I haven't spent any money on the bar yet. All I am saying is that I have some money set aside to spend on it, once I know how much things will cost. I don't expect to pay the full 700,000 on it. If I have to, then I will, but I'd rather have some money left over for gear, contacts, etc...
Full Version: [Recruitment] Bug City
| QUOTE (nick012000) |
| Mallet, please tell me some of the money you spent on the bar was spen on SOTA defense systems. Like smart turrets around the perimeter. I think that you could represent your bar as a permanent lifestyle, possibly customized by the rules in the Sprawl Survival Guide. |
...except that he's a pacifist...
Guess I'll have to bring in the guns. Or at least the counter intrusion measures.
Cyber-ninja, Nine, coming soon - to a forum near you!
I'll read this string over a little more in depth tomorrow. Here is JJ as he stands now.
Concept: Mexican (not Azzie, 4th generation UCAS-Mexican thank you very much) kid from a blue colar neighborhood in Chi-town. Conjuring adept with a big posse of summoned friends, force 4-6 (7 friends in all)
He's concerned that a lot of his extended family are missing recently, and he doesn't want anything to happen to his mama, whom he loves dearly (just don't ask him to admit it out loud to her).
Hrer's the vitals:
Feel free to tweak me, I figure I could live near the bar/pub, and the basement appartment he has could be a fallback place. I can chip in spirits for astral security, etc. He's not very min/maxed except for inteligence and summoning/banishing.
Concept: Mexican (not Azzie, 4th generation UCAS-Mexican thank you very much) kid from a blue colar neighborhood in Chi-town. Conjuring adept with a big posse of summoned friends, force 4-6 (7 friends in all)
He's concerned that a lot of his extended family are missing recently, and he doesn't want anything to happen to his mama, whom he loves dearly (just don't ask him to admit it out loud to her).
Hrer's the vitals:
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Feel free to tweak me, I figure I could live near the bar/pub, and the basement appartment he has could be a fallback place. I can chip in spirits for astral security, etc. He's not very min/maxed except for inteligence and summoning/banishing.
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| Cyber-ninja, Nine, coming soon - to a forum near you! |
*the air explodes with the ecstatic cheering of fangirls*
Just a little side note. I actually did grow up in Chicago so....I am really looking forward to this. Since our old GM wouldn't even think of running a bug city campaign he hated the book.
Oh and gel packs.... where is the sense of style.... they just look bad and I dont want the extra chance of knockdown or my quickness and combat pool affected. Not to mention how many BIG guns the bugs really gunna have.....wait dont answer that
Oh and gel packs.... where is the sense of style.... they just look bad and I dont want the extra chance of knockdown or my quickness and combat pool affected. Not to mention how many BIG guns the bugs really gunna have.....wait dont answer that
| QUOTE (scoundrel @ May 23 2005, 09:47 PM) | ||
*the air explodes with the ecstatic cheering of fangirls* |
Hehee
Fanboys. Nine is a woman. Me too, for that matter. Just so's everyone knows.
Oh, I know. Although fangirldom is usually an honor (?) reserved for men, I submit that it is very possible for a woman to have fangirls.
Plus the joke sucks the other way around.
Plus the joke sucks the other way around.
lesbian fangirls? 
Hey, whatever, it's always nice to turn a head.
| QUOTE (nick012000) |
| lesbian fangirls? |
See, I believe that the smiley you were looking for was not this:
, but this: 
Okay, I should just shut up now. Carry on.
Reign: If you've got your ears on, can you list off a few seedier/more dangerous parts of Chicago? And some nice ones too? And where is jazz in the city (or is it all over)?
I've read up on Chicago a bit in the Shadowrun Wiki, but a native's perspective would be nice.
Thanks!
EDIT: Hey - I'm open to be good buddies with any of the characters in here - I've got an idea for hooks for anyone at all interested. PM.
I've read up on Chicago a bit in the Shadowrun Wiki, but a native's perspective would be nice.
