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[chokepoint]

Resistance is futile

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In the future all of humanity lives safe and sound inside the walls of  a handful of dystopian utopian  mega cities owned by private corporations. All citizens are completely free to do as they like within the walls of these cities such as work at a fulfilling job, buy products offered for sale by the corporations and obey the rules which keep everyone safe. How can everyone be safe by following rules? It's easy! Don't use magic- The interdimensional beings outside our walls are attracted to  magic energies and besides it's dangerous and unpredictable compared to technology. All mutants must register with the state. Then they can live in  special more comfortable residences away from all the "norms". report all unregistered mutants to an officer of the Central Government Security Agency immediately! Also, no weapons within the city, why would you need them? CGSA officers patrol day and night to find and wipe out crime and corruption so that you may walk the streets without fear.So you see, it's easy to find peace and fulfilment within our city walls, so remember, work hard, spend big and enjoy life with all the many goods you can purchase at our licensed stores.

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O.K, So here's the problems. CGSA's are as corrupt as they come and the politicians are in the pocket of the mega corporations who have a monopoly on the districts within your city. Organized crime has free reign on the streets to commit extortion and murder as long as the bribes keep flowing up through the pockets of CGSA officers. But hey that's a good thing, because without the black market they set up people like us would starve shopping at the corporations official stores. Of course it's illegal to shop at the black markets, but hey, who can survive in this place without doing something 'illegal' every day.Wages are low, rent and necessities are pricey for the working class so it's a  struggle to get by. And your little team? You have even more strikes against you.Mutant, Magic user, cyborg-psycho, and hacker. All of you are political dissidents with a bad history of run-ins with authorities. That's what makes you perfect for these guerilla operations. Being on the fringe, marginalised, you have nothing to lose. If you sit around and do nothing your thin luck is going to give out on you sooner rather than later. Might as well go down fighting,

Character Sheet:

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(Please update your  original sheet when something changes)
Name:
Description: (Inlcude class info)
Equipment:
Status: Healthy (for now!) (please out all your class bonuses in here as well)

Game Rules:

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Rolls
1- Always Crit fail
2- Fail
3-Neutral or small result
4-Success
5-Always Crit Success
6-Success with a draw back
For some rolls you can trade off a -1 for a +1 on a different roll,( Example -1 to hit +1 to strike, a wild hay maker)
Some Rolls subject to a challenge penalty (will not be shown)

Classes:
(1 Per Player)

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Mutant
1 Mutant ability- unlimited use, mutated appearance should match ability and be obvious.
(+1 Strength Rolls) (+1 Endurance Rolls)
Magic User
6 Spells chosen at the start in spell book (First cast is+1, -1/spell there after until 8 hours uninterrupted meditation or sleep.) No restriction on equipment.
Bounty Hunter
6 Bionic Augmentations, (+1 Dodge rolls) (+1 Strike Rolls)(+1 Tracking Skills)
Psychic
Telepathy, Telekinesis, Mind read and Sixth Sense**  limited to 3 powers per day until 8 hours uninterrupted meditation or sleep.
**Automatic form of protection grants +1 to dodge, counts against  powers per day

Loot:
(to be divided up by the group)

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M1911 with 2 clips .45ACP.  Glock 9mm 3 clips, mace, crowbar, Mini-Uzi 9mm 3 clips,s 4 Flash bangs, 3 grenades, bullet proof vest, switchblade, 1000 credits in funds,
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Players
AoshimaMichio - Vladimir "Vespene" Nesterov -Mutant
lawastooshort - Jenny “Crikey” Johnson -Magic User
MidnightJaguar -Praemio "Jaeger" Venatoris -Bounty Hunter
ManMan-Ethan-Psychic

[AoshimaMichio]

Name: Vladimir "Vespene" Nesterov
Description: Mutant. His skin is dotted with large green pores which he can use to emit his special gasses. 180 cm tall, his trained muscles are covered by fair layer of fat without making him looking too chubby, though it is easy to underestimate his physical strength. His mutation allows him to create and emit gas through his pores, and he can also change what kind of gasses he produces, though it will take some time to do this. He made his money by producing narcotic and hallucinogenic gasses for junkies.
Equipment: Small gasmask/rebreather to protect him from his own power.
Pump action sawed-off 12 Ga. shotgun box of shells.
Brass knuckles.
Night vision goggles.
Status: Healthy. +1 Strength Rolls. +1 Endurance Rolls. Gas Emission

[lawastooshort]

Spoiler: Jenny “Crikey” Johnson (click to show/hide)

Name: Jenny “Crikey” Johnson
Description: Crikey Johnson is a Magic User who finds the modern world an awkward place to navigate and also a 15 year old girl who finds the modern world an awkward place to navigate. She has blondy brown hair that is quite long and rarely brushed as much as her mother would have liked. She is a little tall for her age and gender. She is above average academically, stubborn, and prone to sulking.
Equipment: Spell book disguised as a teenage girl’s diary. A pen.
Status:
Healthy; Magically Rested
Spells:
Dissolve
Explode
Invisibilise
Protect
Teleport
Transform Appearance

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AoshimaMichio
Your character sheet is accepted.
lawastooshort
Your character sheet is accepted.


Go ahead and grab some of the loot, you can swap stuff later.

[AoshimaMichio]

Some loot grabbed.

[chokepoint]

Should we start with 2 players?

