Cool, sounds good. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Boosting a van is so bourgeois, but hanging around this place is suicide. I'm not the most tech savvy guy, but I'll give it a shot:
Logic(3) + Electronics(1) = 4d6 for 0 hits.

Eh, I'll edge reroll it...for 1 hit.

So, I probably should have asked this before, but is it an extended test or did I just blow up the battery? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

@ Aria

I like the idea of putting Doza behind the van, especially if someone with an assault rifle is about to shoot her!
I feel it's only fair that I help in this matter. Will actively dodge into cover

Reactions + Dodge + Move by Wire = 17 dice 7 successes

She might be big but she's quick! Next up is to shoot the drone (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Its an extended test...but you get one less die next time (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif) 3 die...I'm looking for those critical glitches...

LOL, you tempted fate:

Logic(3) + Electronics(1) -1 = 3d6 for 3 hits. That, and invisible castle likes to eff around with me. I'm sure the next time I take a bullet to the face, I crit glitch with no edge left for a reroll. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

The White Van of Power is all yours.

Spellcasting [health] 10D [force 5] = 3 hits + Edge rerolls = 2 hits [Take off 3 boxes of damage and accelerate the time by 2]
Drain resistance 9D [vs damage lvl -2 = 6(?!?)] = 2 hits = 4 stun! Ouch!

Edge 1 of 2

@Aria
The baby has taken 6 damage, so the drain code is 4. You don't need to overcast, so by my calculations you've taken 2 stun damage.

@General
Good news for you, is that I am happy for you all to now IC getting the heck out of dodge/ Just decide where to go. Demon has a vehicle(?).

I'll assume you will be paranoid, so you don't have to go into all the details of "we ditch any tails, get rid of tags etc" unless you want to you are all professional shadowrunners, so you do that sort of stuff. You can all have a secondary cheap commlink.

I think it will take you about an hour to get away and sort stuff out. I suggest you end up in a flop house in the Barrens or somewhere similar.

On route I suspect Aria will want to talk to Dr Bob. I'll post an IC communication as soon as you ask for it.

LOL, yeah amid Demon's reminiscing of his prostitute mother's prostitutish advice, he managed to boost the van. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

The van is slaved to the rigger's commlink which means you can spoof commands to it (once you have found the rigger's ID code by analyzing their icon) but otherwise can't hack it. I will tell you now that you can't even spoof it as the rigger is jumped in!

There are two commlinks in passive mode inside the van and your agent is analyzing them as we speak...they may or may not be the rigger's comm and if that is hidden then you'll need another scan action.

I would point you back however to the comm call that you intercepted

<<Angel One is inbound>> I leave you to determine if that's a good or bad thing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

Bugger that! I'm going there in person (so to speak...) will set a rendevous location with Copperhead and Demon and then travel to Dr Bob's in the astral...

Cunning plan. Why not drop your meat body in the Van then go there. This is what you see:

Astral:
Hope / Loss / Grief but most of all Boredom are the dominant themes.

Physical at your wife's bed
Your wife is unconscious with a drip in her arm and lots of electronic equipment. There is a chair up against the door acting as a wedge, and a nurse is there consoling your children. She is using one arm for them, and in the other is a large menacing looking heavy pistol. They are all wearing respirators. The attached children's suite is empty.

Physical at the reception area
There is a minor scene of devastation. Dr Bob is standing in the middle of pile of unconcious people and some corpses all wearing gang colours. He is wearing a gas mask. Slung over his back he has an old fashioned HK-227 with an underbarrel grenade launcher. He is currently tending to his (clearly dying) receptionist who has been stabbed through the stomach with what looks like a cyber spear. He is accompanied by a man in a black suit with a Katana. The Katana is a magical foci, and is sheathed. As you materialise to talk to him

"ETA for backup 90 second Doc. Look I know this is a medical emergency, but other people are dying too. My partner is dead. Right now eight members of a Fire Watch team are dead having tried to arrest this ladies husband. I need to talk to your client's husband NOW in order to stop more people dying"

" Thank you for your assistance earlier, but right now: Go Away!"

Dice Pool
Pistols 3
Agility 3
Specialization 2
Smartgun 2
Moving vehicle -3

First Round
1 success = 5P damage

Second round
2 successes = 6P damage

I changed 'moving vehicle' to 'shooting from cover' and rolled an extra D which gave you another hit on the first round (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Will try and IC this later today but I've got meetings all morning so we'll see...

@Aria
Seeing how Sir_Psycho's game is going, I'm starting to consider joining up rather seriously. Anything I should know before rolling up a character?

Nothing specific. We have a couple of active 'games' going on in this thread at the moment...one by me and one by Seth. Sure you'd be welcome to join either.

Mine is a 'wrong place wrong time' kind of incident that involves Seth, Galen and Alyena (they have two hackers - ish and a samurai)

Seth is running some sort of mistaken identity / KE crawling all over our arses debacle that is great fun (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) It involves myself (as a player) and Notsoevilgm and JxJxA (two mages and an assassin)

I also started a courier thread for Digital Heroin but haven't heard from him since so...

As I said in the blurb you can play anything that interests you - although it would probably be easier if you wanted to play a runner that fits into one of the first two. You don't have to read the threads if you don't want to, sure Seth or I can drop you in at any point along the way...

