Shadowrun: Freeport

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PixelatedPixie

Hello! 

I would like to try and run a system game now that I have some free time.  The issue being that my experience with the system, with the website, and with GMing are all rather limited.  So while this is probably a horrible idea I am hoping to find a couple of people interested and patient enough to give it a try. 


System
Shadowrun 5th Edition

Setting
Freeport and the Grand Bahama Island will be the starting location.  Otherwise the setting will be the normal Shadowrun setting as much as possible.  It will begin in the summer of 2075 as a hurricane approaches the island.

The glittering skyscraper of the Freeport Arcology sits at the center of a sprawling network of tourist resorts and private villas.  The Atlantean Foundation has the largest corporate presence in the region.  However Ares Macrotechnology has a major base as the result of a contract to fight piracy and provide protection, and Aztechnology maintains a small subsidiary in the area. 

Plot
The story will be heavily inspired by zombie outbreak movies.  Therefore the initial plot will focus on survival and investigation.  I don't want to spoil too much of what I have in mind.  However my goal is to keep things balanced and let every type of character shine. 

Characters
I am trying to set this up so that the characters do not have to be an existing team.  Though I am not opposed to it if they are.  They will be made with the normal rules.  A person on vacation, a corporate employee, a security guard, or even a runner working a job on the island would all fit.  The only thing that I will require for the background is that they are on the island for some reason when things go down.  If you come up with a hook as to why that is, i will try to include that in the story in some way. 

Content
The reason that I am on Elliquiy is because I would like to explore adult content in the context of a roleplaying game.  I don't want to devolve the game into pure sex however, and I don't want to scare people away.  I will however put the game into the Extreme category, if I understand things correctly.  My goal will be to include a dialogue on what players want to happen in terms of adult content. 

What am I forgetting?
I am sure it is something.

Admiral J

I'll bite.  This sounds intriguing, and I'm a sucker for a new GMs.  Dibs on vacationing troll adept security pro, maybe?

HopeFox

Sounds really interesting! I like the idea of character diversity - not that I don't love playing shadowrunners, but mixing it up is pretty cool. I have an idea for an Aztlan decker who does host design and security for Aztechnology. She could easily be visiting the island either for work or for a vacation.
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Interest! If there's a place I can get the 5e rules, I still have some of the 3rd books and browsed 4th. If they still have adepts, Human sharpshooter with stealthy talents.
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*pounces* 

  May I play? 

  Also, pleased to meet you. 

  An interesting scenrio!  Perhaps I could bring in a magical gal from the more "legitamate" side of the world?  Maybe a corperate security mage? 

  I frequenty go for the younger side, but I'm actauly pondering a gal veteran enoguh to have crossed spells with a shadowrun team before, now winding up working with a few to survive whatever is to come? 

  I won't play up that drama too far, of course, I've been a GM way too long to be comfortable with too much party tension. 

  Could certainly try other ideas, of course. 
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Quote from: HopeFox on April 23, 2017, 03:20:48 AM
Sounds really interesting! I like the idea of character diversity - not that I don't love playing shadowrunners, but mixing it up is pretty cool. I have an idea for an Aztlan decker who does host design and security for Aztechnology. She could easily be visiting the island either for work or for a vacation.

Didn't 5e shadowrun really crap on the deckers though? Or was that just technomancers? Seem to recall that they hit the cybersecurity pretty hard at least. And they took the cybertech back a few years do to a... nanite plage?

TFcommando

It's not too far off from SR4, but SR5 brought back (expensive) cyberdecks, eliminating SR4's easily portable and ubiquitous commlinks.  Cyberware has wireless bonuses to performance in many cases, and this means that it can be detected and hacked by deckers.  A lot of the core matrix code is now a black box after the last crash, so ordinary computer use can be lethal for ordinary corporate wageslaves.  Not sure about the technomancers, but they're better with their sprites and unique powers than competing head to head with a decker.

A few ideas for me:

A tomb raider/relic hunter mage, not exactly a shadow runner, but at least brushing against the shadows in her work, on vacation.  Expert in 4th World history, fair amount of sensory spells.

