Alright, Beta Runners, welcome to the team!
Your first assignment is to become a team. Discuss (in or out of character) how you all met and became a running team. The campaign starts in Seattle, and most of your backstories revolve around Seattle, but don't feel limited by that. If you all want to meet and start your running in Antarctica, as long as you all end up in Seattle at the same time, I don't care :)
Awesome!! Looking forward to playing. Rick is already in Seattle looking for work, so any call from a fixer of Mr. Johnson will get his attention...he is a bit short on money (down to his last months rent almost!!)
Same here. John is a bit broke, probably, not realizing it, bought some pricey software not thinking about his bills! Toys before bills you know? So he's browsing the matrix for any jobs he could do.
Salutations!
Chelsy grew up in Seattle's corporate environment until her early teens where she ended up moving to the streets.
I have her background as operating a small time business, RSC&I. This could be a focal point for a team to operate around.
Chelsy which nation or megacorp is your real SIN through?
Hey, sorry, but I've got to back out of this. It turns out I'm too busy :-(
Ok, sorry to hear that. I'll reopen recruitment to fill your spot.
Alright, it looks like, barring a complete dropping of the ball, we will have a Face joining our group played by psionichamster tomorrow. :)
So Chelsy would it make sense that, on occasion, you hire outside muscle to complete cases, and perhaps that is how you and Rick have met??
Adam's seen a lot during his tenure in the shadows.
A former UCAS intelligence operative, he was burned several years ago during a fairly shady "grey op."
Using his skills and natural charm, he now works for himself, trying to earn enough to settle down and finally get out of the game once and for all.
A minor player in the Seattle scene, Adam knows more people than know him, and can usually put you in touch with the right folks, for a price.
Less than stellar in a straight up fight, he tries to set the odds in his favor whenever possible.
Sounds doable Adrik.
Just seemed like a very organic way for all of us to know each other...having performed some work from time to time for the agency. That way we can kinda know one another, but still have our various secrets. And gives us a good starting point for the adventure (I hope!)
Sounds good, Rick. Makes a lot of sense.
Alias is all set.
Adam's ready whenever you are!
Can we say her SIN with Novatech was converted to Neonet?
As long as Chelsy worked for NeoNET at some point after the collapse of Novatech. :)
Thanks Adam, I'll have the gameplay thread up in a few hours. If everyone's satisfied with the connection between all the runners, that's great, but if not, you can continue to hammer it out while the game starts :)
Would anyone know or need to know a good hacker? Been in seattle for a year or two.
Well John, do you like getting paid to provide cold revenge? Then you probably worked with Chelsy.
Forgot my starting cash:
= 2800¥
Doesn't care about cold revenge...But if it pays well and not completely suicide, he'll hack for you. Also, not by books and in the RL shadowrun game we didn't do starting cash...How does one figure out starting cash? Sorry. :-/
Starting Cash is determined by finding your lifestyle on the Starting Money Table in the rulebook and rolling the appropriate number of dice and multiplying it by the multiplier given.
For every 100¥ you had left from BP Gear money, you can add +1 to the result, up to three times your dice pool worth of +1's. So Adam, you would roll 4d6+4, not 8d6.
Depends on the lifestyle.
Low : Roll 1d6, multiply by 10
Squatter: 2d6*20
Low: 3d6*50
Middle: 4d6*100
High: 4d6*500
Luxury: 4d6*1000
Any starting cash you had left over: 1d6/100, add to the dice you roll to gain starting cash.
Anyone around?
I am....waiting to find out what is happening...christmas might have something to do with the slowdown...
also already posted for entrance to the club
Digital Dragon? Are you here?
Moving on with the run, in any case.
I posted this on the other thread, since summoning came up, so I thought I'd post it here to just in case. For future reference, let's format spirit summoning like this, so you have all the requisite rolls and such.
You could use something similar to this for spellcasting too. It's just there are a lot of dice rolls involved for both that I need before I can do anything in response.
Maybe we want to look for a mage or hacker to recruit?
Two-manning might be a bit...difficult.
You might be right...what happened to everyone???
Dunno. Our hacker no-showed, and Chelsy has not been very vocal.
maybe it is just christmas....anyway, I think Rick is going to try and drop down by this gunman and KO him...but have to wait and see what the gm has to say....
