Azonalanthious's Charaters

3rd ed character:

Current Name: Dean Stoner ("Ox", "Oxie", "Stoneman", "Doc Ox")
Archtype: Sprawl Gangster
Race: Orc
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 6'1, 310 lbs
Eyes/hair: brown/purple spiked mohawk
Birthday: 6/2/2036
Birthplace: Boston

Priorities: Attributes: A, Resources: B, Skills: C, Race: D, Magic: E

Attributes:
-Body: 9 (11/15)
-Strength: 8 (11)
-Quickness: 6 (9)
-Intelligence: 5
-Willpower: 4
-Charisma: 1
-Essence: 0.6
-Magic: 0
-Reaction: 5

Combat Pool: 8 (9-1)

Active Skills:
-Unarmed Combat (Fists): 5(7)
-Throwning Weapons (Knives): 2(4)
-Pistols (Ceska Black Scorpion): 1(3)
-Clubs (Club): 1(3)
-Whips (Whip): 2(4)
-Athletics: 6
-Intimidate (Physical): 1(3)
-Biotech (First Aid): 5(7)
-Bikes: 2

Knowledge Skills:
-Medicine(Trauma Medicine): 5(7)
-Gangs of Seattle (Go Gangs): 2(4)
-Gangs of Boston (Go Gangs): 1(3)
-Seattle Runner Hideouts: 1
-Boston Runner Hideouts: 1
-Football: 2
-History of Armor (Modern Armors): 3(5)
-Indiana Jones Movies: 1
-Bikes: 3

Edges:
-Toughness (3bp)
-Quick Healer (2bp)
-College Education (1bp)
-Good Rep (2bp)
-High Pain Tolerance 3 (6bp)

Flaws:
-Day Job, 20h (-2bp) (Medical clinic for go gangers (anytime) and free clinic on Sundays)
-Dark Secret (-2bp) (Blew up 600 people at Harvard)
-Gremlins (-2bp)
-Phobia, Common, Moderate (-4 bp) (Fire)
-Flashbacks (-4 bp) (Explosions)


Languages:
-English (Cityspeak): 5(7)
--Read/Write: 2
-Japanese: 1

Cyberware:
-Dermal Plating, R3, Alphaware, 90,000y, -1.2e
-Titanium Bone Lacings, Alphaware, 150,000y, -1.8e
-Muscle Replacement, R3, Alphaware, 120,000y, -2.4e

Armor: (total: 10b, 8i, -1 combat pool)
-Armor Vest with Plates, 600y
-Secure Jacket, 850y
-Riot Shield, Large, 1,500y

Weapons:
-Ceska Black Scorpion, 850y
-Whip, 300y

Gear:
-Earplug Cellphone, 100y
-3x 35 rd clips, regular ammo, 700y
-10x throwing knives, 200y
-Thermographic Goggles, 1,500y
-Biomonitor, 1,000y
-Medkit, 200y

Lifestyle:
-Docwagon Basic service, 5,000y
-Low, 2 months paid, 2,000y (home)
-Squatter, permanent, 10,000y (bolthole)
-Squatter, year paid, 1,200y (free clinic office)

Contacts:
-Lvl 1 human Fixer - Boogyman
-Lvl 1 elf Hacker - Coast
-Lvl 1 human DocWagon first responder - James Paterson, 5,000y
-Lvl 1 orc mid-level go ganger - Lily, 5000y


History: Ox is well known in the go ganger circles of Seattle. The semi-retired ganger is respected even across gang lines - his office is well known as neutral turf where you can get patched up from a bike wreck on the cheap and most of the creds go to a good cause, since he runs a free, first come, first serve clinic every Sunday. And though he doesn't run with the gangs any more, he still runs the shadows from time to time. Most runners consider having someone on hand to patch them up, particularly someone with a rep for being tougher then stone, a good thing. (Street legend holds that he took a rocket to the chest at point blank range during a run a couple years back and walked away without a scratch. 'course, street legend being street legend, its has also been claimed at one time or another that he has two heads, can fly, and is really a great dragon in disguise.) But for all that, he doesn't talk about his past much, prefering to let the legends tell what tales they want and making no effort to set things straight. What is know for sure is that he showed up in the sprawl about six years back, ran the streets for a few years, then setup his clinic and has been running it ever since.

What Ox rarely reveals is that he's the child of old east money with seriously corps-connected parents and an ex-student from Harvard, where he was working on his second post graduate medical degree. He took up with the local Boston gangs atfer a fight with his parents, a decision that would lead directly to the deaths of nearly 600 students. On a dare from a biker buddy, he and three other gangers broke into Harvard's high-energy physics building late one night. To this day, he doesn't know what the machine was or why it reacted the way it did when he flipped the switch, but the resulting blast destroyed the entire building as well as two neighboring dorms. He was the only known survivor and even then, he was thrown nearly 200 meters, broke every bone in his body, and burnt off half his skin and a third of his musclemass. Only the fact that his parents pulled out all the stops in paying for his medical treatment allowed him to survive.

No one knew, at least at first, that he was the one who triggerd the blast. It was assumed that he was simply passing near and had caught the edge of the blast. But when he was questioned by LoneStar investigators concering the accident, he paniced and ran. He hitched his way out of the city and eventually all the way to Seattle, where he figured he was far enough out to avoid being hunted down by investigators, and took up the amonomous life of a simple ganger. Still, as he saw more and more of his friends getting injured, he couldn't let his training go to waste, so eventually returned to medicine. It might suprise some of his customers if they knew that their street doc was as well or better trained as many of the top flight corp docs. But most also woundn't care - he's cheap and that's what matters after all.

He's also never admited (to ANYONE) that his real name is Francis Merryweather.

4th ed character, 400 BP:

Current Name: Chun Do ("Baka Oni")
Archtype: Gunslinger Adept
Race: Elf - 35 bp
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 5'2", 100 lbs
Eyes/hair: black/black, cropped, receding
Birthday: 5/15/2034
Birthplace: Kyoto

Attributes: 265 bp
-Body: 2
-Strength: 2
-Agility: 9(11)
-Reaction: 2
-Logic: 2
-Intuition: 2
-Willpower: 2
-Charisma: 4
-Essence: 6
-Magic: 6
-Edge: 6
-Initative: 4, 1 passes

Qualities/Flaws: net 0 bp
-Mystic Adept
-Class 2 Surge
-Genetic Heritage (Genetic Optimization: Agility)
-Apptitude (Longgun)
-Metageneic Improvement (Agility)
-Critter Spook
-Impaired Attribute (Strength)
-Signature
-Hung out to dry
-Day Job (15 bp version)

Active Skills: 86 bp
-Longgun (Sniper Rifles): 10(12)
-Inflitration: 1
-Shadowing: 1
-Disguise: 3(5)
-Con: 4
-Ettiquete: 4

Adept Abilities:
-Improved Ability (Longguns), level 3
-Attribute Boost (Agility), level 1
-Improved Physical Attribute (Agility), level 2
-Melanine Control
-Linguistics
-Facial Control, level 2

Knowledge Skills:
-Balistics: 6
-Yakuza politics: 1
-Rifles: 1
-Famous snipers: 1
-Infamous assasins: 1
-Prominent corporate figures: 1
-Postal procedure: 1

Languages:
-Japanese: native
-Linguistics

Armor: (4b, 3i)
-Berwick Line, jacket, trousers, shirt (3,100y)

Weapons:
-Ares Desert Strike, modified (3,500y)
---Top mounted Imaging Scope w/ Thermograpic and Vision Magnification (200y)
---Underbarrel Mounted smartlink (400y)
---Mod: Powered Easy Breakdown (3,700y)
---Mod: Additional Clip (3,500y)
---Mod: Silencer (400y)
---Mod: Ceramic/Plasteel components, level 1 (23,400y)

Gear:
-Glasses w/ smartlink and flare compensation (575y)
-7 clips w/ 14 Hi-C plastic rounds each (1,085y)
-7 clips w/ 14 subsonic rounds each (315y)
-Fake SIN, rating 4 (4,000y)

Lifestyle: Medium, 1 month (5,000y)

Contacts: 4 bp
-Yoshihiro, Yakuza Boss, Level 3, Loyalty 1 (Oni's boss/fixer)

History:

Chun Do was 'adopted' by the Yakuza at an young enough age that he has no memory of life before joining them. His ties to the group predate his birth, as his parents were selected to undergo genetic alteration in order to pass it on to their children. His parents were killed shortly after his birth and he, along with several other canidates, was isolated in a Yakuza stronghold in New Tokyo. At age 3, he was selected as the most promising of the canidates. He was then sent to the local shinto temple in Kyoto, and it was there he spent his childhood. Most of that time was spent in training, though it was disguised as game, all aimed at perfecting his natural agility.

As he reached his teenage years, he was sent on a tour of national capitals. The goal was to teach him to blend in with any possible culture at a moment's notice. He learned to pick up a language swiftly and with no accent (or any accent he needed) and how to alter his facial features to appear as a completely different person. He even gained limited control over his coloration. By the time he reached 17, he could pass in nearly any culture world-wide.

Then began his training with the rifle. He spent 6 years in a small training camp on an otherwise uninhabited island in the south pacific doing nothing but mastering the use of sniper rifles - these days it is not unreasonable for him to claim to be the finest shot in the world, though he hasn't actually done so.

His training complete, he was assigned to the Seattle branch of the group. They set him up with a cover job as a mail sorter at the Seattle post office. For the next few years, he spent most of his life working peacefully at the post office, and every other month or so, taking out a high profile target for the organization. However, in the last year he has started to get ambition and has made noises to his superiors about wanting to set out on his own and do some freelance work. At this point, the Yakuza have offically cut him of from support. They haven't yet resorted to 'special' messures to force him to return his loyalty to the organization, but it is most likely only a matter of time.

