I have a concept I'm working on. Sammie type, Mr. Badass insubordination guy. Beat the crap out of a superior officer, so he was given a choice, work with the team and play nice, or go to a deep dark hole and be forgotten.

@ Leo,

Yeah GD or Bio would be fine *cough*workwithateam*cough*.

@ DH,

He would be a shadowrunner right? Part of the concept is that Ares does not know aboutthe gate.

I can solve that one: Mr. Badass didn't get the option to A or B. He got shipped out to this "lame ass security job at a Seattle think tank."

The two guys incharge realized his potential and voila: he's tripping the light fantastic (as it were).

Thats a very good idea Kev.


Now lets just hope the first gate address isn't P3X 451.

That still doesn't make him an independent contractor.

You know, you guys are assuming that the planets you are going to will have a mana sphere that can support magic....

Okay, Panzer, I'll go you one further. To ensure that the higher ups don't find out about the party on the docks, they fire him/fake his death/etc... Whatever it takes to get him off the books. Ya dig?

My suggestion was just an off the cuff idea. I'm rather sure that DH can come up w/ his own ideas. I just thought mine up and thought it was clever.

Wasn't thinking, was I? Kev's idea works, and it does make him independant... the site directors arange to "fire" him, and set him up with a job, one they'll take a cut of...

Edit: Another idea did just come to mind... ex-con, no hope for a job, so his Parole Officer pimps him out as a 'runner...

A reminder,

Actually, I think that during the downtime, magic is still possible, but almost nobody "awakens," so people who awakened before the downtime began, or on another planet, can still cast magic. Of course, there are no power sites, and it might not be possible to summon spirits since the metaplanes might be unconnected to the gaiasphere, but on the plus side, almost no background counts either.

Errr... he has a good reputation for being an ex-con? *ponders* Need to totally revise concept then...

Good Reputation applies primarily with your Contacts and those people you come into regular contact with. Naturally, it wouldn't apply to anyone who considered you an "enemy" or who was otherwise hostile towards you (except maybe in the case of Interrogation and Intimidation Tests).

An Ex-Con can have a very good reputation in the Shadows. Afterall, everyone's a criminal there.

Just pointing that out.

I have always considered Good rep to meen that you are considered to be a pro. that fixers know when there dealing with you they don't get shot in the back. Johnsons know you will come through for them. etc etc.

You can be an ex-con and have a good rep, it was just the way you said it made your character sound like a skumbag.

Wouldn't going of world be a violation of your parol?

"Did you leave the city in the last 30 days?"

"Well, sorta..."

Err, that's what I just said. He's going to hope to discover how the mana cycle works by using the Stargate once the revelation is made. That's his initial motivation.

I'm pretty sure Heroin's parole officer would think he was just inside the building the stargate is in. Unless he mind probes, which is unlikely.

I'm almost ready to submit my tech wiz/mad scientist character. He even looks like a mad scientist. Just wait till I describe him in my first IC post...

This campaign is a dream come true. The mission consists mainly of looting as much as possible; it's heaven.

I would prefer it if characters were emailed to me, not pm'd. Please don't send me character concepts or ideas. I am not a judge, nor am I here to help you with your character. When you have a full, completed character, then email him to me.

I know a lot of games GM's like to be involved in the character creation process, I am not one of them. I know this sounds harsh but it's they way I like it. I don't even review characters until I am ready to decide who gets in the game and who doesn't.

I do appreciate everyones enthusiasm, I hope I can do it justice.

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kelvaris@dragonbaitstudio.com

Skarsky, we need to talk.

Hutch.

My character is on its way...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: explore the galaxy. Seek out alien civilizations. Plumb the mysteries of space-time. And steal all the high-tech loot that isn't nailed down.

Oy. I just remembered how much I hate making characters. This could take me a few days.

Shadow... my head hurts. Will send a sheet or two in when I wake up.

No problem, where not in a hurry.

Oh yes, time for some interstellar pillaging. Just imagine how much money we can make if we steal a starship and fly it back to earth!

It's not our job to pillage...

On a side note, we have a definative leader type? I'm thinking of re-tooling to an Ex-Forces merc, heavy on leadership and tactics...

Hey Shadow:
I noticed some people are talking about sending in multiple characters. Is that something you require? want? personal preference?

You can only play one character. However, if you have say two characters, and you would like to play either, I don't mind is you send them both in. Just remember to make it clear on your sheet who it is from.

We can always get this alien technology the old-fashioned way. Trade them some smallpox-infected blankets for some alien machinery. Or something like that.

Yeah, but you carry em'.

Who is John Fawkes?

This is a good time for me to remind people to put their DSF alias on the character sheets.

Characters received from

-Beast of Revolutions
-Tziluthi
-Whoever John Fawkes is.

Again no hurry. It will be at least two weks before the games starts, and I am not picking final characters until everyone has gotten me one.

I wonder if he's any relation to Guy Fox.

I thought John Fawks was the name of the character in SciFi Channel's "The Invisible Man" or whatever it was.

Maybe Panzer's looking to run for the NID?

I have two ideas, both of them are techie/decker-ish, since I doubt we'll see many of that sort here. One's a Snake sorcerer adept and one's a mundane, so I'm wondering how many magicians we're going to have, to know if that base is covered already.

I decided to scratch a magician character submission. I'm already playing too many of them and wanted to try something a little different (for me).

But regardless, Shadow said to just send in whatever you want to play. It doesn't matter if there's 99 magicians out of 100 submissions. Design what you want to play, and send it in. Don't be afraid to create something just because you've seen someone else mention a similiar concept.

Heh, the other thing that worries me is that my decker shaman can't really afford a deck.

I'm John Fawkes, and I used build points. Hey, since radio signals can travel through the gates, does that mean I can fire a Great Dragon missile through the gate, and continue to guide it once it reaches the other side?

I'm not sure if dragons need line of sight to launch or not. Gonna go check the cannon companion. By the way, anyone else think the Great Dragon sounds like it was named by the KKK?

@ Panzer, as long as it is not wire guided, yes.

I will post IC when the game starts, what they do, and don't know about the gate.

In all seriousness, Panzer and I are just kdding around. We aren't going to spend this whole campaign killing and looting indiscriminately. We just like the idea of a campaign based around what's essentially a variant on the "acquire the high-tech prototype" mission. And hey, a few aliens never hurt either.