Nah.  The drop bears were amusing.  I just couldn't get in the zone.  Part of it was trying to play the old character in a completely new circumstance.  Mentally she just didn't fit.  Something brand new is better.

Maybe not the best face yet, but I will get the job done. Etiquette 6 should get me some leeway with contacts though.

Better than defaulting from CHA 1 with an ugly mug and disposition to boot, anyhow ;>

Currently looking through character portraits. As tempting as it is to have David Bowie as my character's avatar, he really puts out that 80's hair band elf vibe more than a dwarven (and sometimes troll) scandinavian punk-metal screamer.

There, I think that works. Otherwise I need to find "mmr707" again.

Now I don't feel quite so ugly anymore . . .

Speak no heresy against the Bowie.

Copperhead....your description says left side is damaged.  So how come your portrait shows the right side being damaged?  ;)

Spent an hour looking through portraits.  Females with facial scarring are in short supply :(

I guessing you're not gonna change the description on which side is damaged?  Lols.

With the back-story, left side makes more sense.  If anyone's feeling artistic and wants to draft up a proper image to submit for inclusion, you're welcome to - I can provide some more descriptive guidance.  If I did it, you'd have a stick figure with patchy hair and squiggles on one side of the face.  (I hated anything in art class that didn't allow me to use a ruler or stencil . . . :>)

HAhahaha, you do realise that you could just use the same pic, and photoshop it with a mirror reflection and voila you got yourself a correct side?  ;)  But then again, that sounds kinda troublesome.  :D

You gonzos are probably too stuck to realize Copperhead's portrait is just a first person view of a mirror, hai?

If it was a mirror view, that is one hell of a mirror to be located in a forest.

Smartass.

Of course.  :D

So a quick head's up; in this case 'Steward' is actually a password. Characters who just wait won't see much, so you'll want to think of how long you wait before asking.

Since St. V is the last one there, I will wait and see how the others react.

Good, gives me more time to waggle my eyebrows seductively at him.

Okay, quick question in response to Noruas's taping...

Shadowrun is a child of 1989, first edition especially. If you look at the old equipment lists, a lot of it mirrors that. Cell phones weigh about a kilo, and don't have things like 'screens' and 'cameras'. Obviously the FASA prognosticators are telling us there will be a return to retro phones around 2050.

However, for our modern players, this is a bit of a conundrum. We're used to tiny electronics, ubiquitous cameras, and an Internet accessible to everyone.

I personally would love to go the SR1 route, but I understand this might cause some issues with some players. So I'd like to pitch this one to a vote. Do people prefer we go:

SR1:
Electronics are bulky and don't generally have scads of additional features
Cameras and recorders are things you need to specifically buy
Cameras and electronic tracking is limited to secure locations
The Matrix is the domain of deckers, and esoteric for everyone else

OR

Modern:
Electronics are tiny, convenient, and packed with features
Cameras and electronic tracking is ubiquitous, except in specific dead zones (such as most of the barrens)
Anyone can visit the Matrix for regular activities like online research, ordering pizzas, file-sharing, etc. and deckers are just the security specialists who know how to break those customer front-ends.

I lean towards option 2, but with a heavy level of urban decay thrown on top.  So cameras will be a given in rating A areas and above, will be relatively common and functional in rating B areas.  Will be spotty and only semi-functional in rating C areas and will be unlikely, already spray-painted, re-aimed to point at the clouds, etc. in lower rating areas.  I'm also fine if the "spy-gear" stuff is not common-place.  I.e. we're not looking for a "no privacy" society here.  That's not something the corps see as being in their interest.

I also lean toward option 2.  But perhaps it is tough to get something like a phone with all the bells and whistles that would still be secure enough to use on a run.  You don't want a phone that can be tracked by triangulating the signal, or that can have calls monitored on a public network, or be located by GPS.

My bad.  I didn't know the phones would be in that setting.  I do remember the old phones being giant bricks that can microwave your brains.  But I had thought the creators would've done some predictions about future technology being smaller.  Just tell me which option we're going with and I'll change my post accordingly.

There's also the weirdness of "We can have a camera that does 50X zoom and thermal vision and a bunch of other stuff that fits in your eye.  And we can implant a phone in your head.  But the phone you carry around on your hip with you weighs over 2 pounds and a camera is a separate device."

Hahahaha.  Hey, like Papa Bear said, its possible the bulky stuff and style might be making a come back in fashion!  ;)