[Celtibero]

i really don't think Dawon is a cold blooded killer, just seen too much murder and mayhem to be outwardly affected by it, but he cares (he has gone out of his way to help people with contracts on their heads in order to save them), he also knows that whatever he does is not going to change much in the end, yet he tries, yes he is a hitman, he has a skill (or a set of them in fact) and he uses it, if a person "deserves" it in the end you have one less scum-bag in the world, everyone gains.

Do note that helping a person is what got him on the list and made him flee Quebec.

[Nimbasa]

It was bad when the gangers were involved; it was worse when the corps were. And if it wasn't one you can damn sure bet it was the other. The barrel of a gun or the heel of a boot. There were nothing but bad options when you and everybody you've ever known were born poor, grew up poor, and died poor. But the worst part of it all, the part that ate at him when he tried to sleep?  It was the acceptance. Samuel Ramah had had enough.

When he Awakened he had sought out a local talismonger to learn how to control his abilities. After months of painful and demoralizing failures they discovered where his outward magical abilities lay- alchemy. The talismonger was quick to see the revenue potential in this; Samuel was hired on to create black market preparations. There risk was high and so were the prices but there are not many places that you can custom pre-order levitation hidden in an alley or healing stashed on a rooftop.

His other abilities, those he found he could summon from within with intense focus, those he kept all to himself. When he had no orders to fill he planned and he practiced. He had never had the fortune of fate smiling on him. He would need to be silent and untraceable or he could do more harm than good. For two years he secretly practiced stealth, acrobatics, and archery.

He knew he still wasn't ready as he listened to a neighbor on the other side of a thin wall crying to her husband about being rolled by local punks and losing the credstick that was supposed to feed their family for the next month. He knew he still wasn't ready when he put on his most concealing armored clothing and a cheap motorcycle helmet to hide his face. He knew he still wasn't ready when he stood across the street from the run down husk of a building the street rats were holed up in.

Two hours and one severe beating later he was sitting in his apartment nursing a few broken ribs, a sprained ankle, and an eye that would no longer open. It was hard to move but none of the pain even registered in his mind. All that he could think about was his neighbors waking up in the morning and finding the credstick sitting on their kitchen table with enough nuyen on it to eat for three months.

He knew he was ready.

All of my yes, I love a good vigilante.

[Tenlaar]

@Tenlar, i love him. is this the buster sword?

Yup.  A young, bold do-gooder looking to make his neighborhood a better place.  Still waffling on the finer details of character creation, but he will basically be a physical adept with alchemy.  It seems like an alchemist should have astral perception and assensing or he couldn't judge his own work so I'm looking at alchemy, assensing and possibly disenchanting as his only magical skills.  Unlucky and simsense vertigo for sure on the negative qualities.

Question, where do you stand on the Arcana and Initiation issue?  Should I plan for a few points or are you willing to discuss another skill replacing Arcana?

[Poindexter]

@Tenlar, i love him. is this the buster sword?

Yup.  A young, bold do-gooder looking to make his neighborhood a better place.  Still waffling on the finer details of character creation, but he will basically be a physical adept with alchemy.  It seems like an alchemist should have astral perception and assensing or he couldn't judge his own work so I'm looking at alchemy, assensing and possibly disenchanting as his only magical skills.  Unlucky and simsense vertigo for sure on the negative qualities.

Question, where do you stand on the Arcana and Initiation issue?  Should I plan for a few points or are you willing to discuss another skill replacing Arcana?

1- Everything is up for discussion.

2- i'd like to avoid PCs doubling up on certain qualities, code of honor, distinctive style, simsense vertigo, bad rep off the top of my head, but probably more.

3- Can physical adepts TAKE magic skills? even if they can, might this guy be better as an aspected magician? Leaves a lot of room open for other mages without steppin on any toes AND gives ya astral perception.

[Tenlaar]

Oh, sorry, he's a mystic adept.  I just meant that he's going to be a mystic adept who's only magical skills are alchemical, so centering is the only metamagic I'm planning on him taking.  All other initiations will go towards PPs to boost his adept (physical) side. 

[Poindexter]

Oh, sorry, he's a mystic adept.  I just meant that he's going to be a mystic adept who's only magical skills are alchemical, so centering is the only metamagic I'm planning on him taking.  All other initiations will go towards PPs to boost his adept (physical) side.

ok, i can dig it, as long as we don't start moving into spellcasting and summoning. I'd like to leave more "magey" roles open for other players, but as of now, consider Samuel officially IN as the buster sword.

OP altered.

[Poindexter]

i really don't think Dawon is a cold blooded killer, just seen too much murder and mayhem to be outwardly affected by it, but he cares (he has gone out of his way to help people with contracts on their heads in order to save them), he also knows that whatever he does is not going to change much in the end, yet he tries, yes he is a hitman, he has a skill (or a set of them in fact) and he uses it, if a person "deserves" it in the end you have one less scum-bag in the world, everyone gains.

Do note that helping a person is what got him on the list and made him flee Quebec.

i NEVER say this, so it seems odd, but he just seems a TAD too dark. I'd like these folks to have the majority of their killing ahead of them rather than behind. Are you going for old vet or the professional?

