EDIT: Here is Vrog's submission. I ended up going with a cleric instead of a rogue.
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John will follow his routine: Go to class, work on his "projects", go for a run, then get changed, grabs his digital camera and a burner phone, and head towards the gallery.
Fair enough. I figured I should check before assuming that it was the way of things. I know it's a shadowrun rule, I wonder if our GM just stole it from there (would make sense since he played/ran both).
GM: John will spend a small amount of time attending to his actual classwork and then do some quick research to find what someone his age who wants to blend in with a bunch of people who are interested in experimental art would wear, along with a list of topics for small talk.
does it have anything related to hacking? he asked hopefully.
Master of Games (but not puppets. Never Puppets):
GM: That's strange. I would think that someone running an exhibit would have more information than this. I wonder who is putting together the exhibit. I'll have to do some searching when I get home. Thinks John who then closes out his bootleg admin credentials and logs off his machine after modifying the logs to show that his student account was logged in the entire time. John will gather his things and head outside, then go get his things and go for a run to order his thoughts.
GM: John will log out and then log in as his created admin account and then begin attempting to breach their site security, specifically looking for a catalogue of the exibits. Once he has that he'll make a local copy of it, remove the logs from the machine and the servers, and then copy it to a thumb drive.
GM: I will send him a text that says Yes. Send me the info. then finish what I'm working on and do a basic web search for art shows going on tomorrow.
Or we'll all die horribly!
GM: I figure that the reason he had 1s in his social stats is that he did not have alot of time in witness protection making friends, since I imagine that he had to move around a few different times; Plus, he's (at least in my head) a math genius and people who are that level of gifted have problems with getting people to understand them or communicating effectively (it's why alot of kids with extremely high IQ are initially believed to be unintelligent). John is not quite that bad, but he still has trouble with making assumptions that he would be understood. As far as his streetwise goes, I took it to more represent his hanging out in "that" part of the internet. Also, he spent some time in the foster system, so he did have a chance to learn basic life lessons about the street. As for my defense, I thought I got that updated.. It's fixed now. I'll get all of my character background and aspiration stuff collated and added to my profile.
Far as I can tell, I am completely ready to go!
Okay, my profile is all set up now. Only changes I made are: switched Virtue from Fortitude to Meticulous, Added 2nd dot of Fleet-of-Foot, and added Specialties.
I'm fine with his virtue/vice. As far as his merits go, are there any related to computers that I'm not aware of? I just want to make sure that I'm (while not the absolute best) still extremely proficient.) If there are none, then I'll pick some specialties and probably take another dot in fleet of foot (since in his story that I am seeing in my head he was assigned a couple of agents to pose has his parents until he turned of age, and one of them was a former marine who made him run... a lot) when I get home tonight and I should be good to go at that point.
Ya, you would definitely have a place on my wall.
Here is a really rough draft of my character, built using the new world of darkness books. If anyone sees any glaring holes, let me know. Character build: Mental -Intelligence **** -Wits ** -Resolve ** Physical
Social
Skills:
Advantages:
Virtue: Fortitude Vice: Wrath Merits:
Equipment:
That's not a bad idea, assuming Russel was willing to hire an 18 year old kid with no references.
Unfortunately I don't have any real ways (yet) to tie in with the rest of your characters. None of you are computer science majors, and most of you are sophomores at least.
John is mental primary, and I'm leaning towards physical secondary.
I am excited to see where this game goes! John is only 18 and not from around here (as they say), so he would probably be the newest person investigating Ricky's diappearance. Depending on the other group members, he might be the most methodical one. GM questions: John got into hacking rather organically. As a gifted child, even before his parents abandoned him he was left alone alot, as they didn't really understand him and so he ending up spending alot of time alone on the internet. Natural curiousity, a photographic memory, and being a mathematical prodigy meant that he was already cracking software before it ever dawned on him that it might be illegal. By the time he considered it, he had already been left by his parents and put into the foster system. By the time of his arrest, he was angry at the world and didn't really care. While John is adept at breaching computer security, his specialty is reverse engineering the software that various sites used for security and then finding loopholes. The majority of his bartering currency comes from producing what he calls "Glitches" (a play on words of the idea of security patches) based on his knowledge of security code. While he is not a hacktivist in the traditional sense, many of his activities have been to right perceived wrongs. As far as his favorite conspiracy goes, John like the one that circulates periodically on the darkweb about the articles in the National Inquirer being actual news stories. He's pretty sure that it's just made up (and doesn't want to spoil the illusion by breaching their security and finding out), be he is entertained by the fact that Hillary Clinton might really have an alien love child.
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