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Seth
QUOTE (Thanee @ Feb 24 2011, 10:31 PM) *
Looks good!

Is that Cerebral Booster R1 or R2? Because you list Logic as 3/5.

One problem, I think, is that you cannot use the Sustaining Foci for Increase Reaction / Logic, because (augmented) they are higher than their Force (3), and you need to cast those spells at Force Rating >= Attribute Rating. Maybe you should recheck, that this actually works as you intend it to.

And one more thing... I would try to scrap together the 3k¥ to upgrade that Fake SIN to Rating 4 (Rating 1 isn't much of a protection and will regularily fail, even with low-end scanners).

Bye
Thanee


Thanks. Even with a spreadsheet its hard to do these things. I will do some more tweaking

You are right on all counts

I don't really plan on using the fake SIN, I took it out of habit.
Thanee
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I don't really plan on using the fake SIN, I took it out of habit.


Well, you never know... might come in handy. smile.gif

Bye
Thanee
Mickle5125
do you allow the breaking of groups at chargen?
sabs
I have a character in mind, just having trouble building him with the level of fever I'm running.
Thanee
Get better then! smile.gif

Bye
Thanee
Edana
QUOTE (Mickle5125 @ Feb 24 2011, 12:27 PM) *
do you allow the breaking of groups at chargen?


Since we're using karmagen, breaking groups is fine. Just make sure to indicate you did this on your sheet so it's easy to check math.

QUOTE (sabs @ Feb 24 2011, 01:13 PM) *
I have a character in mind, just having trouble building him with the level of fever I'm running.


No worries, hope you feel better soon smile.gif.
Mickle5125
I'm finding myself leaning more and more towards the anti-mage... with the Trickster mentor spirit. I'll get it posted as soon as I finish.
Edana
Just a quick reminder that I'd prefer to see sheets in the next day or two if you don't have anything posted yet. I'll be going through them this week to fix up the knowledge skills, and would like to have the weekend to finalize and get the intro together so that I can post it on the 7th.

If there's anything you guys need answered, or want help with, just let me know smile.gif.
Belvidere
I'd be more than excited to join into this game if slots are open, and if not I shall take a seat on the reserve bench. The character concept is the somewhat spoiled son of two heavy wuxing mages who are heavy Daoist practitioners. He himself is one as well, though lacking in magical skill but making up for it in a somewhat rebellious nature as he's left home due to "religious" disputes. He's a minor summoner/hacker.

Other idea I had if the wuxing group doesn't hold up is a Bhuddist magic defense specialist with full pacifism who has come to hong kong from the small monastary he'd lived in since birth to attempt to find his father who had left him there when he was born.

I'll get them in the works tonight once I get out of work. grinbig.gif
Mickle5125
QUOTE (Edana @ Feb 28 2011, 12:51 PM) *
If there's anything you guys need answered, or want help with, just let me know smile.gif.


More starting karma? I'm having trouble buying everything I want... ^_^

More seriously, though, I had a small personal emergency come up over the weekend, so I was unable to get everything done that I needed to. I've been working on the charsheet off and on all day, so I'll hopefully have something narrowed down soon. I'll try to get it up some time tonight.
sabs
Here is the beginning
Still need to write up the background.

Milo Green "Fractal"
Human Hacker/Face
Australian Living in Hong Kong

Stats:275
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Active Skills: 253
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Languages: 11
English: N
Cantonese: 4

Knowledge Skills:
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Contacts:28
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Qualities:
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Commlink:
Sony Emperor: Novatech Navi
Transys Avalon Modified
Response 6/Signal 6/Firewall 6/System 6
Customized Interface, Optimization Exploit, Simsense Accelerator
Programs:
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Skillsoft:
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Cyberware/Bioware 3.46/0.45
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Armor:
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Weapons:
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ID/Licenses
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200 rounds Regular Ammo
5 spare clips
Contact lenses w/ Flare Composition, Image Link, Smart Link
Glasses w/ Thermal Vision, Low-light, Vision Magnification, Vision Enhancement 3
Clothes: Various Steampunk, Business.
Lifestyle: 1Month Medium

Background
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Seth
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If there's anything you guys need answered, or want help with, just let me know

Looking forwards to the game!
Thanee
ditto that smile.gif

Bye
Thanee
Edana
QUOTE (Belvidere @ Feb 28 2011, 01:26 PM) *
I'd be more than excited to join into this game if slots are open, and if not I shall take a seat on the reserve bench. The character concept is the somewhat spoiled son of two heavy wuxing mages who are heavy Daoist practitioners. He himself is one as well, though lacking in magical skill but making up for it in a somewhat rebellious nature as he's left home due to "religious" disputes. He's a minor summoner/hacker.

