[All4BigGuns]

I've seen it done and dvespite what a lot of people here say, a troll unarmed phys ad works well

[cabo_setek]

Well, I'll have the OoC thread up on Saturday, so we can discuss how your group meets, or met, their history together, etc etc.  And then on Sunday, at about 3 PM PST, I'll make the first post introducing the Johnson and the meet point.

[theKernel]

Looking foreward to working with you guys!!

[Cato]

I had posted about the possiblity of going with a mage, and to that effect here's a tentative character for perusal.  He can be tweaked as need be (and a few things still need to be altered).
And to put in the spoiler drop down, it's the instert button next to instert quote.  Just highlight what you want to put in there and click the button .



[spoiler]Name: Lawrence Finnegan
Alias: Hawk
Race: Ork
Sex: Male
Nationality: Tir
Lifestyle: Squatter (500) (1 month)
Karma Spent: 0
Physical Description: Slightly less than average height for an ork, Hawk has an obviously muscular build.  He has a completely shaved head, and a tattoo of the dharma wheel the left side of his neck.
 
Personality/backgroundLawrence Finnegan’s history begins with his birth in Northern Ireland.  Of course, the elves make you call it Tir Na NOG.  But any good Irishman will tell you different.   These days though, most good Irishmen have taken a temporary leave of absence.  That’s especially true if you happen to be a convicted criminal.  Lawrence traveled to Seattle where he met Lobsang Trungpa.  This meeting eventually led him to travel with his Guru to Tibet.  At least, attempt to do so.  During the attempt the two became separated in the chaos that swept around them, both real and illusory.  Taking refuge in an old monastery that had been abandoned to the storm, Lawrence Finnegan suffered the many attacks of Mara and his daughters.  Exactly what happened during that time he has never said, but he has mentioned on several occasions that as he trekked back out of the mountains he saw the frozen body of his Guru, just steps from the edge of the storm.  He never made it into Tibet, and has never tried again. 
   Once back in Seattle Hawk’s name came across the desk of Richard Slate, a Saeder-Krupp headhunter.  Slate, always on the lookout for talent, soon made a habit of using Hawk in his search for mystical artifacts.  Maintaining connections to the small Tibetan diaspora through Silas Trungpa, Hawk works, trying to fulfill the wishes of dharma.

“Lawrence Finnegan?  Sure, that’s me according to the records.  But Mr. Finnegan died in the Himalayas, along with Guru Trungpa.  I’m Hawk now, but it isn’t what you think.  The kids used to call me that growing up on account of my nose.  Now I embrace the name as a way to remind me that attachment is the first step towards being reborn as a ghoul.”

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Attributes

Body	Agility	Reaction	Strength
5	2	3	3
Charisma	Intuition	Logic	Willpower
3	5	2 [7]	5
Edge	Magic/Resonance	Essence	Initiative
3	5	6	8

Positive Qualities
Magician
Restricted Gear
Mentor Spirit (5) (Fire-Bringer)
Negative Qualities
Records on File (S-K) (10)
SINner (Criminal) (10)
Flashbacks (Uncommon/Frozen Bodies) (5)
Addiction (Mild/Deepweed) 5




Active Skills

Spellcasting	6
Counterspelling	4

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Summoning

4

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Binding

1

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Assensing

4

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Perception

4

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Ritual Spellcasting

1

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Survival (Mountain)

1 (3)

Knowledge Skills ( [Logic + Intuition] x 3 free points)

Meditation Techniques	4
Mountain Climbing	3/td]
Magic Artifacts	3

Language Skills

English	N
Tibetan	3

Spells

Stunbolt

Lightning Bolt

Detect Enemies, Extended

Increase Reflexes

Improved Invisibility

Physical Mask

Physical Double Image

Orgy

Alter Memory

Mob Mind

Levitate

Turn to Goo

Gear (150,000¥)

Power Focus (Rating 4)	4BP/100,000¥
Sustaining Focus, Health (Rating 3)	3BP/ 30,000¥
Armored Vest	600¥
Form Fitting Body Armor,Full-Body Suit	1600¥
Fake SIN Raiting 4	4000¥
Fake SIN Raiting 2 x 2	4000¥
Fake License Rating 4 x 3	1200¥
Earbuds R3 w/Spatial Recognizer and Audio Enhancement 2	330¥
Contact Lenses R3 w/Flare Compensation, Image Link and Vision Magnification	325¥
Mage Sight Goggles w/30m of cable	3800¥
Sony Emperor Commlink w/Renraku Ichi OS (Rating 4 Firewall Upgrade and Basic User suite)	3200¥
Unused Cash	325¥

Contacts

Contact		C/L
Silas Trungpa (Talsimonger)		2/2
Richard Slate (Corporate Headhunter)		4/3

[/spoiler]

[All4BigGuns]

Well, I'll have the OoC thread up on Saturday, so we can discuss how your group meets, or met, their history together, etc etc.  And then on Sunday, at about 3 PM PST, I'll make the first post introducing the Johnson and the meet point.

