 4 = 1 + 3 + 0
Profesional
Saeder-Krupp 4 = 1 + 3 + 0
Security Procedures 5 = 2 + 3 + 0
Security Design 4 = 1 + 3 + 0
Interests
Club Music 4 = 1 + 3 + 0
Popular Clubs 5 = 2 + 3 + 0
Underground Fetish Clubs 4 = 1 + 3 + 0
Yoga 5 = 2 + 3 + 0
Language Skills
English Native
German 5 = 2 + 3 + 0

Adept Powers
Blind Fighting (0.5pp)
Enthralling Performance: Gynastics(Dance) (0.5pp)
Combat Sense 2 (0.5pp)
Flexibility 6 (1.5pp)
Improved Reflexes 2 (2.5pp)
Nimble Fingers 2 (0.5pp)

Gear (15,000:nuyen:/14995:nuyen:) [2]
Glasses (Rating 3, AVAIL --, 75:nuyen:)
+Low Light (AVAIL +4, 100:nuyen:)
+Flare Compensation (AVAIL +2, 50:nuyen)
+Image Link (AVAIL --, 25:nuyen:)

SIN/Lifestyles
Fake SIN (Alex Kole, UCAS, Rating 3, 3000:nuyen:)
+Low Lifestyle (1 month, 2,000:nuyen:)
Fake SIN (Nicole Alti, Saeder-Krupp, Rating 3, 3000:nuyen:)

Commlinks
Meta Link (100:nuyen)
>Responce 1, Signal 1, AVAIL --
>Registered to Alex Kole
+Vector Xim (200:Nuyen:)
>Firewall 1, System 1, AVAIL --

Meta Link (100:nuyen)
>Responce 1, Signal 1, AVAIL --
>Registered to Nicole Alti
+Vector Xim (200:Nuyen:)
>Firewall 1, System 1, AVAIL --

Meta Link (100:nuyen)
>Responce 1, Signal 1, AVAIL --
>Not Registered
+Vector Xim (200:Nuyen:)
>Firewall 1, System 1, AVAIL --

Armor
Form Fitting Body Armor (Full-Body Suit, 1,600:nuyen:)
>B/I 6/2, AVAIL 8
Actioneer Business Clothes (1,500:nuyen:)
>B/I 5/3, AVAIL 8
Urban Explorer Jumpsuit (500:nuyen:)
>B/I 6/6, AVAIL 8
+Helmet (50:nuyen)
>B/I --/+2, AVAIL --

Weapons & Guns
Ceramic Knife (Blade, Arsenal pg14)
>Reach --, Damage (2)P, AP --, AVAIL 4, 75:nuyen:

Cougar Fineblade Knife (Long Blade, 900:nuyen:)
>Reach --, Damage (3)P, AP -1, AVAIL 8R

Onotari Equalizer (Machine Pistol, Gun Heaven pg13)
>Damage 4P, AP -1, MODE BF/FA, RC (1), AMMO 12©, AVAIL 8R, 750:nuyen:
>Std. Upgrades/Accessories: Folding Stock, Laser Sight
+Sound Suppressor (AVAIL 12F, 300:nuyen:)
+2 Spare Clips (AVAIL 4, 10:nuyen:)

Ammo
50 Regular Rounds (Machine Pistol, 100:nuyen:)
>Dam Mod --, AP Mod --, Armor B, AVAIL 2R
20 Gell Rounds (Machine Pistol, 60:nuyen)
>Dam Mod --(Stun), AP Mod +2, Armor I, AVAIL 6R)

Contacts [5]
Max Vanness - Club Owner (Contacts & Adventures pg5) 2/2
Alice has known Max for a long time having worked at times in his club. They too have had an off and on again romantic relationship over the years. However now-adays it is mostly just biz.

