The Spanish Suitcase

actually a third, the character i'm planning on putting in is a Face/Mage

Hmm. In that case, I'll play a tank of some sort.

Play what you want to - competition can be more interesting then cooperation. At least from where I'll be sat. ;)

If anyone's thinking of another mage - note my char zion is a sorcerer only - ie no conjuring ability... a full mage or shaman would be a handy additionm

So, what would you folks think of a banshee conjurer?

Sounds entertaining, I'm curious to see how you play out a Banshee Character, I've never seen rules that would govern one. Although, screaming or singing Gheasa could account for that

hmm I don't know what an SR banshee is but if they're anything like D&D banshees they might be a bit loud for a stealthy group! if indeed we are stealthy? I don't know!! But seriously, play whatever you think will be fun (pending Velve's ok, of course)

So here's my character sheet. Will have background and desc later on.

Devon "The Shadow" Green
Human Male
Archetype: Stealthy Street Samurai
Nuyen: 5910 (4810 leftover+1100 Starting) Lifestyle: High (6 months)

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

Race: Human

Attributes:
Body: 5(9)
Quickness: 6
Strength: 6
Intelligence: 3
Willpower: 3
Charisma: 5

Essence: .28
Reaction: 4(6) +1d6(2d6)

Physical: 0/10
Stun: 0/10
Armor: 5B/5I
Combat Pool: 6

Active Skills (34 Points):
Edged Weapons (Swords) 6(7) - Strength
Cyber-implant Combat (Spurs) 3(4) - Strength
Unarmed Combat (Kick Attacks) 4(5) - Strength
Whips (Kusarigama) 4(5) - Quickness
Rifles (Sniper Rifles) 4(5) - Quickness
Stealth 5 - Quickness
Intimidation (Physical) 3(4) - Charisma
Interrogation (Torture) 3(4) - Charisma
Cars (Eurocar Westwind 2000) 1(2) - Reaction
Aircraft (Ultralight) 1(2) - Reaction

Knowledge Skills (15 points):
Psychology 3
Blade Design 3
Poisons 3
Safehouses 3
Engineering 3

Languages (4 total):
English (Native)
Japanese 3
Japanese R/W 1
Spanish 1

Edges/Flaws:
Bonus Attribute Point (2 point) - Charisma
Aptitude (Stealth) (4 point) - -1 Target mod for all tests involving Stealth
Bravery (1 point) - -1 Target mod for resisting fear and intimidation
Combat Monster (-1 point) - Takes at least 3 Combat Turns to break away from a fight
Simsense Vertigo (-2 point) - +1 Target mod for all tests in simsense, -1 Initiative in simsense
Good Reputation (2 point) - -2 Target mod for all social tests
Spirit Bane (-2 point) - Insect spirits HATE him
Dark Secret (-2 point) - Former associate of Deus
Vindictive (-2 point) - Carry a grudge


Resources: 1000000 nuyen
Katana (1000 nuyen) - (STR+3)M, Reach 1
Kusarigama (200 nuyen) - (STR+1)M, Reach 2
Barret Model 121 Sniper Rifle (4800 nuyen) - 14(c) ammo, SA, 14D damage, RC (2)
Shock Pads (200 nuyen) - +1 RC
140 Rounds Barret Custom Ammo (2800 nuyen)
Spare Clip x9 (45 nuyen)
Smart Goggles (5000 nuyen) - Can use Smartgun system, Thermographic and low-light enabled

Second Skin Line (5000 nuyen) - 2B/2I Armor

Lined Coat (700 nuyen) - 4B/2I Armor

OXSYS Artificial Gill (3250 nuyen) - Able to breathe underwater to depths of 7m

Biomonitor (1000 nuyen)
Medkit (200 nuyen)
Docwagon Contract (25000 nuyen) - Gold Plan