Thanks!
EDIT: Hey - I'm open to be good buddies with any of the characters in here - I've got an idea for hooks for anyone at all interested. PM.
Ana Elise Thompson
"Nine" or "0b1001"
Infiltration expert extraordinaire
Background:
Sheet:
) and a few expensive knowsofts, and some better contacts and some more gear... Let me know how much to set aside for the Base.
"Nine" or "0b1001"
Infiltration expert extraordinaire
Background:
[ Spoiler ]
Sheet:
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Need to get Knowledge skills squared away (am probably going to take several languages - a matter of background and you can ID chip speakers a mile away ) and a few expensive knowsofts, and some better contacts and some more gear... Let me know how much to set aside for the Base.
Reign: You paid 2,000 to Dikiote then? If so, that's correct.
Scoundrel: Aptitude is allowed (as shown on ES_Sparky's character), but not for combat or magic type skills.
Gobogen: Ok.
Jrayjoker: I'll PM a proposition to you......
Note-1 to others: I'd recommend (from a min-max point of view) that you look into Muscle Aug/Toner instead of Muscle Replacement. More user friendly.
Note-2 to others: Careful with Used, I do indeed use Stress Points with Used Cyberware. And in games I run, which are ALOT more combat oriented than other games, I assure you, once you start having Stress, it only gets worse. To decide what your starting stress is, take the BASE Essence Cost of the cyber, and round UP to the nearest whole number, to a maximum of 3. That's your starting stress. Cyberware can never, in my games, be healed below 3 stress points, so even if it only starts with 1, it can't be repaired until it hits 4, and never repaired below 3.
Sphynx
Scoundrel: Aptitude is allowed (as shown on ES_Sparky's character), but not for combat or magic type skills.
Gobogen: Ok.
Jrayjoker: I'll PM a proposition to you......
Note-1 to others: I'd recommend (from a min-max point of view) that you look into Muscle Aug/Toner instead of Muscle Replacement. More user friendly.
Note-2 to others: Careful with Used, I do indeed use Stress Points with Used Cyberware. And in games I run, which are ALOT more combat oriented than other games, I assure you, once you start having Stress, it only gets worse. To decide what your starting stress is, take the BASE Essence Cost of the cyber, and round UP to the nearest whole number, to a maximum of 3. That's your starting stress. Cyberware can never, in my games, be healed below 3 stress points, so even if it only starts with 1, it can't be repaired until it hits 4, and never repaired below 3.
Sphynx
Character coming soon™! I just found out about the game, and haven't even had a chance to think about it yet. If you need it within the next 10 hours or so, then I'll probably have to bow out. Otherwise, you know I'll get one posted as soon as I can.
I paid for 500cm^2 for the Dikote, so I spent 5000 
dikoting my spurs.
No Aptitude on Combat Skills? Too late. I can edit it out, but won't be happy. Besides, given that the Edges that grant modifiers to all vehicle or social skills cost much less, I would think that Aptitude (which grants a modifier to any one skill) costs so much precisely because it can be applied to Combat and Magic skills.
dikoting my spurs.No Aptitude on Combat Skills? Too late. I can edit it out, but won't be happy. Besides, given that the Edges that grant modifiers to all vehicle or social skills cost much less, I would think that Aptitude (which grants a modifier to any one skill) costs so much precisely because it can be applied to Combat and Magic skills.
As per the description of Aptitude, GM is not allowing Combat or Magic skills with Aptitude, because it unbalances the game (something the description itself agrees with). Sorry I didn't notice your character had it earlier, I'll get time to do a serious run-down on all characters this evening and officially post any 'problems' as I see them.
Sphynx
Sphynx
I am in the process of reworking my character with regard to initiation at chargen. I will probably get JJ back in place and in working order ina few hours.
Thanks for the input.
Thanks for the input.
Ok, evaluation on a per-character basis.
