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Everyone gets 5 extra Cheat Points to spend EXCLUSIVELY on spells or Parapsychic talents/abilities. Everyone also gets another 4 general-purpose Cheat Points, for a total of 15 Cheats with 5 required to be parapsychic/magic.
Tenacity 6 minimum. No crybabies are in Global Operations, Surveillance, and Tactics. You must know at least three languages, and have a rank of at least Adept (3) in at least three skills(one of those must be a combat skill.)
You are allowed to raise one skill to Expert (4) if you wish, but this costs 2 skill points.
Tagers are obviously disallowed, as are the Mystically Void and Outsider Tainted Drawbacks. The Engel Synthesis Interface won't be allowed either, as you wouldn't be a GhOST then.
Duty is 3. Your Authority is 3. You get these automatically.
That should cover it. Feel free to take any personal equipment you want. Any vehicles/mecha you wish can be requisitioned.
People should discuss what roles they wish to fill in the squad. We'll need a squad leader, a sorcerer, and someone with arcanotech skills at the very least. Other roles that aren't quite as 100% needed but will be useful: Weapons Specialist, Power Suit/Mecha operator, Infiltrator/Ninja, Face, Parapsychic engine of destruction, etc.
Additional note re: Xenomixes and Zoners
We're starting in 2085. That means that Greys can be up to 19 years old, and Whites can be 18. That's not very old. Xenomixes are required to have Misfit at level 2, just for being in the GhOSTs and being so young. You'd also better have a good backstory.
Zoners are an even further outlier, since they're very, very unstable. They're also powerful, so it's not completely out of the question. But you'd have to think of something really convincing.
Allegiance: GhOST
Race: Human
Virtue: Productive Flaw: Vengeful
Attributes: Agility 5, Intellect 8, Perception 5, Presence 6, Strength 4, Tenacity 8
Secondary Attributes: Actions 1, Movement 7mph 17/4ypt, Reflex 6, Orgone 13, Vitality 11, Dram Points 10
Qualities: Latent para-psychic (4), erupted para-psychic (2), eidetic memory (3), authority (3). big ego (-1), compulsive behavior (prescribed/-1), watched (-3), misfit (-2), duty (-3), skinny (-2)
Skills: Expert: Language (English), Medicine (Psychology)
Adept: Language (Nazzadi), Communications, Surveillance, Fighting
Novice: Language (Tsath-yo), Parapsychology, Athletics, Literacy, Regional Knolwege, Dodge
Student: Hobby (model-making), Intimidate, Computers, Savoir-fare
Para-psychic powers: Telepathy (adept), Empathic Projection (novice)
I know I have too many points in qualities but with requirements for duty, registered para-psychic (watched 3+ misfit 4), there isn't any room for more drawbacks
But in general, that is part of the class system we're ignoring.
Dietrich McMillan
Attributes:
Agility: 8
Intellect: 7
Perception: 7
Presence: 3
Strength: 3
Tenacity: 7
Skills:
(10 Cheat Points converted into 20 additional Skills Points)
Athletics: Expert (6)
Marksman: Adept (3)
Fighting: Adept - Specialization: Kung Fu (4)
Dodge: Adept (3)
Mandarin: Adept (3)
Latin: Adept (3)
Stealth: Adept (3)
Demolitions: Adept (3)
Armed Fighting: Adept - Specialization: Swords (4)
Occult Knowledge: Novice (2)
Qualities:
Fearless (2)
High Pain Threshold (3)
Acute Hearing (2)
Free Skills & Qualities:
English: Expert
Literacy: Novice
Regional Knowledge: Novice
Duty: 3
Authority: 3
Actions: 2
Speed: 9 mph
Orgone: 12
Reflex: 7
Vitality: 9
Spells:
Summon Familiar (Raven) (4 Cheats)
Equipment:
An MP15-9 Sub-Machine Gun
a pair of Claymore II Proximity Mines
a composite katana
Night Vision goggles
Spectrashield Combat Heavy Armor
Background:
"The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected."
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I could not get out of Hong Kong. It was the acceptance of this fact, first and foremostly, that saved my life.
I love the Chinese, though was never particularly fond of China itself. That was the wonderful thing about Hong Kong - all the pleasure of dealing with perhaps the most ambitious, intelligent and honest people I'd ever met, with little of the abhorrent air pollution or fascism present in the mainland.
The first thoughts to circumnavigate my mind when it became obvious that the People's Army was not going to be able to hold the line against the Rapine Storm were, oddly, that I was glad I had made the decision to renew my Z Visa and continue with my english-teaching career in China rather than trying for an E1 Visa to go for a better paying job in Seoul. If I hadn't, I'd never again have been privileged with seeing the vibrance and beauty of my most cherished city.
Priority for evacuation, as it should have, was given to Chinese national women & children. The authorities were without relent in trying to get as many people out of harm's way as they could, and for all of the criticism I could lay at the feet of the government officials, they chose to be last individuals to board any ship departing the peninsula. I did not trouble myself with joining the desperate many trying to escape - the endeavor would've been fruitless.
