Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Shadowrun: the runners

I'm not sure how I managed to neglect this blog for so long, but however that happened, I've built up a huge backlog of stuff, so let's jump right in here.

Alex's first character Occam was a dwarf razorguy and former corp surgeon. More machine than dwarf, he he had a consuming addiction for new body mods and cyberware. I say 'had' because he bit it after like two sessions.



Also he had a motherfuckin samurai sword because Shadowrun is ridiculous and sometimes you gotta just take advantage of it.


Erika plays Flow, a human physical adept who always wears a full-body chameleon suit and opaque helmet, speaking to the team through either a speech-text-speech voice modulator or text messages via comlink. None of us have ever seen her face. Before she started working for Annie, she was a parkour/free-running dispenser of vigilante justice.





Evan was one of the last to make a character, and he agreed to make a Face since we didn't have one yet, so here's Rex the human Face. He used to work a fairly substantial corporate job before some shit went down in Germany and he had to go underground for awhile. He's used to living larger than most Shadowrunners have the budget for, drives a Bentley, and can talk his way in or out of anything.



Allana's character is Dagna, a human rigger who was born into an Aztechnology blood magic dynasty and ran away to get a rigging implant to get rid of her magic. She's better with machines and animals than people (and all of her drones look like animals), but she also wants to be Ember's vodka aunt.





Rix, Jake's dwarven shamanic mage, is fairly young but grumpy and cantankerous enough that everyone thought he was an old man at first. His mentor spirit is the Thunderbird, which forces him to make a roll to avoid insulting someone who insults him first.





Connor plays our other shamanic mage, Wispy, a young elf who used to run with a go-gang until he accidentally burned up most of the gang's vehicles and half of his face. Very charismatic and outgoing, his mentor spirit, by complete coincidence, is also the Thunderbird.



Despite their many similarities, Wispy and Rix have major disagreements about how spirits should be dealt with and treated. Annie's solution so far is to try not to send them on runs together.


I did this painting of Wispy on his motorcycle with a friendly water elemental for Connor for Christmas.


Alex's elf technomancer, Flechette, was born and raised in a secret Horizon lab, trained as a sniper and a devastatingly good hacker. She only just recently escaped and struck up an online friendship with Ember before Annie hired her to replace Occam (who died, more on that later).



Her Matrix persona is just herself, but with hedgehog spines instead of hair.






I have SO much more Shadowrun to post, oh my god, you have no idea. However, my final art project is due at the beginning of next week so that's what's heaping up on my plate right now.

- KP


Quote of the Day: "He looks like seven pterodactyls!"

Monday, April 10, 2017

oh god so much Shadowrun

I definitely haven't made a post on this blog in about a trillion years and a lot has gone on in the meantime so let's start out with a bunch of Embers (and one Annie).






Not that I'm much expecting them to survive this long, but they'd make a pretty attractive androgynous 20-something.





After their first successful run, they went and got a tattoo of Ferrous' Matrix mark, the otter pawprint.


More soon! Not only are we almost done with this Shadowrun campaign, but Allana also started a whole new DnD campaign and I love my character in that, so you'll be seeing her too. And we're caught up with the Adventure Zone holy shit but that's for another day.


- KP

Quote of the Day: "Abraca-fuck-you!"

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

tumblr commissions are open!

I finally got all the info together and set up a commission post on my tumblr blog.





There's more info in the actual post, so head over there and check it out if you're interested!

Oh man I have a bunch of stuff to put up here, but I'm still trying to finish writing the End of Elion post that I started like... a month ago. Sorry I'm a bad.


- KP

Quote of the Day: "You remember how your backyard barbecue go, the Smiths? Pretty good it doesn't seem,"

Saturday, December 10, 2016

Ember's adventures continue

 I keep drawing them as a tiny babby with huge burly Ferrous. Also for the record, Ferrous's Matrix mark is an otter pawprint.


Yet more babby Ember.


And an older Ember.


 So since Ember is a decker, I had to design Matrix stuff for them like a primary persona, a "business" persona, a Matrix mark, and Matrix icons.


When you want to do things in the Matrix, you usually have to Mark your target first, with a tiny symbol unique to you. Ember's Mark is a bear claw slash.


And because they run so many defensive programs all the time, their casual Matrix persona is an armored bear.


For those times and places where a metahuman avatar is required, they have a second Matrix persona, an ork businessman who goes by the name of Hanxi Feng.


Shadowrun has two modes of Matrix use, augmented reality and virtual reality. AR is just real life overlaid with virtual enhancement - signs, ads, window displays, etc. Anyone with a DNI or the necessary head/eyewear can use AR. VR is total Matrix immersion. Ember got their DNI when they were seven, so they can directly interface with the Matrix.


Unfortunately, because they're Scorched, Ember also has to make a check every time they enter the Matrix to see whether they end up with a migraine or not. And if they run into Black IC, they have to make a check to see whether they have a panic attack. 


The last mission we went on required Ember's knowledge of Seattle street gangs, specifically the Bloody Screamers, so I decided it was time to design a gang symbol for them.


After Ferrous's death, the Screamers' gang leader, Thumbless Abby, passed all of Ferrous's effects along to Ember and then made good on her word to oust the human kid from the gang, forcing them to find a new place to stay. 


They set up camp in an abandoned parking garage near the waterfront and set off to find work. Now that they've been on a few runs, they could probably afford something better than squatter's rent.


But yeah. Anyways. I love my child.


More on Ember soon, probably.

Oh, and we've started listening to The Adventure Zone!

- KP


Quote of the Day: "I take a swig from the flask. It tastes like GoGurt." "No, it doesn't. It definitely tastes like whisky, and in fact, it is whiskey." "Yeah but anything I imbibe tastes like GoGurt, so whatever's in the flask also tastes like GoGurt."