Allright, it's a new board (well, not totally new… But it's not the old one!) – so time for a new run!

The clue for this run: It's June, it's hot, smog in Seattle is like hell - and you've got some biz to take care of with a gang.

Year: 2065
Month: June

1. I wish that you would be rather active. I am online alot, mostly in the later evenings here in the United States (3:00-5:00, and again 7:00-9:00, and other miscellaneous times during the day). One to two posts a day would be nice.

2. That you use the Building Point System (130), or Sum to Ten. The Priority System rips off human characters, and that's the main reason I don't want to use it. And I'm not a fan of the BECKS karma system, and dislike how it works.

3. Availability 8, Rating 6, 5 Edges/5 Flaws MAX.

4. No deckers (sorry guys, they would be useless on this run).

5. Only 5-7 characters will most likely be accepted (depending on how many I think this run can handle).

6. Variety - I'd like to see some variety in characters in mainly two things:
---a.)Race (Humans, Elves, Trolls, Orks, and Dwarves; - no shapeshifters)
---b.)Type (Street Samurai, Mercenary, Face, Sorcerer, Conjurer, Shaman, Weapons Specialist, Riggers, etc.)

7. No custom weapons. No custom armor (except in certain circumstances where the case would require it - and I only know of one such case). Dikoting is ok, but just don't go overboard with it. Customizing your stuff is ok, but no completely built from scratch stuff.

8. I'm not of a great understanding of the rules of the magical world of shadowrun (or much of its history), even from what I've read in the novels and the sourcebook. I may need your help in such matters, or I may ask my friend Talain or Shadowrunner13 to help me with the dice rolls.

9. Please, no cyber-zombies. You can get your essence down to .01, and you're still legal for my run.

10. If you write a history for your character, this is good. I am not really a fan of NSRCG's 20 questions, but if that's all you complete, I will accept it (begrudgingly). A whole page in MS Word is adequate, and if you do so, you can have an extra 5 buildpoints (raising your total to 135). If you used Sum to Ten... I don't know how you'd wish to handle that (but you would still get the equivalent of 5 points).

11. House Rule: The only dual weapons that one can use are either -
-----a. 2 Knives/Cybernetic Blades/Forearm Snap Blades (Cougar Fineblade/Stiletto/Survival Knife, Spurs, etc.)
-----b. 2 Pistols (Any Type)
-----c. [EXCEPTION] If you are a troll, and you are sufficiently not a munchkin, then I can allow you to carry to Ingram Mach 10's or something of the sort.

12. I would put some efforts into my contacts, but a Face character would not be able to be fully utilized in this run. Also, I am very negotiable if you have an idea or want something in particular - just e-mail me or if you're really bold ask me here.

Let's try to have a fun game, and keep it simple. You can e-mail characters to me at:

Vegeta_Gohan_Knight@hotmail.com

I cleared all the e-mails out of my account just for this. I have no junk-mail filter, and make sure in the subject line you put in all caps: [OOC: HT] so I can find it.

If you can post your character on the internet (geocities, angelfire, topcities, anycities, etc.), that would be even better. Just post the link(s) here. Even better would be if you can just post your character here...

Any questions or comments?

1) Is this mainly a "Geek The Gang" type thing, or is there something else that I'm missing?

2) What's the highest grade of cyber/bio you're allowing?

3) All books or just some?

This is set up to be a multiple-run campaign (where we can gain/lose a runner between times)... It's a rather involved geek the gan run to start with; but it will become more.

All books are acceptable, as long as I know what the item does specifically... And I don't think it's too cheezy.

Normally I'd say Alphaware... But if you want to burn your money, go ahead and get Deltaware & Cultured bioware.

The enemies you face will have their share of ammenities...

Obviously as long as it's in the Avail limit after being changed, huh?

But... Yikes! Delta. If I can get something at Delta with the right Avail, it'll probably be cheap anyway.

Not that I will. Maybe if I still have too much money.

*Wondering how long it'll last this time*

I'd be willing to give this a shot...again. As before, I'll probably use Gypsy.

tanka - Fine, Avail can be 10.

But no getting firearms larger than assault rifles/shotguns/grenade launchers...

And like I said, no cheezy crap either.

Fortune - You just may be in luck that I still have a copy... But you can always send me the new updated version!

I have high hopes... Last time it all fell apart right after Doctor Funkenstein left.

If you think he can kill people with soycheeze... Be my guest.

This looks fun. I'll have a character up soon...Troll Rigger coming up soon...

