Dumpshock Forums > [Recruitment] Bug City

Sphynx

May 18 2005, 02:45 PM

Before you read ANY further, read the following line please....

To join this game you MUST be able and willing to post 5 days a week minimum, preferably Monday through Friday.

Anyone who was in my Earth's Dawn campaign has a free seat in this game if they want to play, assuming they can meet the above requirement (ES_Sparky is an exception, I understand her bad schedule and have guaranteed her a seat once she gets a chance to join).

First let me see an interest, if enough people are interested, I'll post the game requirements. If you haven't posted within 48 hours of this post, I'll assume you can't meet the 1 minimum requirement.

That being said, the game will take place in Chicago 2064, however this is an alternative reality where Bug Spirits aren't even heard of (no Bug Knowledge skills allowed). You'll start in Chicago, just after the city is quarantined, as the smell of anarchy begins to fill the streets and warlords begin taking over areas. You'll have a chance to start your own community, and protect it against bugs and human raiders who want your turf.

Histories should be written in a manner that shows how they ended up in Chicago, up to minutes before the Quanrantine, post-quarantine will be written by myself to insure a team-oriented feel to the game. Family is VERY important in this history write up, they'll be what keeps you fighting, what keeps you motivated, etc. So, no parentless-siblingless-wifeless type loners.

If sufficient interest is manifested for the game, I'll let you know in 48 hours. Feel free to start on a character if you like, I run my games at a starting 128 BP (Nice binaric number).

WARNING: Casting of spells tends to draw bug spirits out of turpor, for those of you that haven't read the books. Careful playing a magic user, or you could be a bug-magnet.

WARNING: Deckers may be bored to death in this game, you're off the world net.

My rules are simple for character creation.
1) No heavy weapons or stockpiling of ammunition.
1a) If you're not sure if a weapon is a 'heavy weapon', assume it is.
1b) If you're not sure if you have too much ammo, assume you do.
2) No armour-piercing anythings at all.
3) No Shapeshifters (You may play a Changeling however)

I don't pay attention to availability, or grade of cyber/bio, etc. Play what you want, only limitations is on the weapons.

NO HOUSE ITEMS. Rayguns is invalid, don't even go to that page.

Modifications of weapons is acceptable, as is modifications to vehicles and skillsofts. You may not, however create your own weapons or vehicles for this game.

There is no starting Karma, so no, you may not start initiated.

I'd recommend that you chip in extra cash for a 'starting place'. Buying it via a bought lifestyle and Facility will determine where you start in Chicago. The more cash you pump into your starting place, the more 'fortified' it will be (this is the only way to see Heavy Weapons at char-gen, it would be a part-of the starting base)

Please don't post any character sheets until after I see if there's enough interest. Please don't feel obligated to play diverse characters. If everyone is a Raven Shaman, so be it. I as the GM will work around the characters, just make sure you play something you like so much that you can't help but post the 5 times a week minimum.

Sphynx

Frater Inominatus

May 18 2005, 04:30 PM

Just posting my interest,
No problem with your guidlines,
Let me know if/when to submit a character...

HobbeGoblin

May 18 2005, 06:22 PM

Concept: Samurai or psyad who uses his Ares Predator as a club via his Arnis De Mano martial arts training as well as to shoot with.

Morgannah

May 18 2005, 06:54 PM

I'm interested as well but again, my availability is going to be limited until June. If that's chill, then great! If not I'll wait for the next bus.

Sphynx

May 18 2005, 09:04 PM

With Fortune, Lindt and ES, that's enough interest to continue. Anyone else that can meet the requirement is welcome to join. I won't be picking players from a list. If you post a character, you're in the game. When you fail to meet the minimum requirement, game over. I'm not a hard-stickler for it, I'll forgive easily a 4-day post in a week, but anyone averaging 2 posts a week can be guaranteed a quick character-death to keep the game fun for us more active posters.

Game will begin May 30th. May 23rd I stop the recruitment (and won't accept any newly posted characters), I'll assume anyone who can't make a character in 5 days doesn't have the time to play as regularly as the minimum requires.

May 23rd starts a [Story Setup] thread to get people in the mood, and in the scene, during that time I'll be working heavily with you to get characters fitted.

