Street-level African based Shadowrun campaign?
Boy do I have characters for you! Two of them, in fact.
I'll leave the concepts here, sheets for if I get accepted. And it'd be cool to get accepted as I really want to play.
>>Tom-Tom
>>M 35
>>Dwarf
>>Face/Rigger
"You, American! Wanna see the best of African wildlife upclose? I, Tom-Tom, am best navigator around here! Cheap prices and wild adventure!"
>>Tom-Tom has seen it all. The roaming lions stalking the young antelope. The beauty of the setting sun against the Savannah. The calm of the oasis where giraffes and zebras rest. The close encounters with many a hippo or rhinoceros. The man is an expert of wildlife.
>>He is also an expert at lying, especially since it is ILLEGAL AS FUCK to set up private nature tours outside of approved corporate-run ones. However, there's just something about the man that draws people fresh off the airplane towards him. Maybe it's his smile, the way it makes them comfortable trusting their lives and nuyen to this short stranger. Maybe it's the amazing trick where his jeep navigates the streets of Nairobi automatically as Tom-Tom turns to face his customers with his smile. Maybe it's the brief yet in-depth tour of the wildlife that ends ten before one, right as corporate grunts patrol the wildlands for trespassers. And, thinking about it, some of them might have realized that they somehow missed EVERY patrol checkpoint on their way out of the city, As if their tour guide had hacked into the traffic registry and known ahead of time. And those shady people in the next tour, with those bulky bags? They didn't look like tourists. But, in the end, all they remember is the big smile and strong handshake Tom-Tom gives them when they wire their nuyen into his (rather secure) account, sending them back onto the plane with fond memories of lions, cheetahs, and Tom-Tom's smile.
As you can see, I'm playing up the tour guide bit. I mean, we're in Africa, and no one wants to play a black market safari tour guide/con man?
>>Mwanga
>>F 23
>>Elf
>>Aspected Mage/Gun Sammie
"Don't believe the lies these basha mzungu spout from their mouths about peace and prosperity in Africa. The kivuli dada know what they have done to my body. I will pay it back in full."
>>She was only twelve when she was captured and taken away, sold as a child prostitute. For three years, she has known only drugs, sex, and abuse in the Nairobi red-light districts. But these feelings did not leave her broken. No, they gave her resolve, a burning revenge. And that revenge manifested itself as vengeful spirits that were called to her aid, killing her captors. She ran into the streets, never to be seen by others in the light of day.
>>Rumors abound in the slums and streets alike. Of a mwanga, a witch, roaming the streets with her wretched sisters of shadow, spirits that drag even the bravest of men into the depths of hell itself. They whisper of a girl who is so young, and yet her eyes feel so old, so full of hate and anger and fear. But not many notice the young girl working as a waitress in Orteo's Cafe, a popular hangout for locals. And no one bats an eye when a businessman who has had too much to drink goes missing, last seen near Orteo's. But, sometimes she stares at the tall office buildings that the corporations have built, looming over the slums she sought refuge in all those years ago. The day will come, she tells herself, when the mzungu that sit in their ivory towers will pay for the sins they have wrought upon her and her homeland. But, even witches need money from time to time, and so she sometimes disappears, returning with a bit more money than a slummer should carry. But they don't really notice her. And that's how she likes it.
This one reflects the darker aspects of the world, more specifically the sex trade. I wanted to create a character who personified vengeance. I am also aiming to show how cool Aspected Mages can be if played right.