Build Point totals: 400 = 265 Attributes - 25 Qualities + 154 Skills + 1 Equipment + 5 Contacts

Saytr

Aug 10 2011, 08:43 AM

Street Name: Tick
Name: Sam Tyson
Human MALE Age 29
Height 6'0 Weight 200
Lift/Carry: 11 (105 kg/70 kg)
Memory: 6
Nuyen: 4D6x100

== Attributes ==
BOD: 4
AGI: 5 (7)
REA: 3 (5)
STR: 5 (7)
CHA: 2
INT: 3
LOG: 3
WIL: 3
EDG: 3

== Derived Attributes ==
Essence: 1.525
Initiative: 6 (

IP: 1 (3)
Matrix Initiative: 7
Matrix IP: 1
Physical Damage Track: 10
Stun Damage Track: 10

== Active Skills ==
Climbing : 3
Computer : 2
Cybercombat : 1
Cybertechnology : 2
Data Search : 2
Disguise : 3
Dodge : 3
First Aid : 2
Flight : 3
Gymnastics : 3
Infiltration : 3
Medicine : 2
Palming : 3
Perception : 2
Pilot Ground Craft : 2
Running : 3
Shadowing : 3
Software : 1
Swimming : 3
Unarmed Combat : 4

== Knowledge Skills ==
Area Knowledge: Seattle : 2
Bars and Clubs : 2
English : N
Mafia : 2 [Organizations]
Russian : 2 [Dialect]
Shadow Community : 2
Sports : 2 [Urban Brawl]
Syndicates : 2 [Seattle]

== Contacts ==
Cirus / rigger (C2, L3)
Johnny Boy/ Italian numbers runner (C2,L2)
Max / Smuggler (C2, L2)
Norman/Fight co-odinator (C2, L2)

== Qualities ==
Adrenaline Surge
Lost Loved One
SINner (Criminal)

== Cyberware/Bioware ==
Bone Lacing (Kevlar)
Muscle Augmentation Rating 2
Muscle Toner Rating 2
Sleep Regulator
Wired Reflexes Rating 2

== Armor ==
Form-Fitting Full-Body Suit6/2

== Weapons ==
Shock Glove
DV: 5S(e) AP: -half RC: 0
Unarmed Attack
DV: 4S AP: - RC: 0

== Martial Arts ==
Boxing
Full Offense
Vicious Blow

== Commlink ==
Fairlight Caliban (4, 4, 5, 5)
+Novatech Navi

== Gear ==
AR Gloves
Biomonitor
Certified Credstick Rating 1
Fake License (Happ Fett) Rating 3
Fake SIN (Happ Fett) Rating 3
Medkit Rating 4
Nanopaste Trodes
Subvocal Microphone

== Vehicles ==
Harley-Davidson Scorpion (Chopper)
+Anti-Theft
+Vehicle Sensor

== Description ==
Tick was a semi professional boxer when he was younger. He got involved into debt with the Vory living up the lifestyle and when he failed to come through on a fight they took the only prescious thing from his life, His wife and Daughter. Killing them in front of him before he blacked out. When he came to he was bloddy and shot in a alley several blocks from his house.

Jackleg Rooster

Sep 6 2011, 01:49 AM

Torque - Frank Lucent

(Bio Soon...)

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DaedalusK71

Dec 29 2011, 06:50 PM

Backstory

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EREBOS

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De Badd Ass

Mar 28 2012, 02:55 AM

Marking my territory!

remmus

Apr 22 2012, 02:55 PM

Totally green chummer to SR (tho not to table top rpg mind you), looking to join a game, musing on a gun mage (yes mage, not adept) anyone have a opening?

Raven the Trickster

May 4 2012, 05:36 PM

Viper

Dual wielding Elf pistol adept, 400BP standard build

Chummer character sheet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c4ien89wb027y0q/V...ter%20Sheet.pdf

almost normal

May 8 2012, 04:34 AM

Moses.
Mundane Human Detective
No Cyber or bio.

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Grinchy McScrooge

May 9 2012, 02:23 AM

Ho "Chunan" Feng
17-year-old Human Chinese Male
Physical Adept focused on Kung Fu and Parkour
Wanted by a Hong Kong Triad
Currently hiding out in Puyallup, Seattle

Background

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IanW

Aug 17 2012, 04:53 AM

Rico Domas (300 points)

"Tell me Im smart for a drakking orc and I'll rearrange your face, chummer"

Metatype : Ork. 19 years old.
Magician
Citizenship : UCAS
Lifestyle : Low

Attributes
Body: 4
Agility: 2
Reaction: 2
Strength: 3
Charisma: 2
Intuition: 4
Logic: 4
Willpower: 4

