First time in a long time that I've seen such a potential light-magic game.

excellent,
as the closure date is the 11/11 i will take my time and create him as best as I can

cheers

ghost

I have a magic character I can cook up for this. It won't take me long, either. I'll send it tonight.

If you're still taking apps, I have an albino ork full mage I been wanting to run for a while...

My dwarf street mage almost done, just finishing up his bio will be in tomorrow.

Here's a list of characters I've received so far:
Toptomcat with Tiny the Troll tank
Fix-it with Patch the combat medic
gobogen with Hector the former Johnson Face
Sparky with Archer the noir detective
Backgammon with the dog shaman Robin Hood
JaronK with WildCard the skillwire street sam

Submissions are all pretty competitive and anyone has a chance at getting in right now. This brings up a part of running a game that I've always rather loathed. Do you take the best sign-ups and end up with a team that you can only wonder why a Johnson would hire where the team has to be very inventive as to how they accomplish the goal or do you take the best team as a whole so that it's more likely you can get the job done, but at the loss of some interesting characters and players? So feel free to try and sway my opinion one way or another as of now.

It really depends on how you see the setting.

Are shadowrunners a dime a dozen or extremely rare? If they're common, then the Johnson (or more correctly, the Fixer the Johnson hires to find a good team) would only recruit those runners who had the reputation and skills to get his specific job done. If they're extremely rare, the Johnson would likely have to take whatever he could find and afford.

So, yeah, it really does depend on how you see the setting.

I think you should make an interesting team that a Johnson is likely to hire. If you spot a well written character that you like but doesn't fit, just ask the author to submit somehting else, with more detailed guidelines on what would work. Or just pick the ones that will work well for the setting you have in mind.

Taking a team of good players, but with characters that don't fit breaks the believability of things. I hate thinking "Why the frag did WE get hired to do this?".

I agree with backgammon. We need a team that fits together and works well as a whole, but I feel like it's no reason to change who you pick. Actually, with smart changes to the characters - changes that don't affect their overall background and feel - you can often get the team to be much more complete and efficient. A few changes of skill, spell and cyber hasn't ever killed anyone, and it's often easy to do. The players will have to change some bits of background, but generally not the whole idea they had of their character.

I just sent in my character. Hope you enjoy the entry.

Huh... I copied myself on my submission and, duh, it doesn't look like I sent the right stuff.

Did you get a background?

Still working on spider... 'bout a page and a half for rough background, a page for contacts, and more will of course cross my mind. Still have a good deal of nuyen to spend, and he's not going to need much in the way of gear. I'll probably buy a couple identities for him, and a couple homes.

Aswolf submited.

Uhm, no disrespect meant, but is that pronounced "Ass wolf"?

Hi,

character Ghost-in-the-machine submitted,

cheers everyone

'GhostITM

Well, it's time I started playing again. I'll have my character sheet in soon, just need to finishe the bio up, and I'll send it over.

*chuckle* nope Az wolf.

Uh-oh. You an Azzie?
KILL!

Hey hey,
not every azzie is a bad azzie...the good one's are hanging in the living room

GostITM

By a noose from the ceiling?

No, stuffed and mounted

I like the one hung from a tree in my backyard better. Less smell while watching the trid.

I met a nice Azzie once. he had an accident involving a minigrenade launcher, his forehead, and my hand. I told him to duck (in Japanese) but he wouldn't listen. At least the explosion killed the guards he brought with him.

Say, Hemlok, I wanted to make sure you'd recieved the background for Archer.

Everything make sense now? Well, as much sense as it's supposed to, I mean.

Sorry about the brief absence, my connection decided to die for several days.
GITM- Received
Taisho- Aswolf received
Sparky-Background received
Sabosect- Received

Anything else I need to address?

I'm completely losing it. Hemlok - did you get a sheet from me? Either an .xml or an .sr3?

Everything's good to go sparky, character sheet and background.

Btw, I'm retweaking my character (Patch)

I came back 3 days later, and kicked myself for doing some really stupid stuff.

Also deepening contacts and such, shold be in your box by tommorow.

My brain sucks... still need to buy things befitting a "newbie" runner, but with a flair for overspending...

Thanks, Hemlok.



Like what, DH?

Gold-plated pistols and the like, probably.

Oh man... I knew I forgot something.

Useless stuff:

Gemstone-studded Brass knuckles.
Plastic Explosives, but no detonators.
Hard Boiled eggs.

Nothing useless, but a tonne of clothing and the like. Although gem-studded brass knuckles do seem so very appealing, and no runner is complete without hard boiled eggs...

Should be done soon, on final gear buying phase... and sadly I am listing his entire wardrobe, or rather the key items.

So, now that they're all in (in theory) what's the list of folks who are playing?

JaronK

Hemlok's connection is probably on the fritz again.
Be patient, young grass-hoppa.

Fix-it is correct, but all is well now. There was something faulty with my modem so I got a new one and all is working fine. Decisions should be made within two hours and the subsequent OOC and IC within 3.

Accepted characters are...
DH with Spider
Fix-it with Patch
Sparky with Archer
Tashio with Aswolf
Sabosect with Boom Boom
JaronK with Wildcard

Damn.
Let me know if somebody leaves and you get an opening.