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[Veggiesama]

Just played a session where we ran into two separate problems with the scatter rules, leaving us scratching our heads.

First, my character was holed up in a convenience store and threw a pair of grenades through the window outside at a massive ice spirit (force 8, though I didn't know that at the time!) that was capable of chucking cars at us.

With a lousy dicepool of about 10 (Agi 5 + Throwing 1 + Lobbing spec 2 + Tacsoft 2), I still managed to score 2 net hits over the spirit's Reaction roll (-2 area attack) on the Opposed Test. Great, I thought. We rolled scatter (Book isn't with me now, I believe it was 1d6 minus 2 per net hit, and I rolled a 4) and reduced the scatter to 0 meters. In one more pass, the grenade would explode at the ice spirit's, er, feet.

However, things got silly with my second grenade (Adept using Quick Draw power to get them both out in one pass). I managed no hits, and the spirit easily beat me. We rolled scatter and I got a 6. The direction was towards me. The spirit was only 5m away, so somehow the grenade was now 1m behind me. So we RP'd that I dropped it, which I grumbled about, but let it go, since someone else was able to grab it and throw it before it went off.

(Before the grenades exploded, the spirit ducked in an alley way, and neither boom could muster enough DV to break its hardened armor. Whoops.)

Did we do this correctly?

Second, this ice spirit wasn't going down, so we tried to escape. Everyone jumped into my truck. One guy (Sensho) picked up an AV one-shot rocket launcher and fired it out the back as the spirit gave chase.

I don't remember the rolls exactly, but Sensho rolled more hits than the spirit on the Attack test. Let's say there were 2 net hits. Then came the Scatter roll. It was 4d6 - 1 net hit (SR4A). WTF? If Sensho rolled an average of 14, it was reduced to 12.

We were only 10-15m away from the spirit. So a decent shot with 2 net hits ended up scattering 12m in some random direction, which got reduced to 0 by the time it got to the spirit (since the AV rocket had like -4/m on the blast, I think).

GM saw this, said "Ignore the scatter rules," and Sensho hit the spirit, bypassed its armor, and sent the ice spirit to a fiery hell.

So did we do anything wrong here?

Any tips or suggestions?