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What job/OCC do you take?

Did someone say drugs? Juice me up.
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2%
I'm already crazy... may as well make it official.
4
6%
Borg me out! Part me, part machine, all awesome.
12
19%
I'm a gritty Boba-Phett fan. NG-X9 please!
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11%
I'm a stylish pilot kind of person. Titan all the way (and I know it's really Archie!)
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3%
Ley Line Walkers are the classic mage. Magic dominates.
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19%
I'm a Rift-hopping junkie. Shifter!
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22%
Nothing is more timeless or noble as a soldier, willing to go through hell for his community.
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9%
James Bond, please step aside. I'm the new super-agent.
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5%
Techno-agent. Safe, cushy, and still a spy. Best of both worlds, I say.
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5%
 
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The Samson PA and training.

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I'd go for the shifter since already have a link to the JHM, now I just need that magic. ;)


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I have to go with soldier because I were one once. ;)

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NG-X9 PA and training.
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Ley line walker or shifter. Once I learn enough, I can open myself a dimensional portal and go back home, now with awesome magic powers.
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Shifter... because then I can rift myself home.

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Mark Hall wrote:Shifter... because then I can rift myself home.

Only the insane would give up the modern life to live in Rifts Earth.


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Mark Hall wrote:Shifter... because then I can rift myself home.

Only the insane would give up the modern life to live in Rifts Earth.


Exactly.

And when I got home, I'd still know magic!
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Killer Cyborg wrote:
Mark Hall wrote:Shifter... because then I can rift myself home.

Only the insane would give up the modern life to live in Rifts Earth.


Exactly.

And when I got home, I'd still know magic!
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I now officially change my answer from borg to shifter. You guys and your cleverness!
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Mark Hall wrote:
Killer Cyborg wrote:
Mark Hall wrote:Shifter... because then I can rift myself home.

Only the insane would give up the modern life to live in Rifts Earth.


Exactly.

And when I got home, I'd still know magic!
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See? This is a brilliant idea.


Yeah, my brilliant idea! I call shenanigans!
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Talavar wrote:
Mark Hall wrote:
Killer Cyborg wrote:
Mark Hall wrote:Shifter... because then I can rift myself home.

Only the insane would give up the modern life to live in Rifts Earth.


Exactly.

And when I got home, I'd still know magic!
:ok:


See? This is a brilliant idea.


Yeah, my brilliant idea! I call shenanigans!


Prove it. I posted it first.
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1) Shifter. Really going back home is the win all.

2) Anti-moster if it's concidered a full conversion borg.

3) PA and training. Fly down to mexico and become a secondary vampire.
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I take the LLW training

Would have gone for Shifter, but I'm so easily lead astray that I know i'd just go and let YAAI in by accident... :oops:
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NG-X9 and training.

Then I'll tag along with one of these shifters when they head home, get a loan, reverse engineer the PA and make a HUGE fortune selling them to the military.
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Malignor wrote:I think I'll cut the # of shifters in half, because of the bad assumption that they can "rift back home and have magic powers".

That's a serious assumption, especially since the real world is a magic dead world. The real world is like a giant Nega-Psychic, so no Rift would open here anyway.


Not true, if you can open a rift on an asteroid you could do it here.

But as long as they can get me back thats my only real concern. :lol:
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I'm guessing that you left the psychic classes out for a reason...

LLW is probaby where I'd end up...or at least try to get. By nature I'm a student. But I'm also a bit of a jack of all trades...so there's quite a few other OCC's that I'd probably end up being.

There's something about magic that's just cool...but I don't know if I'm patient enough for it...not to mention I'm probably too old for it as well.

Now...the other option would be a T-Man...that would probably be my first choice if it were an option...
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Talavar wrote:Ley line walker or shifter. Once I learn enough, I can open myself a dimensional portal and go back home, now with awesome magic powers.


And the time that was posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:43 pm

Mark Hall wrote:Shifter... because then I can rift myself home.

Only the insane would give up the modern life to live in Rifts Earth.


And the time? Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:13 pm. Now, unless time is less linear than we conventionally believe, you didn't post it first. Daniel Stoker said shifter first in the thread, but didn't say why.

Now, don't take this wrong - I'm not mad or anything. Humour & text alone don't work so well sometimes.

Edited for correct first person to say it.
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Malignor wrote:I think I'll cut the # of shifters in half, because of the bad assumption that they can "rift back home and have magic powers".

That's a serious assumption, especially since the real world is a magic dead world. The real world is like a giant Nega-Psychic, so no Rift would open here anyway.


Eh, so I may not keep the magic powers, I could still get home. The second part of your statement isn't really accurate - you could still open the rift here, since the power fueling it is coming from your starting location.
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Talavar wrote:And the time? Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:13 pm. Now, unless time is less linear than we conventionally believe, you didn't post it first. Smashed said shifter first in the thread, but didn't say why.

Now, don't take this wrong - I'm not mad or anything. Humour & text alone don't work so well sometimes.


Well if you want to be anal, then no, I said Shifter first. 2nd response after Josh. Mark was just saying he was the first one to say he picked Shifter so he could rift home. ;)


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gamemaster81 wrote:The cyber punk in me says full borg but what about the womens. I guess ill go half borg.


Full borg. they got VR for when you want the womens
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shifter but so i could get the chance to talk to the gods and write a book then i would try to gather some cool toys and return home.
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gamemaster81 wrote:The cyber punk in me says full borg but what about the womens. I guess ill go half borg.

We covered this in another thread and i don't want to hi jack so let me say those infiltration borg pass off as completely human. And if they made bionic breast for rifts. I'm sure they have a Mr. Stud sexual implant! A good molded frame and an artificial skin overlay. And some hair. And you would be a chick magnet. And you could pull that cool terminator effect during battle!!!
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I,of course, chose the NG-X9 Samson Power Armor. It's always been a favorite of mine. I do notice that the list does not include the possibility of going to Psyscape or Lazlo and having one Psionic Potential unleashed via Psychic Surgery. I'd love to become a mind melter...Want a partiular gal, Empathic Manipulation: Love(Some GM's allow a "Lust" option for X 2 ISP Cost). I'm not really bad, I'm just kinda...naughty. :D
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Shifter :twisted:

Though if psychic classes were available, I'd choose Mind Melter or Phase Mystic above all others.
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My first thought at seeing the scenario is 'Take the wiget and run for Lazlo, and see if it can get me in with some rogue scholars. This Julio guy doesn't seem too trustworthy, might need some help getting away from whatever goons he might have though..' and see where things lead from there. :D
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Ley Line Walker for the magic and forget about going home. You forget we have all our knowledge of Rifts Earth that we have know. I own every Rifts book there is and read each at least three times. I would exploit that to its fullest. I would join the Republicans and lead a assualt team via magic into Archie's stronghold. Inflitrate the Vanguard and convince them of a CS regime change that would accept magic. Follow the Republican plan for a takeover of the CS but add the Vanguard to the mix. The Republicans takeover the CS, the Vanguard is the new magic arm of the military, and I have both groups indebted to me. Power behind the throne anyone?
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AdmTolval wrote:Ley Line Walker for the magic and forget about going home. You forget we have all our knowledge of Rifts Earth that we have know. I own every Rifts book there is and read each at least three times. I would exploit that to its fullest. I would join the Republicans and lead a assualt team via magic into Archie's stronghold. Inflitrate the Vanguard and convince them of a CS regime change that would accept magic. Follow the Republican plan for a takeover of the CS but add the Vanguard to the mix. The Republicans takeover the CS, the Vanguard is the new magic arm of the military, and I have both groups indebted to me. Power behind the throne anyone?



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