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« Reply #15 on: <01-03-12/0714:57> »
@arknok If you want to do a rigger, will you also be handling the general driving too? If so, I'll pass on my wheelman adept idea, and maybe be the muscle of the group instead.

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« Reply #16 on: <01-03-12/0834:15> »
I've got a Naga Face I've been itching to play.
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« Reply #17 on: <01-03-12/0857:34> »
@RainyDayNinja
    I will try to handle transport, although I was thinking of running the character as working through remotes.

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« Reply #18 on: <01-03-12/0922:09> »
Do we need one more? I was thinking a technomancer with some pistol ability
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« Reply #19 on: <01-03-12/1004:19> »
pyromancer said he was going to do a mundane hacker.  would that make us matrix heavy?

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« Reply #20 on: <01-03-12/1007:39> »
We can always use more muscle...
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« Reply #21 on: <01-03-12/1010:18> »
I'll be relatively useful in combat(deputy pistol). he would be an ork too and I've never tag teamed in the 'trix. Also when do I need this done? Is that this friday?
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« Reply #22 on: <01-03-12/1216:46> »
Really am tempted to join this. Like arknok it would be my first attempt actually playing in such a format so I would need quite a bit of guidance in how exactly to do things.

In the event that I did join, I believe that for the most part the character would be able to help out with a couple different "roles", but magic wouldn't be one of them.

Quick question, would the Cha x 2 free BP for contacts commonly used house rule be open and available?
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« Reply #23 on: <01-03-12/1425:52> »
Really am tempted to join this. Like arknok it would be my first attempt actually playing in such a format so I would need quite a bit of guidance in how exactly to do things.
I think most of us will need guidance
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« Reply #24 on: <01-03-12/1450:14> »
Tentatively, I'll put this one forward as a possibility. Only thing that is a bit different from normal rules was that it was built from something an RL buddy of mine did giving a free Loyalty 2 Connection 3 Fixer contact to everyone (which could be enhanced if desired). Never played this one, but it was a "from beginning" rebuild of a character I played in SR3--just forgot to remove the extra contact points when I built it using Chummer.

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== Info ==
Street Name: Predator
Name: Reiko Tetsuki
Movement: 10/25, Swim: 5
Karma: 0
Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 0
Public Awareness: 0
Human Female Age 30 (as of 2073)
Height 5'3" Weight 110 lbs
Composure: 6
Judge Intentions: 7
Lift/Carry: 10 (75 kg/50 kg)
Memory: 7
Nuyen: 11000

== Attributes ==
BOD: 5
AGI: 4 (6)
REA: 3 (4)
STR: 3 (5)
CHA: 3
INT: 4
LOG: 3 (4)
WIL: 3
EDG: 3

== Derived Attributes ==
Essence:                   2.4
Initiative:                7 ( 8 )
IP:                        1 (2)
Matrix Initiative:         8
Matrix IP:                 2
Physical Damage Track:     11
Stun Damage Track:         10