Alright! I'll see what I can come up with. Worst comes to worst, I'll just cut and paste Dexter from our other game.

Well the character gen rules are a tad different but if you have a 400bp version...

Hi Mister Juan. Be good to have you along!

@General
I am "away" this weekend. It's double xp weekend for City of Heros and...well...those pots of coffee are calling. I'll do the current round of posting then ... whoosh ... off I go

@Ember/Copperhead/Demon
Click throughs reveal the following:
1: Not much data about you three... The general public is advised not to approach these dangerous criminals as they are armed and EXTREMELY dangerous
2: A video of the last 10 seconds with Mr Allanby, then as you are turning to leave, he is shot (you don't remember that bit).
3: The public face of a brave Knight Errant officer who was killed in the line of duty by you three. (about 5 minutes before you walked into Allanby's place) Details to follow...
4: Gamma is indeed a very unpleasant bad guy

Welcome to +6 on all social rolls when the recipient knows who you are! Global Fame is good like that

I've updated the 2072 map with the possible rendevous point for Jamie, Doza and Jotamon...

Seth, I've also added in a location for Dr Bob's and the Horny Troll...can you have a look (when back from heroing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) ) and let me know if that fits your image of where they might be or suggest another location?



We need a techie to look over those FAKE video images (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

Yokinko Locate Hidden Node

1 success

Hey (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Been reading through the thread and looks like good fun! I even have a character under construction that might help out our poor framed (and now famous!) friends. A pixie techno-adept hacker / rigger that goes under the handle 'Pixel'. Although most don't know she's a pixie (some are certain it's an AI or some full-immersion job, and a few are convinced she's a free Sprite).

Perhaps an associate of Argent's? I've still got a couple days worth of work trying to wrap up the character stats and basic story, so good time to add some tweaks. Seems a good tie-in if Argent was Pixel's main fixer.

Concept is something of a prankster with a lot of curiousity and fascination for the sci-fi living of modern 2072 society. Hacking on a run is just getting paid to do things she likes doing for fun anyway. Big sweet-tooth (possibly Compulsion level!) with a fondness for cupcakes.

She also runs a small part-time mechanic's shop out of Tarislar.

Original birthplace is up in the air. Maybe an outcaste from the Korrigan community that works against the Mists. Or maybe just local-ish from the NAN's less-populated areas.

@Xarin
I would love to have you along. I think they desparately need a hacker (they are getting seriously Pwned at the moment digitally).

You should be aware that personally I think pixies are so overpowered that they are silly. However that just means that you have serious social issues. Every one knows that pixies are magical arcana on the hoof of incredible value. You cannot kill them (or they go poof), but you can keep them in a nice cage and drain them regularly, making 10K per week at least. And are pixies really sentient? So is this even a crime? There are plenty of places in the world where this is legal, and for that money people will move.

What I am saying is that you have concealment, and you will need to use it. 10K/week is luxury lifestyle for 4 people, and all they need to do is capture you (alive).

If you are happy with that extra disadvantage then I'll be happy to run the pixie. (and you have the advantage that as a computery sort of person you don't have to meet people very often).

@Aira
There are many less villains on the streets now in City of Heroes.
The locations look good; Dr Bobs is of course within easy walking distance of the Horny Troll. Thanks for adding them. The drunken drone is a giant Junk Yard on the edge of the barrens (1/2 sq mile of bits of cars/drones/stuff. There is a transport cafe / rigger hangout attached to the main entrance. If you want a second hand <insert dangerous sounding vehicle> with no annoying paper trails this is the place to go. It would also be a very good place to meet Xarin

I'm not asleep on the job I just have far too much to do at work at the moment (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

Locate hidden node is a threshold 4 test so no luck there I'm afraid...also agents don't have an electronic warfare skill (which seems daft to me!?!)...anyone know of a errata on this one?

I didn't realize they were so limited, or I would have done it myself.

Galen

For 10k / week she might sell some blood herself! I don't think I agree on being silly overpowered though unless playing a mental-attribute-rich mage. A techie really gains little to nothing form being a Pixie since they're more skill / gear centric anyway, and it costs an extra 20BP to buy off Uneducated. Body 3 cap makes Concealment less of a bonus and more of a survival requirement, too. and if you want to take advantage of the better Reaction for piloting, you need to shell out +50% vehicle cost for Pixie adaptation.

For the character concept, it runs into issues as well with running a shop, even if it's in Tarislar. Seems like too big of a target, equivalent to an amped-up Wanted negative quality (permenant 10k bounty, but claimable every week!), and pretty much precludes the very idea of an establishement. I'd figure the traceability of likely being the only tech shop owning pixie in the sprawl rough enough (they come with Distinctive Style automatically for 0 BP bonus)

Now, social problems sure. Makes sense. Pixies are rare and only 1 country and 1 corp in the world offer them citizenship at all right now, and the UCAS isn't it. I'm game for social stigmas and issues with being barbie-doll sized in a metahuman's world for sure. And the typical SINless in Seattle issues, plus a bit when the cops look at you as a para-critter / property.


Think I can change your mind a bit for this case? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)



Ahhh CoH. Always liked CoV more (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) . And I can deffinately see a junkyard like that being a frequent shopping location for Pixel.