Saturday? Awesome. I'm glad there's plenty of time. I was planning on doing some tweaks on the character. What was put up so far was so people would know what type I was lookin' at.

[RainyDayNinja]

I've got my character built in broad strokes (18 dice pool for Unarmed Combat  ), but I'm still working out the details of gear, knowledge skills, and contacts. Should have it done tomorrow night.

[spoiler]
== Info ==

Albrecht "Al" Jennings (aka "Father Fury")
Metatype: Ork (20 BP)

== Attributes ==
BOD: 5
AGI: 6 (7)
REA: 3 (5)
STR: 6
CHA: 2
INT: 4
LOG: 2
WIL: 2
(185 BP)

EDG: 1
MAGIC: 6
(65 BP)

== Derived Attributes ==
Essence:                             6
Initiative:                               9
IP:                                          3
Physical Damage Track:  11
Stun Damage Track:         9

== Active Skills ==
Dodge                     : 4 (Melee)                          Pool: 9 (11)
Etiquette                 : 2 (Ganger)                        Pool: 4 (6)
Instruction              : 1 (Religion)                      Pool: 3 (5)
Intimidation            : 4 (Physical)                      Pool: 6 (8]
Longarms              : 1 (Shotguns)                    Pool: 8 (10)
Perception              : 2 (Visual)                          Pool: 6 (9) [Audio: 9]
Pistols                    : 4  (Revolver)                     Pool: 11 (13)
Running                  : 1                                         Pool: 7
Survival                   : 1 (Urban)                          Pool: 3 (5)
Unarmed Combat : 6+3 (Boxing)                    Pool: 16 (18]
(122 BP)

== Knowledge Skills ==

Local Street Ministries (INT) 4
Underground Fighting Circuit (INT) 3
Post-Awakening Theology (LOG) 3
Ganger Politics (INT) 4
Language: Or'zet (N)
Language: English (Ganger lingo) 3


== Contacts ==

Fight Promoter (Connection 3/ Loyalty 2)
Priest (Connection 2/ Loyalty 3)
(6 BP)/(4 Free)

== Qualities ==

Adept (5 BP)
Martial Arts: Boxing (10 BP) (+2 DV to Unarmed Combat)
Martial Arts: Karate (5 BP) (+1 DV to Unarmed Combat)
Warrior's Way (Adept Way) (10 BP)
Local Fame (as Father Fury) (5 BP)

Bad Luck (-20 BP)
Scorched (-5 BP)
Allergy: Pets (Common, Mild) (-10 BP)

==Adept Powers==

*Improved Reflexes (2) (1.88 PP)
*Improved Ability (Unarmed Combat) (3) (1.12 PP)
*Improved Phys. Att. (Agility) (1) (1.12 PP)
Killing Hands (0.5 PP)
Elemental Strike (0.5 PP)
Critical Strike (3) (0.75 PP)

*=Discounted with Warrior's Way

== Lifestyles ==

Comforts: Low
Entertainment: Street
Necessities: Low
Neighborhood: Street (Barrens)
Security: Squatter

500 Y/month

== Armor ==

Armor Jacket (8/6)

== Weapons ==

Remington 990 shotgun (with Smartgun link): Dice Pool - 12
-Gel Rounds: 6S, +1 AP (Impact), SA, (1), 8(m)x5

Ruger Super Warhawk (with Smartgun link): Dice Pool - 15
-Stick-n-Shock: 6S(e), -half AP (Impact), SS, 6(cy)x5

Unarmed Attack: Dice Pool - 18
9S/P, -half AP (Impact) (with Elemental Strike)

== Commlink ==

Sony Emperor with Renraku Ichi
-Resp: 2, Sig: 3, Fire: 2, Sys: 2

== Gear ==

Contact Lenses (3)
-Smartlink
-Image Link
-Vision Enhancement (1)

Earbuds (3)
-Audio Enhancement (3)

Fake SIN (4)
Fake gun license (4)

Total: 8800 Y (2 BP)

== Background ==

Albrecht "Al" Jennings is an ork and ordained minister, who used to work in a street ministry in the Barrens that reached out to gangers looking to go straight. However he always struggled against his inner urges toward violence, and the apparent magical gift he'd been given toward it. Slowly he came to realize that his place wasn't as a preacher, but as a fighter. Embracing his God-given abilities, he began participating in the underground fight scene, donating his winnings to other inner-city ministries and making something of a name for himself as "Father Fury." He soon learned that many of his fellow combatants also moonlighted as Shadowrunners, which offered even better pay for his talents. Reasoning that most of the evil in the world came at the hands of the corrupt corps, he figured that anything that would take money from one to hurt another had to be righteous. So now he's branching out, glad to fund the Lord's work and strike at the corps at the same time, even if it's at the behest of another one.

