
Shadowrun : Prosperity
A Roleplay in Second Life
Step One: Choose Your Metatype
Human (Homo sapiens sapiens)
:: NOTE :: These are only the five base metatypes. We are NOT accepting ANY sub-races as player characters at this time. Furry characters may not be playable characters. (Sorry guys.)
• Average height: 1.75 meters
• Average weight: 78 kg
• Ears: Rounded
• Known for: Average size; average build; freaking out about people who don’t meet their averages
• Racial qualities: Humans have no extra racial qualities.
As the majority of the sentient beings of the world, humans create existing definitions of “nor-mal,” and then some of them set out to abuse those definitions as hard as they can. These humans know that they lack the pure physical strength and social cohesion of some of the other metatypes, so they shape the world in a way that keeps the individuals they don’t like from ever realizing what they can do, and what they can become.
The side effect of this, of course, is that many humans are caught up in the demoralizing machinery that the ruling corporate class has assembled, because they don’t fit into this artificial average. They are grist for the mill, people to be chewed up and spat out in the name of greater wealth and power for the people at the top. Because they’re humans, and there are so many of them, who’s going to notice how they’re ground down, and who is going to miss them when they’re gone?
The shadows are full of humans who could not find a way to be normal or average.