2072 [+4 Months], Multiple Players / GMs - Recruitment Always Open Options

[ChromeZephyr]

@Aria: New post up, sheet upgraded with new gear. Let me know if what I did isn't kosher. I'll put up a post for E:CoP tomorrow.

@NSEDM: Post up for Alex, ready to move on. Sheet edited with new gear. Is ¥400 an acceptable finder's fee? I can alter that, it just seemed like a good number.

[Machine Ghost]

@Aria,
Sprogget is ready to have Nimbus call back, after Tweak passes the message along. I think I/Sprogget am/is all caught up on the planned stuff. Just need to reload LeO, and decide what drone(s) to add to the collection. I have some spec'd out. Sensor platforms, so not near as expensive/involved as LeO.

Since Oyl has been published, it might be possible to use her / her contacts with the street, to find out more about what the Spined Drakes have been up to recently, and where they are calling home / operating from.

[Aria]

Sprogget needs more / other drones for doing 'sweeps' in hostile territory.  Now how am I going to pick that up IC?  Something else to get from Fre∑dom I guess.  LeO has good firepower, but something with better sensors when looking for traps and ambushes.  Fly-Spy, or better Dragonfly looks good for walking speed patrol, but not really fast enough if driving.  Crawler is possible for slow patrol (speed 50).  Roto-drone and doberman for faster patrols.  Well I should have a couple more IC posts before I need to have specs.  I figure I can pick something up when I bring LeO down to reload.  Assuming LeO does not glitch when I try to take him out again!  Got to get to the shop, got to get to the shop (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

How much / how fast could Sprogget repair the monocycle, from the electrical damage. Using hardware and automotive toolkits? Plus what he (and Spring/Tweak) could quickly scavenge from the Fre∑dom shop/supplies? Juryrigger RC98 quality could apply here, to get a temporary (handling) boost (compensate for damage negatives), without actual full repair.

Coming up: Assuming Sprogget (or others) get a decent look at that radio gear, it should be possible to tune/adjust the radio signal scanner to detect them. They have to be detectable at some level, for the intended receivers to get the signal. That can be minimized by only have a (detectable) signal active when actually in use for communications, but to use with tacnet would need an always on connection.

Assuming you can afford them with your karma/nuyen rewards (and I know you've made a load of posts and are probably swimming in proverbial cash) then you can pick some drones up from Fre∑dom storage and get a couple more when you get back home!

The damage to the monobike was 'blast' rather than electrical and it is mangled! Juryrigger probably would work but given that it's on 6+boxes of damage (???) I'd probably give fixing it an hour interval, juryrigging it maybe 5mins (and don't go over any bumps! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif) )

The radios aren't sufficient bandwidth to run modern wifi through (the lot that attacked you weren't running a tacnet!). Presumably you can indeed detect them and probably easily break the encryption as it's dated! If you want to retroactively have a 'prisoner' from the lot you dispatched then I'm happy with that too!

Oh, and the AK is an assault rifle but Sprogget can call it a carbine if he wants without unduly changing anything!

@Aria,
Sprogget is ready to have Nimbus call back, after Tweak passes the message along. I think I/Sprogget am/is all caught up on the planned stuff. Just need to reload LeO, and decide what done(s) to add to the collection. I have some spec'd out. Sensor platforms, so not near as expensive/involved as LeO.

Since Oyl has been published, it might be possible to use her / her contacts with the street, to find out more about what the Spined Drakes have been up to recently, and where they are calling home / operating from.

Doing my best but this is going to be a busy week and then I'm on holiday for two weeks with uncertain internet access ((IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) )...

Yes, you can speak to Oyl and use her contacts...let's just say that the information she will have is out of date (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

Anyone else read a threat into that last bit, or was it just me? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) Tenuous is about the level of connection I've got, mainly through poor memory of the couple games of ED I ever played back in the day. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Switching gears to Scrapheap, is it an AK carbine like Machine Ghost is saying, or is it the assault rifle? I thought it was the assault rifle, I'll modify the ammo amount I have if it's the SMG.