[/spoiler]

[theKernel]

I'll start mine tomorrow, looking for advice in the character creation forum. He'll be threading heavy more of an info gatherer and tamperer than a node crashing, cybercombat power house

[Mirikon]

All right. I've got my character, Wyrmtongue, together. He is a Naga Face/Shaman. More emphasis on the face than the shaman.
http://bit.ly/xbWNGu

[theKernel]

Woah we've got an ace runner!

[Mirikon]

Heh. The player may have experience, but the character is new to the shadows.

[theKernel]

Well at least us new guys can read what you aces have learned

[cabo_setek]

For clarification, Naga's are large serpents, right?  Otherwise I'm missing something.  I have no objections, I just want to make sure I understand.

[All4BigGuns]

Okay finally got the final incarnation completed, so I'm putting it up here in this post. Not much difference, but I'm a bit more satisfied for the most part.

[spoiler]
== 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: 0

== 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:                   2.3
Initiative:                7 ( 8 )
IP:                        1 (2)
Matrix Initiative:         10
Matrix IP:                 1
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                     : 3 [Cyber-Implant Blades] Pool: 9 (11)
Climbing                   : 1                      Pool: 6
Clubs                      : 0                      Pool: 5
Computer                   : 2                      Pool: 6
Con                        : 1                      Pool: 5
Cybercombat                : 2                      Pool: 6
Data Search                : 2                      Pool: 6
Demolitions                : 0                      Pool: 3
Disguise                   : 1                      Pool: 5
Diving                     : 0                      Pool: 4
Dodge                      : 1                      Pool: 5
Electronic Warfare         : 2                      Pool: 6
Escape Artist              : 0                      Pool: 5
Etiquette                  : 1                      Pool: 5
First Aid                  : 1                      Pool: 5
Flight                     : 1                      Pool: 6
Forgery                    : 0                      Pool: 5
Gunnery                    : 0                      Pool: 5
Gymnastics                 : 1                      Pool: 7
Hacking                    : 2                      Pool: 6
Hardware                   : 2                      Pool: 6
Heavy Weapons              : 0                      Pool: 7
Infiltration               : 1                      Pool: 7
Instruction                : 0                      Pool: 2
Intimidation               : 0                      Pool: 2
Leadership                 : 1                      Pool: 5
Locksmith                  : 0                      Pool: 5
Longarms                   : 4                      Pool: 12
Navigation                 : 0                      Pool: 3
Negotiation                : 1                      Pool: 5
Palming                    : 1                      Pool: 7
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                  : 1                      Pool: 5
Software                   : 2                      Pool: 6
Survival                   : 0                      Pool: 2
Swimming                   : 1                      Pool: 6
Throwing Weapons           : 0                      Pool: 5
Tracking                   : 0                      Pool: 3
Unarmed Combat             : 3 [Martial Arts]       Pool: 9 (11)

== Knowledge Skills ==
Bars and Clubs             : 3                      Pool: 7
Contraband                 : 3                      Pool: 7
English                    : 6                      Pool: 10
Japanese                   : N                      Pool: 0
Music                      : 4 [Trash Metal Troll] Pool: 8 (10)
Security Procedures        : 4                      Pool: 8

== Contacts ==
Fixer (3, 3)
Implant Surgeon (3, 3)
Renraku Security Spider (2, 6)
Smuggler (3, 3)

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

== Lifestyles ==
Everett Apartment  2 months
   Comforts:      Middle
   Entertainment: Middle
   Necessities:   Middle
   Neighborhood:  Low
   Security:      High
   Qualities:     Easy-Going Landlord [1LP]
                  Perfect Roommate [2LP]
                  AI in Residence [-3LP]