4th ed character, 430 bp

Current Name: Test Subject S-7729-3e ("Dervish")
Archtype: Adept
Race: Pixie (35 bp)
Sex: Female
Height/Weight: 1'6", 7 lbs
Eyes/hair: gold, dark green and longer then she is
Birthday: unknown
Birthplace: unknown
Movement: 1m walk, 4m run/flying 20m walk, 50m run

Attributes: 205 bp
-Body: 2
-Strength: 2
-Agility: 8(10)
-Reaction: 8(11)
-Logic: 3
-Intuition: 6
-Willpower: 3
-Charisma: 3
-Essence: 5
-Magic: 5
-Edge: 2
-Initative: 17, 4 passes

Active Skills: 142 bp
-Stealth Skill Group rank 4
---Disguse: 4
---Infiltration: 4
---Stealth: 4
---Palming: 4
-Exotic Weapon, Monowhip: 4
-Perception (visual): 4(6)
-Dodge (ranged): 6(8 )
-Lockpicking: 1
-Assensing: 4
-Astral Combat (monowhip focus): 4(6)

Knowledge Skills:
-Evo Biomedical Procedures: 4
-Evo Internal Politics: 4
-Evo Biomedical Researchers: 3
-Seattle Bloodsports: 4
-Bloodsport Participents: 4
-Seattle Bars: 4
-History of Arenas: 4
-Language, english: Native

Qualities: 0 bp net
-Type 0 System
-Adept
-Concealment (self)
-Enhanced Senses (astral perception)
-Sapience
-Vanishing
-Uneducated
-Flashbacks (cages - even the sight of one) (5 bp version)
-Astral Beacon
-Computer Illiterate
-Low Pain Tolerance
-Mysterious Implant (10 bp version)

Adept Powers:
-Improved Reflexes, rating 3


Gear total bp: 45 + 2 to bind focus

Assorted 'ware:
-Muscle Toner, rating 2 (16,000y, 0.2e)
-Orthoskin, rating 3 (90,000y, 0.375e)
-Genetic Optimization, Agility: (45,000y, .2e)
-Genetic Optimization, Reflexs: (45,000y, .2e)
-???? (0y, .05e)

Armor: (total including orthoskin: 9b, 8i)
-Form Fitting Armor, Half Body Suit (900y)
-Steampunk Line Corset (600y)
-Forearm Guard (200y)
-Shin Guard (150y)

Weapons:
-Monofiliment Whip (3,000y)
---Weapon Focus, rating 2 (20,000y)

Lifestyle:
-Street

History: Dervish has no idea where she came from, when she was born, or even what her real name is and is literally brand new to the streets. Her ealiest memory is of waking up in a cage in a white room smelling of anteceptic. Over the next few years she pieced together at least a bit of her story. It seems that the place she was being held was a black research lab owned by Evo and dedicated to cutting edge biomedical, bioware, and genetic research. She, like the other test subjects, had been grabbed for the program to test the effect of the research on non-metahuman genotypes. The tests were frequent, painful, exotic, and extreme (for example - she wasn't type 0 when captured). What, if anything, the researchers learned and if their program was a success, she has no idea. But after 6 years which were a close approximation of hell, the program was discontinued. From what she overheard, all the test subjects were to be killed and burned and the lab completely destoryed.

However, she found herself backed into a shipping crate instead. After a day and a half of total darkness, the crate was opened by a pockmarked orc in a dingy basement. It seems a lab tech had sold her as an 'exotic animal'. She was earmarked as the new challange for the South Seattle bloodsport ring. She survived her first few fights by luck as much as anything, but soon began to pick up the trick of it. The two years that followed, while unpleasent and extremely dangerous, were actually an improvement over the 'tests' which had made up her previous life. Her cell had more room then her old cage, there were other fighters to talk to, and she actually got to do something, even if that something was fighting for her life. Though she wasn't a big fan of her situation, things were at least improving.

Then, 8 days ago, the ring where she was fighting in was raided by LoneStar in the middle of her fight and shut down. Seeing her chance, she managed to flee and vanish in the confusion. Since then she's been on the streets. Her nimble fingers have been more then enough to keep her fed, but she all she has is literally the cloths on her back - she was wearing her fighting costume (an armored bronze corset, a mini-skirt. bronze greaves and matching vambraces, and her monowhip) when she escaped but she has nothing else to her name. Any job she is offered will be her first and is likely to arise because the offerer had seen her fight at some point and also saw her on the street sometime in the last week, since she has no contacts and is very much alone in unknown teritory.

4th ed character, 400 bp

Current Name: James Mason ("Doctor Boom")
Archtype: Weapon Specialist
Race: Troll - 40 bp
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 9'0", 400 lbs
Eyes/hair: dark blue/black and close cropped
Birthday: 1/1/2029
Birthplace: New York
Movement: 15m walk/35m run

Attributes: 185 bp
-Body: 10(14)
-Strength: 5
-Agility: 4
-Reaction: 4
-Logic: 4
-Intuition: 2
-Willpower: 4
-Charisma: 1
-Essence: 2.8
-Edge: 1
-Initative: 6
-Magic: 1

Active Skills: 92 bp
-Heavy Weapons (Grenade Launchers): 4(6)
-Throwing Weapons (Lobbed): 4(6)
-Demolitions (Improvised Explosives): 6(
-Armorer: 1
-Dodge: 4
-Ettique (Military): 1(3)

Knowledge Skills:
-Military Life: 2
-Chemistry: 5
-Engineering: 4
-Demolitions: 4
-History of Gunpowder: 1


Qualities: 0 bp net
-Spell Knack: Magic Fingers
-Toughness
-Restricted Gear x2
-Trust Fund (10 bp version)
-SINner
-Day Job (15 bp version)
-Poor Self Control, Thrill Seeker
-Reduced Sense, Hearing (5 bp version)


Gear total bp: 50

Assorted 'ware:
-Bone Density Augmentation (80,000y, -1.2e)
-Dermal Sheath, Rating 3 (40,000y, -1.6e)
-Platelet Factories (25,000y, -0.2e)
-Trauma Damper (40,000y, -0.2e)

Armor: (total: 26b, 27i)
-Heavy Military Armor (20,000y)
--Helmet (10,000y)
----Radar, Rating 6 (1,200y)
--Gel Packs (1,500y)
--Fire Resistent, Rating 6 (600y)
-Riot Shield (200y)

Weapons:
-ArmTech MGL-12 (2,000y)
--Airburst Link (500y)
--Shock Pad (50y)
--Smartgun, external (400y)

Gear:
-Demolitions Tool Kit
-50x radio detonators (2,000y)
-260x sticks of dynamite (20,800y)
-3x 12 rd clips of white phosphorus grenades (4,335y)
-5x anti-removal device, rating 6 (750y)
-10x timers (350y)

Lifestyle:
-Medium (paid in full)

Contacts: 18 bp
-General Bradcock, military officer, rating 6, loyalty 6 (the doctor's old CO)
-Junk-cat, weapons dealer, raiting 2, loyalty 4 (the doctor's goto guy for demo)
-Dean Adams, college dean, rating 3, loyalty 2 (the doctor's boss)

History: James Mason was an active duty member of the UCAS military for 20 years and retired with full honors as a Captain in 2067. His inital assignment in the military was as a combat engineer, but as his career possessed, he became more of a specialist. His natural talent for the magic fingers spell led to his assigned to explosive ordinace disposal, since he could work from a distance and unlike most mages could afford to spend enough time to be truly familar with demo. Later in his career though, he began to largely abandon that technique in favor of a more direct aproach, as several accidents had convinced him he would generally handly the blast.

After his retirement, he purchased a decent place in Seattle, funded by his pension, and started a second career as a college chemisty professor, putting the working knowledge of chemistry he picked up working on bombs to good use. Unfortunately, he quickly became bored with his new life and it didn't take him long to realize what he was missing. He may have made a career out of disarming bombs, but what he really enjoyed was when they went BOOM! After several false starts, he eventually made his way into the world of shadowrunning, as one of the few places he could play with demo to his hearts content. Though he has kept his day job, most nights he can be found on the streets, blowing things to pieces for the highest bidder.

4th ed character, 400 bp

Current Name: David Edwards ("Julienne Fries")
Archtype: Street Samurai
Race: Orc (20 bp)
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 6'2", 275 lbs
Eyes/hair: green/bald
Birthday: 7/7/2037
Birthplace: Iowa
Movement: 10m walk, 25m run

Attributes: 200 bp
-Body: 8(10)
-Strength: 7(9)
-Agility: 5(7)
-Reaction: 5(7)
-Logic: 2
-Intuition: 2
-Willpower: 2
-Charisma: 2
-Essence:
-Edge: 1
-Initative: 9, 3 passes

Active Skills: 116 bp
-Blades (Cyber Implant): 5(7)
-Pistols (Semis): 5(7)
-Dodge: 4
-Athletics: 3
-Perception: 3
-Survival(Urban): 2(4)
-Armorer: 2
-Etiquette(Military): 1(3)
-Intimidation: 2

Knowledge Skills:

Qualities: 0 bp net
-Human Looking
-Toughness
-Quick Healer
-Ambidextrous
-Guts
-SINner (10 bp version)
-Mild Addiction (alcohol)
-Mild Addiction (Kamikaze)
-Moderate Addiction (Zen)
-Sensitive Neural Structure

Gear total bp: 43

Assorted 'ware:
-Aluminum Bone Lacing, Alphaware (30,000y, -0.8e)
-Wired Reflexes, Rating 2 (32,000y, -3e)
-Spur, Retractable (3,600y, -0.24e)
-Cybereyes, Rating 3 (1,000y, -0.4e)
--Flare Compensation (750y)
--Low-light Vision (1,000y)
--Smartlink (1,000y)
--Thermographic Vision (1,000y)
--Vision Enhancement (3,000y)
--Vision Magnification (1,000y)
-Adrenaline Pump, Rating 2 (60,000y, -0.75e)
-Muscle Augmentation, Rating 2 (14,000y, -0.2e)
-Muscle Toner, Rating 2 (16,000y, -0.2e)
-Platelet Factories (25,000y, -0.1e)

Armor: (total: 9b, 6i)
-Lined Coat (700y)
-Armor Vest (600y)

Weapons:
-Ares Predator IV (300y)

Gear:
-3x 15 rd clips (75y)
-Transys Avalon Commlink w. Novatech Navi OS (3,750y)
-Kamikaze, 4 doses (400y)
-Zen, 40 doses (200y)
-Survival Kit (100y)
-Medkit, Rating 6 (600y)

IDs:
-Rating 4 fake Sin -- LoneStar Special Response Officer (4,000y)
--Rating 4 Licenses, coving smartlink, wired reflexes, Muscle Agumentation, Muscle Toner, Ares Predator, carrying concealed (2,400y)
-Rating 4 fake Sin -- Knight Errand Special Response Officer (4,000y)
--Rating 4 Licenses, coving smartlink, wired reflexes, Muscle Agumentation, Muscle Toner, Ares Predator, carrying concealed (2,400y)

