Character Concept: Emily is an investigative journalist looking for her next story.
Character Culture And Focus: Social > Spiller
Character Culture Contact Name: KitKat
Character Job: Freelance Writer / Vlogger who sells advertising on her videos
Culture Freebies:
From the book wrote:
AS A SOCIAL, you have no privacy, your life is a public event, and you have little in the way of real intimacy. You’re “friends” with hundreds, maybe thousands, of people. You’re friends with a handful of souls, if that. You serve a valuable purpose in today’s society, yeah, but no matter how many people find purpose or escape in your feeds, they’ll probably never really know the real you. It can be a great, fulfilling life, or it can be the loneliest thing ever. There’s really no in-between.
IF YOU’RE A SOCIAL…
Decide if you are a Spiller or a Thriller. Once you’ve done that:
• Go and grab ((Socials + Joe Public) * 100cr) worth of goods and gear necessary to live your best life. Clothes, climbing gear, a wing suit. Whatever you need to keep your followers happy. Remember: they’re here to see you.
• Socials are always-on, always in the Public Eye. Because of this, it’s very easy for them to get favors, but when they screw it up, they do so big time. All of your costs to gain Reputation are halved, as are your temporary reductions from Useful Actions. Unfortunately, all of your Aggressive Action penalties are doubled.
• Even if someone doesn’t know you, they might still “know” you. While generating your Beat Chart, whenever you gain a bonus to Reputation with a Crowd, you may reduce that bonus (by up to half) and put the remainder into another Crowd that you don’t already have a Reputation with. This cannot exceed your Socials Reputation.
• You’ve managed to lock down ten of KitKat’s private PERSONE chits. You can use these to get face time with her, or get a private, secured stream call with her. She usually replies within the hour, and is very happy to see you.
SPILLERS, like Kitkat, spend their days livestreaming on the go: constant streams of selfies, monologues, and vlogs, edited on-the-fly by smart-apps in their AR rigs. Spillers are almost never without at least a pair of drones, broadcasting everything they do from their best angle. Spillers usually have close (if not friendly) ties with Law Enforcement, thanks to all the Public Eye recording clauses built in to their livecasting software. When anyone has the option to sue you for missing out on your Terms and Conditions, it’s always best to be up to date on your contracts.
If you’re a Spiller…
KitKat is your best friend. Okay, maybe not really, but she’ll say she is. Once per week, when you tap her PERSONE chits, you can reduce one Aggressive Action penalty taken against your Culture by half.
Beat Chart and Binding Ties:
Avryl: Brings me good story leads for credit
Bart: Tried to do a feel good story on his recovery only to find out he really didn't want to be known.
Current Age 27
1a Born In MidTown…
Add +1 to your Conversation and -1 to your Leadership skills
Add +1 to your Joe Public Reputation
Subtract 150cr from your starting funds
1b In A MidTown Joe Public Work-A-Day World…
Add +1 to your Languages and Socialize skills
Add +1 to your Joe Public Reputation
Add a “+” to your Grace total
1c Chatty Little Kid…
You were a talker, and got really good at keeping your mouth going.
Add +1 to your Conversation skill
1d You’re On To Something…
There’s a discovery out there that you’re on the trail of – even if no one else believes
you. You’ve got the clues and the motivation, now you need the proof.
Add +1 to your Deduction and Surveillance skills, add a “+” to your Grace total
Age: 16
event 1 Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You had a crazy random happenstance meet-cute. It was nice.
event 3
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is an old childhood enemy come back around. (Grammar school bully?)
Age: 17
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You had a crazy random happenstance meet-cute. It was nice.
Age: 18
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You started out as professional rivals, but now you’re in good.
event 3
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 19
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 20
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re another member of your Culture.
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re an old flame, come back to help out.
event 3
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 21
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 22
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 23
event 1
Take The Good With The Bad – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 A
Learn A Skill, Earn Some Cash – Go to Beat Chart Step 4 A
+ You’ve done right by The Mob. What you did, maybe you don’t
want anyone to know. Maybe you do. Either way, you can reach
out to your contact in The Mob for a Moderately Useful Action
once per adventure, for only one mark on your Reputation
Track. You must pay the penalty back as normal. If you don’t
have any In with The Mob, you gain +1 with them, instead.
Age: 24
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is an old friend who can no longer stand you.
