[Thermo]

Characters:

Alias	Description	Specialty
Iceblade	Male Elven Mage, Spellsword Tradition	Possession-based Melee Blademaster
Lost	Male Elven Mage, Black Magic Tradition	Dark King Worshipping Combat Mage
Hyena	Female Orkish Adept	Jungle Samurai Ranged Weapon Specialist
Jerry	Male Dwarven Cybered Mundane	Highly Adaptable Rigger/Hacker Jack-of-all-trades
Doc T	Male Human Cybered Mundane	Mercenary Bodyguard and Combat Medic
Eugene	Male Orkish Mage	Hallucinating Arcane Scholar Shaman

Rules of the Table:
This list will be added to as I think of things or as changes become necessary.

• Invisible Castle is to be used for rolls whenever possible. I understand that some companies have blocked this web address and therefore alternate dice rolling programs are necessary.
• Use the IC thread for any dice rolling that I will need to keep track of, such as rolls during combat. OOC thread can be used for things such as rolling for starting resources or things that are being done "in the background", such as rolls to get information from a contact.
• We will be using a color-coded text system to make things easier to read and understand.
• Please put all OOC comments that appear in the IC thread in italics.
• I appreciate it when players care enough to argue their point, especially if they believe I'm forgetting something or reading the rules wrong. Don't push the issue beyond reasonable bounds, I may have reasons to over-rule the suggested game rules guidelines as they are printed in the commonly accepted game book.
• I will try to get responses to player questions and will try to post information that keeps the game moving on a daily basis. I've been abandoned by GM's before (yes, more than one), and it totally sucks. I promise that I will do my best to enthusiastically GM this game and will always try to keep the player's enjoyment in mind. All I ask is that all of you give the same respect.

This first page will have various items added to it in the near future, stay tuned Chummers

[farothel]

Here's my character: http://forums.shadowrun4.com/index.php?topic=487.msg95634#msg95634

rolling for starting funds:
low lifestyle (3d6) + 100 nuyen left = 3d6+1 *50 (3d6+1=12)
12*50= 600 nuyen starting

[RelentlessImp]

Lost is here.
Starting nuyen is 4d6*500=7500 7500/500  = 15, 15+6 = 21, 21*500 = 10,500

EDIT: *innocently whistles a tune*

[Mirikon]

Hoi, chummers. Let's get this show on the road.

[Thermo]

The game has begun in the IC thread. Go forth, prosper, and try not to get yourselves killed. It's dangerous out there.

[farothel]

Question: do we already know each other or not?

[Thermo]

No you do not know each other, though you may have at least heard of each other's aliases through various Shadowland bulletin boards

[Thermo]

Everyone's got licenses for all their restricted gear, riiiight? Along with good (i.e. plausible) background stories? If not, now would be a great time to shuffle a few things around to arrange for those. Just sayin'.

[farothel]

Everyone's got licenses for all their restricted gear, riiiight? Along with good (i.e. plausible) background stories? If not, now would be a great time to shuffle a few things around to arrange for those. Just sayin'.

Normally I have (fake) licences.  I'll have to think up a backstory, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem.  At the moment I'm only carrying a pistol and a knife from my restricted gear (and someone carrying a pistol in Seattle is not all that strange, from what I know about the city).  A bigger problem is going to be my heavy weaponry, which is F rated.

[Mirikon]

I have licenses for weapons, my vehicle, and to be a male escort. Which ties into my cover story as well.

[RelentlessImp]

So long as "I was a trusted gofer for a criminal underlord" counts as a good backstory, then yes, yes I do have licenses. *innocently whistles a tune*

[Thermo]

The licenses aren't for use in getting around Seattle, they're for getting past backwater security teams of AK-97 wielding thugs. People who eat war for breakfast. The worse your backstory, the bigger the bribe they'll demand. If you bring something TOO crazy, the bribe just might be the item in question.

F-rated firepower is not a good idea. If it's due to sound suppressors, dump them and get barrel-mounted ones later. Or get new firearms entirely once you're outside Seattle.

[farothel]

The licenses aren't for use in getting around Seattle, they're for getting past backwater security teams of AK-97 wielding thugs. People who eat war for breakfast. The worse your backstory, the bigger the bribe they'll demand. If you bring something TOO crazy, the bribe just might be the item in question.

F-rated firepower is not a good idea. If it's due to sound suppressors, dump them and get barrel-mounted ones later. Or get new firearms entirely once you're outside Seattle.

I have a couple of F-rated items, like tag erasers and jammers.  I don't think they would be much of a problem (those backwater 'security' goons probably don't recognise them anyways and they're small enough to be concealable).  The other is an Ares Alpha, and in Africa they have a different idea of what is legal and illegal (in those places that have laws to start with).  Normally my equipment should be able to get through Lagos and most Nigerian kingdoms.  And there I'm the native guide, so I'll be of the same type as those security goons.  And if really necessary, there's a giant open-air weapons market in Lagos where you can get all kinds of weapons really cheap (including poisons and nukes should you need them).

[Sentinemodo]

Thermo, not sure about vocabulary rules, Jerry isn't very likeable, but I can tune down curses if that's offending anyone.
also I don't want to spoil the campaign in the very first post starting a brawl at the entry, so feel free to rough him up and proceed - with a Body of 2 he got kinda used to beeing abused, not that it learnt him any.

I hope his tongue won't take him out of the run

[RelentlessImp]

So we have our very own pervert dwarf named Jerry. Crawling, begging, and boot-licking a perfect stranger... why, I didn't know such perverted dwarves were that common in the Sixth World.