It will also be the beginning of min-maxxing (or perhaps, un-min-maxxing) your character with the GM.

Rules for Char Gen are in 1st post (reminder).

Please use the spoiler tags for sheets to make the thread readable.

Sphynx

Lindt

May 19 2005, 12:52 AM

Im thinking of playing an actual Shadowrunner that gets stuck in the DMZ when the walls go up.

So I take it this means Earths Dawn has officially gone the way of the Dodo?

Sphynx

May 19 2005, 07:32 AM

I think so Lindt, not enough interest showed in bringing it back up.

scoundrel

May 19 2005, 05:55 PM

Like Morgannah, I won't have a lot of time to post until June hits. I'll easily be able to put in five posts a week (a day?) after this month, but lemme know if you don't think that's going to work out.

I'll probably end up reworking and submitting Gnat, a character I put together for another game that I didn't get a chance to play in due to time constraints.

Whizbang

May 19 2005, 07:45 PM

Hmm...you still insisting on daily posting even if it's just a fancy way of saying your char is doing nothing?

Sphynx

May 19 2005, 08:05 PM

Game begins 2 days before June, if need be, I can wait til June 1st to start.

And yes Whizbang, even if it's just a creative doing-nothing post.

I don't often give people days where they can't find something to post though (You can read my old threads for my gaming style). If it seems like it would be a slow moment in the game, I tend to fast forward to the next exciting moment.

Sphynx

Sphynx

May 19 2005, 08:24 PM

Some quick clariffications on some PMs I got. The family should be INSIDE the city. The idea being that you have people you want to protect, thus making a more motivated character, not to have people you want to get to, which is the exact opposite and tends to go against the game concept of an inner-city plot.

Sphynx

Whizbang

May 19 2005, 08:26 PM

*recalls the last Bug City game you ran* Not much my char could do when she was barely consious...and I made it clear then that I hate making fluff posts... guess since our opinions vary, I might want to consider looking elsewhere... even though this does look like a fun game concept.

Sphynx

May 20 2005, 07:43 PM

Just a reminder, 3 days left until recruitment is over, get character posted by then.

Sphynx

Lindt

May 20 2005, 08:24 PM

Ill see what I can get tougther this weekend. I may flat drop out if I cant get a good charcter written, as Im rather tapped creativitly.

Also, I wouldent be able to start on the 30th. National Holiday and all, Ill be spending it on a beach drinking fruity things with little umbrellas in them.

Jrayjoker

May 20 2005, 08:35 PM

I'll try to get something posted on Monday. If I don't, then assume I am a no-go.

Family and no heavy weapons, check!

Are we limited in neighborhood of choice, or will you be moving us toward each other in game?

mallet

May 20 2005, 10:12 PM

Are we allowed to/should we be using the family as Dependant flaws? If so any min/max that these should be at?

mallet

May 21 2005, 01:36 AM

Ok here is my idea for a character:

Mike Hennessey, Dwarf Pub Owner, Ex-Aries military.

The following is a brief BG. I will keep expanding on to it as we get closer to game time.

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Mike Hennessey was born in Chicago to a hard working middle-class family. His father worked the steal on many of the giant corporate buildings that now dominate the Chicago skyline. When Mike was in his early teens his dad took on a permanent job with Aries megacorp as part of a team that built and repaired all of the Aries buildings in state.

Unfortunately just a few years later there was an accident at one of the work sites and Mike's father fell from one of the building to his death. Mike and the rest of his family were devastated by the loss. The insurance money paid out by Aries was good, but not nearly enough to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. Mike, the oldest of 3 children, had never taken school seriously and thus found himself struggling to find work and bring in money for his family.

It was an Aries trauma counselor who eventually pointed Mike in the direction of the Aries military. Due to his fathers work for the company (and in no small part his death while working for the company) Mike had no problem getting accepted into the organization and served to help through-out the years to come.

Mike took to military life like a fish to water. He excelled in combat training and when he put his mind to it he was capable of getting incredibly good marks in the courses and classes. Eventually he was accepted into officer training and did exceptionally well at it.

