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Post by Nepty on Sept 12, 2015 21:49:40 GMT
Player name: Ineptus Astartes/Nepty Runner name: Vilkas Donoskevic, alias "Wotan" or "Alf" (Pronounciation, Vill-Kass, Don-oh-Ske-vich) Race: Elf, enclave of Pomorya Gender: Male Age: "I don't know how long I'm supposed to live so I don't really think about my age much" Appearance: Black hair, an unremarkable face that could be described as handsome compared to many, but never impressive compared to truly attractive people, large eyes, often several days worth of stubble. A height of 5'7. Vilkas is rarley seen without his typical wardrobe of a t-shirt, usually with some sort of design on it, a long black storm coat, dark jeans and a battered black army patrol cap. Has a noticeable eastern European accent.
Personality: Reserved, moral and sympathetic to the plight of many, but also willing to get a job done. Takes an interest in his work, but is slightly ashamed of himself for it.
Archetype: Gunslinger adept
Equipment:
Browning Max-Power (X2) Smartlinked 2 silencers Brass knuckles Storm Coat A variety of shirts Boots Patrol cap A variety of pants and undergarments Flashlight
Cyberware/Bioware:
Datajack
Spells:
Killing Hands Mana Fist Pain Resistance Mystic Armor Stride
History: Everyone starts out in life with a different deck of cards. Being born in 2031, in a lithuanian hovel to illiterate farmers while one of the largest battles of the Russo-Polish War was about to kick off wasn't a great deck to be dealt.
Vilkas spent his formative years living in a refugee camp in poverty-stricken Lithuania. There he learned to read and write- Though he lived in a camp until he was ten, he was never mistreated, and many often said that if not for his innsecantly wandering mind, he would make quite the good student. As an elf, he was also held in rather higher esteem and expectations than others. When he was nine, his family relocated to the Duchy of Pomerya, fleeing the fears of the Night of Rage. For the next ten years he muddled through a high school with no other elves in it, where he was friend to all but companion to none.
In 2050, aged 20 , Vilkas left Pomerya to attend a university in Strassbourg, where he studied metahuman theory and social and cultural anthropology for four years During this time he also learned how to manipulate his Qi.
In 2054, he graduated college with flying colors but could not find employment for a full year. For a taste of adventure, he joined a corporate security force, where he believed he could put his mastery of the energy within him to good use. When he was assigned to post-anarchist Berlin, he found the deployment boring until one day when he was caught in a firefight. During that time he killed a human being and was shocked to find that there was no great epiphany or reflection in his mind on the fleeting nature of human life. As something of a philosopher, this disturbed him deeply that one could so casually take a life, and so he resigned his commission not long after. He has also since lost contact with his parents.
Over the next half a decade, until he was 30 (and noticing that he still looked 20) Vilkas took various jobs, often writing articles for papers to put food on the table. The world was slowly grinding down his previous sense of optimism and enlightened philosophy of innate human decency. During this time, he has however converted his initial naivety into resigned stoicism, having become something of a spiritual man, and having taken up a belief in the deities of northern Europe.
In 2059, Vilkas moved in with his his girlfriend, Katyusha, a Belorussian national, and an ordinary human. While difficult for a one-time soldier and anthropology major with no family to speak of to find employment, it was even harder for a formerly wealthy eastern European girl to come to terms with poverty, but come to terms she did. Roman, meanwhile, without a stable job of his own was forced to accept the fact that eitehr they would starve, or he would have to do something outside of his comfort zone. So in late 2059, Vilkas became a Shadowrunner.
For four years now he's risen to become more than just a runner. Having risen to prominence under the name "Wotan" in shadowrunner circles, offering his services as a mercenary adept as well as an information broker of sorts, and sometimes even an assassin. In four short years, he has served more bosses than he can count, and more importantly, he can keep both himself and Katyusha supported. That is why he runs. At least, that's what he tells himself.