Soyeese will probaly kill anything.. that just sounds terrible.. Soy-cheese.. yum.. Ack... Gasp... **DEAD**

Anyways I submitted a rigger to you via email.. Avail 8, Rating 6, all that.. tell me what you think of him.

--Fogg

Fortune - It otter-be fun still... GAH! *slams head on table*

Phelious Fogg - Allrighty, your rigger is in!

Character List:

Phelious Fogg - Rigger

[feel free to post a short description of your character for other players so they have a general OOC idea of what you are and all that jazz]

Ditaki - A troll rigger? Sounds good to me; don't get too many of those!



Also, I'll allow you to chage points into nuyen...

1 point = 1,000

Considering I have a magic Fetish, I'm thinking about doing my typical cop out and playing a Voodoo Shaman. He's recently moved to Seattle hoping to sell his talents for money, you know usual shadowrun drek.

Sounds good.

So, we're lining up 2 riggers...

A street sam...

A voodoo shaman...

And another...

Characters:

Fortune
Phelious Fogg
Ditaki
Maxxi
tanka

That about does it for sign ups really... I look forward to starting this run by friday~!

Andrei Kirpichev, better known as Gamma, the Russian Troll Rigger, is finished.

Character Sheet:

Andrei Kirpichev

There ya go!

Heh, yes, you do.

OK, finalizing thoughts then comes the stats. Shouldn't take me too long after that.

Tell me you've still got room. I have a summoner of the path of the bard with a small amount of face thrown in. He's got a serious inquisitive streak, alwayse looking for that new bit of knowledge. He runs to pay for his university courses.

Just say the words, and I'll post him here.

OK, I've got the stats finalized, however, I just wanted to make sure this background was OK to go ahead and grab the five extra BP so I could finish. If it isn't, I'll throw the charsheet up as soon as you say so.

The Background

Large Mike - Sure, I'll slip you in.

*closes sign ups OFFICIALLY now*

Of course... If we got done earlier... I could start the game like Wednesday.

Everybody whom has posted chars - You're ready to go (yes, you can add your buildpoints now tanka )

Half-way there, I guess!

Ryan O’Shea, who goes by the nickname Gypsy, is short for an Elf, standing barely over 6 foot in height. He does have the typical Elven figure, a thin, wiry frame, though. He keeps his blonde hair cut short but shaggy, which helps in hiding the datajack implanted in his right temple. He has piercing lavender eyes that some people take for cyber at first glance, but then they notice the life that would be absent from replacements. Ryan tends to smoke quite a lot, and is equally comfortable dressing in trendy corporate clothing or rough street clothes, depending on the situation.

Damn -

You know, its probabily a good thing it's closed - I'd hooked together a "La Femme Nikita" type chr and was doing, (I will quote from my run partner, looking over my shoulder) "That's totally obscene. Stop it now. Please. It's hurting me to think about it..."


Shhesh, Init of 5D6 + 11? And money left over? It's a narrow thing.

L:

"Consistantly rolling low 30's whenever an Initiative is called..."

How the heck do you do that? If you are combining Bioware with cyberware, isnt there some rule against that for initive, like in the errata or something?

I'm such a double poster.

The Sheet

I didn't think those stacked, and even if they did, I would never personally allow that.

They do. Read M&M's blurbs on them. Stackable.

If another slot opens up in the game, please send me a PM and let me know. This sounds like a lot of fun and I'd love to get in on the action. Unfortunately, I didn't have access to a computer over the weekend, so I didn't see this thread till this morning.

So, what'd you think of University?

I can open up a 2nd run for those of you who also want to run... But a different setting. Same base as this game; just different scenario.

All characters and backgrounds are good to go so far.

What's the format everyone is using to post their characters?

Anything goes, really. Documents, NSRCG files, HTM, and HTML work best.

*seems to recall having an obscene character with 6D6 + something equally obscene at one time* Sadly... he was a decker... and this wasn't Matrix...

Fortune - Yep, I did.

So, are we gonna get this bad boy rolling, or what?

I guess so! I'll have the IC topic up by Wednesday (if not Tuesday) night. We'll get this bad boy rollin'!

Okay, it's Thursday... But I am putting the IC topic up in about an hour!

It's been more than an hour!

Another 2 hours and change, and still no IC thread. Slacker!

Just about three hours (had to chime in)

Dang it, well I'll post it again then (I told it to post the las time and then left... I blame a crappy ISP and my 33.6K )

http://invision.dumpshock.com/index.php?ac...t=ST&f=9&t=2735

A likely story!

FYI: June 14th, 2065 is a Sunday.

Hey Fortune, what's that big shadow moving towards you across the astral plane there?