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 25
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re a former business associate.
Age: 26
event 1
Take The Good With The Bad – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 A
Learn A Skill, Earn Some Cash – Go to Beat Chart Step 4 A
+ You won Metro Lotto! You gain 2000 Credits and +1 to
your Joe Public Reputation.
Age: 27
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is someone you once worked for.
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 3
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re an old enemy, come ‘round to your side of things.
Grace Notes
3 negatives
12 positives
Attribute Lists:
Standard Heroes 55 Points, 6 is Average
Primary Attributes
SHOPPING!
Tops: 3 x 25cr = 75
Pants: 3 x 35cr = 105
Dresses: 2 x 15cr = 30
Underwear: 18 x 15cr = 270
Sock: 43 x 15cr = 645
Coat: 2 x 30cr = 60
Monthly MetroTrans Pass : 1 x 40cr = 40
Apartment – Private Hotel Studio Midtown: 4 x 950cr = 3800
Elite Data Plan: 1 x 200cr = 200
Platinum Eve 4: 1 x 750cr = 750
Tatical AR Pack Case: 1 x 100cr = 100
Kit Kat’s Close Personal Ears – Fox: 1 x 500cr = 500
Tech Spectacles : 1 x 200cr = 200
Design Suite: 1 x 250cr = 250
Office Suite: 1 x 150cr = 150
Office Suite
CabCo “Bell Ringer” Free
Gabby Gabby App Free/Premium
Hot2Go Dating Free/Premium
HuQQup Sex Finder Free
PERSOBoard Free/Premium
Ryde.IT App Free/Premium
Songbird Free/Premium
The Circuit Premium Only
Gabby Livestream Drone: 1 x 350cr = 350
CT Robot Observer: 1 x 675cr = 675
Liquid Screen: 5 x 100cr = 500
Locator Tile: 10 x 2cr = 20
Locator Card Add-On : 1 x 150cr = 150
Rugged Backpack: 1 x 72cr = 72
,
Total Spent 8942
Creds Left 1,508
Character History And Background:
Short version: Family: Boring, midtowner, but great great GREAT grand dad was a media and he's her hero. Long version coming soon.
What’s your name? Do you have a single name?
Many? Is your name a Job-Tag (Johnny Fifteen
Roger)? A Norm-Tag (John Fitzgerald Rogers)?
• What’s your gender? Male? Female? Neutral?
Fluid?
• What do you look like? Describe yourself.
• Do you have a family? Siblings? Parents? A Coterie
from a Corporate Creche facility?
• Let’s talk about your Culture. Are you a Bodycon?
An Outsider? Something different? Something
uniquely you (and a million other people)?
• What is your role within your Crowds? Within
your Culture?
• Who loves you, and who do you love?
• What are your top three motivations? What is,
for you, best in life?
• Do you have any prejudices? Do you hate
Crowds other than your own? Betas? People
named Joe?
• Is there a District or Districts you simply will not
set foot in? Why? What about them’s gotten under
your skin?
• Have you got religion? What is it? Do you buy
in to BeliefCorp’s Social Network, or are you a
Lion Cultist from the lower levels of Down Town?
Tantric Meditationist, or follower of the Prophet
Of Infinite Wub Wub?
• And before we forget, what’s your job?
Character Concept: Emily is an investigative journalist looking for her next story.
Character Culture And Focus: Social > Spiller
Character Culture Contact Name: KitKat
Character Job: Freelance Writer / Vlogger who sells advertising on her videos
Culture Freebies:
From the book wrote:
AS A SOCIAL, you have no privacy, your life is a public event, and you have little in the way of real intimacy. You’re “friends” with hundreds, maybe thousands, of people. You’re friends with a handful of souls, if that. You serve a valuable purpose in today’s society, yeah, but no matter how many people find purpose or escape in your feeds, they’ll probably never really know the real you. It can be a great, fulfilling life, or it can be the loneliest thing ever. There’s really no in-between.
IF YOU’RE A SOCIAL…
Decide if you are a Spiller or a Thriller. Once you’ve done that:
• Go and grab ((Socials + Joe Public) * 100cr) worth of goods and gear necessary to live your best life. Clothes, climbing gear, a wing suit. Whatever you need to keep your followers happy. Remember: they’re here to see you.