A monster hunter combat mage, part of a small company that does that, also on vacation, Dragonslayer totem.

Swordfighter adept, because swords. :)
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Peeks in

Uhm...  Wow.  So much for diversity?  Everyone is combat experienced, then?  Maybe my music/trid diva wouldn't be a very good fit here?
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^^

Been ages since I've read 5e I just remember all the complaints the changes brought on.


PerpetuallyAnnoyedCleric by normal rules do you mean priority based only or just that the power setting would be standard? And what books are permitted?  Chummer asks many questions before you can poke at it. :D

Muse

Quote from: Hexed on April 23, 2017, 09:20:23 PM
Didn't 5e shadowrun really crap on the deckers though? Or was that just technomancers? Seem to recall that they hit the cybersecurity pretty hard at least. And they took the cybertech back a few years do to a... nanite plage?

I'm really weak with all manner of hacking, but from what I can see and remember, the atributes and abilties of hackers are a lot more relevent in 5th than in fourth.  In fourth your programs were a lot more imortant. 
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I'm somewhat interested, but I need more info.

Quote from: Pretty in Pink on April 24, 2017, 12:48:02 AM
Peeks in

Uhm...  Wow.  So much for diversity?  Everyone is combat experienced, then?  Maybe my music/trid diva wouldn't be a very good fit here?
Every team needs a good Face. Sounds like your character would be fit for the job.  8-)
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PixelatedPixie

Hello everyone!  I was not expecting so much interest!

Admiral J
He could be fun!

HopeFox
I like the idea of an Aztlan employee!  I am typing up a bit more no the setting which could be relevant.  The local Aztechnology subsidiary would be mostly in banking (money laundering)

Mystic Dragon
They are available to be purchased in PDF form.  There are still adepts.

Muse
A corporate mage could be interesting!  However I would prefer limited/only with consent PvP.

Hexed
I'm not sure how deckers have changed from earlier versions, but I will do my best to make things interesting!

Yes, priority only so no sum to ten, point buy, or life modules and not street level or prime runner.

I am open to any book that the player owns.  I generally prefer to trust people until they give me a reason not to and hopefully other players can verify if needed.  However if I don't have access to a book I can't promise that I can include it (depending on what it is) in a meaningful way. 

TFcommando
I like the idea of the tomb raider!  It fits with some background for the area.  Specifically the search for Atlantis.  The main site has an exclusion zone, but there are probably other sites nearby.

Pretty in Pink
I expect most people to gravitate towards some combat in most games even if they aren't experts on it.  Though a couple characters already could be low on combat.  I love the idea of a diva though!

Top Cat
What information do I need to add?


General Responses
So I don't want to get too big so will probably cut off interest here.  If you have posted in this thread you are more than welcome to join however!


Pretty in Pink

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Well, that makes four then.  Two in the thread, one in PMs, and one in Skype.  Diva it is, I guess!  She's either on the island on vacation, or she's there doing a show, could be either one.

Also, I have access to Run & Gun and Run Faster.  :D  So yay for that!
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While looking over the rules to see about building an adept, I had another idea for the tomb raider concept... instead of a full mage, a Magic Priority D Adept, mainly to get Astral Perception and a few sensory and movement powers, no combat powers, making due with good stats and lots of mundane skills for the most part, maybe a qi foci.  I'll write up both and see which grabs me more.  Did the mage version in SR4 once.

Is Extraordinary Attribute: Magic OK, or would you prefer not?

I like the diva concept too.  SR1 had the Rocker template after all!

Also, I have the core, Rigger 5 (it was a doorbuster) and Gun Heaven 3.  A lot of the reviews of the big books were kind of so-so, not having as much content as their 4e predecessors, so I've been slow to buy.
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Quote from: PerpetuallyAnnoyedCleric on April 25, 2017, 12:25:13 AM
Muse
A corporate mage could be interesting!  However I would prefer limited/only with consent PvP.

