He is, but I thought someone was carrying him for when he goes Astral.

Haha. That's given me an idea for a master blaster character. Mage on trolls shoulders (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I like this plan

The group 2 shadowrunners are still with you (Dahlia, Hemlock, Opium, Fold - Tirade bought the farm!)

Don't forget you have some wounded to make the comms teams back to the Sultan (although maintaining LOS will be difficult, I'm sure there's a spool of fibre optic cable on board the Sultan - or you could strip some from somewhere...)

As far as I know Rodriguez has Gash's meat but it's not exactly the best choice of transport...one of the less equipped soldiers might make a better choice?!?

Yes, we'll have to move Gash's carrying companion to someone else.
I'm thinking of keeping Rodriguez and her wounded companions back to cover our retreat. we can use a combination of spooled wire and two man teams to help with LOS communication. At least until we clear this floor and figure out what we're doing.

Huuh!

Do you mind if I ask what may be a rather noobish question? What is the Sojourner incident exactly? I have no clue (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Sojourner is an AI that's 'creating' technomancers and doing bad things™
It's the beginning of the Rise of the Technomancers plot line in Shadowrun. I might actually ruin some of the game if I go into lots of details.

While waiting for sabs to come up with his tactical plan, I'm going to astrally scout again around where we are. I don't want to get ambushed. I have no problem with my body being carted around by someone other Rodriquez: just be gentle please.

Have you got any spirits you could send to do an astral search? Seems like if wireless communications is out, and you know where the background counts are to avoid them, you could probably set up a magical communications network (send a spirit back to DW HQ with a report), or even jsut have one scouting around the area looking for deepwatch personnel (if/when you think there might be some to find, like if some of your drone sensors pick up two incoming skytrains).... Not that we trust your drones much, anymore. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

yes but I don't know what I can ask them him to look for. In this background count I am probably as good as the spirit (who is with me anyway) at searching.

I don't have a bound spirit so I cannot send it on remote service. (or at least I don't think I can)

I could go back to Deep Watch HQ anyway...and thats probably a very good idea! at 1000 miles an hour I suspect it will only take a minute for a round trip...

Thanks for the idea.

BlackHat, are you waiting to find out the results of the Drone combat and our countermeasures before making a call on where to land or whether to bail out?

I may start prepping for a parachute jump....

Prepping for parachuting seems wise. Aria said our ships "shouldn't" have any trouble with the nimrods, but better safe than sorry.

As for where to land. Yeah, I think landing at the original LZ would be way too far from the action. By the time we retraced the otehr team's steps, they'll all be dead. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Landing right at the tower seems risky, but given the LAV, it might be doable. For now, I think the pilot should head for the schoolhouse (if for no other reason as then I don't have to change my order) and we'll play it by ear. If we take out the nimrods easily and don't see any other sign of danger, we can always swing by the tower and land there. Otherwise, it is only about a block to travel on foot.

In any case, until we've dealt with the nimrods, we may not have any choice in the matter, as all 79 of us might be bailing out of flaming wreckage in a few moments.

BTW.. Deep Watch has a protocol for LOS communications. You guys can see the Sultan, so you can probably communicate with it. Or Try to. Should give you voice at the very least.

If you give the order (IC) then I'll start prepping the platoons for parachuting. That's how I see our relationship working anyway. Shout if you think differently, but I imagined you not being much of a 'talk directly to the troops' sort whereas my guy is more the old school shouty type (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Assuming Aria confirms, this seems like a good idea. There is probably some protocol for saying "Hey, you. Anyone alive down there?" You're in jamming range, but if we can use LOS communications to bypass that (or have our mage pop down and say hey, or send a watcher spirit or something), we probably should. Astral-projection can probably wait until we find out if the nimrods are going to hit us, or not, though. Gotta conserve our mages, ya know.

@sabs

Sir Yes Sir! Do you need some help with that Sir?

@aria
Can you give me a clue who I report to. I imagine there is an operations team there that is monitoring us. If you give me a name, I can run with the rest.

Cptn. Roberts is fairly sociable, but much more accustomed to interacting through AR/VR, and through a tacnet (he'll be chucking 11 dice for leadership), but, like you said, you're "old school" and he's "new school". He's not so hot at intimidation, and he's more focused on having sound tactics than inspiring people. In this sort of case, I think it makes a lot of sense to have you give a speech to the troops. Its more important that Cptn. Roberts be able to lead you and the other ranking officers than to lead every man we've crammed into here personally.

I figure, like you said, we've been working together for a while, and the situation has sort of evolved to the point that Cptn. Roberts is comfortable delegating to you, and staying focused on the high level objectives, as well as coordinating tactics/assets at the company level.

To that end, Cptn. Roberts has already mentioned the possibility of jumping of the drones intercept us before we make it to our landing zone (on the command channel). You could take that as your cue to talk to the platoons (or individual squad leaders or something) over another channel (general chat?) or in person (although the men on my skytrain might appreciate a streaming version of your speech). (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I *imagine* that we're the leaders of each platoon, but that each squad has a leader who should be listening in on the command channel - so hopefully the men are already prepping to bail if shit goes badly here in a second.

That's an idea. I thought that at the time, but were't sure how we were organised. I'll edit my post to fit

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I'm sure there is some sort of magical command back at HQ (Fort Lewis for anyone not paying attention...) ...let's say you report to Colonel Scott...

For a spot of variety I wanted to give the newbies something other than Nimrods to play with...the Horizon-Doble is from the Dumpshock Datahaven post...sadly the link to the draft seems to be gone so unless anyone knows where it is we'll gloss over that too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Enjoy the weirdness! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

At first I was going to ask whether we could use LOS Comms to log into the LAVs node and look around with its sensors, or look for a report from the team assigned to the vehicle - but then I remembered that Cptn Roberts is going to distrust any compromised tech until their own techies have a chance to carefully go over it with a Purge program.

Regarding Seth's last IC post, I thought you couldn't leave the tower because of the ward around it mentioned a couple of posts before, or at least I think that is the intention of the ward as I read it

Well he does seem to have jumped the gun a bit but I'll put that down to youthful enthusiasm (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Seth: Rather than making you change your post I'll adapt my plans a little bit (the differences with a pbp game) but it'll be for the betterment of all (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif) ...I have the advantage that you were moving at astral speeds so will have been unaware of all the weirdness...enjoy the next few IC posts, if they don't make your head spin I'll have to work harder (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

it's ok I will change the post and send a watcher