Eurocar Westwind 2000 Turbo (77000 nuyen) - Rigger 3, pg 167
Antitheft System (4400 nuyen) - Rating 6, Electric Shock. Rigger 3, pg 150
Photovoltaic Chameleon Paint (5000 nuyen) - Rigger 3, pg 153
Concealed Armor (12000 nuyen) - Rating 6. Rigger 3, pg 132

Moonlight Avenger (50000 nuyen) - Rigger 3, pg 181

Cyberware
Alphaware Dermal Sheath Level 3 (240000 nuyen) <1.68 Essence> - +4 Body, +2I Armor
Alphaware Wired Reflexes W/Reflex Trigger (136000 nuyen) <1.84 Essence> - +2 Reaction, +1d6 Initiative
Alphaware Cyber Replacement Eyes (10000 nuyen) <0.16 Essence> - Up to .5 Essence visual mods with no essence cost
Alphaware Image Link (3200 nuyen) - See images from comm.
Alphaware Thermographic ( 6000 nuyen) - See thermographic
Alphaware Vision Enhancement (Electronic) (22000 nuyen) - Level 3
Alphaware Datajack (2000 nuyen) <0.16 Essence> - Can jack into devices
Alphaware Memory (90000 nuyen) <0.8 Essence> - 300 Mp memory
Alphaware Telephone (7400 nuyen) <0.4 Essence> - Can access cell network
Alphaware Comlink (40000 nuyen) <0.12 Essence> - Rating 4 Comlink. Can scan for 8 frequencies.
Alphaware Subvocal Microphones (1700 nuyen) <0.08 Essence> - Can use subvocal communication
Alphaware Retractable Spur (23000 nuyen) <0.24 Essence> - (STR)M Damage
Alphaware Retractable Spur (23000 nuyen) <0.24 Essence> - (STR)M Damage

Contacts
Lola (Free) - Brothel Worker. Level 1
**Lola works in a Mafia brothel in Seattle. She sometimes comes across all kinds of interesting information during work.

Ricky the Ear (Free) - Snitch. Level 1
**Ricky is a snitch. Can't count on him to keep your info safe, but that goes for everyone else who knows him, too.

Deus (10000 nuyen) - Rogue AI. Level 2.
**Devon used to work for Renraku. Specifically, he worked at the Renraku Arcology, as a security guard. When Deus took over, Devon quickly made a deal with the AI, helping it in its experiments. In return, Devon got his first cyberware, and not the cheap stuff. When Deus escaped into the Matrix, Devon wasn't allowed to forget his deal. And, frankly, having an AI on your side when you don't have any hacking skills to speak of can be a useful thing, even if the AI is insane.

Ladybug (10000 nuyen) - Otaku. Level 2
**Ladybug is a technoshaman otaku living in Seattle. Devon did a couple hooding runs for her tribe, so she's definitely on good terms with him. Ladybug is Devon's go-to girl whenever he has to talk sprites, or anything involving the Matrix.

Mark Knight (10000 nuyen) - Mechanic. Level 2
**Knight is a damn good mechanic, and Devon won't trust his babies to anyone else. The fact that Devon brings high end stuff to his shop doesn't hurt Knight's rep any, either, so they work with eachother nicely.

Doc Holiday (10000 nuyen) - Street Doc. Level 2
**Doc Holiday is Devon's street doc. Best guy to go to for getting one's ware serviced.

Rhapsody 10000 Trid Star. Level 2
**Rhapsody (otherwise known as Asia Malone) is a major trid star, and Devon's known her since she was a kid. Sometimes she'll do him a favor, sometimes he'll do a favor to her.

Ace (10000 nuyen) - Fixer. Level 2
**Ace is a top notch fixer. Devon's worked with him since he left Renraku, and they've never had cause for trouble with eachother.

Goliath (10000 nuyen) - Arms Dealer. Level 2
**Goliath is a top grade arms dealer. If it goes boom or makes your enemy's blood splatter on the ground, then Goliath can get it for you.

Raven (10000 nuyen) - Shaman. Level 2
**Raven is a Shaman, living on the outskirts of the sprawl. When Devon needs access to magical knowhow, she's the one to go to.

