[Volker]

Okay, boys, sorry it took me longer this time. Here we go:

@Jack:

As I understand, your build is full up. I'm missing the backstory, though. I'd be interested to check this out before we start through. And please leave some notes about how you see your role in the start of the plot: who do you know, what's your intention, and so on. You're the only non-runner, if I got that right.

@luckace:

If there is anything you'd like to alter (see my post after your character), this would be the time. I think it's a nice thing you renamed your Renraku Sensei to Renruka Sensei, as it reminds me of Renuka hope she and the baby are well.
As I said, you might want to invest in visual enhancements which can cost you a lot of dice. I'd also choose a bit of a ... trollier weapon, but that's a matter of taste only.

Are you sure that "Cyberware" doesn't count as a technical skill towards Uneducated?

@gilga:

I must admit that I'm not absolutely friend with pixies as shadowrunners, since they are uncommonly rare, are outstanding and extraordinary even in the Sixth World. Even more so, they are a rather strange character to play in Kathmandu, since there are no Pixie populations anywhere outside Europe. I don't have a problem with you playing it, if you like, but please consider that this is the most awkward character imaginable, and might possibly spoil the theme the same way 3CPO would have spoilt The Lord of the Rings.
But feel free to play it anyway if you like it. It's 2075, and planes fly everywhere. Just be aware that the majority of people in Kathmandu will never even have heard that things like you exist.


Some comments on your stats:

• Is MAG: 11 a typo?
• How do you manage INT: 7, LOG: 6 and WIL: 5 with only 12 attributes? I can't look up Pixie stats just right now but on the assumption that you don't get racial modifiers worht 10 points, there must be a mistake somewhere here.
• Your skills sum up to a total of 87 points. Skills A gives you a maximum of 76 points. Where does the rest come from?
• Could you please post how you spent your Karma?
• Erika is not a commlink, but a deck. Anyway, more importantly: You are aware that you don't have a DNI, I assume. This means, you can only ever deck in AR mode.
• How exactly do you pay for Erika (49,500) and 42 programs (most of them each 250 nuyen) with 6,000 nuyen?

If you want to play the character, please solve these issues. I might have missed some new rules, but I'm almost absolutely sure this is a (very) illegal build. I'm not entirely happy if I have to check every single stat of your character.

[gilga]

The character is chummer legal - unless there is a bug in pixie stats in chummer. she has Skills A and Magic A so thats 10 +46 +10 skill group points - 
that add 6*3 (craking) + 4*4 (some groups have 4 skills, first aid medicine, biotechnology and cyber technology)
18+16+56 = 90 skill points.
Mag is 6 (don't know why the 11) - pixies has amazing attributes but cannot use almost any gear  due to being small.

Erika was paid by the in debit quality. I wanted to play a pixie so socially unaware that she did not even understand the concept of money, this is how she got in the pocket of the bad guys. As far as chummer 5 follows the rules all my characters are rule legal. I can come up with some other race if pixie is a problem.

[Volker]

Okeydokey :-)

So, Magic is 6, that's fine. I looked up pixie stats and since they really do get 10 points of race modifiers, that's fine, too. You're right about the skills. I don't know indebted/indebit (?), since it's not from the CRB, but I believe that'll be fine, too, then.

About the pixie I would really ask you to choose another metatype. After reading the discription I would say it is (nigh) impossible that a pixie would ever voluntarily enter Kathmandu, let alone fly there by plane, let alone become a shadowrunner. So if that's not a big issue, please play an elf or a Gandharvas / Apsarases or something that fits the theme. Thanks!

[gilga]

Think about illegal cooperate hunters, they come to some tree house in France, capture all pixies with toxic gas or anything equally nasty. Put them in little cages and ship them for experimentation in 3rd world countries...  Yes like in Kathmandu. In these countries pixies are not even considered people. You can kill and experiment on them and there is no law saying that you can't. Their little nation can't protect them - and pixies have nothing going on for them.

Now consider that pixies disappear as they die. All these medical experiments are performed while the pixie is still alive. Perhaps even fully alert as who knows what modern medicine will do to its body. Scientist cut it open and check inside, while the helpless pixie is gagged and cannot even screame in horror.  No pain killers as normal medicine is unpredictable on such an exotic creature and why risk it - the pixie will die eventually anyhow.  Now consider a pixie that managed to escape from such a lab? What does it feel about meta humanity? Can it just hop on a plane and go back to France? It has no SIN, no money and cannot even legally buy a pane ticket if it had.  She is not a person and cannot find a legitimate job. She is so exotic that people can just capture and sell her, she hides what she is. Shop online and only form social connections with people she can really trust,  the shadows are really her only valid option.

