Time Management ~ 3d20 cyberpunk hero

Time Maximization

You have a character. She is a hyper computer tech, and she wants to maximize her click through rate for a monotonous task. She has a job with a tech company and they want her to implement a process and training procedure for this new task. The task is ..name indexing and crm management for a large research company named ..Vantage! They happen to be the subsidiary of a villinous corporate cult, but your Vigilante computer hero don't know that.. yet! You are playing in a 3d20 varient of the 3rd edition Shadowrun system¹ :smile:

( :heh: ¡ this would make a good ecad article if I cut the :cheeky. ) ²

To start with a player decision would be called for. Do you want to use programing or process to streamline the process. An MPC³ would set the cognitive die to intelligence in the long term check to determine that process is the solution in this case. A player should be expected to make these desicion and save as part of the cognitive die when they make the check. An MPC does not make saves. The challenge die is set to the computer skill, and the constitution die is set to stressed due to the other long term checks that are being maintained by your hero. The check in this case is shared. As part of your player decision you also decide to use a contact to help with developing a training module for your characters efficiency maximized click path (with keyboard shortcuts). You decided to use a contact because your character would have needed to set the challenge die to profession in order to create the training module. In this case the contact is your friend and fellow player. This will be how your teo characters are brought together in the narrative of the story play. The first scene will be the meeting of you characters, and that scene will also be the location of the other two players work. They will not be involved in this long term check except on the saves. You roll 3d20.

Bam! Turns out the waiter (one of the other two players) fails the constitution save. Everyones checks go fine otherwise. The click path is made and ready for the scene. The training module is 90% made because you already have the path from another module, the specific click paths simply need to be punched in, and the fluff text is best left to Vantage anyhow :smirk: the project is all but done when you are meeting each other in the classy restaurant. Then, :smirk: the waiter (who did not call in sick to work even though he should have) sneezes ..horribly!

Now, talk. You ~ are in the kitchen.

This is the start of a game. If I had premade characters. I could. Run this game right now. As easy as I wrote this. Direct stream of thought, complete with Typos™

¹ That I am fabricating on the fly as I write this. Cognitive, Challenge, Constitution! Perfect! ¹

² No :hm: or :ha: ..dude ²

³ Mechanical Player ..Conducted Character? CC? C5 system? C7 system? ³

How do you get a Job?

Lets say you are a fifth level Aristocrate. Roll Gather Information. A tenth gen Sabat Pander? Roll streetwise plus manipulation. Power rating ten Mutant? A Knowledge check might suffice, but a contact would be a more likely choice. If you are a SIN-less Shadowrunner then you will most deffinatly using a contact. That begs the question. If you are a SIN-less Shadowrunner and your real job job required you to get a fake job inside an office compley? Now that will take a couple of rolls. Lets examine the scenario of a day job in 2062.
You have no SIN. Social security number, for a post apocolyptic United Canadian American States. First purchase is a fake one of those. Street level contact, couple hundred nuyen, no problem. Next a background check on yer new self. Not even a hundred nuyen. Credit check, pocket change. Call to the local court house for a warrant check, free from a payphone. That's one contact roll and one streetwise check. You could have it all 'taken care of' by a class 3 fixer, but your a DIY guy. So you know who you are, and you know what is going to come back when someone checks on ya. Your ready to go chummer.
Walk into the place with pride. Acting roll. Slot your stolen resume and act casual, forgery. Wait for superior slash supervisor to reply, and then explain why you are not coming through normal channels without mentioning that you are not coming through normal channels. You could try and bribe one of the late night employees into suggesting you as a friend referal, but being related to the owner or going to school with the owner's cousin's daughter is right out. Fastalk or Con Artist roll ..or bribery. Then? Well, wait ..either you have the job or you flopped one of your rolls. It's either red team go! or plan b. Shoot everybody and camp out till Lone Star comes after you with drones.
There ya go. Getting a Job Shadowrunner style. The Aristocrat example is still buzzing in my mind. Maybe I'll do it next time. Maybe..