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Well...... Here you go; a character of mine. Actually, two, since the first one is
dependent on color to get the full effect, and if you don't feel like going to the trouble of doing that, I'll present a (slightly) more traditional character. Or at least one less polychromatic.
[e]Oh, derp. I just saw the "one character per post" thing.
Well, damn. I'd rather see Zoé brought to life than Emily, but she'd be a stone-cold bitch to color, and without the color she's really just any other elf teenager. So...
Emily "Shades" Sansnom. (Yes, it's a pun on the French phrase
Race: Human
Skin: Caucasian
Gender: Female (Mostly)
Age: 81 (Physical age 17 thanks to recent Léonization.)
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 125 lbs
Build: Fit without being overly muscular, fairly large-chested with sleek curves.
Hair: Blonde, short, styled randomly.
Face: Hopefully quite attractive.
Eyes: Cybernetic, image-display types, typically vivid green human eyes with golden flecks in the pupils.
Visible Cyber: Jensen Shades - her eyes feature
snap-over amber (actually color-changing, but usually amber) shades (protective covers,) that are intentionally just like those worn by Adam Jensen in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. In her defense, she is old enough to play DXHR as a young woman, and after her most recent break with her old identity, decided to get something cool.
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She also has a penile implant, which will hopefully not be visible at all unless you choose to depict her nude, or in a skin-tight outfit.
NSFW Info.
Outfit: Several to choose from.☦ Your call.
Accessories: Several to choose from.✔ Again, your call.
Weapons: Several to choose from.✠ Yet again, your call.
☦Outfits at Emily's disposal.
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Standard outfitFor tooling around town doing the Private Eye thing or general wear, such as to a meeting with Mr. Johnson, someplace where formal wear isn't called for, but which is too nice to wear obvious armor. This combines a full-body set of FFBA with a long lined coat which is (again,) a replica of that worn by
Adam Jensen. The FFBA is covered by a set of perfectly ordinary silk shirt and heavy-duty cargo trousers, along with some practical, tough boots.
Full Frontal AssaultTake the full-body FFBA and add a no-holds-barred armor jacket which is obviously armor. Features pockets as well as loops, straps, and pouches, for holding useful things like space magazines, or white phosphorous grenades, and probably a strap-on pouch or satchel.
Means BusinessA Zoé Executive Suite Long Jacket ensemble, tailored to match the DXHR floral pattern on her lined jacket, this business outfit is matched to it, with a charcoal color pallete and bright, pop-out amber trim on the high collar, cuffs, and seams. The book describes it thusly:
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Zoé has changed this top-selling line to “define the style of the next century’s executive.” It features very smooth and simply designed clothes with few but carefully placed pockets and other accessories, like contrasting-colored cuffs and collars seamlessly attached to the clothing. The fabric appears stiff but offers high comfort even after a sixteen-hour workday.
Executive Suite clothes are available either as monocolored suits (with the previously mentioned contrasting accessories) or in specific complementary color pairs, carefully arranged to harmonize with each other.
Many Executive Suite ensembles are often tailored to emphasize their owners’ best features—for example, accentuating a slim waist or well-toned upper body.
PartyingA Vashon Island Steampunk corset ensemble, like the one Zoé (the other character) owns. Only Emily can actually fill a corset out. Hers is not matched to her Jensen Jacket, and features a Vashon Island Steampunk Overcoat instead.
A touch of class. But only a touch.A Zoé moonsilver cocktail dress with a shawl, this outfit is nothing but raw sex appeal; strapless and low-cut with a plunging neckline and back that plunges clear down past the navel to the top of her pelvis, it stays in place more thanks to a shitload of gecko adhesive material on the inside of the hem than anything else. It's come-get-some
red, with a quicksilver floral pattern, and terminates at the upper thigh. Add a set of wedge shoes short enough that you can actually run in them if need be, a matching belt with a pouch on one hip and a
Shiawase K-2072 in red, silver and gold (where the image is blue) on the other, and you're done.
(The open-carry "purse popper" is to distract from the Ares Predator IV in the purse-pouch. If they're lucky. If they're not, it's the Krime Stopper. And hey, stick 'n shock is S'n'S, whether it comes out of a sniper rifle or a purse popper.)