Lifestyle:
-6000y paid into team lifestyle

Contacts: 21 bp
-Callsign Charlie: decker, Connections 3, loyalty 1 - old highschool friend
-Officer Edwards: LoneStar cop, Connections 2, loyalty 1 - crooked LoneStar cop paid to backup his fake SIN if needed
-Agent Woodsen: Knight Errand Agent, Connections 2, loyalty 1 - as above
-Gunnery Sergeant Adams: Military S4 (supply officer), Connections 4, Loyalty 5 - old teammate, source for black market arms.
-Dicer: Dealer, Conections 2m loyalty 1 - drug dealer, Julien's hookup when he wants a score

History:

4th ed character, 400 bp

Current Name: Kali
Archtype: Street Samurai
Race: Nartaka 25 bp
Sex: Female
Height/Weight: 5'2", 126 lbs
Eyes/hair: Green/Bald
Birthday: 8/12/2042
Birthplace: Dehli
Movement: 10m walk, 25m run

Attributes: 195 bp
-Body: 5
-Strength: 2
-Agility: 6(8 )
-Reaction: 5(9)
-Logic: 2
-Intuition: 2
-Willpower: 2
-Charisma: 2
-Essence: 0.1
-Edge: 2
-Initative: 7(11), 1(3) pass

Active Skills: 100
-Pistol(Semiautomatics): 5(6) (+2)
-Dodge (ranged): 5(8 ) (+2)
-Clubs: 4
-Influence skill group: 4
--Con: 4
--Ettiquette: 4
--Leadership: 4
--Negotiation: 4
-Intimidation(physical): 2 (+2)
-Gymnastics(dance): 2 (+2)

Knowledge Skills:
-Indian Culture: 2
-Indian Mythology: 3
-Calcutta Shadows: 1
-Yakuza: 3
-Tactics: 2
-Dance: 1

Qualities: 0 bp net
-Class II Surge
--Shiva Arms
--Magnetosense
--Bioluninescence
--Third Eye
-Restricted Gear
-Martial Arts: Krav Maga: take aim as a free action
-Rich
-Ambidextrious
-Debt (15 bp)
-SINner (5 bp)
-Poor Self Control: Thill Seeker
-Poor Self Control: Combat Monster

Martial Arts: 4 bp
-Two-weapon Style
-Full Offense

Gear total bp: 60 bp + debt

'ware:
-Radar Sensor, rating 4 (12,000y, -0.3e)
-Move-by-wire, rating 2 (85,000y, -3e)
-Trauma Damper (40,000y, -0.4e)
-Reakt (30,000y, -0.4e)
-Synch (30,000y, -0.3e)
-Cybereyes, rating 3 (1,000y, -0.4e)
--Flare Compensation (750y)
--Low-light vision (1,000y)
--Smartlink (1,000y)
--Thermographic Vision (1,000y)
--Vision Magnification (1,000y)
--Eye-light system (750y)
-Muscle Toner, rating 2 (16,000y, -0.4e)
-Reflex Recorder: Dodge (10,000y, -0.1e)
-Reflex Recorder: Pistols (10,000y, -0.1e)
-Sideways (permanent, -0.4e)

Armor:
-Lined coat (700y)
-Half-body suit (900y)
--PPP: Forearm Guard (200y)
--PPP: Leg and arm casing (350y)
--PPP: Shin Guard (150y)
--PPP: Vitals Protector (200y)

Weapons:
12x Yamaha Sakura Fubuki, modifered (24,000y)
--Top Mount: Smartgun System (4,800y)
--Mod: Custom Look, level 2 (12,000y)
--Mod: Skinlink (600y)
--Mod: Melee Hardening (3,600y)
--Mod: Silencer (4,800y)
--Mod: Personalized Grip (1,200y)

Gear:
-480 rd Stick-n-shock, loaded (3,840y)
-Commlink: Hermes Ikon w/ Novatech Navi (4,500y)
-12x concealable holster (900y)
-Activesoft: Perception, rating 2 (6,000y)

IDs:
-Fake SIN, rating 4 (400y)
-Fake License, rating 4, covering pistols, carry concealed (8,000y)

Lifestyle:
-Low, 1 month

Contacts:
-Hanzu, Yakuza boss, connections 4, loyalty 1
-Silver Surfer, decker, connections 4, loyalty 3
-Dox Ox, street dox, connections 2, loyalty 2

History:

Because I had something of a tough time packing my character into 400 points, and you kept casually throwing out some *very* high dice totals in the recruiting thread, I mosied over here to see how you did it. On a careful review of your sheet, I noticed some issues on it that you probably ought to address.

-Given your Attributes, your Initiative ought to be higher- 11 rather than 8.

-There's some accounting wonkiness in the Attributes. They seem to check out as 200 bp, not 195- which is an impossible total anyway, as that would equate to half an Attribute point.

-Your skills are downright strange. Even assuming reflex recorders are taken into account in the 'base' ratings of the Pistols and Dodge skills, that would leave a base rating of 7 for Dodge, not allowed in the absence of an Aptitude quality. Even assuming it's 6, instead, they clock in at 108.
(20 for Pistol skill. 28 for Dodge skill, paying twice for the max rank. 16 for the Clubs skill. 40 for the Influence group. 4 for the two specializations. 20 + 28 + 16 + 40 + 4 = 108.
Edit: I see, it's both your MBW and RR bonuses going into Dodge. Are there any other bits of ware that add skill bonuses? If I missed two of them, it would be enough.
It's very confusing to list cyber-augmented skills like this, as directly built into the base rating: most just put the augmented total in parentheses or brackets.)

-You didn't explicitly note the Qualities inherent in your metatype- the Distinctive Style built into being a metavariant, the Striking Skin Pigmentation, or the Shiva Arms.

-More an observation than a mechanical problem, really, but you're going to be failing a lot of Composure tests...

Ooogooman wrote:

Because I had something of a tough time packing my character into 400 points, and you kept casually throwing out some *very* high dice totals in the recruiting thread, I mosied over here to see how you did it. On a careful review of your sheet, I noticed some issues on it that you probably ought to address.

-Given your Attributes, your Initiative ought to be higher- 11 rather than 8.

Check - forgot to update it, you're absolutely right. I will do so after I finish this post.

Quote :

-There's some accounting wonkiness in the Attributes. They seem to check out as 200 bp, not 195- which is an impossible total anyway, as that would equate to half an Attribute point.

Str: 10 bp
Bod: 40 bp
Agility: 65 (maxed point is +25, not +10, that's there the 'half-point' 5 comes from)
Reaction: 40 bp
Intuition: 10 bp
Logic: 10 bp
Charisma: 10 bp
Wisdom: 10 bp
Edge: 0 (still gets the human +1 for meta-types)

Which equals 195.

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-Your skills are downright strange. Even assuming reflex recorders are taken into account in the 'base' ratings of the Pistols and Dodge skills, that would leave a base rating of 7 for Dodge, not allowed in the absence of an Aptitude quality. Even assuming it's 6, instead, they clock in at 108.

Dodge base skill is 5 - the move-by-wire system gives a +2 bonus to dodge, the reflex recorder gives a +1. +2 from specialization gives the 10 dice I mentioned in the other thread.

Quote :

-You didn't explicitly note the Qualities inherent in your metatype- the Distinctive Style built into being a metavariant, the Striking Skin Pigmentation, or the Shiva Arms.

True and I certainly can if the DM would like, but I didn't feel the need to note them specificly - the metavarient was already noted after all.

As for the other high number I tossed out, the insane sniper rifle shot - I originally started that character for a game on a different site which never took off and have been ideally playing with him for a while trying to improve him. I think (not positive) that he is within 2 dice of the maximum you can possible have with his sniper rifle. But he let pretty much every else fall by the wayside to get there. And even so it was DARN hard to get it in 400 bp - I think it took like 9 drafts to get it balanced.

3rd ed character:

Current Name: Eddie Cavedaria ("Beard Hammer", "Casper")
Archtype: Street Mage/Face
Race: Dwarf
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 4'0, 150 lbs
Eyes/hair: brown/hairless
Birthday: 6/6/2026
Birthplace: Los Angles

Priorities: Attributes: C, Resources: A, Skills: E, Race: D, Magic: B

Attributes:
-Body: 3
-Strength: 3
-Quickness: 3
-Intelligence: 6
-Willpower: 7
-Charisma: 6
-Essence: 6
-Magic: 6
-Reaction: 4

Combat Pool: 8
Magic Pool: 6

Active Skills:
-Sorcery(Spellcasting): 5(7)
-Ettiquette: 5
-Negotiations: 5
-Pistols(Browning Max-Power): 1(3)
-Stealth: 6

Knowledge Skills:
-Hollywood: 3
-Acting: 4
-Sex: 6
-Famous actors: 6
-Magic: 2
-Shamanistic Tradition: 1
-Porn dealers: 3
-Yoga: 5

Languages:
-English: 6
-Japenses: 1
-Chinese: 1
-French: 1

Edges:
-Astral Chameleon (2bp)
-Aptitude: Sorcery (4bp)

Flaws:
-Infirm (-3bp)
-Phobia: Fire: Mild (-3bp)

Magic: Aspected Magician (Sorcerer): Shaman (Lover)

Spells: (all fetish limited to reduce drain)
-Combat Sense, Force 1
-Mindlink, Force 1
-Heal, Force 1
-Increased Willpower, Force 6
-Increased Intelligence, Force 6
-Increase Reflexes +3, Force 1
-Entertainment, Force 1
-Improved Invisibility, Force 1
-Stealth, Force 1
-Influence, Force 6
-Magic Fingers, Force 3

Focus:
-Power Focus, Force 2
-Sustaining Focus, Force 6 (Increased Willpower)
-Sustaining Focus, Force 6 (Increased Intelligence)
-Sustaining Focus, Force 1 (Improved Invisibility)
-Sustaining Focus, Force 1 (Stealth)
-Sustaining Focus, Force 1 (Increased Reflexes +3)
-Sustaining Focus, Force 3 (Magic Fingers)
-Sustaining Focus, Force 1 (Entertainment)
-Sustaining Focus, Force 1 (Combat Sense)


Armor: (total: 2b, 2i)
-London Fog Line, the Proffesional (1,000y)
--Thermal Damping, Rating 4 (6,000y)

Weapons:
-Browing Ultra-Power (525y)

Gear:
-15 spell points (375,000y)
-Power Focus (205,000y)
-Sustaining Foci (300,000y)
-Fetishes (2,150y)
-3 clips, 10x regular ammo each (60y)
-Earplug Cellphone (100y)

Lifestyle:
-High, 1 month (10,000y)
-Low lifestyle, permanent (100,000y)


Contacts:

Harry 'the Man' Dirkman: Fixer: Level 2; Casper's old producer. Harry knowns EVERYONE in "the bizz" and even though most of them prefer not to admit to knowing him, he knows enough dirty secrets to call in quite a few favors.