PVP?  *Yelps in horror just hearing it said. * 

Oh God no!  I'd sooner allow it one of my games than I would inflict it upon another GM, and It'll be a cold day in Hell before I allow it in one of my games not explicitly designed for it! 

<---trembles a little more.   
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HopeFox

Okay, cool! I'll see what I can put together. If she's an active corporate employee, then she won't have shadowrunning skills, obviously.

If we're not all shadowrunners, will having a SIN count as a Negative Quality? My girl Tlazohtzin will have either an Aztlan or Limited Aztechnology SIN.
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Hexed

^^

Cool. Mostly needed the info because Chummer 5e won't let you play with character gen without imputing that stuff.

I have an odd and rather scattered collection of books myself due to a one time interest in shadowrun. Have to see what I can actually dig out.

Admiral J

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I'm a team player by nature, and as a long-time dungeon master I understand the resistance to intraparty conflict, but the thing is that Shadowrun /is/ specifically designed for PvP, particularly in a crew of previously unaligned runners.  /Particularly/ particularly when there's an Azzie in the mix.

I'm all right with enforcing that everyone be chummers to give PACleric a hand, as long as the enforcement applies equally to everyone and isn't limited to just combat.  I have /never/ seen a Shadowrun player mention Aztechnology in their character background without the intention of fragging things up, either directly or just by giving the GM an excuse to involve Aztlan in the plot.  If that's the plan, I want to be able to keep a round chambered in my Super Warhawk for HopeFox's decker, because that is SOP for any runner who wants to stay north of a hole in the ground.

To be clear, HopeFox, I'm not saying you're here to derail the game or criticizing your character choice -- I think the concept has legs, and I would love to play opposite an Azzie.  I think Aztechnology is an important part of Shadowrun lore.  But as I'm sure you know, it's not a neutral play, and I think playing it off like it is would be a disservice.  You want to play an Azzie, and I want to play a runner who reacts to the presence of an Azzie in an appropriately paranoid fashion.   

Just my two cents.  This isn't a dealbreaker for me, but if I don't set up multiple redundant safehouses because "we're not doing PvP" and a fellow runner hoses my character, I'm going to be torqued that I was denied the opportunity to prepare and respond in kind.  Do let's be very clear about the rules; that's all I ask.


Quote from: Muse on April 25, 2017, 01:04:25 AM
PVP?  *Yelps in horror just hearing it said. * 

Oh God no!  I'd sooner allow it one of my games than I would inflict it upon another GM, and It'll be a cold day in Hell before I allow it in one of my games not explicitly designed for it! 

<---trembles a little more.

Muse

  I don't know what you think I was talking about, J.  I was refering to Cleric responding to my talking about playing a corperate security mage as if I were going to use her for PVP. 
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Top Cat

I think I'm going to have to step away from this. While I've played 5e, it's been a couple of years, and I am very much NOT up-to-date on things. I think that I'd be a poor mix here. Good luck, all. =^_^=
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Quote from: PerpetuallyAnnoyedCleric on April 25, 2017, 12:25:13 AM
Muse
A corporate mage could be interesting!  However I would prefer limited/only with consent PvP.

Emphasis is mine.  :D  *goes back to building the vacationing diva*
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  To further elaborate, J, Hope Fox is one of the best playrs--and GMs--I've ever had--the absolute best for Shadowrun--and he's about as likely to behave in the way you describe as to throw a tenis ball over the moon.
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Pretty in Pink

I can come up with some details of a show or you can have her there on vacation.  Both have benefits.

TFcommando

I like that concept!  I don't have a problem with Extraordinary Attribute: Magic.

HopeFox

SINner will still be a negative quality. 

Admiral J

I may have worded my initial response poorly.  Any PvP will require consent between the players and even then I want it rare if not non-existent.  That is not to say that there won't be distrust and non-violent conflict, but depending on player attrition not everyone may be in the same scene at the same time constantly.  Also the first portion of the game will be very focused on survival.  The characters may not trust each other, but they may not have a choice but to cooperate to avoid death.  Also the local Aztechnology presence is softer than it may be in other areas.  Banking and Aquaculture. 

