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Sir_Psycho
Initially I wanted to create myself a charismatic elven adept, and I wanted him to be Indian, with maybe a street kid or low level organized crime background. I needed a background reason for him being out of India, so I figured him and his friends robbed a bank, and he paid for his state of the art muscle toner with that money but had to skip country. I've been trying to juggle BP between social skills, combat skills, attributes, essence, and of course, background.

Here's the draught as it sits on my computer screen, pre-overhaul.
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However the "how much for a meta" thread suddenly gave me an idea to put together a fairly twisted character. Special order underage indian male sex slave. He began life as an unfortunately pretty young boy, but when a rich and immoral megacorporate/organised crime/shady figure decided an androgynous Indian child was next on his wish list, Rent-boy's life changed for ever. While a life of demeaning acts and shelter from physical labour left him physically weak, the preternatural quickness and agility he gained through his awakening allowed him to escape to the streets, where he discovered life didn't get much easier.

The ideas are new and ill-formed right now, but basically I want an androgynous, exotic and beautiful elf who is not only potently charismatic, but very violent and damaged. In the shadows he's a wetwork specialist, but he's a strong infiltrator, fighter and face. I also like the idea of him starting poor, living out of coffin hotels or maybe he's even fresh off the boat. I'm even considering the dayjob quality, as maybe he's still working the streets. I don't want a pure adept, however, and while I won't spend much money on his gear, I would like him to have some sex worker gear, as well as some other ware that he bought for himself to give him an edge on the mean streets (The muscle toner is the first that comes to mind).

I'm going to be experimenting, particlarly where his power points will go and finding a good balance of essence between magic and ware. In particular picking Initiative Enhancement is a big headache. However, I'm open to suggestions, comments, brainstorming and even tips for the background, especially from anyone with any helpful knowledge about indian culture and it's position in canon shadowrun as well as the sex trade. Also, what kind of implants do sex workers get hooked up to them?

Another part of the background I'm toying with is him being a SURGEling. Perhaps he SURGEd when he came in contact with the Ganges manaline, and he was worshipped for it, and that was what made him a target for extraction. I like the idea of him having Glamour as a child, but as he was twisted, it changed and manifested as a Nasty Vibe.
Rasumichin
QUOTE (Sir_Psycho @ Jan 5 2009, 02:40 PM) *
Also, what kind of implants do sex workers get hooked up to them?


Penile Implant, Silk Skin, probably Slimworm Endosont.
Biosculpting is practically a must.
For bunraku parlors, more biosculpting (probably even False Front), voice modulator, skillwires and these memory blockers.
For dancers, Enhanced Articulation, Muscle Toner/Augmentation, Syntharcadium.
Tailored Pheromones.

That should sum up the possible implants for the more or less plain vanilla varieties of rentboys.
There's scores of other possibilities, depending on the particular kinks of the crowds a worker is designed to be rented out for.
Inflatable Breast Implants, hermaphroditic sex changes, (modular) fetish cyberlimbs, transgenic alterations...

Edit : i forgot the whole biodrone stuff, but by RAW, it's not more than a rumor yet that it's also available for people.

Then, there's the ever-so-popular idea of combining the sex worker with the assasin, wich adds all unobtrusive combat augmentations to the list.
Glyph
With only 0.2 Essense remaining after the muscle toner (assuming you want to keep it from going over 1 point's worth of implants), I would probably go for an alphaware penile implant (the 0.2 gets halved because cyberware is the lower of the totals), and either clean metabolism or vocal range enhancer, bioware-wise. Optionally, you could, instead of the bioware, get an alphaware oral slasher. It's different enough from the stereotypical monofilament whip, but still has a surprisingly decent damage (not to mention that it would be more damaging when used from the position that a joyboy/assassin would use it from).
Sir_Psycho
QUOTE (Rasumichin @ Jan 5 2009, 07:49 PM) *
Penile Implant, Silk Skin, probably Slimworm Endosont.
Biosculpting is practically a must.
For bunraku parlors, more biosculpting (probably even False Front), voice modulator, skillwires and these memory blockers.
For dancers, Enhanced Articulation, Muscle Toner/Augmentation, Syntharcadium.
Tailored Pheromones.

That should sum up the possible implants for the more or less plain vanilla varieties of rentboys.
There's scores of other possibilities, depending on the particular kinks of the crowds a worker is designed to be rented out for.
Inflatable Breast Implants, hermaphroditic sex changes, (modular) fetish cyberlimbs, transgenic alterations...

Edit : i forgot the whole biodrone stuff, but by RAW, it's not more than a rumor yet that it's also available for people.

Then, there's the ever-so-popular idea of combining the sex worker with the assasin, wich adds all unobtrusive combat augmentations to the list.

Because he was chosen for his SURGE Glamour and exotic natural beauty, things like biosculpting are out. Also, I've been tossing around the idea of him having melanin control and facial sculpt, so surgery on that front doesn't really fit with the character. Skillwires are also out, because of the high essence cost. I'm also running dangerously low on BP for resources.

While biodrone stuff is out because it's so rare, I am intrigued about memory cut-outs, the kind of thing the owner would use to keep their prize in their hands.

A friend of mine brought up the oral slasher too, although the only thing I'd worry about is that it's illegal and it'd be picked up by cyberware scanners, not to mention that Rentboy is pretty good with his hands and knives (although his damage from the low strength is pretty pitiful).
The Jake
I'm toying with a similar concept. A Fomori I call "Mr. Vain" with the SURGE qualities. I'm struggling between building it as a street samurai with Con (Seduction) or as a Face with some heavy duty combat skills....

The concept looks pretty solid to me. I'm not sure what else you could want. Rasumichin covered the cyberware.

Personally, I'd use cyberware over an adept with this concept but that's just my preference.

- J.
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