[luckace]

Guys, I have to apologize again: the exam I mentioned is taking up much more time and effort than I had thought, and I have to give priority to my studies.
I'll find time to create a runner next week.

[gilga]

What kind of runner to build ? Street ? Established?

[Jack_Spade]

I've used the standard with Sum to Ten AADDE

[Volker]

@luckace: Take your time. If you start thinking about your character after the exam, that's perfectly fine. On the other hand: You won't fail anyway. But as I said: We can wait for a week or two, the exam won't. Take it easy: this is fun, not duty.

@Jack: I'll see through your build as soon as the party gets shape.

@all: I'm not entirely happy with Sum to Ten since it allows to take Priority A twice, which I think is really powerful, but since it's an official rule and it's more a feeling of discomfort than anything else, I'm perfectly fine with it.
I think we don't need any special rules for this group. I'd ask you, however, if you use any qualities, rules or weapons which are not listed in the CRB to inform me via PM. But I don't feel any necessity to restrict anything. So build ahead

[luckace]

Meet Byron Cross AKA Scarcrow
He's a professional shadowrunner who's not very picky with his jobs. He normally does what he's told without questioning it, but tends to try to solve matters without bullets at first. Since Byron is an impressive, bulky troll with nasty scars all over his already pretty nasty face, his preferred way of negotiation is intimidating and indirectly (or sometimes very directly) threatening his opponent, which usually tends to work out better for him than sweet talk. With that, some muscles and a good cyberdoc who owed one or two, Scarcrow managed to make his way from a grumpy nightclub-bouncer to a even grumpier but much more successful augmented shadowrunner who's not afraid of headbutting smugglers, kidnappers and the occasional big-fish-criminal.

But apart from growling at people or beating them to a pulp he is pretty useless.



Name:   Byron Cross
Street name:   Scarcrow
Gender: Male
Metatype: Troll
Lifting/Carrying: 75 kg/50 kg (STRx15/10)
Judge intentions: 6 (CHA+INT)
Composure: 7 (CHA+WIL)
Memory: 6 (LOG+WIL)

Priorities:
   A: Metatype (troll)
   B: Attributes (20)
   C: Money (140k)
   D: Skills (22)
   E: Mundane

Attributes:
   Body             6 (10)
   Agility              4 (6)
   Strength          6 (8 )
   Reaction         3
   Intuition           3
   Logic               2
   Charisma        3
   Willpower        3
   (>> 20 plus the given 11)

   Edge           6

   Armor: 12  + 3 + 1 = 17 (Head: 2 + 3 + 1 = 6)

Skills:   
   Unarmed...........................2 (5)
   Blades...............................5 (+2: sword)
   Exotic melee-weapons.......1
   Throwing weapons.............3
   Automatics.........................6
   First-aid.............................1
   Running.............................2
   Intimidation........................5
   Etiquette............................1
   Perception.........................2
   Computer...........................1

Karma spent: 6 Karma: Perception 0 >> 2; 6 Karma: Unarmed Combat 0 >> 2; 2 Karma: Exotic melee-weapons 0 >> 1; 2 Karma: Computer: 0 >> 1; 2 Karma: Etiquette 0 >> 1; 2 Karma: Free Fall: 0 >> 1

Knowing/Language-skills
   English (native)
   Nepali 3
   Area Knowledge 2
   Weapons 2
   Heavy-metal 1
   Cyberware 1
   Underground 1

Qualities:
   Toughness 9
   High pain tolerance (rating 2) 14
   Distinctive style (completely scarred face) -5
   Uneducated -8
   Incompetent (can't drive) -5

Gear
   Fake SIn (rating 3) (7.500)
   Fake license: possession of firearm (rating 3) (1,5k)
   Fake license: possession of ballistic shield (rating 3) (1.500)
   Fake license: carry of firearm (rating 3) (1,5k)
   Fake license: medical augmentations (rating 2) (1k)
   Titanium-bone-lacing bod+3, armor+3, unarmed +3   (30k)
   Muscle-Replacement str&agi +2: (50k)
   Comlink: Renruka Sensei 2k + (1k)
   Flashlight (25)
   Biomonitor (300)
   Cybereyes (rating 2) with low-light-vision, flare-compensation, smart-link, vision enhancment 2 (20500)
   Quick-draw-holster (400) >> Quick-draw for throwing-knifes -1
   Medkit (rating 3) (750)
   2x Antidote patch (rating 3) (200)
   1 Trauma patch (500)
   3× Medkit supplies (300)