Alice DeVine (10000 nuyen) - Bounty Hunter. Level 2
**Alice is a bounty hunter working out of Seattle. If there's a bounty on someone, you can count on her to know about it. Devon's helped her enough that she'll warn him if someone puts a price out on him, and its likely she won't try and collect.

Lifestyle/Months
High / 6 (60000 nuyen)
Left: 48105 Nuyen

Background:
Devon Green was born in 2033, in the city of Seattle. His parents worked for a minor corp, doing your basic wageslave biz. Nothing fancy, but it paid the bills, and kept young Devon fed. And life in the Arcology wasn't that bad, really.

When Devon got older, and graduated from college, he took a position at Renraku, working in the arcology with his parents. Unfortunately, he had only been there a month when the whole place suddenly went on lockdown, and all external communication went silent. Deus, the arcology's AI, had taken over.

Devon, acting on a profound wish to not die, made a deal with Deus. He was too old to be made into an otaku like some of Deus's other supporters, but Deus did arrange for Devon to get some impressive cyberization work done. And in return, Devon worked for Deus, helping to control the 'test subjects' trapped in there.

After the arcology was liberated, Devon was among those who escaped, and he promptly took to the shadows, after resigning from Renraku. But he was not free and clear. Deus survived, and a few months after the Arcology was cleared out, he began to contact Devon, giving him little jobs to do, when the AI couldn't take care of things through the Matrix, or wanted to keep his digital fingerprints off the situation. Devon didn't care. The AI's credit was just as good as anyone else's, and you couldn't argue that having an AI looking out for you (erasing any pesky police files or suspicious SIN activity) wasn't an entirely bad thing.

Of course, you don't go through life in the shadows without making a few friends of the unlikeliest sort. But hey, living was living, and as long as no one found out one of his friends was an insane AI that wanted to kill all humans, or some craziness like that, there was only sunshine in his sky.

Another great looking character. Welcome aboard Mirikon.

Hey all, I apologise profusely but I'm going to have to drop out of this game. My preference is for giving 4th edition a try and by fluke I found a SR4 game elsewhere ("plothook.net" website). I don't want to commit to two games at once, so I'm bowing out. Again I am sorry for doing this so close to the commencement of this story... but I'm sure other SR3 players will take my spot. Hope you have an awesome time with it!

Just a quick double check, the game is set to start soon? and where are we going to play it? I don't know if there are plans to set up a 3rd edition thread, I only see the 4th ed ones.

Yes, I'm planning to get things started this evening
As there's no 3rd ed section I'll just start it in the 4th ed. section, but we will be playing it using the 3rd ed rules.

This is my Character

Current Name Taur Arielon
Archetype sorcerer/face
Race Elf/Banshee Height 6'1" cm
Sex Male Weight 190 kg
Eyes bright blue Hair White, long, braided
Birthdate 7/09/2021 (has been turned since 2047)
Birthplace Lyon, France

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

Banshees
Allergic (Severe) sunlight
Allergic (moderate) wood
+2 charisma
+1 strength
-1 body
-1 willpower

Siren Song
Willpower 5 to resist either being instilled with fear or enchanment, success is a -3 to all tests to the target

Immunity
Banshees are immune to the effects of aging and disease.

Aura Link
Despite being infected, Banshees must have a Pri A or B magic, starting magic at 6.

Feeding
Banshees must bite a victim and drink of their blood to gain essence and/or prevent essence lost, the attack is (str/2+3); AP 0; reach 0

Essence Drain
Banshees lose 1 point of essence per day of not feeding. When essence is lost for whatever reason, the banshee loses all magical abilities, excluding physical bonuses and weaknesses.

Regenerate
Banshees are frailer than most beings so in order for them to regenerate they must first feed on a being, they regenerate 1 box of damage per combat turn.

