[SquirrelDude]

Addendum:  Squirrel, slight reminder that our new Alphas did not come with grenade launchers (noted you expressed getting some for 'new gun'), but were rather fitted with foregrips for recoil.  Just wanted to make sure you knew!

I'm fully aware of the Alphas' lack of grenade launchers. It's in the works. 

[Jack_Spade]

You want a Raiden? Good to know. I'm always on the lookout for a good player carrot 

[Sabato Kuroi]

I'm going to post my character status/routine tomorrow...sorry, I was on a tight schedule...

[SquirrelDude]

A mostly finished shopping List. I have three questions, and I'm still thinking about the current armor situation. Availability rating is noted when it is greater than 12. Kazuya Armstrong is able to obtain 12 or less, as per the previously established rule of Connection x 4 is the threshold.

Questions
 - What attachment locations presented in Run n Gun (side, stock, etc. ) are available to SMGs?
 - How much extra am I going to need to pay in order for Kazuya (Conn 3 Loyalty 4 fixer) to get the Yamaha Raiden? It will only have 2 more dice than a rating 12 item, so I figured in my calculations that he would need to be able to buy 1 more hit (4 dice)  to guarantee a success, which would be a 100% (25%/dice) increase in price on the Raiden.
 - Question about Full Body Armor: Were the rules int he core rulebook replaced by the rules for Corp Sec and Mil-Spec armor in Run & Gun

Items with attachments have the full breakdown in spoilers.
NUYEN
Total Nuyen Available: 66,355 [2080 (start) + 10,000 (upfront) -8225 (earlier purchases) 1+ 62,500(mission complete)]
Nuyen spent: 46,262
Nuyen set Aside: 19,993

Yamaha Raiden: 21565 Nuyen Highest Availablilty Rating: 14F (The grenade launcher is only 10F, go figure).

Base Yamaha Raiden (Smartlink + Sound supressor) . . . . . 2,600
Advanced Safety System (Biometric, Electroshock) . . . . . 950
Rating 3 Gas Vent System (Barrel) . . . . . 600
Folding Stock (Stock) . . . . . 30
Sling . . . . . 15
Underbarrel Grenade Launcher (Under) . . . . . 3,500
*Tripod (Under) . . . . . 500
Low Light Flashlight (side) . . . . . 200
Infrared Flashlight (side) . . . . . 400
Imaging Scope (+Image link) (Top) . . . . . 325
Slide Mounts (Bottom and both sides) . . . . . 1,500
Personalized Grip (Accessory) . . . . . 100
9x spare box magazines . . . . . 45

300 Rounds APDS . . . . . 3,600.
540 Rounds Stick n Shock . . . . . 4,320

Ammo for the Grenade Launcher
12 High Explosive Grenades . . . . . 1,200
12 Smoke Grenades . . . . . 480
12 Flash Bang Grenades . . . . . 1,200

HK-227 Modifications: 300 Nuyen
 - Side (Low Light Flashlight) . . . . 200
 - Personalized Grip . . . . . 100

Ruger Super Warhawk Modifications: 275 Nuyen
 - Concealed quick-draw holster . . . . . 275

Armor: 8495 Nuyen Highest Rating: 14R
Full Body Armor . . . . . 2000
* Nonconductivity Rating 4 . . . . . 1000
* Fire Resistance Rating 4 . . . . . 1000
* Shock Weave . . . . . 1000
* Thermal Damping Rating 4 . . . . 2000

Helmet . . . . . 500
* Trode Net . . . . . 20
* Thermographic Vision . . . . . 500
* Smartlink . . . . . 2000
* Image Link . . . . . 25
* Flare Compensator . . . . . 250



Ammo & Hand Grenade Replacement: 988 Nuyen
Pistol Ammo
23 APDS . . . . . 276
16 Standard . . . . . 32
30 Stick n Shock . . . . . 240

Grenades
4 Flash . . . . . 400
2 High Explosive . . . . . 200
2 Smoke . . . . . 80

Suzuki MIrage: 8,700 Nuyen

Base Mirage: 8500 Nuyen

Mirage has room for two sensors
 - Atmosphere Sensor . . . . . 100
 - Motion Sensor (25 meters) . . . . . 100


LIcenses and ID
 - Driver's License (Rating 4) . . . . . 800

Electronics
 - Transys Avalon . . . . . 5,000

Miscellaneous
 - Backpack
 - Tactical Vest

KARMA
Initiating (10+1x3) = 13 total costs. 1 Karma remaining
Use to gain one power point.