[MidnightJaguar]

I'll join just give me a minute to put a sheet together. Quick question, you say Bounty Hunter has 6 bionic augments, do I choose those?
Name:Praemio "Jaeger" Venatoris
Description:  Bounty hunter: Tall about 6'5 very fit blond with mechanical eyes and something that looks very off about him, while this feeling is hard to place it may have something to do with the fact that his fingers seem to spark sometimes, or the fact that the bulge on his back sometimes twitches and a faint whiring sound can be heard, maybe its the fact that his palms seem to have a seam in them and his fingers seem a bit too flexible, maybe it's the way that his clothing seems to bulge out on his legs and the lower part of his chest, or maybe it's just the fact that he looks like he's a bounty hunter and is holding a picture with your face on it.
Equipment:

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 His fingers have small capacitators embedded in them  that can emit taser level electrical shocks but they can only do this twice per hand before he needs to recharge them.
His eyes have been upgraded to see in infrared and can act as a XRay machine if he doesn't really care about not having any kids. Also he can see farther away than most people.
He has a small unarmed crawling/quadricotper style  drone attached to his back with the control linked to his spinal cord. This drone has only normal vision and it relays its info through the link in his spinal cord he can switch to drone vision and control it through that at the cost of not being able to move his body while doing this or it can be controlled through voice commands and relay info to a display on a pack though this comes at the cost of being traceable by the authorities.
The palms of his hand can open revaling a myriad of small tools and knives. Including lock picks
His legs and his upper body has jump jets embedded within them allowing him to leap onto roofs of small houses  and letting him do an impressive tackle. Sometimes too impressive and he can end up breaking some bones. They also only have enough fuel for about ten full sized jumps. But they are controllable enough to slow a normally fatal fall to a survivable velocity…. sometimes.*
*Note, the manufacturer of Back alley bionics is not responsible for the explosion of fuel these jump jets can create when shot.
If injured his body will inject painkillers and mechanical braces will reset broken bones while not doing much about all that bleeding.

E-6B Laser* with 3 E-clips
*Convertible between pistol and rifle. Removeable long barrel and buttstock grants+1 strike when installed.
Status: Healthy (for now!) (tazer hands, better eyes, spine drone,tool palms, jump jets, bone reseter. (+1 Dodge rolls) (+1 Strike Rolls)(+1 Tracking Skills))

[chokepoint]

Yes, anything you want, but have a look at the other classes abilities and choose something close to that power balance.

[MidnightJaguar]

Post edited, if I made him a bit too OP, just tell me what to change and I'll fix it.

[chokepoint]

I'm happy with your sheet MidnightJaguar, hopefully Iawastooshort is still on board.

[chokepoint]

Inside a dingy cafe with shitty coffee and even worse food the three of you meet to discuss the mundane events that happened during the last week and play cards... Or so it would seem. What outsiders don't notice is how one of you always seems to check their cell  at some point and download an encrypted file over the crappy wifi to a phone with no associations to the user and is only used for this purpose. They also don't realize that  an unregistered mutant, a mage and a bionically augmented bounty hunter sit conversing about the news or sports scores secretly planning their mission in carefully coded language. Today, just such a mission is being planned:

Two hours from now the CGSA is planning a lockdown in several level zero blocks. The lockdown  at 0.D.43 is adjacent to your teams center of operations. Your mission is to disrupt the agency's control over the block and create an atmosphere of tension and instability.  The mission pay out will be 900 credits directly to your account. You are not required to engage directly with SA troops, but damage to their equipment will net double the reward for the mission. As always, minimize collateral damage and avoid civilian casualties or the profit from the mission will be penalized as appropriate up to and including no payment. Remember your vow to never divulge information about our organization to th CGSA in the event of capture. Good luck.

The central Government is always performing these "lockdowns" In the lower levels of the megatropolis to keep tabs on who's going where, harass the plebs and bust people for low level crimes or shakedown violators to solicit bribes. They blockade all the streets with portable barriers and man them with a handful of troopers. More troopers move through the block directing anybody they find to the blockades. Everyone caught out in the open is forced to leave the block through these checkpoints until the streets are empty, then the troops pack up and go. Everyone has to carry ID papers all the time. Bad news for Vlad the mutant who's got to carry fakes, always a chance to get busted. But Praemio the bounty hunter doesn't have it much better, the scanners for augmentation are getting better all the time and the laser rifle? It' like a death sentence getting caught with that one! Conventional weapons may get you in hot water but energy weapon offences have a 'shoot on site' standing order that the SA troops will follow to the letter. So, after a few easy recon missions this is your first real field test. Supposedly other teams are working for the same secret faction you do but it's so secretive you don't even know who your really working for. Oh well, as long as those checks keep rolling in. Now it's time to plan out what your going to do to mess with today's checkpoints.

[MidnightJaguar]

Hmm, feeling of tension and instability, hey Vlad think you could use that mutation of yours in order to start gassing some of those civies with some hallucinogen?

Convert my gun to pistol mode, and stow the other parts about my person.

[AoshimaMichio]

"Of course I can, but I would prefer if they paid for it. And it can easily lead to "civilian casualties" if their trip turns bad."

[MidnightJaguar]

Hmm well you could try gassing some guards for fun and profit if you want me to I could take my drone and scout the place get a better idea of what we are dealing with.youd have to watch my back though, I can't see anything while I pilot the thing.

[lawastooshort]

((sorry – didn’t grab any loot as I didn’t want her to start with anything specific, she’s not the type to wander about with guns))

”Perhaps we could make one of the GCSA officers appear to transform into a giant frothing mutant monster? I, erm, might be able to do that? It would be nice not to be caught in that lockdown, though… Perhaps you could also watch over me whilst I rest up to be able to do that...”