Arsenal page 47 describes the Moonsilver line thusly:
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This line of evening gowns combines silver and light-blue effects provided by the enticing Illumine self-lucent fabric in a way that not only looks staggering but also diverts attention away from the fact that the highly stress-resistant fabric and its accessories provide considerable impact protection. The line offers a wide variety of dresses for nearly all high-society occasions, from formal full-length evening gowns to more seductively tailored cocktail dresses.
Zoé also offers many accessories for this line, including sashes, scarves, and stoles to either harmonize with or offer an elegant contrast to the basic dresses.
✔ Accessories to work with. Grenades are accessories, right?
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Everybody needs a good car.
Emily's ride is a Rover 2068, as found in Arsenal page 109, in full G-Man High-Gloss Black paint scheme with windows that are, perhaps unsurprisingly, also opaque black. And bulletproof. It only has the two front bucket seats and the middle bench seat, though, because the back seat has been replaced with a cargo bed area. And a pop-up concealed GE Vindicator minigun turret. Because you never know when you'll get hired to do convoy duty for the kind of VIP where hosing down a city block with lead is acceptable collateral damage. (Or just when you need to ventilate an entire go-gang at once.) Furnished in tan fabric that repels all liquids, which is useful if you need to drive around someone who's bleeding from wounds. Or want to use that back bench for the obvious.
It also features an Extra Large Vehicle Sensor Array (probably a roll-bar type on the top-front,) with pretty much anything you can ask for.
Fake Commlinks.
Emily's real commlink is in her head. She has a CMT Clip for a burner 'link, and an Erika Elite which looks nice and high-class and is kind of crap, just for show.
Others
Other accessories include an optional gas mask, tool kit, respirator (R6,) mountains of ammunition, and 12 of pretty much every kind of grenade. Because you never know when some poor bastard you try to extract is going to start dying because someone triggered the nanite kill-swarm in his body and the best you can do for him is put a bullet in his brain-pan and give him a brief chemical funeral pyre to ensure those damn nannies don't get out.
She also owns a fedora that matches her Jensen Jacket, and (just like Zoé above, who lives in the same building as her,) her apartment is an exact replica of Adam Jensen's. (It was doss-shopping on the 'trix and seeing that place that gave her the idea to pimp out with the shades and the jacket and all.)
✠ Weapons. Because every Runner needs some guns, right?
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Sneaky MurdergunA
Krime Stopper whose grip has been replaced for something more appropriate to a human female's hand rather than a troll's, this Krime Stopper has been up-rated with the dreaded High-Power Chambering mod, a Smartlink, Skinlink, and a silencer. When you're only going to get two shots, you want those shots to sound as thunder, so it either fires massively-oversized Ex-Ex shells, or Shock Lock rounds, in case you need to breach a door in a hurry.
It hurts like a stone motherfucker to fire, though, which is why it's only used for close-in surprise assassinations of difficult targets, like trolls wearing body armor, or doors.
Ares Predator IVIf you're a Shadowruner and you don't own one of these, you're not a Shadowrunner, you're street meat. (Note that owning an Ares Predator IV does not automatically upgrade you from street meat to Shadowrunner, it's merely a prerequisite, like "legs" is a prerequisite for olympic 100m-dash gold medalist.) Emily's has been heavily customized with a personalized grip, a silenced, an extended clip, and an improved rangefinder. It typically lives in a quickdraw holster.
Long-Range DeathIf you don't have a sniper rifle, you ought to get one. And if you need a sniper rifle that can be good, and easily modified without breaking the bank, you can't beat an
Ares Desert Strike. A classic, turn-of-the-century-styled military sniper rifle, it's not what you want for taking down trolls or paracritters, but when you need to pick off lighter targets at very long range on a budget, it can't be beat. This one has been modified with an external smartgun system in place of the imaging scope, a bipiod under the barrel, a silencer, and a trigger removal.
Seattle TypewriterEmily has a twisted sense of humor and occasionally is given in to severe retro urges. (She owns fedora that matches her Jensen Jacket!)
This abominable snowman of a submachinegun started life as a
Shiawase Arms Tactical Model 71, which is already pretty damn expensive and augmented. It has, of course, been heavily modified: trigger removed, improved rangefinder, gas vent III, a sling, and a
one-hundred round drum magazine. It's the Chicago Way. Now in Seattle.
Anyway, I know I provide an overload of detail, but I remember the awesome sauce you did for my characters last time you came around, so... I hope you can bring one of these to life. (Or both. I wouldn't complain about both.)