Bloodlust
If for whatever reason essence drops below half of the original value, rounded down, than they fly into a frenziable attack where the Banshee will attack anything living to sate their hunger, until either essence is restored to full, or they can make a willpower (6) test once
essence is above half of the original value.

Hidden History
Banshees have worked together secretly in covens, to help each other survive, and cut a long, winding, bloody path through history. Together they have all collectivly created a world wide secret society for themselves. Each banshee gets a free level 2 contact within the conven, and an extra ¥150,000 that they are not allowed to keep after character creation.

Attributes
Body 4 {3}
Quickness 7
Strength 5 {6}
Charisma 6 {8}
Intelligence 6
Willpower 6 {5}
Essence 6.00
Run Mult. 3
Magic 6
BioIndex 0
Reaction 6
Init. Dice 1

Combat Pool 9
Spell Pool 6

Active (subject to change, depending on Velve's approval of a few things)
Exotic Weapon: Gunblade [5]
Sorcery [5]
Etiquette [5]
Negotiation [5]
Intimidation [5]
Aura Reading [5]

Knowledge
IN:Opera (KNO) [4]
IN:Seattle High Society (KNO) [4]
AC:Archeology (KNO) [3]
AC:Architecture (KNO) [3]
Medicine (KNO) [4]
Prostitution Rackets (KNO) [3]
Graveyards (KNO) [3]
Fight Clubs (KNO) [3]
Shadowrunner Haunts (KNO) [3]


Language
French (3)
English (3)
Italian (2)
Russian (2)

Spells
Improved Invisibility 5 P 4(R) S LOS +1(M) sr3.195
Trid Phantasm 4 P 4(R) S LOS(A) +1(D) sr3.195
Vehicle Mask 4 P 4(R) S LOS +1(S) mits.144
Levitate 4 P 4(R) S LOS +2(M) sr3.197
Incr. Reflexes +3INI DIE 5 M REA(V) S T +3(D) sr3.194
Physical Barrier 4 P 6 S LOS(A) +2(S) sr3.198
Lightning Bolt 4 P 4(RC) I LOS +1(DL+1) sr3.197
Control Thoughts 4 M W(T) S LOS +1(S) sr3.196

Edges
Bonus Attribute Point(QCK) 2
Friendly Face 1
Friends in High Places 2
Good Reputation Lev 2 2
Extra Contact 1
Good Looking and Knows It 1

Flaws
Biorejection (magic) -2
Sensitive system (magic) -2
Combat Monster -1
Vindictive -2
Compulsive moderate->manipulative -2

Magic Equipment
Sustaining focus 5 (increased reflexes)

Armor
form-fitting full body suit
lined coat
tres chic clothing

Weapons

Gunblade
heavy pistol frame
Power: 10
Damage: M
Concealability 4
Weight: 4.00
Range: light pistol
Gun portion:
Heavy Barrel: -1 Recoil. DPV: 25
Increased Power: +1 Power (already applied) DPV: 80
Melee Hardening: +1 Power in Melee Combat DPV: 15
Cylinder Fed: (Revolver) DPV: 8
Improved Ammo Capacity: +2 Shots (Total of 6) 2 dpv
Weight Reduction x 3: - .75 weight (already applied) DPV: 15

Blade portion:
Ares monosword
(str+3)m reach 1


Gear
ear plug cell phone
pocket computer
standard credstick
shades, thermo
subvocal microphone
personal comm unit
nav-dat GPS
audio recorder [2]
combat vest
pistol ammo pouch
Sunscreen [spf 6,702, good for 2 hours in direct sunlight]
biomonitor
docwagon basic service
3x 8 ex-explosive round clips

Lifestyle
Middle (2 months)

Vehicle
Harley-Davidson Scorpion

Contacts
Chris Talismonger Ork / 1
Cross Thief/trainer Elven / 1
Finn Elven Armorer Elven / 2
Oisin Blood Runner Banshee / 1
Bragen Banker Elven / 1


Background:
Coming Soon.

Ah so we've got ourselves a vampire compatriot

Not a vampire, Banshee, much scarier.