And unliek C3PO, pixies are difficult to observe. Most people will never see a pixie.  They are tiny and magically concealed and can blend in a crowds  as long they do not interact with people. Nobody will know they are there.  My Decker pixie will only deal with people online and hide the fact that she is a pixie from most but her most trusted friends. People can just sub do her and sell her at the local market.  Imagine the anger, imagine the frustration the rage on meta humanity for having such a life. Oh, Pixies are extremely dark and they have all the reasons to pop up in a shit hole like Kathmandu.

[Volker]

Well, sounds like you thought this matter through. All right, fine by me! Go ahead You seem to know what you're in for. How exactly will she become a shadowrunner? How did she learn how to hack?
If it's no big deal for you, could you post how you spent Karma? That is, not only you but Jack as well (luckace already did).

[Jack_Spade]

I've spend 15 to raise Log 2 to 3, 10 to raise Edge from 1 to 2 and 5 to activate the Acting skill group to 1 and 2 to actiavate Computer to 1

[gilga]

Like you asked, I did a new one. A human generalist, mystic adept, decker and a bit of a drone controller.
karma is 10 body 1-->2
and 10 positive qualities. 

I still got to do knowledge skills and perhaps play just a tiny bit with the skill allocation.  Overall this character decks, spell-cast summon, impersonate other people, and operate drones + drive.
He is an old timer, definitely not the one to be in a gun fight. I imagine him as an old con-man, that did all sort of crimes over the years, from cyber crime to street cons and identity theft. I imagine him mostly as overwatch unless we need to impersonate someone. He can do that very well. His only combat option is gunnery - so he definitely belongs in the car.

He is no pixie - he decks a little bit with his RCC, that I added a stealth dongle to, but he is not the dedicated decker type and cannot perform all kind of decking stuff.  (This is why I think of perhaps changing the skills a little bit. )

== Info ==
Name: Mark                        Alias:
Human                             Movement: 2/4
                                  Composure: 5
Street Cred: 0                    Judge Intentions: 7
Notoriety: 0                      Lift/Carry: 4 (15 kg/10 kg)
Public Awareness: 0               Memory: 9
Karma: 0                          Nuyen: 1215
Age:                              Skin:
Eyes:                             Hair:

== Priorities ==
Metatype: E(0) - Human
Attributes: E(0) - 12 Attributes
Special: A(4) - Magician or Technomancer
Skills: A(4) - 46 Skills/10 Skill Groups
Resources: C(2) - 140,000¥
Bonus Skill: Spellcasting
Bonus Skill: Summoning

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

== Derived Attributes ==
Essence: 6                        Initiative:           9 + 4d6
Physical Damage Track: 10         Rigger Init:          9 + 4d6
Stun Damage Track: 10             Astral Init:          10 + 2d6
Physical: 3                       Matrix AR Init:       9 + 4d6
Mental: 7                         Matrix VR Cold Init:  5 + DP + 3d6
Social: 5                         Matrix VR Hot Init:   5 + DP + 4d6
   Mortimer of London: Argentum Coat [+1] (Must be visible)
Astral: 7

== Active Skills ==
Computer                          Base: 4  + Karma: 0  = 4   Pool: 10
Con (Fast Talk)                   Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 10 (12)
Counterspelling                   Base: 4  + Karma: 0  = 4   Pool: 10
Cybercombat                       Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12
Disguise                          Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 14
Electronic Warfare                Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12
Gunnery (Ballistic)               Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 7 (9)
Hacking                           Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12
Hardware                          Base: 4  + Karma: 0  = 4   Pool: 10
Impersonation (Human)             Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 8 (10)
Perception                        Base: 4  + Karma: 0  = 4   Pool: 9
Pilot Ground Craft (Remote Operation) Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 10 (12)
Software                          Base: 4  + Karma: 0  = 4   Pool: 10
Spellcasting (Health)             Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12 (14)
Summoning (Spirits of Man)        Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 12 (14)

== Knowledge Skills ==
                                  Base: 0  + Karma: 0  = 0   Pool: 0
                                  Base: 0  + Karma: 0  = 0   Pool: 0
Bars and Clubs                    Base: 5  + Karma: 0  = 5   Pool: 10
Data Havens                       Base: 5  + Karma: 0  = 5   Pool: 10
English                           N                     
Fashion                           Base: 5  + Karma: 0  = 5   Pool: 10
Korean                            Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 11
Magical Theory                    Base: 4  + Karma: 0  = 4   Pool: 10
News                              Base: 5  + Karma: 0  = 5   Pool: 10
Russian                           Base: 6  + Karma: 0  = 6   Pool: 11