Other idea I had if the wuxing group doesn't hold up is a Bhuddist magic defense specialist with full pacifism who has come to hong kong from the small monastary he'd lived in since birth to attempt to find his father who had left him there when he was born.

I'll get them in the works tonight once I get out of work. grinbig.gif

At the moment the game is full, but if anyone doesn't finish their character by this weekend, I'll give priority to people on the wait list who do have complete sheets. Since I'm going with the post or die method, there's also the possibility of people getting murdered if they don't keep up with posting wink.gif.

QUOTE (Mickle5125 @ Feb 28 2011, 02:21 PM) *
More starting karma? I'm having trouble buying everything I want... ^_^

More seriously, though, I had a small personal emergency come up over the weekend, so I was unable to get everything done that I needed to. I've been working on the charsheet off and on all day, so I'll hopefully have something narrowed down soon. I'll try to get it up some time tonight.

Hehe, everyone can always use more karma. No big deal on the sheet. better to deal with RL stuff first. And I'm mostly interested in making sure I have a couple days to take care of the knowledge skills, rather than having any specific sheet.

QUOTE (sabs @ Feb 28 2011, 02:25 PM) *
Here is the beginning
Still need to write up the background.

Looks good so far.


By the way, the magic people that are interested in being in a magical group together should try to work out strictures and purpose together. It's not critical in the short term, but it would probably help define the way you view each other.

Everything seems to be coming together pretty well, glad you guys are looking forward to this smile.gif. For those with backgrounds and/or 20Q's given, I'll be sending you PM's to go over knowledge skills in the next couple days. If I miss something you think is important, please feel free to point it out.
Thanee
I have already written some fitting Knowledge Skills (according to my background) into my sheet (just without Rating), might be useful as a starting point. smile.gif

Bye
Thanee

@phlapjack77: To avoid that smilie, just use the full editor and uncheck the box below the text area that says enable emoticons. wink.gif
phlapjack77
I was trying to keep emoticons because I was using the nuyen.gif one, but then I saw you had an honest-to-goodness character nuyen symbol. So I stole yours - thanks! nyahnyah.gif
Kim
Kojiro "Hope" Sasaki

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The rest of the background depends on the relation with the others.

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Thanee
QUOTE (phlapjack77 @ Mar 1 2011, 12:43 AM) *
I was trying to keep emoticons because I was using the nuyen.gif one, but then I saw you had an honest-to-goodness character nuyen symbol. So I stole yours - thanks! nyahnyah.gif


Ah. smile.gif

Bye
Thanee
Mickle5125
I think it's all here...

Max

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Thanee
QUOTE (Mickle5125 @ Mar 2 2011, 02:26 AM) *
I think it's all here...


Yay! smile.gif

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KARMA: 146
Magic: 6


Isn't that just 100 Karma?

(2+3+4+5+6) x 5

Bye
Thanee
Mickle5125
Used DamienKnights chargen builder. I think it included the focus and the spells into the magic karma count
sabs
Updated my character and put his background in. Also changed him, he's no longer American, he's Australian.
Edana
Looking good, I've gone through a couple of the sheets/backgrounds to take care of the skills, and should have time to do a few more this afternoon, so we're definitely on track to start this up on Monday.

For Kim & Mickle: I'd prefer you guys switch out the Sensitive System negative unless you're planning on actively pursuing some augmentations. If you're planning on remaining pure magic-users, it's no hindrance at all, and it doesn't give me any real plot value unless I just abuse your characters, which isn't really a nice thing to do wink.gif. Flaws don't have to be crippling, but they should at least be something you have a reasonable chance of having to deal with.
Seth
I've updated my character sheet to include the 20 questions, and changed nano intolerance to enemy
Seth
I don't think we decided on the strictures of the group.

I looked at streetmagic, and thought that we don't actually need any strictures unless we want them. I quite fancy the fraternity restriction. What about the rest of you?
Mickle5125
QUOTE (Edana @ Mar 2 2011, 10:34 AM) *
For Kim & Mickle: I'd prefer you guys switch out the Sensitive System negative unless you're planning on actively pursuing some augmentations. If you're planning on remaining pure magic-users, it's no hindrance at all, and it doesn't give me any real plot value unless I just abuse your characters, which isn't really a nice thing to do wink.gif. Flaws don't have to be crippling, but they should at least be something you have a reasonable chance of having to deal with.


swapped that out for:
Liar
Signature (specific TBD)
Seth
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Kojiro stays clear of the underground fight scene, so he won’t know Dr Yang from that. It’s possible he was looking for a healer in Hong Kong when he got hurt on one of his missions, but maybe you have a better idea how Dr Yang and Hope got in contact? He has been in Hong Kong for a decade, so there’s lots of time for them to have met and get to know each other if you like.


