[Jack_Spade]

I'll write a finishing post.

Before the next run, I'd like to give you a little homework:

Please describe to me layout of your home, your typical day to day routine when you are not on a run, which kind of people you socialize with and other stuff you deem important about your char's personality 

For now, you have earned the following Karma:

2: Survived the run
2: Group complete all objectives
3: Overall adventure challenge
=7
And since this is the internet, where we need a lot more time to accomplish anything, I'll double this reward to

14 Karma

Money:

As promised, Schmitt pays out  a total of 125.000 NY to all of you.
You also got the 4 rocket pistols and armored diving suits
As a bonus, bnc receives ownership of the Fairlight 

As to your inofficial boni:
The laser weapons are prototypes, so there is no technical support or easy to get replacement parts.
In effect they are upgraded versions of the ARES LANCER MP LASER (Device Rating 3)

ACC 7 DV 8P AP-10 Mode SA RC - Ammo: 3 power points per shot from a dual 10 point clip (giving it a phenomenal 6 shots before reload)
Also, as a prototype it suffers from Gremlins 1.
On the positive side, it has an environmental adaption (Aquatic) (which reduces it's range from Assault Rifle to Hold Out Pistol)

The Armor is based on a Heavy Hardened Mil-Spec Battle Armor + Helmet. (Device Rating 4)
The actuators are completely fried and can only be repaired with a Hardware+Logic [mental] (18, 1 week)
It would be easier to remove them, so that the armor can be used as normal (Hardware+Logic [mental] (18, 1 day)

The damage the armor received will make it necessary to repair a few components, adjust it to its new wearer and to get the bits of dead blood mage out (Armorer+Logic [mental] (18, 1 day)

The HMG is fully functional once bnc has restored its software configuration.

Beside that, you have to transfer ownership for each item.

The two Ares Alpha's in your possession will also need a transfer or else you'll likely make the aquaintance of a few of their representatives.


Contacts:

You receive Dr. Schmitt as a contact: He has Con 6/Loy 3 and is useful for Knowledge about corporations, bio-tech and to a lesser extend on cyberware.
Hank the Janitor will also be available in Seattle: He has Con 3/Loy 2 and knows a lot about infiltration, civilian drones and soccer.
Marcy the Security Spider will be around: She has Con 2/Loy 1 and knows quite a bit about Matrix Architecture, GOD and Host Security. Sadly, after this run she suffers from Simsense Vertigo and will probably lose her job with Ares.
 

[SgtBoomCloud]

I'll get to work on the homework when I can.  Thanks

Man...I know it'd be too much of a strain to inquire the possibility of resizing that armor...that being said, just how unstoppable should a trog be eh?

[Volker]

Lol

One question from my side: How much time do we have?

[Jack_Spade]

Well,
I won't start the new game until I have the info 

So, depending on your urge to game on: Sooner or later

[Volker]

I meant in character

[Jack_Spade]

That also depends on what you deliver on your characters day to day life. 

But you'll have at least two weeks downtime

[Sabato Kuroi]

Hmmm I keep thinking I should invest 10 karma in a qi focus tattoo ( improved ability sneaking/disguise 3)  since I got the discount from invisible way.
On the other hand a master of disguise shouldn't mark his body permanently.Will I be able to use disguise to hide my qi focus tattoos?

Maybe I should just initiate...


dammit I can't decide

[Jack_Spade]

Initiation is almost always better if you want metamagics (and you should want them: Aura masking is very useful)

But if you are worried: Tattoo it on your scalp and let hair grow over it. You can do the same with your butt cheeks (hair growth optional  )

Generally, you can disguise tatooed foci just like any other tatoo

[Sabato Kuroi]

Initiation is great, and I will definitely do it down the road  but I'd like to get every advantage my Way provides.

Cheaper Qi Foci are a great option.

 Aura Masking,Stillness of the Void(tougher to track me through detection magic) and Shadow Touch( leave no fingerprints) are important for my build as well.

[Volker]

If I didn't miss something, Schmitt said something about

I am also prepared to increase your bonus to 25% bringing  your total cash gain to a full quarter of a million.