• Socials are always-on, always in the Public Eye. Because of this, it’s very easy for them to get favors, but when they screw it up, they do so big time. All of your costs to gain Reputation are halved, as are your temporary reductions from Useful Actions. Unfortunately, all of your Aggressive Action penalties are doubled.
• Even if someone doesn’t know you, they might still “know” you. While generating your Beat Chart, whenever you gain a bonus to Reputation with a Crowd, you may reduce that bonus (by up to half) and put the remainder into another Crowd that you don’t already have a Reputation with. This cannot exceed your Socials Reputation.
• You’ve managed to lock down ten of KitKat’s private PERSONE chits. You can use these to get face time with her, or get a private, secured stream call with her. She usually replies within the hour, and is very happy to see you.
SPILLERS, like Kitkat, spend their days livestreaming on the go: constant streams of selfies, monologues, and vlogs, edited on-the-fly by smart-apps in their AR rigs. Spillers are almost never without at least a pair of drones, broadcasting everything they do from their best angle. Spillers usually have close (if not friendly) ties with Law Enforcement, thanks to all the Public Eye recording clauses built in to their livecasting software. When anyone has the option to sue you for missing out on your Terms and Conditions, it’s always best to be up to date on your contracts.
If you’re a Spiller…
KitKat is your best friend. Okay, maybe not really, but she’ll say she is. Once per week, when you tap her PERSONE chits, you can reduce one Aggressive Action penalty taken against your Culture by half.
Beat Chart and Binding Ties:
Avryl: Brings me good story leads for credit
Bart: Tried to do a feel good story on his recovery only to find out he really didn't want to be known.
Current Age 27
1a Born In MidTown…
Add +1 to your Conversation and -1 to your Leadership skills
Add +1 to your Joe Public Reputation
Subtract 150cr from your starting funds
1b In A MidTown Joe Public Work-A-Day World…
Add +1 to your Languages and Socialize skills
Add +1 to your Joe Public Reputation
Add a “+” to your Grace total
1c Chatty Little Kid…
You were a talker, and got really good at keeping your mouth going.
Add +1 to your Conversation skill
1d You’re On To Something…
There’s a discovery out there that you’re on the trail of – even if no one else believes
you. You’ve got the clues and the motivation, now you need the proof.
Add +1 to your Deduction and Surveillance skills, add a “+” to your Grace total
Age: 16
event 1 Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You had a crazy random happenstance meet-cute. It was nice.
event 3
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is an old childhood enemy come back around. (Grammar school bully?)
Age: 17
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You had a crazy random happenstance meet-cute. It was nice.
Age: 18
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You started out as professional rivals, but now you’re in good.
event 3
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 19
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 20
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re another member of your Culture.
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re an old flame, come back to help out.
event 3
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 21
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 22
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 23
event 1
Take The Good With The Bad – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 A
Learn A Skill, Earn Some Cash – Go to Beat Chart Step 4 A
+ You’ve done right by The Mob. What you did, maybe you don’t
want anyone to know. Maybe you do. Either way, you can reach
out to your contact in The Mob for a Moderately Useful Action
once per adventure, for only one mark on your Reputation
Track. You must pay the penalty back as normal. If you don’t
have any In with The Mob, you gain +1 with them, instead.
Age: 24
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is an old friend who can no longer stand you.
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 25
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re a former business associate.
Age: 26
event 1
Take The Good With The Bad – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 A
Learn A Skill, Earn Some Cash – Go to Beat Chart Step 4 A
+ You won Metro Lotto! You gain 2000 Credits and +1 to
your Joe Public Reputation.
Age: 27
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is someone you once worked for.
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 3
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re an old enemy, come ‘round to your side of things.
Grace Notes
3 negatives
12 positives
Attribute Lists:
Standard Heroes 55 Points, 6 is Average
Primary Attributes
Subtract 150cr from your starting funds
+ You won Metro Lotto! You gain 2000 Credits
Character History And Background:
Short version: Family: Boring, midtowner, but great great GREAT grand dad was a media and he's her hero. Long version coming soon.
What’s your name? Do you have a single name?
Many? Is your name a Job-Tag (Johnny Fifteen
Roger)? A Norm-Tag (John Fitzgerald Rogers)?
• What’s your gender? Male? Female? Neutral?
Fluid?
• What do you look like? Describe yourself.
• Do you have a family? Siblings? Parents? A Coterie
from a Corporate Creche facility?
