Valentine's going to be a fine addition to the team it would seem. He has some interesting contacts though...

Twitchy's sent.

Badger, my character, should be arriving in your inbox RSN (real soon now). Or at least, a draft -- I still need to add the prices and whatnot to his gear list. I don't have my rulebooks with me and need to consult them before the final draft.

Most of the details are in there already, though.

Tinkergnome: Sheet recieved
Frumious Bandersnatch: Sheet recieved
Digital Heroin: Sheet recieved
Glyph: Awaiting sheet.
Kurukami: Sheet recieved, awaiting final.

I'll probably put the IC topic up tonight some time, feel free to start posting.

TG and Kurukami, since I'm waiting on the bio and I have no idea how to introduce you, feel free to post of your own initiative and I'll play off that.

I ran out of things to spend cash on and I'm working on fleshing out ~10 contacts. I might be a day or two getting you the full writeup. I'll see if I can't get the BG to you tomorrow sometime, though, along with the majority of the final character sheet

Then I'll post.

I'm still working on Stitch. Should get him done by either late tonight or sometime tomorrow.

Hi. Are you still accepting players? I have a character pretty-much ready (named Lilt) who should be portable to the game. I've played him a coupple of times, when you say that you'd prefer characters with past running experience; do you mean characters who have accumulated karma/cash in other games? Or do you mean non-"I was just chucked out of a corp" runners?

Oh hell, man. I wasn't even finished with my character yet (I've been rather busy these last couple of days). I did finalize my contacts and juggled all my resources, though, so you should be able to access them on the same link. I'll get the rest done as soon as possible.

I'm going to go ahead and post my first move anyway. I hope you don't mind if I change the atmosphere just a tad to make it more appropriate for what I see with my character; the meat and potatoes remain the same, only the description of what's going on is slightly altered. If it's a problem, just let me know and I'll try to avoid doing it in the future.

Thanks again. And if you need the link, just send me a private message and I'll hope you up once more.

I'm brain fried after finishing mine, so I'll wait for an intro post/approval/whatever before I do anything else.

To be thorough, take this as the final word on your character Lilt. He looks fine and will be a great addition to the team except for a few minor snafus.

Knock the ID rating down to 6. ADPS and Glazers need to be ditched. Telecom should only be 150 unless I'm mistaken.

I'll update the IC topic around two hours from now hopefully.

TFB, what you did was fine and even preferable. I'm trying to stay true to your characters, but I want to get more a feel for them before I really up the specifics of things like that.

Phew. I just spent the last coupplea hours redoing him, nice to know he'll be let in. I'll send you the character file from NSRCG.

Anyway: I cut his contacts back a fair bit but fleshed-out the ones he had (renaming Fexler to Leo). I've already done what you advised and the character should be fine by the standard chargen rules.

[edit] Ack just read that again. is it OK if I re-do a couppla other bits? Largely removing some of the weapons, ammo, grenades, and skillchips? I was going to play him less combat-style[/edit]

Have we decided if we're going to be an established team or independant contractors for this first run? If the former, should we give a bit more information about our characters here in the OCC thread or whatnot?

I'm game either way. Personally, I find going the independant way is best in a new game as it seems more natural and is a lot easier for a bunch of players who are strangers to build their bonds and tactics up from scratch than trying to pretend that they've already established them (and often times being disappointed when everyone walks over everyone else's toes during a stressful situation). But like I said, I'm game either way. It's totally up to you guys.

I reckon independant contractors is a good way to go. It's fun to roleplay IMHO.

Lilt, whatever you want to do with the character should be fine.

IC topic should be updated soon, despite the best efforts by the evil forces that dwell in Wal-Mart.

I honestly can't imagine Twitchy in an established group... can you?

Would I be correct in thinking that most of us will receive a message in much the same way? That is, a Matrix drop-message informs us of a meeting to be had at the "Valdez Intramural League" host?

I've posted an initial message, but will be glad to revise it if needed. And the final stats on Badger should now be sitting in your inbox. (Background and "20+ questions" to follow shortly.)

Well OK: I may as well put my first post in the IC thread. Wish me luck.

Kurukami, I had something special planned for your character as I did for each of them, but if you want the same as Valentine, that's fine by me. Saves some effort on my part. I haven't yet recieved your final sheet, but as I've said before it can be a bit slow.

TFB, what you did was fine. I'll try to add in more fluff like that as I get a better feel for your characters.

DH, it's going to be interesting seeing him establish one as is, though I have to wonder how he'll manage to not get kicked out.

As a further addendum, Lilt I got your adjustments and they look fine.

