[Poindexter]

Sure Poindexter no problem.

Thanks. I'll make a character tonight when i get home from work.
standard 5th ed gen, right?

[SlowDeck]

Can you add me as a benchsitter as well? I'm currently working on a character and can have it posted tomorrow.

[ismilealot]

Yay! Mages are generally what I play on the rare occasions I play in D&D. Controllers are my fave class. I was trying on face just for this game. If I can think of a backstory of mage that combines face that I'd like to play I'll build in a bit of face on my mage. Might spread me a bit to thin, and I'm by nature a shy little scholar so that's what my mages tend to look like. Looking forward to building a great story with you.

[Moneyspider]

Well for starters I'd suggest Shaman over Hermetic!

@Slowdeck Well I was only gonna have three bench seats but totally make your character dude. And keep an eye on the forums Never know when four people will suddenly drop out.

[ve4grm]

@ismilealot - Shaman Face is really easy to build. Just make sure you take a decently high skill priority (A or B, maybe C if you don't bother with enchanting/alchemy).

We can split Face duties a bit, if you need. I have a decent Intimidate (9 dice), and the Decker said he'd have some Face qualities.

[Poindexter]

OK, so i whipped this guy up early. I couldnt wait. i think he's a locally famous ork hardcore rapper. not famous enough to be in the trids, but he does shows in the slums, pretty much for trog only crowds. he runs the shadows primarily to provide resources to the slums that spawned him; food, shelter, matrix access, etc. I spent all his starting karma. Ealy in life, he was well on the way to a productive, boring life. He had been accepted into a local hermetic lodge as a student and things were looking good when he was arrested for possession with intent to sell. Immediately thrown out of the lodge, and fired from his job, he was reduced to living on the street and for the first time in his life, he understood what the have nots really go through, and began to drag himself back up out of the slums.

Meta C ork (0)
Att  A 24
Mag  D aspected mag 2
Skil B 36/5
Loot E 6,000 +10karma (20,000)

Bod- 5
agi- 5
rea- 5
str- 4
wil- 4
log- 4
int- 5
cha- 5
edg- 1
ess- 5 (5.7)
ini- 10
mag- 2

-qualities
first impression (11)
home ground street politics(10)

Moderate BTL addiction (9)
Criminal SIN for possession with intent to sell(10)

-languages
Or'zet (native)
Spanish                             1
English                             3

-knowledges
street knowledge gangs                          4
street knowledge vices                             4
street knowledge music                         3
   (spec ork rap)                                         5
professional knowledge magic theory 2

-active skills
acting group                        5
 con
 impersonate
 perform
Counterspelling                4
spellcasting                        2
sneaking                            2
unarmed combat              2
longarms                            3
pilot ground craft              2
etiquette                            2
intimidation                      1
assensing                         1
perception                         3
arcana                               2
computer                          3
hacking                             2
astral combat                   2

lifestyle: low               2000

-gear
AK-97                         950
 laser sight (over)           125
 smartgun (under)             950
 3 clips                       10
1 box gel rifle rounds         25
i box std rifle rounds         20
Armor jacket                 1000
 electrochromic               500
 fire resist (2)              500
 nonconductivity (2)          500
helmet                        100
transys avalon commlink (6)  5000
micro-transceiver             100
area jammer (3)               600
headphones                     75
 select sound filter (2)      500
goggles                       100
 flare compensate              25
 vision magnification         250
gas mask                      200
fake SIN (2)                 5000
 fake magic license (4)       800
fake SIN (1)                 2500
 fake gun license (2)         400
 fake driver license (2)      400
 fake magic license (2)       400
silver credstick 1050/20,000   20

-upgrades (i'm correct in thinking i can have 1 upgrade in natural eyes and 1 in natural ears, right?)
datajack         .1          1000
image link       .1          1000
sound link       .1          1000

-spells (10 karma)
analyze truth
increase reflexes

contacts (3 karma)       con        loy
journalist                          3          2
mr johnson                      5          1
ganger                              4          3

[reyjinn]

Thanks for keeping me in mind Moneyspider.
I'm down for playing most roles that might free up, if a decker is needed I'd let someone else have a go. Not nearly confident enough in the matrix rules to take that role.