Over the years he saw a lot of action across the globe, especially in the Desert Wars where he made a name for himself and the small unit under his command. All the while sending home most of his paycheck every month to his mother and the rest of his family.

Over the years though, Mike slowly became disillusioned with military life, especially one spent working and killing for corporate profits. it was while serving in the South Pacific that he saw things that ended his career in the military. He and his team were serving as extra security at an Aries compound, because a small civil war had erupted in the surrounding area. Aries was strictly neutral in the fight and Mike had to sit back and watch as thousands of people were fighting and dying for a freedom and a cause they believed in. Meanwhile Mike was unable to do so much as offer them food, water or help the injured because it would not be profitable for Aries to get involved.

After the tour was over Mike had had enough and resigned from Aries. He moved back to Chicago and his family. Not sure what he was going to do now, but knowing he had had enough violence to last him a lifetime, he was shocked to find out that his mother had been taking some of the money that he had been sending home for all of these years and investing it for him. So he was quite shocked to discover that he had a small fortune to do with as he pleased.

What he pleased did not take long to figure out. Mike had always loved only two things in his life. His family and beer, and sometime it was hard to say which he loved more. He took his money and bought himself a small pub in his old neighborhood. It took quite a bit of work to get it up and running, but Mike didn't give up and with in a couple of years he had a decent place that was making money and was much loved by the neighborhood regulars.

It's a good place to drink and get a bite to eat. Live music most nights of the week and enough dark corners for the lovers and plotters of the area to meet and have a quiet drink. Sure the occasional suit comes in, most of the time they seem only interested in talking to Mike, but what that's about no one wants to ask. Even more rarely one of Mike's ex-soldier buddies shows up and on those nights everybody drinks for free. All in all it's a good, friendly place, In a good, friendly town. You should stop by sometime and have a drink...

Sound good? If so let me know or if anything needs changing let me know.

Thanks.

FlipShow

May 21 2005, 01:54 AM

Sounds good. I'd like to play a construction worker with his girlfriend on the outside. Their relationship was taking a real upswing with marriage on the horizon and then suddenly Val cannot leave his worksite. He will be sort of a normal guy if that's cool... never ran the shadows.

mallet

May 21 2005, 02:48 AM

A quick question:

where are the rules (which book) for building places/facilities like you mentioned in the first post? Is this just an extension of lifestyle? I've gone through my source books and have not seen anything like that, so I am assuming that it is not from a book I have.

So, could anyone let me know what the cost would be for a medium sized pub/bar?
and the general rules for this type of thing?

Thanks.

nick012000

May 21 2005, 03:45 AM

Any grade of cyber/bioware, huh?

I'm thinking a million nuyen sam, formerly an assassin of the Yamatetsu corporate family. He fled to the quarentine zone because he figured that the corp wouldn't pursue him there, and because that's where his ex-wife and his daughter lived. Unfortunately, the ex died shortly after the bugs began running amok, so now he has to protect his daughter while trying to hide from the corp he left, and bring home food for the table.

EDIT: Finished his character sheet. I'll post it if I'm accepted into the game.

Musashi Forever

May 21 2005, 04:41 AM

I would like to throw my het into this ring. I am considering crafting a street ganger dwarf who is a little wrong in the head. I would like to give him the mysterious cyberware flaw as an explanation for his partial insanity.

Sound ok Sphynx?

Sphynx

May 21 2005, 08:05 AM

Mallet: BG looks good to me.

Flipshow: That's cool, but with 128 BP, it'd be hard to make a 'normal guy'. However, I like the idea.

Mallet: The rules aren't in existance, I'm telling you as a group that I'll create a place and base it on the amount donated. I'll base the cost on those 2 factors (So basically, 100,000 to have a 'facility' and then divide the rest of the donation by the number of players to determine the 'lifestyle' of the complex, as well as its defensive and offensive capabilities [Ie: What the 'other' residence do to participate]. This is used INSTEAD of buying lifestyle, btw.)

Nick: All characters are accepted if/when they post their character sheet. You'll know you're accepted by having posted the character sheet.

Musashi: As long as he can be a 'team player', I'm ok with the idea.

