Oh, trust me. With Three, dramatic is the rule, not the exception. He DOES describe himself as the comic relief, after all...

Jimson, hope you don't mind me giving orders like a GM. I can PM you the details if you wish.

That roll is intended for everyone, btw. Just checking if everyone notices what Three's got. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2666141/ out of 50 on Perception (the penalty is equal to Murphy's enhancements from his augmented senses, if those are not applicable for some reason I will reroll, though that roll would still succeed.)

For any Steven Brust fans out there, yes, I am modelling Murphy's relationship with his muse on Vlad and and his sarcastic, scaly familiar.

Language[German] test
Defaulting to Intuition
25 (0) (+10 hyperlinguist, +20 pattern recognition, +5 morph) = 60
Rolled a 9 (excellent success)

I know I didn't do the first sentence any justice, but I wanted Dr. Esterly to say something along the lines of "Then I will use plain English, Mr. Murphy" in German. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Left my sad attempt at autotranslation in there for color.

Also, I realized I am making some assumptions that might not be 100% accurate.

A jammer prevents the use of "ranged" slights, which I assumed excluded slights with range of "Self" or "Touch" (Which only leaves "Close"), but I suppose those are both ranges, as well. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) They are event listed after "Range:"

If I'm mistaken, I'm happy to edit my last post to make it make sense (DE has both ranged and touch slights, and a jammer, so I'm sure he's familiar with its limitations).

Also, when I elude to a jammer being more useful for him, its because asyncs can affect one another with one better range increment, so another async COULD use the nasty slights at range against DE, but couldn't against Murphy (at least, not standard asyncs).

Well, this is a piece of hardware Murphy, like most, would not be intimately familiar, if I recall correctly the existence of the W.M. strain itself isn't widespread, though I could easilly be wrong.

Nope, that's probably accurate too. Mostly, I am hoping Jimson will let us know one way or the other now, so we know going into whatever. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Since it came up, I'd rather ask now, than when some horrible tentacle monster is about to make with the brain rape. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Any tentacle monsters get the plasma seekers, all of them, in rapid succession. I'm an anime fan, I know what happens if they don't.

Actually, you said 'good German.' English is Englisch. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Wow, that should have been an easy one to catch. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Although, I did get that from a site of phrases. I wonder if "good German" is their equivilent of someone saying "plain English"... of course, DE proceeds to use english... so maybe I should still change it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) EIther way, you guys get the picture. DE is much better with other languages that I will ever be.

Got some reading to do it looks like. Sorry, I was out of town over the weekend and had a busy Monday. I should be able to get back to any questions tomorrow.

That is a very interesting point. The Psi Jammer says:

Psi Jammer: This device jams frequencies used
by brainwaves within a 20-meter radius. This has
no effect on brain functions, but it does prevent
any ranged used of psi sleights within this area of
effect. [Moderate]

I can take this several different ways. But, being that it says "within a 20-meter radius" I would think it would effect all ranges (close, touch, and self). I would think touch and self would be effected as well, since they are within a 20-meter radius. I was going to search the EP forums on their homepage to see if this has come up, but can't get to it from work. What do others think?

No problem. You know your characters more than I do. And fun is the number 1 priority. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Well, it does say "ranged use of slights" which I didn't think would have been necessary if we were intended to prevent all use of psi in its range. In fact, it specifically says that it has no effect on brain functions, but preventing slights with range of self would kind of do that. Doctor Esterly would be a lot worse at math, languages, and pattern matching just from being in range of a jammer.

I imagined it more like a radio jammer interacting with modern electronics, which can prevent wireless transmissions (range of close), but can't prevent wired transmission (range of touch) or the functioning of internal electronics (range of self).

The "Self" range I can understand working within a Jammer. It was when I was thinking of Touch that complicated my thinking, espeically Mindlink (range: touch, Duration: sustained). Say for instance I character wishes to use Mindlink on a fellow PC. Even though the range is Touch, the Psi is actually being produced within the 20 meters, and outside of the range of Self. Therefore, if near a Jammer, it would fail. The next question is, what if the PC current has Mindlink active on them, and someone comes near them with a Jammer? Does it interfere? Maybe I'm thinking too much.

I can go either way on the touch issue, but if we go with jammers working at that range, I'll probably touch up Doctor Esterly's comments (a few posts back) but it shouldn't really change anything. The gist of what he was saying (particularly the fact that against really scary exsurgent monsters all bets are off, anyway) will still be accurate.

Edited in place. The conversation still makes sense, so I don't think anyone else needs to go back and edit anything unless they want to.

Included all my rolls in post as well as the caveat about the way I'm using them, just wanted to repeat it here, if there is an issue with my interpretation of how the skills work please tell me.

Well since there has been no objection I would like a very brief overview of the sort of thing Murphy would be able to grab, Jimson. I can fill in most of it myself if you just want to give me a framework.

Sorry for the delay. I typically can't do detail replies on the weekend. I'll try to get a look at it today.

Sixgun, what exactly is Murphy trying to find out? Is it to see what the meeting might possibly be about?

If so, I expect Doctor Cornelius will clear that up for us momentarily, right?

I read it as he was trying to data-dump whatever the recent rumors were on his various networks - on the chance that any of them were relevant to what we are about to do.
Which sounds like a search that would result in a lot of hits, but 99.9% of which will be red-herrings and have no relation to our mission at all - so its probably not worth etiher of you going into too much detail.

Sixgun_Sage offered to fill in the blanks, so Jimson probably doesn't need to spend a lot of time coming up with anything, but if his next post would involve Dr. C introducing the mission AND if there would have been any rumors floating around that would stand out given that critical piece of information, those would be worth calling out. Like, I could imagine D. C mentioning something about some criminal cartel on board Phaelens, and then Murphy could link us to a particular piece of what he found where he recognized that cartel's name, in connection to some other news-worthy story (which still may or may not relate).

Until we get a clue about what the mission involves though, it seems like a crap-shoot. Even if there is a nugget of awesome intel in there, we won't know to look for it until we have some context.

I think for now, based on the mission (which will be my next post), you will most likely pull up red-herrings, or at least it won't seem like anything of interest until you hear the specifics. I did see you had successful Network: Firewall test, but since you are about to hear the details from your router, I'm going to hold off on writing something up. Most likely, the person you talk to will probably tell you that he believes you router will have all the details you will need. Hope that is ok Sixgun.