I've created a user account for Obsidian Portal. User name is Radecliffe.
I chose the following priorities: A: Magic 6 / 2 x Magic skills at rank 5 / 10 spells | B: Attributes 20 | C: Metatype Dwarf (1) | D: Skills 22 | E: Resources 6,000.
The one special attribute point I got from metatype went to boost magic to seven which i could do since I took the Exceptional Attribute PQ for magic. If that is not ok then just let me know and I will adjust.
I got 2 magic skills at level 5 from taking magic at priority A. That is Summoning and Spellcasting. I also boosted both to 6 and specialized Spellcasting from my base skill pool. Also all the rank one skills (Alchemy, Binding, Ritual Spellcasting, Astral Combat and Survival) are paid for from karma at 2 points each.
Karma breakdown:
Qualities: net 3 karma spent (see below)
PQ: 19 karma spent
NQ: 16 karma gained
Contacts: 2 karma spent
Skills: 10 karma spent
Resources: 10 karma spent
Note: I've saved my worksheet as a pdf and linked below for reference along with my character sheet in case excel is a problem. I've made a few minor updates since I initially posted it, just FYI.
Description: Of average height and slender build for a dwarf Tobias sports a heavy tan and a weather beaten look that indicates a great deal of time spent in the outdoors. Other distinguishing features of note is the fact that he's bald as an egg and sports a neatly trimmed van dyke that he tends to stroke when contemplating a particularly difficult problem. Tobias can most often be found wearing comfortable work clothes on the order of work boots, cargo pants, pull over shirt, armor jacket, leather gloves and an old battered panama hat. When the situation warrents it he will also strap on an ancient, but still deadly, Ruger Warhawk. Just to keep the opposition honest, of course.
Personality: Tobias can often appear absent minded though when the pressure is on or when he is working on his research there is no doubting his ability to focus. In social settings Tobias has no problem holding his own and is always willing to regale those around him with tales of the places he has been, the people he has met, the things he has seen and the critters that have tried to eat him. It is When he comes across an interesting piece of arcane lore or some object of historical significance that his true obsession comes to the surface. Running the shadows might pay the bills but it is in the delving of secrets and the pursuit of rare knowledge that is his true passion.
Background: Tobias was born and raised in a small community a couple hours from Denver deep in the Rocky Mountains. He will tell you community but really the it was more of commune than community. Tobias' parents along with the other residents were all a bit radical in their thinking that corporations were a corrupting influence on metahuman society and they wanted nothing to do with it. They stayed off the grid, conducted their research for the sake of research and raised their kids to follow in their footsteps. More or less anyway. Tobias was a particularly talented mage, much like his father, but also a particularly lazy student except concerning subjects that piqued his interest. Then one summer Tobias two things happened. The first was The final straw came when Tobias discovered the field of archaeology. He devoured every scrap of text available on the subject and eventually declared his intention to leave home to pursue his research in the field like any good archaeologist. Not surprisingly his parents were not overly supportive of his decision and over the next several days the arguments were long, loud and numerous. Finally, Tobias packed up his few belongings and stormed out of the house never to return.
Arriving in Denver broke, SINless and without a clue as to how the outside world worked it was a minor miracle that Tobias was not picked up at any of the various boarder crossings. But with a lot of luck and not a little paranoia Tobias managed to stay out of trouble and (more importantly) out of jail for several days. Things probably would have still ended badly if not for a chance encounter late one night. Walking to his squat Tobias saw a couple gangers working over a Dwarf in an alley. One Earth Elemental later and it was the gangers laid out on the ground and the older dwarf, Mr. C as he called himself, professing his gratitude. Mr. C got Tobias a job with a talismonger he knew, Sally One Eye. Sally gave him the job of helping her collect and process reagents for sale to the local magic community. Mr. C also helped him find a place of his own in the PCC sector community of Lakewood. It did not take Tobias long to realize, however, that if he were going to make enough money to pursue his research he was going to need to do a lot more than harvest reagents. Eventually Tobias secured his first shadowrun commission and never looked back.
Over the next decade or so Tobias would run the shadows building up a stake until he had enough money to either finance a small expedition of his own or buy into a larger expedition. He did several digs in China, South America and Europe and after each one he managed to end up back in Denver broke and more or less empty handed but still satisfied he had managed to delve a little deeper into the past each time. Ever undaunted Tobias would return to the shadows long enough to earn enough money for the next dig and it was off to work the next site. Never in it for the bling Tobias would have been content to continue this cycle indefinitely had it not been for that last dig in South America. To say that things went badly in South America is like saying Nanothrax is a nasty cold. They had just started working the dig when the expedition was overrun by pack of feral beast spirits. Tobias had taken seven, well equipped, veteran researchers into that jungle and when he came stumbling out a month later he had two half dead, gibbering wrecks with him. For the first time Tobias had learned a lesson that was not to his liking. If you are going to go digging up ancient secrets in the sixth world you damned well better have the power to blow the living drek out of whatever it is that didn't appreciate you digging it up in the first place. So now he's back in Denver running the shadows and biding his time until he has the power to do just that, assuming he lives long enough of course.
Worksheet PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Q9wPlDPVCrd1U1YjhaMWtzVWM/edit?usp=sharingCharacter Sheet PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Q9wPlDPVCrRWRtSkxMTTRnUVk/edit?usp=sharing