Sphynx

Sphynx

May 21 2005, 08:05 AM

Sphynx

nick012000

May 21 2005, 10:41 AM

Save it as a .htm to view it properly.

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mallet

May 21 2005, 07:51 PM

Ok, well I am willing to donate some money to the cause. If people want to make my pub their home when sh-t goes down that would be cool. It's got a lot of food & beer

Could be defendable. Plus it's got extra rooms upstairs and a basement. Plenty of room.

Or maybe we could have a couple of places? My pub + someones apartment nearby or something like that? That way we always have a diferent place to fall back to if one of them gets over run.

I guess it really depends on how much money people have left over after character creation. I seem to have a hell of a lot left over right now. I could drop it to get more skill points, but if we need a place, i'll keep it to make the place good.

Anyways, let me know if this sounds good.

Frater Inominatus

May 21 2005, 11:30 PM

Background

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Eric walked past the reinforced concrete barricades and up the steps of the 343rd precinct where he freelanced for the bomb squad. Several officers standing at the doors nodded and said hello. Inside, the smell of two-hundred and fifty years of gun oil and floor polish permeated everything. The duty officer looked up from his paper and smiled. “Graves,” he said “what are you doing here? Not working I hope.” Graves smiled. “Not today Henry. I’m here to consult on that bomb Asa recovered at Enertech last week. Asa wanted me to see if I recognized the work. Maybe give ‘em some insight into the bomber.” Eric stood at the armored glass door and waited for Henry to buzz him in.
“So, Asa, what do we have?” Eric said as he walked into the EOD room. Asa looked up from a medium sized cardboard box sitting on a work bench. The tall African woman looked up from her seat. “This package was found in the control room. They called the PD who called us and we brought it here after it was disarmed. There are enough explosives in here to have leveled the building. Fortunately for us, he didn’t know his flux generator from his RF receiver.” she chuckled. “How is Stephanie?” Eric sat across from her and picked up a razor knife. “She is fine. Things are difficult right now, with my mother living with us now. She just couldn’t function on her own after dad died. She says its temporary but I don’t know.” He cut open the box and began disassembling the device. Asa pulled out manuals and inside of two hours they had the devise disassembled, mapped out and a profile written. Eric was wrapping up when his father-in-law poked his head in the room. “Hey, you guys done?” He said. Eric smiled. “Hi Mike, what’s up?” He walked into the hall and clapped his wife’s father on the back. “I wanted to talk to you. Free for lunch?” They walked out to the duty officer and Eric gave him the report. “Can you see that Lt. Lasenby gets this? Thanks.” They walked out of the precinct together and went to Eric’s car. They drove to Harry’s, a local pub and frequent haunt of police officers.
Mike sat there looking deeply into his beer. The moment stretched out uncomfortably, the only sounds were the laughter of two inebriated, off-duty officers and the Rangers game on the vid. “Mike, what’s up? You look like your cat died.” Eric said, trying to break the tension in the air. Mike looked up and smiled. “It’s nothing,” he started. “I just have a lot on my mind.” He swilled his beer around his glass. “Listen, I know you do side work.” Eric opened his mouth to protest his innocence but Mike held up a hand. “Before you start all of your denials, let me just say something. While I might not condone it, I can understand why you do. I know how much it costs to raise a family. Now, with your mother and all… Why don’t you just sell her house and be done with it? She isn’t going to go back there. Her husband had a massive heart attack in the living room for crying out loud!” Mike slammed his glass down, foam and beer sloshed out onto the table. He flicked his hand to the floor. Eric stared at him, this was not the stoic man who had taken three rounds in the vest and finished his shift. Eric leaned in, “Mike, what’s eating you?” Mike looked around conspiratorially. “Look, Eric, I can’t really say anything but,” he paused, like he had some secret he was dying to tell “you know that place you and Steph want to buy? How short are you, I mean really?” It was Eric’s turn to look into his beer. “I don’t know Mike. It’s a nice place but they are asking six million! I’ve got maybe forty-thousand. But it’s o.k. Mike. If we don’t get this one we’ll get another. It’s just a matter of time, we can be patient.” Mike shook his head. “No, you need to get out of here, get out of the city.” Mike blinked, startled at his own words. Eric looked on dumbly. This was more emotion than he had ever seen from his father-in-law. “Mike, what’s going on?” he said. Mike shook his head. “I can’t say. But you need to go, now.” Eric leaned in “What about you and Evelyn? What about G.G. and the rest of the family? Are you coming?” he looked around, Mike’s paranoia was rubbing off. Mike stood up, dropped some nuyen on the table and nodded toward the door. “Let’s get some air.” They walked outside and down the street. Mike was silent for a long time. Finally, he said “There’s something going on in Chicago, a disease or something, I don’t know. I just know they are going to quarantine the city.” Eric stopped in his tracks. “What!? They can’t do that. Can they?” Mike shook his head “They can and they are, which is why you have to take your family and go.” he said. “I can’t” Eric whispered “You ARE my family Mike. I can’t.” They walked awhile longer and watched as the military vehicles began rolling in…