Armor
   Helmet armor+2(100)
   Armor jacket armor+12 (1k)    , fire resistance 2 (500), nonconductivity 2 (500), insulation 2 (500)
   Ballistic shield armor+6 (1,2k)

Weapons:
   Stoner-Ares M202 ACC 5, Damage 10P, AP–3 with external smartgun system (7200) + gas-vent-system (rating 3)     (600)
   Accuracy 5 (6)  Damage: 9P  AP –2   (5,8k)
   10x Flash bang Damage: 10S, Radius 10m (1000)
   2x Flash-pak (250)
   50x APDS-Ammo (automatics): AP-4 (6.000)
   50x Gel-Ammo (automatics): AP+1 (1.250)
   150x Plain, normal, boring standard-Ammo(automatics) (3k)
   Sword ACC 6, STR+3, reach 1, Ap-2 (500)
   Shock gloves 8S, AP-5 (550)
   Knucks Damage: STR+1 (100)
   20 Throwing-knives Damage: STR+1, AP-1 (50)
   
Contacts
Liz (cyberdoc) Loyalty 3, Connection 1
Ashish, "the rat" (smuggler) Loyalty 2, Connection 3

Lifestyle
Low (4.000 per month)



Thanks for your advice, Jack and Volker.

@ Volker: An image link and the smartgun-system are sufficient, right? Or do I also need trodes or something like that?

I assumed that spending Karma at character-creation follows the same rules for costs as later in the game, so I used the tables on page 107 SR5-Core-Rulebook, hope that's correct.

Thanks in advance.

[Jack_Spade]

Yeah, that's right. Defending with a shield is easy if you have the strength.

[Volker]

ad "Attributes": Could you please note the final stats, i.e. Body 10 (14), ...

ad "Skills": So, is this final? Blades 6, Unarmed 3?
Btw: you might consider buying a specialization for either of these.

ad "Gear": You don't have a DNI and your weapon comes without a smartgun system. Are you sure you wanna go without the +2 dice pool modifier from the smartgun system? If I were you (which we both are glad I'm not ;-) ), I'd go for the Stoner-Ares, upgrade it with a smartgun system and get myself a DNI or built-in image link.
Also, am I right you go without any vision enhancements (especially for range)?

ad "Lifestyle": Wait, there's something missing....

ad "Character description": I totally love your style.  "Scarcrow" :-D

ad "Background story": Looking forward to that

[Volker]

@all

So, guys, what exactly do we wanna play? We have one cop now (Jack), one full-blown shadowrunner from abroad (luckace) and one who has yet to show (gilga).
We can now decide whether we want to do

• scenario 1: Some nice cops decide to deal with the bad boys and investigate the Shree Baba people all by themselves.
• scenario 2 (which I prefer): The cops in ktm investigated a little, then lost their enthusiasm. All cops? No! There is one (Jack) who won't give up. He decides to involve a competeting AAA corp who then hires professionals to investigate and eliminate the threat.

What do you want to play? On this decision depends what exactly I have to prepare

[gilga]

Lets do 2.

[gilga]

Before I do my character
- are we playing jumped in with (intuition to drive) and logic to fire or with agility to fire/reaction to drive?  I am working on someone to deck a bit.

[luckace]

I'd also prefer setting number 2.

[Volker]

Before I do my character
- are we playing jumped in with (intuition to drive) and logic to fire or with agility to fire/reaction to drive?  I am working on someone to deck a bit.

I'm note sure about intuition to drive (but I assume there is a rule - I haven't played a rigger yet), but logic to fire remotedly controlled weapons is definitely o.k.

[gilga]

Well I am rolling an awakened pixie decker with a criminal sin.
I wanted her to be a known and dangerous criminal, despite her cute appearance.  Perhaps with the kind of deal - help us on this one mission and we'll let you leave Kathmandu and be some other country problems. If there are no SIN's in Kathmandu I am not sure what negatives to build. I want to do the most 'badass' pixie.

