pentaj2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> OK.
>
> After posting the topic at
> http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=15312,
and reading
> responses there, I'm left with a pressing
> question.
>
> Why the heck would anyone become a shadowrunner?
>
> That character, I grant, is meant as a version of me, idealized in
> that he didn't screw up college (I'm scraping through with a 2.x GPA)
> and doesn't have any disabilities or the effects thereof on
> personality/outlook. (I basically start characters like this, which I
> acknowledge are versions of me (named after me, even), by
> asking "change x parameters. What sort of effects would that have on
> the development of personality, etc?" They're usually meant to (re)
> introduce myself to a setting, in this case Shadowrun, which I haven't
> really roleplayed in for years.)
>
> So I built from, basically, my cir***stances. Sent him to college, and
> figure he'd do rather better. (If you looked at my HS grades, even
> freshman year of college, you'd figure me for a 3.0+ GPA student. Not
> what happened.)
>
> So, he becomes a cop...With KE, not the Star, because KE pays better,
> KE just plain feels more professional. (I imagine LS as being 1950s-
> 60s era "professional" cops; Not necessarily educated, mostly relied
> on intimidation, not really involved in the community. Whereas KE is
> 1980s-current style cops; Better educated, more likely to be
> proactive, using things like community policing and so forth. Reason
> LS has more contracts is that KE's style of doing things costs more.
> However, KE is more in favor in middle-class places and higher, and
> even some whole cities, because of the difference in approach.)
>
> He likes patrol, has some success as sort of the informal "juvenile
> cop", with a lot of community policing stuff. But there's a bit of an
> adrenaline junkie in him, so that (plus the prospect of being posted
> closer to where he grew up) pulls him to SWAT.
>
> And....here's where I have trouble.
>
> I can't see this character going dirty. So the way I figured it, his
> SWAT unit got nailed in an audit because the commander, who was
> basically my character's mentor, was bending the funding rules. Not
> embezzlement, just not following every subclause of the budgeting
> regulations. Everybody does it, normally it's a slap on the wrist, but
> this Lt had made an enemy out of a junior exec type; bit of a
> maverick, see.
>
> So they're all split up.
>
> I pause here and ask: Does this make sense?
>
> My character, unfortunately...He's 30. He's the new kid, only been on
> the unit about a year or two, maybe 3 years, tops. Everybody else has
> influence they can use to pull themselves to another job in KE; He has
> none. No enemies, but no friends besides those he served with, really.
> So he's the victim of attrition during a cutback in 2070.
>
> OK, so he's jobless. Separated on good terms, but still.
>
> But, still. Why would he become a shadowrunner? (I know, maybe it
> means I should go with another character concept, but...Eh, I dunno.
> Something in me feels stubborn.)
>
> Why would *anybody* become a shadowrunner, actually?
Alex:
I take it that you are a legitimate citizen of your country? :-)
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