Eric Graves
Gnat
Nick Hagvas
Mike Hennesy
John Jocke
Juan Jiminez
Anna Thompson
Sphynx
Eric Graves
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Gnat
[ Spoiler ]
Nick Hagvas
[ Spoiler ]
Mike Hennesy
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John Jocke
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Juan Jiminez
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Anna Thompson
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Sphynx
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| I'd put Gel Packs in it. At this stage, they don't cost anything (intead, they modify the Street Index and Availabilty |
Um they cost x5 the armor you put them on, according to the Cannon Companion p.53 that would be an extra 60,000 for the heavy security armor and an extra 1,000 for the helmet, and thats if the gm is nice and let you apply them before you fire resisted the armor.....
As for parts of Chicago... I don't know how big, or exactly where the containment zone is. Never got to even see the bug city book. Ill run down some of Chicagos bad streets and areas once we find out where exactly we are stuck. BUUT I will give you my 2 cents on the FASA fraggup that my old gm gave us. From down town Seattle to the outskirts of Pullyup is a 2 hour drive. Chicago to Milwaukee is only an hour and a half and he thought they should be one metroplex. Also Great Lakes Naval Base is just South of North Chicago(a suburb, there are 4 other towns between it and actual Chicago) about a 30 minute drive down side streets maybe 20 on the expressway depending on rush hour. It seemed to him that it wouldn't be Knight Errant and Ares setting up the zone it would be UCAS Marines and Navy with some token help from Ares. Also I don't if Bug City addresses it but the Chicago doesn't have a subway it has an Elevated train system (shortened by us natives as the "L") The L is about 3 or 4 stories off the ground in most places. And anything one block surrounding the track is "bad" no one wants to hear that thing go by. The L expands out rom its center "The Loop" a big square of tracks surrounding down town Chicago with the Chicago River on is North and West sides and Printers Row on its South, with millennium and Grant Parks on the East. Inside the Loop are Chicago's main government buildings (City hall, Daley Plaza, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago Main Post Office, to name a few).
Anyway as to Bad parts if you hear the L every 30 minutes all day long your in a bad part of Chicago. As for gangs Chicago is where the Vice Lords began... and the Latin Kings (also the El Ruiqens I think they might be 2 different latin gangs but I can't ever remember them fighting in the papers), and hell I think the G.D.'s (Gangsta Disciples) were a more violent sect of the Vice Lords that split off in the 70's. The California B&C (Bloods & Crypts) have never to this day got a hold in the city. In the early 90's they did successfully gain a toe hold in the Greens ( a Quad of 4 high rise tenements) but then Mayor Daley tore them all down and started a HUD housing project and really cleaned the area up. As for smaller gangs, if your not affiliated with one of the 3 major gangs your toast. Vice Lords are mostly West and North of Downtown, and world wide really as of 2005, Latin Kings and G.D.s South and South West side except for China Town. Colors Vice Lords- red "red or dead". G.D.s -blue "true blue" and the Latin Kings don't have colors that I know of. They are more the tear drop tatoo beneath the eye kinda people. As of this day if your a person of "ethnicity" you better not be wearing the wrong color. I'm sure in 2064 "ethnicity" would become Metanicity. But who knows.
Ok I'm gonna stop for now I've been ranting a bit here.
Sphynx
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Sphynx,
Here is the revised Eric Graves
Here is the revised Eric Graves
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Man, it's been so long since I made a "street sam" type character I forgot all about bioware! Didn't even cross my mind to buy it. Some changes are now being made to Mike Hennessey, not in style/personality, etc... just in augmentations.
I'll edit my sheet that I posted earlier with the changes when I am done, and post to let you know that it has been changed.
I'll edit my sheet that I posted earlier with the changes when I am done, and post to let you know that it has been changed.
Frater Inominatus
Just a thought you have no libraries spell, or conjuring and no conjuring materials..... But the charecter is definatley better I'll be more than happy to catch a few bullets and bugs for you.
