[OOC] Printed guns, melded metal - An experimental GM-less Cyberpunk RP

[Terminal]

@The Harbinger of Ferocity

Noted. Will endeavor to supply you with a much earlier response than previously.

[SleepingSilence]

Seemed like you guys were still heading out the door within the posts, so whether you step out to see me and the other two, or had already left via time skip magic. It is up to you. :P

[Hekazu]

Seemed like you guys were still heading out the door within the posts, so whether you step out to see me and the other two, or had already left via time skip magic. It is up to you. :P

@SleepingSilence

I believe said decision has been left for you @13org, though you are welcome to consult me if you need it! Just remember the change in background music if new people arrive while they are still inside.

[13org]

@Hekazu @SleepingSilence

Nina is probably heading out, yeah. They would probably meet Scarlet either getting in or when still handing over her guns to the bouncers at the entrance.

Small question @SleepingSilence, is Scarlett a well known figure around those parts? I mean, someone like Nina, who works selling and transporting information, could have she heard about a reaper with lupine-like features sniffing around? Since Nina was also taking a quick look all the Lt. Davison thing, just like Scarlet, that wouldn't be impossible, right?

(Asking this cos depending on your answer, that could open a window for both Nina and Croak to interact with Scarlet. Maybe even choose to go inside again as Nina would be definitely interested in knowing more about Scarlet, what exactly is she doing, who is she working for & etc. That and giving Croak a little extra info could earn her some favors with him. Croak would probably want to know too, since that's his gang's hideout.

[SleepingSilence]

@13org I wouldn't imagine so, least for average folk. Reapers probably benefit from lack of surrounding knowledge of people knowing about them and their line of work. She covers up her exact appearance most of the time, and isn't out much unless working.

But people with information, and go about with rumor and hearsay may notice a big red wolf. Because it's not something that would be inconspicuous. So Nina may have very well learned about her through the connection grave vine. So I'm okay with either choice for interaction.

I actually was going to have a scene where I address that they've been looking for people that -know- or are -looking for- Lt Davison, because places are beginning to work together to find his location. Because if one individual or group has a hold on him, nobody benefits. But if people work together, the strongest will benefit and everyone else thinks they're the strongest, so it makes sense to work with others to discover such an important targets whereabouts.

Though I wouldn't imagine knowing her employer/status. A lot of her old information (when she was Madeleine), which I would address later, was actively erased. But it's not impossible for others to have paid/found that information if they looked for it.

[13org]

@SleepingSilence
Yeah, I know it would be almost impossible for Nina to know who is she working for due to secrecy
(the fortress & etc.) But that's something Nina would want to know. A motivation for her to try to talk with Scarlett.

But Nina would definitely know about rumors about a big red 'wolf' right? Linking those rumors with Scarlett could be possible then?

[SleepingSilence]

@13org Yeah. In the same way, my characters will be under the assumption that sometimes you can find missing information by finding who caused it to go missing. So yeah, you'd would be able to do that. Anything is possible. ;3

[Terminal]

@The Harbinger of Ferocity, post going up later tonight.

[13org]

@SleepingSilence@Hekazu

Will have my post done tomorrow! :-)

[Jollan]

Howdy y'all, I was just poking around in here and just wanted to say I was interested if y'all had room for another. I honestly don't know much about the cyberpunk 2020 universe though to say for certain what all specific things a character would have, but I will try to do my best and I am always open to making necessary changes to fit the world, so if I make a cs, don't be afraid to really rip into it.

[Hekazu]

We do indeed remain open for fresh arrivals @Jollan!

If you want some character equipment info, you can always ask us, and I can even supply the base sourcebook for the TRPG we are using as our baseline, though even that has things that go beyond what we are currently really aiming for. If you have an idea we can look at, we can give suggestions based on that, so it works that way too! Just trying to keep a common level of ability here, as you may have noted.

[Jollan]

I had three ideas really, but i only want to do one character. first idea was more of a guy who lives/wanders the combat zones for resources. He is the main one i have in mind actually as I have thought about him more.
There was an accident that maimed his body, and he ended up building himself a new one, but he is so ashamed of the state his body is in the he hides it under clothes and masks
here is his body (his face is behind a thin cloth)

Hider

as far as what he wears it would most likely have a post apocalyptic feel as he scrounged it from the combat zones
having trouble deciding what he wears

option1

option2

option3

option4

I don't have much thought on his skills and weapons yet though.

---

other idea i had was this guy

Hider

which I was thinking that thing on his shoulder could be some type of directional emp device.