Cool. I've done my first post on the IC board. Hope it's OK. To remove any confusion: Lilt is both the name of my character and my logon here on the Dumpshock Forums. K?

Cheese -- I'm a bit confused about your last post. When are we supposed to meet at that location? According to the time stamp, this occurred on the 17th, though the message seems to indicate that we're to meet on the 10th? And no time was given either unless I completely missed it (which is very likely).

Cheese - I didn't quite get the background done, so I went ahead and sent you the stats. The background should follow soon.

I hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of adding flavour to my character's tortoise matrix connection persona.

TFB, typo on my part. Should've said the 20th.

I did a Twitchy-esque chip thing as an intro post. Did we ever find out what was on the chips?

OK, CE, Badger's background and answered questions should now be sitting in your inbox. Send me an email if you'd like me to go into more detail.

Barring any requests to the contrary, after I tie up everyone meeting there, I'll skip ahead to you all meeting there. As for the question of when, the answer is there, just think about it in an "extreme" way.

TFB, you'll have to forgive me for not having access to any of the books specifically detailing Seattle so I couldn't say if it was in the Renton district. It's meant to be on the eastern outskirts a little north of I-90 not that it's a terribly important fact.

It was just a wild guess on my part anyway.

I think that chaecking the location first would be a good idea. Just writing an IC post to that effect.
[edit]I'm making the bike one of the "Similar models" from R3. Hope that's OK CE[/edit]

Way ahead of you myself, but you have no way of knowing that.

@TFB -- Wow, that's a ton of background material and stats you've got for Valentine on that host site. Love the detail... even though, from the IC descriptions and whatnot, I had assumed he was a decker of sorts.

Not quite sure what I think about that CFS background, though. If Badger finds out about it, he might be tempted to shoot Valentine out of hand.

Cripes, you weren't meant to see that. And yes, now you know why it was under that particular category on the sheet, too. It's not like he goes around advertising it either.

Cheese, you should have the completed version of Stitch now. Re-check the stats, though. In the first one, I forgot to put in his cyberware and initiation information.

It is, and I caught it to. I was just hoping it wasn't that lame. <ducks the mighty wrath of Cheese> I still don't understand what he meant about the time thing though. I'm just not seeing it.

Me neither. That's why I was planning on checking the location out. Perhaps the variety of place we'd be meeting would shed some light. (Nightclub = Late ETC.)

Also: I know Valentine. I mean the RL equivalent, at-least in mannerisms if not yacht. He runs a massage class I attend and his name is Zeb.

Excuse me for a moment, while I wet myself laughing.

And your weird-assed guess is right, almost. Keep taking it in that regard to two more orders of magnitude.

On the 20th of August (8/20/56), at 2020 (8:20 pm)?

If that's right... well, hindsight is 20/20, eh? *cackles madly and runs for cover*

I'm glad at least someone's enjoying my "easter eggs" for lack of a better term. I've been on a HHGTTG stint recently so expect coincidences and expect them often.

Hmm. Perhaps it's written on invisible ink on the toilet paper... Perhaps if the correct action is performed then the message will become clear. Now... What action should that be?


I thought that it may be something the cartoon hero said but I can't see any hiden messages there. There's the message that twitchy got about arriving in his suit but we don't have that.

Anyway: we were told that the details would be in the message we were given so let's analyse that:

I'll start the meeting tomorrow, and it begins at 20:20 on the Sunday for those of you that didn't figure it out yet.

So did any of our Matrix contacts turn up some information about this guy's name, or about the Valdez Intramural League?

I've been curious about that, too, especially since most of us checked him out before the "warning" not to.

Anyway, for the meet, Valentine is wearing one of his Vashon Island suits along with his Form-Fitting Body Armor and Forearm Guards. He brought two of his Savalette Sentinels, Walther, batons, and two grenades with him, but they were left behind in Harlot before he approached the hole. In addition to those items, he also has Cadbury (his Pocket Secretary), his Skillsoft Jukebox, his Pager, his Cellphone, his Fake IDs, and select items from his Potpourri on his person.

He's still patched into Harlot (with a rating 4 Telecomm Link program) and has her Sensors 4 displayed on a semi-transparent window via his Image Link. Cadbury is likewise recording any and all discussions into his memory. He also has his Interrogation (effective rating of 5 with a Task Pool of 3 available) ActiveSoft loaded so as to act as a walking lie detector, though he'll switch to Negotation (same rating) later during the meet if/when necessary.

I think that about covers it.

Essentially they're refusing to enlighten you, for reasons that will be explained after the meet.