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Message: Shadowrunners
City: Seattle

Greetings shadowrunners. My name is Mr. Johnson. I am hiring a new runner team. I work for a corporation which at this time shall not be named. Jobs will be paid for in either tech or your choice of credits. Jobs may require extensive travel which will be managed by me. You will have access to an account with a small amount of funding for mission completions. Runners must be able to complete missions to their entirety, with no qualms or second guesses. Missions will include espionage, assassinations, and other activities that will require you to man up. If this sounds like your kind of job please answer the questions below on my video feed. After the selection process I will have you meet your team members at an undisclosed location and give you your first set of orders.
-Mr. Johnson-

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What qualifies you for this position?
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Game Info:
Mr. Johnson has sent out a video message on the matrix to several runners. Your reply to his message will be your CS. Once several CS's are approved I will post the first IC post. The group will begin operations around Renton in Seattle. Mr. Johnson is a handler for Lonestar Corp which is a subsidiary or umbrella corporation of Horizon. The Renton area is a quiet community during the day with an undercurrent of anti meta-human and gang activity at night. There has been alot of open violence between the gangs lately and the corporations have been forced to hire more police officers to quell the unrest. Using the hiring of police officers as a cover, Mr. Johnson is building a team of Shadow Runners for running missions.

GM Stuff:
Okay guys & gals here's the deal; Shadowrun is awesome! just had to get that out there. If you're not familiar with Shadowrun I've placed a link at the bottom of this post with information about it, it's a great read whether you're familiar with Shadowrun or not. I'm going to be a little picky with the characters, because I want this RP to succeed. With that being said whenever you fill out your CS or application; the more details you use the better chances you have of being accepted. Please answer the question [What qualifies you for this position?] as if you were on a video feed, talking about your character. If you're used to creating Shadowrun characters these will level 1 or 2 characters. The premise is that Mr. Johnson is building a new team and will be testing their skills through lesser missions before trusting them to the bigger ones. If you have made it this far in my ramblings thank you! If you have any questions or comments or comments please PM me or come see me in chat. #Shadowrun

CS Notes
1. Please keep in mind these are lower level starting characters
2. Magic is uncommon (Not everyone will be able to use magic)
3. Tech is very common so slot up
4. Starting characters will have 20,000 Y (which assumes they have already had some experience running)
5. Shadowrunning is dangerous and illegal in some cases, it isn't something the common person would do, so have a good background.
6. Your money is for rent and equipment we will assume you have food and necessary expenses

Helpful Info
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Shadowrun 5th Edition Corebook is here.
Equipment List is here.
Shadowrun background information is located here.

OOC is here.

I am interested, probably going to make a Street Samurai and hopefully dabble a little in rigging.

Oooooh, Shadowrun. I'm pretty down to do this, probably as a mage. I realize you said magic is uncommon if you're not Native American, but the character I had in mind is African American. That okay?

And a question... How long are you expecting posts to be? I realize this was originally(?) supposed to be advanced, and I'm unsure that my posts will be long enough. I think I can match the length of other's posts though.

It's ok post what you can, and as long as you have a good background story you're character will be fine. Just post your CS's in the OOC thread.

Awesome, I'll get to work on a sheet.

Hey clock please make further posts here. Thank You!

Hey. I'm definitely interested playing. I'm just reviewing the rules to see what has changed since the last time I played Shadowrun--which was the third edition. I personally liked second edition better than third, especially in regards to initiative order. I understand that more changes have probably occurred between third, fourth, and fifth editions, but what is the biggest change in the rules to you?

I havent played the newer ones we are using 5th ed for classes and equipment

Interesting. It'll definitely be a learning experience then. I'm currently look at a face, gun bunny, or physical adept. I made a rigger once, a long time ago. It was fun, but waaaaaay too involved. xD I spent more than five hours building my car, not to mention the guns 'n drones. Maybe 5th edition fixed that problem, but building vehicles was super clunky in the older editions. Of course, nothing beats building vehicles in GURPS:

I've been quietly watching this topic and I have kept my silence until now, but...I really love Shadowrun. I don't want to screw it up. The "official rulebook" has always kind of spooked me. In all honesty, the best knowledge I have of Shadowrun came from the Genesis and SNES game carts. If there can be a place for me here, I'd love to throw down. I just don't want to be a wrench in the monkey-works.

So...what's good?

This is not a full blown by the book shadowrun RP. We are using the corebook only for starting equipment and calls info, dekker street samurai etc. Once that is done there probably won't be much use in using the corebook at that point because we will be on missions RP-ing. I have a link in the comments to download 5th ed core book to help you in your initial character building. You will start with 20,000 Y to buy equipment vehicles etc with. If you have any questions please feel free to PM me or see in chat or #Shadowrun. I lurk in both places most of the time. Good Luck and I look forward to some CS's soon!!

Ah Shadowrun, Basically D&D meets Cyber Punk



I haven't played in over six years so I'll need to read your links first

OK feel free to check it out. Most of the conversations are taking place on the OOC forum due to the large interest in this.