Just a thought you have no libraries spell, or conjuring and no conjuring materials..... But the charecter is definatley better I'll be more than happy to catch a few bullets and bugs for you.
Thanks, I don't know how I over looked that...
Thanks for letting me in kind of late like this.
I'm working on my char sheet right now and a few questions are coming up:
Here's some background for now:
I'm working on my char sheet right now and a few questions are coming up:
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Here's some background for now:
[ Spoiler ]
The new, non-library challenged 
, Eric Graves is ready for inspection...
, Eric Graves is ready for inspection...
The Final Version.... I hope
Changes from first posted charecter are:
1. reduced ammo
2.addition of cyber choke to franchi spas 22
3.addition of alpha reflex trigger to wired reflexes II
Changes from first posted charecter are:
1. reduced ammo
2.addition of cyber choke to franchi spas 22
3.addition of alpha reflex trigger to wired reflexes II
[ Spoiler ]
Sphynx: Yeah, FFBA 3 is the full body version. I'll replace the allergy to orichalcum with a more mundane one - I didn't take into consideration that although I personally won't be using any weapon foci, someone else on the team might.
Edit: I just want to doublecheck with you: Singing is considered a knowledge skill, right?
Edit 2: You don't by any chance happen to house rule martial arts maneuvers, do you? I just finished reading over the section in CC, and the existing ruleset is pretty damn ridiculous.
Edit: I just want to doublecheck with you: Singing is considered a knowledge skill, right?
Edit 2: You don't by any chance happen to house rule martial arts maneuvers, do you? I just finished reading over the section in CC, and the existing ruleset is pretty damn ridiculous.
SOO I was just reading the little blurb in the SR3 core rule book.... Um is this really gonna start when the Ares team detonates a tactical nuke in the "biggest hive in north america"... causing the spirits to flood the city? And if so is there electricity in the containment zone? It says the blast was contained and not as damageing but are most of the buildings rubble now? JESUS maybe I should have bought hardened military armor... hindisght they say its 20/20.
in the "biggest hive in north america"... causing the spirits to flood the city? And if so is there electricity in the containment zone? It says the blast was contained and not as damageing but are most of the buildings rubble now? JESUS maybe I should have bought hardened military armor... hindisght they say its 20/20.
Well, technically we're talking about foresight. But yeah, we're frizagged.
I would like to humbly apologize and ask for your forgiveness. Work and Home life have conspired to reduce my availability for anything other than changing diapers to the last 3.5 seconds before I fall asleep.
I must, sadly, withdraw.
Again, I am humbly sorry.
J
I must, sadly, withdraw.
Again, I am humbly sorry.
J
Sorry to hear that, jrayjoker. Family first and all that. Keep an eye on us though, don't let us do anything stupid. 
Reign: HOLY SMOKES, you've got a potential really nice HQ too. Any chance Nick's shop is around the corner from Hennesy's pub?
Reign: HOLY SMOKES, you've got a potential really nice HQ too. Any chance Nick's shop is around the corner from Hennesy's pub?
| QUOTE (ES_Sparky) |
| Reign: HOLY SMOKES, you've got a potential really nice HQ too. Any chance Nick's shop is around the corner from Hennesy's pub? |
LOL yeah wouldn't that be swell like across the street or something.... I am hoping he makes our meeting up farely easy.... by the way your the first charecter I have ever seen with a tail....
| QUOTE (Reign Maker) | ||
LOL yeah wouldn't that be swell like across the street or something.... I am hoping he makes our meeting up farely easy.... by the way your the first charecter I have ever seen with a tail.... |
My street sam in my RL game's got a balance tail, along with some Kid Stealth legs, as well as some other signifigant cosmetic surgery.
Reign, does Nine have Cosmetic Modification eye and ear cyber?
Gobogen:
No Heavy Weapons (if you think something might be a heavy weapon, don't take it)
Job: As I told others on this thread, if you have a day job, make sure you pre-plan where your flaw points come from when that's no longer a flaw. (Ie: You need to keep flaws of an equal level)
Adept stuff: Character decides.
