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Write as much as you please to demonstrate your character's abilities and thoughts, as long as you respond to all prompts. These are not just to get a feel for your writing style and ability, but also to see how your character would react in these multiple situations. They are technically meant to be one connected mission, from Mr. Johnson to completion, and are meant to be generic enough to allow for flexibility between, say, your responses and another player's. That is, there's not meant to be a 'right way' to respond.  These are, however, non-optional.

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1.  The encrypted VR node flickers to life before you. You sit on a bench, overlooking a small part of the Tuscan coast. The cloudless blue sky arcing over rolling vineyards that slope down towards the shoreline... everything about this little patch of the matrix is soothing, lulling. Even the simulated salt air feels delicious and welcoming. With dark pants and shirt with a neatly pressed fedora tipped down over his eyes, your attention is caught by a tall man making his way from the cliff-side vineyard down the sandy dirt path to the secluded villa.
"Thank you for coming alone, as requested," the man says in an Italian accent.
He wears dark glasses. And something makes you want to avert your eyes when they are pointed directly at you, despite your overwhelming desire to stare.
"You see, I have a need for a discrete coterie of professionals. Now, you come highly recommended..."

2. Smoke and sparks fly from the corpse of your escape vehicle, tossed haphazardly onto its side like a dirty rag. If you can manage to stagger toward it, perhaps you can make some piece of that charcoaled metal sing out a call. Then again, smoke is a signal of your location to the Yellowjacket, buzzing just off the road above. Your two teammates are scattered across the road, perhaps alive, some may be dead. You're banged up a bit, but clearly the luckiest of the three. In a moment, the Yellowjacket pilot may drop out of the skies above. The men inside might be better armed and worse tempered. One choice would be to sprint toward the cover offered by the nearby forest. Another plan yet would be to disappear into the tall grass of the plains just westward of the road. All that matters to Mr. Johnson is the safety of that black box, seal intact.

3. Dressed to the nines, you stand out no more or less than anyone else at the ball, but you know eyes are searching for you. If only they knew what they were looking for. Better yet, if only you knew what Dancing Queen looked like.  That would make it easier to deliver the passcode and be shown where to take this box. You head inside, making your way down the long marble corridor, passing between a pair of guards and into the grand hall. The room is enormous, and you might feel like a speck next to the pillars that line the space. They are covered in gold and silver, and you're sure they're not made of concrete like the others.
The main floor is covered in a polished parquet dance floor, and you spot several dozen couples already dancing a waltz, each dressed in their finest and moving in perfect sync.
 A small group of musicians stands on a raised platform at the far end of the room, playing a lively tune that seems almost too loud for the number of musicians present. The rest of the walls are adorned with portraits, tapestries, and other decorations. You see a number of small, discrete exits scattered around the room, and you notice a pair of staircases leading up to a balcony with an overlook to the dance floor.
 On the balcony, a lithe young woman with a deceptively strong chin waits, dressed in a dress adorned with a pattern of leaves and flowers. She also wears a crown. She watches the crowd and looks bored, until she catches sight of you. She turns, and her face brightens with a smile. She says something to a nearby server, who hurries off.

4. The previous mission was intense, but you made it through. Scathed, but intact. You have time before you're called upon again for the next leg of the run, assuming you were impressive enough. You can see the payday at the end of the tunnel, and it's looking mighty bright. For now, it's time to turn in. See if your escapades made it to the news.
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:12, Thu 02 Nov 2023.

These questions are not required for the RTJ. They are intended for confirmed characters.
 Each question is worth one karma, provided the response given is adequate. Try to answer in character when possible.

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1.       What do they bring to the group? CQC? Fire Support? Infiltration? Matrix hacking? Investigative skills? Magical Support? Negotiation? Transportation? Demolitions? Tactician? Medic? Logistics?