[p1erx0R]

I have the numbers done, but not the details. Still flushing out backstory and such. As for face...well remember I'm a newb, so my char probably sucks. -_- But About 9 or 10 dice give or take. (3 cha+4 or 5 skills, 2 tailored pheromones). Should be done by sat when the ooc thread goes up.

[ve4grm]

@Moneyspider - flavour question here. Due to a lack of two-handed sword stats in SR5, can I use Katana (also a two-handed sword) stats to represent a Claymore?

In SR4, they were similarly statted. Claymore actually did more damage and had greater reach, strangely.

I don't care about adapting the stats, I'm happy to use the Katana stats, availability, and price as-is. This is solely for character flavour.

[jim1701]

Run and Gun pg. 18
Highland Forge Claymore
Acc 5 | Reach 2 | DV (STR + 5)P | AP -5 | Avail 14R | Cost 4,500

[SlowDeck]

I'm actually pretty comfortable with the Matrix rules, and was going to build a decker anyway. I can have the stats up as soon as I'm finished eating.

[ve4grm]

Huh. Didn't realize Run & Gun was out yet. Need to pick that up.

[Sincereagape]

Sounds like my kind of game.  Thanks for the detailed information Money,

[Moneyspider]

If you want to use most one handed weapons in two hands go for it. In IRL consider that many of the "One Handed Weapons" Really ought to be used in two hands most of the time. If you've ever compared shooting a pistol with one hand compared to two, and the huge accuracy difference there you'll know what I mean. I do consider runners to be basically action movie heroes though so I'm not gonna had penalties or benefits for changing up the hands used, with regards to one handed weapons. Now if you wanted to do something crazy like weld a combat axe or assault rifle in one hand then we'd have more of an issue.

Also keep in mind that while you're totally OK to use a big fuck of sword there will be consequences. While walking in the Barrens a claymore would probably make people leave you alone, but wandering into a Stuffer Shack down town is gonna get you a few looks if not security/lonestar called on your ass.

That actually goes for a lot of things. By all means the group should have one who knows his way around explosives but if you get Stop and Frisked for being a Troll and they find C4 in your back pack things will get out of hand quickly.

Finally, as a warning I've been watching a lot of Burn Notice and reading Dresden Files and will mercilessly steal from them.

[SlowDeck]

Runner name: Sparkles

Priority system
A - Resources
B - Skills
C - Attributes
D - Race (Human)
E - Magic

Attributes
Body - 2
Agility - 2
Reaction - 3
Strength - 2
Willpower - 4
Logic - 4
Intuition - 4
Charisma - 3
Edge - 5
Essence - 5.6
Initiative- 7

Qualities
Natural Hardening (-10 Karma)
Allergy (Grass) (Moderate) (+10 Karma)

Active skills
Computer - 4
Cracking group - 5
- Cybercombat
- Electronic Warfare
- Hacking
Etiquette - 3 (12 Karma spent to raise)
Hardware - 4
Negotiation - 4
Perception - 4
Pilot Ground Craft - 2
Pistols - 4
Running - 4
Sneaking - 4
Software - 4

Knowledge Skills
Cyberdeck Construction 4
Elven Wines 2
Matrix Forms 3 (6 Karma spent to raise)
Police Procedures 1
Seattle Gangs 4

Languages
English N
Japanese 3

Lifestyle
Middle (10 months) (50,000)

Identification
Fake SIN (Rating 4) (Daniella Humperdink) (10000)
Fake License (Sony CIY-720) (Rating 4) (800)
Fake License (Ares Predator V) (Rating 4) (800)

