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Intervention: How to mess up someone's day from a really long way away.

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The Wyrm Ouroboros

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« Reply #30 on: <11-27-14/0113:22> »
Yeah, I always treated the Thunderstruck as a 'must set up first', not something you can fire from the hip (or the shoulder when standing, as the case may be).  It really must be unbalanced...

That said, I would advise the following:
  • Lower the Charisma to 3-4, using the points to boost either Intuition, Willpower, Reaction, or Body (in that order).  You have no social skills in either iteration; while picking up at least 1 point of Etiquette is wise, having a 6 Charisma and defaulting to stuff is a good way to get killed without understanding why.
  • Beaumis's version has a lot of maxed skills; knock everything but Longarms down a peg or two, and get some other useful skills.  Basic etiquette; training in automatics (which you would have gotten as a default from all of your chosen organizations).
  • Background change 1: Move HTR to SWAT - HTR is more 'running firefight with shadowrunners and heavily-armed gangers' and less of the sort of semi-static situation in which a sniper can be useful.  SWAT still exists for less time-critical or movement-required situations, though.
  • Background change 2: Possibly rethink your 'contracted russian mafia hitman'.  The Vory, like other ethnic (or mostly-ethnic) mobs, will almost never allow an outsider access or membership; unless Intervention is of Russian/Ukranian/etc. extraction, grew up around them, that sort of thing, the best she'll get from the Vory is an occasional 'lesser threat' hit - because for the important things, they go to the ex-KGB hitters in Chimera.  (Expensive, but worth every one of those half-a-million nuyen.)  You might instead simply make her a hitter-for-hire, specializing in 'detail work' - one-shot no-collateral long-distance eliminations.

I do like the idea, it's just that the details need refining.
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« Reply #31 on: <11-30-14/1041:26> »
Yeah, certainly valid points. I'll do some fiddling and repost me thinks! Thank you very much!