The Found Arcana - Chapter 10 [OOC] Options

[Jack_Spade]

As usual, please post the link to your character sheets first, before we beginn the discussion:

Bobby Walker

[Tecumseh]

Mato: https://stormy-waters-2075.obsidianportal.c...characters/mato

[Thanee]

Raven's Character Sheet

[Gilga]

https://stormy-waters-2075.obsidianportal.com/characters/am

[Gilga]

Improve logic F6: buy 4 hits (16 dice with Trouble's help).
Drain: Drain: 11d6t5 1 2 stun, she'd rest it up but no negatives yet.

Getting one more dice from Mato and another from Trouble (buying 1 hit in computers). Getting him skilled in technology is in my bucket list.

She'll have: 12 dice (computer + logic) + 4 improve logic + 2 hot sim + 2 cooperation.

so 20 dice to dig up anything she can (she'll spend a few hours) --- on my bucket list is the profiler quality which would give social bonuses after a background check, but for now lets see if she can find something to help with negotiations or make conversations more interesting. She'll spend an hour searching for Limited Interest or Not Publicized information about him, and try to guess which son he is talking about and study him.

I somehow thought it was an extended test, so this is what I rolled; her limit is 6/7 I think. (4 from deck, + 1 from overclocker + 1 software+1 from teamwork(?))
Matrix search: 20d6t5 7
Matrix search: 19d6t5 7
Matrix search: 18d6t5 6

I am not certain about the rules, but she can spend 3 hours.

[Jack_Spade]

Alright. That gives you a very detailed rundown of even relatively secret things.

Xavier is a 45 year old half-caucasian half-chinese man with a wife and three kids.

Xavier has inherited his wealth from his grandfather, who made his money in the early 2000s with selling out his company to Microsoft. He is a classical trustfund baby, albeit one with a work ethic, who managed to increase the wealth more than he is spending it.

He holds stock mainly in Ares related companies and is very involved in trid productions. There are some substantial rumors that he took advantage of several simsense models - not necessarily rape, but certainly coercion. There are several surpressed blog posts on the matter. Xavier threw a lot of money at those to make them disappear.

He is married, but his wife lives in Europe most of the time, so it's likely there isn't much love lost.

Xavier's oldest son Xavier IV (yes the family isn't very inventive where male names are concerned) is magically active, 20 years old and supposedly was at MIT&T, but made it out before the whole blackout thing happened. He has two sisters - twins - of 16 years, Ygritte and Zara. They are both at an elite boarding school in Switzerland.

Xavier III does have a large private collection of magical artifacts, but as far as you can find out, no tarot cards.

In the last nine months Xavier III has spend a lot of time visiting and staying at very expensive clinics catering to the rich and ultra rich.

[Jack_Spade]

Information on Xavier IV is a lot more sparse, no matter how deep you dig.

Born 20 years ago, phenotyp homo sapiens sapiens, was tested for magic at 10 and attested vast potential.
Received private tutoring and the best education you can get for money - including intensive simsense courses - so that he qualified for accellerated entrance to MIT&T.
All that effort was somewhat wasted when the institute was shut down a year later and he had to contend with only attending university in LA.

The boy has made no apperances in the screamsheets or shown other reckless behavior that would garner him interest in the matrix - despite there being a lot of eyes looking for him.

But he seems to have initiated at least once, since he wrote a thesis last year about "The inconclusive evidence of souls". The work focuses on how consciousness can be separated from the physical body and how - with enough effort - a mage could learn to materialize.

[Thanee]

Materialize? I think you mean manifest. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

Nope, this time I checked 😉

[Thanee]

Okay... would be strange, though, if a mage could actually do that. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

Spoiler: it's doable by RAW (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

[Gilga]

How?

[Tecumseh]

This is news to me too. It sounded like a good plot, since the boundaries of what's possible change all the time.

Gilga, dragons can astrally project too.

[Jack_Spade]

How?

You're about to find out (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Gilga]

This is news to me too. It sounded like a good plot, since the boundaries of what's possible change all the time.

Gilga, dragons can astrally project too.

Nice catch, I edited a bit.

[Thanee]

I don't know of any method that works, but I do not know 5E well enough to know everything. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Maybe some weird possession-related stuff.

Anyways, I am sceptical until convinced otherwise. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

Answers to Mato's IP questions:

The simsense models were all tall blondes of pinup proportions.

The clinics are delta clinics with specialization on gene treatment.

[Beta]

When Jack had said he'd take the holiday weekend to prep this section, I checked out for the weekend. I see I'm coming back well behind, and will again be playing catch-up. Sorry.

Here is Tamarind's character sheet.

I still haven't spent nuyen, but I'll update it for lifestyle and debt payment and assume that she is negotiating/dithering about further spending. (One thing that I need to figure out is the cost for modifying drones? Or is it pure skill roles? But it seems that if you change out an internal taser for a pistol there would be associated hardware bits and bobs that would have a cost?).

First IC post may be tomorrow (have a concert to go to tonight, not sure I'll have time to get all the way caught up on the IC thread in time to post anything useful).

[Tecumseh]

We haven't incurred any Lifestyle payments yet, and I think Tamarind had her first month pre-paid anyway. We'll do Lifestyles after this chapter most likely.

[Gilga]

For AM:
Ward passing: 15d6t5 4 so the charisma spell would drop as she passes.

For Trouble:
passing ward: 10d6t5 3

What happens on a tie, do we have the cat with us?

[Tecumseh]

Mato perception: Intuition 6 + Perception 5 + Attention Coprocessor 1: 12d6t5 5 hits

[Gilga]

perception: 10d6t5 2 oh, I might have over written her (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Jack_Spade]

Resist: 12d6t5 6

Vs. Trouble Resist: 12d6t5 5

Very mean wards it seems.

Looks like AM stands outside, pantomiming

[Gilga]

M, she'll have to try again (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
pass ward: 15d6t5 7

[Jack_Spade]

Resist: 12d6t5 2

Second try works - would you mind rolling the resistance rolls yourself? It speeds things up quite a bit 😉