Sheet

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scoundrel

May 22 2005, 05:03 PM

Gnat is done. It felt really weird making an alternate reality version of an existing character.

If my math is correct, I still have 4 build points left over, which I'll delay spending until I see what skills the team still needs after all is said and done.

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Sphynx

May 22 2005, 06:04 PM

Thanks for the well formatted easy to read sheet there scoundrel.

Reign Maker

May 23 2005, 02:38 PM

Background-

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Chi- Town Trid News at 11 live feed from inside the Containment zone...
"I'm Corporal Nick hagvas, Knight Errant Fast Response Team Bravo 43g2, badge number 5543FRT43"...(sounds of shotgun fire)...(heavy breathing, sounds of running foot steps)..."First, Kirstin lock the doors stay in the apartment, I'm coming to get you....well ... I would make this my last will and testament.. but everything I own and any one i would leave it too are stuck in this hell whole with me, so i guess im leaving this as my legacy on this planet if i don't make it out. Well im a 22 year old native of this fine city. Kirstin, thats my wife, and I got married just last April and now we are expecting triplets... yes were orcs you fragging policlub pigs.. (visuals kick on from his eye cams...its dark but the low light mods allow the viewers to see him loading shells into a shot gun, he seems to be in a warehouse or a basement) I met her when I was on the Ares Predators Urban Brawl Farm Team, yeah you avid brawl fans thought you remembered my name, should have gone pro but that drek headed ref called that BS penalty.. I mean come on they were using their medics as human shields I had to fire through him... it WAS a gel round how was I too know it would go through his eye right into his brain. So Ares of course transfered me to Knight Errant couldn't give up that investment of 'ware...hell im digressing. (sounds of buzzing)......(the camera is all jittery Nick is looking around the view changes to thermal... back to low light... a clicking sound as he closes his visor and pressurized hiss as he activates the chemseal..bleep bleep. ultrasound vision display goes up.. there are 2 waves of sound looks pretty cool coming from around a corner the waves seems to get more intense then a huge wasp comes around the corner..BOOM BOOM BOOM a burst from the Spas levels the thing) Any WAY I was born and raised here in the Chi moved back here with my wife were expecting a kid and NOW they sealed us off. Not sure how big this "Quarantine" zone is but my dad is in the Nursing home over on 35th and clark, thats were im heading now.(the visor lifts and camera goes back to lowlight) I hear radio chatter that up above, oh yeah im in the sewers, its chaos Anarchy all over the place I tried to raise the station but got to much interference so I don't know if any one is actually getting this..but I know my whole team is dead. They told us "use gel rounds" thank god im the point man and got a shotti i brought 20 of those useless pieces of drek with me but was smart enough to bring 40 buck shot rounds too. The rest of the guys well... it was like shooting b.b.s at an elephant. So much for yesterdays briefing on how it would be a standard patty wagon round up at the Univ......"

