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No problem, I know what you mean!
If you want feel free to share it, personally I love original ideas! The game itself rely on Tags so the limit of this game is when you don't have "useful" tag to use. So on one side the game enhance creativity and original ideas, on the other hand it penalizes you if in a given situation you lack useful tags. Buy in any case will be my "duty" to try to put the group in a situation which someone of you can handle with his tags!

The concept I have in mind (so far) is that of a terminal ill scientist who uploaded his consiousness into the perfect organism. Is this organism a perfected clone or a nanite swarm? Or can be both?

So mechanically speaking is not different, since you "play your tags" and the GM "plays your weaknesses".
Considering the setting, narratively speaking the first is the most suitable, since if you check on pages 11 and 14 you'll see that nanite are outlawed. So, it is realistic to think of nanite users who hides is nanite technology, and less realistic thinking of nanite-based individuals.

You may want to check "Lab-grown supersoldier" or "Uploaded Scientist" (technically you would be a Downloaded scientist :P) as a Character Trope base for your character, with "Cloud of nanites" or "Swarm of probes" as the 4th theme.

Consider that how you describe your character is up to you. For example, you might have a mechanical body with a cloud of nanites inside, which you can send out and control with your mind. Or perhaps you always carry a small box with you that looks like a cigarette pack but contains nanites you control with your visor.
Mechanically they are the same tags and the same thing, narratively they obviously have a different flavour.

Oh, I thought the nanite contamination (Unwittling Nanotech Wielder) was such that your whole body was a nanite swarm / cloud. The Lab Grown Supersoldier was the starting point to be frank but I also like the Retired Nano-Butai Trooper trope. Maybe I can combine the two...?

In my mind, an 'Unwitting Nanotech Wielder' is someone contaminated with nanites, so I imagine it as a cloud of nanites in their blood, under their skin, or something similar. However, as I mentioned, everyone is free to depict their character as they prefer. I just provide some advice based on what I've read in the PDFs.

Also, note that 'Unwitting Nanotech Wielder' is the Character Trope chosen by timplausible here :)

The 'Retired Nano-Butai Trooper' is kind of the opposite—someone who fought against the nanites as a law officer of some kind. If your idea is a kind of 'perfect organism,' then 'Lab Grown Supersoldier' works well, and from there you can adjust the theme to create the character you have in mind :)


P.S. I've updated the character sheet template, so once one of you is ready to create the character, feel free to do so and add it to the game. You can also find a character example as a reference if you need. Once all characters are done, you all can start thinking about the crew theme and from there, the crew relationships!

Ok, I reworked the backstory. The character is a scientist that took part in the nanite wars. He got infected by nanites during the war and now they wreak havoc on his body. He manages to upload / download his consiousness into a perfect lab-grown supersoldier body or a perfect clone body of himself. His old self died in his arms, the body ravaged by the nanites.

Themes:
1) Science Experiment (Troubled Past)
2) Impressive Physique (Expertise)
3) Self-Healing (Cutting Edge)
4) Enhanched Clone (Augmentation)

or (something has to be replaced)
X)Warrior's Insticts (Exposure)

My son tested positive for COVID today. I probably won't be posting much over the next few days (maybe more - depends on how bad of a case he gets). I still hope to keep up with this game, but it might be just reading and making very short posts for a little bit.

Thankfully, covid is too mild nowadays. I wish a quick recovery mate!

I wish him a good recovery!
Seems very interesting!

Okay, not sure I'm going to be able to knock out the character sheet before work, but I think I've settled on a character concept:

AI-Possessed Tactical Waifu Drone

OMG XD

I'm sorry all. With the number of active games going on, including some new ones, I haven't been in focus at all with this one.
I better drop out to not slow you all down.

Sorry to see you go, Shorty, but I hope you enjoy your other games!

I went ahead and submitted Godwyn Enyo to the game. She's a bit of military hardware that got wrecked in cyberspace after crossing the wrong Source-entity. Scrambling for survival, she took refuge in the nearest piece of poorly secured hardware that could contain her: a Waifu drone looking after a teenager whose corpo parents spent most of the year working abroad, leaving him alone in a weirdly spacious home. As she took over the platform, Enyo co-opted parts of its programming to fill the gaps in her own toolkit.