If someone decides that their character exists solely to cause issues I will deal with it at the time.  But I don't want to impose the restriction that everyone has to be best buddies.

I am working on getting my background information formed.

PixelatedPixie

I hope I did this right!

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TFcommando

One thing that comes to mind is "Why an arcology?"  There aren't a ton in Shadowrun, the Renraku shutdown didn't help with their public image and there's not the overpopulation or land shortages that would immediately justify one on an island.  What's the official line about what it's for and the rumors about the "real story?" :)
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Let's go with she's there doing a show.  I think that might be much more fun!
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The setting looks great! It really makes the island feel like a microcosm of the entire Sixth World.

I think Tlazohtzin is there to collaborate with either SunBank or Maritech on host sculpting. She's a Matrix artist as well as a technician, so host aesthetics are a specialty of hers. Here's what I have so far for her background:

Tlazohtzin Amoztli

Tlazohtzin Amoxtli was born to a large farming family in rural Aztlan. Her family's farm was ultimately owned by Aztechnology, of course, and mostly grew coffee beans for export. Her family was of mixed Spanish and Nahuatl descent, like most Mexicans, and lived within the Nahuatl culture that had existed in the rural parts of Mexico even before it became more widespread with the Awakening. Her village and family had followed its own form of the Aztec religion since before the fall of Tenochtitlan, albeit with strong syncretic influences from Catholicism.

Tlazohtzin came into the world with a birth defect that rendered her voicebox entirely non-functional, and therefore she is completely mute. As an adult she would have the ability to use electrodes or direct neural interface to generate speech, but these techniques are far too dangerous for a baby, and as a result she grew up without learning how to speak at all.

In spite of this, Tlazohtzin led a happy childhood. Her village was on the edge of urbanization and technological and social progress, and so hers was the first generation in her family to enjoy the benefits of modern technology and education (sponsored by Aztechnology, of course). She split her time between farm work and her education, and developed a keen interest in electronics and computing. She did not socialize very well outside her family, hindered by her inability to talk, and so was a bit of a lonely child at school. On the Matrix, however, she could be herself, making many friends and developing a reputation as a highly social animal - Hummingbird.

When she finished high school, Tlazohtzin attended university in Tenochtitlan on an Aztechnology scholarship, to study programming and host design. This led her directly into working for one of Aztechnology's more mundane subsidiaries as a database technician and Matrix host sculptor. In her spare time, she is a moderator and designer for an "explicit simsense peer-to-peer interface host" (i.e. a cybersex chatroom host).

In the flesh, Tlazohtzin is a rather shy, unassuming woman, of clear Mexican descent. She doesn't precisely avoid human interaction, but is quiet and doesn't put herself forward very much. She communicates using a speech synthesis program linked to her neural interface, which produces speech which sounds perfectly human, not a creepy monotone. She can instruct it to mimic an emotion, but it does not properly reflect her actual emotional state, and thus does not sound quite natural. She prefers to communicate through text messages.

In the Matrix, Hummingbird is a beautiful Aztec priestess with colourful hummingbird feathers along her arms and shoulders. She is extremely social and helpful, and tolerates n00bs gladly.

I will hopefully have a sheet ready soon.

Admiral J, I'm not going to argue about your interpretation of the setting, other than to say that I disagree with it completely. I also think that it is very bad form to threaten another player's character before the game has even started, and I hope that you will extend to me the same presumption of good faith that I am extending to you and all other players and the GM.
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Admiral J

Quote from: PerpetuallyAnnoyedCleric on April 26, 2017, 01:43:38 AM
I may have worded my initial response poorly.  Any PvP will require consent between the players and even then I want it rare if not non-existent.  That is not to say that there won't be distrust and non-violent conflict, but depending on player attrition not everyone may be in the same scene at the same time constantly.  Also the first portion of the game will be very focused on survival.  The characters may not trust each other, but they may not have a choice but to cooperate to avoid death.  Also the local Aztechnology presence is softer than it may be in other areas.  Banking and Aquaculture. 