Old Man Chen: Talismonger: Level 2; Casper's contact and trainer in the ways of shamanhood.

Nodespike: Decker: Level 2; The tech director for Harry's studio, he spends more time illegally jacked in then doing his offical job. Casper has covered for him with the boss a number of times and is owed several favors.

Lizz Salimander: simm-starlet: Level 2; Casper's old flame. The two didn't part well, but if he's truly in trouble, she still cares enough out him to come through.

Doctor Yakub: DocWagon doctor: Level 2; Casper's doctor after the accident.

Officer Nelson: Lone-star cop; Level 1; Taught Casper's self-defense course and yoga class on the weekends.

Mr. Edwards: Mr. Johnson: Level 1; Casper's lawyer. He has a number of corp connections and often plays messanger for them when discression is called for.

Icepick: Street Samuari: Level 1; He had a bit part in one of Casey's movies and the two of them got along reasonably well. When Casper decied to take up running, Icepick's the once who introduced him around in Seattle's shadows.

Uncle Sam: Arms Dealer: Level 1; An old, old friend (from when they were six), Casper just recently ran into Sam again when he went into Uncle Sam's Weapons, Rockets, and Explosives imporium to buy a weapon for him new career.


History:

Casper used to be very well known indeed. Under the psuedonym 'Beard Hammer', he was a world famous trid-D porn star. Born and raised in Hollywood, he orginally had aspirations of becoming a true actor, but fell into porn somewhere along the way and managed to make an excellent career of it. But that all came crashing down six years ago. A carelessly dropped cigar after a drug fueled afterparty set one of his mansions aflame. Unfortunately , it was the one he was passed out in at the time. Hideously burned, Casper is a repulsive sight to this day and his injuries, for reasons unknown, have resisted all efforts to properly heal or conceal them.

However, the fire wasn't all bad, for in the midst of pain fueled fever dreams the Lover appeared to him for the first time and set his feet upon the path of Awakening. Ironicly, he came to the embrace of the Lover at the same time his porn career was permanently ended. Since then he started to shun public life (indeed, most of the public believe he was killed in the fire) and become a hermit, unwilling to face peoples reaction to his appearance. Instead, he threw himself into the mastery of his new magical talents, devoting his not inconsiderable will and substantial fortune to the task.

Unfortunately... one thing Casper lacks is fiscal discipline. He was used to the vast sums of money his porno empire brought in and in the years since the accident, he has run through his entire fortune, living above his means and spending far to much on mastering magic. This has brought him to Shadowrunning - he is nearly broke, especially compaired to his earlier wealth, but is unwilling to return to normal sociaty. He hit upon the idea of becoming a shadowrunner and is following up on. However, he has no real street experience or any real understanding of exactly what he is getting himself into.

Current Name: Stan Jawalski - "Quake"
Archtype: Rigger/Weapon Specialist
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 6'8", 786 lbs (in suit), 5'10, 211 lbs (out of suit)
Eyes/hair: brown/natural brown, dyed green
Birthday: 5/15/2027
Birthplace: Detroit

Attributes: 200 bp
-Body: 5
-Strength: 2
-Agility: 5(7)
-Reaction: 5(7)
-Logic: 3
-Intuition: 3
-Willpower: 3
-Charisma: 2
-Essence: 4.2
-Edge: 2
-Initative: 8(10), 1 pass

Qualities/Flaws: net -20 bp
-Restricted Gear: Military Armor (5bp)
-Restricted Gear: Pilot Program, Rating 6 (5bp)
-Restricted Gear: Signiture Masking (5bp)
-Records on File: Knight Errand (-10bp)
-Enemy: Knight Errand (-10bp)
-Wanted (-10bp)
-In Debt (-25bp)
-Distincitive Style (-10bp)

Active Skills: 154 bp
-Firearms group: 3
--Pistols: 3
--Automatics: 3
--Longguns: 3
-Heavy Weapons: 2
-Thrown Weapons: 1
-Dodge: 3
-Armorer: 2
-Gunnery (Ballistic): 5(+2)
-Pilot Anthroform (Biped): 5(+2)
-Demolitions: 2
-Unarmed: 1
-Automotive Mechanic (Anthroform): 1(+2)
-Electronics Group: 1
--Computer: 1
--Data Search: 1
--Hardware: 1
--Software: 1
-Atheletics group 1:
--Climbing: 1
--Gymnastics: 1
--Running: 1
--Swimming: 1
-Perception: 2
-Infiltration: 1
-Ettiquete (Military): 1(+2)

Knowledge Skills:
-Knight Errand: 3
-Small Unit Tactics: 2
-Weapon Design: 2
-Armor Design: 2
-Military Weapon systems: 2
-AI: 2
-Balistics: 1
-Demolitions: 1
-Urban Combat: 2
-Shadowrunning groups: 1

Languages:
-English: native


Gear: total cost 272,975 (50 bp)

'ware: 52,000y
-Muscle Toner, rating 2 (16,000y, -0.4e)
-Reaction Enhancers, rating 2 (20,000y, -0.6e)
-Hot-Sim Modified (5,000y, -0.2e)
-Control Rig (10,000y, -0.5e)
-Smartlink (1,000y, -0.1e)

Armor/commlink/drone: total cost 199,100 gp.
-Heavy Military Armor (20,000y)
--Fire Resistance, rating 6 (900y)
--Nonconductivity, rating 6 (1,200y)
--Thermal Damping, rating 6 (3,000y)
--Gel Packs (1,500y)
--Ruthenium Polymer Coating (7,500y)
--Strength Upgrade, rating 3 (4,500y)
--Mobility Upgrade, rating 1 (2,500y)
--Insulation, rating 6 (900y)
--Hydraulic Jacks, rating 6 (9,000y)
--Gyromount (4,000y)
--Foot Anchor x2 (6,000y)
--Hardening, rating 6 (150y)
--Expanded Capacity, rating 4 (4,000y)
--Military Helmet (10,000)
---Internal commlink upgraded to Firewall/Response/Signal/System/Encryption 6 (8,500y)
----Analysis, rating 6 (600y)
----Command, rating 6 (600y)
----Browse, rating 6 (600y)
----Scan, rating 6 (600y)
----Medic, rating 6 (6,000y)
----Stealth, rating 6 (6,000y)
----Black Hammer, rating 6 (6,000y)
----Armor, rating 6 (6,000y)
----ECCM, rating 6 (6,000y)
----IC, Rating 4 (10,000y)
-----Armor, rating 4 (n/a)
-----Black Hammer, rating 4 (n/a)
-----Analysis, rating 4 (n/a)
----IC, Rating 4 (10,000y)
-----Armor, rating 4 (n/a)
-----Black Hammer, rating 4 (n/)
-----Analysis, rating 4 (n/a)
-Drone upgrade (Str 4(7), Body 4, Agility 6, Reaction 6)
--Pilot, rating 6 (15,000y)
--ECM, rating 6 (6,000y)
--Rigger Adeptation (2,500y)
--Fuzzy Logic (2,500y)
--Nanomaintenance System, rating 2 (10,000y)
--Complete Skinlink (5,000y)
--Life Support, level 1 (2,000y)
--Signature Masking, rating 6 (12,000y)
--Touch Sensors (2,000y)
-Sensors
--Camera
---Flare-compensation (50y)
---Low-light (100y)
---Vision Magnification (100y)
---Vision Enhancement, rating 3 (300y)
--Camera
---Thermographic (100y)
---Vision Magnification (100y)
---Vision Enhancement, rating 3 (300y)
--Cyberware Scanner, rating 6 (450y)
--Laser Microphone, rating 6 (300y)
--Radar, rating 6 (1,200y)
--Motion Sensor (50y)
--Olfactory Sensor, rating 6 (3,000y)

Weapon: Total cost: 5,710y
-Ingram White Knight, modified (2,000y)
--Hip-pad bracing system (200y)
--Sling (10y)
--Chameleon Coating (1,000y)
--Heavy Barrel (2,000y)
--Personalized Grip (100y)
--Top Mounted: Smartgun System (400y)

Other gear: Total cost: 5,665y
-3x 100 rd belts, EX-Explosive rds (3,015y)
-Medkit, rating 6 (600y)
-10x stim patch, rating 6 (1,500y)
-Skinlink (50y)
-Subvocal Microphone (50y)
-AR gloves (250y)
-Holo Projector (200y)
-Armorer kit (n/a)
-Auto-Mechanic kit (n/a)

Lifestyle:
-Squatter, 10 months (500y)

Vehicle:
-GAZ-129, stock (12,000y)

Contacts: 16 bp
-Belsarius, Connections 6, Loyalty 6; an AI who evolved from a Knight Errand Tac soft program
-'Jimmy', Connections 3, Loyalty 1; Borg's mafia contact

History:

Born in Detroit, Stan joined the military at 17 to escape the sprawl. After a standerd four year hitch, he left the them to sign on with Knight Errand. He spent the next twelve years working his way up through the ranks, the final five of those years spent as the NCOIC of one of Knight Errand's elite response teams and the team heavy weapons gunner. Piloting top of the line personal battle armor, the team was a force to be reconned with.

During this period, Stan worked extensively with the unit's tacsoft, and over time noticed it growning more and more responsive and more personable. Eventurally it grew into a full fledged AI. Stan and the newborn AI grew close and he concealed its existance from his superiors for two full years. Eventually however, the discovered Belsarius. Rather then yielding to them, the AI made a bid for freedom. Unable to get off the Knight Errand base's secure node to the greater matrix, he (with Stan's willing aid) loaded himself onto Stan's armor comm and the two of them went AWOL together.

