[OOC] Character Creation

Oh, man. I'm a Shaman. I have no idea what I'll spend 100k Nuyen on. Even with E Rank money, I have more than I need. Probably I'll spend it on pimping out my Shaman's Lodge thing >.>

You don't want the memberships? hahaha

For one seat aircrafts there's the Northrup Wasp Rotorcraft (Y 86,000) and the Artemis Industries Nightwing Fixed wing (Y 20,000). Both can be found on Core Rulebook I think. You need to have a garage for those too. Garage could be around (Y 500/day) so that's (Y 15000 per month) and let's just simplify that to (Y 80,000) and it can store your gear and rides with less risk of them getting stolen. If you ain't got a place to store em cause you can't carry them around, I'd say someone might steal it.

You will need the basics and the Intro Runner Pack costs 4000 NY or 2 Karma Points. The Pack includes:

After my Doc Wagon and bio/cyber's… I had less than the money really to spend on a helicopter. I would think my High standard building would have a suitable landing spot and pack away in my garage a I don't really have a car in it. Just my bike. I guess I can advance pay living standard... is the 20k in my bank account fine or should I just spend that down too in living standard?

Forgot to save that earlier so you could see my spend down.... saved it now.

Oh. If you approve my character then all can see my picture.

Hmmm do need to buy ammo for my gun and some grenades… always fun. But that probably isn't expensive.

Oh, I just realized your character lived in a suite so sure, he's got a garage and other stuff. And yea you can advance pay for your lifestyle. 100,000 for a year, 10,000 monthly. You get discount for paying for a whole year in advance sort of deal.

As for 20k on bank account I still have to insist on max 5000 starting NuYen sorry. 20,000 on bank is still NuYen. You can say that daddy forgot to send Carter money. That adds flavor to why Carter would want to work for Jasper like you're desperate for drugs but you ain't got money cause 'daddy forgot'. Something like that.

Well I have to admit Carter does love Daddies money. Lets him not have to work and have whatever he wants mostly. Daddy doesn't need that much money anyway. LOL... Lucky Carters Drugs are excessively cheap. He spends more on his clothing. Everyone that knows Carter. .he always good for having cash. Life of the party.

Don't have enough cash to do a year on HIGH living. .but I can do half a year I think for 60,000y. With the free cash now and empty my bank account that and the 10k already put there.. I should have 60ky. Need to get that ammo and grenades squirrelled way. and see how much has to go.. I have 5ky on the cred already.

Okay.. I have everything spend now and less than 5k on my credstick.

Can't save the street cred a "5" system will not save it. Bug. and can't save my Notary at "-1" either.. Bug

Roll 4D6 for Starting money

Computation:
(Remaining NuYen, Max 5000) + (4d6 x 100) = Starting Money

Well my credstick is my starting money left.. and it is 4615 NuYen.

I'm removing all my calculation stuff now.

Aight. Cool.

Not sure how they make my eyes (smarklink & sensor connect) to my gun, my bike & my Drone. Wireless? Is the Encephalon with wireless as it is basically connected to everything. That is of course assuming my gun, bike, and drone have wireless too. Well that is the only way I can figure it. Wireless just isn't covered well. Smiles. I do need to list the sensors on my drone now that I think about it. Gotta love that mosquito.

I just found out that spell calculation is bugged on Chummer so I'll have to do it manually which won't be great, but here we go I guess!

Datajacks are...

"They typically resemble a coin-sized dataport that is implanted either on the side of the head (typically in the temporal region of the skull, behind the ear or on the temple) or the back of the neck (just below the brainstem), although a datajack can be placed anywhere in the body."

Wireless is an option too. The only thing you need to watch out for are hackers.

Yeah wireless has it's disadvantages. So I can assume my Datajack has wireless. I put internal Smartgun system on my gun so it must also be wireless. As is my the sensors and such on my Harley. Obviously the drone is wireless since it doesn't come with a controller box. Okay now my Mosquito size Drone has 3 sensors on it at Rating 3. Such a cute little thing. Nice to keep on one's shoulder and such so you can use those dear sensors all the time. Although they don't have a lot of range. The sensors on the Harley are wireless... the Harley itself is not. So no wireless starting it for a faster get away or guiding it. It is nicely Chromed out.. :)

Ok should have my character finished by tomorrow. Made a female dwarf street samurai. I like how she's turning out so far. I went priority A with money and I still got 233k nuyen left over lol. Anything you'd recommend me buying?

Vehicles, a better Lifestyle, a building?
If you have the skill Etiquette (Corporate), a Commercial Business?
You can always use the money for Skill softs or you can get more cyber ware.

You ever get like most of the way through making a character, then realize that the character you've made is not appropriate for the game at all? Yeah that just happened. Hit the knowledge skills and was like "Wait crap this character doesn't work here."

I'll switch gears a bit. Still making a Shaman, just gonna make the Ork instead of the human with the cool image. The Ork fits rather well in Maximillian's Robin Hood thing, after all.

Either is fine with me. I don't mind if a character doesn't fit the group they work for.
For Shamans, related Philippine folk lore might help.

Engkanto - Mythical environmental spirits
Albularyo - Faith healers, Witch doctors.
Mangkukulam - Witches
Mambabarang - Hexers

I've named her "Diwa" because, according to the site I found, that means "Spirit" which I figured would be a good name for her. She was raised in a halfway house, which she continues to support with money from her runs and stopping by to hang out, provide some healing magic for the people there, etc. She keeps the exact details of what she does to herself. The people who run the place have likely figured it out, but plausible deniability and all that.

She's Bear Totem, too, so extra good at the healing. She'll be good support for the group, providing healing magic and some decent firepower. She doesn't have a lot of utility outside of that, though. She has like 11 spells, 6 of them are Healing, 4 are Combat, and 1 is Illusion (the Silence one).

No vehicle for her. She's Uneducated, so she wouldn't be able to drive one anyway. I think I've done everything I need to do for the base creation process. Getting her stuff transferred to the GP sheet now.

Nice. That word means a lot of things and 'spirit' is a close translation but 'ethos' I think is a closer translation.