== Active Skills ==
Animal Handling            : 0                      Pool: 3
Animal Training            : 0                      Pool: 3
Archery                    : 0                      Pool: 5
Armorer                    : 0                      Pool: 3
Artisan                    : 0                      Pool: 3
Automatics                 : 4                      Pool: 12
Blades                     : 4 [Cyber-Implant Blades] Pool: 10 (12)
Climbing                   : 1                      Pool: 6
Clubs                      : 0                      Pool: 5
Computer                   : 2                      Pool: 6
Con                        : 0                      Pool: 2
Cybercombat                : 1                      Pool: 5
Data Search                : 2                      Pool: 6
Demolitions                : 0                      Pool: 3
Disguise                   : 2                      Pool: 6
Diving                     : 0                      Pool: 4
Dodge                      : 1                      Pool: 5
Electronic Warfare         : 1                      Pool: 5
Escape Artist              : 0                      Pool: 5
Etiquette                  : 1                      Pool: 4
First Aid                  : 1                      Pool: 5
Flight                     : 1                      Pool: 6
Forgery                    : 0                      Pool: 5
Gunnery                    : 0                      Pool: 5
Gymnastics                 : 1                      Pool: 7
Hacking                    : 1                      Pool: 5
Hardware                   : 2                      Pool: 6
Heavy Weapons              : 0                      Pool: 7
Infiltration               : 2                      Pool: 8
Instruction                : 0                      Pool: 2
Intimidation               : 0                      Pool: 2
Leadership                 : 0                      Pool: 2
Locksmith                  : 0                      Pool: 5
Longarms                   : 4                      Pool: 12
Navigation                 : 0                      Pool: 3
Negotiation                : 1                      Pool: 4
Palming                    : 2                      Pool: 8
Parachuting                : 0                      Pool: 4
Perception                 : 1                      Pool: 5
Pilot Ground Craft         : 1 [Wheeled]            Pool: 5 (7)
Pilot Watercraft           : 0                      Pool: 3
Pistols                    : 4                      Pool: 12
Riding                     : 0                      Pool: 3
Running                    : 1                      Pool: 6
Shadowing                  : 2                      Pool: 6
Software                   : 2                      Pool: 6
Survival                   : 0                      Pool: 2
Swimming                   : 1                      Pool: 6
Throwing Weapons           : 0                      Pool: 5
Tracking                   : 0                      Pool: 3
Unarmed Combat             : 4                      Pool: 10

== Knowledge Skills ==
Bars and Clubs             : 3                      Pool: 7
Computer Design            : 2                      Pool: 6
English                    : 6                      Pool: 10
Japanese                   : N                      Pool: 0
Music                      : 3 [Trash Metal Troll] Pool: 7 (9)
Security Procedures        : 3                      Pool: 7
Software Design            : 3                      Pool: 7

== Contacts ==
Fixer (4, 3)
Implant Surgeon (3, 3)
Renraku Security Spider (3, 6)
Smuggler (3, 3)

== Qualities ==
Flashbacks (Uncommon) (Overly Excessive Blood and Gore)
Mania/Phobia (Common, Moderate) (Acrophobia)
Records on File
Sensitive Neural Structure
SINner (Standard) (Reiko Tetsuki)

== Lifestyles ==
Everett Apartment  2 months
   Comforts:      Middle
   Entertainment: Middle
   Necessities:   Middle
   Neighborhood:  Middle
   Security:      High

== Cyberware/Bioware ==
Cerebral Booster Rating 1
Cyberears Rating 2
   +Ear Recording Unit
   +Sound Link
   +Select Sound Filter Rating 4
   +Audio Enhancement Rating 2
   +Damper
   +Skinlink
Cybereyes Basic System Rating 3
   +Eye Recording Unit
   +Image Link
   +Low-Light Vision
   +Thermographic Vision
   +Flare Compensation
   +Vision Magnification
   +Vision Enhancement Rating 2
   +Smartlink
   +Skinlink
   +Protective Covers
Datajack
   +Skinlink
Muscle Augmentation Rating 2
Muscle Toner Rating 2
Spur
   +Skinlink
Wired Reflexes Rating 1
   +Skinlink

== Armor ==
Form-Fitting Full-Body Suit9/3
   +Delta-Amyloid
   +Nonconductivity 6
Lined Coat                6/4
   +Fire Resistance 6
Zoé: Executive Suite Short Jacket (Ensemble)8/3
   +Delta-Amyloid

== Weapons ==
Ares Predator IV
   +Silencer
   +Skinlink
   +Smartgun System
   +Underbarrel Weight
   DV: 5P   AP: -1   RC: 1
Defiance T-250
   +Skinlink
   +Sling
   +Smartgun System
   DV: 7P   AP: -1   RC: 1
HK 227-X
   +Stock
   +Gas Vent 3
   +Skinlink
   +Smartgun System
   +Sound Suppressor
   +Underbarrel Weight
   DV: 5P   AP: -   RC: 5
Katana
   DV: 6P   AP: -1   RC: 0
Remington 950
   +Imaging Scope
   +Skinlink
   +Sling
   +Smartgun System
   DV: 8P   AP: -1   RC: 1
Ruger Super Warhawk
   +Skinlink
   +Smartgun System
   DV: 6P   AP: -2   RC: 0
Shock Glove
   DV: 5S(e)   AP: -half   RC: 0
Spur
   DV: 6P   AP: -   RC: 0
Unarmed Attack
   DV: 3S   AP: -   RC: 0