Edge: 1
Magic: 6
Initiative: 6
Essence: 6

Knowledge Skills
English : N
Spanish : 2
Or'zet : 2
Korean : 1
Racing Odds : 3
Sports : 2
Urban Brawl Odds : 2
Combat Bike Schedule : 1
Area Knowledge : 3
UCAS Politics : 1
Corp. Security Tactics : 1
Smuggling routes : 1
Seattle Street Gangs : 2

Active Skills
Banishing : 1
Binding : 1
Summoning : 1
Counterspelling : 4
Ritual Spellcasting : 4
Spellcasting : 4
Disguise : 1
Inflitration : 1
Palming : 1
Shadowing : 1
Automatics : 1
Longarms : 1
Pistols : 1
Enchanting : 1
Pistols : 1
Etiquette : 1

Positive Qualities

Negative Qualities
Enemy 2
In Debt 1
Cursed 1
Addiction, mild
Allergy unc/mild
Criminal SINner

Weapons
Defiance EX Shocker

Armors
Clothing (Regular)
Armor Jacket
Clothing (Cheap)

Vehicles

Commlinks

Equipments
Ritual Sorcery Materials (Rating 1)
Ritual Sorcery Materials (Rating 1)

Spells
Stunbolt
Clairaudiance
Detect Life
Cure Diease
Heal
Improved Invisibility
Decrease Charisma
Antidote
Combat Sense
Analyze Truth
Armor

Spirits

Contacts

Contacts
Fixer (L:2 C:2)
Fixer. Bookie. Same difference.

******

Rico is falling into the shadows. Pulled out of the barrio of Los Angeles once he was identified as being magically talented, he was a security wage mage in Seattle with a good job, earning good money and living the high life in his off hours ... and then The Fall. A security breach at his old employer was pinned on him, and an extensive security review showed dodgy friends, extensive sports betting and unaccounted-for income. Corporate vengance was avoided by a whisker, and Rico ran for the Barrens.

He currently has a legitimate SIN, regrettably with flags on it planted by his previous employer. He also owes a decent chunk of change to his bookie, who isnt happy about the fact one of his clients isnt on salary any more.

Rico's still in shock at how fast the dream evaporated.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/images/3367/102033.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3oi3y0nJsc will do for now as a theme song

*****

Im happy to monkey around with who his ex-employer was, what he did, spell loadouts and so on. He's lacking a couple of things, like a fake ID, transport, a safehouse and a commlink and owes money he cant currently pay to his bookie, who we can assume is mobbed up with someone or other.

It could be amusing to have him reliant on company-issued fetishes for most of his spells, which of course he dumped to avoid being astrally tracked, but Im not sure how to modify that under the rules.

Notsoevildm

Sep 25 2012, 02:52 PM

Shivan

Naga, 450 pt build (30 pts for Naga, 20 pts to buy off Uneducated)

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Warlordtheft

Jul 1 2013, 06:22 PM

POST OR DIE (TRYING)!

Name Zo
Current SIN:

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Race Ork
Gender:Male
Age:Not exact but estimated to be 18.
Eye color:Brown
Hair Color: Brown

Deacription: Zo is a brown skinned ork with a mix of caucasian and slight but not prominent asian features. Brown hair and brown eyes. His clothes consist of his black leather long coat with the crimson crush emblazoned on it with various patches on it, weathered jeans, wife beater or shirt, and mirrored shades. His hair is cut short in a military style.

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Home

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Nuyen/ID:

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Karma

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Glyph

Jul 2 2013, 02:36 AM

Jack Stiller/Jake Styles - "Void" - Post or Die... More
former underworld enforcer

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Blhaze

Jul 19 2013, 07:41 PM

Character Name: Pandora
Type: Elf Magician
Style: Face (Specializing in Seduction), Anti-Spirit Combat

Shadowrun Character (5th Edition)

Priorities:
A: Skills (46/10)
B: Attributes (20)
C: Magic (Magic 3, Spells 5)
D: Elf
E: Resources

Attributes: Totals
Body: 1+2 = 3
Agility: 2 = 2
Reaction: 1+2 = 3
Strength: 1 = 1
Charisma: 3+5 = 8
Logic: 1+3 = 4
Intuition: 1+4 = 5
Willpower: 1+4 = 5
Magic: 3 = 3
Edge: 1
Essence: 6
Physical Initiative: 8+1d6
Astral Initiative: 10+2d6
Physical Damage Boxes: 10
Stun Damage Boxes: 11
Overflow: 3

Astral Form Attributes
Agility = 4
Body = 5
Reaction = 5
Strength = 8

Limits:
Mental 6
Physical 3
Social 9
Astral 9

Drain:
Willpower+Charisma = 13

Qualities:
5 Mentor Spirit (Seductress)
-5 Distinctive Style
-5 Incompetent: Firearms
-15 Code of Honor: Can only kill Spirits,
cannot kill living beings of any metatype.