---

last one is the classic hearty tanky guy. Ex-military sort who would work heavy security operations. carries a heavy weapon and can deploy a hardlight projection ai that bears shields that he can use to protect other allies or himself. though i think that may be a bit too futuristic, I don't know. he would be a fun one to rp too.

Last one I swear

[Hekazu]

They all appear a bit advanced for our current desired tech level, I'll have to say. The one closest to working would indeed be character one, with them bearing close resemblance to our resident info broker Nina in the fact that both have had to replace parts of their body due to injury. I figure he could be some sort of a megacorporation goon actually: "Yeah, we'll refit you with some low-end cybernetics that'll keep you alive, you'll just owe every extended second to us." Do you think that might have something in it?

[Jollan]

lol, thought so. just kinda took a number of shots to see which one hit the right target. ok first one it is. sounds good to build off of. would it be alright if I said he was slowly replacing parts that he was given with his own found parts or would that be a big no/ red flag to the other guys

[Hekazu]

The megacorps probably wouldn't like it if he went messing about with their "gift", so he would have to be extremely careful about it. Who knows, they might have put an explosive device in him that pings some parts to see if they are still there and goes boom if the check fails many enough times? But if he can circumvent any countermeasures the corporation might have put in, thorough great effort nonetheless, that might well work.

[SleepingSilence]

@Jollan You'd have to do a bit of character building, to explain what happened and how everything was acquired. Though as for the idea of having a super paranoid/vain,ashamed character that covers himself up in gas mask attire. Option 4 fits the cyberpunk/grim aesthetic the best. I'm pretty sure oxygen tanks were available in the Cyberpunk 2020. Though the last two pictures are definitely a bit much, in terms of technology. I also think the first picture can work as extensively a suit, depending on what its actually made of and what it actually provides/hinders in the process matters most, though I'd assume it be an expensive piece regardless.

[Jollan]

I see y'all don't have a hacker/tech and machine savvy character yet. It would make sense that he could do that if he filled that tole, right? think I'm just about ready to start up a cs.

oh and @SleepingSilence thanks for the tip, option 4 it is!

the first picture (the one in all white) is essentially is his body/bodysuit. but yeah, he keeps that covered as much as possible

essentially, he has to do maintenance on it regularly to keep it going. there are compartments in his body that hold vials of various fluid, some of which he injects into a port at his neck and what not, and that is partially how he keeps going. he cant eat or drink anymore so that is one of the type of vials he makes for himself as well, it
gives him nutrition for whats left of his body. the rest is just maintenance fluids. upon receiving too much damage or not maintaining hid body, it can lock up on him.

EDIT: working on a cs now, but I have to head to work

[13org]

Guys, sorry for the delay. Some things went wrong IRL and I'm having to deal with some issues here. Promise I'll have my post done tomorrow

[Jollan]

Welp, here goes, hope y'all like it, let me know what I need to change or back off on because I know there is probably something, haha

I tried to keep most his weapons and such to simple guns. the most unique aspects are his left arm and how he can see. I figured the way he hears and can tune into radio frequencies to be kinda easy to do

Jarred

Name: Jarred Greaves

Appearance:

body

clothes

Personality:
Pretty carefree and mischievous, often putting his nose where it doesn't belong. One of the few things he doesn't care for discussing is his body, which he makes sure to never reveal to anyone. Although he is a bit of a joker, it doesn't keep him from knowing when to act a bit more serious.

Cyberware:

• Neuralware
  • Echo Vision - Sonar feed that uses inaudible rapid sonar pings that feed a monocolor real world image into his mind in place of his eyes. Cheaper than replacing his eyes, these pulses are directional to which way he is facing to create a visual cone similar to human eyes.
  • Nerve processor - enables movement and function of all non-organic replacement parts as if it wear his own body. linked to the brain
• Implants
  • Vial storage - stores different vials of fluid needed for his body to function, including nutrition, lubrication, and another compartment for emergency power cells.
  • Kinetic charger - charges his internal power cell through movement.
  • Maintenence ports - a number of ports throughout his body for mainenance fluids, a battery port, and a charging port.
• Bioware
  • Skinweave - medium strength white skinweave that defend up to most pistol and revolver cartridges from doing major damage, however internal damage may still occur. covers all except his face which is just a regular breathable cloth covering.
• Cyberaudio
  • Cyberdrums - replacement eardrums that he can adjust the volume on.
  • Radio scanner - can listen in on radio broadcasts from simple music stations to secure frequencies in his left ear if he turns it on.
• Cyberlimbs
  • prosthetic left leg. Simple design and just handles standard human movement, no frills.
  • Left prosthetic arm houses a large capacitor in the forearm. Was a standard arm prosthetic until modified by Jarred. Touching his thumb to his ring and pinky finger make a connection to turn on a small generator in his arm that charges up the capacitor that will unleash its charge to anything that arcs through the tips of his index and middle finger, creating a high voltage stun gun essentially.