I think she can provide us with magic and decking.  Trying not to 'munchkin' it I am considering almost all equipment including all weapons too big to use. Basically she'll have a helmet with throdes and a deck that was specifically tailored to her dimensions and can only be activated with the throdes. Probably a little bit of armored clothes.  I can also make her a human if pixie is unacceptable.

She is built standard priority A magic, B skills, C meta, D money, E attributes

[Jack_Spade]

Well since my character stands I'm cool with either variant.
Pixie decker sounds really cute, I'm not sure I can imagine a badass variant 

[gilga]

This is the back story - the crunch is nearly finished - a mystic adept that brings some utility spells, decking and doctor stuff (first aid and medicine). She is socially unaware and have big issues with meta humanity so I gave her no social skills to reflect that. Just a negative aditute toward the world, but perhaps her interaction during the run will soften her a little bit. Her name is Delphine, Street name:  Big D.

I am a fucking pixie with butterfly wings, I never wanted to be this little, this harmless and this cute but nobody asked me.  Fucking pixie in a world where everyone is at least four time my size. I was born in captivity as a NeoNet slave, but I was smart - smarter than these human bastards. I made myself useful - a Decker. Perhaps too useful, I got curious and they tossed me to the dogs. I only wanted to find out about my two sisters. I haven't seen them in years.

Socially unaware, and looking like a freaking barbie doll with wings I braved the miserable streets of Kathmandu. I met some people they offered help, I thought they were my friends. They are called the Yakuza, or the triad. I don’t even keep scores, apparently I owed them this thing that is called money and a lot of it. Sure they have jobs for me - to pay them back. These is pay the interest - I am their slave girl. A doll, but the next one to call me doll is going to it! I may look cute but I am not innocent no not at all.

I learned how to do every kind of matrix related crime, from spoofing the comlinks of important people to hacking servers and stealing data. All for the freaking Yaks, these assholes - they took me as a shaken little butterfly and made me into a beautiful criminal. I also killed for them, not once not twice but 21 people so far. I only have one rule, I do not kill other metasapiants, us metasapiants must stick for our own. Humanity? These bunch of slavers deserve everything I give them. They lie and deceive me - I don't understand their social structure and can never tell when they are just being cynical -  gosh I hate this world! I don't belong here - I belong nowhere. 

Recently, I decided to go independent at least as long as I can pay these Yak’s. I want to make some money so that I am free from them. Next step ? I’ll hire the meanest runners I can find and extract my two sisters from NeoNet. Us pixies are intelligent, smart and pretty we are not toys and not dolls. Definately not to be slaves, if we weren't so darn tiny - we'd run the world by now.

There are few specific people that I do not hate as much. Some of them were kind to me, others gave me actual work. One has pretty eyes, and if he was one meter shorter I'd totally fuck his brains out. I only hate humanity as a whole - specific people they can be nice i know that.  If you want to approach me, please get over the freaking butterfly wings before you talk to me. Yes I know I look like I was taken out of a fantasy book, but I am not a child, not a doll and definitely not cute!

== Info ==
Name: Delphine                    Alias:
Pixie, Female                     Movement: 6/12, Fly: 2
50cm, 8kg                         Composure: 8
Street Cred: 0                    Judge Intentions: 10
Notoriety: 0                      Lift/Carry: 2 (15 kg/10 kg)
Public Awareness: 0               Memory: 11
Karma: 0                          Nuyen: 900
Age: 30                           Skin: white
Eyes: Blue                        Hair: Ginger

== Priorities ==
Metatype: C(2) - Human, Dwarf, Elf, or Ork
Attributes: E(0) - 12 Attributes
Special: A(4) - Magician or Technomancer
Skills: A(4) - 46 Skills/10 Skill Groups
Resources: E(0) - 6,000¥
Bonus Skill: Spellcasting
Bonus Skill: Summoning

== Attributes ==
BOD: 1                            CHA: 3
AGI: 3                            INT: 7
REA: 4 (7)                        LOG: 6
STR: 1                            WIL: 5
EDG: 2                            MAG: 11 (6)

