Update:
You have managed to deal with the two drones that were harassing the bus as you fled from the Horizon building. Parker Acson is cowering on the floor of the bus. The bus itself is shaking violently but holding together enough for Needle to keep it going.

What's the plan now?

Damn good question, anyone know where the nearest stuffer shack is ? Followed by somewhere safe.

And were those drones the only thing they can use to follow us / find us. I'm thinking commlinks or the LMG.

Did lizard face dead guy not say something about commlinks ?

Well, next up would be to do some rounds of Healing for people, and to call up our Johnson to maybe find out what the hell is going on... I imagine these two things could be done somewhat simultaneously, as we don't need everyone talking over the commlink at once.

For First Aid: We have 3 skilled healers here. Needle, Eclipse, and Gardner are all at least skilled in First Aid. Based on the rules, that means we'll want to pick the person with the highest skill (as the skill limits number of boxes healed), that person will receive +2 dice (total) for the two of us assisting.
Gardner has a skill of 2, so most likely will not be the primary, but I can cast an Increase Logic spell which will give whoever ends up making the roll bonus dice (provided they aren't already at the augmented maximum for Logic).
Past this, for healing, we will need to know Lost Essence, whether or not you are awakened, and how much damage you have sustained (Physical and/or Stun).
and from Slacker, what our conditions count as (-1 for Indoors, or -2 for Street; not sure if the Valkyrie module would help or whatever).
(Also, Slacker, for penalty purposes how do you want to round/count essence loss? The penalty is -1 per 2 points of essence loss, so Silas' 5.7 lost would be a -2 or -3?)

For instance:

• Silas (based on his posts) has lost 5.7 essence, isn't awakened, and has taken 8 Stun.
• Gardner has lost No essence, is a mage, and has taken 9 Physical & 3 Stun.

Once Eclipse or Needle has applied First Aid, I can use some Healing Magic to patch people up further.

If you're trying to do first aid from the bullet ridden bus that is shaking so much that Needle can barely control it, it's a -2 for environment conditions. And 5.7 essence loss would equal a -3.

Also, to clarify, you guys don't have the Scion's commlink number. He said he would call you once you have Acson somewhere safe.

Alright, so to clarify the earlier question of what are we doing now: We are trying to cover our tracks (Erasing Tags and whatnot), while Needle heads the bus in a direction to "somewhere safe" (Make sure we aren't followed or anything!). Should probably have at least one person keeping an eye on our 6 while we drive to make sure we don't pick up a tail or anything. Once we have things covered for where we are going, we will be discussing our healing situation. It's up to the others, but my vote would be to go ahead and take the -2 for performing first aid in the bus, that way we can get everyone in working order faster.

Also, forgot to mention it, if nobody else has one, I have a Rating 6 medkit we can use.

Did you physically destroy Acson's commlink or just turn it off? (non-removable battery is standard for commlinks, though somebody Hardware skill could take it apart and cut the connection to the battery)

currently Mr. White has it .. I have hardware and am willing to de-commission it, with extreme prejudice (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
should an opportunity arise.

I think we aer due a few IC posts in the bus, but the question remains .. Where are we going ?

I have an underworld contact and some knowledge as well as the understanding of what Horizon might do to find us, both technically and magically.

if that would help us locate somewhere to lay low for a minute or three, until Lizard face dead boy, makes contact

**EDIT** we also need to speak to Acson, as soon as we are suer we have time.

TW will shut his 'link off and pace the bus, as he's still got about 45 minutes of stim-induced mania before he passes out again. Currently he's sitting on 10S (suppressed to 5 with the Stim patch) and 5P damage. So we might be better off telling Mr. J to fuck himself if he insists on a meeting turnaround time like he did on the extraction, as having one of the sams suddenly pass out and start bleeding from the ears at the exact wrong time isn't a good idea.

Plus, this lets us armor up, reload, and prepare for everything to go further to shit on top of getting a little more patched up.

So, probably a -3 to work on him too, Slacker?

Anyone else in need of medical attention?

I have:
[*]Gardner: 9P, 3S. -2 Penalty (Awakened).
[*]Tundra Wolf: 5P, 10S. -3 Penalty (Cyber).
[*]Silas: 8S. -3 Penalty (Cyber).

Whoever is going to make the roll can get a +2 for assistance, -2 for environment, +6 for First Aid Kit, and can raise their Logic +7 (up to augmented maxium, from Increase Logic Spell)

Alright, unless somebody has any objections to that, it sounds like we're going to the Redmond Barrens.

Not sure what you're applying to your skills to get to 16 or 18, I'm assuming that's including the medkit? But at least for starters we just need First Aid, surgery is more a long term thing, and I doubt we have time for that at the moment. It's probably a little excessive to jump into the Valkyrie module, for one because a Valkyrie modules medkit is only Rating 4, and for 2 because performing remote surgery actually causes a penalty.

If you want to wait until we get across town to do anything, that's fine, I'm just a little worried about getting jumped en route.

You don't need to second guess her numbers. Even before counting medkit or autodoc, Needle has a 14 for First Aid/Medicine.

Yeah, I was off a bit. 14 dice for First Aid:

First Aid 4 + LOG 5 + Encephalon 1 + PuSHeD 1 + Neocortical Amplifiers 3 = 14 dice.

See, Medicine and Hacking all revolve around the LOG attribute. So (at least for me) it was natural to "double-major" as it were in Hacking and Medicine. The boosts to LOG for one impact the boosts to LOG for the other. Which is why I've got 14 dice to Medicine even though my primary role is Hacker. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Now, if you throw in a Rating 6 medkit, that gives me 20 dice to First Aid. Not bad, eh?

So... Can we get people to weigh in on what's going on?
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