WERE SORRY WE ARE experiencing TECHNICAL difficulties....
(Picture cuts to an anchor man behind a news table) "This is BRAD GUMPEL and on behalf of Chi Town Trid News we wish our best to all those within the quarantine zone and we will keep you posted as to what those...Things were ( 3 men in Knight Errant Uniforms come into the camera) "Hey...Hey the public.... (END TRID SIGNAL)

Character

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20 Questions

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1.Nick is from Chicago and was raised most of his life there except for a brief stint of traveling with an amateur urban brawl team for Ares. Both his parents are orks he had 2 brothers.
2.Nick got married last year and his wife is expecting triplets. His mother is dead, died during a miscarriage 10 years ago, and his father is in a old folks home just down the block from Nicks apartment. His eldest brother (by 3 minutes) died 2 years ago in an auto accident and his youngest brother was hooked on BTL's and ran off 8 years ago. The family has not heard from him since but Nick thinks his mothers death lead him to the chips. Nicks Corporate package pays for his fathers health care.
3.Nick's family has been UCAS citizens and before that US citizens for as long as anyone in the family remembers. Being an Orc is the only sort of culture he has other than being a good corp security officer.
4. Nick is slightly taller than normal orcs and is definitely more muscular his hair is shaved off and he has stunning blue cybereyes. He has a ares corporate tattoo on his left shoulder and his badge number across both his forearms.
5.Nick wears jeans and urban brawl tshirts when off duty, but a full set of Heavy security armor with a helmet. Knight Errant Logos on the chest and back and his badge number on both shoulders.
6.Nick has no physical quirks aside from the forementioned tattoos and maybe some small scars that are all but disappearing on his fists.
7. Nick graduated from high school and could have gone to college on an urban brawl scholarship but signed on with Ares right out of highschool. After 2 years in the minors he ended up killing a medic on accident and was transferred to Knight Errant. He learned all his skills while working for Ares and its subsidarary.
8.Same as 7 except the chicago sewers and trog language he picked up as a youth playing in the streets.
9.All of Nicks goodies are compliments of Ares and Knight Errant, His high life style gave him a company car when he needed it other wise all his gear was given to or signed from the company.
10.Nick lives in a high lifestyle apartment in one of Knight Errants corp housing buildings its only 1 block from the precinct and 1 block the other way from his fathers nursing home (also a Ares subsidiary).
11. Stan Stuggi - Lvl 1 - Urban Brawl Fan, Stan went to high school with Nick and followed his urban brawl career, now they get together on the weekends at the local pub to catch a brawl and drink a few cold ones.
Carlos Ramirez- Lvl1- Weapons Dealer, Carlos is Knight Errants range master and taught Nick everything he knows about firearms. When Nick goes to the range Carlos is almost always by his side talking "shop" about firearms and the latest ares weapon tech.
12. None per say.. sure maybe some thug he busted wants to get him but those Ares servers are pretty tough and its hard to see who a guy is when hes wearing security armor.
13.He learned pretty early in Urban Brawl... GEEK THE MAGE FIRST... those same experiences showed him how helpful magic could be. To Nick its just a skill he doesn't have, not feared or loved.
14.Nick likes Urban Brawl and even his company.... little disturbed that they would seal him off but he'll buy their hype if he ever gets out...provided his wife lives he LOVES her like she Worships him. He doesn't like BTL's he feels he lost his little brother to them and when he gets the chance he likes to beat on BTL dealers in lock up, and heaven help the people on a BTL raid.
15.Nick has no problem with killing, in fact he kind of enjoys it. He feels like he is saving the taxpayers money by offing criminals. BTL's are of course a no-no, and he wouldn't take a bribe but then again he wouldn't turn in a fellow knight errant guy either unless he thought it could jeapordize his life but he would prefer they don't tell him.
16. Nick's Goal is to make lots of money while make the world a better place for him to raise a family... oh yeah and if he could just get another chance at the ARES PREDATORS Pro Bawl team well that would be nice.
17.No personal beliefs... If he was old enough he would have voted for Dunkelzan and he doesn't much like policlub members but he think the meta rights groups make good orcs like him look bad.
18. Nick is easy going at home or away from work but when that armor goes on he is a no nonsense Drek kicker.
19.He DOESN'T.. But why does he work for ARES, well they got him out of the mundane lower middle class his family came from, and he knows they invested a ton of money in his ware, so why not make both sides happy.
20.He isn't the thin blue line.. HE IS FAST RESPONSE TEAM...He saves fellow cops from the really really bad guys. He just feels so good at the end of the day when they bag the bad guys and the whole team makes it out.

