[Chrona]

Who is this man with the sick stats!?

Is he sick with what I think he is.

Does he maybe hunt other sick?

[FastJack]

A) Martin de Vries, Vampire Hunter
B) Yes
C) Yes

[Chrona]

Thank you FastJack, now I can reveal this Thread's TRUE NATURE!

A Poll. =D

[Angelone]

Martin de Vries is a mage who got turned into a vampire who hunts other vampires. He has an artifact that helps him in a way I forget. He's already been stated in the old book Prime Runners.

Edit- Where is he being stated?

[CanRay]

And chain smokes like a smelter.

I swear, those things are going to kill him.

[Chrona]

His Foci keeps his essence at 4

From the SR Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/shadowrun

[Sid]

...

I was expecting this.

[Abstruse]

His Foci keeps his essence at 4

From the SR Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/shadowrun

It doesn't keep his essence at 4 as it can still lower below that.  It's....complicated.  Basically, de Vries is an attempt to make a Shadowrun version of Blade and Van Helsing (not the one from Stoker, but the pop culture version).  He was a mage who was a vampire hunter, had his climactic battle with the master vampire he'd been chasing for years, yadda yadda yadda, now he's a vampire mate who is a vampire hunter.  And no I'm not kidding, the "yadda yadda yadda" is canon.  Or at least "no one knows what happened".  I'm betting it's in one of the novels I don't have or it just hasn't come up yet...

[Chrona]

His Foci keeps his essence at 4

From the SR Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/shadowrun

It doesn't keep his essence at 4 as it can still lower below that.  It's....complicated.  Basically, de Vries is an attempt to make a Shadowrun version of Blade and Van Helsing (not the one from Stoker, but the pop culture version).  He was a mage who was a vampire hunter, had his climactic battle with the master vampire he'd been chasing for years, yadda yadda yadda, now he's a vampire mate who is a vampire hunter.  And no I'm not kidding, the "yadda yadda yadda" is canon.  Or at least "no one knows what happened".  I'm betting it's in one of the novels I don't have or it just hasn't come up yet...

Ah I was paraphrasing Uncle ancients description

[Catadmin]

Martin was in at least one novel, but I don't know the name of it. He might have been in 2 or 3.

[bigity]

Terminus Experiment?

[Angelone]

Yes, he was in Terminus Experiment. Also his wife and unborn child were turned into vampires, he ended up killing them and swearing vengence on vampiredom. Somewhere along the lines he became one himself. I don't remember much about his partner.

[CanRay]

Oh, yes, I remember that scene now.  It's something that dredges up in my mind every now and then when I think I'm hard on my characters.  I don't feel quite so bad.

Just finished a new one whose story begins with him getting shot in the head and dropped out of a helicopter.

[Patrick Goodman]

Yes, he was in Terminus Experiment. Also his wife and unborn child were turned into vampires, he ended up killing them and swearing vengence on vampiredom. Somewhere along the lines he became one himself. I don't remember much about his partner.

Is that bit about his wife and child in Terminus Experiment? I find myself tragically unschooled in the novels, so this is the first time I've ever actually heard this part of the story.

[Henker]

The idea of PDF supplements introducing stats of famous NPC is very tempting
snif!