[OOC] Shadowrun - The Sound and the Fury (Snow Crash Inspired)

[Krauxis]

It has been a while. I'd like to wait for a Cath post, so I know how you feel, but it's been a while since I last heard anything from Engel, so I'm not confident in telling you to wait. You can wait a day or two if you like, I'll leave it up to you (things have yet to get fully settled with the new character yet so there is time.)

[EnterTheHero]

Hey guys, how goes it? Nice to meet you all, looks like a fine group. Krauxis called me to fill in for a missing person, so... here I am. Looking forward to running with all of you, see you in the IC... whenever. Later!

~Hero

[Terminal]

Hey guys, how goes it? Nice to meet you all, looks like a fine group. Krauxis called me to fill in for a missing person, so... here I am. Looking forward to running with all of you, see you in the IC... whenever. Later!

~Hero

@EnterTheHero

Yeah, it looks like we might have two missing people actually.

Wheeeeeeeeeeee.

[Krauxis]

Either way, we'll keep going. I've been around the site long enough to know to plan for things like these. Sometimes people just lose interest, sometimes life gets in the way, it happens, and I understand. I myself have had to bail on an RP once or twice for various reasons, and I'm not really proud of it. Sometimes you just fall out of love. Sometimes, like Refezen, stuff just comes up that puts you out of commission for a bit. Hopefully we'll see the return of Damien at the end of the month. Whatever happens, I'm not particularly disheartened. If we need to recruit more people, I can do that without much issue. It seems there's some relatively constant (if niche) interest for Shadowrun stuff kicking around the forums, so I'm not really worried.

[EnterTheHero]

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Yeah, it looks like we might have two missing people actually.

Wheeeeeeeeeeee.

@Terminal

Whoooooooooooo.

[Beach Burrito]

Going to fess up that when I heard you were added a new player into the mix I'd just assumed you meant the excellent CS @Arcanaut posted in the interest check

On the topic of Reaper I'll admit upfront I don't like the idea of a mystic adept (For the same reason plenty of houserules don't let people play as them on a tabletop) They're just plain better than going adept or mage--mixed with being a gunslinger variant my toes are pretty sore.

[Krauxis]

It's true, I picked from the top of the pile rather than the bottom. It's something that's probably morally reprehensible, and I'll admit the reason was mostly convenience. The interest expressed in the intchk was quite a while back, and EntertheHero was still 'fresh,' so I approached them first. Think of me what you will, it's already done. My only defense is that it looks like there may be more than just the one open slot, in the end.

As far as being a mystic adept, if we were rolling dice, you'd better believe my screening process would be more strict. But I've tried to let everybody play who/what they wanted in this RP with few restrictions, and so far I like the way that has worked out. We have a hacker/decker with almost free access to everything so far (this will change in the future, but for now Traction has had free reign of whatever nets we've run across, including her teammates' comms,) a gunslinger with a loadout to make a lady blush, a Nartaki burnout ripped from a John Woo movie, multiple mage hybrids of varying breeds. And I like it that way. Let people play what they want to play and trust them to police themselves. I don't see a reason to go back on that philosophy now. I don't think I'll restrict anything before even seeing what Reaper can/will do in the RP.

I apologize if you think less of me for my carefree attitude towards this. I don't feel the need to explain it away with excuses because there aren't any to be had, it just is the way it is.

[Beach Burrito]

It's your baby and I'm not going to tell you how to raise it. That being said what I liked (What I really liked) was that every member of the team was a deeply flawed individual in one respect or another. Officially it's the lack of definitive shortcomings with our soon-to-be-added runner that I'm most wary of.

I'm going to give our resident shaman/face a nudge and see if she's still up for playing--then nudge myself a bit for good measure.

[Azseth]

Just for the record: Azseth don't care. I'm here to RP. If I am not posting, it's because I'm either busy, or waiting on other players. I am not a player who needs constant posting to keep myself involved. If it takes a week, I don't give a shit. I never rush things, and I'm ok with the GM doing the same.

YOLO.

Az

[Beach Burrito]

Az. The voice of reason.