Skills:
6 Sorcery Skill Group
4 Influence Skill Group
5 Summoning
5 Binding
8(10) Con (Spec: Seduction)
3 Alchemy
6(

Astral Combat(Spec: Spirit Combat)
4 Disguise
3 Impersonation
2 Arcana
6 Assensing
3 Perception

Knowledge Skills (18 free)(6 from Karma)
N English
3 Magical Communities
3 Magical Street Gangs
3 High Fashion
3 Fine Art
3 Spirit Theory
3 Magical Security
3 Sports
3 Games of Chance

Spells: (+2 DP to Illusion Spells)
Trid Phantasm
Physical Mask
Analyze Truth
Chaotic World
Agony
Chaotic World

Spirits: Force 3 w/ 3 tasks each
2 Spirits of Air
1 Spirit of the Beast
1 Spirit of Man

Contacts: (24 free points)(6 Karma) 30 Total
Connection / Loyalty
3/3 Talismonger
3/3 Police Detective
3/3 Gang Lieutenant
3/3 Mob Lieutenant
3/3 Security Hacker

Resources: (26,000)
1000 Armored Jacket (Armor Rating 12)
1000 Renraku Sensei Commlink
800 Stylish Eyeglasses (Double Cost)
1275 Image Link, Flare, Thermo, Enhance 1
150 Earbuds
1500 Spatial, Enhance 1
200 Gas Mask
25 Basic Gloves
500 Platinum Credstick
800 Fake License (Magic Use) Rating 4
10000 Fake SIN rating 4
2500 Force 5 Magical Lodge Materials
5000 Middle Lifestyle
50 Drams of Regents
Spent Resources = 25750
Remaining Resources = 250
Starting Resources = 2650

Karma Calculations
25 Base
25 Negative Qualities
-5 Positive Qualities
-5 Spells (Chaotic World)
-10 Resources (20,000)
-12 Spirits
- 6 Additional Contacts
-12 Additional Knowledge Skills (2, 3 point skills)
Karma Remaining = 0

Blhaze

Jul 19 2013, 08:39 PM

Pandora's Character Background

=Background=
(Bull's 50+ Questions) -

1. What is your character's Sex?

Female Elf

2. What is your character's physical size?

Above average height with a slender form

3. What is the color of the character's hair, eyes, and skin?

Hair: silver, eyes: brilliant blue, skin: porcelain white

4. What is the character's general appearance (i.e., How does he dress, etc.)?

Pandora dresses in beautiful gowns that hug and accentuate her form, she can also kick back and wear standard clothes, but always has something that gives her look a signature flare. She is very beautiful (Charisma

and wears make-up and other accessories to highlight her natural beauty.

5. Where was the character born (City, State, Hospital Name)?

She was born Denver, Colorado; she was born at home.

6. What is the character's date of birth?

December 25th, 2054

7. What was the character's family life like?

Her parents are wonderful people, both are honest hardworking elves. Her father is a hermetic mage and her mother was a stay at home wife, tutor. Pandora was raised in a very loving environment, full of music, laughter and love. Her mother, who had accomplished magical talent, would often entertain little Panda (her nickname), with illusionary tricks and game.

Pandora was given everything that her parents could afford and they often did without in order to spoil their only daughter. She learned to have an appreciation for art, music, sports, games, and many other hobbies. Her parents, in their love of their daughter, were blinded by how spoiled they were making her. They believed and still do, that Pandora can do not wrong. They love her with all their heart.

Pandora learned how to manipulate her parents, and as she grew and blossomed she learned how to manipulate members of the opposite sex, quite easily. Around puberty her magical talents started to manifest. Her father wanted her to follow in his tradition, but the Spirit of the Seductress wooed Pandora and won her over to the Shamanistic traditions. Besides, her father was a combat mage for a security company and after hearing his stories, Pandora vowed never to kill a being with magic.

