Hey I'm Starting up a new game called Opening Night, I will be accepting characters for this through about next Friday, June 18th in America, but then again I'm extremely flexible about dates and such so if its after that you can likely send it in, or if it fills up before that I'll close it earlier, so its kinda first come first serve.

I do want all players to be able to post once per day plus. It kinda makes running the game much faster, and makes people much less likely to lose interest.

I'm up for any generation system other than BECKs, mainly cause I don't understand how it works. Priority, Sum to 10, Build points-(125), are all go by me.

I'm accepting all characters, standard generation rules, rating 6, availability 8, yada yada yada, I'm sure you all know the drill. However one note, I'm fairly new to this so you'll have to bear with me for poor Matrix runs. In other words deckers should be able to do something else, rig, go street sam, it doesn't matter to me, but Decking won't be real important, or involved in this one, although it might in future ones as i get to understand it, but in the mean time it might get real borring for you.

I'm go for shapeshifters and Otaku, (however people wanting to run Otaku will have to abide by my warning and know they may become very bored sitting around playing matrix games or the like in-game)

I'm, up for anything really. I would however like everyone to submit a background for the character, and not just he was in the military, got out, now wants money, something for me to work with.

This is hopefully on ging to be the first mission in a fairly long campaign, group members changing with almost every new run, as players become available, or unavailable, as the case may be.

You will all be making new characters, (or at least ones that have no Karma) for this, and they won't know each other from before, this is a new to the Shadows type of run.

I think that's all, yeah, E-Mail any characters you create, along with backgrounds to Paul_Harkonen@msn.com. Send them as text files, word documents, or .SR3 files, anything else noguaranteess i can open them or read them, yeah that's about all, I hope that you all will enjoy the run, and not scream at my lack of GMing skills too much.

I really like the name of this one (I have a soft spot for media-oriented aspects of the game), so I'm definitely going to be submitting something. Probably a magician of some sort simply because I forgot how much I enjoy playing them.

What sourcebooks do you have? Can we make SURGEd characters, or drakes, or have bioware?

Bioware's fine with me, Drakes and SURGE are more of a problem, I don't have the rule books for them unforchunately, but Characters that have light SURGE are fine so long as you can give me the basic effects of it, or just let me decide based on it, and how it would affect the game. No Drakes, sorry.

Quick Question: How do you feel about Raygun's firearms? I've developed a small crush on the FN Five-seveN as of late (mostly because it just looks sexy and oozes style) and I wanted to see if it would be okay to snag one in lieu of one of the standard sidearms in the game.

Fine by me providing you send me a link to the weapon or its stats on the character sheet, and by stats I mean the whole info part. As everyone can see I'm pretty flexable about most rules, just ask first and i'm likely to say yes, heck i'm likely to say yes anyway, but i'd likely ask you about it.

Hrmm... what kind of game concept do we have going on here? Will you allow custom firearms at character creation, or those found in alternative books? I'm thinking specialist/decker combo.

**edit** Oh, how many players are we looking at here?

Character sent.

Must... resist... urge... to submit...

Aw, hell, I might as well. Not like there isn't plenty of time.

Sweet. Can I play a mindless killing machine? I'm tired of playing guys with depth who aviod violence. I want to play a guy who's business is killing, and loves what he does. Maybe a sneaky elf with a monowhip and a love for blood.

Can you give us a little sneak peak at the plot so we have some idea as to what kind of character would fit in the game?

I'll write up an otaku who is good at other stuff too.

For Custom fire arms or those in other books, Yeah sure why not, just make sure to send me to stats for the gun, I'm looking at a team of like 6-7, fairly big team obviously. So far as specialist Decker goes, that's fine but don't expect a huge amount of Decking.

@Ecclesiastes: I'm kinda hoping to keep the main body of the run a secret, but its going to be a variation on your standard wetwork, so uh no Pacifists here, otherwise i will reject them just cause they can't in good concience accept the run, other than that more info once the game actually starts

@Bearclaw: Killing machine is fine with me just be careful some tact will be needed otherwise you're almost garunteed to end up dead or with Lonestar in some hole somewhere

@Panzergiest: Its your option but rember not going to be a whole lot of decking so the Otaku might get pretty boring, or pretty dead, either one.

Excellent. I've decided to go with a hardcore killer-criminal type for a change, so it seems like Fate intervened on this run.

If you're taking any kind of character I'll submit my silly magical-girl physad. Not the most powerful character ever made but I think she'll be very fun to play.

I'm gunna throw in with a combat caster of one form or another.

Another obvious question, what's your stance on cultured bioware?

I'll make a face character.

* deleted cause i lied in it, well actually changed my mind but whatever same thing

Err, even "cultured" (ie, neuralware) bioware that comes standard that way? Like a standard Sleep Regulator or whatnot?

Ah what the Heck, the stuff that comes "cultured" is ok by me, so long as the availability is low enough, and yeah i changed my mind, same thing for the regular stuff that you're getting as culutured, you can take it as long as the adjusted rating is under 8.

