"Steady Eddie", Human Juicer

[Mawaris]

Attributes: (295 points)
Body 3 (25)
Agility 4 (45)
Reaction 4 (45)
Strength 3 (25)
Charisma 4 (45)
Intuition 4 (45)
Logic 3 (25)
Willpower 3 (25)
Edge 3 (15)

Qualities: (-10 points)
Moderate Addiction: Cram (-20)
Moderate Addiction: Stim Patches (-20)
Mild Addiction: Long Haul (-10)
High Pain Tolerance 2 (20)
Ambidexterity (10)
First Impression (10)

Skills: (194 points)
Athletics Group 2 (20)
Stealth Group 2 (20)
Firearms Group 3 (35)
Specialization for Automatics: Machine Pistols (2)
Specialization for Pistols: Tasers (2)
Close Combat Group 2 (20)
Influence Group 3 (35)

First Aid 2 (8)
Computer 2 (8)
Perception 3 (14)
Survival (Specialization: Urban) 2 (10)
Locksmith 2 (8)
Hardware 2 (8)
Escape Artist 1 (4)

Knowledge Skills:
English N
Spanish 3
Corp Security 4
Street Knowledge 4
Party Sites 3
Dance Music 3
Philosophy/Ethics 2
Local Music 2

Contacts (free points [8] plus 8 points? (TBD))
Drug Dealer 2/2
Fence 3/2
Street Doc 2/2
Gang Leader 2/1

Gear (not sure how many points, total of 31850 nuyen)
2x Steyr TMP w/Smartlink and Gas Vent 3 (1600x2)
Defiance EX Shocker (150)
2x Survival Knife (50x2)
100 taser darts (500)
500 machine pistol ammo (1000)
armor jacket (900)
lined coat (700)
2 months squatter lifestyle (1000)
Helmet (150)
3x Concealable Holster (225)

Autopicker 3 (600)
Lock pick set (300)
Maglock Passkey 1 (2000)
Wire clippers (25)
Sequencer 2 (400)

Drugs:
30 doses Long Haul (1500)
100 doses Cram (1000)
50x rating 1 stimpatches (1250)
20x rating 4 stimpatches (2000)

Cyberware:
Cyber Commlink, Renraku Sensei, Renraku Ichi (1600+2000)
Sim Module (2000)
Cybereyes 3 (1500)
Smartlink (1000)
Low Light (1000)
Flare Compensation (750)
Thermo (1000)
Vision Enhancer 2 (3000)
Vision Magnification (1000)

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200 points left, stuff I'm considering:

[Mawaris]

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[Mawaris]

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[Mawaris]

This is currently just what I had in my notebook, will modify as needed. This is about 500 points (I haven't added it up to see if that's correct), so there will be a bunch more points to spend.

[Mawaris]

So I think the general background idea was something like this:

Former corporate security. Got addicted to the combat drugs used by the security forces. Sneaking extra doses to get a fix while off duty was tolerated until some incident occurred, then used as reason to fire him.

Since then, lying low. Still taking the drugs (Cram and Long Haul), and stimpatches too to deal with the crashes from the Cram (you take 6 stun damage when it wears off). Cram and Stimpatches at least once a day, Long Haul as needed (about every 5-6 days, depending on the crash duration; hence the mild addiction, moderate is impossible).

Does Work as an information gatherer or lookout (no one suspects the junkie, and can easily blend into a lot of situations) or sometimes as muscle, earning enough to pay for drugs and squatter lifestyle.

Very excitable due to the drug effects and due to rarely sleeping, except when crashing. Seeks out parties and action, going from party to party and trying to mooch a place to stay every few days when the Long Haul wears off; if all else fails, resorting to coffin hotels. Has no permanent living location. Stores some spare gear in a storage locker, but that's it.

...

Now, there's a few different directions I can take this with my remaining points. I can emphasize combat more, probably adding more cyberware (although I don't need wired reflexes as things stand, though I might want to leave room to add it later). Cyberarms are tempting me for some reason. Or I can add more social stuff and emphasize the face aspects (as much as the druggie face makes any sense) and add more contacts. Or I could balance both.

[ehren]

well, you are the combat character for the group. Wired refelxes makes sense. A cyber arm could be cool too... and a lot to grow into later (you can get enhancements for it). But, you roll the most dice for combat.

Oh, and what is your street knowlege? I'm assuming it is more than a rating 4 street knowledge skill (ie, not a general classification of skills)

[Mawaris]

Wired Reflexes won't do. It doesn't stack with cram (and without the cram, the stimpatch addiction is pointless, and then that removes a lot of the character hook), which I'll be using most of the time. I could see an in character goal of wanting to get wired reflexes to be able to keep doing Work but be free to try to break the cram addiction. But it's less fun if I start out already having done that.

The street knowledge is a placeholder for something appropriate to our locale.

I was considering doing cyberarms in both arms. One with spurs, one with a cyberarm gyromount (for extra recoil reduction with the machine pistol; I would actually do this on both arms since I'm set up to dual wield machine pistols with ambidexterity, but they're 12 availability so I could only start with one). +3 STR in the spur arm, +3 AGI in both (+3 being as high as I can go under 12 availability). Maybe get a shock hand in one or the other as well. Arms seem like they'd work because they'd be fitting security guard gear (especially from somewhere that uses drugs instead of wired reflexes), and they're something that can pretty easily be upgraded (though I should add some sort of cybersurgeon contact).

[ehren]

cyber limbs are cool, and we rarely have characters who get them. don't forget about their increase to your condition monitor & their capacity to throw other cool stuff in (like sensors, a nano hive, etc) even if you won't be able to start with it all already in there.

[GM / Malinous]

Profession: Farming.
Phobia: Farm Equipment.
Two cyber arms.
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