The Harbinger of Ferocity

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I too stand by the thought that people should only have their young when they are ready, completely ready that is. I hear, see, and experience too many samples of people neglecting to pay that kind of due caution. Same can be said for marriages. It is one of many reasons I am so deliberate for myself in deciding these things; a single mistake makes a greater impact than on just one person.

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

I am all the willing to manage those things as they come, @Hekazu. All I would ask is that if anyone has lore they wish to add to the document, that they please inform me as soon as possible. I say this so I can prioritize getting universal understanding about it out with the reference portion. Assuming you choose someone else, I strongly recommend they begin on such a project for all our sake.

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

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Neither a question nor issue of it, but my emphasis is that this should be an exception rather than a general rule in keeping with the theme we had in mind. The goal was and is to focus on the lower level individuals and activities associated alongside avoiding the issue of any form of power creep. It becomes an effort to separate and denote one from the other rather than say, "Just because it exists we are doing it."

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

Considering the divergence technology took in the genre, androids seem only appropriate at large, just in that tier outside of reach for the majority. As I noted before, I could easily see compromised models existing in the criminal underground, either salvaged and pieced together out of others in the vein of Frankenstein by some particularly talented deckers and techies for their gang ventures, while on the other side the wealthy elite have some here and there. Related to this, given the majority of it is focused on the people and their cybernetic enhancements that turn them from effective meat into cyborgs, I suspect most robots are primitive and simple minded. Say, vending devices more advanced than what we see today in our own, but far more crude and block-like.

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There are a number of things I cannot compel myself to eat as something about them is unnatural or, to expressly it aptly, effectively vile. The majority of it is vegetable and fruit, both in taste and texture, to the point I prefer supplementation in place of attempting to eat any of those things. I generally stay toward lean meats or leaner red meat, buffalo and elk to beef, alongside chicken. While not intentional, not by any stretch of the imagination or design, I am an obligate carnivore. Going without it for even a day begins to inflict obsession over it, where all I wish to do is get a hold of more of it.

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

That is the sort of environment I pictured in the environment of the mind's eye, where the idea and execution was not out of the realm of possibility, just significantly less common, @Hekazu. It might be surprising to come across one, but not unheard of depending where one goes and who they associate with. Not so much the reality of seeing them everywhere alongside people as some other works of fiction have portrayed.

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

So on a related note, actual androids are a consistent thing of this universe? That I could see, though to what extent I ask are we comfortable with it. I imagine they vary from being frames, essentially just humanoid machines with little to no overt human qualities, to the premiere pseudohuman kinds that can pass for a person, but generally being rare. The sort of technology you only see in the highest echelons of corporate life or wealth at all, then of course the stolen and hacked versions that operate in the underground, perhaps literal and metaphorical.

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

Since there is no official, shared canon or lore associated with the game as of yet, the introduction of some background and insight is, at least to my perception, essential. In large because I wish for us to conglomerate all of it and distill it into one piece of reference where we can all work from and within, essentially a paragraph at most for each thing, be it a term, location, person, corporation, and all the rest. Leaving too much ambiguous in this case with so little background I see being more of a tripping hazard than a novel plot element; my advice would be to just leave aside anything that would play one's hand and hint at any number of things instead without outright saying it.

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The username I have adopted for myself here and elsewhere is not so much a name or nickname, but a title. It represents in part the identity of what a great cat should be, something fierce and untamed, worthy of fear and respect simultaneously, while being something always just out of reach but encroaching right back. Interestingly, this was the first place I adopted it as my mantle as I found no better alternative in the moment. It did not change any aspect of my character or demeanor however, it just simply arrived to me as an epiphany of what one could call them. The other, alternative title was adopting the station of Aspect of the Ferine, which has since been below it.

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

The suggestions for the character creation all seem reasonable enough, but personality and background have their places in the sort of gives precedence for who they are; a guide to follow as to their demeanor. It comes across as, "This person is generally like this." and then of course background is obvious, in that everyone has a story, some just do not share it. Granted it could be intentionally part of the design to leave those things out, I am not one for doing so. They add more to the meta, which is especially important in this game.

Granted we should have no one near suffering from cyberpsychosis, but a rehabilitating teched out fiend might be a good example for this exercise. Having had all of their kit pulled out and off them, alongside some psychiatric treatment, might make them a bit more interesting to know about than say, never mentioning any of that. Of course this is not an elaborate, detailed explanation, but enough that we know sort of the who, what, when, where, why, and how of characters in the greater plot. Relevant to this in the same vein, I believe we should include it so we can draw from all the sheets to create a list of locations, non-characters, corporations, technology, and the like which we can move into one post; a reference source so we all have a living, breathing understanding of the world.

As far as my character goes, I was intending to have a bioware and genemodded solo, essentially a soldier for hire, but take another twist on it. Rather than be a pure combatant, someone who is a hunter; their role is to find people and track them down, either killing them or taking them. Somewhere between bandit and bounty hunter, though obviously corporate in nature and more low-level, low in profile. No less one who can slip generally unnoticed and undetected because of their modifications, rather than the five gun-toting wired reflexes killer, drugged up cyber maniac.