How about:

When Dr Yang and his son arrived in Hong Kong, they stayed at a cheap dive in the kowloon district. While Dr Yang was out searching for work, his son tried to earn some money by giving a martial arts demo. Not realising that as a street entertainer he had to pay money to the local mob, he got into a fight with them. Using hit and run tactics he was doing ok, until he (literally) ran into Han "Big Bear" Chen. You had been a bystander, and stepped in to stop Big Bear from doing something permanent to my son. You then took him home, and we met.

Since then we meet occasionally: you need medical care every now and then, and every now and then one of my patients has a problem that needs "dealing" with .
phlapjack77
QUOTE (Seth @ Mar 3 2011, 03:54 AM) *
I don't think we decided on the strictures of the group.

I looked at streetmagic, and thought that we don't actually need any strictures unless we want them. I quite fancy the fraternity restriction. What about the rest of you?

Sorry, I got into the idea of a magical group, then opted for a non-magic character frown.gif

Hope there's a magical group for "us", though, even if I can't be a part of it smile.gif
Kim
QUOTE (phlapjack77 @ Mar 3 2011, 10:14 AM) *
Sorry, I got into the idea of a magical group, then opted for a non-magic character frown.gif

Hope there's a magical group for "us", though, even if I can't be a part of it smile.gif


I asked about it earlier and there was no reply, so I decided not to make a Wuxing mage either. Athough I think Kojiro could still be part of the group, he won't be able to help with any rituals.
Thanee
An Adept won't really be much help with ritual magic, anyways, I guess. wink.gif

Bye
Thanee
Seth
Adepts need groups as much as mages: Groups reduce your karma cost of initiation by a lot, but there is a cap on maximum level of initiation, based on the number of people in the group
Kim
QUOTE (Seth @ Mar 2 2011, 08:54 PM) *
I quite fancy the fraternity restriction. What about the rest of you?


Attendance, Belief, Deed, Dues, Exclusive Membership, Fraternity and Secrecy are all acceptable to me.
Edana
QUOTE (Seth @ Mar 2 2011, 01:54 PM) *
I don't think we decided on the strictures of the group.

I looked at streetmagic, and thought that we don't actually need any strictures unless we want them. I quite fancy the fraternity restriction. What about the rest of you?

While you don't specifically need strictures from a mechanics point of view, it'd be pretty hard to have a meaningful group without at least a couple that define how the group members interact.

QUOTE (Mickle5125 @ Mar 2 2011, 01:59 PM) *
swapped that out for:
Liar
Signature (specific TBD)

Thanks for doing that. I'm still working my way through sheets for skills smile.gif.

QUOTE (Thanee @ Mar 3 2011, 09:17 AM) *
An Adept won't really be much help with ritual magic, anyways, I guess. wink.gif

As Seth pointed out, the main reason for players to create their own magic group is for the cheaper initiations. I've mostly given it as a start option as a way to add a bond between player characters. A magic group benefits everyone in it, but also has a cost associated such that leaving over minor things isn't likely. (It's 5 karma, plus the investment in Arcana skill to join, and it's 1 karma to intentionally sever your connection to the group.)

In any case though, it's up to you guys as to whether you want to invest in a pre-formed group.
Seth
I think we form a group for two reasons:
1: If we don't it's probably the first 5 karma that we spend
2: It's a nice way to link us together

I suggest "Tiān Gōng's chosen". Tiān Gōng is "Heavenly Grandfather", a colloquialism for the Jade Emperor, often used affectionately by commoners. Its a little pretentious...but we are daoists (at least I think the Wuxing tradition is meant to be about daoism).

I propose Belief, Fraternity, Oath. The Oath is to follow the strictures of the group. The belief is Daoism.

I'd be happy with an alternative proposal


Edana
Everyone that hasn't already gotten a PM from me about knowledge skills and small clarifications should have one now. I probably won't be on much more this weekend, but if you send me a PM or email, I'll try to get back to it as soon as I can.

Beyond that, we should be good to go, and I'm planning on posting the IC thread on Monday. (Feel free to keep fleshing out the magic group, and if you have minor character tweaks, that's fine too, just let me know if you do end up changing something.)
phlapjack77
Fast Hong Kong internet

Maybe our commlinks could have a +1 to response / signal or something ? nyahnyah.gif
Thanee
Ok, that's really fast internet... biggrin.gif

Bye
Thanee
Edana
I almost wish I lived in HK with internet like that nyahnyah.gif.

Anyhow, OOC thread is up here. If you guys could put character sheets into the format that Thanee's post is in, and report them there, I'd appreciate it.

I should have the IC thread up in the near future.
Kim
I found that Friday 19 February 2072 is Chinese New Year, so now I'm wondering if I'm wrong or that it's meant to be one day before fireworks?
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