Scoundrel:
Singing is a Knowledge skill
I have no House Rules for Martial Arts
No Heavy Weapons (if you think something might be a heavy weapon, don't take it)
Job: As I told others on this thread, if you have a day job, make sure you pre-plan where your flaw points come from when that's no longer a flaw. (Ie: You need to keep flaws of an equal level)
Adept stuff: Character decides.
Scoundrel:
Singing is a Knowledge skill
I have no House Rules for Martial Arts
Nick012000,
She posted her charecter on page 3. But to quickly answer you has cyber eyes and ears, with no cosmetic mods on either. However she is an elf so her ears are already pointy and her eyes probably almond shaped. Enough like a cat to me. Not that we will see much of her in that fancy cloak of hers.
Pretty good charecter my only mods would have been a synthacardium and enhanced articulation with the daredevil edge.
She posted her charecter on page 3. But to quickly answer you has cyber eyes and ears, with no cosmetic mods on either. However she is an elf so her ears are already pointy and her eyes probably almond shaped. Enough like a cat to me. Not that we will see much of her in that fancy cloak of hers.
Pretty good charecter my only mods would have been a synthacardium and enhanced articulation with the daredevil edge.
Well answered Reign. Thanks. And I was thinking about the Synthcard too, but she's pretty much on the edge of body function as is... and I want to save some for the HQ!
Nick, Nine's not so much trying to resemble a cat in particular, but was nicknamed by others for embodying cat-ness. The tail helped.
for the HQ! Nick, Nine's not so much trying to resemble a cat in particular, but was nicknamed by others for embodying cat-ness. The tail helped.
After giving everyone's sheets a cursory scan, I think that someone with a wallet fatter than mine should think about investing in a Savior Advanced Medkit. Our team looks like it has every arena covered except Biotech.
For some inexplicable reason, I suspect that we're going to need some heavy duty healing capability once the game begins.
For some inexplicable reason, I suspect that we're going to need some heavy duty healing capability once the game begins.
Bah i think we just kidnap the first street doc we find... hell be more than happy to be with us once he realizes all the crap going down.
I have a Doc buddy... Anyone else?
I've got first aid at 3 and a stanard medkit.
(but I also have basic doc wagon service... although I don't think they will be responding once the wall goes up.)
(but I also have basic doc wagon service... although I don't think they will be responding once the wall goes up.)
Ana Elise Thomson
"Nine"
Background is getting tweaks, but the big pieces of it will remain.
"Nine"
[ Spoiler ]
Background is getting tweaks, but the big pieces of it will remain.
Hey, ES, I have a question. Maybe I have read the rules wrong, but why did you spend all the money, etc... on getting your INIT up to 5D6 when you have combat paralisis as a flaw? Doesn't that mean you will always go last no matter what you roll? So, why have 5D^ when it ends up being the sames as 1D6? Or am I reading the rules wrong?
No, it means she goes the first round on a 15, and the second round on between 15 and 40.
Cool idea.
Cool idea.
Combat Paralysis only happens the 1st turn. Important to remember, and she still goes twice as fast as most people do in that round, getting 2 actions automatically.
Ok, time to work on the 'fortress'. Looking at the stuff, I see all sorts of shops/facilities/cash spent towards it, could everyone do me a favor to save me from missing stuff? Post exactly what you've put into the fortress? If you put cash in, and want to spend that cash yourself, that's fine (Ie: Weapons, security, etc), but anything bought with this spare change 'stays' with the 'fortress'.
The facilities bought show what type of place it is (you can help choose). Maybe it's a corporate area with some shops and apartments, or maybe you've decided that a city block is your 'turf'. Or, maybe you live in an apartment complex surrounded by high walls, and a QuickShop is part of it, etc. So, post what you gave, and then post what you'd like to call your own here.