• Let’s talk about your Culture. Are you a Bodycon?
An Outsider? Something different? Something
uniquely you (and a million other people)?
• What is your role within your Crowds? Within
your Culture?
• Who loves you, and who do you love?
• What are your top three motivations? What is,
for you, best in life?
• Do you have any prejudices? Do you hate
Crowds other than your own? Betas? People
named Joe?
• Is there a District or Districts you simply will not
set foot in? Why? What about them’s gotten under
your skin?
• Have you got religion? What is it? Do you buy
in to BeliefCorp’s Social Network, or are you a
Lion Cultist from the lower levels of Down Town?
Tantric Meditationist, or follower of the Prophet
Of Infinite Wub Wub?
• And before we forget, what’s your job?
Character Concept: Emily is an investigative journalist looking for her next story.
Character Culture And Focus: Social > Spiller
Character Culture Contact Name: KitKat
Character Job: Freelance Writer / Vlogger who sells advertising on her videos
Culture Freebies:
From the book wrote:
AS A SOCIAL, you have no privacy, your life is a public event, and you have little in the way of real intimacy. You’re “friends” with hundreds, maybe thousands, of people. You’re friends with a handful of souls, if that. You serve a valuable purpose in today’s society, yeah, but no matter how many people find purpose or escape in your feeds, they’ll probably never really know the real you. It can be a great, fulfilling life, or it can be the loneliest thing ever. There’s really no in-between.
IF YOU’RE A SOCIAL…
Decide if you are a Spiller or a Thriller. Once you’ve done that:
• Go and grab ((Socials + Joe Public) * 100cr) worth of goods and gear necessary to live your best life. Clothes, climbing gear, a wing suit. Whatever you need to keep your followers happy. Remember: they’re here to see you.
• Socials are always-on, always in the Public Eye. Because of this, it’s very easy for them to get favors, but when they screw it up, they do so big time. All of your costs to gain Reputation are halved, as are your temporary reductions from Useful Actions. Unfortunately, all of your Aggressive Action penalties are doubled.
• Even if someone doesn’t know you, they might still “know” you. While generating your Beat Chart, whenever you gain a bonus to Reputation with a Crowd, you may reduce that bonus (by up to half) and put the remainder into another Crowd that you don’t already have a Reputation with. This cannot exceed your Socials Reputation.
• You’ve managed to lock down ten of KitKat’s private PERSONE chits. You can use these to get face time with her, or get a private, secured stream call with her. She usually replies within the hour, and is very happy to see you.
SPILLERS, like Kitkat, spend their days livestreaming on the go: constant streams of selfies, monologues, and vlogs, edited on-the-fly by smart-apps in their AR rigs. Spillers are almost never without at least a pair of drones, broadcasting everything they do from their best angle. Spillers usually have close (if not friendly) ties with Law Enforcement, thanks to all the Public Eye recording clauses built in to their livecasting software. When anyone has the option to sue you for missing out on your Terms and Conditions, it’s always best to be up to date on your contracts.
If you’re a Spiller…
KitKat is your best friend. Okay, maybe not really, but she’ll say she is. Once per week, when you tap her PERSONE chits, you can reduce one Aggressive Action penalty taken against your Culture by half.
Beat Chart and Binding Ties:
Avryl: Brings me good story leads for credit
Bart: Tried to do a feel good story on his recovery only to find out he really didn't want to be known.
Current Age 27
1a Born In MidTown…
Add +1 to your Conversation and -1 to your Leadership skills
Add +1 to your Joe Public Reputation
Subtract 150cr from your starting funds
1b In A MidTown Joe Public Work-A-Day World…
Add +1 to your Languages and Socialize skills
Add +1 to your Joe Public Reputation
Add a “+” to your Grace total
1c Chatty Little Kid…
You were a talker, and got really good at keeping your mouth going.
Add +1 to your Conversation skill
1d You’re On To Something…
There’s a discovery out there that you’re on the trail of – even if no one else believes
you. You’ve got the clues and the motivation, now you need the proof.
Add +1 to your Deduction and Surveillance skills, add a “+” to your Grace total
Age: 16
event 1 Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You had a crazy random happenstance meet-cute. It was nice.
event 3
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is an old childhood enemy come back around. (Grammar school bully?)
