[Rockopolis]

Well, I agree with you on the 'mild' versions, though I disagree with the Uncouth thing; so far as I've seen, Uncouth means you stand out above and beyond the run of the mill jerkass.  It's taking unpleasantness to an unconscious art form.  A virtuoso of failure.  And it's often not even cool unpleasantness, it's probably a lot of things like "If you have to pick your nose, at least don't do it in the middle of a conversation!".
If nothing else, it's similar to the kind of thing that makes gaming conventions post "Please remember to shower" signs.

EDIT: It's a 20 point negative quality.  It's as bad as Dracula's aversion to sunlight.  It is worse than an obvious drug addict.  It's twice as bad as cyberpsychosis, which you're only supposed to take if you're in the toaster range below 1 essence, and just look at the name!

[fazzamar]

Regarding the Notoriety adjusting rule, mild addiction won't affect Notoriety, but the rest of them are in.

[Triggvi]

how many players are we short at this point?

[fazzamar]

how many players are we short at this point?

I have 5 people who have submitted characters, just waiting for updates/corrections.

[fazzamar]

Since we are almost ready to get started, only 2 more characters that are needing a little updating, you guys have a choice to make.
Do you want to say that your characters have been running together in Manhattan for the past two or so months, that way everyone is comfortable with each other?
Or do you want to have everyone meet for the first time at the J meeting?

[Triggvi]

I am thinking that Meat Puppet is reasonable new to Shadow-running. I can go either way with her.

[Redwulfe]

Yurei is not very new but has only probably done one or two runs, I am amendable to meet with the team a head of time or to know someone at the meet at least, it never really made since to me why everyone had to meet the Johnson.

[Cato]

Either choice is fine with me.

[gargamel]

nexus, my character, has been running for a long time and i like the idea of him being pushed outside his comfort zone in working with realative newbies

[Triggvi]

Do we want to role-play a pre-meet. Some we can get to know each other before sitting down with Mr Johnson?

[Redwulfe]

I prefer a pre meet, one vote for yes, it could also be something we could do giving the GM time to prep.

[Triggvi]

I noticed that we only have 2 characters on the character thread.

Character Thread

[Cato]

A pre-meet works for me.  I'll post my character's sheet in the thread.

[fazzamar]

Quick update, the one character we're waiting on, the player hasn't logged on since the 22nd, so I'm going to give him a couple more days then we'll get started with just you four.
Also, this causes me to remind everyone about the "7 days elapse from the date of your second to last post, your character dies" rule which kicks in once I make the first post in the, hopefully, soon to be created IC thread.
Which reminds me, if anyone else is still interested in playing, please sign-up, we might have an opening sooner than later

Regarding meeting before hand, I'll arrange for a pre-J-meeting meeting for your characters, however I do need everyone to post or PM a short blurb about their character's relationship with their fixer contact.
Meat Puppet: I'm going to assume that since he is just a loyalty of 4 (buddy) that the two of you are no longer an item?

[Triggvi]

Fixer-X is an ex-boyfriend of hers. They are not an item.