== Commlink ==
Renraku Sensei (4, 4, 4, 4)
   +Novatech Navi [Firewall 4]
   +AR Gloves
   +Sim Module (Cold)
   +Suite: Pro User [Analyze 4, Browse 4, Command 2, Edit 4]
   +Scan Rating 3 [Copy Protection 3, Registration]
   +Exploit Rating 3 [Copy Protection 3, Registration]
   +Spoof Rating 3 [Copy Protection 3, Registration]
   +Stealth Rating 3 [Copy Protection 2, Registration]

== Gear ==
Ammo: EX-Explosive Rounds (Heavy Pistols) x60
Ammo: EX-Explosive Rounds (Sports Rifles) x50
Ammo: Regular Ammo (Shotguns) x50
Ammo: Regular Ammo (Sports Rifles) x50
Ammo: Shock Lock Rounds (Shotguns) x50
DocWagon Contract: Platinum
Fake SIN (Sarai Takamura) Rating 4
   +Fake License (Weapons Permit) Rating 4
   +Fake License (Implant Permit) Rating 4
   +Fake License (Driving License) Rating 4
   +Fake License (Electronics Permit) Rating 4
Fake SIN (Teisa Nakajima) Rating 2
   +Fake License (Weapons Permit) Rating 2
   +Fake License (Implant Permit) Rating 2
   +Fake License (Electronics Permit) Rating 2
   +Fake License (Driving License) Rating 2
Medkit Rating 6
Spare Clip (Ares Predator IV) x10
   +Ammo: Regular Ammo (Heavy Pistols)
Spare Clip (HK227-X) x10
   +Ammo: Regular Ammo (Submachine Guns)

== Vehicles ==
Rover 2068 (SUV)
   +Amenities, High
   +Anti-Theft
   +Off-Road Suspension
   +Passenger Protection (Rating 2) Rating 2
   +Vehicle Sensor
Suzuki Mirage (Racing Bike)
   +Vehicle Sensor

== Background ==
Born to a pair of Renraku employees, Reiko was raised in a more luxurious lifestyle than most shadowrunners in her early years. Her father was a mid-ranking security officer, and her mother worked in high level research and development for the company's primary industry of electronics--both at the corporation's home office in Japan.

Just a few short months after her tenth birthday, she was uprooted from her life and schoolmates when her parents were both transferred to the Seattle office in the Arcology. It took her quite a while to adjust to life in the UCAS sprawl, not the least of reasons was learning a new language, but after only a couple of years things settled back into normalcy.

For most of her youth, she was intrigued by both of her parents jobs for the corporation and strived to work toward gaining proficiency in both fields, but while she was able to become competent with computers, the skills needed for her father's job in security seemed to come most naturally for her resulting in her learning combative techniques much more easily.

Things seemed to go well once she'd become acclamated to the differences in lifestyle between Japan and Seattle, at least until she started entering into adolescence. Once she hit fifteen, Reiko began to enter a phase of rebellion where she would sneak out of the house at night and go out "slumming" in various bars and nightclubs located in the less than savory parts of the sprawl. She was caught sneaking back in to the house after these sojourns into seedier life--early on even before getting out to begin with--and punished heavily, but all this really did was provide her with lessons in what not to do when it came to stealth.