== Derived Attributes ==
Essence: 6                        Initiative:           14 + 4d6
Physical Damage Track: 9          Rigger Init:          14 + 4d6
Stun Damage Track: 11             Astral Init:          14 + 2d6
Physical: 4                       Matrix AR Init:       14 + 4d6
Mental: 8                         Matrix VR Cold Init:  7 + DP + 3d6
Social: 6                         Matrix VR Hot Init:   7 + DP + 4d6
Astral: 8

== Active Skills ==
Assensing                         Base: 5  + Karma: 0  = 5   Pool: 12
Binding (Spirits of Man)          Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12 (14)
Biotechnology                     Base: 4  + Karma: 0  = 4   Pool: 10
Computer                          Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 14
Counterspelling                   Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12
Cybercombat                       Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12
Cybertechnology                   Base: 4  + Karma: 0  = 4   Pool: 10
Electronic Warfare                Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12
First Aid                         Base: 4  + Karma: 0  = 4   Pool: 10
Hacking                           Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 14
Hardware                          Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12
Medicine                          Base: 4  + Karma: 0  = 4   Pool: 10
Perception                        Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 13
Software                          Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12
Spellcasting (Combat)             Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12 (14)
Summoning (Spirits of Man)        Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12 (14)

== Knowledge Skills ==
Art                               Base: 3  + Karma: 0  = 3   Pool: 9
Data Havens                       Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 13
French                            Base: 3  + Karma: 0  = 3   Pool: 10
Gaming                            Base: 3  + Karma: 0  = 3   Pool: 10
Gangs                             Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 13
Japanese                          Base: 3  + Karma: 0  = 3   Pool: 10
Latin                             Base: 3  + Karma: 0  = 3   Pool: 10
Magical Theory                    Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12
Sperethiel                        N                     
Sprawl Life                       Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 13

== Contacts ==
Lucky (Street Kiddo) (CON: 2, LOY: 1)

== Qualities ==
Astral Perception
Code of Honor (Awakened)
In Debt X
Mystic Adept
Uneducated

== Spells ==
(Tradition: Psionic, Resist Drain with WIL + INT (12))
Ball Lightning (Limited)   DV: F-3
Heal                       DV: F-4
Increase [Attribute] (Limited) (INT) DV: F-5
Increase [Attribute] (Limited) (LOG) DV: F-5
Influence (Limited)        DV: F-3
Invisibility               DV: F-2
Levitate                   DV: F-2
Mind Probe (Limited)       DV: F-2
Stunbolt                   DV: F-3
Trid Phantasm (Limited)    DV: F-2

== Powers ==
Heightened Concern
Improved Ability (skill) (Hacking) Rating: 2
Improved Ability (skill) (Computer) Rating: 2
Improved Reflexes 3

== Critter Powers ==
Concealment
Vanishing

== Lifestyles ==
Squatter  1 months

== Armor ==
Chameleon Suit                      11
   +Gel Packs
Helmet                              2

== Weapons ==
Unarmed Attack
   Pool: 2        Accuracy: 4     DV: 1S       AP: -     RC: 1

== Commlink ==
Erika MCD-1 (ATT: 4, SLZ: 3, DP: 2, FWL: 1)
   +Bootstrap
   +Browse
   +Configurator
   +Edit
   +Encryption
   +Search
   +Shredder
   +Signal Scrub
   +Toolbox
   +Virtual Machine
   +Armor
   +Baby Monitor
   +Biofeedback
   +Biofeedback Filter
   +Blackout
   +Cat's Paw
   +Cloudless
   +Crash'
   +Decrypt
   +Defuse
   +Demolition
   +Detonator
   +Evaluate
   +Exploit
   +Fly on a Wall
   +Fork
   +Guard
   +Hammer
   +Hitchhiker
   +Lockdown
   +Mugger
   +Nuke-from-Orbit
   +Paintjob
   +Shell
   +Smoke and Mirrors
   +Sneak
   +Stealth
   +Swerve
   +Tantrum
   +Tarball
   +Track
   +Wrapper
== Gear ==
Fetish
Medkit Rating 3

== Description ==
Slim, very good looking with butterfly wings. Cute and fuzzy, but the illusion breaks when she opens her mouth, she just speak her mind and has little understanding of the social situation.


The crunch is almost done I need to decide on what kind of modding to give her Erika.