Age: 17
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You had a crazy random happenstance meet-cute. It was nice.
Age: 18
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You started out as professional rivals, but now you’re in good.
event 3
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 19
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 20
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re another member of your Culture.
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re an old flame, come back to help out.
event 3
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 21
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 22
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 23
event 1
Take The Good With The Bad – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 A
Learn A Skill, Earn Some Cash – Go to Beat Chart Step 4 A
+ You’ve done right by The Mob. What you did, maybe you don’t
want anyone to know. Maybe you do. Either way, you can reach
out to your contact in The Mob for a Moderately Useful Action
once per adventure, for only one mark on your Reputation
Track. You must pay the penalty back as normal. If you don’t
have any In with The Mob, you gain +1 with them, instead.
Age: 24
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is an old friend who can no longer stand you.
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 25
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re a former business associate.
Age: 26
event 1
Take The Good With The Bad – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 A
Learn A Skill, Earn Some Cash – Go to Beat Chart Step 4 A
+ You won Metro Lotto! You gain 2000 Credits and +1 to
your Joe Public Reputation.
Age: 27
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is someone you once worked for.
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 3
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re an old enemy, come ‘round to your side of things.
Grace Notes
3 negatives
12 positives
Attribute Lists:
Standard Heroes 55 Points, 6 is Average
Primary Attributes
Subtract 150cr from your starting funds
+ You won Metro Lotto! You gain 2000 Credits
Character History And Background:
Short version: Family: Boring, midtowner, but great great GREAT grand dad was a media and he's her hero. Long version coming soon.
What’s your name? Do you have a single name?
Many? Is your name a Job-Tag (Johnny Fifteen
Roger)? A Norm-Tag (John Fitzgerald Rogers)?
• What’s your gender? Male? Female? Neutral?
Fluid?
• What do you look like? Describe yourself.
• Do you have a family? Siblings? Parents? A Coterie
from a Corporate Creche facility?
• Let’s talk about your Culture. Are you a Bodycon?
An Outsider? Something different? Something
uniquely you (and a million other people)?
• What is your role within your Crowds? Within
your Culture?
• Who loves you, and who do you love?
• What are your top three motivations? What is,
for you, best in life?
• Do you have any prejudices? Do you hate
Crowds other than your own? Betas? People
named Joe?
• Is there a District or Districts you simply will not
set foot in? Why? What about them’s gotten under
your skin?
• Have you got religion? What is it? Do you buy
in to BeliefCorp’s Social Network, or are you a
Lion Cultist from the lower levels of Down Town?
Tantric Meditationist, or follower of the Prophet
Of Infinite Wub Wub?
• And before we forget, what’s your job?
Character Concept: Emily is an investigative journalist looking for her next story.
Character Culture And Focus: Social > Spiller
Character Culture Contact Name: KitKat
Character Job: Freelance Writer / Vlogger who sells advertising on her videos
Culture Freebies::
From the book wrote:
AS A SOCIAL, you have no privacy, your life is a public event, and you have little in the way of real intimacy. You’re “friends” with hundreds, maybe thousands, of people. You’re friends with a handful of souls, if that. You serve a valuable purpose in today’s society, yeah, but no matter how many people find purpose or escape in your feeds, they’ll probably never really know the real you. It can be a great, fulfilling life, or it can be the loneliest thing ever. There’s really no in-between.
IF YOU’RE A SOCIAL…
Decide if you are a Spiller or a Thriller. Once you’ve done that:
• Go and grab ((Socials + Joe Public) * 100cr) worth of goods and gear necessary to live your best life. Clothes, climbing gear, a wing suit. Whatever you need to keep your followers happy. Remember: they’re here to see you.
• Socials are always-on, always in the Public Eye. Because of this, it’s very easy for them to get favors, but when they screw it up, they do so big time. All of your costs to gain Reputation are halved, as are your temporary reductions from Useful Actions. Unfortunately, all of your Aggressive Action penalties are doubled.
• Even if someone doesn’t know you, they might still “know” you. While generating your Beat Chart, whenever you gain a bonus to Reputation with a Crowd, you may reduce that bonus (by up to half) and put the remainder into another Crowd that you don’t already have a Reputation with. This cannot exceed your Socials Reputation.
• You’ve managed to lock down ten of KitKat’s private PERSONE chits. You can use these to get face time with her, or get a private, secured stream call with her. She usually replies within the hour, and is very happy to see you.
