[Necrogigas]

Okay, in that case, I'll just use italics to denote when Pipebomb is using Japanese.

[HydroRaven]

Yeah, that works.

[Necrogigas]

Actually, I'm gonna underline it. Underlining is more noticeable.

[Lumen]

You then turn your attention to Kuren, a rather normal-looking Japanese man in a trench coat, a hat and a cane. You immediately think he must've gotten his looks from "Pimp Detectives Monthy", but say nothing for now.

Noes my greatest secret revealed!   Sorry that line made me laugh.

[Muscular_Bevar]

[spoiler]Name: Patricia Moretti
Alias: Mia Meow
Race: Elf
Sex: Female
Nationality: Japanese/Italian
Lifestyle: The Litter Box  2 months
   Comforts:      Low
   Entertainment: High
   Necessities:   Middle
   Neighborhood:  Low
   Security:      Low
   Qualities:     Crash Pad [-1LP]
Karma Spent: 0
Physical Description: Height: 1.75m Wieght 70kg
Nailing down an appearance for Mia is next to impossible. She is a whirlwind of changing fashions and styles, tho never truly subdued or quite and always pushing the edge of fashion. Even her hair is rarely the same colour from week to week and she has been known to change to multiple times in the same day… She has nano tattoos covering her arms and legs and across her chest and back which she changes often as well as often changing her hairstyle drastically, using extensions, or cutting sections away, as well dyeing it different colours. She has a few piercings in her ears, nose, lip and cheek and will wear over the top makeup most of the time. She also tends to accessorise a lot although some small pieces turn up more than others (mostly fetishes and foci for those who can tell)
She walks with confidence and many people can feel her presence as she enters a room, and if not they will hear her as soon as she starts talking. The old phrase of being turned up to 11 couldn’t apply more to Mia.
Personality/background Little Trish was born in 2045 to parents Sergio Moretti and Sakura Tanaka on the outskirts of Hiroshima. Her parents had meet a few years before at a business conference in Tokyo, were Sergio was the guest speaker and Sakura a promising young scientist in the field genetics, specifically those having to do with how the body reacts to invasive cyber and bio modifications. Sakura was working for Renraku in Hiroshima at the time and found Sergio to be fascinating both intellectually and, well, physically. After a night of karaoke that neither of them have ever forgotten, Sakura knew one thing, she needed to Renraku to make an “acquisition of talent”. Aster saying good by and seeing Sergio heading back to Italy, Sakura worked her magic managed to make the people that matter in her department see how badly they needed Sergio on their current project. Within the year Sergio was also mysteriously working for Renraku in Hiroshima and well, the rest is history.

Trish made her way thru Renraku funded schooling, living the corp kid life and knowing that one day she would be required to find a job in the corporate restructuring. She found joy in the times when she could play music with her friends (on her fathers beat up old acoustic) and just be a kid, and her parents sheltered her from the worst of what corp life can throw at you. She was ear marked at an early age to be checked for various genetic identifiers as is usual but her parents, being genetisits had already tested her privately and had noticed a number of odd indicators turn up. Rather than risk their daughter become an experiment or worse, they faked the test results and knew that the background count of Hiroshima should help mask some of her strangeness. Trish was deemed a high potential for becoming another great researcher like her parents tho her loving parents kept encouraging her in her music. Unfortunately this all came back to bite them hard, when, in 2061, with the passing of the comet, Trish’s latent talent blossomed and the corp realised they had been duped. Trish should have been under going training to be a wage mage for many years now and because of her parents that talent was years behind. This wasn’t the first time that Sakura rebellious spirit had come to light and so with both Sergio and Sakura being in their declining years and soon to be more of a drain then an assest to the corp, Renraku decided to make an example of them. Trish was forced into the mages academy in Kyoto and her parents were exiled. Trish was filled with hate for the Corp that had ruined her life and taken her family from her and she swore revenge. After repeated tousles with sec forces and her peers, Renraku was beginning to think it wasn’t worth there time to train this one, even tho her talents seemed great. But Trish never knew how close she came to being “removed” and had almost resigned herself to her fate as a wagemage. It wasn’t till the crash of 64 that she saw her opportunity. In the chaos of the crash she managed to leave the academy and made her way to Neo Tokyo, where, with her trusty guitar and what little she managed to get out with (mostly magical supplies, knowing that if nothing else they could be worth a fortune if she could sell them and that her talent would be more marketable if she had her own gear) she settled in, playing dive bars for beer money and doing odd jobs for rent. It didn’t take her long to make a name for herself as Mia Meow and she has settled right into the darker recesses of Tokyo leaving much of her past happily lost behind her.

