Hi guys,
My friends have invited me to join their group. I understand that they already have a Sam/B&E, a decker/rigger and a mage/face. Their character will be optimised, but not to munchkin degree.
They are looking to play a gritty black trenchcoat game, with heavy roleplaying.
I am looking to create an infiltrator/Jack of all trade to complement their group as they already have all the roles filled. She is Major Kusanagi (ghost in shell) inspired. I am hoping to infiltrate by hacking the devices using her datajack. I tried to spread the attributes so that my character can pick up 90% of the new skills and be somewhat efficient at it easily.
My GM is house ruling the bricking is just software error and will not require surgury to fix my implanted cyberdeck. Also replacing the cyberdeck does not require surgury but rather replacing the processor chips through the maintenance port.
Low edge is definitely a problem. I will increase it to 2 when i get my first 10 karma from runs.
As this is my first time playing this game, will appreciate if you guys can help critique my character. Candour will be doubly appreciated.
She is made using the following priority:-
A - Skills
B - Resources
C - Attributes
D - Metatype
E - Mundane
I used my karma to picked up:-
Bod 1 -> 2
Wis 2 -> 3
Gymnastics, Running, Impersonation and Disguise 1
For my 10 skills group points, i picked 6 Electronics group and 4 influence group
== Info ==
Street Name: Yuri Yamamoto
Name: Alexis Azarova
Movement: 12/24
Karma: 0
Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 0
Public Awareness: 0
Elf Female Age 24
Height 170 Weight 60kg
Composure: 9
Judge Intentions: 12
Lift/Carry: 5 (45 kg/30 kg)
Memory: 9
Nuyen: 25
== Attributes ==
BOD: 2
AGI: 4 (6)
REA: 3 (6)
STR: 1 (3)
CHA: 6
INT: 6
LOG: 4 (6)
WIL: 3
EDG: 1
== Derived Attributes ==
Essence: 0.67
Initiative: 12 + 1d6
Rigger Initiative: 12 + 1d6
Astral Initiative:
Matrix AR Initiative: 12 + 1d6
Matrix Cold Initiative: 6 +DP + 3d6
Matrix Hot Initiative: 6 +DP + 4d6
Physical Damage Track: 9
Stun Damage Track: 10
== Limits ==
Physical: 5
Mental: 7
Social: 6
== Active Skills ==
Animal Handling : 0 Pool: 5
Archery : 0 Pool: 5
Armorer : 0 Pool: 5
Automatics : 0 Pool: 5
Blades : 0 Pool: 5
Clubs : 0 Pool: 5
Computer : 6 Pool: 12
Con : 6 [Fast Talk] Pool: 12 (14)
Cybercombat : 0 Pool: 5
Demolitions : 0 Pool: 5
Disguise : 1 Pool: 7
Diving : 0 Pool: 1
Electronic Warfare : 6 [Sensor Operations] Pool: 12 (14)
Escape Artist : 0 Pool: 5
Etiquette : 4 Pool: 10
First Aid : 0 Pool: 5
Forgery : 0 Pool: 5
Free-Fall : 0 Pool: 1
Gunnery : 0 Pool: 5
Gymnastics : 1 Pool: 9
Hacking : 6 [Devices] Pool: 12 (14)
Hardware : 6 Pool: 12
Heavy Weapons : 0 Pool: 5
Impersonation : 1 Pool: 7
Instruction : 0 Pool: 5
Intimidation : 0 Pool: 5
Leadership : 4 Pool: 10
Longarms : 0 Pool: 5
Navigation : 0 Pool: 5
Negotiation : 4 Pool: 10
Perception : 6 Pool: 12
Performance : 0 Pool: 5
Pilot Ground Craft : 0 Pool: 5
Pilot Watercraft : 0 Pool: 5