SPILLERS, like Kitkat, spend their days livestreaming on the go: constant streams of selfies, monologues, and vlogs, edited on-the-fly by smart-apps in their AR rigs. Spillers are almost never without at least a pair of drones, broadcasting everything they do from their best angle. Spillers usually have close (if not friendly) ties with Law Enforcement, thanks to all the Public Eye recording clauses built in to their livecasting software. When anyone has the option to sue you for missing out on your Terms and Conditions, it’s always best to be up to date on your contracts.
If you’re a Spiller…
KitKat is your best friend. Okay, maybe not really, but she’ll say she is. Once per week, when you tap her PERSONE chits, you can reduce one Aggressive Action penalty taken against your Culture by half.
Beat Chart and Binding Ties::
Avryl: Brings me good story leads for credit
Bart: Tried to do a feel good story on his recovery only to find out he really didn't want to be known.
Current Age 27
1a Born In MidTown…
Add +1 to your Conversation and -1 to your Leadership skills
Add +1 to your Joe Public Reputation
Subtract 150cr from your starting funds
1b In A MidTown Joe Public Work-A-Day World…
Add +1 to your Languages and Socialize skills
Add +1 to your Joe Public Reputation
Add a “+” to your Grace total
1c Chatty Little Kid…
You were a talker, and got really good at keeping your mouth going.
Add +1 to your Conversation skill
1d You’re On To Something…
There’s a discovery out there that you’re on the trail of – even if no one else believes
you. You’ve got the clues and the motivation, now you need the proof.
Add +1 to your Deduction and Surveillance skills, add a “+” to your Grace total
Age: 16
event 1 Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You had a crazy random happenstance meet-cute. It was nice.
event 3
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is an old childhood enemy come back around. (Grammar school bully?)
Age: 17
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You had a crazy random happenstance meet-cute. It was nice.
Age: 18
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You started out as professional rivals, but now you’re in good.
event 3
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 19
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 20
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re another member of your Culture.
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re an old flame, come back to help out.
event 3
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 21
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 22
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 23
event 1
Take The Good With The Bad – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 A
Learn A Skill, Earn Some Cash – Go to Beat Chart Step 4 A
+ You’ve done right by The Mob. What you did, maybe you don’t
want anyone to know. Maybe you do. Either way, you can reach
out to your contact in The Mob for a Moderately Useful Action
once per adventure, for only one mark on your Reputation
Track. You must pay the penalty back as normal. If you don’t
have any In with The Mob, you gain +1 with them, instead.
Age: 24
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is an old friend who can no longer stand you.
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 25
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re a former business associate.
Age: 26
event 1
Take The Good With The Bad – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 A
Learn A Skill, Earn Some Cash – Go to Beat Chart Step 4 A
+ You won Metro Lotto! You gain 2000 Credits and +1 to
your Joe Public Reputation.
Age: 27
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is someone you once worked for.
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 3
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re an old enemy, come ‘round to your side of things.
Grace Notes
3 negatives
12 positives
Attribute Lists::
Standard Heroes 55 Points, 6 is Average
Primary Attributes
Subtract 150cr from your starting funds
+ You won Metro Lotto! You gain 2000 Credits
Character History And Background::
Short version: Family: Boring, midtowner, but great great GREAT grand dad was a media and he's her hero. Long version coming soon.
What’s your name? Do you have a single name?
Many? Is your name a Job-Tag (Johnny Fifteen
Roger)? A Norm-Tag (John Fitzgerald Rogers)?
• What’s your gender? Male? Female? Neutral?
Fluid?
• What do you look like? Describe yourself.
• Do you have a family? Siblings? Parents? A Coterie
from a Corporate Creche facility?
• Let’s talk about your Culture. Are you a Bodycon?
An Outsider? Something different? Something
uniquely you (and a million other people)?
• What is your role within your Crowds? Within
your Culture?
• Who loves you, and who do you love?
• What are your top three motivations? What is,
for you, best in life?
• Do you have any prejudices? Do you hate
Crowds other than your own? Betas? People
named Joe?
• Is there a District or Districts you simply will not
set foot in? Why? What about them’s gotten under
your skin?
• Have you got religion? What is it? Do you buy
in to BeliefCorp’s Social Network, or are you a
Lion Cultist from the lower levels of Down Town?