One last thing in case it matters for people who are going to be applying, I will be rolling all the dice in combat, makes life easier for everone, i'll post what I roll and what happens both as an OOC and IC post, but it just seems smother to do it that way. The only other thing is I'll be checking for what people are doing in the combat round in the OOC thread, so once you actually see combat, assuming you actually do, the IC post'll mostly just be me, other than that standard rolling procedure applies in the OOC thread.

to SUm it up simply in combat I roll the dice, out of Combat you do. simple enough

Will we be able to deside where our combat pool and whatnot goes? That can kinda complicate things a bit.

Also, since you are allowing custom guns for the bunnies, can I have a custom spell?

of course, the plan is to have people post their plan in the OOC forum over the course of like 24hrs or so, depending on how often the group can post consistantly, what they're going to do, combat poll actions, karma, so on and so forth, then I check it roll up everything including the goons and such at the same time, work out what happens and post it, prevents things like someone posts only at 12:00 eastern, goes first, and everyone else is sitting around waiting for that person for another long period of time, you still control the actions and all your pools, I'd just do everything at the same time to reduce lag time


or if everyone thinks I'm crazy we can go it the old fashioned way.

Custom spells are fine pending my aproval, in other words be reasonable, I'm pretty leniant but if its too far out there i might say no

the spell is an upgrade to Imp. Invisibility. I call it Ghost. It is multisense (rather than just visual) so that I can't be hear or smelled either.

Paul, if there is still room, I would be interested in this run. It sounds more up my ally. Hardcore criminals and all.

I have a gun adept named Pulse I would love to play. I made him as a lark to see if I could. I used 123 points, and all the standard rules. Though I think I would like to rework him a little for your game.

So I was talking to ROUS and are character concepts were a little to close together, so I am reworking my guy to be a.... different kind of adept.

I'll get him to you tonight or in the morning.

I'm not very experienced when it comes to roleplaying but I do have some decent writing skills (Would send samples but I just checked and have none due to my HD being formatted)

As far as characters go, I was thinking like, skill-monkey because I'm not a big fan on combat gurus.

What I'm wondering is should I bother? 6-7 people leaves room for a newbie, but if you want veterans I don't want to bother.

I'm rather longwinded so what's the background limit? Last time I tried SR here on DS I went nuts and wrote a 14 page background and only got about 2/3's done.

Still looking for more?

I'm definitely interested. I've sent you Valkyrie. She's kind of a change from my usual thoughful, diplomatic, semi-face guys. And I'm just as glad you're rolling the dice - the last combat sorcerer I did, I rolled very, very badly.

I'm thinking of a few characters. Let me know what you need, man.

I've got a rigger that I'd like to enter, he's mostly completed.

Is Rigger 3 stuff ok?

I'll email a draft copy of him to you when I'll at home tonight.

@Ecclesiastes: sounds fine to me, just make sure it has apropriate drain for it.

I'm definately still open, only recieved like 3 characters so far, I'm open for a few new players, you have to start sometime right, so far as a background limit, if you want to write up 14 pages have at it, I might not read it all before I select players, but will before we start, but a short summery would be nice as well.

Rigger 3 Is alright provided you send a stats list for the stuff you have.

@simonw2000: we still don't have a B&E so that might be nice, but other than that no real requirements.

Ok, I'll char up my old Physadept. Not a brilliant break and enterist, but not bad.

I'm still bouncing around. I'm right now looking at doing a mundane human with lighter cyber than I generally use and probably a sniper type role. I'd look at magic... but I think mundanes are the minority in this submittal pool, so far

That's the truth, the sniper would be a welcome addition for the game, also adding B&E to the sniper would make him a little more helpful, but Sniper sounds good.

PhysAd would be Alright, I have one But she's a little kooky so another more standard one would be useful.

@ Moon Spider, just cause she's funny i htink I'm going to let you play the one you sent in, but just watch out for the Geek the Mage type of rules, based on her dress.

Stealth is a necessary part of sniper, and he'll be high tech in a lot of ways. So he'll be a descent B&E artist, as well

the stealth part is kinda obvious, good, cause you guys are gonna need at least one.

Biiiig question. Breaking the avail rules for a sniper rifle okay? I might build by own as a custom weapon, but since there are no sniper rifles available with avail < 8, it seems cheesy to get around that with making your own. Or does that loophole sound fine?

You can take the ranger Arms provided you pay for it at an SI of 2.
I'm willing to let youtake that just so a sniper can function well.

Well, a sniper can function just fine with a sport rifle. I'll probably do a custom sport rifle instead of bothering with a Ranger, but maybe not. I'm not even a 1/4 of the way done with the background, much less assigning stats yet

Deadline's still the 18th, right?

yup, write now less than half the team i sent in.

Actually I suspect her dress will be a non-issue when she's yelling "Magical Amazing Beam of Happiness" (Or a similar phrase) before every spell. Definetly going to have to call on the Armor spell frequently.

the point is still pretty much the same.

Hell, I'll probably be tempted to put a bullet in her head if she says something that stupid in the middle of a run.

Depends... does she flirt a lot? Because that could save her...

Almost done with my face character. I don't know whether to have him hit on Sailor Moon or geek her.

My Specialist/Decker/B&E is almost done. I should have it done tonight or tomorrow.

On second thought I am afraid I have to bow out. I just can't pull the character together.

Have fun.

Got my face man sent in. In addition to being a face with great social skills and contacts, he also is good in combat, combat leadership, surveillance, and diving, and his skillwires allow him to do a bit of everything.