Finally, she realized that even though her parents gave her everything, she wanted more; Pandora left her home to join the shadows.

8. Has the character begun his own family?

Pandora does not have a family of her own. She has had many suitors, but she simply sees them as a means to greater wealth, status, and power. She is a little to self centered to think about other people, a husband or children

9. Where or how was the character educated?

Pandora was educated as part of the public school system. Her mother provided her with an extensive education in the arts and culture.

10. Has the character ever done anything else for a living?

Why? When you look this good you do not need to make a living.

11. What are the character's political and religious beliefs?

Pandora does not much care for politics but is an outspoken critic of war and of the way hermetic mages are often used for combat. Pandora believes in the purity of mother Earth and is very much the traditional shaman when it comes to her religious views.

12. Describe the character's moral code. Include how mercenary he is, whether or not he'll kill innocents, etc.

Pandora is not mercenary is the slightest. She hates the killing of metahumans, of any type and will punish, but not kill, those who inflict suffering on innocent children. She is willing to fight Spirits, and often enjoys finds joy in the challenge. While she is not willing to kill that does not mean that she will not manipulate, seduce, trick or cajole to get whatever she if after; after all the person is going to live to what is the problem with having a little fun?

13. What are the character's goals?

Pandora's goal is to have fun, get wealthy, gain status and maybe even own a Monet or two.

14. Why does the character run the shadows? (Why does he run the shadows still, rather than getting a "real" job?)

Pandora runs the shadows for the thrill of the adventure, to stick it to the corporations who hurt the innocent, and to gain wealth.

15. What kind of personality does your character have? This should not necessarily be obviously stated in the background, as it is more important for actually playing the character, but it may color or add mood to the history.

Think Real Housewife of Beverly Hills, but with skills, a look that is not augmented with plastic breasts and a real brain. She is very self centered, but will not abide needless violence. But, beyond her self centered focus she is an accomplished anti-spirit shaman and magician.

16. What special qualities does the character possess? This does not refer to skills, but rather to other things, such as how she gets along with people, whether she plans ahead, etc.

Pandora has good investigation skills, excellent social graces, does not like to plan ahead, but she will and knows quite a bit about magical lore, gangs, spirits and contacts. She gets along well with most people, can seduce almost everyone, but hates the stone cold killer type.

17. Are there certain things that the character can't or won't do? Why?

Fishing, those things are so SLIMY. She will not kill the innocent, why you ask? Well why the heck would she?

18. What things, people, or ideas does the character hate?

Pandora hates people who kill needlessly, who do not think for themselves, and who destroy or defile art.

19. What things people, or ideas does the character love?

Pandora loves her parents, art, culture, clothes, luxury lifestyles, the innocent and of course she loves HERSELF.

20. What is the character's name? Give both full birth name, as well as nicknames, street names, etc.

Real name is Pandora Silverhair. Nickname: Panda, Streetname: Silvertongue or simply Babe.

21. Determine what your character used to do, before becoming a shadowrunners (very important).

Prior to entering the shadows, Pandora worked at a Hooters Sports Bar in Denver and then transferred to their Seattle location. She was a fashion model and Ms. Hooters 2073!

22. Decide why your character left her old job, if she had one (also important).

Pandora left her job because it was a huge was of her talent and she felt that she needed to reach her goals on her own terms and with more control over her life.

23. Come up with a reason for why the character became a shadowrunner. (This very often will tie in with #22. This is not the same as #14, but rather why he started running the shadows originally. What led him to it?)

Pandora began running the shadows because it gives her control over her life, this is very, very important to her, especially given the way mages are treated by corporations.

24. How did your character come to know her contacts? Contacts are an important part of Shadowrun, decide how and why you know them.

Pandora came to know her contacts though downtime at bars, where she got to know some of them on a personal level some of her contacts are even in love with her. She got to build their relationships by hanging out and in a lot of occasions helping them out with some magical support. She likes to have fun with people but is not needlessly cruel and while she sees men a play things she does not led to on by thinking that they have a future together.

25. Does the character have a SIN? Does the character actually use it? Or is the character one of the SINless masses? This may be affected by the character's previous employment.