Tantric Meditationist, or follower of the Prophet
Of Infinite Wub Wub?
• And before we forget, what’s your job?
Character Concept: Emily is an investigative journalist looking for her next story.
Character Culture And Focus: Social > Spiller
Character Culture Contact Name: KitKat
Character Job: Freelance Writer / Vlogger who sells advertising on her videos
Culture Freebies::
The Metro wrote:
AS A SOCIAL, you have no privacy, your life is a public event, and you have little in the way of real intimacy. You’re “friends” with hundreds, maybe thousands, of people. You’re friends with a handful of souls, if that. You serve a valuable purpose in today’s society, yeah, but no matter how many people find purpose or escape in your feeds, they’ll probably never really know the real you. It can be a great, fulfilling life, or it can be the loneliest thing ever. There’s really no in-between.
IF YOU’RE A SOCIAL…
Decide if you are a Spiller or a Thriller. Once you’ve done that:
• Go and grab ((Socials + Joe Public) * 100cr) worth of goods and gear necessary to live your best life. Clothes, climbing gear, a wing suit. Whatever you need to keep your followers happy. Remember: they’re here to see you.
• Socials are always-on, always in the Public Eye. Because of this, it’s very easy for them to get favors, but when they screw it up, they do so big time. All of your costs to gain Reputation are halved, as are your temporary reductions from Useful Actions. Unfortunately, all of your Aggressive Action penalties are doubled.
• Even if someone doesn’t know you, they might still “know” you. While generating your Beat Chart, whenever you gain a bonus to Reputation with a Crowd, you may reduce that bonus (by up to half) and put the remainder into another Crowd that you don’t already have a Reputation with. This cannot exceed your Socials Reputation.
• You’ve managed to lock down ten of KitKat’s private PERSONE chits. You can use these to get face time with her, or get a private, secured stream call with her. She usually replies within the hour, and is very happy to see you.
SPILLERS, like Kitkat, spend their days livestreaming on the go: constant streams of selfies, monologues, and vlogs, edited on-the-fly by smart-apps in their AR rigs. Spillers are almost never without at least a pair of drones, broadcasting everything they do from their best angle. Spillers usually have close (if not friendly) ties with Law Enforcement, thanks to all the Public Eye recording clauses built in to their livecasting software. When anyone has the option to sue you for missing out on your Terms and Conditions, it’s always best to be up to date on your contracts.
If you’re a Spiller…
KitKat is your best friend. Okay, maybe not really, but she’ll say she is. Once per week, when you tap her PERSONE chits, you can reduce one Aggressive Action penalty taken against your Culture by half.
Beat Chart and Binding Ties::
Avryl: Brings me good story leads for credit
Bart: Tried to do a feel good story on his recovery only to find out he really didn't want to be known.
Current Age 27
1a Where do you come from?
Born In MidTown…
Add +1 to your Conversation and -1 to your Leadership skills
Add +1 to your Joe Public Reputation
Subtract 150cr from your starting funds
1b Where did you grow up?
In A MidTown Joe Public Work-A-Day World…
Add +1 to your Languages and Socialize skills
Add +1 to your Joe Public Reputation
Add a “+” to your Grace total
1c What kind of kid were you?
Chatty Little Kid…
You were a talker, and got really good at keeping your mouth going.
Add +1 to your Conversation skill
1d Where are you at with your life?
You’re On To Something…
There’s a discovery out there that you’re on the trail of – even if no one else believes
you. You’ve got the clues and the motivation, now you need the proof.
Add +1 to your Deduction and Surveillance skills, add a “+” to your Grace total
Age: 16
event 1 Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You had a crazy random happenstance meet-cute. It was nice.
event 3
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is an old childhood enemy come back around. (Grammar school bully?)
Age: 17
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You had a crazy random happenstance meet-cute. It was nice.
Age: 18
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ You started out as professional rivals, but now you’re in good.
event 3
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 19
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 20
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re another member of your Culture.
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re an old flame, come back to help out.
event 3
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 21
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 22
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 23
event 1
Take The Good With The Bad – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 A
Learn A Skill, Earn Some Cash – Go to Beat Chart Step 4 A
+ You’ve done right by The Mob. What you did, maybe you don’t
want anyone to know. Maybe you do. Either way, you can reach
out to your contact in The Mob for a Moderately Useful Action
once per adventure, for only one mark on your Reputation
Track. You must pay the penalty back as normal. If you don’t
have any In with The Mob, you gain +1 with them, instead.