Pistols : 6 [Semi-Automatics] Pool: 12 (14)
Running : 1 Pool: 6
Sneaking : 6 [Urban] Pool: 12 (14)
Software : 6 Pool: 12
Survival : 0 Pool: 2
Swimming : 0 Pool: 2
Throwing Weapons : 0 Pool: 5
Tracking : 0 Pool: 5
Unarmed Combat : 4 [[Cyber Implants]] Pool: 10 (12)
== Knowledge Skills ==
Business : 2 Pool: 8
Corporate : 2 Pool: 8
Data Havens : 2 Pool: 8
English : N Pool: 0
Fashion : 2 Pool: 8
Firearms : 1 Pool: 7
Japanese : 4 Pool: 10
Russian : 2 Pool: 8
Security Design : 3 Pool: 9
Yakuza : 2 Pool: 8
== Contacts ==
Black market arms dealer (3, 1)
Fixer (5, 2)
Ganger (1, 1)
Street doc (3, 2)
== Qualities ==
Allergy (Uncommon, Mild) (Silver)
Codeslinger (Hack-on-the-fly)
Low-Light Vision
Natural Athlete
Prejudiced (Specific, Outspoken) (Technomancer)
SINner (National)
Weak Immune System
== Lifestyles ==
Low 1 months
== Cyberware/Bioware ==
Bone Lacing (Aluminum) (Standard)
Cerebral Booster Rating 2 (Standard)
Cyberdeck (Alpha)
Datajack (Alpha)
Flare Compensation (Alpha)
Light Pistol (Alpha)
+Sound Suppressor (Alpha)
Muscle Replacement Rating 2 (Alpha)
Reaction Enhancers Rating 3 (Used)
Shock Hand (Alpha)
Smartlink (Alpha)
Thermographic Vision (Alpha)
Vision Magnification (Alpha)
== Armor ==
Actioneer Business Clothes 8
Armor Jacket 12
== Weapons ==
Light Cyber Pistol
+Smartgun System, Internal
Pool: 12 (14) Accuracy: 8 DV: 7P AP: - RC: 1
Savalette Guardian
+Gas-Vent 3 System
+Personalized Grip
+Smartgun System, Internal
Pool: 12 (14) Accuracy: 8 DV: 8P AP: -1 RC: 5
Shock Hand
Pool: 10 Accuracy: 5 DV: 9S(e) AP: -5 RC: 1
Unarmed Attack
Pool: 10 Accuracy: 5 DV: 5P AP: - RC: 1
== Commlink ==
Erika MCD-1 (, , 1, )
+Browse
+Configurator
+Edit
+Encryption
+Signal Scrub
+Toolbox
+Virtual Machine
+Baby Monitor
+Decrypt
+Sneak
+Exploit
+Stealth
Renraku Sensei (, , 3, )
== Gear ==
Ammo: APDS (Light Pistols) x40
Ammo: Regular Ammo (Heavy Pistols) x120
Ammo: Regular Ammo (Light Pistols) x100
Autopicker Rating 3
Certified Credstick, Standard x4
Cram x5
Data Tap x2
Earbuds Rating 1
+Select Sound Filter Rating 1
Fake SIN Rating 4
+Fake License (Concealed Carry Permit) Rating 4
+Fake License (Restricted Cyberware License) Rating 4
+Fake License (Matrix Software License) Rating 4
+Fake License (Cyberdeck License) Rating 4
+Fake License (Firearms License) Rating 4
Spare Clip (Savalette Guardian) x5
Tool Kit (Disguise)
== Description ==
A beautiful and charming elf of Russian and Japanese descent (father Russian and mother Japanese).
== Background ==
Into the street
Alexis was born to regular family in UCAS, where both her parents were wage slaves for Ares. Though she was born an elf, both her human parents doted on her. Life was good and her childhood was pleasant.
This changed when she was 9, and her father died from a car accident. Her mother remarried a year later to an extremely abusive man. Physical and verbal violence became an everyday affair. Her mother fell into depression and turned to alcohol and BTL to escape reality. She eventually committed suicide when Alexis was 12.