Threat? Who me? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

As above, it's an assault rifle so you are fine!

[Aria]

Another Balefire post finally up. If anyone is interested in tracking the story so far:

Summer Storm

Feedback very welcome! I haven't got any from over there yet... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[ChromeZephyr]

Post up for CoP. This should be entertaining. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Machine Ghost]

@NSEDM,
From the latest IC post, I am guessing you missed this in that book|block of posts.

.. snip ..

Switching from VR to AR for a moment, Sprogget gets the empty Faraday cage bag out of his hip pack, and puts it open in a large pocket of the coverall.  Full, the bag would never fit in the pocket, but empty there is lots of room.  He arranges it, so that the Airware commlink can be placed inside the bag, where it still has matrix access through the open top, but so that the bag can be closed quickly to block signal access.  Powering the Airware on, he immediately places it in the bag, then returns to VR to wait through the startup process.

@self:Frankenhunter’s task|purpose|programming is to seek|acquireinformation about >1rtu@l5cr3@m.  I wonder ...

@Frank-Hunter:“This {Airware node icon} contains an instance|part|segment of the >1rtu@l5cr3@m entity|virus that I wish to review.  Can you provide me access|credentials to get in there, or have the instance already in there open the door to let me in?  That is without changing it.  I want to look at it when it is not merged with|part of|fused with|inside of a sprite”.

@self:Or am I going to have to break down the door|firewall?  If so, I wonder if I can use that ping Frankenhunter told me about to make it easier?  I don’t use Exploit enough to be good at it.  I could use a 'Cracker', but then I’d lose the Professor, and I want to have the knowledge when looking at the real thing.  Maybe LeFey could help, if Frankenhunter can’t|won’t.  This is not like the Fre∑dom sensor mesh.  This time I do care about triggering alerts.  Although a normal standard commlink couldn’t do much more than tell an authorized user, which does not exist here, or shutdown|reboot.  There shouldn’t be any IC.  An Airware does not really have the resources for that.

Initially ignoring that for the next IC post, which will also get some of the higher priority (Sprogget’s perspective) questions from that big list explicitly asked.  Or at least ask explicit questions that should provide the start of the 'cascade chains' that should get to the related details.

Note: Analytical Mind quality RC96 gives +2 bonus for several things, including pattern recognition.

Re mapsoft: Visualizations I could do today, with the right tools:  base map with physical location mapped as icons.  Turn that 3D by making the height above the map be the device rating.  Switch that height to be the age of the infection.  Different icons for device types.  Change color for nodes that have vanished.  Icon size can be either rating or age, depending which visualization is being used.  Play back as a movie to see motion and time.  Play the movie showing only the nodes that will be gone by the end.
Repeat that using a matrix connectivity map as the base, instead of a real world map.  That will be more complex to visualize, since topology is more complex, and more dynamic, but there is a core infrastructure that sticks around over time.

[Machine Ghost]

@Mach_Ten,
Your recent post for Crow is not showing any commlink or SIN information.  Is crow not carrying / using a commlink?  Been staying that far off the beaten path?

@Aria

Assuming you can afford them with your karma/nuyen rewards (and I know you've made a load of posts and are probably swimming in proverbial cash) then you can pick some drones up from Fre∑dom storage and get a couple more when you get back home!
Not as much as you might think.  Drones, and good sensors are not cheap.  Unless I want to go with the base device rating 3 sensors anyway.

The damage to the monobike was 'blast' rather than electrical and it is mangled!  Juryrigger probably would work but given that it's on 6+boxes of damage (???) I'd probably give fixing it an hour interval, juryrigging it maybe 5mins (and don't go over any bumps! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif) )
6 boxes.  Must get to the shop ... must get to the shop.

