I think hes just confused...that happens when spirits are around

Big F...can you make a defence roll against the shotgun burst please? I leave it to you to decide if you want to go full defence or not...?!?

Anyone else got any questions/wild theories? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bit of an oops on the timestamps in the alternate reality...should be 04:13/14 Aug 23 but i think that only affects Sabs at the moment (have editted my posts)...he will shortly get confirmation of that time (assuming he logs on to his nexus?!?)...

Its very chaotic and confused for the players, but I suspect less so for the characters. As far as Gash is concerned I think I can see two living creatures (the guy with the gun and Feral) and a swarm of robots.

There is little I can do about the droids, but the cool thing for me is that Feral is dual natured, and thus vulnerable to astral attackers. Anyway 6 successes on a force 8 stun bolt targeting Feral...and the cool thing is the feral won't be regenerating this. My spirit is going to possess the guy with the shotgun, and with 8 successes I feel fairly confident that will happen (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

Invisible castle is down (again...)

So I will try and all out defend against the shotgun blast:

Reactions 8, Reakt 2, gymnastic dodge 2, synthicardium 3 = 15 =
5 and 6 if I need a second one. http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3024792/


In case I need to soak: 21 soak dice
7 and 4 on the soak http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3024793/The all out defence meant that I only had 2 arrows that round, so I now have 11 left.

I will shoot feral next tound, and I discovered I am better at archery than I rolled last time: agility 9, archer 6, spec 2 for bow, smart link 2 = 19 this time.
Still rolling bad. 3, 4 and 8 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3024794/

Much confusion reigns (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Feral has disappeared from view on the mundane world...force 8+ spirit concealment! Gotta love aspected background counts

The guy with the shotgun is a droid therefore immune to possession! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) That said, Joshua has dodged the blast (which flayed another DW trooper instead - fish in barrel!)

Feral is visibly affected by the spell but not down for the count (spell defense!) and now he is sending a pissed off wolf spirit after Gash...

IC to come...

Please forgive me for wrenching you away (one by one admittedly) from the mass combat...think I'd like to get back to a few fewer NPCs and you lot working harder for your pay (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

Questions/comments, fire em my way...

I'm taking a bit of a liberty with Feral's disappearance I know but -8 conceal plus thermoptic camo plus general chaos should make him damn hard to see...don't worry, Gash's spell has more or less taken him out! 1 for the team!

I am enjoying the wierdness: keen to find out what it is

I take it that I am not in the general melee..ah well that was my moment of glory! I'll post once I know what's going on

I'm guessing Cpt Roberts probably hasn't seen Sticks in the flesh, before (if he's always in his horseman), so he might not recognize him, and might confuse his crawling on the floor with having his legs wounded. If not, we'll chalk it up to groggy confusion from waking up. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Also, Roberts's commlink is integrated into his helmet. Was he left with his helmet and armor? I'm assuming the predator at his side, and his alpha were taken away.

Quick question. Who are Deepwatch engaged with now then? are there any enemies still fighting?

Yep, as far as you are aware DW are still engaged with the tower inhabitants...although you are winning the fight! Cpt Roberts has disappeared and so has Gash (although you may not be aware of that as he was wallowing in a pool of blood trying to be inconspicuous!)




Helmet, armour, weapons, all gone! You are in your basic uniforms or whatever was on under your armour. Apart from the Horseman there isn't any sign of your kit in here...



You'll have seen his personnel file in the original briefing I would have thought...and he's wearing a DW uniform...

Held off from the actual injection in case Sticks wanted to shout out something like "Are you crazy? Don't do what she says!" or turn his gun on Roberts or something like that.

Aria.. I would quite like to post, but I don't know where I am. I am with Captain Roberts?

Wow, I feel slow. I know what's going on (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

God I hate these guys. I say we literally blow up the entire freaking tower.

After Blackhat brought me into the future in his post, do I now exist in 2 places at once? I don't mind that, it's kinda cool (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I haven't really brought you through yet - unless it works immediately. I'm guessing it'll take a few seconds, since when each of us woke up we saw the lady who did it standing over the next person, ready to strike. So you'll probably come to in a little bit.

We've been in a matrix simulation.. sigh. When he figures it out, Sticks is going to be royally pissed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
That's why there were 2 versions of the Tower, and we couldn't spot each other.

That's my guess - which suggests they have a scarey amount of intel on us. Even if they weren't simulating the crew (maybe they're plugged in in another room), they had to make our equipment and nodes and whatnot (or at least make us believe what we were experiencing). It would have been neat, for example, if you had reached for your hidden firearm in your drone and found it not there (since they obviously didn't know about it, if they left it in your horseman).

I spin my top!!!!!


That was also my guess, and something I've experineced before in a very long and twisted Cyberpunk 2020 campaign some years back.....

The questions now though are:
1) For how long
2) Are we actually where we think we are now, and
3) Has any of this been real, or is all this a Deepwatch training sim? This of course relates to point 1

(To go with your #2... ) Who's to say we've found ourselves somewhere any more real?
If the stillwater community has a UV node (or really good simsynth technicians) that can fool us once, they can basically fool us forever. The only way to find out would be to, as you said, spin our top. We'd need to think up something that only we would know, and then test that thing. The location of your handgun was a good example, except that if they did find it, they could have easily put one in the horseman in this sim, too. We would need to come up with something external that we don't think the technos here could have found out... like maybe some code words we could exchange with Deep Watch HQ that we don't think the technos have compromised.

This reminds me of Red Dwarf, and leaving Better Than LIife. They thought they had left, then they discovered that in fact they were in a new Better Than Life, and had to work out how to leave that.

I have to admit that I was suckered in. Very clever Aria.

I am surprised that when I summoned spirits the spirits didn't arrive in the real world, and talk to me (they can do that even if you are in AR, VR) saying "WTF are you doing lying there...". Especially when they possessed me and walked in. But then again maybe the VR stopped me actually focusing the willpower. "Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic".

Well done BTL with the right parameters would short circuit your ability to put the mana together. It also explains why some of those people were doing things that are, for lack of a better word, impossible with Shadowrun magic (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

<<BIG EVIL GRIN>>

Looks like you've rumbled me then...or have you?!? As BlackHat said, is this real? Was that real? Who's to know?!? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

Yes, putting together an IC now that will hopefully explain where you all are...funnily enough it just happens to be the PCs that are the first to be awoken, there are six other NPCs in here too...the rest of the beds are empty...