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Post by Warork on Sept 13, 2015 2:42:29 GMT
Looks like Wark has street sam pinned down. Correct! Player name: Wark Runner name: Aleski Torinov AKA Alex Thorne, known by his codename "Reznya" Race: Human Gender: Male Age: 45 Appearance: Personality: Jaded, cynical, blunt and all other words basically meaning "unpleasant conversationalist." Archetype: Street Samurai Equipment: Cobra TZ -110 silenced, laser sight, AK-97 red dot sight, 2x frag, flash, smoke grenades, Smartlink system Cyberware/Bioware: Datajack, Orthoskin, Muscle Augmentation, Platelet factory, Reflex trigger, Skillwire: Saeder-Krupp, Renraku, Cyberarm, Wrist Spur Spells: N/A History: Born in the year 2020 to a pair of Russian parents, Aleski's childhood memories are filled with the uncertainty of a nation going to war coupled with the uncertainty of living as a child of divorced parents. It was well enough for him until, during the infamous Eurowar, his father, a contractor for the Russian army, was killed along with thousands of others in the "Nightwraith incident" that ended the war. Aleski's mother was nowhere to be found and the nation was now desperately impoverished. Life was hard for him in the year that followed, as he and his little brother lived on the streets, trying to survive. In the year 2034, at just 14 years of age, Aleski and his younger brother were swept up in the national rage against the Alliance for Allah; a pro Islamic alliance of middle Eastern states which invaded parts of Europe. The two boys, barely in their teenage years, joined an anti alliance militia and at the age of 15 Aleski killed his first man in the wars that raged in Southern Europe. The war claimed more than his innocence and as it was winding down in 2037, Aleski was informed that his last living family, his little brother, had died in one of the war's last battles. Alone, with no education and no experience besides soldiering, he figured he was destined to a life of wandering homelessness when his luck changed. In a smoky bar in some backwater eastern european town he met a man who simply identified himself as "Yadzmeya" who took Aleski under his wing and recruited him into a branch of the Russian intelligence service. Aleski would spend a few years within this service under the codename "Reznya" until the desperation of the Russian nation caused a radical shift in the nation's power. A new fascist government would soon call the shots and with such a dramatic change in government came the inevitable; a purge. Yadzmeya, Aleski's mentor and friend, was a victim of this purge and was sacked by his new superiors. Aleski was slated to take his place but instead resigned in protest. After that, Aleski was able to use some of the favors he had curried over the years to catch the ear of an enterprising mobster family where he worked as a hired gun and one of the family's trusted men. This went on for a while until the year 2056 when Aleski and the family had a falling out which convinced Aleski that it was time to move on. He wandered for a few years, doing what work he could find for a soldier to do until an old contact told him about the amazing world of Shadowrunning... For five years he's been operating under the name "Reznya." A ghost running about, trying to relive the old days when everything was a bit simpler...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2015 3:03:29 GMT
And with those two fine additions we now have one slot left to fill.
With luck this will be able to start Monday or Tuesday.
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Post by melissia on Sept 14, 2015 16:47:37 GMT
Excellent. Now we just need to hope Nate will post a brief summary of his background so we can start while he gets himself busy on writing his novella.
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Post by admiral9 on Sept 14, 2015 18:51:59 GMT
Character Sheet;
Player name: admiral9
Runner name: Binh dong "Dead Drop Dorf"
Race: Dwarf
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Appearance: Short and stumpy (125 cm), Asian complexion, zits on his face, wearing a sports suit and a baseball cap reversed, has 3 fake golden chains around his neck and an anime t-shirt under his sports vest
Personality: Deluded, he is under the impression that he is the greatest rapper of his generation, quite infatuated with anime and manga culture, picks fights with people that slam on his lyrical greatness, as long as he is not intentionally pissed off he is capable of a sufficient degree of professionalism.
Archetype: Rigger
Equipment:
Ares predator with an extended magazine
Uzi III
Baseball bat
Sundowner assist
Strato 9 sniper
Cyberware/Bioware:
Datajack 0,5
Vision magnification eyes 1.0
Toxic inhaler 0.5
Ecephalon 1.0
Essence: 3.0
Spells: None
History: A former otaku Binh went into the shadowrunner business at the young age of 17, considering himself the ultimate otaku both in skill and preferences. After the matrix crash 2.0 he went through a bit of a personal crises, he had lost his employment and the thing he was good at, it took him a multitude of months to come out of it, his revelation came when he saw a rapper on the streets who in Binh’s words was “spitting some hot lines, yo.” Getting himself his very own rapper set as he had determined after a couple of matrix searches and looking into the only profession he considered appropriate for a genius of his proportions, being a rigger.
Through what some would call stupid luck he has survived to this day, prepared to make his breakthrough as a rapper with his hard mixes and with his trusty drones supporting his quest, the deluded man continues on.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2015 23:32:04 GMT
Looks all good Addy.
I'll start this up sometime tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2015 19:06:56 GMT
And with that our game has started, players are free to talk among themselves and admire the wealth on display until your client arrives.
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Post by Warork on Sept 15, 2015 19:46:29 GMT
I give us ten posts until someone breaks something worth more than a small country.
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Post by melissia on Sept 16, 2015 0:10:35 GMT
For simplicity's sake, can you link to the IC thread in the op of this thread? That way I don't have to bookmark more than one page
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Post by Warork on Sept 19, 2015 9:05:21 GMT
Place your bets, place your bets! Who dies on the first mission?!
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