Powers gained used extra power point:
 - Rapid Draw 1 (.5 PP): Can rapid draw any weapon if properly holstered/in a sling. -1 to threshold.
 - Danger Sense 2 (.5 PP): +2 to surprise tests.

[SgtBoomCloud]

Krestov's daily routine

Every morning Krestov opens up the day with a workout, running through his entire known set of hyeongs (taekwondo: patterns) once or twice, spending on average a full hour if he can.  Cleaning up after, he eats, then proceeds through the day.  this can include:
-Equipment care: especially after a run, this is essential
-Assistance: likely bnc will need some help with the armor and its heavier bits, and Krestov is happy to help
-Contacts: Keeping in moderate touch with contacts to keep them valid and current
-Work: Krestov still has his valid SIN from Russia, and while his pay from runs and otherwise is entirely in credsticks, he keeps the illusion of receiving regular pay in deposits to an account.  He takes up labor befitting a migrant worker with his physique, working to make enough to offset the taxes owed.
-Entertainment: despite being the stoic giant, Krestov is usually never against catching a trid, hitting the town, or otherwise.
-Recollection: twice a week, Krestov will spend an evening locked in his room, playing back a mission he had recorded in simsense, looking for errors to learn from.

Maintaining Contact
Officer O'Malley of the EmeraldSec local police is a low-level beat cop, and as such often finds himself in jams that he could use some backup in.  Krestov is more than happy to provide that backup in exchange for favors (legwork, file access, blind eye, etc)

Albatroy, a fellow Russian, is not often in Seattle, but when he is, they usually spend an evening reminiscing.  The coyote was responsible for Krestov's ability to globe-trot the way he did.

S4ndr4, a local Barrens Trix-junkie, was saved by Krestov from being run over by a car (the car didn't make it).  While not being a decker officially, she has a lot of Matrix presence, and runs a fairly popular blog, of which she may be known to write some heavily glorified fanfiction of certain events whose participants won't be named...

Living with others
While he does maintain good relations, or at least strives to, Krestov does seem to be a bit withdrawn in most situations.  This is mostly due to his moderate grasp of the english language and being self-aware that he isn't perfect with it.

That being said, it is clear he is quite happy with this team.  Torrent, while secretive and quiet, can be counted on to do his part.  Slobbertooth could be related to, based on what little they knew of each other's pasts.  With bnc, their relationship is strong, yes,  mostly due to Krestov getting her into shadowrunning...it was his word that got her on the team.

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Karma and Equipment Purchases
I strongly admit to not having a clue how to spend my karma, heh.  I'll think about it.

As for equipment, I'm always looking for ways to make him more unstoppable...since the mil-spec power armor is too small, I'll have to dig for something else.  A customized full body armor at least, so Jack, if you're looking for another carrot, there you go
I haven't looked at cyberware yet, but I'm thinking there won't be much I can afford that would qualify as improvement, heh.
Other than that, maintaining lifestyle, reupping ammo as needed...I'm open to suggestions

[SquirrelDude]

Suggestions of the top of my head

For Karma:
 - Maybe spend some points on Heavy weapons so that you can use the laser or machine guns?
 - More stuff for your face skills?
 - 7 Karma for a specialty in something you think you'll be a doing a bunch (Automatics/Melee?)?

Money:
 - Battery packs and HMG ammo or an assault rifle fitted for a troll and assault rifle ammo?
 - Hell, throw it all into some nice, full-body hardened armor
 - Augs
 * Save up for some wired reflexes/synaptic boosters
 * Platelet factories (If you take 2+P damage, reduce the damage by 1)
 * If you want to get cheesy and make Jack hate you, get a bunch of cyberlimb hands and feet with armor modifications
 * Orthoskin (Bioware +Armor)
 * Dermal Plating (Cyberwear +Armor)
 * Damage compensators (Let's you ignore stun or physical damage up to their rating in terms of effectiveness)
 * Better cybereyes/cyberears
 * Swapping out current stuff for betaware versions of it
 
Karma and Cash:
 - Spend some time investing into a martial art and some martial art techniques.

[Jack_Spade]

Yeah, some kind of ini booster would help Krestov quite a lot. I understand that the payout is still to small for really advanced gear, but you could invest in a downpayment for some bioware synaptic boosters. There are options for financing 

Your full body armor is also a possibility.

