I've got a notion for a shadowrunner who is an ex-coroner, but I'm having trouble coming up with a cool handle. Any ideas?

Also, I wouldn't mind suggestions as to how to make this character useful in the shadows, aside from her medical skills.

removing corpses, medical information, drug supplies, medical contacts, a good get away vehicle (some sort of herse or medical vehicle).

Could have good blade skills, or maybe make them a drone rigger (perhaps they used drones to do the autopsies or to assist)

Oh and for the handle, anything cheesily ghoulish could be good. Re-animator, Frankenstien, doc chop, necro

For flavor I'd shoot for the whole CSI thing. Meaning amped up perception, probalby with various enhancements, and see what you can come up with for investigatory stuff, and use contacts (or drop the cash) to get access to the fancy equipment. The only trick here being that mages have some advantages over mundanes here. (if your character is a mage, this all starts working together). In any case you might want to talk with your GM about it.

However whatever they say, do tack on significant combat capabilities so you're functional if that's what the game has a lot of. If your char is a mage they'd already have them on tap essentially. If a mundane, maybe when she realized she'd have to leave the comfy life for the shadows she dumped her life savings on cyber.

"The last street doc I'll ever see." Last, for short.

Ms. West (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_West%E2%80%93Reanimator)
Flat Line
Reaper
Shears
Charon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28mythology%29)
Izanami (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izanami-no-Mikoto)
Collector

Elvira

Elvira only works if she's busty.

As for how to make her useful, Forensic Science is a damned useful skill in preventing evidence from ever being at the scene to begin with at all!

As well, she'd have experience with "War Stories" from her occupation that would make for some great ways to deal with resistant people. "I once opened a man that had broken his left arm at least five dozen times. Turns out, he was abused as a kid... I wonder how that would look on an adult..."

Finally, knowledge of the other Coroners that work in Seattle by reputation. "Don't dump the body here, Doctor Dravers is relentless when it comes to tracking down Humanis-Related corpses. Dump him five blocks over, that's another district and Doctor Handers is a Elf, he would care less about a guy with Humanis tattoos than he would about all the other cases he has."

Perhaps when harvesting some cybereyes from a cadaver (there's a market for second-hand cyberware), the coroner saw an image from a cybereye camera output: it was of a hunched over figure, silhouetted against bright surgical lights, creating a flare effect reminiscent of an angel's halo or the sun's corona. This was an image of the coroner, of course, leaning over the deceased. Perhaps that image has stuck with the character ever since (maybe even made it onto the desktop wallpaper of a pocsec or commlink) and provides reassurance that the coroner is like the chthonian Charon, a stygian guide for departed souls through the rhythm of the night.

So I suggest "Corona".

(I'm sure someone else could come up with an even cornea pun.)

That's a rather interesting thought for a character.

Give him access to the keys to the Meatwagon (coroner's vehicle) and he can intercept bodies before they can fall into the RIGHT hands. Perhaps he isn't above 'miscataloging' personal items on corpses... or corpses period. One swapped toe-tag and a hit-man becomes another meatbag headded to a pauper's
plot.

He COULD also be an expert cyber-snatcher too. Though usually he only does it with those who arrive dead instead of the usual Kicking and screaming.

He's also a good pipeline into the cop shops. Remember Dexter? He might have been a specialist in blood but just about everyone in the precinct loved him (Always remember to bring those doughnuts). Nobdy thought twice about chatting to Dexter. You could give him some really good people skills (Even to the point of being magical) and he could chat the team out of trouble.

As for a name you could call him "Mister Jester" or "Twoclowns" in rememberance of the riddlespeaking jovial Gravediggers from Hamlet, also known as The Clowns or Jesters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gravediggers

Oh! Another name idea for an Ex-Coroner. And this one can be used by either a male or a female.

SAM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS6B8z9cIw0

I kinda like the sound of Charon, actually.

Don't stop on my account, though, this is all good stuff.

How about Slab?

"What to call a coroner shadowrunner?"
"Not a doctor."

Your character there is a Medical Examiner. Coroners with any medical knowledge are a rarity these days.
(No really, the only requirements are that you're 18 and don't have a criminal background, and then get elected).

And if the PC is a Dr.:
"Quincy"

Heh, if we are going to the whole Coroner as an elected official thing, the lack of medical knowledge wouldn't be too much of a problem. You see, Coroners are the only persons capable of arresting a Sheriff (as in the elected one, not a deputy). That just might be a cool trade off.

But I'm thinking we are just talking about a Forensic Pathologist?

Undertaker.

Threadwise, I think so.

I don't know... Butters does a pretty good job for Harry Dresden, Modern Day Shadowrunner.

Yeah, I was thinking forensic pathologist. Excuse my ignorance of medical criminology.



Is there a listing for a houseboat in any of the books?

Better yet, give the character a code-name that is as obscure as possible; "Ducky" (reward yourself 5 geek-points if you understand that one).

Well, the Blohm & Voss Spitzenreiter (Arsenal, Page 111) could be easily modified into one. Although I'd probably suggest you get the GMC Outrider as it's easier to say in English.

Another option is a Government Surplus Morgan Cutlass (SR4A, Page 349) without the pintle-style mounts. (At least, until you put them back on.).

Both would have to be modified with Amenities (Arsenal, Page 131), but that's a cheap and easy enough thing to do. You'd still have to pay for Lifestyle when it comes to docking fees, maintenance, supplies... But I like that idea as if the LS/KE is about to come knocking on the door, you can make a getaway in your own squat!

Its not so much ignorance on your part, but ignorance on part of the general populous ("We don't need a doctor to tell us how people died! That would be silly!")