Bel escaped into the matrix as soon as they were clear, and Stan got himself smuggled from BoshWash to Seattle by the mafia, where he hoped he could fade back into the shadows. However, with a stolen AI and a quarter-million in top-flight military gear, its unlikely that the Knight Errands will be willing to let him live in peace.

my bad I should not have put this here, Can someone delete this message

1) I don't need any of the weapon skills other then gunnery in a technical sense. I have them because they fit the character I want, but I may never use any of them.

2) The character's arms go in the arms and legs go in the legs and he can move it without rigging it - but that's not the way it is meant to be used. Normally he will be rigging it, and while his arms and legs go along for the ride when the suit moves its arms and legs, its the suits servo-motors and exoskeleton that are moving the thing, not his muscle power.

3) The idea is that the military armor plus its built in comm, muscle exoskeleton, and mobility upgrade are the drone. So he is wearing the heavy military armor, but that armor is also a drone rather then 'just' armor.

4) Yep, big is fine. On the other hand - this is regular (if unusually heavy) body armor with an exoskeleton and enhancements - Its going to be noticably bigger then a normal human, but it should still be smaller then a troll, so he shouldn't have trouble getting most places a troll could.

Something like this is what I'm picutring - maybe a little bulkier then that (its not a sleek stream-lined iron man suit but not some giant anime mecha either.)

Current Name: "Mist"
Archtype: Adept/Covert Ops
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Height/Weight: 5'2", 93 lbs
Eyes/hair: brown/brown
Birthday: 3/15/2052
Birthplace: Hokido

Attributes: 220 bp
-Body: 3
-Strength: 2
-Agility: 5(7)
-Reaction: 5
-Logic: 3
-Intuition: 5
-Willpower: 3
-Charisma: 1
-Essence: 4.29
-Magic: 4
-Edge: 2
-Initative: 10(12), 1 pass

Qualities/Flaws: 0 bp net
-Adept (5 bp)
-Astral Chameleon (5 bp)
-Erased (10 bp)
-Genetic Heritage: Genewipe (10 bp)
-Martial Arts: Arnis De Mano: Deal damage on disarm (5 bp)
-Prejudiced: Non-japanese: Biased (-10 bp)
-Day Job (-10 bp)
-SINner (-5 bp)
-Addiction: Kamakazi: Moderate (-10 bp)

Active Skills: 118 bp
-Athletics Group, level 2
-Infiltration(Urban): 5 {8} (+2)
-Unarmed(martial arts): 5 {6} (+2)
-Blades(sword): 3 (+2)
-Throwing(Knives): 3 (+2)
-Shadowing: 3
-Perception(Visual): 3 {+3(base)/+8(sight)/+6(hearing)/+6(scent)}
-(skillsoft)Demolitions: 3 (+1)
-(skillsoft)Lockpicking: 3 (+1)

Knowledge Skills:
-Japanese Histoy: 5
-Japanese Culture: 4
-Yakuza: 3
-Ninja Clans: 6
-Tactics and Stratagy: 2
-Improvised Weaponry: 1

Languages:
-Japanese: native
-English: 3

Martial Arts: (4 bp)
-Disarm
-Finishing Move


Magic: (2 bp)
-Focus:
--Weapon Focus, Rating 2
-Powers
--Nerve Strike (1 pp)
--Improved Ability: Infiltration, Rating 3 (.75 pp)
--Improved Ability: Unarmed, Rating 1 (.5 pp)
--Traceless Walk (1 pp)
--Power Throw (.75 pp)

Gear:

'ware: Total Cost: 113,500y
-Muscle Toner, rating 2 (16,000y, -0.2e)
-(a)Datajack (1,000y, -0.08e)
-(a)Olfactory Booster, r3 (6,000y, -0.16e)
-(a)Attention Coprocessor, r3 (18,000y, -0.24e)
-(a)Single Cybereye, r4 (1,800y, -.2e)
--(a)Flare Compensation (1,500y)
--(a)Low-light Vision (2,000y)
--(a)Protective covers (200y)
--(a)Thermographic Vision (2,000y)
--(a)Vision Enhancement, r3 (9,000y)
-(a)Single Cyberear, r4 (1,800y, -0.2e)
--(a)Audio Enhancement, r3 (9,000y)
--(a)Damper (1500y)
--(a)Spatial Recognizer (1500y)
--(a)Increased Sensativity (2,000y)
-(a)Skillwires, R3 (12,000y, -0.48e)
-Genewipe (free - genetic heritage quality)
-Synch (30,000y, -0.15e)

Armor: Total: 10b/8i (7/5 w/out coat) Total Cost: 20,000y
-Form-Fitting Full Body Suit (1,600y)
--Fire Resistance, rating 6 (1,200y)
--Thermal Damping, rating 6 (3,000y)
--Auto-Injector (1,500y)
---Hardening, Rating 6 (150y)
--Gel Packs (1,000y)
--PPP: Shin Guards (150y)
--PPP: Forearm Guards (200y)
--Ruthenium Polymer Coating (7,500y)
-Steam Punk Line: Overcoat (1,000y)
--Nonconductivity, rating 6 (1,200y)
--Chemical Protection, rating 6 (1,500y)

Weapon: Total Cost: 33,665y
-Vibro-Blade, Sword, modified (2,000y)
--Ceramic/Plasteel Compomenets, rating 1 (6,400y)
--Chameleon Coating (1,000y)
--Personalized Grip (100y)
--Weapon Focus (20,000y)
--Hardening, Rating 6 (150y)
-Throwing Knife (Kunai), modified x10 (200y)
--Ceramic/Plasteel Componenets, rating 1 (2,400y)
-Shuriken, modifired x20 (600y)
--Ceramic/Plasteel Components, rating 1 (1,200y)
-Flash-Bang Grenade x3 (90y)
-Flash-Pak x2 (200y)
-Smoke Grenade x3 (90y)
-Thermal Smoke Grenade x3 (105y)
-Flare Grenade x2 (40y)
-Flash Grenade x3 (90y)

Commlink: (49,600y)
-Custom; Response 5, System 5, Signal 5, Firewall 5 (9,000y)
--Empathy Software, Rating 5 (2,500y)
--Lie Detector Software, Rating 5 (2,500y)
--Browse, rating 3 (150y)
--Command, rating 3 (150y)
--Edit, rating 3 (150y)
--Scan, rating 3 (150y)
--Stealth, rating 5 (5,000y)
--Activesoft: Demolitions: Personalized/Pluscode 2: Rating 3 (12,000y)
--Activesoft: Lockpicking: Personalized/Pluscode 2: Rating 3 (12,000y)

Other gear: Total Cost: 39,500y
-Subvocal Microphone (50y)
--Hardening, Rating 6 (150y)
-Holo Projector x3 (600y)
--Hardening, Rating 6 (450y)
-Stealth Tag x10 (50y)
-Directional Jammer, Rating 6 (3,000y)
--Hardening, Rating 6 (150y)
-Smart Area Jammer, Rating 4 (4,000y)
--Hardening, Rating 6 (150y)
-Endoscope (250y)
-Autopicker, Rating 6 (1,200y)
--Hardening, Rating 6 (150y)
-Cellular Glove Molder, Rating 3 (600y)
--Hardening, Rating 6 (150y)
-Maglock Passkey, Rating 4 (8,000y)
--Hardening, Rating 6 (150y)
-Maglock Sequencer, Rating 4 (800y)
--Hardening, Rating 6 (150y)
-Miniwelder (250y)
-Wire Clippers (25y)
-Glue Sprayer x3 (450y)
-GPS (200y)
-Rappeling Gloves (70y)
-Respirator, Rating 6 (150y)
-Survival Kit (100y)
-Grapple Gun (500y)
-Catalyst Stick (120y)
-Stealth Rope, 200m (170y)
-Medkit, Rating 6 (600y)
--Hardening, Rating 6 (150y)
-Antidote Patch, Rating 6 x5 (1,500y)
-Stimulent Patch, Rating 6 x5 (750y)
-Trauma Patch x2 (1,000y)
-Nanopaste Disguise x3 (1,500y)
--Hardening, Rating 6 (150y)
-Glasscutter (10y)
-Combat Load Vest (300y)
-Ammunition Pouch x8 (200y)
-Ration Pouch (50y)
-Smart Canteen (5)
-Body Cavity Escape Kit (10,000y)
-Fingernail Data Storage (200y)
-Kamakazi x10 (1,000y)

Lifestyle: (1000y)
-Low, 1 month (1,000y)

Current Name: Edward (Eddie) Hanson - "Tank"
Archtype: Adept/Sprawl Ganster
Race: Troll (-40 bp)
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 8'7", 396 lbs
Eyes/hair: Blue/Green mowhawk
Birthday: 3/15/2051
Birthplace: Seattle

Attributes: -230 bp
-Body: 9
-Strength: 7
-Agility: 4
-Reaction: 5
-Logic: 1
-Intuition: 2
-Willpower: 4
-Charisma: 2
-Essence: 6
-Magic: 5
-Edge: 1
-Initative: 7, 1 pass

Qualities/Flaws: +5 bp net
+Adept (5 bp)
+Toughness (10 bp)
+Aptitude: Unarmed Combat (10 bp)
-Addiction: Severe: Jazz (20 bp)
-SINner (10 bp)

Active Skills: -118 bp
-Unarmed Combat (Boxing): 7(+2)
-Athletics Group: 3
--Climbing: 3
--Gymnastics: 3
--Running: 3
--Swimming: 3
-Intimidation: 3
-Dodge: 3
-Pistols: 2
-Survival: 1
-Perception: 1
-Ettiquette: 1
-Computer: 1
-Pilot Ground Craft(bikes): 1(+2)

Knowledge Skills:
-Bikes: 2
-Boxing: 4
-Go-gangs: 3

Languages:
-English: native

Magic:
-Powers
--Combat Sense: Rating 3 (2.5 pp)
--Critical Strike: Rating 4 (1 pp)
--Attribute Boost: Body: Rating 1 (.25 pp)
--Attribute Boost: Strength: Rating 1 (.25 pp)
--Attribute Boost: Agility: Rating 1 (.25 pp)
--Attribute Boost: Reaction: Rating 1 (.25 pp)
--Mystic Armor: Rating 1 (.5 pp)

Gear: Totals: 22,935y; -5 bp

'ware: Total Cost:
-none

Armor: Total: 10b/8i Total Cost: 1,200y
-Armor Jacket (900y)
--Fire Resistance: Rating 3 (300y)