And if I recall correctly, he spoke of some extra nuyen if things turned sour. Which they did. But maybe this is already what I quoted. Still,  this would be a total of 250.000, or 62.500 each.

Okay, so here are my answers:

Personality, whereabouts and whoabouts

I'd like to hand the task of layouting our home to you guys, since bnc was the last to join.
Typical day of routine:

Basically, what she does, is:

• repairing that friggin' armor and transfer ownerships in exchange for kisses and chocolate.
• she'd like to study at a university, so she has to finish highschool or college or whatever you call it in Seattle 2075. She will, of course, look for ANY institution in the UCAS which allows her to graduate online. I guess this shouldn't be that big a problem, given that she has a legal SIN in Austria. So she's studying.
• She's doing small jobs sometimes. You know, small hacking, data retrieval and any stuff you need deckers for.
• She will spend some time toying around with her new Fairlight. She might think of a name for it. Maybe Sonja or Tanja. Timna? She doesn't know yet.
• destroying herself. bnc has, as you might have noticed, a tendency to do herself no good. After all the bloodshed, dark magic, death and betrayal in the hangar, things will get worse. She'll distract herself with work and studying as long as she can, then she would swallow drugs to forget, go dancing, get herself into ... situations with men who are not better for her.
• Might be that she will add deepweed to her addiction list ;-)
• When she's in a better mood, she'll try to date Gerhard.
• being online. She'll do a lot to escape her frail and damaged body for a while. She knows better than to neglect her body more than she does anyway, but she spends a lot of time in online libraries, clubs, games and more.

I guess there's some more stuff, like meeting friends, brushing teeth and whatnot, but this is basically how you can picture her life. As a flatmate, she's not uncomplicated, since she's difficult to predict, has an unstable mood (to be polite) and can be a real a**hole. But basically, for a shadowrunner she's a kind and well-meaning person.

The people she hangs out basically are:

• You guys. Especially with Krestov, she shares a very strong relationship.
• some "friends" she met in clubs or on one of her trips. None of them is what you and me would call a friend, but bnc usually avoids lasting relationships. Except for her bodyguard, that is ;-)
• virtual friends
• every now and then she has a lover. Few of them last for more than one or two weeks. Many just use her for one night, dump her, and let Krestov wipe up her tears.
• Kerstin. She has a very difficult relationship with her sister whom she loves deeply but wouldn't allow to find her whereabouts. Every now and than she calls her from a commlink that is not hers, making sure it can't be traced, talks a few minutes to her just to abruptly break the connection and call again at a random time in future. After this run, this will be one of the first thing she does.

As for the "other stuff you deem important about your char's personality  " section ... I might be wrong, but I think you caught the gist. If somethink's unclear, feel free to ask. bnc is a very complex personality, but since you're a bright guy, I guess you have an idea how she works. Or doesn't...

Karma and money

I will acquire the medicine skill at 1, because I think it's fluffy after his experience. bnc might also find some time to experiment with the walking nutshell. If she can somehow install a remote control, she would try to do so. If this proves fun, bnc would train a bit, which would rulewise mean that she might activate the Control Walker skill.
Ah, and she would try and buy a halberd for the armor and move it somewhere in the living room ;-)

I will save most of my Karma and Money, because bnc tries to get hold on a control rig, and you'll need a lot of money for that.
Is it okay, if we call her drug excessive consumption, her cheap nutrition (yoghurt and musli), her sideworks and everything that's extraordinary a draw and just calculate it as usual living costs?
If so, how much do we have to pay? Last time it was 3650. But I don't know what we agreed at for the run.

Gear

I don't think I'll need a rocket pistol, but since bnc knows that Kerstin LOVES underwater weapons, she will try to find a way to send the gun to her. Is that okay with everyone? I will accept silence as a yes (since so does bnc ;-) )

bnc has no interest in the laser guns, but she's willing to repair or support them as far as her skills are enough.
She will repair the armor by removing the actuators. Do they have to replaced (if so, what's the cost) or not (if so, what where their benefits?).
Repair the armor: 13d6t5 3
Repair: 13d6t5 7
Repair: 13d6t5 4
Repair: 13d6t5 4

So it takes 4 days. Or I guess a little more since she won't work on it the whole day.