Of her parents, Mia looks the most like her mother and tends to express her japanesse heritage more so than the Italian, tho her complexion does tend more towards the olive skin of her father. She is on the tall side of average and the rounded side of thin (athletic but with curves). She inherited her Fathers love of Music (especially rock and roll and flamenco, although her personal tastes have often drifted from mainstream to the heavier stuff) and her mothers fiery passion (the thing that drew Sergio to his home and settle in a completely foreign culture)

Attributes

Body	Agility	Reaction	Strength
3	2	3	2
Charisma	Intuition	Logic	Willpower
7	4	2	5
Edge	Magic/Resonance	Essence	Initiative
1	5	6	7

Positive Qualities
Mentor Spirit (Adversary)
Mystic Adept
Restricted Gear (Rating 1)
Negative Qualities
Addiction (Mild) (Novacoke)
Geas (Music)
Lost Loved One (Parents)
Mania/Phobia (Common, Mild) (Melomania (music))
Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker)

Active Skills

Influence Skill Group	3
Artisan	4
Pistols	1
Counterspelling	4
Spellcasting	6
Summoning	4

Knowledge Skills

Music(Tokyo Scene)	4(6)
Local Bars and Clubs	3
Local Area	2
Local Gangs	2
Magic Theory	2

Language Skills

Japanese	N
Italian	2
English	2

Adept Powers

Power	Cost	Notes
Commanding Voice	.25
Enthralling Performance	.375	Gaes(music)
Voice Control	.375	Gaes(music)

Spells (Shinto)

Stunbolt                   Type:M Range:LOS Damage:S Duration:I DV:(F÷2)–1

Healthy Glow          Type:P Range:T Duration:P DV:(F÷2)–1

Increase Reflexes   Type:P Range:T Duration:S DV:(F÷2)+2

Fashion                   Type:P Range:T Duration:P DV:(F÷2)–1

Levitate                    Type:P Range:LOS Duration:S DV:(F÷2)+1

Makeover                Type:P Range:T Duration:P DV:(F÷2)–1

Cacophonous Cloud (Limited)   Type:P Range:LOS Damage:S Duration:S DV:(F÷2)+3

Stun Damage, no armour, save with sound dampening, if dam greater then will nausea and deafended for min


Gear (195000¥)

== Armor == Death Mask                0/1    +Thermal Damping 6 Form-Fitting Full-Body Suit6/2    +Biomonitor    +Color Changing    +Nonconductivity 6    +Savior Medkit H-jumpsuit                3/2    +Chemical Protection 4    +Ruthenium Polymer Coating    +YNT SoftWeave Holo Hood                 0/0    +Insulation 6 SecureTech PPP Armor (Ensemble)2/4 == Weapons == Grenade: Thermal Smoke    Pool: 1   DV: (10m Radius)   AP: -   RC: 0 Morrissey Élan    +Hidden Gun Arm Slide    +Additional Clip    Pool: 3   DV: 4P   AP: -   RC: 0 Unarmed Attack    Pool: 1   DV: 1S   AP: -   RC: 0 Yamaha Sakura Fubuki    +Concealable Holster    +Laser Sight    +Sling    +Spare Clips    +Stock    Pool: 3   DV: 4P   AP: -   RC: 2 == Commlink == Disposable Commlink (1, 2, 1, 3)    +Disposable Commlink OS Novatech Airware (1, 3, 3, 3)    +Iris Orb    +Nanopaste Trodes    +Subvocal Microphone    +Armor Case Rating 4    +Biometric Lock    +Hardening Rating 4    +Skinlink    +Analyze Rating 3    +Browse Rating 3    +Command Rating 3    +Edit Rating 3    +Scan Rating 3    +Agent Rating 1 == Gear == Adhesive Rating 6 x3 Ammo: Explosive Rounds (Light Pistols) x80 Ammo: Stick-n-Shock (Holdouts) x50 Autopicker Rating 6 Backpack Barrier Foam x5 Body Paint x5 Chemical Cosmetics, Lipstick (1 chem, 100 doses)    +Novacoke Contact Lenses Rating 3    +Vision Enhancement Rating 3    +Flare Compensation    +Image Link Datachip x4 Earbuds Rating 3    +Audio Enhancement Rating 3    +Select Sound Filter Rating 3 Face Case Rating 3 Fake License (Magic User) Rating 4 Fake License (Power Focus) Rating 4 Fake SIN (Trixie Takanawa) Rating 4 Flashlight Gecko Tape Gloves Glue Sprayer x2 Goggles Rating 6    +Thermographic    +Vision Magnification Grenade: Thermal Smoke x4 Headphones Rating 3    +Audio Enhancement Rating 3    +Spatial Recognizer Key Lock Rating 6 x3 Magical Lodge Materials Rating 6 Maglock Anti-Tamper Circuits Rating 4 Maglock Biometric Reader Manipulation Fetish Miniwelder Monowire (1m) Nanopaste Disguise (Small Container) x2 Novelty Mask x5 Power Focus (Bonded Foci) Rating 4 Radio Signal Scanner Rating 6 Standard RFID Tags x20 Stimulant Patch Rating 6 x4 Sustaining Focus (Health) (Bonded Foci) Rating 3 Tag Eraser Trauma Patch x2 White Noise Generator Rating 6 Wire Clippers Vehicles Scorpion(Used) Handling Accel Speed Pilot Body Armor Sensor Availability Cost 2 15/30 120 2 8 4 1 4 9600¥ Contacts Contact C/L Hiro "MacTavish" 4/4 MacTavish is the barman and owner of "MacTavish's Irish Pub" or the Tav for short as well as a few seemier dives in the area. However, Hiro MacTavish, no matter much he wants to be, is not even slgihtly irish. In fact the moniker he has taken is scottish and the accent he uses is a horrid bastardization of both with street japanese. His shock of (clearly dyed) red hair and and his variety of garish kilts (he really has no idea about europe) usually mean something exciting is happening in whichever venue you happen to have seen him at tonight Despite all this he is  good man to know to buy and sell drugs with the Yaks, have a number of cops on the payroll not to mention the respect of the members of the Burning Stars, the local small time Wiz Gang that offers its protection to his dumps, On top of that he has contacts in the music biz, and all of the local fences and talismongers run there buisness thru him. Mia's connection with him happened when he saved her from her current "manager" (sleaze bag that was trying to milk what he could out of Mia) and took her under his wing. In the last few years MacTavish has made sure Mia had work, both shadow and musical, and has invested alot into making her an asset. Mia has always suspected there was something more to thier relationship (in the begining she was afraid it was another of sexual exploitation but she knows better now) and whilst she has come to understand that there is far more to MacTavish than meets the eye she has only penertated a few of his many layers The Burning Stars 2(4)/3 The Burning Stars are a small Wiz gang, mostly made up of musicians and wanabees with minor mojo. Whilst unimpressive compared to some of the real gangs in the area, they act as the magical arm of Mactavish's private security force that help him run his little neightbourhood empire. Th gang is headed up by Sleazy Pete, an old skool punker trying to keep the brit invasion alive (and failing...) and one of the few with any real mojo (or any left, as many of the members once had sime only to find it burned out due to years of hard living). The group is a bizare collection of misfit musicians that all seemed to be headed to the gutter one way or another (terrible managers, band breakups, durned out drug addicts etc. ) who have all been saved by the man MacTavish. Whilst Mia has an odd relationship with the group (MacTavish would have pushed her into this line of work if he hadn't seen the true potential she has, and may yet be training her to take over when Sleazy is no longer fit) given that she is patched but not a member. She has been called upon by the group when they are pulling something big but is not involved with them in the day to day. That being said she is good friends with the eclectic bunch and seems to find at least one of them sleeping on her couch (or on occasion, in her bed!) whenever she is home. [/spoiler] 4d6+9=22 22x100 = 2200¥