Sorry in advance for the back ground, just saw toaday was the last day for charecters so kinda rushed it, hope the 20 questions answers it enough.

HeySparky

May 23 2005, 03:03 PM

Hey Sphynx! Poor, poor Slinky...

I'll cobble together a character, but as you'll recall it takes me a month of Sunday's to do that. If I have something worth posting before your deadline you'll see it. If not - please give my space to another, seen a bunch of cool concepts.

The concept is pretty awesome. And for you folks who get in, hang on to your butts. Sphynx runs an intense game.

Sphynx

May 23 2005, 03:24 PM

Time up. Only people accepted now are those that have a character posted in 24 hours, that have already shown an interest.

Characters thus far:

John Locke: Orcan Street Samarai with exceptional Strength and Body and moving at 9+5D6 in combat. Includes a smart link and a pair of Cyber Spurs that have been Dikoted (I need the character re-posted in a readable format please, and please include prices, so I know how much you paid for things like Dokoting of Cyberspurs please)

Nick Hagvas: Orcan Street Samurai with high Strength and Body and an Exceptional Quickness and moving at 13+3D6 in combat. Includes SmartLink and far too much ammo. (Gonna have to knock most of that out)

Eric Graves: Human Mage. I think we'll want to work a bit on this one. Force 2 Mana and Stun bolts can be blown off by most average joes, spirits aren't even going to notice them. I'm a bit afraid he's going to find alot of his spells useless. I'd actually recommend going Sorcerer or Elementalist and try to pump up the spell list some, maybe some exclusives or fetish oriented spells to save on spell points.

Nathaniel Trick: Human Adept/Face. Incredible skill with a pistol, but lacking a smartlink. Personal recommendation is to get a smartlink and some other minor cyber, and I will allow you to Geas it with the Exclusive Geas (your choice on what's exclusive). Just a recommendation, otherwise the least skilled guys with the SmartLinks will outperform.

(Working off-board with ES_Sparky, will share that character as we finish.

)

Again, minimal time left to post a character sheet if you've not done one yet. It doesn't have to be complete, just enough so we know where you're going, after all, we've a couple weeks to iron out the numbers.

Sphynx

Lindt

May 23 2005, 03:32 PM

Looks good guys, as ES said, hold on to your bungholes, Sphynx makes it a wild ride.

Sadly Im going to bow out, if I couldent find time to crunch some numbers this weekend, its not gonna happen.

Reign Maker

May 23 2005, 03:50 PM

Ok sir, Ill cut 100 ex explosive shot gun shells and the 40 gel shells.. saving me 1,120

um i guess ill take that as provisions at the house... were expecting triplets so diapers, cribs, formula, bottles toys and such. I know thats probabley included in a High lifestyle just we got extra from the baby shower.

Jrayjoker

May 23 2005, 03:56 PM

Sorry I didn't come in under the wire. Newborn twins and all. Somehow I am not surprised. Sad for me.

Sphynx

May 23 2005, 03:59 PM

Just post a character Jrayjoker.

mallet

May 23 2005, 06:53 PM

Hiya Sphynx, sorry, didn't know you wanted the character shhet right away. I though you wanted it after you chose who was going to play. I have it ready though and will post it this afternoon.

scoundrel

May 23 2005, 07:50 PM

Sphynx: In order to get enough money for a smartlink, I'll have to shave off 5 points and move up a resource category. Since smartlinks are so cheap and have such a low availability, I figured I'll just pick one up in game.

nick012000

May 23 2005, 09:04 PM

QUOTE (Sphynx)

Characters thus far:

John Locke: Orc Street Samarai with exceptional Strength and Body and moving at 9+5D6 in combat. Includes a smart link and a pair of Cyber Spurs that have been Dikoted (I need the character re-posted in a readable format please, and please include prices, so I know how much you paid for things like Dokoting of Cyberspurs please)

It is in a readable format. Just save it to your computer as a .htm file, and then open it with My Computer.

As for how much he paid for the dikoted spurs, it was the cost of the spurs + the cost of the dikote.