If it helps, pathologists today are often called "vultures" or "canoe-makers" (referring to the hollowed out corpse). Where they work can be referred to as a "deli" by other employees (slicing meat).

Actually, that's funny, considering that one of the favourite places for my group to get patched up is "Sam's Surgery and Deli".

It's an actual Deli (Kosher, too! Sam was/is a Rabbi.), BTW, and not a morgue.

Scalp(el), or Mr. Needles.

A kind of thin-looking guy who knows how to poison someone and make it look like mundane heart failure. Knows exactly how to hide the needlemarks.

NCIS, can I trade my points for naughty pics of everyone's favorite girl scientist?

Abby is a cutie ^^

Now there's a scary Shadowrun character. Someone (Somehow) kills Gibbs (I'm thinking "Moar Dakka", then "Even Moar Dakka", followed by nuking him from Orbit.) and Abby goes Shadowrunning to find the killer, and get revenge.

And leave absolutely no trace of herself, or where ever the body went at all.

All of you guys are too classy to suggest this one:

Dr. Death

I actually knew a physician by this name, years ago. However, he pronounced it "Deeth". Same town, different physician: Dr. Ragula.

Well, if we're going into Death puns...

Doctor Bill Door or Doctor Sto Helit.

Joe Black
Bo Nidle
Asrael
Dullahan
.. Moddey Dhoo?

Oh oh. Psychopomp

Bone Collector

Oooh! Bonecarver. And have a necklace with carved small bones that may or may not be human.




-k

Sam Eddie.

Someone already mentioned the "Deli Operator" didn't they?
Hmm...

Slicer
Aftermath
Closure (Sooo many puns here...)
Ends (as in, "no loose")
PaleRider
Undergrounder
Inbetween
The Finn
Empty
Canopic


Damn, using some of these next round of character gen:)
-Tir.

Yeah, I should take notes for the next time I GM. I've had a burn-out recently and... Bah, all GMs go through that.

Maybe we're over-thinking things, "Coroner" can be a bad-hooped enough street name on it's own.

Was "Carver" already taken? I like that one.

On an obscure note, "Chuto," which would be an (arguably) decent phonetic of CH2O - the chemical formula for Formaldehyde.

"Mex" also works, a shorthand for Medical EXaminer, and the ever-present "Doc" is a lovely generic fallback.

"Aren't you going to weigh his organs?"

Medigo was a little slow, and watch way too many trid shows. "No", I told him, "I'm not going to weigh his organs."

"But you're supposed to weigh his organs. Its what they always do. " If I ever meet the producer of Murder Scene Technicians: The Series, I'm going to autopsy him while he's still alive.

"Why would I want to weigh his organs?", I asked the gigantic troll.

"So you'll know how he died", he replied. Medigo was quite confident in his answer. Autopsy was too good for Mr. Druckmeister. I'll have to feed him to carnivorous flatworms, instead.

"I already know how he died. " Medical examination is as much as art as a science. It is easy to miss small details and to make wrong assumptions. But this time it was kind of obvious.

"Already? But you haven't weighed his organs yet. " Obviously, some people just don't get it.

"Medigo, you told me what killed him. You were there, you said. He was still alive when you cut off his head with a chainsaw, you said. That's what killed him. " He's not the smartest troll, but there was never anything wrong with his memory before. Maybe he should get a CT.

"But I could have been lying."

"Were you?"

"No"

I need a nap. And Vodka.



Her name is Isodle . They call her Izzy hammers (or just Hammers), because when you beat your no-good cheating husband to death with a pair of hammers (not at the same time, one of them broke. It actually took her a couple of hours of searching to find a replacement before continuing the righteous bludgeoning) your criminal contacts just have to make it a streetname.

Remember, your street name doesn't have to be related to your skills, abilities, talents, or jobs. Your street name is something you earn, often by doing crazy shit where other people can see it. It should be related to background and personality.

Ah yes... Poor "Vic the Cabbie".

You get your penis stuck in the exhaust pipe of a yellow taxi just once, through absolutely no fault of your own, and suddenly everybody things you're some sort of pervert.

Nope. Even more interesting story. Let's just say that when you're investigating a cab, don't get into the wrong one.

Especially don't get into the "Training Taxi" with a driver that doesn't speak English, gets paid extra as long as someone is in the passenger's seat, and has a very flimsy grasp of things like "Speed Limits" and "Right of Way". Oh, and whose speaking voice can only be described as a bandsaw cutting through sheet metal.

Victor transmitted what was going on to the group as a "HELP ME!", and all they did was laugh and re-transmit it to their Mafia connection.

"Vic the Cabbie" was born.

Stahsteel: Yes, she is.
Six-Gun: No.
Hyzmarca; I do not do that, but those who know me think of me as a pervert. I take it as a compliment & add: "Trust me, there are WORSE people than I am."

As Wikipedia states.

Personally, I thought Psychopomp was brilliant!

At least someone else appreciates esoteric and slightly-silly-sounding-in-modern-english words

Though if people don't like actually being called "Psychopomp" (since it shortens to 'psycho' ... or 'pomp') they can just take various psychopomp names....

Morrigu
Thanatos
Lethe
or any of the previous mentioned ones like Charon, et all.

"Independent"?
He does create his own business after all . .

Phillip Graves.

Is he related at all to the Professor Death?



Well played, Bodak - Iris I had your pun skills.
Sadly, all I have is some Vitreous Humor.

Cute.


You could get more if you blink.

Don't start, omae - doncha know that punning is a whippable offense? That kinda talk will earn you ten lashes.