OOC: Another Day, An SR4 run... Options

[BishopMcQ]

CX2--The Sting is IIRC harder to detect with a MAD...it will still pick up on a cyberware scanner.

Sparky--So far no one has admitted to having an item lost.

[cx2]

I'm just trying to understand this. I know the SR4 rules are a little holey, it just read like it was immune to detection. Here's the quote. I'm not trying to argue, just trying to get it straight in my head. Is there a difference between cyberware scanners and mad scanners? I thought they were the same thing.

Sting: This weapon’s “lemon squeezer”
design (the gun’s barrel protrudes from
between the firer’s fingers and it’s fired by making
a fist) and its polyresin composition (undetectable
by MAD scanners) makes for a very stealthy
weapon. It fires flechette ammunition only (already
included in the weapon stats).


By the way, I think it's fair to assume PU left his sting in the coat check. Better than letting some yobs find it if they take an interest in his bike.

[BishopMcQ]

CX2--MAD scanners are basically metal detectors. Cyberware scanners are "millimeter wave detection systems" and will detect the presence of Cyberware and weapons. (SR4, p. 255 breaks it down) I'm perfectly fine with it being left at coatcheck.

Consider it a minor thing at the moment--no one inside the Looking Glass has any weapons and you will all get your weapons back when you leave.

[cx2]

Ah, thanks. I'm still finding my feet, sorry if I get confused a little with one or two things.

I'm leaving my posts be anyway, it's probably fiar to say that PU doesn't know enough about security and has probably heard Raecors are difficult to detect.

[cx2]

Hmmm... An angle I hadn't considered. I know medical centres aren't exactly a street doc's thing, but is there any sort of roll I can make to see if he knows anything? Slim chance I know, only fair to ask.

Edit:
Just to let you know any response from me'll have to wait until morning now (I'm on GMT). I know it's not terribly late, but I got hit by a cold over the weekend and I'm still shaking it off.

[BishopMcQ]

CX2--Throw me some Street Rumors or possibly your Medical background skill but the version I have says Medical dr, so I don't know if that's drugs or doctors...If all else fails you can always call people, Etiquette can be used for your legwork.

Team--You seem to be in the planning phase, let me know if you are going to sound out any contacts or do a data search. (Remember data searches are now measured in 1 minute increments rather than hours and days.)

[Buddha72]

Compiling a Data Sprite Rating 4
06 06 05 05 05 04 04 03 (5 hits)

(as per PM with McQuillan)
Sprite buys 1 hit

Fading 2 Stun
Buying 2 hits

So 4 tasks on the sprite

Task 1 is do a data search on the street clinic for 10 minutes
Task 2 is do a data search on the target Finn for 10 minutes
Task 3 is do a dtata search on the TAO project for 10 minutes

The sprite will buy 2 successes per 30 second period so each test will have 40 hits total. Let's see what we find.

[cx2]

It was drugs. I'll roll on street rumours. I think it was linked to intuition, if I'm wrong please correct me. It probably won't give the same sort of info as more closely related knowledge,n but here goes nothing.

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Intuition 5 + street rumours 2
1 1 2 3 5 1 5
2 hits. Odd pattern from the dice roller too...

I didn't roll on etiquette since I'd have to default, and I'd be lucky to get one hit on that with my charisma.

[BishopMcQ]

CX2--You've heard some mention of the clinic having a lot more funding than it looks like from the outside. Scattered reports are linked to some company or corp that had a recent merger to increase capital.

[BishopMcQ]

Fix/Tash/Sparky--Are the three of you doing any checks or thinking in the half hour before the Sprite comes back?

Team--Are you waiting on the Sprite's info before calling the Johnson?

[Cang]

mind if i take your group and make them npcs on the npcwiki. i know i am behind already but i would love to add them. i like them very much.

ps... sorry to have barged in... i guess i didnt notice you all were having a run.. hehe.. sorry again. :cyber:

[BishopMcQ]

Cang--that's up to the players.