The radios aren't sufficient bandwidth to run modern wifi through (the lot that attacked you weren't running a tacnet!).  Presumably you can indeed detect them and probably easily break the encryption as it's dated!  If you want to retroactively have a 'prisoner' from the lot you dispatched then I'm happy with that too!
So treat as a hidden node, with increased threshold for nonstandard wireless link UN196.  Effectively what I did for LeO.  That seems as close as I can come for game mechanics, although that seems oriented toward using scan.  Radio signal scanner is really a hardware clone of sniffer SR4A334, but all of the described usages are around intercepting traffic and capture wireless signals SR4A234/229/230, but simple detection should be much simpler.  Once detected, and brought to the users attention, then the harder, more detailed checks could be attempted.  I just don’t see the game mechanics for doing that.

Ignoring the possible prisoner, unless one of the other Jailbreakers want to post up something about it.  Sprogget was too busy with other issues to think about it at the time.

Oh, and the AK is an assault rifle but Sprogget can call it a carbine if he wants without unduly changing anything!
Right.  Just AK-97 instead of AK-97 Carbine.  Changed a couple of words in previous posts to match.  Most of the time the posts were vague, since I did not have the reference handy for what it actually was.

Doing my best but this is going to be a busy week and then I'm on holiday for two weeks with uncertain internet access ((IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) )...
That has been waiting for a while, for me to get the background setup, so more is fine.

Yes,  you can speak to Oyl and use her contacts...let's just say that the information she will have is out of date (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)
Yep.  Takes a bit of time for the information to filter through the street grape vine.


Threat? Who me? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

As above, it's an assault rifle so you are fine!

Given existing event sequence, I'll wait on your next post referencing the call to Cam before I post the next E:Tribes bit. Which is currently planned to (among other things) overhear Crow and say hi.

[Machine Ghost]

@Aria,
I am putting a post up IC for Oyl, at the soup kitchen/medical station.  Doc White should have been at the complex, as of 19:30ish.  If she is still around, and not tied up with Anna, she could arrive to help.
Resources: 1 medical station rating 6 AU124, supporting 2 simultaneous patients.  Was supposed to be 2 stations, but the money ran out first.  Hmm, I do have enough post cash to change that now though, so it is 2 medical stations, soon as I do the 'paper work'.
Also those are in 'sanitized' rooms next to the soup kitchen, 'certified' for medical use, with other rooms with pad/mattress on the floor for resting/recovery areas.  The soup kitten area doubles as the waiting room.

@Mach_Ten,
Sprogget has a full 'supper to go' package in his backpack, that he brought from home (courtesy of mother), that he has been just plain too busy to eat.  Available if Crow mentions something once he says hello.  It will even have some natural/real food in there (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Aria]

Love the CoP posts (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Machine Ghost, will try and respond to your questions asap...

As an incentive to read through my Balefire stories (see the link a couple of posts ago) I'm offering karma incentives to anyone who reads and comments / questions the plot etc. Constructive criticism will net a little more (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Mach_Ten]

@Mach_Ten,
Your recent post for Crow is not showing any commlink or SIN information.  Is crow not carrying / using a commlink?  Been staying that far off the beaten path?

Ahh yes sorry, that is the case,

in fact, if you want to mention it in IC it would act as a reminder that he has nearly forgotten what is standard when back in populated areas,
that the omission of something so simple makes him stand out in a crowd more than he would like to.

He will then activate it and move it to passive ID: Jim Crow and I'll post it up

cheers

[mister__joshua]

@NSEDM

Finally got a Cipher post up. Sorry it's taken a while. It's only a short one because I wanted to see the reactions of the kidnappers before deciding whether to run for it or try and sneak away/blend in.



Also, I'm on holiday next week. My games aren't generally fast-moving enough as you'd notice I was gone, but I thought it's polite to say so anyway (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Machine Ghost]

Ahh yes sorry, that is the case,

in fact, if you want to mention it in IC it would act as a reminder that he has nearly forgotten what is standard when back in populated areas,
that the omission of something so simple makes him stand out in a crowd more than he would like to.

He will then activate it and move it to passive ID: Jim Crow and I'll post it up

cheers

Will do, but next post in that thread/location/timeline holding pending Aria update. Sprogget is in full VR until then, laying in the back of the van. Then he will be busy in AR for a few minutes, doing emergency repairs to the monocycle, so he can hear/chat 'in the physical'.