== Cyberware/Bioware ==
Cerebral Booster Rating 1
Cyberears Rating 2
   +Ear Recording Unit
   +Sound Link
   +Audio Enhancement Rating 3
   +Select Sound Filter Rating 2
   +Spatial Recognizer
   +Damper
   +Skinlink
Cybereyes Basic System Rating 3
   +Eye Recording Unit
   +Image Link
   +Low-Light Vision
   +Thermographic Vision
   +Vision Enhancement Rating 3
   +Smartlink
   +Vision Magnification
   +Protective Covers
   +Skinlink
Datajack
Muscle Augmentation Rating 2
Muscle Toner Rating 2
Spur
   +Skinlink
Tailored Pheromones Rating 1
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
   +Skinlink
   +Smartgun System
   +Underbarrel Weight
   DV: 5P   AP: -1   RC: 1
Defiance T-250
   +Heavy Barrel
   +Skinlink
   +Smartgun System
   DV: 7P   AP: -1   RC: 1
HK 227-X
   +Stock
   +Gas Vent 3
   +Heavy Barrel
   +Skinlink
   +Smartgun System
   +Sound Suppressor
   +Underbarrel Weight
   DV: 5P   AP: -   RC: 6
Katana
   DV: 6P   AP: -1   RC: 0
Remington 950
   +Imaging Scope
   +Skinlink
   +Smartgun System
   DV: 8P   AP: -1   RC: 0
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 ==
Meta Link (1, 1, 1, 2)
   +Vector Xim
Singularity Battle Buddy Basic (5, 5, 5, 5)
   +Custom Commlink OS [Firewall 5, System 5]
   +Armor Case Rating 10
   +Biometric Lock
   +Hardening Rating 6
   +Customized Interface
   +AR Gloves
   +Simrig
   +Subvocal Microphone
   +Skinlink
   +Analyze Rating 6 [Copy Protection 6, Optimization 1, Registration]
   +Browse Rating 4 [Copy Protection 4, Registration]
   +Command Rating 4 [Copy Protection 3, Registration]
   +Edit Rating 4 [Copy Protection 4, Registration]
   +Encrypt Rating 6 [Copy Protection 6, Optimization 1, Registration]
   +Scan Rating 5 [Copy Protection 4, Registration]
   +Exploit Rating 3 [Copy Protection 3, Registration]
   +Spoof Rating 3 [Copy Protection 3, Registration]
   +Stealth Rating 3 [Copy Protection 3, Registration]
   +Datachip
   +Decrypt Rating 3 [Copy Protection 3, Registration]
   +Attack Rating 1 [Copy Protection 1, Registration]

== Gear ==
Ammo: EX-Explosive Rounds (Sports Rifles) x50
Ammo: Regular Ammo (Heavy Pistols) x30
Ammo: Regular Ammo (Shotguns) x50
Ammo: Shock Lock Rounds (Shotguns) x30
Ammo: Stick-n-Shock (Heavy Pistols) x30
DocWagon Contract: Platinum
Fake SIN (Sarai Takamura) Rating 4
   +Fake License (Weapons Permit) Rating 4
   +Fake License (Implant Permit) Rating 4
   +Fake License (Electronics Permit) Rating 4
   +Fake License (Vehicle and Driving License) Rating 4
Medkit Rating 6
Spare Clip (Ares Predator IV) x10
   +Ammo: Regular Ammo (Heavy Pistols)
   +Ammo: Stick-n-Shock (Heavy Pistols)
Spare Clip (HK227-X) x10
   +Ammo: Regular Ammo (Submachine Guns)
   +Ammo: Stick-n-Shock (Submachine Guns)

== Vehicles ==
Rover 2068 (SUV)
   +Amenities, High
   +Anti-Theft
   +Off-Road Suspension
   +Passenger Protection (Rating 2) Rating 2
   +Vehicle Sensor
      +Camera Rating 6 [Facial Recognition Software 3, Low Light, Vehicle Identification Software 3, Vision Enhancement 3, Vision Magnification]
      +Microphone Rating 6 [Audio Enhancement 3, Noise Analysis Software 3, Spatial Recognizer]

== 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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[Pyromaster13]

Still working on the character, so I didn't post and die.  Will get it in before Friday, just wanted to update myself.

[Mirikon]

For clarification, Naga's are large serpents, right?  Otherwise I'm missing something.  I have no objections, I just want to make sure I understand.

Yes. They are generally about 10m (almost 33 feet) long, and if one was so inclined they could probably eat a person whole.

Of course, one of my spells allows me to turn into a metahuman form, so I have hands to do things like use guns. I've got some magic, but most of it is either defensive or illusion/manipulation stuff. The spells he's most likely to use, other than the one that lets him assume metahuman form? Orgy, Trid Phantasm, and Physical Mask.