[The Big Peat]

Pretty much every Runner, sooner or later, ends up with a speciality.

Some like data steals, some like extractions. You get smugglers, hitmen and bounty hunters. This guy hates Ares, that girl loathes Yakuza.

You're more eclectic than that. For want of a better word, you like insanity.

High Risk. Short Notice. Big Impacts. All the jobs that other Runners are too sensible to take, or too crap to be offered - they make their ways to guys like you. Crash Crews. Runners happy to rush in where Angels fear to tread as they are bad-ass mofos. Kidnap the CEO's daughter? Shoot your way through the SWAT squad? Followed by a crawl through a Ghoul infested sewer with lil' Princess in tow?

What, again? Well... how much?

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I'm looking for 4 to 6 peeps who think that sounds fun. I'd call this style Black Mohawk - there will be plenty of explosions and gratuitous violence, but that's because you're pros in that area, not because you're off-duty Punk Rockers who stole an Assault Cannon and want to try it out.

The rules are

600 BP - 300 may be spent on attributes; 65 may be spent on gear (75 with Born Rich); free knowledge points are Int & Logic * 4, not 3; you can max out two attributes and two skills or one skill group; max availability without Restricted Gear is 20.

Books in play are 20A Core; Arsenal; Augmented; Street Magic; Unwired; Runners' Companion*; Way of the Adept. Stuff from the other books might get added later. *Use of the various extra metavariant types will be case by case.

Positive Qualities can go up to 50. Negative Qualities stay where they are.

Adepts without bio or cyber get a free Way from Way of the Adept. Mages without bio or cyber get a free Mentor Spirit. Mystic Adepts in these circs get to pick which - they don't get both.

For an extra 35 points on top of what they pay for magic 6, magically inclined types can have Magic 7 and an Initiated grade.

All of that goes for Technomancers too except with a point of caution I will get to in a moment.


Please don't min-max, you've got a ton of points, that's so you can have powerful, well-rounded characters, not the Pornomancer redux.

Please don't think this will be all combat, all the time. There will be plenty of time for other skills to shine. At the same time, this is not a campaign for a character who is of little use in a firefight. It's probably not a campaign for pacifists or people who want to stay virtuously on the side of law & order and their good cop buddies either.

Expect travel.

Expect Ninjas.

I like good backgrounds.

I, uhm, think that covers most things. Oh wait, yeah!

Technomancers and other techno-characters. I'm not banning them. I'm just very rules-illiterate about them. If you take such a character, you do run the risk of me being a retard at some point, although I will try my absolute hardest.

Right, now I think I've covered most things - lets see if I get any bites.

[farothel]

Sounds like fun.  I have a troll gilette I can upgrade to these standards, with an interesting basic background.  Give me a day or so.

Question: where do we start?  Is important for background and knowledge skills.

[Triggvi]

I am in with a either a mystical adept or regular adept. My adepts tend to me more social than combat but I can do either way. I also like well rounded characters.

[Ympulse]

Count me interested. I'll look into making a Mojo Flinger that can hack competently.

[Crunch]

I'm definitely interested. Are you OK with a player who's new to SR play by post?

[The Big Peat]

Crunch, I am cool with that.

People, this won't be first come, first served - I'll pick the characters I like. If you've got the specifics of a concept and want to run it by me, sure - but if you're interested, get something to me as well. There's no rush, I'm not picking tomorrow or anything, but I want people to know where they stand.

[Mithlas]

This looks pretty interesting - what's your opinion on customized Ways of the Adept? Street Magic (and somewhat Way of the Adept) pretty much outright say in the fluff that these "ways" are things they create/find themselves - I say this because I created a character revolving around the "Way of the Noisy Thief", aka Yamasenken - that part of his backstory was a bit of a joke with him being so obsessed with martial arts anime that he awakened into it. If this isn't okay, I can easily retool to Warrior's Way, I just like the humor idea.

Where we start is the next element - that'll be all I need to fit his backstory into the present setting.