[HeySparky]

I'll do an area knowledge Seattle to see if Vadeux can recall anything noteworthy about the area.

Check:
01 03 05 05

2 Hits! Hopefully that meets some useful threshold. :)

[BishopMcQ]

Sparky--The clinic is south of Downtown just inside the industrial sector. Lots of warehouses and heavy equipment.

[HeySparky]

That's a Data Search roll, defaulting to Logic (2) which gives me a whopping DP of 1.

How often will Edge refresh in our game since there aren't easily defined sessions?

[Buddha72]

Cang feel free to toss Widget up. :D

[BishopMcQ]

Sparky--At scene changes.

[Fix-it]

[Buddha72]

Well I only need a vehicle for the combat drone at this point but I think someone must have a vehicle we can put them in. :D

Or we could go out and steal one real quick too.

This post has been edited by Buddha72: Feb 10 2006, 05:43 AM

[cx2]

You'd have to find out IC, but PU has a banged up old van he uses mainly for when there are serious incidents involving gang battles or the like. You could probably fit a couple of people in the back, but it's more for medical treatment (4 medkits).

[HeySparky]

Vadeux has a sedan. Not sure if a combat drone would fit. They're motorcycle sized, right?

Rolling Edge on Vadeux's musing on the building history... Logic (2 -1) + Edge (6)

6 (rerolled 4) 1 hit
5 1 hit
2
6 (rerolled 6, rerolled 4) 2 hits
1
4
4

Showed them in order. How do you separate which dice are the skill dice and which are the edge dice (exploding)? Or do you?

[BishopMcQ]

Sparky--If you declare the use of edge before you roll, all the dice related to the test are effected by the rule of sixes. The only time you need to sort the dice, is if you roll and decide that you still need more successes and then choose to use edge. In that case you roll your edge dice and only they will "explode".

Looks like a total of 4 hits.

The huge (6m across) ovens used to roast coffee beans have been pulled out, but their casings and frames are still intact. That means either that they have been converted to some other usage (Storage?) or they have probably just been drywalled/concreted/bricked over. The large heat vents are still open to the sky above, but the filters will probably either have been removed and sold for salvage or rusted through the joints and fallen in under the weight of assorted debris.

[BishopMcQ]

Buddha--
Street Clinic
South Seattle Medical center began as a free clinic helping with industrial accidents and worker's injuries in the industrial areas south of Downtown Seattle. Following the Crash of 65, psychiatric facility began seeing a lot of patients with Artificially Induced Psychotropic Schizophrenia, at that point they received a corporate grant from Ikekara Inc. Ikekara shuttled the acute psych patients to a mental hospital and helped update the failing technology within the clinic.

Finn
Mention of a shadowrunner named Finn comes up a few times. He has a diminished matrix presence, but he is said to be a professional gun. Specialties are longarms, with a special penchant for sniper rifles. Methodical, he's been seen most frequently with a fixer known as The Suit. The main thing that stands out is a shift in MO. Whereas previously he had been completely money driven, something happened around the time of the Comet to cause him to re-evaluate his position. Now he seems to have a strange moral agenda that is backing the runs he and his team take.

Tao Project
Tactically Augmented Organisms. No one has ever been able to prove the existence of a specific super-soldier program, but there has always been speculation. During the Crash, secrets were leaked from several hundred minor hosts that had become compromised. At that point, program goals of a Tao Project were leaked from a Takara Corporate host. Many people believed that the reference was to the Greek letter Tao, but conspiracy theorists within the shadows are saying that they might finally have the proof they need.

[Tashio]

Buddah you makeing your search info public?

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Notes to Self based on Buddah's info.

Connection between Mr Finn, The Suit, and Changelings. (MO)

Connection between Mr J and The Suit and Mr Finn.

Who is Ikekara Inc.

Why would TAO need to be in a clinic thats has a big focus on Mental issues. Or is it mental patients that are being shiped out and suited out.

[Buddha72]

I don't think 30 mins as come by yet in the IC thread. McQuillan?