[SeriousOne338]

Campaign Name: Plato Lied
recruitment
Theme: High Seas Pirates

Start: 400bp or karma gen 750, all books are ok, but if I don't have one you are using be prepared to answer questions. Also I will be using CyberPirates book, this is an older book so not all rules will be used. Also I want to know why your character is choosing to be on the seas, 2072 seas are not the nicest places the maps literal have their be monsters here and mean it. The game will start in a Hawaiian port but we might not stay
Additional: The starting ship/boat will be supplied it will not be the best but will function. Also there will be a small crew of npc's: junior engineer, a cook, and 2 deckhands/marines.

Hints: swimming/diving/ pilot water vehicle/gunnery might be a good skill. Media addiction will be bad as these places will most likely not have net access. Also home ground quality is a no go; please keep the crazy restricted gear to minimum.

I am aiming for 4 players with 2 additional kept in reserve.  There should be a leader/captain, gunners mate, engineer, and a hacker, any can be mages and these are just suggested positions. Also expect combat both naval and cqb. 

I hope to close recruitment by Sunday and start the game on Monday of next week.


So who's game?

[The Big Peat]

Initial brief pitch

Crow is an Elven Warrior Adept, a man whose preternatural reflexes and sense for danger has made him a dark legend amongst his fellows, a warrior so driven that he's accepted a little hole in his soul just to get that edge, a lad whose lust for adventure has taken him from his little home on the western shore facing the sunset, through the marines, into life as a mercenary, and now he's a hard bitten runner, beholden to no one but himself, his friends, nuyen and the gods of the ocean.

Crow would probably fit into the gunner's mate category in that he's at his strongest when it comes to killing people in lots of different ways, although there's some other stuff he can do thanks to his rounded career... ok, mainly scare people.

Full sheet tomorrow hopefully. Arr!

[Xzylvador]

Interested, got a Hacker/Rigger, Wagner

Will modify background/contacts/drones(?) and some other stuff to fit better. Also need to find a way to put in a few quirks I found in the character during the brief time I got to play... he's turned out to be bit more looney than I originally thought he'd be; joining pirates really seems like something he'd actually do.

[SeriousOne338]

He might work, But you might want to look into re-writing his sheet. The sea is not a nice place ships go missing are attacked by giant monsters, pirates, private military, who knows craziness is usual for them.  Your drones and vehicles are useless on the sea so if your only going to do a small amount of  re-writing.

[vinnmun]

I'm interested in making a high seas mage or something. I can put something together tonight. If you have a chummer, pm your email and I can send you a chummer file.

[SeriousOne338]

Don't worry post your character as a Text file here.

[crisses]

Would you consider a Changeling/SURGEIII metagenic adapted to the ocean?

Started sketching it out, thinking background and such....

Also, how big is the ship if I might ask?  Relatively small crew, so I'm wondering whether this is a smuggling vessel, pirate vessel, etc.

Basically building a character around being seabound ("What type of person would prefer to be shipboard?")

[SeriousOne338]

Would you consider a Changeling/SURGEIII metagenic adapted to the ocean?

Started sketching it out, thinking background and such....

Also, how big is the ship if I might ask?  Relatively small crew, so I'm wondering whether this is a smuggling vessel, pirate vessel, etc.

Basically building a character around being seabound ("What type of person would prefer to be shipboard?")

Surge Class 3 what are you taking? gills? underwater sight? Sonar? sure those are OK

The ship is going to be about as large as a PT boat right now, there will be chances to trade up  but the crew ship is starting small.  IT could be used as a smuggler, or outfitting with better weapons to try pirating.

[CitizenJoe]

Let me tell you a little inspirational story about Hawaii that my mother told me about a good friend of hers.

This guy had studied under the elders all about the currents and stuff around the islands and did a graduate thesis on it.  The question was, how did the ancient Hawaiians manage to navigate around without any of the modern equipment.  So, to test things out he led a group on one of those ocean going outrigger canoes and proceeded to sail from I want to say Oahu to the Big Island (Hawaii).  He was up for like 40 hours straight, keeping them on course.  When they got within site of the Big Island, he passed out to let them finish the journey.  But the fog rolled in and they got lost.  Dead asleep on the hull of the canoe, this guy could feel the current and the lapping of the waves and knew they were off course.  He got up and led them through the fog to port. 

[SeriousOne338]

Let me tell you a little inspirational story about Hawaii that my mother told me about a good friend of hers.

This guy had studied under the elders all about the currents and stuff around the islands and did a graduate thesis on it.  The question was, how did the ancient Hawaiians manage to navigate around without any of the modern equipment.  So, to test things out he led a group on one of those ocean going outrigger canoes and proceeded to sail from I want to say Oahu to the Big Island (Hawaii).  He was up for like 40 hours straight, keeping them on course.  When they got within site of the Big Island, he passed out to let them finish the journey.  But the fog rolled in and they got lost.  Dead asleep on the hull of the canoe, this guy could feel the current and the lapping of the waves and knew they were off course.  He got up and led them through the fog to port.

Great Story,
the reason I choose Hawaii was because I wanted a port in the pacific away from Seattle.