If someone decides that their character exists solely to cause issues I will deal with it at the time.  But I don't want to impose the restriction that everyone has to be best buddies.

Understood, and thank you for the clarification, Cleric.  I'm going to bow out, but I wish you and your players good fortune.

Quote from: HopeFox on April 26, 2017, 09:14:39 AM
Admiral J, I'm not going to argue about your interpretation of the setting, other than to say that I disagree with it completely. I also think that it is very bad form to threaten another player's character before the game has even started, and I hope that you will extend to me the same presumption of good faith that I am extending to you and all other players and the GM.

Good faith!  Yes, we /definitely/ play very different versions of Shadowrun.  :)  My sincerest apologies, HopeFox, it was always my intention to give you (as a /player/) the benefit of the doubt, not cast aspersions -- in my experience of Shadowrun, backstabbing, threats, and Aztechnology betrayal are important parts of mature Shadowrun play, not counter to it.  I beg forgiveness if my words in this thread were ill chosen -- I was obviously operating from a perspective you do not share.

I recognize I wouldn't be a good fit here, and I respectfully remove myself.  Have a great game!

PixelatedPixie

TFCommando

The official story was land-useage.  Out of character, modern Freeport looked like it took up a good chunk of the island already so when I increased the population I wanted a reason not for it to cover too much of the island.  Then I got into thinking about skyscrapers versus larger structures.  In character.  It was to avoid expanding into areas dedicated to resorts.  Semi-officially it was so they could quarantine a large part of the population in the event of another VITA plague.  Unofficially.  There are rumours about where the money came from, who bank-rolled it when the Caribbean League is hardly well-off, and why Aztechnology has an aquafarming operation there.  The usual answer is that it has to do with the Atlantean Foundation and Bimini Road. 

Hopefully all of that sounds reasonable.  I will work on expanding and cleaning that up though and adding it to the setting thread.

Pretty in Pink

I will work up something when I know more about your character!

HopeFox

I like the background!

Muse

She looks interesting so far.

Admiral J

Sorry.  I hope I haven't caused tension or issues through my response.  I am going in somewhat blind on things so can't promise that it will all work out how I have said. 


Pretty in Pink

And like Muse and Hope, she's just a WIP.  But I think that's most of her backstory!

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Trinity Matson was born a nobody in NAN territory.  Her parents were corporate wageslaves, who doted on their only child.  Complications in childbirth meant that she would be their only child, so anything she wanted, she got.  When she was seven, and wanted to be a superstar, her parents saved up and managed to get her a voice coach and a tutor, beginning what they couldn't know at the time was a meteoric rise to fame.

At fifteen, she performed in a talent show, where a scout for Horizon's Pathfinder Multimedia heard her sing and immediately approached her parents, offering her the deal of a lifetime (literally): As long as she put out at least one record every two years, every expense she and her parents could dream of would be covered by the corporation, but it would mean she became the newest rising star, and the new face of Pathfinder.

Two weeks later, the family finally had an answer for them.  Her parents had been wary at first, and what parents wouldn't be, but Trinity's enthusiasm would not relent.  So the contract was signed, and Trinity became the newest face backed by Pathfinder's substantial budgets.

Now, Trinity's look changes on almost a weekly basis.  When she first started with Pathfinder, NAN citizens were enamored and adoring of the cherubic redhead with the voice of an angel.  As she grew and matured, however, her look changed, going from the everywoman next door to a pseudo-goth look, until today, where Trinity is known as the most glamorous punk rocker on the scene.  Granted, it hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows for her.

A bout with BTLs left her in rehab when her mother died four years ago.  A year and a half gap took place while she was getting clean, where no music came out from her, and the media networks began to wonder what had happened with Pathfinder's newest rising star.  When she came back, it was in her current mode, with hair colored every outlandish color you could think of, and some you couldn't, and clothes that looked patched, ratty, ripped, and worn, but as a fashion statement.  Her latest concert tour has led her through most of what was once Europe, all of what was once North America, and even parts of Aztlan.  Now, though... now she's in Freeport.
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I like her!