I had no intention, however, of simply laying down in the street and awaiting my murder.
For all their ferocity and grandeur, the beasts of the storm lacked much savvy or direction. They saw someone, they charged at them. They heard a sound, they moved to investigate it. No doubt this was sufficient for them when plowing through static lines of defenders when engaged with conventional armies - but in the labyrinth of Hong Kong, it was a weakness that begged for exploitation.
There weren't many of us; perhaps a dozen at our strongest point of membership. We lurked in the office towers, apartment complexes and subway tunnels, and we made our would-be stalkers into our prey. The strategies were, at first, primitive; arranging pitfalls and pungi sticks, or crushing targets beneath heavy obstacles. As we grew more proficient in slaying the monsters and learned new methods of assassination from our ever-rotating member roster, the strategies escalated; crossfire ambushes, improvised explosive devices, building collapses and use of the fiends' own arcane power eventually erected a mountainous body count.
I became very damn good at killing the enemy.
There were three that the NEG GhOST team sent to investigate found. After a thorough debriefing and examination, I was conscripted into the organization.
The rest, as they say, is history.
My character's first name should be changed to Deckard.
Allegiance: GhOST
Race: Human
Virtue: Wise Flaw: Rude
Attributes: Agility 7, Intellect 6, Perception 7, Presence 4/5, Strength 4, Tenacity 8
Secondary Attributes: Actions 2, Movement 9 mph 22/5 ypt, Reflex 7, Orgone 11, Vitality 10, Drama Points 10
Qualities: Latent para-psychic (4), erupted para-psychic (2), high pain tolerance (3), efficient metabolism (1), authority (3). Duty (3), Disgraced (4), Watched (1), Habit (2, Alcohol)
Skills: Expert: Language (English), Marksmanship (Handgun Gunplay)
Adept: Literacy, Language (Japanese), Dodge, Observation, Stealth (Silent Movement), Surveillance
Novice: Language (Nazzadi), Regional Knowledge, Criminal
Student: Hobby (Italian Cooking), Education
Para-psychic powers:
-Primary: Somatic
-Secondary: Sensory
Hyperagility (Adept)
Background
So it didn't bode well for Ed when his psychic abilities manifested during boot camp. He managed to get through the obstacle course in record time.... until everyone quickly figured out that Ed was getting some psychic help. He became a registered para-psychic, and was renounced by his entire family. Distraught by this turn of events, Ed turned to the bottle to drink the pain away until he couldn't feel pain anymore.
He's a Ghost now. A damned good one, if he's anything to say about it. But time can't heal some wounds fast enough.
Name: Julian Glass
Callsign: "Corsair"
Allegiance: GhOST
Race: Human
Virtue: Optimist
Flaw: Cruel
Attributes:
Agility 7
Intellect 7
Perception 7
Presence 5
Strength 5
Tenacity 7
Secondary Attributes:
Actions 2
Movement 11 mph (27/6 ypt)
Orgone 14
Reflex 7
Vitality 11
Drama Points 10
Qualities:
Duty (-3)
Obsessive (-2)
Oath: Vegetarianism (-1)
Chronic Pain (-2)
Habit: Painkillers (-2)
Short Fuse (-2)
Phobia: Roaches (-1)
Authority (+3)
Driven (+2)
Common Sense (+2)
Ambidextrous (+2)
Luck (+3)
Skills:
Language: English - Expert
Literacy - Novice
Regional Knowledge - Novice
Intimidate - Adept (3)
Education - Adept (3)
Occult Knowledge - Adept (3)
Medicine (First Aid) - Adept (3)
Marksman (SMG Gunplay) - Adept (3)
Dodge - Adept (3)
Language: R'lyehan - Adept (3)
Language: Cantonese - Novice (2)
Observation - Novice (2)
Armorer - Novice (2)
Artist - Student (1)
Gear:
GSL MkII x2
Laser sights
Spectrashield Combat Armor - Light
Night Vision Goggles with IR Illuminator
AHP Instant Painkiller (6 doses)
Medkit w/ Bioscanner x3
Personal Central Processing Unit
Wireless Communication Earpiece
AR Eyeglass Monitor Display
Lots o' bullets
Spells:
Mend Flesh (2 Cheats)
Ward Against Sorcery (1 Cheat)
Ward of Corporal Protection (1 Cheat)
Ward of Solitude (1 Cheat)
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If my memory serves, there was chatter in IRC about how nobody has posted a tech-based character yet.
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e.g. a hackerish type or we talking suit Pilot?
((Sorry for the questions just Reaaaly want to get into this game
Hackerish, AFAIK.
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Excellent
Just checking.
Going to have my creaky bones first war vet worked out asap.