[Tenlaar]

Good deal, I'm fine with that.  He is officially, 100% banned from any spellcasting or summoning.

With that said, now that I'm not on my phone I need to hit Lockdown and then I'm going to make a post with some things we will need to hammer out about how you will handle certain aspects of alchemy.  I have spent a lot of time thinking about different ways to try and use it in a game setting.

[Celtibero]

old vet, Dawon is around 40ish or so.

[SlowDeck]

How are you planning to handle repairs of vehicles and drones?

[Poindexter]

How are you planning to handle repairs of vehicles and drones?

You think i have a plan.

You're adorable.

[Triskavanski]

Ted Smith isn't a man you'd think much of anything at all of him. Dressed like a nothing more than an office worker, with a rather disheveled shirt, tie and hair, most people will look past him, as paint drying is more interesting. But Ted has a secret. he's actually really good at fighting hand to hand combat, and tends to use his unassuming appearance to take his enemies by surprise.

Physical Adept - Beater - Spy



Flamburg Is a guy you'd expect to be wearing lots of cyberware, as he wields his grenade launcher around. Subtle isn't in his dictionary. He knows bombs and more bombs. And isn't afraid of using them at all. Quite good with vehicles and the like as well, he tends to have a habbit of punching first, asking questions later.

Technomancers - BOOM BABY

Dust is a bit of a trash heap man, wearing what armor he can get ahold of. His two weapons are a lever action shotgun and a chainsaw. Despite the cybernetic hand, Dust is a physical adept. Before things went bad in a cabin by the lake, he used to work at large 'wal-mart' like shopping center. After that, he's been a lot less hourly slave and a lot more runner. Though he doesn't tend to think things out too much, he doesn't try to be good nor bad. Just the guy who won.

Street Sam/Physical Adept - Awesome

[reyjinn]

@Reyjinn, I like the idea, but i'd like him to be a bit older. Maybe already a graduate, working toward partnership of his own firm before something somethng...

Tweaked version

"I had it all figured out. Really, it was a fucking textbook path. Top of my class in high school, valedictorian, magna cum laude, all that shit, Dean's list in pre-law, accepted into Yale law and graduated Juris Doctor with honors. Aced the bar, of course. Could basically have walked into any corp law office and named my price but I've never really trusted the corps. Most of them are no better than the mob or yaks or what have you. No, *I wanted to make a difference.* Ugh, idealistic idiot. So I went to the DA's office, intending to make the streets safer, the grass grow greener and the sun shine brighter. I was put on the promotional fast track, bright new star and all that.

But it was all fucked up man, these bastards that we KNEW were guilty got to walk because of some bullshit technicalities cooked up by their crooked asshats of lawyers. Eventually, enough was enough. I got way fed up with seeing these scum of the earth bastards walk away without doing something about it. I began coaching witnesses but often that wasn't enough to put away the fuckups so I started misfiling evidence, making it disappear and finally started getting some results I could live with.

It couldn't last of course. One of my fellow ADAs caught me slipping a file in where it shouldn't have been, unfortunately she had a conscience and wouldn't look away. Decent enough to let me come out on my own at least, instead of outing me herself. The DA was the kind of guy that cared more about getting the win than how it was gotten but it was an election year so he couldn't be seen cutting me any slack. Came on top of me like a drekton of bricks, fired, disbarred, never to practice law again. Couldn't blame him really, had to think about the big picture and all that.

Weren't a lot of options going forward, could probably have gotten a gig as a research assistant for one of the corps or some such shit. No way man, no chance I was going to become some low level corpslave to be pushed around by some fucking halfwit barely out of law school. I considered starting up some PI agency or something, but no way was I getting any credit from any respectable place to start up a business. That's where good friends come in handy, [Contact/OtherPlayerInGame] promised to hook me up with some people that are running the shadows. Said it wasn't really any more dangerous than taking a walk down most neighborhoods around here, at least most of the time. And sometimes, as an added bonus, you get to stick it to the corps.

Can't say I cherish the thought of getting into an actual firefight or some shit like that, but as I understand it there is plenty of work where it is more important to be able to string together sentences with three syllable words without the help of a dictionary than it is to be able to shoot up the place like Neil the Barbarian.

Guess we'll see, but I'm willing to see where this takes me."

This came out a tad more bitter than I had planned, just where it took me I guess. This guy is older (early 30s), but I wanted to keep the DA's office as part of his back story for contacts and stuff. Will probably nudge skills and knowledge around to represent a more seasoned guy.

[kalarin]

I just noticed this I'd be interested to jump in as a player, I will read the thread tomorrow and come up with a concept if that's okay? I'm trying to write up a post for my game right now!

[reyjinn]

@Poindexter
If you're not keen on the face character I have an older character concept that might fit in this kind of game.
Human mage, faked his own death during military training as he was having severe physical reactions to the extreme training regiment that he was put through (Insomnia, Sensitive system) and feared that the military would burn him out.  He is a support mage (health and stealth spells) and field medic.  For the last 10 years he has been living on the streets but has recently reached out to an old army buddy and is trying to make something of himself again.