She's no armorer, so somebody else will have to repair that broken thing. She doesn't really WANT it. She just loves to play with it. She'll dub it Sir Lancelot.

bnc doesn't claim any of the other weapons and she can easily transfer ownership. Since this will take some time and she takes her role a shadowrunner serious, you'll have to pay her well with self-made brownies. Except you're Krestov. She'd still take brownies from him, though.

[SquirrelDude]

Slob Gear Remaining after the first run

Heavy Pistol Ammo/Stuff
8 Speedloaders
37 APDS
70 Gel
20 Hollow Point
14 Standard Pistol

SMG Ammo
No Change from before. Posted again for reference
170 Standard
60 APDS
30 Gel
30 Hollow Point

Grenades
4 Thermal Smoke Grenades
3 Smoke Grenades
2 Flash Pak
1 Flash Bang Grenade

Misc
5 Light Sticks

+Everything else

Group weapons and ammunition after the run

Experimental laser weapons
2 Ares Alpha Assault weapons
2 Colt SMGs
1 HMG (What are the stats of this thing anyway?)

Submachine Gun Ammunition and accessories
320 Stick n Shock
320 Standard
20 Colt TZ-120 weapon ammunition magazines

Assault Rifle Ammunition and accessories
24 Ares Assault Rifle Magizines
242 Standard
252 Gel
252 Flechette
241 Ex Explosive

HMG ammunition


I'll get to work on the shopping list and the karma expenditure later this week. So many things, never enough Nuyen.

@Volker: Washington University sounds like the kind of the school that bnc would attend. Based north of Seattle, and it isn't funded/controlled by a corporation, so it's not an educational brainwashing facility.

[Jack_Spade]

@Volker

That's pretty much exactly how I wanted the info.

Just one thing: You'll have to make a separate drug resistance test for every different substance or you risk gaining an additional level in your addiction rating.

Regarding payment: My bad, I misremembered/miscalculated:

Minus your front payment each one of you receives 62.500 NY. That includes the hazard pay and the inconvenience fee for staying two months on ice.

Regarding the armor:
The actuators are the things that would give the armor's wearer a fixed strength of 6 as if he had four cyberlimbs. Those were the innovation to the "standard" mil-spec armor. But as you have seen, they proved to be a liability once they stopped working.

Since you all share a medium lifestyle your total comes to 6500/month (Base 5000+ 10%/additional member).
Since you've been gone two months without living there, you had to pay 9000 (500 less per person and month).
Together with this new month you owe 15500 in living expenses, or 7875 from each share.

@Squirreldude

That sounds about right.

The HMG is a RUHRMETALL SF-20 with various mods. The exact stats are somewhere in the thread. You have a partially depleted belt with about 40 shots of flechette ammo left. I shouldn't have to mention that this weapon is under no circumstances legal to own.

[Volker]

Is it fair to assume that the count of how many weeks I use a drug starts from 0, since I start with the negative quality? Also, is it fair to assume that the clock slept while bnc did?

If so, here are the suggestions for the Austrian drugs:

• Whoom: Addiction:

Addiction Rating: 4
Addiction Threshold: 2

•   Golden Mirror: Addiction Rating: 7

Addiction Rating: 3

• Bananadust: Addiction Rating: 6

Addiction Threshold: 4[/list]

So I would not yet have to roll on these.
I can't find stats for Deepweed, either, but I assume that the level wil be below 9, giving me some time. Also, bnc will use Deepweed only on very rare occasions.

Hot-Sim Simsense has an Addiction Rating of 3. This, too, has some time.
I think this covers all kinds of drugs she uses repeatedly.

[SquirrelDude]

I believe we all paid the rent in advance with the money we received upfront, so none of that should be coming out of these credit transfers.
Daily Routine
Josiah "Slobbertooth" Willows is a night owl, most comfortable when he's out on the streets, hanging out in dive bars and with the rest of the delinquents he grew up with. He'll often arrive to the house around 8 am, and then leave again. Most of the time he's in the house, he'll be asleep in his room. When he's awake he's doing some basic workouts (pushups, sit ups, pull ups, etc.), eating, talking shop with Torrent and Krestov, or watching an action trid.

