Well, my brother wasn’t ready to run his Shadowrun campaign tonight so we decided to do prep-work for a MotW campaign I’ll run after his present storyline in SR finishes.
The players decided they wanted something X-Com-ish though neither player ended up pulling the Professional for now. So we decided to build the organization (after finishing the character) collectively as if there were an unstated Professional.
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The Chosen is Thomas Riley, Trained from Birth with Secret Training. He can Save The World. Unfortunately, he his doomed to have no normal life and he can’t save everyone.
Thomas Riley is a 13 year old boy with a hopeful face and para-military clothes.
He took a cold-iron chain sword, (3-Harm, Hand, Area, Magic) weapon.
His chosen third move was Devastating (making that chain sword a 4-harm weapon)
His stats are Charm +2, Cool -1, Sharp +0, Tough +2, Weird +0 (he wanted a Sharp of 0, so I let him drop the Sharp +1 to 0 and raise either Cool or Weird)
The Exile is destined to be his mentor.
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The Exile is Katkemat, an ainu spiritualist from the 1200s during the time when the Japanese were invading Japan and making war on the indigenous people. Her nemesis is a shintoist monk named Kurata Hikozaemon. She realized he sent himself forward in time and so cast a spell to follow him.
Katkemat is a woman in her mid-twenties with a lithe body, old-fashioned clothing and beaded necklaces.
She practices martial arts (unarmed attacks do 1 harm).
Her moves are Ancient Magics and Confused. (My brother has stated he plans to give her Immortal Name later, explaining that she was developing a reputation just before she left that time has magnified and she herself just isn’t aware of the reputation and doesn’t think of the other title she was gaining as important enough to mention.)
Her stats are Charm -1, Cool +1, Sharp +1, Tough +1, Weird +2.
She had a vision that involved the Chosen in which it was revealed that she would be his mentor.
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As for the organization, we went with the name M-Com and left it vague what “M” stood for.
The organization has been training Thomas from birth so it has developed a Rigorous Training regime based around teaching a supernaturally gifted warrior that has produced benefits for their other agents. The organization also has Good Intel.
Unfortunately, they assign Cryptic Missions, because they’re unwilling to let anybody, even agents have all their intel. And there is also Inter-departmental Rivalry.
The organization has both sorcerers and scientists. The sorcerers believe that the prophecies are divinely inspired and a statement of destiny while the scientists believe that the prophecies are likely an account left by a time-traveler who had seen one possible future and that the future is mutable.
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As I said above, we aren’t going to be playing this until after my brother’s completed his current SR, but that gives me some time to decide on the first Cryptic Mission to give them.