One day after a beating from her stepfather, Alexis decided to run away from home and into the streets
The budding decker
Street life was extremely rough for a 13 year old girl. This was especially true for the first 6 months where she was constantly hounded by street thugs. The frequent beatings she received was not something new to her, but the repeated rapings were. With no skill and ability of value, Alexis quickly realised that the only way for her to survive was to turn to the oldest profession in the world. Even though her beauty and charm made her popular with clients, she was still barely making enough to make ends meet. But at least having a pimp afforded her some meagre protection from street violence,
Fortunately, things turn for the better. Just before her 14th birthday, she met a peodophilic yakuza leader, Yamamoto Hanzo. He was much impressed with her and decided to make her his mistress and personal play toy. As a man of status and with a reputation to upkeep, Alexis became his darkest secret from the public. She was kept away in his surburban mansion, far removed from the prying eyes of the public.
Alexis was no allowed to leave the mansion, and Hanzo visited her infrequently. When he did visit her, it was almost always for only a short while. To pass her time, Alexis turned to the matrix. Here she discovered a whole new world and experience. She spent most of her time on gaming, then later to learning how to hack them with the cyberdeck that Hanzo gave her for her 15th birthday. By the time she was 16, she had became rather proficient in manipulating the matrix and the art of hacking.
On her 17th birthday, Hanzo asked her to leave to make room for his new 14 year old mistress. She was back in the streets. Only this time, she was armed with her cyberdeck and the 20k nuyen Hanzo had given to her as recompensation.
Conwoman cybering up.
Unlike her first time in the streets, Alexis had something of great value to offer. Her skills with Matrix and her charm. She quickly found work with a scam syndicate that ran financial invesment scam. Outside of the matrix, she also ran romance scam. Things were good and she was making decent money.
Unfortunately for Alexis, this did not last. One of her romance scam victims eventually managed to track her down and gave her a severe beating. She suffered several cracked ribs and major injuries to her spinal column. She would have been paralyzed, had one of her scam syndicate colleague, Samuel Jones, not brought her to a dodgy street doc to replaced some of her spinal column with a reaction enhancer implant. The implant turned out to be of questionable quality and left numerous complications which ultimately lead to her weaken immune system.
Whilst no stranger to being the victim of violence, this near death experience left a serious impression on Alexis and proved to be the turning point in her life. She came to the conclusion that no matter how charming and smart she was, she will always be a victim as long as she is physically weak and frail. This began her obsession with replacing her weaker body parts for stronger cybernatics ones.
She got herself cybered up using her savings. These implants are always the best available she could get due to her poor experience with questionable products. She first got an aluminium lacing to prevent future bone breakages, and then muscle replacement when she realise that the bone lacing were too heavy for her to comfortably move around. She also got a pair of cyber shock hands to further protect her from any potential assilants
Enhanced by her new cybernatics, she began taking unarmed classes and frequently went to the shooting range. She soon became very good at these.
The shadowrunner. From prey to predator
Alexis continued her investment and romance scam. By the time she was 20, she had already built a solid rep as a conwoman, and was starting to attract the attention of the UCAS shadowrun committee.
One day, a small time fixer named Topdog invited her to join with a rookie shadowrunner team, A Team, who had recently lost a member. She decided to take the opportunity to become their "Face", as the pay was good. In her opinion at that moment, this new job was no different from what she was already doing.
She was wrong. She quickly realised how different and dangerous shadowrunning was. The frequency of people shooting at her left no doubt about it. But it was also much more exciting, and the adrenaline rush from a well executed run or a shootout is often intoxicating. Though her first killing experience was rather traumatic, she grew pretty callous about it as her body count started to pile.
Under the tutelage of her teammates, she managed to master the art of sneaking and also improved her skills at hacking, electronics welfare and shooting to formidable levels. She also bought new cyber and bio implants to augment her abilities, as well as an implanted cyber light pistol to use as a hidden ace
By the time she was 23, Alexis and her team had built a solid rep amongst the UCAS shadowrun community. She had also gone from just being the team "Face" to being the team's infltration specialist
Then things went rapidly south after a run went wrong. A double cross by Mr Johnson, led the team into a death trap, and the entire team except for Alexis was killed.
To Seattle. A new start and adventure
Devastated by the loss of her teammates, Alexis deciding to start afresh somewhere else. She went to Seattle.