[Crash_00]

Looks like you've got your four characters already, but I've got an idea for a utility/engineer character. His name is Squid and he grew up as part of a smuggling family. After a stint in the UCAS coast guard (from which he was dishonorably discharged and imprisoned for a bit), he wound up on a "fishing boat" in Hawaii trying to make ends meet.

If you've got room for him either as an active or reserve I'll post a full sheet up later (Related, do you use the german Karma gen rules or the US ones or some weird cross generation).

[SeriousOne338]

The same ones as the Companion nothing weird.

[Xzylvador]

please keep the crazy restricted gear to minimum.

I'll take this to mean that the GE Vanquisher Heavy Autocannon isn't really an option? (Arsenal 124)

Your drones and vehicles are useless on the sea so if your only going to do a small amount of  re-writing.

Doberman drones can be used while entering ships, no? Or am I getting the wrong idea here...
Just asking because boat drones might be useful to sink other boats but the second we need to, well, do anything other than sink boats, land-based drones would be required, no?
(I do understand that the car is quite useless.)

[The Big Peat]

Serious One, can you just clarify which set of the KarmaGen rules we're using/post a list of posts, as Chummer seems different from the Runner's Companion seems different from the German errata, and I am confused on things like whether I pay for my metatype and so on.

Also, does the ship come with guns, or is any such stuff going to have to come out of our allowances?

[vinnmun]

Mage / Nautical Mechanic (Using KarmaGen) - Possible Final Version

Question, what would be a good specialization for nautical mechanic and piloting a boat for fishermen? So many boat and types, i dont know what fits in what specialty.

Name: Lan McDoogle
Aliases: Simon Belford (Fake Sin), Hellion (Nickname)
Sex: Male
Ht: 6'3"
WT: 185lbs

Background: Lan grew up a fishermen, like his father before him and his father before him in Tir na Nog. His father was a sailor for the Tir na Nog navy in special operations. Lan was always intrigued by the mechanics of things and was taught some basic stuff on maglocks and such. If Lan was not fishing, than he was studying and when he was in his teens, his magical abilities awakened. They spoke to an old priest in their small village west of Castlebar. the priest, a follower of the Path of the Wheel became his mentor and shaped him into a man of nature. He wanted to start his journey on a path similar to his father's but in another place. He was granted money by his father to open up a fishermen place in Tír Tairngire, when he studied that much fortune can now be made with their more liberal politics from previous. Once there, he began his journey which did not go far. He ended up selling the business but keeping his boat, and sailed finding a new path for himself, reaching Hawaii, in hopes for something better.

Personality: Kind and adventurous with the willing to be a team player and a lover for women. He longs to find his path in life, guided by the spirits of the earth.

Attributes

Body	Agility	Reaction	Strength
3	2	4	2
Charisma	Intuition	Logic	Willpower
6	4	4	5
Edge	Magic	Essence	Initiative
4	5	6	8 / 1 Pass

Positive Qualities
Focused Concentration (Rating 1)
Magician
Mentor Spirit (Great Mother)
Negative Qualities
Phobia (Common, Moderate, Spiders)
Sensitive System
SINner (Lan McDoogle)

Active Skills

Conjuring Skill Group	3
Spellcasting (Health)	5 (+2)
Counterspelling (Manipulation)	4 (+2)
Assensing (Astral Signatures)	4 (+2)
Perception (Visual)	3 (+2)
PIlot Watercraft (Ship)	1
Nautical Mechanic	2
Hardware (Maglocks)	2 (+2)
Leadership (Persuasion)	1 (+2)
Con (Fast Talk)	1 (+2)
Swimming (Long Distance)	2 (+2)

Knowledge Skills

Parazoology	4 (8dice)
Magical Theory	4 (8dice)
Magical Threats	2 (6dice)
Fishing	3 (7 Dice)
Mechanical Engineering	3 (7 Dice)
Spirits	4

Language Skills

English	N
Irish Sperethiel	4
Irish Gaelic	2

Spells
Health

• Detox
• Increase Charisma
• Increase Reflexes
• Nutrition

Manipulation

• Control Thoughts
• Fling
• Levitate
• Influence

Gear (100,000¥)

Form Fitting Half Suit	900¥
Steampunk Coat	1000¥
Survival Knife	50¥
Sustaining Focus Rating 3 (Health)(Bonded)	30,000¥
Power Focus Rating 2  (Bonded)	50,000¥
Glasses Rating 2 (Image Link, Vision Enhancement 3)	375¥
7x Tranq Patches (Rating 6)	480¥
Sony Emperor w/ Renraku Ichi	1300¥
Browse Rating 1	100¥
Tool Kit (Nautical)	500¥
Tool Kit (Hardware)	500¥
Earbuds Rating 3 (Spatial Recognizer, Audio Enhancement 3)	430¥
Miniwelder	250¥
Monofilament Chainsaw	300¥
Sequencer Rating 4	800¥
Medkit Rating 6	600¥
Fake License (Rating 3) - Sustaining Focus	300¥
Fake License (Rating 3) - Summoning Focus	300¥
Fake License (Rating 3) - Spellcasting Focus	300¥
Fake Sin Rating 3 (Simon Belford)	3000¥

Contacts

Contact		C/L
Edda Nika (Talismonger Hawaii)		2/3

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