Question now seems to be: Is the drone going to find us before we leave the river and if yes can AM do something about it - if no Mato might have to shoot it down before it hurts us

Well, I suppose the second questions would be, "Will it care? What will it do?"

If it finds a mammoth walking downriver then that might be more cause for curiosity than concern.

I think opening fire on it will draw the ire of the military. That seems risky unless it's actively trying to shoot us. Hacking it would be a softer approach.

Hacking while levitating, and invisible is a bit rough for AM, at -2 due to two spells, no VR, she is silently running for additional -2 (decks are not legal) and there are hostile drones looking for us.


So from the 11 dice, she'll have like 7 remaining perhaps 9 if she asks Trouble to sustain one of the spells for a while, not looking very sharp for her. Spells like increase intuition are easily visible (perhaps not if she is invisible??) so no augmentations while being near the drones.

Feel free to ask her if you want, and I'll channel her to see how she responds. I'd assume that such penalties imply that she does not considers it a realistic option at the moment.

As soon as Bobby can reach dry land for the others, he can turn into a hawk and take down drones organically.

But maybe we can just leave it to the remaining merc to take care of them - after all he was the one causing the investigation in the first place.

I don't think we want to carry him around all the way to Seattle anyhow. Let them handle the drone scoop the mage, regroup and let Bernt sort up his debt, or handle the long-term situation one way or the other.

Sorry, I came to see the posts today, and found that I'd never committed the post I wrote last night. So hit "Add reply" and called it done.

How far are we from the access road?

Would 'come to land' be on the Salish military property?

Perhaps you can brave the Aztechnology territory figuring out the military would not cross there so quickly?

I don't think that we'd have better deal with the Azzies. With the NAN military I at least have a relevant connection.

I suppose it's also worth asking which side of the river is the access road on: the Azzie side or the Salish side? In my head it's the Salish side but that could be incorrect.

But AM has a long flight ahead of her, then a long drive to get to the access road, so it's not like our getaway vehicle is imminent.

Access road is on the Salish military side, but beyond the limits of the military base (Azzie territory extends farther). Extracting there is off the military base, but whether or not that stops them from doing something is a different question.

@Jack brilliant post was so much fun to read.

I love it too -- great solution (and crazy movement multiplier, I don't recall how much Jack put into agility when he took mammoth form, but anyway you slice it, it sounds like a lot of speed.

Now to see how well he sells the "out of control" bit. Make a con roll .... at +5 because it is likely they don't have much idea of what an out of control mammoth looks like so it shouldn't take a lot of skill to sell this.

More interesting in all of this is whether the raft stays balanced on Bobby's back. He probably can't be holding it in place with his trunk while appearing to look out of control. Mato should likely do something to avoid him and/or Brent being tossed out onto the rocks. (or at best into some shallow water). And also what Bobby does about the petrified jellyfish mage on his tusks.

Agility is 6
Rolling Con
Con: 10d6t5 1
Spending edge to reroll missed
Con: 9d6t5 2
3 successes total
Gymnastics to keep the stoned mage secure
Gymnastics: 12d6t5 6

Sorry about the delay in posting. I went hiking yesterday and when I came on to post today Dumpshock was down for the entire afternoon. Posting now before bed.

Debating how Mato would handle this. It seems like it would be some sort of combination of Agility and Strength. The values are more-or-less the same, so I'll just roll Agility + Gymnastics like Jack did for simplicity.

Agility 10 + Gymnastics 1: 11d6t5 2 hits

God help me, Orokos... Dangerously close to a glitch, but managed to avoid it. Let's see, the last time I had an above-average roll was... August 18th.

I feel for you - spend my last point of edge for the con roll, because somehow 10 dice are worth only one success for Orocos (only to grant me 6 successes with 12)

I'd planned to post Sunday because I knew my Monday was not going to give me time (holiday here with plans with family and friends), and Dumpshock was down. Sorry for the delay.

Does the drone appear armed (as best Mato can tell with low-light and thermographic vision)?

Rolling Con with Mato's lie: Charisma 4 + Con 2 + Plausible Evidence 2: 8d6t5 3 hits

Hey, hey! A slightly-above-average roll! I added a couple dice for Plausible Evidence but they didn't add any hits.

Brent makes a Pulse Storm, bolstered by his sprite
Make noise!: 13d6t5 4 and edge the fails
more noise (edge fails): 9d6t5 1 for a total of 5 successes.

Just realized that I forgot the penalty for being AR (and hence still holding on) but ah well, let the kid have a half-way useful moment.

Add in the 2 noise already present around here, and the drone is facing 7 noise + distance from pilot, reduced by RCC noise reduction. Not enough to shut it down, but certainly enough to reduce its effectiveness.

Does the drone appear armed? Does Mato have a sense of what sort of drone it is?

@Gilga: I've lost track of where Trouble is? (with AM? With the rest of the team?)

A quote of me in spoiler answering that question a few posts ago.


Trouble is with AM, astrally, Tatanka is with the team - tasked with notifying them if anything spiritual approaches.

For the record, I audibly laughed at this.

So did I!

I do what I can... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)