Absolutely.

The General IC thread is open to anyone in Aria's campaign to post their own fluff stories (me personally, I get Aria's okay before I post anything that will impact my character in game terms).

In fact, if you scroll through you'll see that various other players have posted their own stories.

Any limitations in terms of timelines? Does it all have to be set in the 2072-2075 era? Just curious, as the thread is fascinating to me.

Not at all, I'm sure there are at least a couple of posts in there that go back several years...

@TLG: Thanks for getting the ball rolling! Not sure about the dark blue font, makes my eyes ache on my phone lol. Before moving things on we'll let anyone else pipe up, in the meantime feel free to do some OoC plotting and I will try and answer questions. Adamu recently queried whether a group conflab to get to know each other was in order and I agree that would be quite good to do IC. Once the main meet is over Aria will let you continue to use the game world or you can assume a safe(ish) physical meet if you prefer (once Al has cleaned himself up, wouldn't make for a good first impression in his current state!)

@TLG

Yeah, the Dark Blue font is annoying, but I can't find any other colors I like. Sorry about your eyes (IMG:style_emoticons/default/embarrassed.gif)

I think I trust Silk (our common contact), but not so sure about our employer. Now for some conspiracy theories!

This Dragon icon mentioned that the recent run was on his facility in Bellevue. He also mentioned that their servers, which he looked through, have apparently been wiped clean. Beyond even his, what seems to be considerable, power and resources to recover. Phantom wouldn't know, but OOC, it seems a little concerning that Silk had sent the previous runners on a run against our new employer, and now we are working for him? I know that after a run, the security footage is basically a resume for runners, but the only way I can think that this would come back is if our current employer (who is hiding behind the dragon icon) was dishonored/disqualified due to the run against him. That's why he doesn't have clearance or the ability to recover data that he needs to take back his position.

Anyway, I can understand the need for proxies and deniability, but the whole "For reasons that do not concern you, I cannot access the information" seems like a good way to get us killed. I know it's still early, so not everyone has checked in yet, but we really need some negotiation going on for more information. Just because Shadowrunners may be deniable assets does not mean they will just take a job that can get them killed without some more information. If this person who has considerable power (and likely resources with that hint of a generous reward and the dragon's superior icon) is unable to get something; we need to know at least why. Is it politics? Inner-Corporate feuds? Or is it just that his "enemy", whoever that may be, is simply more powerful and resourceful? If it's the latter, that is something we absolutely need to know, because that can easily get us killed.

Because Al is all about the first impressions.

Anyway, just to confirm - we are all jacking into this meet individually from our own locations, then.
No meat meeting as of yet.
Is that correct?

I assumed so, yes... Some of you might be together for mutual support, although again, hopefully nobody is with Al right now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Actually, that might have been fun.

But no, if we are jacking in from our own locations then Al would be at home, and alone as always.

Anyway, in the IC thread, many of us have posted our impressions of the situation.

But are we now waiting for eTher to continue its speech/explanation, or are we supposed to ask questions, get the location/guard schedules, etc?

Probably worth composing an OoC list of questions, assume you can confer without eTher hearing you. Silk will also offer a rare face to face meeting with herself in a secure location if anyone wants to discuss that way

Cool cool cool.
That is a quick way to get it done.

Teammates - anyone want to start tossing out questions?
I'll be happy to compile them into one list if that is helpful, once we have a few.

And once we have a list, do we want to get into it here with eTher, or just say "Yes Master" at this point, then hash out details in the meat with Silk?

Either way is good with me...

@TTLG - Yes, please anything but the dark blue... I don't want to end up like Al over here. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) need to get my post up (tomorrow most likely) and add to the list of questions.

@Tribes - I'm waiting on a Silkie post to resolve the paper issue so we can keep moving. I suppose I can push forward too if Adamu or Aria don't beat me to it first.

@TLG



Well, I don't know if we want to start in on questions with eTher or wait for some of our companions to chime in. I think we're supposed to have 7 or 8 of us, and I've only seen 4 so far.

Anyway, questions. Why is it unnecessary for us to know why he can't obtain the information? Sure, it's a standard reason for hiring Shadowrunners, but if it's because that information is shielded by something (or someone) with more power than our seemingly resourceful employer, then that is something we need to know. Because it can get us killed.

Any access codes and/or prints, biometrics etc. would be good to get.

Any information on how far we can go (as long as we don't track back to our employer) would be good. (S)he wants us to find out who subverted the original purpose of the facility and why they did it. We might end up stepping on toes or uncovering information that other's don't want us to have, so we might need to defend ourselves or something. It's just good to know how much we can destroy if necessary, or how much we have to leave intact.

Those are the only questions I can think of at the moment.

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For color, how about Red? Still kind of harsh on the eyes. Lime? I think I like Lime, I'll go with that.

You ask me, four of seven is GREAT for PbP!