Pandora is SINless, but has a good fake SIN. This would have affected her previous Hooters employment but her looks and social charm were able to get her the job.

26. Is the character a full-time shadowrunner? Or does the character lead a Batman-like double existence?

Pandora is a full time shadowrunner, every now and then she may do some freelance magical work for a friend, but it always her choice.

27. Which person(s) or group(s) do you love the most?

Family and the innocent.

28. Which person(s) or group(s) do you hate the most?

Corporations, because of the way the treat mages and hermetic mages, because they are doing it all wrong.

29. Which person(s) or group(s) do you respect the most?

Artists

30. Which person(s) or group(s) do you fear the most?

Corporations, although she will never admit it.

31. What is your favourite colour?

Silver, like her hair, of course

32. What is your favourite food and/or drink?

Champagne and Caviar (She is really not a cheap date).

33. What place would you most like to visit?

Tir

34. Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to?

Her family and runners who share a similar code of ethics.

35. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the most enjoyment? (Warning: Answering Sex for this question can and will result in penalties to your character!)

Enjoying a wonderful night out at a museum, concert, sporting event or the like.

36. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the least enjoyment?

Homework, that is why she was able to get the nerds to do it for her.

37. What annoys you the most?

Killing

38. What (if any) is your favourite form of art?

Impressionism

39. What is your greatest goal?

To live a life of luxury.

40. What do you think is your characters best quality?

Her best quality is her social skills and, even though she is self centered, her code against killing.

41. What do you think is your characters worst quality?

Her self centered nature.

42. What is the most important thing you have ever done?

Ms. Hooters 2073

43. Which religion (if any) do you follow?

Earth based Shamanistic religion.

44. What is your most treasured possession (and why)?

Her Ms. Hooters 2073 trophy and sash; because these items acknowledge her beauty.

45. What are your three most common dreams?

Flying through Astral space.

46. What is the Character's current relationship with his family?

Her mother and her talk all the time. She is a little stand-offish from her father but she truly loves her parents.

47. If the character's family is still alive, what do they do, and where do they live?

Her mother is still a stay at home wife. Her father is still a Hermetic Mage and they both still live in Denver.

48. Where did the character learn his Skills?

She learned them growing up and her father and mother helped her hone her magical skills when the talent manifested.

49. Does the character have a good luck charm? What is it, and why?
She makes her own luck, but she does like having some bound spirits on her side.

50. What type of music does the character like?

Classical, because of its rich culture, beyond this she enjoys music at clubs because Pandora loves to dance.

51. List any past serious relationships that your character has had, and give a brief overview of the relationship.

There are to many relationships to list, she has had many suitors and male friends, ever since she was a young girl. She has a few girl friends, most of which are female shamans who share her religious views.

52. Where does your character live? Why does he live there?

Pandora lives in a middle class neighborhood in Seattle. She lives here because it is a nice neighborhood and a good place to be while she works on social advancement.

53. Remember, your Gamemaster like detail, so if you can think of any other little details, quirks, or whatever that you think might please the almighty GM, then add them in as well. Oh, and your GM won't use any of these details against you at a later date. trust me...

She loves to show off her hair, to the point that it has become a very distinctive feature.

PraetorGradivus

Sep 18 2013, 06:57 AM

Mangas Pietro de Ramirez, "Hosepipe", AKA Jorge Goodeman
last edited to current on 9/18/2013
Decker

Birthplace: Pueblo Corporate Nation

Current Residence: Denver, PCC sector.

DOB: 2048

Race: Elf (Mescalero Amerindian)

Height: 180cm

Weight: 70 Kg

Hair color: Black

Background- the Epiphany

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Visual: Jay Tavare [img]www.magweb.com/picts/nm0851610.jpg[/img].

Background-The Hosepipe Incident

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shonen_mask

Nov 30 2013, 01:08 AM

My character's name is Hinsusprite (hinsu). An Elf Adept decker.

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ltwutze

Apr 5 2014, 07:48 AM

Joe Smith, known on the streets as Chopsticks.
The character is build under SR4A rules with 400 BP and 10 Extra BP for contacts. He got 10 Karma to keep up with the group, those haven't been used yet.