Two days after Reiko's sixteenth birthday, her life was again turned upside down as she and her family had to make their escape as the Arcology entered it's state of lockdown. While her parents and herself made it out--barely--and managed getting themselves set up with a fairly comfortable substitute home in Bellevue, it was driven home quite hard for her how bad the situation was because a young, at eighteen, security officer that she'd developed feelings for and had, for half a year, a clandestine romantic relationship with, was still trapped inside the Arcology. While she could, on very sporadic frequency and for extremely short time periods, get calls in to the young man, the long periods in which no contact was possible would send her into mild depression states for days, a condition which baffled her parents who, of course, knew nothing of the relationship.

As time went one, Reiko eventually resigned herself to the situation of it not likely being possible to ever see the young man, whom she considered to be the love of her life, again, and her life slowly began returning as close as possible to how it was before the lockdown--even though she still made what little contact with him as was possible given the situation.

Only a littler over two years--on month over to be exact--after the escape from the Arcology, Reiko's life was again shattered. She was just getting home after one of her 'slumming' escapades, only to discover that the door to the house was slightly open. Moving inside carefully, she poked her head around the corner, calling out to her mother and father, only to discover as she did that her father was lying face down on the now shattered table in the living room in a pool of his own blood with a bullet hole in the back of his head. Being unused to this sort of carnage, she stood helplessly frozen for several minutes, grief bringing tears to sting her eyes. Once she had regained some measure of control over herself, she started calling to her mother again as she moved through the disaster area which was her home. She was even more unprepared for what she found once she entered the kitchen. Lying on her back--also in a pool of her own blood which was running down the side of the 'island' in the middle of the room--was her mother, stripped almost completely nude and severely mutilated. At this point, the girl went nearly catatonic for hours, just huddled in a corner silently sobbing over the loss of her family.

The final months of her time in schooling saw a much more subdued Reiko, for the most part, being that she had turned eighteen the month before, she used her inheritence to keep up her standard of living while she finished her time in school, and after that, she began putting the abilities she had to use to supplement the inherited funds by doing any number of things, including shadow work.

She still has not discovered who murdered her parents so brutally, but she has never stopped looking for clues as to the identities of the perpetrators, or why they did what they did. She eventually did discover that the young security hacker that she'd been enamored of did, in fact, come out of the ordeal of the lockdown alive, if not entirely unscathed. Once the two met once again, she discovered that her feelings--and his--were still as strong as ever.
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« Reply #25 on: <01-03-12/1658:27> »
I'll start making mine if I could get the ok from the GM. Its going to be an ork technomancer with a focus on guns as well(pistols/revolvers) Anyways hes going to be the kind of guy that hides his abilities except from his team mates. I am excited to tag team on the matrix if everyone else is accepting of it. I am a team player:) I'll be using unwired and the core rulebook as far as I can tell. Also how did you do that spoiler drop down?
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« Reply #26 on: <01-03-12/1731:53> »
I played the face in my last group, so I'm definitely looking to be a fighter this time. I'm kind of leaning toward a monk-style physical adept specializing in Unarmed Combat, but I'm not sure how useful that will really be. I'm kind of new to Shadowrun, so if anyone has suggestions for what kind of combat characters are useful, I'm listening.

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« Reply #27 on: <01-03-12/1813:00> »
An ork technomancer would be fine.  But just for posterity's sake, I'll list out the possible characters we have so far.

We have:  1 to 2 Faces, a rigger, one mundane hacker, one technomancer, and one well-armed street samurai.  Apologies if I got something wrong or missed someone.

And yes, you each will get CHA x 2 BP free for contacts.

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« Reply #28 on: <01-03-12/1829:06> »
Sweet! When you need him done by? and How long till we start playing?
nvm I found the post saying all that. I just need to know about what time we will be playing on sunday so I can post asap that day. I'm going back to college but I'll make time cuz I reeeeeally wanna play ;D
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« Reply #29 on: <01-03-12/1846:14> »
OK, I'm refining my character concept in my mind, and now I'm thinking something along the lines of an underground prize fighter/ex-street preacher. So he'll be either an ork or troll physical adept, specializing in Unarmed Combat and such.