Sphynx

May 23 2005, 09:23 PM

It's not in a readable format. We use the forums to check up on characters, a readable format on-the-forum allows us to not cut and paste everytime someone makes a change (and makes for easier reading).

What is "the cost of the dikote"? Dikote is paid for per 100 cm2. That's about a 4x4 inch area. Curious to see how many square cm the spurs came to.

Sphynx

HeySparky

May 23 2005, 09:48 PM

On Metric - (correct me if I'm wrong, but) 100cm square is 1m square. 100mm square would be more like 4"x4".

On posting your PC stats - For those of you with only rough backgrounds and sheets who are thinking of bowing out - the next week or so, Sphynx will help you get stuff hammered into shape. He's a mechanics wiz, and will help anyone who needs it/asks for it. Just get em posted and we can start working our stuff together.

mallet - As long as your pub has a jazz night I'm in! Will post my PC soonish. Gotta cobble at least an outline of her BG together. I will have a significant chunk of cash to throw to the team HQ also.

I haven't read all the backgrounds - but what if we were all in mallet's character's pub when It All Went To Drek. ?? Thoughts?

Sphynx

May 23 2005, 10:03 PM

100cm square is 10x10 cm (roughly 4x4 inches), after all this is refined diamond, it wouldn't be that cheap by the square meter.

Sphynx

HeySparky

May 23 2005, 10:21 PM

100 square centimeters is 4"x4"

100 centimeters squared is 1m

Though I never made the distinction before.

Which is it in the books?

I'd say one application per set of claws would probably do the trick. Especially if you consider that the company making the claws probably gets a deal on Dikoting because of the bulk. Or, what passes for 'bulk' in the dikote business.

Reign Maker

May 23 2005, 10:27 PM

Maybe his spurs are single piercing blades, like 8 inches long and 2 wide .5 inches thick .... wouldn't it depend on the manufacture of the spurs and how much he filed them down to make them jagged and wicked looking

before he got them dikoteed.... I only ever worry about the cost of dikote for swords, armor, and vehicles. And I only paid 1,000 extra on each of my weapons so if i need to pay extra for the extendable baton I have spare cred just tell me how much.

mallet

May 23 2005, 10:36 PM

Ok, here is the sheet for Mike Hennessy:

[ Spoiler ]

Any questions just PM or post.

Thanks.

gobogen

May 23 2005, 11:01 PM

I hope I'm still in time. I've been reading the thread here but haven't posted yet. As for your prerequisite, I can easily post as often as required in your first post and others can attest on that. Is there room for one more character??

I was considering to play an ex shooting instructor for Lone Star. The kind of guy that has 12 different types of firearms behind glass doors in his home (his personnal collection), not counting all of his hunting, training and work arsenals. Basically a weapon specialist of sort. He would have a wife and a young daughter he wants to find back. Was thinking of making him an adept maybe (although probably with a smartlink II because it's so damn good).

Would that be okay ?

scoundrel

May 24 2005, 12:01 AM

QUOTE (mallet)

on hand: 718,500

mallet

May 24 2005, 12:56 AM

QUOTE (scoundrel)

QUOTE (mallet)

on hand: 718,500

Yah, I took the full million, but haven't spent that much of it yet. Waiting to see how much other stuff ends up costing before lowering that (or keeping it.)

scoundrel

May 24 2005, 01:25 AM

Sphynx, are you allowing Aptitude? I was working under the assumption that you're not, but if you are, I've just found out how to spend those four remaining build points.

Reign Maker

May 24 2005, 01:47 AM

JESUS!!! I hope that pub is my local neighborhood one!!!! Thats more cash then they put into redoing all the interior of club Penumbra in Seattle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nick012000

May 24 2005, 02:02 AM

Sphynx: I thought that I had posted the version of the sheet that had the gear list included, hence my smart alec remark when you asked me how much I spent on dikote.

I feel stupid now.

I'm posting from university at the moment, so I'll finish this up when I get home.

[ Spoiler ]

Oh, and Reign Maker: unless you're planning on putting a trenchcoat or something over that security armor, I'd put Gel Packs in it. At this stage, they don't cost anything (intead, they modify the Street Index and Availabilty, neither of which matter for us at the moment), and they make you armor into Hardened Armor.

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.