Cool. I can definitely afford one as well as having a master unit in my ride (decided to use a four-door variant 2047 Plymouth Prowler with a hard top as the inspiration if anyone's interested). Just seemed to fit him, yanno?

So that's four units plus your cybernetic one (is it going to have the encryption and whatnot, 'cause we'd be limited by the lowest rating). Only one other person would need to score one and we'd be set. Can anyone afford that or should we find the budget for one more?

I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to provide personal comm units for everyone, as long as everybody is happy with rating 3 (possibly 4). If you've got a master unit as well that's great.

My cyber comm system will definitely be encrypted to at least the same rating as my collection of personal units.

Groovy. Lemme know if you'll have the cash to get everyone one, and what rating you settle on as soon as you can. I'm kind of having to juggle things around with my last 25k¥, so it'll make a big difference.

I've not sorted my background fully yet, but my character is going to be (physically) pretty much like Kevin Spacey's 'Verbal' character from The Usual Suspects, (I promise I'm not Keyser Soze ).

He's lame (with quickness 1 or 2) so he's unstealthy, and not much use in a straight fight, but he's got the 'blandness' edge, and good surveillence gear.

He's also got good INT based combat skills (launch weapons / gunnery) so he should be able to provide useful support fire (depending on which gear he can afford).

Hey cool, I have no Gunnery skill at all (never had a need for it in his line of work), so once we start getting some experience under our belt, I'll see about installing a remote turrent in whatever our main vehicle ends up being and you can do that and/or handle electronic warfare and whatnot while I handle the maneuvering. Cool. Oz is also decent in a fight, though nothing to write home about (Rating 4 in Clubs and SMGs, and a total of 2D6 in Initiative), so he can do on-site stuff, too.

I've had quick play with NSRCG, and I can afford all my important gear plus five rating (4) TacComms.

So you can all leave the personal comm units to me, if I'm short of cash at the end I'll drop something else.

Fantastic.

If it helps any, I've purchased a Microtronics Shop and you're welcome to use it anytime you like. They're cheap enough that I'm sure you got one yourself, but if you ever need it, it's there. Same goes for a vehicle facility (that cost an arm and a leg -- oy) and everyone else.

Okay, guys, to help myself get everyone straight, I threw together a web page. My HTML sucks, but it should still serve the purpose.

Clicky.

It's got a LOT of holes at this point.

Nice, simple design. Good job. Do you want us to compile the info on there and send it to you, or are you just going to wait a bit before doing that?

Let's fill it in as quickly as possible. That way the holes become more obvious.

Oh, the "team skills" portion is for things like B/R and the like. Skills which can support the needs of the entire team for something. Bunny's current draft doesn't have any B/R skills, so it says None. I might add Pistols B/R to it later, though.

Not a problem. I'll probably come up with a better Personality description soon, but hoepfully this one will do for now.

Street Names: Lowrider, Oz
Archetype: Vehicle Rigger
Specialty: Driving and Customizing Vehicles
SIN: Legal (5R1X-4AQT-LM47; Oscar Rodriguez Chavez) [And yes, his initials are ORC... bite him)
Race: Dwarf (Hispanic/Black)
Age: 30
Personality: The personification of the Year of the Ox; a blend of an artist's edginess with the stereotypical grumpy and paternal reputation of his race
Team Skills: Cars B/R, Electronics, Chemistry (Industrial), Metalworking, Connected: Vehicles

The connections and background portions are still in development. Feel free to edit any of that to make it sound better or fit better on the screen.

I'd love to have used that hook Misfit... but Rex was gonna be the one who got his wish, an old man who wished for youth... and got it, twisted.

Found one!

Go with the SIN if you like. I went ahead and changed Oscar's just 'cause that would have been too much of a coincidence either way.

Nah, I like the new one better...

Old Dunk would know when a Pheonix Shaman was born, my mask would be cool, it would provide an OOC rationalization for the Sorcery and Conjuring skills, and have little to no game effects, because he obviously doesn't remember it.

I think I'll save the idea for another character anyway. Forgot about the birthday wish, too. Imagine how bitter you'd be if you missed it by one number on your SIN and one day for your birthday simultaneously.

