Currently, where are you guys driving to? I'm assuming you are still trying to stay off the main roads as much as possible?

As a quick note, it almost seems that we be better of on main roads - sticking to back roads means that if someone does come at us, it is easier to get blocked in/cornered.

I agree with the main roads, KE has a vested interest in keeping the collateral damage minimized, especially if it's a competing AAA (or their proxies) doing the shooting. Wherever we're driving to, White should be calling Moreau and setting up that meet.

Well, the park Moreau had mentioned earlier is only a few miles from your current location. Did you want to head that way while White makes the call or would you want to be avoiding that until it's time to meet Moreau?

I think, we may have lost the element of surprise. Lets go and scope it first.

Maybe drop me a TW off n route, we can jog and surveill

Agree with the scoping, drop us off as you make the call, Dak.

Are we keeping our plans secret from Acson, or just doing our planning in front of him? I presume that if he hears that we're turning him over to Moreau instead of Nazaire, that he may give us some grief.

One one hand, that'd be hilarious. A drunken halfwit trying to go aggro on a team full of professional killers and thieves who are already unhappy with him. On the other, the look on his face when Moreau shows up to collect instead of Nazaire will be worth it. Plan over comms, I'll have TW shut his mouth and start texting.

In a hilarious parallel to real life!

Doing a basic data search for a map of the park and surroundings, will work with TW on a tactical appraisal as soon as we can.

meanwhile, checking the LMG and putting on the Lined coat for concealment ready to drop to street level and go from there

Are you planning to take the LMG with you when you go scouting? The park is still in the dowtown area. So it would still have a fairly high level of security patrols by KE.

in that case ... DAMMIT !!! ... no

Dude, we're scouting. You're quick enough to get it from the truck later, right?

but, you never know when you're gonna need a machine gun.... /em sulks

I'm not thrilled about leaving Mishka and the Smartgun in the truck, either. The fact that we're having a meet Downtown is utterly frickin' retarded, but if we do it quick and quiet maybe we get out of this with only minor scarring. Next Johnson that gives us these kind of parameters is getting the finger, though.

META

Crazy that shadowrunner's do pricing like it's a commodity. "I need you to extract this guy, I'll pay you X". Doesn't matter whether he's hanging out at the bus station, or if we have to bust him out of prison. Doesn't matter whether we end up having two of our team killed and our transportation shot to shit. Doesn't matter whether we go through a thousand nuyen worth of ammo. It's all still the same price, like buying a pizza.

Imagine if you went to the doctor and said "Hey, I have a cough, here's $100", and treatment cost the same whether it was a headcold or throat cancer.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

/META

LOL

driving home now, post more in 2 hours or so.... CZ tell me where you want me and Silas will give full Compliance (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Eh, I think that's a bit of an oversimplification. Most 'runners are going to sliding scale the payment based on what the expected level of difficulty/resistance/expenditures. Grab the noob from the bus stop? No prob, though if you're an established team that would twig the fuck out of my 'trap' sensors. Grab the CFO before the annual shareholders meeting in NYC? Oof, that'll cost ya. Do it without collateral damage? Chummer, you'd better have a verifiable Z-O account to back this.

/end meta discussion

Does Silas have Infiltrate, Mach? I don't remember.

12 dice pool
and chameleon suit

Okay, so you're the subtle one for this trip. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Guess I'll be the obvious one, do the semi-sneaky (Infiltrate 3) look-around and see if I can't flush out any birds, you're the Major in the thermoptic camouflage.

Any one else see the glaring irony there? Me? The subtle one... Heheh

Need a bit of an update from Slacker on the layout and we can plan stuff accordingly

Sorry for the delay works been busy and I've been considering just how to roll with what happens next. IC post is incoming.

So, you guys left the club, hopped onto I-5 and drove a short couple miles until you got off at the 6th Avenue exit. You dropped off TundraWolf and Silas about a block away from the Kobe Park at 6th and James St. As they head towards the Park on foot Needle wasn't wanting to be a sitting target. So she's been driving around in circles.

The information found online about Kobe Park is that it is fairly small being only a little over 1 acre. The majority of it is a heavily wooded trail approx. 100m long by 40m wide, but there is also a section dedicated to urban gardening (Danny Woo International District Community Garden) that consists of 100 or so plots of 1mX2m raised garden beds.

The trail through the wooded area appears to be a paved walking/biking trail with benches scattered along the way when the two shadowrunners arrive. The paths around the community garden are a bit more convoluted, but for the most part the two can see over the various vegetables and flowers being grown in most plots. Only the ones with mature fruit trees will be a problem.

Speaking of problems.... As the two of them arrived at the Park, a pair of headlights pull out from oncoming traffic and start heading straight at the clown van. Needle takes evasive action getting 2 hits on her roll. Unfortunately the driver of the black Toyota Gopher got 3 hits on his roll.

To resist the 14 rammage damage, Needle gets 5 hits. So it's Handling is now down to -6 instead of the original -3.

The Gopher also rolls to resist half that damage. It manages to get 7 hits and does get more than some scracthed paint.

Both drivers now need to roll resist crashing. Needle pulls off a miracle and gets the 3 hits out of 5 needed successfully maintaining control of the vehicle.
The Gopher driver likewise gets 3 hits and avoids crashing.

Time to roll initiative folks. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Also, somebody roll me Needle's Edge of 2 for a luck roll. If you get at least one hit, the van is currently pointed towards the Park that is about 80m straight ahead. If not, she had just been turning a corner away from the Park.

"ooooh DREK !"

initiative
(12d6.hits(5)=6)

18 / 3 passes

Come on. You didn't really think you got away that easy from the club did you?

I was still pondering Gerry, I'm a kill that dwarf next time I see the fragger (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)