== Qualities ==
Aged (Rating 2)
Brand Loyalty (Product) (RCC)
Emotional Attachment
In Debt V
Jack of All Trades Master of None
Mentor Spirit (Seducer)
Mystic Adept
Records on File (EVO)

== Spells ==
(Tradition: Hermetic, Resist Drain with WIL + LOG (9))
Heal                       DV: F-4
Improved Invisibility (Limited) DV: F-3
Increase [Attribute] (LOG) DV: F-3
Increase [Attribute] (INT) DV: F-3
Increase [Attribute] (CHA) DV: F-3
Levitate                   DV: F-2
Shapechange                DV: F-3
Stunball (Limited)         DV: F-2
Trid Phantasm (Limited)    DV: F-2
Vehicle Mask               DV: F-3

== Powers ==
Attribute Boost (AGI) Rating: 1
Facial Sculpt Rating: 3
Heightened Concern
Improved Physical Attribute (BOD) Rating: 1
Improved Reflexes 3

== Lifestyles ==
Medium  1 months

== Armor ==
Armor Jacket                        12
   +Electrochromic Clothing
Helmet                              2
Mortimer of London: Argentum Coat   12
   +Concealability
   +Custom Fit (Stack)
   +Electrochromic Clothing

== Weapons ==
Unarmed Attack
   Pool: 0        Accuracy: 3     DV: 1S       AP: -     RC: 1

== Commlink ==
Vulcan Liegelord (ATT: 0, SLZ: 0, DP: 5, FWL: 6)
   +Stealth Dongle Rating 2
   +Add Attack Modification
   +Modify Matrix Attribute
   +Vectored Signal Filter
   +Autosoft (Perception) Rating 6
   +Autosoft (AK-97) Rating 6
   +Autosoft (Pilot Bulldog) Rating 6
   +Signal Scrub
   +Toolbox
   +Virtual Machine
   +Encryption
   +Edit
   +Browse
   +Armor
   +Biofeedback Filter
   +Decrypt
   +Defuse
   +Demolition
   +Detonator
   +Fly on a Wall
   +Smoke and Mirrors
   +Stealth
   +Sneak
   +Exploit
   +Wrapper
   +Baby Monitor

== Gear ==
Ammo: Gel Rounds (Assault Rifles) x200
Ammo: Regular Ammo (Assault Rifles) x140
Earbuds Rating 3
   +Audio Enhancement Rating 3
Fetish
Glasses Rating 4
   +Vision Enhancement Rating 3
   +Thermographic Vision
Medkit Rating 6
Tool Kit (Disguise)
Tool Kit (Hardware)

== Vehicles ==
GM-Nissan Doberman (Medium)
   +Weapon Mount
   +Sensor Array Rating 3
GM-Nissan Doberman (Medium)
   +Weapon Mount
   +Sensor Array Rating 3
GM-Nissan Doberman (Medium)
   +Weapon Mount
   +Sensor Array Rating 3
Horizon Flying Eye (Minidrone)
   +Sensor Array Rating 3
Horizon Flying Eye (Minidrone)
   +Sensor Array Rating 3
Horizon Flying Eye (Minidrone)
   +Sensor Array Rating 3
Sikorsky-Bell Microskimmer (Microdrone)
   +Sensor Array Rating 3
Sikorsky-Bell Microskimmer (Microdrone)
   +Sensor Array Rating 3
Toyota Gopher (Heavy-Duty Pickup)
   +Sensor Array Rating 2

[Volker]

@gilga

Sounds good. Looks like an interesting character. Looking forward to it.

@all

I can't promise that I find the time during working breaks, but I'll try and set up the first post today. Jack, if you can answer those questions:

As I understand, your build is full up. I'm missing the backstory, though. I'd be interested to check this out before we start through. And please leave some notes about how you see your role in the start of the plot: who do you know, what's your intention, and so on. You're the only non-runner, if I got that right.

I can still consider them before I make something up on my own.

[Jack_Spade]

Oh sorry, didn't see that question.
Usually I develop the personality during play, but what I can say about Cinder is:

He loves his job despite the hardship.
He genuinely wishes to improve the situation of his fellow people.
It's especially bitter for him that he isn't allowed to investigate further into the actions of the cult since his own nephew (Tavi) has been recruited by them and not returned home in a week.
He spent a lot of money he did not have to get some help and now not only has to solve this but also earn some money. Since the money lies with the corporations he asks around if one of those have interests in the cult being stopped. 

[Volker]

Got it. I'm really busy in my job atm, but I won't let you hang any longer than necessary! Promise!

[Volker]

The thing is on. Bliss, Bless and a Piece of Hell.

Enjoy!