Weapons:

• Dual stack 1911 (.45) with one standard 15 round magazine for ease of carrying and two 30 round extended magazines. has a ergonomic grip, and night sights on it. Holstered under his left arm under his jacket with the two spare mags under his right.
• Sawed off over and under 12 gauge shotgun with the stock cut down to the grip holstered to his right thigh loaded with buckshot. He has a pouch for extra shells at his back right hip that holds 16 more buckshot in red shells and 8 slugs in a yellow shells.
• Main rifle is an all weather 45/70 lever action rifle. It is modified to to fold in half so that he can conceal it under his coat and behind his back in a sheath he made for it. It also has a modified feed tube that carries four chambers of four cartridges loaded in each chamber. After four shots he rotates to a new chamber and continues. To reload, he releases the tube, stores it, and replaces it with another. He has a total of four tubes, all four holstered in a left thigh rig. He keeps around 10 extra extreme penetration rounds on the left side of his belt, normally used for taking out large game, like elephants, or in his case, heavily armored targets.
• K-bar combat knife sheathed horizontally behind his back, under his coat and attached to his belt.

Gear:

• gas mask with air tank that he can turn on and off for either hazardous or underwater use, otherwise just uses filters which he only places on when needed, carries three.
• Small palm computer with a multi port for varied connections. Has a small screen and fold out keyboard, mainly used for hacking into computers. He uses this instead of an integral device so that if he is counter hacked, it wont be his body that gets hacked.
• Pouch with various tools in it that he carries around to do maintenance on his body.

Armour: None aside from his skinweave.

Background:
Jarred grew up with a love for creating things and working with computers, becoming a young prodigy when it came to engineering and programming before even going into college. He quickly got a job at a minor corporation in prosthetic development called Paramount Prosthetics. When noticing the quality of his creations, another larger company tried contacting Jarred to come work for them. This didn't sit well with the one he worked with, and they devised a way to try to keep the rights to his work for good. One day, on the way to showcase some of his work, the autopilot vehicle took a turn through a seedier part of town, and the vehicle was bombed by what seemed to be random thugs looking to steal some tech. It turned out that they were actually hired by the ceo of the corporation he worked for. The plan was to kill him then and there in an unfortunate accident, blaming the outlaws for trying to steal tech as a cover up. The explosion should have killed him, leaving very little of him left, but a ripperdoc from the corperation he was thinking about joining found him first, on the way with a team to 'extract him' from his old company. Luckily for them, all they had to do was deal with a few run of the mill trash from under the city to get to him. The doc ended up putting him back together, what was left anyway. Other than that he had to recreate the majority of his body. Though none of it was fancy, and it would require upkeep, it should keep him alive for now. In return, the ripperdoc wanted him to go into the combat zones and scrap whatever high cost scrap from other corperations he could from the area and try to reverse engineer their their tech, threatening him that Jarred owed his life to the corperation's service since they saved him and if he didn't the doc would blow him sky high, informing him of an explosive inside of him that ran a check for the parts he placed in him.

For the time being, Jarred agreed, however, a few months went by, and Jarred had put more and more research into figuring out the ins and outs of the bomb inside him. When the doc wasn't around, Jarred hacked into his old computer, collecting any data the doc had on him. With the information he found he was able to access the coding for the bomb using administrative rights to keep it from thinking someone else accessed it, and then he removed it from his body. With a little time to spare, he ended up tinkering with the bomb a bit more before leaving. When he walked out the door of the main building, the doc was returning, cussing him out for still being here instead of out collecting more scrap, saying he was lucky that he hadn't detonated the bomb in him yet. Jarred apologized and started leaving in a hurry. It wasn't till he was about a block out that he knew the doc had accessed his computer, and he knew he did it to, because when he did, there was a large explosion blowing out a few windows on the floor the doc's office was on. Sounded like freedom to him. Now, time to go find some old friends from work... but first, back to the combat zone for some.... supplies.

[Hekazu]

I have my doubts on some random ripperdoc having the resources to make a personal thinking scavenging droid, but that may just be me @Jollan. Other than that being the source of his current modifications, I don't really have anything bad to say about it.

If I may offer an alternative, I would point back again at corporations. They are everywhere after all. A corporate sanctioned ripperdoc would be much more feasible already, but that would bring with it the need to bake some corporation who is currently rather mad at Jarred into his backstory. But that would just be fun, no?