Sphynx
Ok, time to work on the 'fortress'. Looking at the stuff, I see all sorts of shops/facilities/cash spent towards it, could everyone do me a favor to save me from missing stuff? Post exactly what you've put into the fortress? If you put cash in, and want to spend that cash yourself, that's fine (Ie: Weapons, security, etc), but anything bought with this spare change 'stays' with the 'fortress'.
The facilities bought show what type of place it is (you can help choose). Maybe it's a corporate area with some shops and apartments, or maybe you've decided that a city block is your 'turf'. Or, maybe you live in an apartment complex surrounded by high walls, and a QuickShop is part of it, etc. So, post what you gave, and then post what you'd like to call your own here.
Sphynx
This is kinda what I had in mind when I payed for my facilities tell me if that sounds ok....
The Knight Errant Fast Response Team headquarters
3 Months high lifestyle
Weapons Facility
Vehicle Shop
Armor Shop
Ammunition Shop
Demolition Shop
This is a corporate compound for the Knight Errant Fast Response Teams, the bomb squads. Its 2 buildings one is the security facilities probably 4 stories where the shops are and maybe 1 or 2 holding cells, briefing rooms, weapons room, training gym, short and medium pistol range, helipad on the roof (no copter) and such. This Building is directly against the wall surrounding the compound and has a 3 car garage leading directly into the vehicle shop(no vehicles in there currently they were all "lost" in the initial attack on the hive) The other building is the Corporate Housing Facility a 8 story High life apartment complex for the Security personal and their families. This structure has the standard security features of high life maglocks and such and security cameras. The whole compound is souronded by a 10 meter plasticrete wall rimmed with razor wire 4 sentinel gun drones are also on a track on this wall but they are controlled remotely from a security rigger at the main police headquarters not from the sight these would be out of commission just like the security cameras ( no electronics or computers stuff to fix them or re wire them for manual controls on the site).
The Knight Errant Fast Response Team headquarters
3 Months high lifestyle
Weapons Facility
Vehicle Shop
Armor Shop
Ammunition Shop
Demolition Shop
This is a corporate compound for the Knight Errant Fast Response Teams, the bomb squads. Its 2 buildings one is the security facilities probably 4 stories where the shops are and maybe 1 or 2 holding cells, briefing rooms, weapons room, training gym, short and medium pistol range, helipad on the roof (no copter) and such. This Building is directly against the wall surrounding the compound and has a 3 car garage leading directly into the vehicle shop(no vehicles in there currently they were all "lost" in the initial attack on the hive) The other building is the Corporate Housing Facility a 8 story High life apartment complex for the Security personal and their families. This structure has the standard security features of high life maglocks and such and security cameras. The whole compound is souronded by a 10 meter plasticrete wall rimmed with razor wire 4 sentinel gun drones are also on a track on this wall but they are controlled remotely from a security rigger at the main police headquarters not from the sight these would be out of commission just like the security cameras ( no electronics or computers stuff to fix them or re wire them for manual controls on the site).
"ello. Late addation.
Meet Able Baker:
Full write up later. And pardon the proliferance of the spoiler tags.
Meet Able Baker:
[ Spoiler ]
Full write up later. And pardon the proliferance of the spoiler tags.
| QUOTE (Reign Maker @ May 26 2005, 02:56 PM) |
| This is kinda what I had in mind when I payed for my facilities tell me if that sounds ok.... The Knight Errant Fast Response Team headquarters 3 Months high lifestyle Weapons Facility Vehicle Shop Armor Shop Ammunition Shop Demolition Shop |
I've got 130,000 "left over" for the place.
Add an electronics shop and it sounds good to me.
I had in mind that my Hq would be the site of the physical response team the main command and control precinct would have had the computers and electronics and way more holding cells... so i didn't buy those shops.
I think that this "fortress" will be the conglomeration of our combined resources. I was offering an electronics shop as my contribution. It could be as simple as a truck, carrying enough electronic equipment to set up a shop, parked just outside your HQ when the quarantine hits (which we confiscate).
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