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New Storyline!

As we have discussed we are planning to start up a new Shadowrun storyline. Right now it looks like Brian is going to be the primary storyteller with Dan and I filling in where need be. (Similar to Grass Spiders) Not too much has been fleshed out so far, but we have a place to start. Looks like we'll be playing a small team of shadowrunners (probably not really shadowrunners by definition) that work for a part of a government body, most likely investigating all things paranormal. We expanded on some things beyond that, but I'll let Brian go from there.

I personally think the California Free State would be a cool place to play, though I'm pretty open to playing anywhere. (North America or otherwise) We could always open the SL to international paranormal events as well, mostly need to decide what government is hiring us for a central location. I found a Cal Free sourcebook for 2nd edition that could provide some additional info. It's a bit outdated, but that leaves a bit of extra room for us to expand how we'd like. The big changes seem to be the liberation of San Fransisco Bay Area from the JIS, Los Angeles defecting from Cal Free, and Southern Cal flooding due to epic earthquakes.... Semi-major but I think we can fill the gaps if need be. (Demonoid has a massive SR torrent, you can DL or I can distribute if people want to take a look.)

Didn't get much commitment from anyone as far as character creation goes, though it was obviously a bit early to be committing to a character idea. Wanted to know if anyone had any thoughts yet? I'm still planning to play a modified version of my character, Kumiko Nakamura. Obviously he won't be in the Yakuza, but the fundamental character that I like doesn't need to change much. Kumiko doesn't have a super well defined Shadowrun role or class and he is pretty adaptable. He builds in my head as a sort of Jack-of-all-trades and master of none type, but I can easily shade him in one direction depending on what the group has. He's going to have a pretty respectable Biotech Skill Group and Firearms Group based on the character concept, his logic should be pretty good and he's not much of a strength/power dude. Otherwise he can be adapted pretty well to help us out if we need additional combat support, some face skills, infilitration, or even a little hacking/rigging. I don't have him built as a mage of any sort at the moment, but if we think its going to be a magic heavy SL and most or all characters should be magic users, he'd build pretty well as an adept. Let me know what you guys were thinking and we'll go from there.

--FyreFly 19:33, 12 October 2010 (EDT)

Caught in the Middle

Our first storyline took place in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS. The year was 2070, and the Matrix had been re-built after Crash 2.0 in 2064.