[SgtBoomCloud]

@Jack:  I just looked at synaptic boosters, because having only one or two actions a pass got me feeling offensively useless.  Holy drekking hell. XD  How much of a down would I need to acquire rating 2?

With that in mind, the wish list goes as thus:

Pay out lifestyle for the next month (3,250 I believe)

Synaptic boosters (pref. R2): Avail 12  (Full cost 190,000) (!!!)

Full body armor (Shock Frills, Nonconductivity 4, Fire Resist 4, Chemical Resist 4): Avail 14 (Total cost 5,250)
-Full helmet (Trodes, Audio Enh. 2, Vision Mag., Low-light Vision): Avail 10 (Total cost 2,250)

Possible to trade one of the Ares Alphas for a troll-sized variant?  I'm okay with a small percentage of cost.

Learning Martial Arts Technique (cost 1,500, 5 Karma, two weeks): Counterstrike!

And for the hell of it, for versatility, pick up a chameleon suit with Thermal Damping 4? (Cost 2,700)

This is rough draft, I know.  I'll pick up more AR ammo as well (I bought a lot of Crusader rounds pre-run).  My total nuyen available is (62,500-4,615+2,150=) 60,035

[Jack_Spade]

Well, I think that piece of bioware is something we should find IP. 

The full body armor is available with a successful negotiation check against a threshhold of 3

The modification for your Ares Alpha is included in your increased living expenses.

The chameleon suit is no problem.

[SquirrelDude]

Alright, my giant shopping list is completish. Complete enough for GM perusal anyway.

Oh, and SgtBoomCloud, here is an off the wall suggestion if you want to spend a ton of money to be more facey+tanky: Instead of getting Full Body Armor, get Vashon Island Sleeping Tiger + Synergist Business Line Longcoat.

[Sabato Kuroi]

Daily Routine :

Torrent hates routine.His every day schedule is chaotic.He may be out for a whole night, and then come back and sleep till noon.Or he may get up  early in the morning and spend his day inside. He also watches A LOT of  trids and then mimicks every character's voice, face and mannerisms.That's basically his training regime (and his favorite hobby).

He brings the occasional girl home,each time using a different persona.

Living with others:

Torrent is detached and secretive.Growing up on the streets has made him extremely distrustful.Despite appearances to the contrary,  Torrent actually enjoys the stability the team provides.He is always willing to help a teammate though he tries to look like he never actually enjoys doing so.


Karma:
 I'd be grateful if you could (GM and Team) help me decide

3 options

1)Initiate and take Masking metamagic (or 1 power point) and save 1 karma
2)Buy a qi focus tattoo (Improved Sneaking 3 for 10 karma) and save 4 karma
3)Buy a qi focus tattoo (Astral Perception for 12 karma) and spend 2 karma to take Assenssing 1(which is not much but as a team  we lack the means  to detect magic users)

Nuyen :
Need some more time

[Jack_Spade]

I may be biased, but Masking is the only thing on this list that can't be replicated through liberal use of drugs and technology 

Ok. I've got everything I need.

The next run will start shortly, we will begin in medias res as the team meets a contact that might help them get some advanced gear like a certain tricked out assault rifle and heavy armor + maybe some shady dealings in regard to bioware.

[Sabato Kuroi]

It's one thing to replicate astral sight and another to be able to assense.

Anyway I think I'll take the GM's hint and buy the metamagic :p

[Volker]

I agree that Masking might be the most useful for your character, though I don't think deepweed should be a long-time solution.

by the way, I reread deepweed. If I didn't miss anything, it only forces Awakened characters to astrally perceive...

By the way, team, I haven't yet found any good ways to spend either Karma or Nuyen. Basically I'm saving Nuyen to buy a control rig and karma to improve Intuition. Does anyone have any ideas for smaller acquirements? I'm all ears

[Jack_Spade]

Yeah, but ignore this. In previous editions Deepweed worked also for mundanes, no reason for me to stop.

Higher intuition is nice, but you could always invest in some of those nice positive qualities from data trails (if you have the book already.
When I get home, I can pm you a selection of the new stuff if not)

I'll put the control rig on the teams wish list. 

You could of course invest into one or two of those nice sword wielding android drones + some decent armor vests to have your own cyber bodyguards...