Gear
Ares Lightfire 75 (1,250)
- Spare clips (4) (20)
- Regular Ammo (80 rounds) (160)
- Concealable Holster (150)
Ares Predator V (725)
- Gas Vent (Rating 2) (400)
- Spare clip (5)
- Regular Ammo (30 rounds) (60)
- Quick-draw Holster (175)
Armor Jacket (1000)
Colt New Model Revolver (Smartgun) (360)
- Speed Loader (25)
- Regular Ammo (10 rounds) (20)
- Concealable Holster (150)
Crysler-Nissan Jackrabbit (10,000)
Sony CIY-720 (345,000)
- AR Gloves (150)
Transys Avalon (5000)

Cyberware
Datajack (1000)
Cybereyes (Rating 2) (6000)
- Flare Compensation (1000)
- Image Link (Free)
- Low-light Vision (1500)
- Smartlink (4000)
- Thermographic Vision (1500)

Programs
Normal
Browse (80)
Configurator (80)
Edit (80)
Encryption (80)
Signal Scrub (80)
Toolbox (80)
Virtual Machine (80)

Hacker
Armor (250)
Baby Monitor (250)
Biofeedback (250)
Biofeedback Filter (250)
Blackout (250)
Decryption (250)
Defuse (250)
Demolition (250)
Exploit (250)
Fork (250)
Guard (250)
Hammer (250)
Lockdown (250)
Mugger (250)
Shell (250)
Sneak (250)
Stealth (250)
Track (250)
Wrapper (250)

Contacts
Doriyama - Fixer (Connection 4, Loyalty 3) (7 karma spent)
Cat Dancer - Wine expert (Connection 6, Loyalty 1) (7 karma spent)
Jon - Street Rat (Connection 1, Loyalty 1) (2 free karma)

Leftover cash
3690

History

Most people who meet Sparkles mistakenly think her running name is a reference to her personality; she's upbeat, happy, and generally in a good mood.

Her running name is actually a reference to what happened to her first four cyberdecks, due to bad luck with running across very power IC. How she has managed to avoid being brain fried is thought to be luck, though any luck she once had in that regard has long been spent.

Sparkles is a pure runner; she's never had a SIN, due in part to being born in the Barrens. Her exact date of birth is not remembered, but she was born in 2050. Despite the rough area she was born in, her family life was generally happy... up until Crash 2.0 killed both of her decker parents, leaving her an orphan at the age of 14. Thanks to the Crash also wiping out her parents' savings, she soon found herself unable to afford the home she was in and facing the possibility of being homeless.

Sparkles quickly caught a break when her landlord turned out to be a fixer. Seeing potential in her, he instead asked her to do errands for him as rent. Her first errand, and first true shadowrun, involved smuggling illegal BTLs into Seattle to give to overstressed Lone Star officers. Sparkles continued to perform runs, eventually reaching a level where her landlord was paying her in cash for the work she was doing. It was then, at the age of eighteen, that she first began to learn how to deck, following in the footprints of her parents.

Sadly, the arrangement she had could not last forever. A run gone bad by another team brought Knight Errant attention upon her landlord and fixer in 2072, resulting in his death and the deaths of most of his shadowrunners in the resulting firefights. Sparkles herself, never officially on his books as more than a tenant, managed to escape KE attention. Seeing the area as tainted, she gathered what money she could, moved to a different part of the Barrens, and set up shop to continue running.

Strangely, in 2073, a woman named Daniella Humperdink mysteriously disappeared and, a month later, Sparkles started carrying a fake SIN attached to that name. No one has made the connection yet.

Appearance

A human, standing five feet eight inches tall. She has brown hair and eyes, with a datajack hidden on the back of her head. She often wears an army surplus armored jacket, under which she likes to hide guns and her cyberdeck. She keeps a commlink on her belt, though it's an obvious decoy. Her eyes are only obvious as cybereyes if one looks very close and notices how the light unnaturally reflects off them.