Weapons: Total Cost: 630y
-Hardliner Gloves (100y)
-Ruger Super Warhawk (250y)
--internal Smartlink (currently broken) (250y)
-Flash Bang grenaded (30y)

Commlink: Total Cost: 0
-none

Other gear: Total Cost: 4,825y
-Jazz (3,000y (40 normal doses) worth in slap patches, takes a double-sized dose to have effect due to body size and built up tolerance)
-Medkit: Rating 1 (100y)
-Stimulant Patch: Rating 6: x10 (1,500y)
-Sunglasses (25y)
--Flare Compensation (50y)
--Smartlink (500y)
-Survival Kit (100y)
-Loose ammo: 90 rds (180y)

Vehicles: Total Cost: 12,000y
-restored Indian Scout 500 (treat as Harley-Davidson Scorpion) 12,000y

IDs: Total Cost: 3,900y
-Fake SIN: Rating 3 (3,000y)
-Fake Driver's License: Rating 3 (300y)
-Fake Handgun License: Rating 3 (300y)
-Fake Concealed Carry License: Rating 3 (300y)
-Real (criminal) SIN
-Real Driver's License

Lifestyle: Total Cost 200y
-Squatter, 4 months (200y)

Contacts: (-12 bp)
-Jimmy 'the Man' Davis; Connections 3, Loyalty 4; Tank's former manager
-Danny-boy; Connections 3, Loyalty 2; head of the gang

Brief (since this is a one-of character) history: Tank was a rising young start in the ameture non-cyber boxing circuit in seattle, but toss his own career in the toilet when he was caught juicing with jazz during his first pro-fight. Toss out on the street by SportCorp, he's survives sense then by taking odd jobs as a bouncer or muscle. He runs with the Tetsubo's go-gang.

4th ed character, 400 BP:

Current Name: iKapa Umuntu
Archetype: Adept/Street Samurai
Race: Elf: Wakyambi - 35 bp
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 9'2", 290 lbs
Eyes/hair: black/black
Birthday: 5/15/2034
Birthplace: Cape Town

Attributes: 190 bp
-Body: 5
-Strength: 3 (arm: 9)
-Agility: 3 (arm: 12)
-Reaction: 5 (7) (drug: 9)
-Logic: 3
-Intuition: 5 (drug: 6)
-Willpower: 3
-Charisma: 3
-Essence: 2.14
-Magic: 1
-Edge: 1
-Initative: 12, 3 passes

Qualities/Flaws: net 0 bp
-Adept
-Martial Arts: Arnis de Mano: deal damage on disarm
-Martial Arts: Arnis de Mano: +1 DV w/ clubs
-Genetic Heritage: Genetic Optimization: Agility
-Born Rich
-Debt: rank 5
-Mysterious Implants: Permanent Infusion: Sideways
--Moderate Addiction: Betameth

Martial Arts: 8 bp
-Off-Hand Training: Clubs
-Two weapon Style
-Disarm
-Finishing Blow

Adept Powers:
-Improved Ability: Clubs: 2 ranks

Active Skills: 102 bp
-Clubs(spec: Extendable Baton): 6(9)
-Athletics Group, rank 2
-Outdoors Group, rank 2
-Stealth Group, rank 2
-Perception, rank 3

Knowledge Skills:
-African Tribal lands (zulu lands): 3
-African Wild Life: 3
-Zulu Traditions: 3
-Blood Sports in the Mediterranean: 3

Languages:
-Zulu: N
-English: 3
-Spanish: 3
-French: 1
-Afrikans: 1
-Swahili: 1
-Egyptian: 1
-Arabic: 1
-Farsi: 1


Cyberware:
-2x Synthetic Full Arm (40,000y, 2e)
--Customized: +5 agility, +2 strength (21,000y)
--Mods: +4 agility, +4 strenght (4,000y)

Bioware:
-Synaptic Booster: rating 2 (160,000y, 1e)
-Reflex Recorder: clubs (10,000y, .10e)
-Chemicial Gland: Internal Release: Betameth: secondhand (16,500y, .36e)

Geneware:
-Permanent Sideways Infusion (free)
-Genetic Optimization: Agility (free)
-Reakt (30,000y, .4e)

Armor: (13b, 11i)
-Form-fitting armor: Fulll suit (1,600y)
--PPP: all but helment (900y)
--gel-packs (1,500y)
--Ruthenium Polymer Coating (7,500y) <-- usually used to make the ARMOR inivisible, iKapa can be seen normally, just looks like he isn't wearing armor.
-Globe-trotter Line: Camo Vest (400y)
-Vasion Island Line: Slacks (700y)

Weapons:
-Extendable Baton (50y)
--Weapon Focus: Rating 2 (20,000y)
--Personalized Grip (100y)
-Extendable Baton (50y)
--Personalized Grip (100y)

Gear:
-Glasses w/ flare compensation, Vision enhancement 3, thermographic (475y)
-Contacts (left eye only), w/ image link (75y)
-Earbuds w/ audio enhancement 3, select sound filter 3 (910y)
-Commlink: Meta Link, vector Xim OS, sim-module (400y) <-- Not normally connected to anything other the trodes, microphone, and contacts.
-Subvocal Microphone (50y)
-Nano-paste trodes (100y)

Lifestyle: Low, 1 month (1,000y)

Contacts: 5 bp
-Don Mendiza (connects 4, loyalty 1, iKapa's former owner)

History:

Eldest son of the chieftan of the Ingqondo Iqaqa, the man now known as iKapa (he refuses to use or even admit to his birth name) spent most of his youth wandering the southern portions of africa with his tribe. He was trained in traditional Zulu ways, including the art of Zulu stick fighting, and how to live off the land, distaning modern city life. But though the tribe avoided cities, they are one of the larger and more powerful Wakyambi tribes and embraced modern technology in other ways, including bio and genetic modifications for many of their most promising warrios, such as young iKapa.

That, at least, was his life until he was captured by European based slavers looking for exotic 'animals' for the blood sport arenas of the mediterranean. Taken north, he was sold to a spaniard named Don Mendiza and would spend the next six years fighting in his stable. Oddly however, the two grew reasonable close, perhaps because iKapa spent five of those six years as the Don's most sucessful champion, and the Don saw no reason not to reward such perfomance. Indeed, other then being a slave and having to regularly fight for his survival, life with the Don really wasn't to bad.

In the end however, the Don proved to be a man of his word, and after iKapa's 100th win, he was offically freed, with the understanding that he would need to pay the Don back his original purchase price (though fortunately not the funds required for the additional mods done on iKapa while in the arena). Since then, alone and far from home, iKapa has made his way in the shadows, taking what runs he can and steadily working off his remaining debt.

4th ed character, 400 BP + 50 karma:

Current Name: Doc Phoenix
Archtype: Adept/Street Doc/Sprawl Gangster
Race: Troll - Fomori (45 bp)
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 8'2", 472 lbs
Eyes/hair: blue/bald
Birthday: 6/2/2043
Birthplace: Boston

Attributes: 240 bp + 18 karma
-Body: 13 (drug: 16)
-Strength: 6 (drug: 12)
-Agility: 1 (drug: 4)
-Reaction: 7
-Logic: 4
-Intuition: 1
-Willpower: 6
-Charisma: 1
-Essence: 4.66
-Magic: 6
-Edge: 1
-Initative: 8, 2 passes (drug: 4 passes)

Positive Qualities: 150 bp
-Infected: Dzoo-Noo-Qua (80)
-Type O system (30)
-Fast Healer (10)
-Adept (5)
-Restricted Gear: K-10 sac (5)
-Restricted Gear: Dopadrine sac (5)
-Mentor Spirit: Bear (5)
-Class III Surge: (10 net)
--Bone Spikes
--Granite Shell
--Dermal Deposits
--Impaired Attribute: agility
--Impaired Attribute: charisma
--Nocturnal

Negative Qualities: 165 bp
-Debt (30) <-- Hired some of his go-ganger buddies for a run to capture his sacs, still paying them
-Addiction: Severe: K-10 (20)
-Addiction: Severe: Dopadrine (20)
-Gremlins (20)
-Day Job (15) <-- runs a clinic
-SinNNER (10) <-- Several minor gang-related priors, 2 drug convictions
-Infertile Infected (10)
-Poor Self Control: Combat Monster (10)
-Bi-Polar (10)
-Oblivious (5)
-Nano-Intolerance (5)
-Astral Beacon (5)
-Bad Rep (5)

Active Skills: 94 bp + 2 karma
-Unarmed (fists): 3 ranks
-Biotech group: 3 ranks
-Demolitions: 3 ranks
-Counterspell (combat spells): 6 ranks
-Driving (bikes): 3 ranks

Knowledge Skills:
-Chemisty: 4
-Biology: 4
-Bikes: 3
-Seattle Go-gangs: 4

Languages:
-English: N

Adept: (29 karma)
-Path:
-Initiation: 2
--Shielding
--Reflecting
-Powers:
--Attribute Boost: Body: 2 ranks
--Mystic Armor: 1 rank
--Spell Resistance: 6 ranks
--Rapid Healing: 6 ranks
--Empathic Healing

Bioware:
-Platelet Factories (25,000y, .1e)
-Sac Symbiont: K-10: secondhand (60,000y, .12e) <-- maintains a contanst dose
-Sac Symbiont: Dopadrine: secondhand (15,750y, .12e) <-- administers a dose whenever would go berzerk

Armor: (9b, 9i)
-Leather Jacket (200y)

Weapons:

Gear: (total gear counting above categories: 23 bp)
-Shop: Demolitions (5,000y)
-Shop: Medicine (5,000y)
-Shop: Cybertechnology (5,000y)
-Kit: Demolitions (500y) <-- loaded on bike
-Kit: Medicine (500y) <-- " "
-Kit: Cybertechnology (500y) <-- " "
-Harley-Davidson Scorpion (12,000y)
--Pimped Ride: level 2 (8,000y)
-Commlink: Novatech Airwave, Iris Orb (2,250y)
-AR gloves (250y)
-Image Link contacts (75y)
-2 month's bi-polar meds

Lifestyle(s):
-Low, 1 month (2,000y) <-- home
-Low, 3 months (3,000y) <-- clinic

Contacts: 13 bp
-Seattle Go-gangs: connections: 3 (+4 100-1000 size, +2 sprawl wide, +1 minority magic), loyalty 3

Karma:
Current: 1
Spent: 49
-Initation 1 + 2 (13/16)
-Magic 6 (18)
-Unarmed Specilization (2)

History:

Doc Phoenix is well known these days in the go ganger circles of Seattle. The semi-retired ganger is respected even across gang lines - his office is well known as neutral turf where you can get patched up from a bike wreck on the cheap and most of the creds go to a good cause, since he runs a free, first come, first serve clinic every Sunday. It took a while for the Seattle native to get to that point though - when he was first infected many of his former friends turned on him and drove him out of the ganger scene (at that time he was a ganger first and a doctor distant second). However, he's proved himself to them over the last few years. In large part because he lives entirely off his work - feeding exclusively off the flesh and essance which his patients are sacrificing on their own for cybernetic replacements. Still, a touch of the former negative view of his infected status still lingers.