[Ympulse]

Crunch, I am cool with that.

People, this won't be first come, first served - I'll pick the characters I like. If you've got the specifics of a concept and want to run it by me, sure - but if you're interested, get something to me as well. There's no rush, I'm not picking tomorrow or anything, but I want people to know where they stand.

I'll shoot you a PM with my Character's sheet and backstory either tomorrow or the day after.

[HydroRaven]

I'm interested. I'll shoot you a message with my backstory in a few days.

Just a quick question: for magical characters, does the extra 35 BP get your magic to 7 AND an initiated grade or is it 35 BP for the 7th point of magic and 35 points for the first initiated grade?

[SeriousOne338]

Id be interested but am on vacation so making a character before next Friday would be hard.

I have a concept: rich boy adrenaline junkie.

[Novocrane]

I'm interested, and will pm a concept relatively soon.

[Xzylvador]

Oooh! Definately interested!

Would a Face have a place in this group? (When asking this, I don't mean just a bit more pay and a non-violent way to get past Trog the bouncer, but deeper intrigue, relationships and politics.)
If so, I could throw in a version of Silk*... Last game she was in stopped when the GM vanished, but while playing her I discovered that she's kind of at a crossroads and has to either work on improving herself or just give up pretending and accept that she's a psychopath. In that game they got hired by organleggers in what looked to be the start of a long-time work deal...  I suppose in this game, working for Tamanous tipped the scale to the dark side and she'd be willing to do anything as long as the pay is right.
(* Cliché Augmented Adept Lesbian Elf Stripper Ninja; way too long background)

If it's less about intrigue, someone else wants a Face or people just don't like working with a psychopathic b*tch who'll happily stab you in the back for a credstick or two, I'd LOVE to throw in Rafa**.
He's an ex-Chulos gang member who decided he outgrew gang life and became a professional bad-ass mofo. Hasn't gotten all the gang attitude out of him yet and is always eager to show off just how good he is. Shooting up a team of SWAT pigs is insane? Try fending off an Ancients attack on your 'hood with nothing but a shotgun and a broken bottle of booze (which you drank right before smashing it).
(** Wallcrawling Ork B&E Extremely Close & Extreme Distance Specialist Streetsam... and for 600BP, I'll toss in some demolition too!  Background & Pic in previous game)

[Jian]

I'm all for getting into a game... I understand that you are rules-illiterate on the techno-side of things, but which would you prefer of these two suggestions?

A cybered-up combat hacker, who was once a prized corp brat of Horizon before he left cause of dirty deeds, or a technomancer with combat ability who comes from the streets and worships the Resonance?

[Mysteris]

I'm new to SR as a whole but I'd be interested in playing. Right now I've been working on a technomancer hacker who's also a rigger for combat purposes. She's an escapee from a Mitsuhama black lab that did technomancer research in the sixties and early seventies and getting involved in something like this seems right up her alley. The thrill of hacking the unhackable, and of wading into combat with her customized drones to offer distraction and fire support for her team would appeal heavily to her.

If she won't do, would a Pixie mage be allowable?

[Katrex]

Fuck man Im way to slow. We´ll i´ll do a charecter, hopefully you´ll pick cool charecters that mesh well and have good stories, not just first come first served.

As to charecters i have so many bouncing around that have yet to be used.

Adept artisan hacker, maybe a pixie (if its alowed), in this line of work because its the best paying, and shes obsessed with money reasons to be revealed later

troll combat doctor who throws syringes, with such a dangerous style a play a healer might be needed.

an athurian formori athurian knight with amnesia, all he knows is hes got a quest to get stronger no matter what. With no knowlege he should be a morral and noble. Expect a crisis when he regains his memories.

a third generation shadowruner from an experianced shadowruning family, he takes the dangerous jobs so they dont have to and because he loves chalaneging himself. Hes quite mirror shades, and a generalist as he solo runs on occasion.

A forensics investigator from the same shadowruning family. She lives a doublelife and has multiple personas and disguises to acheive it.