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Cyberware

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Drones

Shiawase Kanmushi (Micro)

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Micro-Tapper bug (Micro)

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Ford LEBD-1 (Medium)

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MCT Hachiman (Medium)

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For easier reading, especially with the Commlink and the drones, here is the link to the chummer file.
I will now go to sleep after a night shift and check this post again when I'm awake. Until then, sorry for any mistakes.

Edited the post for now. Much easier when your eyes don't wanna close every time.

pbangarth

Apr 19 2014, 03:41 AM

Sorry, posted in wrong place. Deleted.

Wolfman

Mar 2 2015, 12:36 AM

Hey guys... let's say I wanted to join the Play by Post game... How do I go about it?
I know I like 3rd edition better than 4th (and 2nd, the 3 versions I own)... How do I create the character? With Chummer or just as on paper and then copy it on here?
Help me, potential GMs

Bastard

Oct 29 2015, 05:11 AM

QUOTE (Wolfman @ Mar 1 2015, 05:36 PM)

Hey guys... let's say I wanted to join the Play by Post game... How do I go about it?
I know I like 3rd edition better than 4th (and 2nd, the 3 versions I own)... How do I create the character? With Chummer or just as on paper and then copy it on here?
Help me, potential GMs

The PbP here isnt what it once was, but check back a couple times a week for a thread marked as recruitment. It may take you a while to find a game.

Prepare you character just like you would for P&P. I would prepare a base character now that you can modify when a game pops up. Good luck, chummer!

Bastard

Jul 1 2017, 08:39 AM

Bastard's Characters:

ACTIVE
Karmakaze (3e) in Behind the Crown by Koekepan (2020) OoC / Recruitment

INACTIVE
JT Taggart & Kane in Chasing the Prize by BishopMcQ (2004) OoC
Marquis Cooper in Living in the Shadows by WinterRat1 & Grendel (2005) OoC
Sledge in Milk Run by Slacker (2013) OoC
JT Logan in Mars Alpha by pbangarth (2014) OoC
Johnson in Emerald City Nights by Digital Heroin (2015) OoC
Johnny in Tangled Currents by Mercy (2016) OoC
Karmakaze (5e) in Wasteland Blues by Mulcarn (2017) OoC

GM'ED GAMES
EVOLUTION Campaign (2009-2015) - to be continued... ?

Bastard

Jul 1 2017, 08:43 AM

Johnny / Carson Jones
Face / Ex-Renraku Mr. Johnson
Tangled Currents by Mercy

Description

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Bastard

Jul 1 2017, 08:44 AM

Karmakaze / Kris Kahless 6th Edition
Private Investigator / Bounty Hunter / Ex-Police Detective (KE)
Wasteland Blues by Mulcarn
OOC / IC

Description

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Lifestyles & Vehicles

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Derfmancher

Jul 7 2017, 05:39 PM

Derry "Aeron" Moore- Lion Shaman- Wasteland Blues by Mulcarn

Character Sheet-

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Blazrath

Aug 5 2017, 11:07 PM

Markus "Steel Wasp" Castille (Bodyguard/Driver)

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Declan "6 of Swords" Faradilaro (Consultant/Overwatch)

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pbangarth

Aug 1 2020, 03:34 PM

Yo!

Runners out there. YO!

Corporate scumbag maneuvers have stripped my PC, Connor, of an awesome running mate. Connor needs help!

Come on. The story telling is awesome, and the title promises deep intrigue and world-class payoffs.

Get off the couch, people. What else do you have to do?

Risk your lives and get rich. Live fast and die hard.

Otherwise ... what's the point?

::: Recruitment Behind the Crown

Bastard

Feb 27 2021, 06:14 PM

Karmakaze / Kris Kahless 3rd Edition
Private Investigator / Bounty Hunter / Ex-Police Detective (Lone Star)
Behind the Crown
OoC / Recruitment

Notes for Current Run

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Bastard

May 6 2021, 12:24 PM

Karmakaze in Behind the Crown

First Run - Protection, Lies & Dragonettes

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Second Run - Undercover & Pushing up Daisy
Mission summary:

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The data pack from Lt Booker:

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To Do List

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Unresolved Legwork

Wacky

Feb 22 2024, 01:43 AM

Lenny Kenserpen (Human Hacker):

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Bastard

Mar 4 2024, 02:14 AM

We could use an SR3 version in our party.

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