Though Phoenis doesn't run with the gangs any more, he still runs the shadows from time to time. The extra income helps support his free clinic, which in turn helps him feel he is attoning for his nature. And most runners consider having someone on hand to patch them up, particularly someone with a rep for being tougher then stone, a good thing, even if he is infected.

4th ed character, 400 BP:

Current Name: Gwydian the Blade (aka Gwen Stevens)
Archtype: Face
Race: Elf
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 6'2", 190 lbs
Eyes/hair: silver/variable
Birthday: 3/15/2045
Birthplace: L.A.

Attributes: 255 bp
-Body: 3
-Strength: 2
-Agility: 4
-Reaction: 3
-Logic: 3
-Intuition: 5
-Willpower: 3
-Charisma: 7
-Essence: 4.08
-Magic: 4
-Edge: 1
-Initative: 8, 1 pass (drug: 2 passes)

Positive Qualities: 30 bp
-Adept (5)
-Fame: Global (15)
-Class II Surge: (10)
--Glamour
--Thermographic Vision
--Mood Hair
--Extravagant Eyes

Negative Qualities: 35 bp
-Day Job (15)
-Enemies (20)


Active Skills: 74 bp
-Influence Group: 4 ranks
-Disguise (facial scuplt): 4 ranks
-Artisan: 4 rank
-(skillsoft) Pistols: 4 ranks
-(skillsoft) Perception: 4 ranks
-(skillsoft) Pilot Ground Vehicle: 4 ranks

Knowledge Skills:
-Sims: 5
-Sim and Tri-D stars: 3
-Runner Hideouts: 4
-Seattle Runners: 3
-Tactics: 2
-Mega-corps: 3
-LoneStar procedures: 4

Languages:
-English: N
-Linguistics

Adept Powers:
--Kinesics: 3 ranks
--Linguistics
--Commanding Voice
--Enthralling Performance
--Facial Sculpt: 4 ranks
--Voice Control

Bioware:
-Tailored Pheromones: rating 2 (30,000y, .4e)
-Enhanced Pheromone Receptors: rating 2: alphaware (20,000y, .08e)

Cyberware:
-Commlink: alphaware (4,000y, .16e)
-Sim Module: Hot-Sim Modified: alphaware (10,000y, .16e)
-Simrig: alphaware (10,000y, .4e)
-Skillwires: rating 4: alphaware (16,000y, .64e)
-Skillwire Expert System: alphaware (6,000y, .08e)

Armor: (11b, 8i)
-Form-fitting armor: half-body suit (900y)
--PPP Vitals Protector (200y)
--PPP Shin Guards (150y)
--PPP Forearm Guards (200y)
--Nonconductivity: rating 6 (1,200y)
--Auto-injector: Cram: 5 doses (1,550y)
-Lined Coat (700y)
--Fire Resistance: rating 6 (600y)
--Ruthenium Polymer Coating (7,500y)


Weapons:
-'Widowmaker': modified Ruger Super Warhawk (250y)
--Custom Look: level 2 (1,000y)
--Firing Selection Change: Small Mod: SA (300y)
--Increased Cylinder (500y)
--Smartgun System (250y)
--Gecko Grip (100y)
--Ammo Skip System (250y)

Gear:
-Disguise Kit (500y)
-10 doses of Cram (100y)
-Glasses: Flare Compensation, Image Link, Smartlink, Vision Enhancement r3, Vision Magnification (1,000y)
-Earbuds: Audio Enhancement r3, Spatial Recognizer (410y)
-Tag Eraser (150y)
-Autopicker: rating 6 (1,200y)
-Mag-lock passkey: rating 4 (8,000y)
-Med-kit: rating 6 (600y)
-Concealable Holster (75y)
-4 Quickloaders + current pistol load (4 ex/2 shock/2 flechette per load)
--Ex-Explosive: 20 round (200y)
--Stick-n-Shock: 10 rounds (80y)
--Flechette: 10 rounds (100y)
-Ex-Explosive, loose rounds: 400 (4,000y)
-Stick-n-shock, loose rounds: 200 (1,600y)
-Flechette, loose rounds: 200 (2,000y)

Commlink:
-Custom Commlink: Response 5, Signal 5 (5,000y)
--Firewall 5 (2,500y)
--System 5 (2,500y)
--Edit 5 (500y)
--Encrypt 5 (500y)
--Analyze 5 (500y)
--Stealth 5 (5,000y)
--ECCM 5 (5,000y)
--Empathy 5 (2,500y)

Skillsofts:
-Pistols: Personalized, Pluscode 3: rating 4 (18,000y)
-Piolet Ground Vehice: Personalized, Pluscode 3: rating 4 (18,000y)
-Perception: Personalized, Pluscode 3: rating 4 (18,000y)

Vehicle:
-Suzuki Mirage (6,500y)
--Morphing license Plate (1,000y)
--Spoof Chip (500y)
--Pilot Rating 3 (3,000y)
--Pimped Ride, level 2 (3,000y)


Lifestyle(s):
-High, 1 month (5,000y)
-Squatter, 2 month (1,000y) (bolt-hole)

Contacts: 13 bp
-Jack-on: hacker. Gwydian's editor, producer, and distrubuter. Also provides him with his software neededs. Connections 6/Loyalty 6
-Squib: Stool-pigoen. Gwydian's finger on the plus of the street. No influence and never provides intros or ways in, but he hears about everything going down and tells Gwydian who he needs to see to get in on it. Connections 1/loyalty 1

History:

This week on E! True Simstories...

Hollywood's been buzing over the extremely contriversial decision by the academy to accept several nominations for the outlaw sim-series "Shots and Shadows" and its renegade star, "Gwydian the Blade" for this year's Simmie awards. So it should come as no suprise that on this week's episode we'll be talking about the imfamous Gwydian himself.

Gwydian, born Gwen Stevens, is an old Hollywood hand, born here in the hills. Most of our viewers no doubt recognize his father as well known tri-D star and leading man Rob Stevens, but his show bussiness roots reach back even farther through his mother's side - Marie Barrymore ne' Stevens is the daughter of Drew Barrymore, a prominent 2-d starlet from around the turn of the century, and Drew's own ancestors were involved in film as well. With such a family, its only to be expected that the young Gwen would be involved in the biz from a very young age, and indeed he was staring in his first comercial at at 4. He went on to play supporting roles in the hit tri-Ds "Ray and Charlie" and "The 3 Stoogies - Zombified" followed by a reoccuring part in "Throk Kill!" as the lovable Vex - his first sim.

A number of minor parts followed, but it was while shooting his first big-budget sim at the tender age of 17 that Gwen's life would change. Taken captive by a group of 4 shadowrunners as a hostige while they tried to franticly work their way out of a busted run, Gwen was held for over 3 days... and kept his sim-rig active and recording the whole time. Released after the runners made good their escape, Gwen spent several weeks in seclusion recovering from his ordeal... and with the help of a few friends, editing the sim file down to a two hour broadcast. The release of "Inside with the 4" on the one month aniversery of Gwen's capture took Hollywood by suprise - and the critics by storm, breaking countless sales records and holding the number one box-office gross for nearly 2 months after release. And from these begining, "Shots and Shadows" was born.

After the release of "Inside with the 4", Gwen retreated from public life and from work for several years. In hindsight, its now clear he was already planning his new role and preparing for the demands of the life he had chosen for himself. Then, on the two-year aniversary of the initial capture, his family offically filed a missing person's report, claiming he hadn't been seen or heard from for more then a week. The same day, the first "Shots and Shadows" sim - "Gwydian Arrives" was posted annonamously to the Matrix. It wasn't noticed right away, but sales being to pick up quickly, and by the 3rd episode, it was clear that the show was a hit in the making.

Now in its 6th season, the show is still going strong and somehow its renegade star always manages to stay just one step ahead of all those out for his hide. Its hard to say just how many people have seen "Shots and Shadows" at this point - its illegal almost everywhere to produce or sell the sims, so tracking accurate sales figures is almost impossible - but our experts claim the show is most likely the 4th highest grossing sim of all time. And it may soon move into 3rd. In some ways the show's sucess is a suprise - production values are low, with only a single PoV and lacking the full team most big budget sims use to clean up the recording. Worse, the recordings are all heavily edited to 'protect the guitly,' with Gwydian's fellow runners and employers blured out, and their voices generally done voiceover style. Still, Gwydian himself is never blurred and he makes no attempt to hide either his identity or those of his targets or foes. And the show truly possesses a gritty, real quality that can never be matched on a tame set, no matter how good the actors. Its many fans are likely correct in proclaiming it 'the ultimate reality show'

Well, thank you for tuning in folks. Join us next week when we look in on John Travolta - now on his 3rd full body transplant and still going strong.