Personality
Slobbertooth is jovial most of the time, even in bad situations. He's experienced enough heartbreak and sadness that the standard trouble that comes from Shadowrunning usually fails to dull his spirits. For all that friendliness, the tusker has a short temper, especially when drunk. He has no problem starting a fist fight, and refuses to back down once a brawl starts.

Most people get the feeling that he's hiding something from them, or that he is trying to remain emotionally distant. Discussions of his past are never go far beyond the death of his parents at the hands of Humanis punks. He feels no reason for others to know more than that.

Appearance
Josiah isn't the most appealing figure in terms of appearance His wild black hair in a ponytail, grey-red eyes, scruffy beard, large tusks, and multiple scars gives him an appearance that some might call rugged, others disturbing. The scruffy face and scars go well the orc's powerful and lean build, honed after years of hard knocks and running the shadows

Picture of Slobbertooth

Whatabout
When Slobbertooth goes out on his own, he goes out for one of three purposes.

• To try and dig up leads on the murderers of his parents, William and Zelda Willows, and practice his skill with his weapons
• To get wasted in a dive bar with K and their favorite local scum
• To kick back and and relax by kicking in some Humanis punks' heads.

His friends can occasionally drag him out to a club, but he isn't the best wingman. His coarse jokes, coarse appearance, and coarse temperament often drive away the men and women that are interested in his companions. A large, drunk, and foul tempered orc who is more than willing to flash a firearm tends to do that.

Whereabouts
Down in a couple of the famous dive bars, Shadowrunner hangouts, and other places in the Seattle barrens that would be dangerous if Slobbertooth didn't know the lay of the land after growing up there. Once a month he'll visit the burned down remains of his childhood home, and his parent's graves.

Whoabouts
Slobbertooth doesn't have a problem working and living with his teammates, but doesn't go out of his ways to do socialize with them. He's often the last to propose going to a bar, seeing a new trid film or any other group event, but he'll usually be quick to join in.

Slobbertooth occasionally communes with Wolf, but rarely in a formal way. Slobbertooth isn't much for meditation. It's normally extemporaneous conversation that happens while Slobbertooth is lying in bed, walking through the rain, or looking through the pockets of some unconscious Human supremacists.

His closest friend, sibling really, is Kazuya Armstrong (K). If Slobbertooth is out attacking Humanis punks, or hanging out in dive bars, it's usually with K. A picture of K

He'll occasionally contact Kazuya's fraternal twin sister Hiroko Armstrong. They're close, but nothing romantic has developed over the years. Slobbertooth isn't around enough for that. Still, K isn't allowed to know about that. Ever. A picture of Hiroko


Karma and money
The priorities first:

• Getting my own set of wheels, obviously. Suzuki Mirage.
• Yamaha Raiden: This is gonna take some time to customize, and it's gonna take a big chunk of the income, but it's on the way.
• Replacing the grenades we used on this mission, and probably buying some new ones for the new gun.
• Saving up for the next couple of months of housing payments
• Maybe getting myself some Foci tattoos.

Karma. NOt sure yet.

[SgtBoomCloud]

repairing that friggin' armor and transfer ownerships in exchange for kisses and chocolate.
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 Since this will take some time and she takes her role a shadowrunner serious, you'll have to pay her well with self-made brownies. Except you're Krestov. She'd still take brownies from him, though.

Waif with a sweet tooth much?  In all seriousness, she lives with two trogs now.  Her eating (lack thereof) is gonna be subject to home cooking at some point

Since you all share a medium lifestyle your total comes to 6500/month (Base 5000+ 10%/additional member).
Since you've been gone two months without living there, you had to pay 9000 (500 less per person and month).
Together with this new month you owe 15500 in living expenses, or 7875 from each share.

Krestov already makes sure to double his share of lifestyle as per the rules.  I'll link it when I find it, but I do believe at least some of us have already covered rent for the two months absence before the run (I know I did), leaving only the current month's expense to be, for the troll, 3,350.  I'll update front page sheet at the same time.

Anticipate Krestov living style post by Friday, when I have time to sit and type it out properly and not between work and work >.<;

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!