I am well aware when it will start ;3
Allegiance: GhOST
Race: Nazzadi
Virtue: Patient
Flaw: Pessimist
Attributes: Agility 6 , Intellect 8, Perception 6, Presence 4, Strength 5, Tenacity 8
Secondary Attributes: Actions 5 , Movement 5 mph / ypt, Reflex 5, Orgone 13 , Vitality 11, 10 Drama Points
(1 cheat points)
Qualities:
Assets:
Eidetic memory (3)
Contact 3 (1 High ranking Bureaucrat, 1 Mid ranking Law enforcement, 1 Mid ranking Occult Scholar/Supplier)
Authority 3
Drawbacks:
Prejudice: Politicians(2)
Habit: 2 (tobacco)
Watched: 2 (Past History)
Obsessive 2
Vengeful 1: (rogue Nazzadi)
Code 1: (• I will avenge the deaths of my loved ones, • I will oppose the minions of the Old Ones in all their forms.)
Compulsive behavior (Gain information): 2
Duty 3
Skills:
Expert: Language(Nazzadi),
Adept: Language(English), Literacy, Technician, Computing, Marksman, Larceny, Security, Communication, Munitions, Criminal, Pilot(A-tech transport, Recon-Drone, Wheeled vehicle)
Novice: Regional Knowlege, Arcanotechnician, Armorer, Occult, Dodge
Student: Language(Tsath-yo), Education, Streetwise, Savoir Faire, Surveillance
20: 6 (drawbacks) 10: (5 cheat points) 8 (4 Cheat Points)
Spells (5 Cheat points)
Ward Against Sorcery (1)
Eldritch Faculties (1)
Constitute Powder of Ibn Ghazi (2)
Ward of Corporal Protection (1)
Equipment:
Personal Central Processing Unit, AR Eyeglass Monitor Display, Wireless Communication Earpiece ,Portable Holo-Interface Unit (HIU)
RMG-14, M-6 Pistol Grip, CS-44 “Enforcer”
Transport Truck (Built in Surveilence/Computing suite).
Background:
<"Look beneath the surface of anything and you will see the horrible truth"
Every war machine needs i People keeping the gears running, was what my father used to say.. soldiers couldn't fight if their mecha wouldnt run, or their guns jammed. I spent my early years with him.. after the first war he spent his time fixing machines in a little shop in london. I miss the people there, the quaint charm of a historic nation... they had a past we lacked, and it fascinated me. Then he was gone.
Some of our kin, loyal to our old masters came one night, needing him to service their armaments like he had during the first war, he would have none of it... he was dead before security forces could arrive and I was alone. Their soothing words did little to appease me, I drifted away.. losing myself in the crowds of the cities, forgetting school or old friends and devoting myself to a new passion.
I wanted to see the world, not the world presented to us through propaganda and lies, the truth beneath it. It took me years, learning to break Transmission encryption, scour Computer systems for hints of the truth. I saw that behind every noble Leader is the darkness, the corruption and the terrible Deeds they do... Bunch of Hypocrites and fools.
I heard whispers of the true threats and delved into the lore, scouring tomes and getting myself registered, learning the dark secrets and unholy Truth. I found contacts and suppliers, spending my time gatherin such a wide group of knowledge some came to me for my services... I was arrogant back then, drunk on the power of knowledge.
I hit a nerev one day when my safe house was breached, individuals without faces and without names gave me a simple choice. I could take the fight to that which I knew of, or be executed for crimes against the state. I took their offer, my safehouses Whiped clean, my accounts drained... this is what I had been waiting for since the day he died... I will guide the sword into the heard of those who would bargain with the unknowable, whose arrogance deems themselves to control the power that could corrupt the world.
Running will do you no good, for i will find you, I can pierce any lock, defeat any encryption.
for I am the ghost in the machine and I will find you.>
Allegiance: GhOST
Race: Human
Virtue: Courageous
Flaw: Bigoted
Attributes: Agility 9, Intellect 4, Perception 8, Presence 4, Strength 5, Tenacity 7
Secondary Attributes: Actions 2, Movement 13mph (32/8 ypt), Orgone 10, Reflex 7, Vitality 11, Drama Points 10
Assets:
Acute Sight (2)
Ally (2)
Authority (3)
Driven (2)
Luck (3)
Wary (2)
Drawbacks:
Chronic Pain (2)
Damaged (2)
Duty (3)
Habit, Tobacco (1)
Prejudice, Nazzadi (2)
Skills:
Armed Fighting, Adept
Armorer, Novice
Athletics, Novice
Dodge, Adept
Education (Military), Student
Fighting, Novice, NEG Military Unarmed Combat focus
Hobby, Student
Intimidate, Novice
Languages (English), Expert
Languages (French), Novice
Languages (Nazzadi), Student
Law Enforcement, Novice
Literacy, Novice
Marksman, Expert, Rifle Gunplay focus
Observation, Adept
Pilot (Mecha, Wheeled, A-Pod Transport), Adept
Regional Knowledge, Novice
Stealth, Novice
Support Weapons, Adept
Survival, Novice
Backstory coming once I write it up.
GHosts are coming prepare to get haunted
Okay, so. Rather than running a full-on game session tonight since almost everyone is probably busy with family/friends, I'm going to be running a character review/prep session for anyone who shows at 9PM MST, in #CFCthulhutech on slashnet,