Age: 24
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is an old friend who can no longer stand you.
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
Age: 25
event 1
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 2
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re a former business associate.
Age: 26
event 1
Take The Good With The Bad – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 A
Learn A Skill, Earn Some Cash – Go to Beat Chart Step 4 A
+ You won Metro Lotto! You gain 2000 Credits and +1 to
your Joe Public Reputation.
Age: 27
event 1
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make An Enemy, Lose Your Heart – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 B
- Your enemy is someone you once worked for.
event 2
Nothing Important Happened Today
event 3
People Come And People Go – Go to Beat Chart Step 3 B
Make A Friend, Find A Love – Go to Beat Chart Step 5 A
+ They’re an old enemy, come ‘round to your side of things.
Short version: Family: Boring, midtowner, but great great GREAT grand dad was a media and he's her hero. Long version coming soon.
Crib sheet:
The Metro wrote:
What’s your name? Do you have a single name?
Many? Is your name a Job-Tag (Johnny Fifteen
Roger)? A Norm-Tag (John Fitzgerald Rogers)?
• What’s your gender? Male? Female? Neutral?
Fluid?
• What do you look like? Describe yourself.
• Do you have a family? Siblings? Parents? A Coterie
from a Corporate Creche facility?
• Let’s talk about your Culture. Are you a Bodycon?
An Outsider? Something different? Something
uniquely you (and a million other people)?
• What is your role within your Crowds? Within
your Culture?
• Who loves you, and who do you love?
• What are your top three motivations? What is,
for you, best in life?
• Do you have any prejudices? Do you hate
Crowds other than your own? Betas? People
named Joe?
• Is there a District or Districts you simply will not
set foot in? Why? What about them’s gotten under
your skin?
• Have you got religion? What is it? Do you buy
in to BeliefCorp’s Social Network, or are you a
Lion Cultist from the lower levels of Down Town?
Tantric Meditationist, or follower of the Prophet
Of Infinite Wub Wub?
• And before we forget, what’s your job?
Avryl would probably do just about anything to avoid camera time. And while I'm not sure about security for the gear, I am pretty sure some of her juicier information can find its way to your hands (for a modest share of the profits, natch!).
That works, maybe she stumbled on something and needed cash so she reached out to Emily with the scoop? And we stayed in touch for future scoops?
BART could have been an interview subject in and of himself. Black sheep son of a wealthy family gets mangled in an adrenaline junkie accident and, in his recovery, turns himself into the "Fastest Borg in the Bay." If that isn't a general interest, powder puff story for the evening news, I don't know what is.
I guess the important question is would he want to be a story. I assume the answer is yes?
On the flip side, if Avryl didn't want to be in front of the camera, I'm SURE my character needs security for her gear.
I have some ideas for Binding Ties for the group. Here's a blurb from the book:
The Metro wrote:
Before you start down the Beat Chart, talk to your GM and the other players in your group about creating some binding ties between each of your characters. These are positive and negative relationships meant to enable your group to be in the same place at the same time, getting you on the path to your first adventure.
My character is definitely a "talk to anyone anywhere" type. It makes sense on my end for her to have met Avryl or BART while searching for or reporting on a story. I can also see her introducing various people she's met to each other to see what happens. (Not in a creepy way, but in a "OO, what weird directions will the conversation go!" way.)
Character Concept: Emily is an investigative journalist looking for her next story.
Gender: Female
Appearance: Short, stocky woman with short messy hair in streaks of purple and green. Eyes are purple. Clothing preference is for comfort and ease or movement, lots of neutral colors.
Character Culture And Focus: Social
More Details TBD:
Character Culture Contact Name:
Character Job:
(Spoiler) Culture Freebies:
(Spoiler) Beat Chart and Binding Ties:
(Spoiler) Attribute Lists:
Primary Attributes:
Figured Attributes:
(Spoiler) Skill Lists:
Job Skills:
Education Skills:
Background Skills:
(Spoiler) Reputation Lists:
Crowd Reputations:
Culture Reputations:
(Spoiler) Equipment And Funds:
(Spoiler) Character History And Background: In 500 words or less!