2.       How do they bring these assets? Magically? Wired? Rich? Trained?

3.       What is their birth name?

4.       Where are they from originally?

5.       What nationality are they?

6.       Which languages do they speak?

7.       Do they have a SIN? If so, who from and what kind?

8.       Your character is waiting outside an establishment, not on a Run. Visualize them and then describe their appearance.

9.       What Metatype are they?

10.   What sex, not gender, are they?

11.   What race?

12.   What style of clothing do they wear? Tribale? Flats? RetroJean? ArTees? NuZoot? CD? Glo Punk? Furba? Tropicalente? Urban Explorer? NuMod? Saraiman? Berwick? Actioner Prime? Elfantastic? AfroStyle?

13.   Respirator and poncho, or latest Fellini-Med breather and Armanté raincoat?

14.   Body-mods, no mods, or moddled? Tats, glo tats, or blank?

15.   What music/station do they have stacked on their ‘link? Classic rock? Orcploitation? Synthpop? Elven folk? Ukraine Jumble? Natry? Rockabilly? 6th Street? CorpClub? Prog Talk? Club Drop? Denver Post? Good Morning UCAS? Necro-Salsa? ElvenRock?

16.   What are their favorite tridsims of the last 5 years? List at least 3.

17.   What are their favorite trideo station? List their 3 favorite shows.

18.   What AR sites do they frequent? List at least 3.

19.   What Social Networks are they active in? List at least 3.

20.   What are their favorite video games? List at least 3.

21.   Which of those games did they last play live in the ‘plex?

22.   What life style does they have, and what life style do they aspire to?

23.   Where do they live?

24.   How does he get around?

25.   Their ride: are they looking to trade up, trade out, or just mod the hell out of it?

26.   What level of academic education do they have? Where did they graduate from?

27.   What did they do for a living before they became a runner?

28.   Who/what trained them for that living?

29.   Where did they get their gear he started with?

30.   Where did they get their warez from?

31.   Where will they get their gear and warez now?

32.   Nuka Cola, Buzz Cola or Omega Fizz?

33.   Soy-caf, Haute Choco®, or an honest to God double expresso?

34.   Orker!, Carlsberg, Sapporin, Pud or Pud Lite?

35.   The gang is at 3100+ Flavors™. Which are they choosing?

36.   Which is their drug of choice: BTL’s? Soycohol? Bliss? Cram? Electric Lady? Jolt? Deepweed? Psyche? Zen? Nic-Stiks®?

37.   What would put a deal over the top for them besides nuyen and/or gear? Tickets to a sporting event? A hot club invite? A big bag of Jamaican meta-ganja? A crate of genuine Omaha Steaks™? A bottle of 12-year old Scotch?

38.   Have they ever been to the Big Rhino?

39.   Have they ever been to Dante’s Inferno? If so, how far down did they get?

40.   Nukit Burger, McHugh’s 250g with Cheez, JoDoy’s Beepher!, Frankenburger XL or Bam! Burger?

41.   What are her favorite sports? Urban Brawl (UBPL)? Combat Biker? Unlimited Football League (UFL)? Full Contact Basketball? Stick Ball (NASBL)? Court Ball? Alley Ways? International Racing Circuit Unlimited (IRCU -1, IRCU-2)? Drone Wars? UBGL? World Boxing League? Unlimited Ring Circuit?  Soccer? Desert War? NASSCar? Combined Basketball League (CBL)? Underground Hack-alympics? World Hockey League? Razor Hockey? Ghoul Gakkers? NatAM Lacrosse Circuit? Elven Hurley?