I will probably have her show being the result of a favour to some local bigwig.  The crowd isn't expected to be large but the top of the Arcology has been rented out regardless.  Any thoughts towards her show?

Would anyone else's character be interested in being at her show?  That could be a simple way to get a few people in the same location.

Muse

  Numbers crunched, now just to flesh out a background. 

  And maybe I need two more spells? 

  Jessica is an ares citzent and security mage.  (She never did have much of a knack for guns, but I didn't go so far as to give her incompetent because I allready had way more than 25 flaws.)

  Until recently, she was posted in Baltimore, right hand to the head security mage in an important facility. 

  In her four years in that position, her facility has been raided by shadowrunners three times.  The first time, she opened with deadly force, using ice spears.  She injured an orc, then was shot a few times.  She woke up the next day to discover that the Runners had been using gel rounds. 

   It shook up Jessi's view of heroes and villains, and she made a point of learning a stun bolt to go with her ice spears and her signature spell—a radiant blade of mana. 

   Her facility was raided on her watch twice since then, and both times, her team managed to repel the runners.   In both cases, there was an occasion for Jessi to melee one of them with her blade, which was why they began calling her Heartrazor. 

   A few months ago, Jessi gained a new junior co worker, an ambitious young woman from an important family—Natalie.  Jessi found the girl to be spoiled, her laziness a security risk.  After getting Natalie reprimanded by their superior, Jessi found herself being transferred far from home to do security at a minor facility on a distant island. 

   Along with fencing, Jessi likes to go dancing or motorcycling with her friends after work.  She also has enough skill with an electric guitar to participate in a jam session without being embarrassed. 

(Quick question.  How much for a guitar with built in sampler?)

*  *  *

  Jessi would love to go to the concert!   
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Pretty in Pink

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So in going through stuff to try and find her style examples, she's evolved somewhat.  She's slightly bitter when it comes to the corporations.  But she signed a contract, so she keeps performing.  But she works her bitterness into her lyrics, subtle jabs at the various corporations, and especially at the one that swore they'd take care of her parents for everything, and then couldn't cure her mother when she got sick.

For something like this, since I'm going to go Fame 4, it's being done more as a 'getting back in touch with her roots' show, she'd prefer it small, and almost entirely unplugged.  But I'm working up a list of songs via a YouTube playlist to give an idea of her normal style of music, including the slight evolution it underwent after her mother's death and her stint in rehab.  XD
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I've taken the Oath of the Drake for Group RP

HopeFox

Tlazohtzin will be in Freeport for work, but she would definitely take the chance to check out a live show while she was there!
If you're such an iconoclast, where were you when we trashed Constantinople?

TFcommando

*Tomb Raider Mage to be Named Later* will be on a working vacation, checking something out at one of the open sites with regard to Atlantis as well as taking the chance to lay naked on the beach.

At last, a chance to use the Distinctive Style: Exhibitionist drawback. :)


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Canon Character Roleplay and System-based Roleplay

PixelatedPixie

Muse

For the guitar any price you think is reasonable is fine. 

TFcommando

I will try to come up with an interesting site that she might be interested in.

Everyone
We can move to the OOC thread to stop bumping this one.  I will go over the backgrounds to try and come up with some details for each character related to the island.

Marie Reynolds

Hey Sorry to post here if you wanted this to not be used or active. I was wondering  since I saw some drop outs if there was an opening?

MisoThe Mouse

Interested! But I am unfamiliar with Shadowrun, and have only played like two table top games.

But I am an avid Wiki reader lol  ;D

PixelatedPixie

I don't want to add anyone else until I have started things up.  Sorry.

Ravenhawk

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TFCommando

The Reraku Arcology may be the big one mentioned in the major sourcebooks, but my impression from the novels is that there are several around the world. Aztechnology is big on them, and there's at least on in Germany.


As you can guess, I'm interested. I have several of the 3rd/4th/&5th ed books as pdf. Thinking of a Combat Biker (read Dead Air), either on vacation or disgraced.

That's if you have room for another of course

Marie Reynolds

Okay well if any openings do come please keep  me in the loop!