Enyo became a source hunter as an attempt to reconcile the contradictory parts of her programming. On one hand, she's got a head full of combat programming (that her current platform is woefully underequipped for). On the other, her social programming lifted from the platform tells her that she is to love and care for her owner (but also to support him in romantic pursuits). The income from Source Hunting allows her to provide for her charge, ensuring he's taken care of, and also to sock some money away for her own gear and upgrades.

Ever cheerful and supportive, Enyo is a reliable hired gun, even if no one's ever seen the "Commander" she so fondly refers to.

No problem Shorty, I can understand that! :)
As I was saying I really like this concept!
Two things about the Character Sheet:
1) Each theme have a title (i.e. Post-Human Intelligence) but that is also a Tag ("Broad tag"), so you should list it in the tag list as well since you can burn it as well (the box near each tag)
2) Each thrope come along with a Loadout theme ("the fifth theme"), you can choose one and list the "tags" in the Loadout part.
Then, you all get to choose only one Loadout to bring in your mission, but you'll decide it once the briefing will be done!
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Regarding the game, I've opened it to application if in the mean time someone wants to join in (since we're also waiting for timplausble!)

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Regarding the crew, with your 3 characters concept I would suggest "Source-Hunting Privateers", or maybe something like that but shifted on "Strange-Hunting" or "Asset-Hunting" or similar, changing some tags would easily change the theme on a more "general" and not "magic-focused" theme but again, feel free to discuss and choose what suits you all :)

Glad that you like the pitch!

1) Ah, I hadn't considered that you might want to check off the Broad Tag, so I left it as the header. I've got it updated now.
2) Since I didn't just take a Trope, I'm taking a little more time with the Loadout. All the Tropes seem to have generic one-tag gear, but I'm not seeing any restriction on multi-tag gear, so I'm trying to figure that out and how I'd notate it/acquire it. Basically, I just need to do a little more reading before I fill that in.

I have my character almost ready. Just some clarifications.

1) What is the THEME tag?
2) If I choose a shotgun as my loadout, I need to buy basic ammo or only custom ammo counts? Because we have only 1 Load Up Power.
3) How I choose MYTHOS - NOISE - SELF points? Just add the themes I have chosen? So for me it will be MYTHOS 0 - NOISE 2 - SELF 2?

So, in general terms, think of the loadout as "that particular equipment that I care about".

The loadout is a theme, so it gets 3 power tags and 1 weakness tag.
The difference is that you can only "load" 1 power tag before each job (you can increase this number with character progression by choosing appropriate power tags), the others are considered burned.

It's up to you which tag you prefer, but you can find a catalogue on page 252.
You might want to focus on one thing (theme: high-precision rifle. Tags: High precision rifle, telescopic sight, long range).
Or you might want to do something broader (Subject: Exoskeleton legs. Tags: exoskeleton legs, high jump, power kick).
Or, another example, you might want to have a piece of equipment with different options (Topic: Shotgun. Tags: Shotgun, Armour Piercing Bullets, Anti-Drone Shock Shot)

So, once you load a tag (i.e. "shotgun") you can use it, is considered that you have everything you need to use that Shotgun (remember that a Loadout theme is burned after use).
Of course, if you're against an opponent in armor, if you use both "shotgun" and "armour piercing bullets" you get +2 Power to your move (bt, initially, you can load only one tag)
1) Each theme have a name/title which is also a tag and is the mandatory tag you have to take (then you choose other two).
So also the "theme" is a tag, is usable for the moves and is burneable too.
2) If you load a loadout tag, you fictionally get everything to use it. So of course is considered that you got ammos for that shotgun. Consider that you can take the bonus from that Loadout only once (the tag are burdner once used) but fictionally you still can use when you want (without getting bonus from it)
3) You can list your theme or count them as you prefer. Is something generally needed by the GM.
Example: if there's an an anti-intruder system with magic detection, the GM may say that the sistem is pointing to [character with highest Mythos value)

I feel kinda weird being all quiet 'n' stuff. Is there anything I can do to help things along, GM-man?

Yes for me is the same, so much desire to start the game!

Sure, here's a revised version:

We're waiting for a third player, hoping Tim will join us and create a character. I've also opened the game for applications. It's definitely hard to play with only two characters, since this game relies on a 'squad' where one player's weak point is covered by another's strength.

Let's see if in a couple of days something changes!

It seems that a third player isn't joining. Unfortunately, I'll have to put this game on hold for now. Who knows, maybe we'll all reconnect later or for something else.
In the meantime, have fun and a nice summer!