Aspect of a Thousand

The GM: Claus

The Characters:

Game System: 

Game Type: One-Shot

Related Games:

Follows

• Cyber Punk for the Holidays 2001
• Cyber Punk for the Holidays 2002
• Cyber Punk for the Holidays 2003
• Independence Day: ID4
• Epiphany
• Ouroboros
• Twenty Minutes in the Future
• The Church of the Machine 
• The Superior Job
• The Sapphire Interlude
• Echoes of the Future 

Preceeds

• Two Graves
• Lift Hill 
• R3N41554NZ FARE

Alternate Site:

• Cyberpunk for the Holiday Wiki

Date to Play: TBD

Resources:

Character Creation (If you're coming in with a new character)

• Starting: 400 Build points (usual point limitations, 200 on attribtues, -35 neg qualities/35 pos qualities, 50bp max on resources)
• Leveling up: +300 Karma, +750k Credits, +40 Points in Contacts (beyond the 300 karma), no more than 5000 credits remaining
• Special: You must end your character creation (including leveling up) with a Public Awareness of 10 or higher.  Also, you must have a SIN (either real or Fake, and the appropriate Licenses (real or fake))
• Karma and Nuyen can be swaped at a 1:2500 ratio.

• Note: this is 1 day after the end last game... CPftH2012
• If you are returning from CH4TH2012, then you have a share of the 5 Million Nuyen (divided as the group sees fit)
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Suggestions:

Everyone, being highly successfull runners should consider buying the following, or something near it:

• A commlink. Fairlight Caliban 8k NY, or the Hermes Ikon 5k are good response and signal).
• A basic OS like the Iris Orb OS, 1k NY.
• Upgrade your Firewall to 6 for 3k NY for your main SIN.
• Put Encryption 6 on your main comm 600 NY. (Note: unless it's upgraded or improved, you cannot go past the System of the commlink and the System of the commlink cannot be higher than the Response of the commlink.)
• A second cheapo commlink 300 NY includes the OS.
• With a throw away fake SIN 1k NY.
• Get a tag burner and keep your gear clean of RFID tags, 150 NY.
• Consider a AMAD Jammer to get past MAD scanners R4, 2k NY.
• Some luggage and vacuum sealer to get guns and ammo past checkpoints without being scanned or sniffed, 4050 NY.
• Wear a Full Bodysuit (1600 NY) with one other armor piece equal to X.  Where BOD  is your  Body attribute. 
• X = (2 * BOD) -3
• Put a Gridlink Override on your vehicle, 2k NY to keep the system off your gas.
• Rapelling gloves and a couple hundred meters of microwire, its good for non-climbing stuff too. It's like future paracord.
• A few rations, a survival kit, balaclave, gasmask, and gloves.
• A set or two or armor, preferably with mods so you don't get dropped by tasers and burned alive in a fire.  For a few hundred nuyen, your odds get a lot better. 
• Put a Skinlink on stuff you absolutely must log into (gun, commlink, etc) so you can't get Jammed out of your job. 50 NY.
• Since running crews run TacNets, make sure you have enough channels to contribute.
• Don't forget that Perception is a skill, Browse is a program to do Data Searches, and a MedKit without supplies only works 5 times. 

The story so far...

After the events on the Sapphire Interlude, the crew had several months to return to their usual lives; running, surviving, upgrading.  Yesterday, you received a pair of strange emails, one from a johnson, and the other from a grog.

From the Johnson for whom you've worked before you get the short note saying, "You're going to be getting a legit job offer sometime today, if you're interested, I'll match their price to do a side job.  Though the whole crew will have to be up for it.  Let's chat tonight at Dice, downtown.  They'll be expecting you."

The other, to the name you're most known by, is a message from Grog Productions, "Chummer - I've got a sweet deal for you for you to make some legit cash without getting shot at... well, you will be shot, but not by bullets.  I got this script that needs an authentic aire, and you've got authenticity coming out your pores.  The paycheck is a cool million for a week's work (two maxiumum, but I'm sure you're naturals and we won't need to do too many retakes).  We'll be shooting on location, so mind your manners.  If you're interested, let's talk.  I'll be at the Steakhouse tomorrow evening, just ask for Max."  And it's signed Maximillian Grog. (Shark's Journal CP4TH2012).

The story continues...

Having fled the set of Maximillian Grog's movie, in Essen Germany, the crew make their way to Australia, trying to keep off the radar of the biggest corporation on earth, Saeder-Krupp.  They have pockets full of devices made by Nicoli Tesla, straight from the 1930's.  They collectively have been paid 5million nuyen, and if it can be believed, Shark was told by strange other-worldy beings, that they have around 4 days before a dreaded Hound catches up to them and kills them.  Shark was told that they cannot kill the hound, for if they do, the world will be destroyed, and they cannot run, for the hound will always get its prey. 

Given these options, the runners will do what they're known for... the impossible. SharkJournal2013