Cool. I'm all about the KO, actually.
I would have zapped him with my shock glove if I was sure it would take him down in one hit.
I'll open recruitment back up to fill DD's spot, unless he posts ASAP. Sad to lose the only hacker between the two teams.
I mentioned to a buddy there may be a spot opening up.
He was playing Sh4m the elf hacker in my aborted game earlier.
Dunno if he will be around or not though.
Hey, I'm here. Sorry! Holidays are killing me.
No worries, glad to hear you're around.
Merry Christmas Eve, everyone!
Looking forward to this game. My RL shadowrun game came to an end this weekend. It was an awesome ending. :D
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Hope everyone had a nice New Year's!
I also hope we can get on the run and start tracking this chica down.
Are we still waiting on a new player or two?? Or are we good now that Digital Dragon is back??
Also hope you all had a very merry Christmas and happy New year!!!
I am not sure on the waiting aspect.
There are a couple of applicants, one rigger & one mage.
Either one would be a useful asset to the team, I feel.
It's up to CloakedInShadow, of course, though.
I'm going to add one of Bobson's mages to this team, if that's cool with everybody. I'll put a rigger (haven't decided which) into Alpha, so that will bump both teams up to 5, and fill a glaring hole in each team's arsenal :)
I'm going to add one of Bobson's mages to this team, if that's cool with everybody. I'll put a rigger (haven't decided which) into Alpha, so that will bump both teams up to 5, and fill a glaring hole in each team's roster :)
Sounds good to me
Yay, mage!
no worries here
Sorry I've not had a chance to post. I'm on day 2 of essentially 3 days of 12 hour shifts right now. I'll get the next part rolling soon :)
Could you guys vote on which mage you'd rather play with? I can't decide :)
Hellcat appears on first meeting to be a beautiful but haughty elf. While that's true, it masks the fact she's actually a mildly sadistic narcissist, who considers everyone else toys for her to play with. She's learned that she has to play nicely with at least some of her toys (the ones who keep her alive and earning money), but in learning that lesson she also picked up a reputation as dangerous to her own team. That rep has drastically cut into the number of runs she goes on, leaving her desperate for funds.
Still convinced that - between the illusions she spins from raw mana, the illusions she can spin from words, and the illusions she can just implant directly into people's minds - she can alter reality to suit her, Hellcat is looking for a new group which she can talk into taking her on.
Combat Role: Support, with summoning for versatility
Out-of-Combat Role: Face
LeJen is as strong as a fit human... which makes him pathetically weak for a dwarf. This has haunted him his entire life, and given him a determination to find some way to crush anyone who would try to use their superior strength against him. Inspired by old Japanese manga and anime about unlikely heroes gaining magical power, he set out to research some magic to transform him into someone more powerful.
Somewhere along the way, though, LeJen went a bit off the rails. He has been sustaining self-Levitate spells through his primary focus for so long that he's become addicted to the sensation of flight and the thrill of swooping down on unsuspecting people.
In combat, he's a highly-mobile flying whirlwind of flaming death. He basically lights his body on fire, swoops down into the middle of a clump of opponents, and lashes them with flaming monofilament whips. Once engaged in combat, he's really hard to pull out of it, which will probably be the death of him (if he doesn't burn out from focus addiction first). But until then, he's out to have the time of his life! He's usually in a good humor while fighting - laughing, playfully taunting his foes, and possibly singing drinking songs.
Combat Role: Melee, Astral combat
Out-of-Combat Role: Flying madman
I'd prefer the illusionist, personally.
Narcissist & sadist is less than prefered, but ill just think of her as a drow, I guess.
Thanks for your patience, everyone! I am going on what is turning out to be day 4 of 5 days of twelve hour shifts, and I'm exhausted. I got an unexpected hour break from work, though, so I was able to post today! :) Bobson will be joining us with Hellcat, his illusionist mage :)
I feel ya on the 12 hr shifts.
I've been doing that about 2 years now, and day 3 always kicks my butt even still.
I recommend high protein snacks, eating every 4 hrs or so, and staying well hydrated.
Avoid sugar, or you will be sad.
Loving the game so far, btw!