I was only keeping the dice cause you succeeded with no drain, and I didn't want to screw you over.

If you want to change to cast it at force 5, I have no problems with that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

A little drain is good for a growing elf. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Yeah I want to cast it at force 5, definitively. Drain is of little consequence in this situation. So here goes a new set of rolls.

Spellcasting
12d6.hits(5)=5

Hmm.. well you can charge me with edge if you want, since last time I had to use edge to get that many successes.

Anyway.. here's drain resist against 4S
13d6.hits(5)=8

Jesus.. all right. Hey Overkill, this is the right way to roll dice (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

No need to charge you with Edge - you might need it later depending on mad scheme Grease talks you into, or what trouble Overkill gets you into (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

So the manager resists:

6d6.hits(5)=2

So he will be acting under that Influence for 3 minutes.

IC post up in a minute

I'll be back in an hour.

Once you decide when to view the footage IC, I'll go ahead and post the description of the video file.

No kidding, maybe I should have you make all my hacking roles (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Hey it's up to you now, Overkill. I don't know what else to ask from that very helpful(!) manger.

Did the manager give us the reports on the investigation? I am curious to see what Lone Star did as far as investigating the event.

I am also curious about the outside camera, shooting from the hip here, but perhaps its still working but not connecting to the Host?

If I am crazy for this supposition let me know and I can amend the post.

The report for his home office just has basic information, all of which you have already - when it happened, who was working, what was stolen, etc.

With regards to the outside camera - he means the kids keep bricking it.

Probably literally since cyberdecks are hella' expensive.

See - Jack and I are on the same wavelength. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Unless they have a technomancer (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Were that the case, we probably would have heard about the local child that faints all the time for some odd reason.

ETA: Sounds like the time for getting is good.

Quick question about erasing my signature. Can I do it from where I was when I cast the spell? Or do I have to be inside. I'm curious on your interpretation of the vague sr5 rules on this.

Hmm. It is vague.

I guess what would make sense to me would be you would have to be able to see the target of the spell with your astral sight.

So, if you cast fireball at an area, you would have to be able to see the area hit, or if you cast physical mask on a person, you would have to be able to see that person.

If you could astrally project, you could head back to the store, and view the spell's signature on the manager - since you can only astrally perceive, you would have to be in LOS of the manager in the real world.

Does that make sense?

Form the way I have read it, casting a spell creates two signatures, one at the point of casting that just hangs out there and one on the target person/area/device/whatever. But yeah, everything else lines up with what Lobo said.

ETA: I need to stay off the main boards. Drives up my blood pressure. I think half the posters there have CHA 1.

Definitely more than a few "Uncouth" qualities, for the build points.

Posted IC.

Lobo: On the commlink thing from yesterday; I think my intention was to have my commlink be a burner, as it is a metalink (the cheapest variety). That said, I'm cool with what we have now; no need to change anything IC. I will probably be purchasing some burner commlinks once we get paid for our adventure. The alternative is that I think I have a few "throwaway" guns; I could trade a few of those out in my equipment sheet for commlinks. I guess I imagined communications would be a bit more anonymous.

Yeah it makes sense to me too. I'd say you could interpret that you have to be at the casting site, or at the target, or always at the same one of those two options (your interpretation being always the target). So I think it's perfectly fair.

I have to be able to look astrally at the manager for 5 passes (5 complex actions to wipe the whole thing clean). I'll roll for initiative to see how many passes she gets per round.

4d6+11=25
4d6+11=23

So she gets 3 passes on both rounds (yay mystic adept), and she can completely wipe her signature clean. While I'm at it I'll throw in an assensing on the manager at the same time (that I will let you roll). I'll make a quick IC post describing that - I think it's pretty easy to pull off in this low-stress situation.

RE: your IC post about "ex-military assassin"; Are you (and everyone else) reading the shooter as Argent?
-DrZ

Are we supposed to? I thought if it looked like someone we'd seen before, the description would say so. Maybe I'm completely off.

No, that's what I thought- I was reading it that if it was someone we recognized, lobo would post as such. I just misread your post, I guess.

@everyone - just to be clear - the man in the video is a human with short brown hair - Argent is an elf with long blonde hair and obvious cybereyes.

@Amy - your assensing of the manager reveals his is a mundane, and his prevalent mood is confused.

Lol I would expect he's confused. Good enough for me. I picture him with a big question mark above his head as in cartoons (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

ETA: The reason I call the guy ex-military is because of this:
"brown hair is cut short. His UCAS fatigues show signs of age, with faded spots, and the identification removed."

and the reason I call him an assassin is because what he did was a hit, not a robbery. It was very badly disguised, as though he knew the Lone Star wouldn't look into it =/

ETA2: Also pretty useful to know. Amy can summon a spirit with the Search power, which enables that spirit to find anyone that we have at least a picture for, unless that person's too far away.

Gonna be crashing early again, but will be back on in the early morning.

I know I have a couple comms to respond to; just wanted you guys to know I hadn't forgotten about them.