Oh, by the way... Mercury is Galadriel reincarnated.

Who is Galadriel?

bah!

;)

<just begins weeping anew>

Updated Oz.

Who's up next?

Recommendation: Set the valign for the tables so that they're aligned at the top. Looks better that way when its forced to scroll.

Fiddled with it. Same link as before.

Ooh, that's much more clean.

nice, I dig that.

Two things which come to mind.

1) What's our target start date?

2) Who is going to be the leader? I don't think I've seen a clear choice yet, so let's hear opinions.

My vote's still for you (for OOC reasons) and Mercury (for IC reasons). If it comes down to a tie between the two of you, I'll throw my swing vote when that time comes.

Bah, I'm just fed up with foundering games My militance will wear off, eventually. Probably.

I for one wholeheartedly refuse to follow someone named Bunny.

<winks at TK>

<Bunny's eye twitches for different reasons>

We could call ourselves the Bunny Bunny Foo Foos. That'll strike fear into the hearts of our enemies to be sure.

Yeah. I vote once for every other character to be leader. That should settle the matter. <glares at Misfit>

<shakes his fist in the air>

Bunny's really not smart or charming enough to get a team to follow her, anyway. I will maintain my post as OOC cattle prodder, however.

So does anyone have any other nominations? If not, that's two for Mercury and one for everyone else at present.

My target start date is when you guys are ready. I would like to see character creation done by the end of the week. And then maybe we start then.

Cool.

That brings up something I've been meaning to ask but keep forgetting to. How much are we going to share with each other about our character's capabilities? If we've been really close friends for five years (and longer in some cases), I imagine we know each other's skills and quirks quite well. Maybe not all of each other's deep, dark secrets, but everything beyond that should be fair game, neh?

Bah, I don't think Bunny has any secrets worse than the obvious. I'm currently thinking about letting you guys see the whole character sheet if only because I'm so shaky on constructing a low point adept that I'd like a second opinion on a lot of stuff

I'm pretty much considering the same with Oz. There's only one part that's a secret, and I don't think even that's much of a secret so much as something no one's just ever openly talked about because it's pretty obvious. So yeah, I'm in the same boat.

I think it'll also help coordinate plans if the leader (and everyone else) knows what everyone else is capable of doing. No second-guessing or having to stop and ask in the middle of the action. We may not be a cohesive fighting force yet, but I think we'd know each other well enough that we can anticipate quite a bit.

I'm thinking that the entire team will pretty much know (almost) everything about Merc when I'm done--simply because if she hasn't told everyone IC, they've been able to deduce it for themselves.
She's a face, but she's not good at pretending emotions or covering them up among friends.

I'm going to be working on her tonight, so I'll have something to chip in for the page then, TK..

TKG,
Name - Rex
Archetype - Pheonix Shaman
Age - 16-18
Specialty - Magick!
SIN - Always

ANd anyone who bothers checking deep enough will know that Rex wasn't born in the Barrens. His mother was gunned down on the streets when he was 5 or 6 and no one had seen them around Oz's neighborhood before.

I juggled my Build Point allocations a bit and now have a pretty penny left over in cash. If anyone has any vehicles, feel free to get in touch with me in here or a PM or something and we can work out what kind of accessories Oz might have hooked you up with for free (ie, I'll be paying for them)... maybe even an inexpensive base vehicle like a bike or something, too. Onboard weapons are out since he doesn't really deal in that, but anything short of that is fair game.

And Raiko, I can definitely snag the Master Comm Unit now. Rating 4 is what you got for the personal ones, right?

I'm still only 1200 words into my background. At this rate I'll be done just in time for Friday... but I'm going to try to push some tonight and get you a draft soon. Ish.

I'd like to update that page with more info, so if anyone's got the time to fill me in... it'll make interconnecting so much easier

Got a BG from TKG, and it was VG on the PG side.

Hehe shaded of Good Morning Vietnam.

In english, I liked it a lot. This game is going to be a lot of fun.

Updated the summary page, thanks Raiko.

Unfortunately I'm starting work very early tomorrow so I can't get any more of my character done tonight.

I'll still be finished in time though.