Anyway, thanks for the questions.
If anyone else chimes in, I'll compile and streamline.
If not, we can just go with those.

And if you are into using colors, the lime green si much easier to read!

Okay, based on Aria's last post, looks like Silkie has been shown the paper. I wasn't clear on whether that would happen, and didn't want to railroad, but with that out of the way.

As I mentioned earlier, the paper looks a lot different to educated Silkie than it did at first glance to Maus.

It seems an awful lot like some sort of family tree/geneaology thing.

No names or patterns pop out at first glance, but anyone that has seen the paper can make a test using Logic + Intuition (+ any relevant skill if you think you have one).

@TLG



Four of seven is great; I'm sadly starting to realize that.

I started on ShadowGrid, and almost everyone uses colors there. I also kind of like it because I can differentiate things with color, and not have to be confused between thoughts and speech, or speech and Astral.

I've become lazy, used to colour at least speech and comms, now I just tend to colour the time stamp and have done (just bold on SG (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) ), I'm happy for anyone to use whatever convention they like as long as I can read it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I confess I made a bit of a reach there too but hopefully Vegas doesn't mind...

I too am getting freaked out by the cultish sounding ramblings of Nana (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Roll...HOLY SHIT!!! 6d6.hits(5) → [6,5,5,6,6,5] = (6) ...you can check the link in my sig for proof!!!

Wow... a 1/729 chance of getting that. That is impressive.

Hey, sometimes you get a great roll!

Back when I was seriously GMing here, I just had people roll regular dice and list them in the sequence they rolled them (so I could take off dice for mods).

Never was a problem, never doubted them, and no accursed links!

Okay, I paid up on that amazing roll in the IC.

And just to be fair, resurrected another clue. Seemed only fair since the player that received the clue is no longer active in the game.

@Tribes, sorry for the rush and the rather blatant clue bashing but I didn't want to hold anyone else up from posting, including Adamu for expanding on the hint (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

@Through the Looking Glass

No one has chimed in for several days, though of course additions always welcome, but as requested by GM - the Question List

Players - we are planning a bit of pre-run IC RP, but to speed things along, shall we assume that people on previous runs in this series have shared what they know? Have the LG vets spoken to new faces about the last run?
And RD, were you on a related run back before LG? If so, any cool infobits that Morgan might have shared?

OOC questions (bookkeeping junk that we will need to know but may or may not make it into IC; also things that are basically just universally known or findable on a quick public search)

- Location - can we assume that we are given an address/grid coordinates for this data farm?

- Once we have that, what sort of location is it? Being Fort Lewis, is it on a military base? In one of the many large wilderness areas? Is it in he open-to-the-public areas around the zoo?

- Can we assume we are provided with the access codes and guard schedules that were mentioned?
If so, do they also come with some sort of layout of the site (neither access codes or guard schedules are much use without that…)?

- Can we assume that information is given at some point on where/when this secondary briefing iwth Silk is to take place?

IC questions -

- What data is sought (already asked IC by LeFey)?

Next questions - these could be with eTher or later with Silk.
What do you think, 8-bit, they are mostly from you?

- Why can't eTher get it himself? What is so powerful it prevents him?
- (if he won't answer that) why won't he tell us?
- Are there any limits on our methods or how much mayhem we cause?

@Tribes

I've been rather busy the last few days, so I've just been checking in a bit. It seems like Gunner is likely just going to sit back and wait for their transport, as Silkie seems to have figured something out with Nana.

@TLG

Like I said, I've been rather busy. Sorry about that.

OOC questions look good. I don't see anything wrong with them.

For IC questions, I'm having trouble deciding. I'm not sure whether asking some of those questions would be poking our noses into business we have no reason to look into (especially since he already told us it is of no concern), but on the hand, if (s)he is withholding information from us, that could get us all killed. I think the third question (What limits do we have on how to get the job done) can be asked directly to eTher, while the others might be better suited for Silk. Silk might actually give us answers to the first two, I have the feeling eTher isn't going to open up a line of discussion he specifically closed because (s)he doesn't want to talk about it.

Then again, I might be overthinking it. It probably can't hurt to try and ask eTher for more information.

@TLG

Well considering a "bait and switch" run or lack of information almost got the original runners killed on the first run, I can say Ali isn't going to take eTher's dismissal of us not needing to know/our concern lightly and will either team up with LeFey after the meeting to try to carefully dig a bit or try to push for more info at the meeting. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

@TLG: Do you want me to handle a scene from here or do you want to ask some questions of eTher IC? Happy either way. I will bump you along to the meet up with Silk and we can always flashback if anything needs resolving...eTher doesn't seem that communicative, Silk on the other hand is renowned for answering questions where she can (she was a successful runner herself less than a year ago!), the cloak and dagger sh*t is best kept to the run itself rather than the planning stage!