4th ed character, 400 BP:

Current Name: Valkoinen Korppi
Archtype: Shaman
Race: Shapeshifter (Raven)
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 5'3", 137 lbs
Eyes/hair: red/white
Birthday: 7/1/1993
Birthplace: Stockholm

Attributes: 195 bp + 35 karma
-Body: 2
-Strength: 1
-Agility: 1
-Reaction: 1
-Logic: 3
-Intuition: 3
-Willpower: 8
-Charisma: 6
-Essence: 6
-Magic: 7
-Edge: 1
-Initative: 4, 1 pass

Positive Qualities: 25 bp
-Mystic Adept (10)
-Mentor Spirit: Raven (5)
-Animal Empathy (10)

Negative Qualities: 35 bp
-Albino (10)
-Parapalegic (10)
-Spirit Bane: Earth (10)
-SinNER (5)

Active Skills: 106 bp + 2 karma
-Sorcery Group: rating 4
--Sorcerer (spec: manipulation): 5 ranks
-Conjuring Group: rating 4
-Perception: 3 ranks
-Survival: 1 ranks
-Pilot Anthroform (quadreped): 1 rank

Knowledge Skills:
-Norse Mythology: 5
-Magical traditions: 3
-Finnish History: 2
-The Silk Road: 1
-Karavan magic users: 1

Languages:
-Finnish: N
-Turkish: 4
-Russian: 2

Magic: 29 bp + 13 karma
-Tradition: Norse
--Drain: Will+Cha (14)
--Combat: Guardian
--Detection: Water
--Health: Fire
--Illusion: Air
--Manipulation: Beast
-Initation: 1
--Attunement Raven (Bound Raven "Nevermore")
-Spells:
--Lightning Bolt
--Claiaudience
--Increase Reflexes
--Levitate
--Magic Fingers
--Poltergeist
--Deflection
--Blast Wall
--Mist
-Foci:
--Power Focus, r2

Armor: 7/7
-Form-fitting half-body (900y)
--PPP Vitals Protector (200y)
-Padded leather (600y)

Gear: (19 bp total, counting above category)
-100 rounds/4 drums standard ammo (200y)
-Survival Kit (100y)
-Power Focus, r2 (50,000y)
-Magic Lodge, r7 (3,500y)

Drones (chair):
-Evo Ordery (2,000y)
--2 Mechanical Arms, Special Machinery (Medkit 6), Walker Mode (free/standard)
--Extreme Environment Modification (2,000y)
--Gecko Tips (300y)
--Personal Armor: r 10 (5,000y)
--Pilot Upgrade, r6 (15,000)
--Autosoft: Targeting: Longarm: r4 (2,000y)
--Autosoft: Clearsight: r4 (2,000y)
--Autosoft: Defense: r4 (2,000y)
--Autosoft: First Aid: r4 (2,000y)
--Autosoft: Adaptability: r2 (1,000y)
--(carried) Enfield A-7 (1,100y)

Lifestyle:
-Low: 1 month (1,000)

Contacts: 1 bp
-Karavan Asatru: Connects 3/Loyalty 4 (+4 100-1000 people, +1 district, +1 minority have magical talents)

History:

Valkoinen is one of the oldest living shapeshifters. Actually born as a normal (well albino, but non-magical) raven in the years before the Awakening, he was 18 and nearing the end of his life when the first for-runners of returning magic swept the globe, giving him a new lease on life. At the time he was a pet of a Finnish Asatru Gydje, Yvinda, who was extremely suprised when her raven stood up and spoke with her.

The two of them continued to live together for many years after that, and eventually married. The also spent a great deal of time exploring the reawakened world of magic, as some of the founders of the modern Asatru magical tradition. However, in 1047, Yvinda passed on. For a time he was lost, but not long afterwards, he received a request from one of their mutual associates to take over minstoring to the Asatru in among the people of what would become the Karavan. Valkoinen, looking for a change of pace, took him up on the offer.

Now, at age 77, Valkoinen is failing steadily as age once again catches up with him. But however much his body might be failing, his mind and will remain as sharp as ever. Val has never really though of himself as a shadowrun. Instead, he's a problem solver, getting involved in things he feels need doing.

4th ed character, 400 BP:

Current Name: Johan Thrask
Archtype: Street Samurai
Race: Human/Changeling
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 6'1", 212 lbs
Eyes/hair: jet black, full eye (real), green (cyber)/brown, shoulder length
Birthday: 2/7/2034
Birthplace: Dallas

Attributes: -195 bp
-Body: 5 (arm 3{7}, leg 3{6})
-Strength: 2 (arm 6{9}, leg 3)
-Agility: 3 (arm 6{9}, leg 3)
-Reaction: 9{11} (9{12} on drug)
-Logic: 2
-Intuition: 3
-Willpower: 3
-Charisma: 2
-Essence: 0.2
-Edge: 2
-Initative: 15 (16 on drug), 3 passes (4 passes on drug)

Positive Qualities: -35 bp total
-Restricted Gear: move by wire, rating 2 (-5 bp)
-Surge II (-10 bp)
--Metagenic (20 bp provided by surge)
-Exceptional Attribute: Reaction (-20 bp)

Negative Qualities: +35 bp total
-Surge II
--Criter Spook (5 bp taken by surge)
--Imparied Attribute: Strength (5 by taken by surge)
-SINner (+5 bp)
-Records On File: Knight Errant (+10 bp)
-Mysterious Implant: Permanent Infusion (+10 bp)
--Infusion: Sideways
--Addiction: Jazz
-Day Job: 20 hours (+10 bp)

Active Skills: (-138 bp total)
-Dodge: spec - ranged: 6(+2){8(+2} (-26 bp)
-Pistols: spec - heavy: 4(+2) (-18 bp)
-Unarmed Combat: spec - cyber weaponry: 4(+2) -18 bp)
-Pilot Ground Vehicle: spec - bikes: 1(+2) (-6bp)
-Perception: 3 (-12 bp)
-Infiltration: 3 (-12 bp)
-Tracking: 2 (-8 bp)
-Con: 2 (-8 bp)
-Intimidation: 3 (-12 bp)
-Armorer: 1 (-4 bp)
-Cybertechnology: spec- Cyberlimbs: 1(+2) (-6 bp)
-Demolitions: 1 (-4 bp)
-First Aid: 1 (-4 bp)

Knowledge Skills:
-Knight Errand: 3
-Seattle's Wanted Criminals: 3
-Old Western movies: 2
-Guns: 1
-Bail Bond procedures: 1
-Bounty hunting laws/regulations: 1
-Seattle Bars: 1
-Famous Fire-fights: 1
-Lonestar: 2

Languages:
-English: N

Cyber/nano ware: (total spent 150,850y/5.5e)
-Move By Wire, rating 2 (85,000y, 3e)
-Obvious Full Cyber Arm (15,000y, 1e, 15 capacity)
--Customized: base Agi 6 (4,500y)
--Customized: base Str 6 (4,500y)
--Customized: case job (400y)
--Capacity:
---Retractable Cyber Spur (1800y, 3 capacity)
---Strength, rating 3 (750y, 3 capacity)
---Agility, rating 3 (750y, 3 capacity)
---Body, rating 4 (800y, 4 capacity)
---Armor, rating 1 (300y, 2 capacity)
-Obvious Cyber Hand (6,000y, .25e, 2 capacity)
--Capacity:
---Autopick, rating 6 (3,600y, 2 capacity)
-Synthetic Full Cyber Leg (20,000y, 1e, 10 capacity)
--Capacity:
---Body, rating 3 (800y, 3 capacity)
---Cyber Holster (2000y, 7 capacity)
-Single Cyber Eye, Rating 4 (900y, 0.25e, 8 capacity)
--Capacity:
---Vision Magnification (1,000y, 1 capacity)
---Flare Compensation (750y, 1 capacity)
---Lowlight (1,000y, 2 capacity)
---Smartlink (1,000y, 3 capacity)

Bio/Genetic ware: (total spent 75,000y/0.3e)
-Genetic Optimization: Reaction (45,000y, 0.2e/2(bio) = 0.1e)
-Reakt (30,000y, 0.4e/2(bio) = 0.2e)
-Sideways (permanent infusion)

Armor: (7b, 5i, total spent 3,960y)
-Lined Coat (700y)
--Nonconductivity, rating 6 (1,200y)
--Auto-injector (1,500)
---6 doses of cram (60y)
--Gel packs (1,500y)

Weapons: (total spent 5,810y)
-Yamaha Sakura Fubuki (2,000y)
--Top-mounted Smartgun System (400y)
--40 rounds Stick-n-Shock, loaded (320y)
--80 rounds Stick-n-Shock, loose (640y)
--Mod: Personalized Grip (100y)
--Mod: Gas Vent II (200y)
-Ruger Super Warhawk (250y)
--Top-mounted Smartgun System (400y)
--6 rounds EX-Explosives, loaded (60y)
--24 rounds EX-Explosives, loose, (440y)
--Mod: Ceramic/Plasteel Components, level 1 (500y)
--Mod: Firing Selection Change: Small mod (adding SA) (300y)
--Mod: Personalized Grip (100y)
--Mod: Gekko Grip (100y)

Comlink:
-Meta Link w/ Vector Xim OS, no special programs (300y)

Gear(misc): (total Spent 1,635y)
-Earbuds (10y)
--Audio Enhancement, rating 3 (300y)
--Select Sound Filter, rating 3 (600y)
-Glasses (25y)
--Thermograpic (100y)
--Flare Compensation (50y)
--Visiom Enhancement, rating 3 (300y)
-Subvocal Microphone (50y)
-20 spare doses of cram for injector (200y)

Liscenses (real, not fake):
-Pistol, Concealed Carry, Advanced cyber, Arrest and detain, Cram use Driving (2,400y)

Vehicle:
-Yamaha Growler (5,500y)

Lifestyle(s):
-Low, 1 month (2,000y) <-- home

Grand Total spent: 248,455y / 5000y per bp = -50 bp


Contacts: (-17 bp)
-Knight Errand corporation: connections: (+6: 1000+ size, +6: global, +1: minority magic, +1: active matrix presence), loyalty 3



History:

Trask was born and raised in Dallas, the home state of Lonestar. As the son of two police officers, signing up with them seemed a natural course for him. He continued his inital career with them for 3 years in Dallas before transfering to their Seattle Division. He served there for a hair over 4 years before being caught in a massive explosion during a drug raid. He survived, but lost his right leg, left arm and eye, and several fingers from his right hand to the explosion. He was dismissed from Lonestar, but granded a permanent disability settlement. After 2 years on disability, he was contacted by Knight Errand, whose Seattle operations had taken a major hit. They offered to fund the cyber he needed along with some additonal upgrades in return for a 5 year countract. He accepted. After serving out his 5 year term, he transfered our of regular Knight Errand service, though he still retains a lot of contacts and friends there, and into Knight Errand's "retrieval" division -- read "bounty hunter". He continues to work there part time. However, over the years in law enforcement, things that once seemed black and white to him have all become shades of grey and while he still has a strong sense of justice, its not longer bound up so closely with the official 'laws' and these days he does quite a bit of moonlighting in the Seattles Shadows.