Miffed-ness aside I'll be posting tomorrow (Likely late late tomorrow if I get called in, which is bound to happen)

[EnterTheHero]

It's your baby and I'm not going to tell you how to raise it. That being said what I liked (What I really liked) was that every member of the team was a deeply flawed individual in one respect or another. Officially it's the lack of definitive shortcomings with our soon-to-be-added runner that I'm most wary of.

I'm going to give our resident shaman/face a nudge and see if she's still up for playing--then nudge myself a bit for good measure.

@Beach Burrito

I could make him more flawed? I don't want to make this uncomfortable for anyone. That said, Reaper isn't going to be good at both things, so I'm not gonna be stepping on anyone's toes, I hope. In hindsight, writing "gunslinger" is pretty non-indicative of what I was trying to do with Reaper. Perhaps I should change my CS to reflect that... Mostly, though, he'll be flinging spells rather than other things.

I'm using errata ideas for his concept, so he has to either take hits in adept or Mage as he progresses. He chose to take hits in adept.

All that said, my policy toward making character sheets is not to show your hand too soon. There's a lot of potential for character building that I don't want to jam into a CS. My characters are dynamic things, they grow, they change, they break. If you're worried that Reaper's not flawed enough for your game, just wait. I'm very mean to my characters. It's more fun that way~

[Azseth]

BURN THE HERETIC!!!

Sorry, I just had a lot of caffeine.

Az

[EnterTheHero]

BURN THE HERETIC!!!

Sorry, I just had a lot of caffeine.

Az

@Azseth

I know that feeling well. No worries~

[Beach Burrito]

Got wrung out harder than usual at work these past few days--If I don't manage to get the rest of my post done tonight I should be able to tap it off by tomorrow.

[Beach Burrito]

Managed to duck out at an hour that was unreasonable rather than ungodly tonight--by all estimates I should have my post up before too long.

~Sorry if it seems I've been procrastinating. I'm inching along at it, but work seems to be taking more out of me than I'd like. Not happy with how my writing has been turning out.

[Beach Burrito]

Done and Done!

[Krauxis]

Thanks BB. Hope stuff's more stress-free for you at work. I'll be starting this round, and I ship out officially friday morning, so whether or not I'll be able to do much midposting (if any) this round is yet to be seen. I'll be doing what I can. Expect a post from me within the next few days to kick everything into gear anyway, and our newcomer can come in after that and shake stuff up.

[Terminal]

Excellent timing on the Kali Moment™. I was just about to complain about @Engel's absence depriving us of the critically pivotal Face for the warehouse scene.

[Krauxis]

Damn, living in the shadow of a sweet flashback collab, comes the not-so-dynamic entry of everyone's least favorite sniper~

So yeah, usual OOC rundown:
-Three orks, armed with pistols, in regular work clothes. Four trolls, armed with assault rifles, kevlar vests, dermal plating.
-CDs in the shipping room, laced, magically, with something. A mage of any kind could clear it out, but Recluse won't do it unless the fighting's over.
-Servers are upstairs behind a locked door, @Terminal I'll be PMing you the contents since I'll probably be away when you manage to get in there.
-As for actually getting the CDs out, the truck could probably carry them if you could get one of the loading doors open.
-Recluse has armed the front and back doors and is hanging out in the ceiling out of everybody's way with his rifle and remote detonators.
-Like Traction said, the fuzz may or may not be on their way, but probably somebody has been called to clean up this mess.

@EnterTheHero You can pop in any time. Recluse won't blow you up for reasons (we'll call it 'he was busy climbing like a weirdo at the time.') You've got your own objectives, just try not to die, and figure out how you want to join up with everyone.

I'll be around until friday to address OOC concerns, but everyone feel free to handle IC matters their own way until I get back, I just won't really have the time to make another big post. There should be enough conflict with the new character's entry and trying to settle out the job to last until I get back.

[Beach Burrito]

I'm glad that the Kali moment went over well. I was torn between seeing it as a good out for Cath's absence and feeling like I was railroading the rest of you.

As for Reaper, just to iron this out ahead of time--he's going to be an unknown element at the time we meet him right? As in we've never run with him before or aren't at the moment, right?