42.   What is their favorite team, and who is their favorite player, and do they have a jersey?

43.   The run is done, and they have some down time. What are they doing?

44.   They are staying at home tonight, alone. What are they doing?

45.   They just got paid, and are heading out for a night on the town. Where are they going and what are they doing?

46.   Sex and romance. Which are they getting, how are they getting it, and which are they wanting?

47.   Which of his home appliances are they looking to upgrade first?

48.   Which piece of gear is their pride and joy?

49.   Which piece of gear is getting upgraded first?

50.   What skill do they want to learn?

51.   What non-shadowrunning hobbies do they have, other than trideo and games?

52.   Do they have a Virtu-Pet™? If so, what kind?

53.   Where do they go regularly? A bar? The Sunhind® caf stand? Stuffer Shack?

54.   Who provides their medical care? DocWagon®? Crash Cart®? A street doc? A hobo shaman?

55.   Who do they know in their home city?

56.   Who did they know before they started running?

57.   Who do they owe a favor to?

58.   Who owes them a favor?

59.   Where do they stand on metahumanity? MoM? Humanis? Sons of Sauron? ORC? GLL? Or Elf Poser?

60.   And how about SURGE Changlings? Freaks, geeks, or wish I was one?

61.   Dunklezahn’s assassination-Greatest UCAS tragedy, who/what?, or serves that big lizard right!

62.   Where do they stand on spirits and AI’s? Human or non-human rights? Newly awakened sentients or Renraku Arcology waiting to happen all over again?

63.   Ghoul bounties-a crime against metahumanity, a necessary evil or where do I collect?

64.   Native American Nations. Are they cool with them, ‘been that way as long as he can remember’, doesn’t care one way or another, or see them as usurpers to America?

65.   How ‘green’ are they? TerraFirst!, Green War, occasional litterer, Pollution is Good!, or future Toxic Shaman?

66.   Do they follow a religion? Are they spiritual? Practicing or lapsed?

67.   Which religion? Protestant? New Catholic? Roman Catholic? Animistic? Amerind Spiritual? Islamic? Aztlan Path of the Sun? Elf Worshiper? Druidic? Pantheism? Santeria? Spirit worship? Deep Resonance worship? Dragon Worship? Zen? Golden Cup Buddhism? Voudoun? Fordianism? New Jesuit? Magical Awaken-ism hoo-hah? Nordic Ragnarok? Judaism?

68.   The world is full of criminal organizations. Do they not care, watch their back, looking for work, or looking to join?

69.   Which of the big criminal outfits do they hate the most, and why?

70.   Which of the big criminal outfits do they like the most, and why?

71.   Do they have legal commcode, or a black market one?

72.   Do they prefer credsticks, black escrow accounts, corp cash or just “download it to my ‘link, neh?”

73.   Would they rather have gear or cash?

74.   Which of the Big Ten do they hate, and why?

75.   Which of the Big Ten do they like most, and why?

76.   Big Corporations- Do they not care, watch their back, bringing them down, looking for work, or looking to join?

77.   Where do they stand on skill-wired wage slaves? Loathsome schlubs, deluded pitiful wretches, or “they should’ve got out and hit the shadows”?

78.   What about regular wage slaves, saraimen, or burakumin?

79.   If they could have voted in the last UCAS presidential election, who would they have voted for?

80.   Your home city surely has factions at or near war. Where do your loyalties lie?

81.   Do they have any political party they identify with? Republicans? Democrats? Humanis? ORC? Neo-Anarchists? TerraFirst!? Archconservative? New Century Party?

82.   Knight Errant just theoretically took over your home city's law enforcement contract. Triumph, tragedy, or opportunity?

83.   Do they play BodyLotto™?

84.   What are their morals? How far will they go for a nuyen?

85.   How far for a friend?

86.   What is their relationship with their family?

87.   What professional contacts do they have?

88.   How did they get said contacts?

89.   Favored fixer?

90.   Are they native to their home city?

91.   Would they choose to live anywhere else?

92.   What alias do they have?

93.   What is their street name?

94.   Why did they get it and who gave it to them?

95.   What are their long term life goals?

96.   What are their long term running goals?

97.   What is their one big regret?

98.   They have skills, gear, and moxie. They could be pulling down a fat corp contract, and not get shot at every day. Why are they shadowrunning?

99.   List at least 3 of their quirks:

100. List at least 3 of their “catch phrases”:
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:06, Wed 08 Nov 2023.