[Necrogigas]

Jesus Christ, a mage, two adepts, and a mystic adept. There's a lot of mojo on this team.

[HydroRaven]

What can I say, these are the characters with the most interesting backstories.

[Crossbow]

He didn't have anyone submit a story that said "I kills things, cuz I am good at killing things"    Or maybe he did

[Muscular_Bevar]

new to the whole pbp thing but, from what i had gathered, combat ends up slow and so is reserved for appropriate occasions, and role playing "Me hit with stick yet" wasnt going to be all that fun?? or am i way off the mark?

also, because i know first impression are super important and trying to get the right feel across when all i have is text and the ability to amnipulate my char, I know i came out of the gates with a bit of a bang but what one would hopefully be experiencing in RL would be a forceful but dazzling personality, thinking kinda jack black, russel brand, jonny depp, many lead singers and comedians. It catches you by surprise, and then you get excited to follow along.

I'm not expecting that you will all follow me like lost sheep (in fact that would be way to wierd) but i sense that with words alone i may struggle to present this true force of character and you will assume mia is something she is not (like slightly handicapped in the brain region!!)

Hope thats helpful...

[Crossbow]

You pulled it off okay, don't sweat it.  I am not so experienced with pbp, but you will definitely get where you want to go with good posting IC, I recommend generous use of descriptions though.

If you think you are being interpreted wrong, just clarify in OOC thread or by PM. it is kinda like throwing up the "T" sign at tabletop so you can speak plainly out of character.

[HydroRaven]

You're doing a good job, the others are just reacting in character. Nothing wrong so far.

[Muscular_Bevar]

Cool, just wondering then smiley, i feel like our charcters are likely to have meet being that we are both on the scene/barflys. would it be appropriate for me to try and assist smiley given we may know each other and i have a dice pool of 10?? is this the sort of thing we should PM to sort out??

[Crossbow]

Cool, just wondering then smiley, i feel like our charcters are likely to have meet being that we are both on the scene/barflys. would it be appropriate for me to try and assist smiley given we may know each other and i have a dice pool of 10?? is this the sort of thing we should PM to sort out??

Probably should have, we can double-team folks in the future, I didn't realize that there was another Face on the team.  I will be sure to wait on you for a coordinating boost the next time before I roll.

As for previous arrangements, it certainly makes sense.  Wolf and a cat though, somebody probably came away with marks. 

[Lumen]

Area Knowledge Tokyo 2 + Intuition 5 + Qualia 1 = 8d6
8d6.hits(5)=3

What would I know about Ogikubo station, in Suginami ward?

[HydroRaven]

Ogikubo, more of a residential area with a good number of shops concentrated around the station. Not an expensive area, but not cheap either. Convenient to get almost anywhere in central Neo-Tokyo quickly.