Character Creation

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The book is pretty sweet, lots of cool stuff in there. Balance is questionable, but the flavor is undeniable. :)

The apocalypse storyline sounds cool. But I think the details should remain unknown. Merkx and Greer know the other attempts to make the other horsemen are clouded in rumor and misinformation. This storyline will also be revealed at its own pace woven with other storylines.

I have been preparing the run for next week. I think the Thanksgiving timing of things might slow it down a bit for those in the states. So we can be patient. In the meantime fill in the contacts and/or post in your character sidestory forum.

Forgive my ignorance, but what is a sidestory? How does it relate to a backstory?

No ignorance. It is my own creation. It might be an opportunity for one to roleplay events that might happen during downtime. It might be a small write up of a character moment that you want to share with everyone that isn't part of the main thread. It can also be used for posting stuff about your character background.

So it is a newly contrived story space. Use it or not as you wish :)

Oh. More like character upkeep. Good to know. Can we also have some ground rules as players, a social contract or something?

JKL what are you thinking? Like no killing kids? No rape. Those would be my requests. Can't stomach those two things.

I'll have a character tomorrow.

Submitted my character. I'm quite new to the system so please tell me if I missed something.

I meant steering clear of HMHVV and putting bombs in other PC's head but a clear understanding of what's too dark or abominable is nice to have too.

jkl123's character Nail Thompson is approved. He is one strong fraggin' elf! Looking at many of the characters I see that we will need to make sure there is plenty of action! I am sure we can include much RP also.

Marithyme - AKA Wyvern - Decker (Young character with a beat cop brother)
Keleth - AKA (no name yet) Rigger (Young character, weak/sick)
Lkenage - AKA Greer - Face/Skillomancer (Old-ass man, think M from James Bond but retired)
Carlosg_81 - AKA Merkx - Dwarf Mystic Adept and hand to hand combat specialist (connected to Greer who got him out of The FAcitility
jkl123's - AKA Nail Thompson - Muscle

We are now awaiting out rigger :)

One thing I really want to encourage for this game is related to the Moofsalot's Character Chemistry post in the general forums. Character Chemistry

The more in character banter between characters the better. I encourage you to have a few things your characters like about each other and a few things that might annoy you. For example, you might want to tease Nail Thompson about his Stripper/Fixer/Dealer. Does he have a thing for her? Does he hit on her every time they meet and she gets annoyed and that gives you all a negotiation roll penalty?

Do you guys perhaps sometimes try to encourage Wyvern to abuse his sibling status with his beat cop brother? Is Greer the father figure of the group?

Of course this should not be decided now. It should come out in play. But be liberal in throwing out hooks.

Muahaha, grandpa Greer could be interesting. World's worst moral compass.

I'm not too familiar with what I should be doing for sidestory - do you happen to have examples?

From what I understand, a character upkeep is where you post all the changes that happens in your sheet as well as some fluff on what you trained, how you trained, some 'encounter rolls', as well as some fluff outside of meets, missions, and messes. They also count income and expenses over there but I suppose that's more because they need a static copy of stuff since only a few people record voice/video chat.


Just my two cents. SR has a lot of bookkeeping, which is why this is only my third crack at it.

Yes SR has a lot of bookkeeping. I personally am not too strict about it. But I think it can be fun if flavored with fluff.

Example: In my in person game I play weekly, my face/rigger upgraded his flesh arm to a cyber arm. Instead of playing it out in the group this was my write up:

The crunch:
Alphaware Synthetic full cyber arm
Essence . 8 20,000¥ alphaware cost x1.2 so 24,000¥
Agility rating 3 19,500¥
Strength rating 3 19,500¥
Large smuggling compartment 8,000¥
Move the fingertip compartment with the monofiliment whip to the cyberarm.
Subtotal 71,000¥

Bone density Rating 3
Essence .9 (alpha ware .72) 20,000¥ alphaware cost x1.2 so 24,000¥
Subtotal 24,000¥

Total 95,000¥

Story time:
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Silk is in his hotel room. He takes out his comm and looks at his bank credit. The account has more than he has ever owned in his life. He flips in AR and looks at a video of his little daughter Lily. Her little Ork tusks cute as they poke through her smile. She is almost a year older since he first decided to run the shadows. How much of her life has he missed?

He transfers fifteen grand to Tiger Jones’ account with a short text, "Put a down payment on a house for you and Lily. Things are looking up! "

Silk puts the comm down and looks at a mirror. He pulls off the mullet wig to reveal close cropped light brown hair. He takes out the brown contacts to reveal bright green eyes. Finally, he takes off the ear putty and fluffs his ears back to points. He coughs, trying to remember a voice he hasn’t used in a long time, "Hi my name is Colby Ives."

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Colby gets a taxi down to the Aztecnology owned Eve Medical Center. He has an appointment with a top cybersurgeon, named Salina Sanchez. M.D.C The waiting room displays the disturbing William Blake painting of Satan Exulting over Eve. In a display case a cyber arm moves with perfect fluidity, making grand sweeping gestures and short micro movements. An AR display talks about the Alpha and Beta grade work done by Dr. Sanchez and the research team at EMC. A long cosmetic commercial showing the quality of their patented EveSkin procedure shows how the synthskin has micropores that breath "just like real skin but better".

"Mr. Ives, the doctor will see you now." The bio-tatted up assistant announces. His eyes are pure chrome, an attempt to look retro that is just new enough to look wiz.

The office is brilliant white with translucent walls. Light seeping in from outside giving a warm comfortable glow.

Dr. Sanchez has grey hair and an exquisitely sculpted face; a walking advertisement for her products. She looks up from her AR display. Her eyes quickly focusing on the real world, "Bienvenido, come on in Mr. Ives. We are always excited to see one of our own come to our facility."

Colby smiles, "Hola Doctor Sanchez." Carefully rolling r’s and emphasising c’s and z’s not like an anglophone. It had been a while since he had spoken the language but it came back quickly.

"I already pulled up your chart. It says here you have a Speedo brand control rig integrated in your nervous system. The initial nano scans show significant scarring around nerve centres. Did you install this thing yourself with a hacksaw and glue?" Her condescension is barely covered by her attempt at a playful tone. Colby is reminded why he hates the Azzies.

She smiles at Colby, "Hmmm. So you want our UltraPlatinum package for…" she looks at her display again, "…bone density enhancements and our top of the line Executive Rugged Sport Arm. That would be with the EveSkin synth." Her face concentrates as she looks at the diagnostics. "The attachments to the rig are going to be a challenge."

Colby just shrugs.

"A real sportsman aren’t you? Racing?

"Something like that." Colby looks at her straight in the eyes. "When can we get started?"

"We can start the initial nano bathe in an hour. I have a surgery slot two hours later. That sound good?"

"Sí."

But this is just for those that have time/interest. Pregame if you want to post a background story, the side story forum is where you can post. But it is completely optional.

To keep this game from dying before it gets started I am going to launch on Friday morning Bangkok time. Keleth can join in when he is ready. That is the good thing abiut Shadowrun. It is very modular.

For everything else we will just figure it out in the game :)

Awesome! I'm working on an intro/sidestory. Just lacking in time this week to sit down and write.

Sounds good! I'm gonna get an intro/sidestory going too. Looking forward to the game.

Yeah I gotta change a few things on my sheet can't do that from work, must put the .pdfs on my dropbox.