OOC - Land of Nine Dragons, Enter the Tiger, Mysteries of the East Options

[De Badd Ass]

[Konsaki]

I'm thinking we would do well in having a IC thread to start our character interactions...

[Guest_MK Ultra_*]

Mh-kay, I´ll take a look around

[ Spoiler ]

Intuition (2) + Perception (1) + Visual/Audio (3) + Observe in Detail (3) = 9 dice
[5] 4 4 2 2 [5] 1 [5] [5] Hits:4


Also comanding my agent to take a look around VR & scan for signals
Agent (3) + Analyse (3) = 6 dice
[5] 1 3 [6] [5] 3 Hits:3

Agent (3) + Scan (3) + Radio Signal Scanner (6) = 12 dice
[6] [6] 1 [6] 3 4 [5] 1 4 3 2 4 Hits:4

Should we state our actions planed for the next minutes here, or go through it in IC?
My actions would depend very much on the other´s actions, because if someting isn´t done, he thinks should be done, he´s going to yell commands.

EDIT: Ah, Hack, he´s going to yell commands anyway :D

This post has been edited by MK Ultra: Nov 20 2006, 08:59 AM

[Konsaki]

Just dont be surpriesed if Hikaru freaks a bit when you start yelling, this is a stressful situation that she is having to experience for the first time. She doesnt have the background the old man does. :P

[toturi]

Since this is OOC, may I remind you that yelling anything at a upscale hotel is both bad for guanxi(connection) and mainzi(face)? Discretion, people. And "looting" is generally frowned upon, especially if it is something as flashy as gold bullion.

Screaming, however, is expected when one chances upon a corpse. :P By the way, does everyone have a bulletproof fake SIN or a real SIN? My suggestion is that we do not take the money at least until hotel security has been bought off, KE might not be as corrupt but the sec provider for the hotel might be more easily persuaded. So who is our Face?

[Konsaki]

Well... questions might be brought up as to why we had access to a room with a stack of 9 gold bars and a dead body... Also, once they take a good look at our ragtag group their minds will scream "Shadowrunners".

Best bet would be to follow Fooey's plan and grab the gold, followed by cleaning up the mess. (I.E. the fact that we were even there) That means astral cleaning, matrix cleaning, along with physical world junk like fingerprints and whatnot.

[Guest_MK Ultra_*]

DireRadiant did we get there straight from the run or was it finished at least half a day before we met at the hotel? My attire depends on it.

toturi well, we are not in public but in the privacy of the hotel suite (which is sound proof - the moment Fooey opens the doors, my PC will stop), and since we are a team in a stressfull situation, yelling seemed apropriate. Still he won´t actually shout comands like a drill-sergant ;)
I thought about the staying at the room thing, too - but no ID is bullet proof. Of course new year celebrations are a good excuse for the gethering of a group as ours, as well (but it critically depends on everyone staying to have an ID and not beeing recognizable on first sight as waring a professional criminal outfit).

Konseki
Don´t worry, I imagind he´d say something like 'learn a Stabilize spell' ;)

[BlackHat]

[De Badd Ass]

[DireRadiant]

IC Thread is up.

MK Ultra - The run was done a short time ago, the critical time would have been midnight when the fireworks went off. It's still reasonable to have changed in the mean time though. The run went smoothly. So unless it takes you jmore then an hour to dress, you can be dressed how you like. In fact, it might stand out to not be dressed for partying on this night.

Every character is different, and has a different understanding of the situation and how they will react.

My suggestion is this, OOC I can let you know there will be at least a few minutes grace period unless a PC deliberately does something that gest an immediate response from whatever NPC ro world might be around. However, given yout number, and the differing reactions to this unplanned event, keep the elapsed IC time of your first few IC posts short to allow for the itneraction and actions between characters.

I'll also comment that OOC discussion of actions doesn't lock you into IC actions, it's just what you state as initially what the you expect the character to do, when you actually get there, the situation might be different.

[DireRadiant]

For everyone making perception checks and posting rolls, feel free to read the spoilers at the relevant levels and you can incorporate that as IC knowledge. The information gleaned from the perception tests are the results of at least ten to twenty seconds of examination or more, so keep the elapsed time in gaining the information in mind.

If you did make a roll and make use of the info, it's presumed it took some time.

What this means is that some information might not be revealed until there is already some PC actions taking place, so keep that in mind in this initial scene.

This initial scene is an important one for establishing character interactions and the thread of future invents, so don't be surprised if we take some time to navigate through it.

[DireRadiant]

[De Badd Ass]

[BlackHat]

I think they must be the style of header used in the first IC post - but, for reference, I'd like a good explaination too. :-D

[DireRadiant]

[toturi]

Guys, is anyone NOT dressed appropriately? If we are, then it is not inconceivable that someone with the jiuce to book a suite invite some "friends" over for a Chinese New Year party. And as host it would have been good etiquette to have gifts. As long as we do not act inappropriately, like take the goddamned gold, and alert the proper authorities - remember if this is Chinese New Year, the top management will want to keep the incident quiet, as a publicised murder would be an inauspicious start to the New Year.

I think that we stand a good chance of just walking away if we don't act like we are shadowrunners. That is up to the rest of you to decide.

And Ultra, you'd lose guanxi and mianzi with respect to any native Chinese associates on the team if you wish to act inappropriately. But in a metagame sense, it wouldn't matter since we are all PCs and there isn't any real repercussions barring PC-PC conflict.

[BlackHat]

Blaze will be wearing his shadowrunning outfit (black and red longcoat + urban explorer jumpsuit)- he's pretty much not seen wihtout it unless there is some reason to disguise himself. Now, we may have one, but it is entirely too late to change. He defiantly wouldn't have shown up in a tux or anything - he came to get paid.

[toturi]

I think as long as no-one walked in wearing a camoflage suit/full combat armor and a shield, we should be fine. I've seen some really weird party getups in Hong Kong Peninsula Hotel myself.

Cloud is wearing his Actioneer, in case DR wants to know.

[Konsaki]

Hikaru is wearing a black sports shirt, light grey cargo pants and grey boots (standard dance fare for a club hopping girl her age). She is wearing her long shock gloves, but she has a license for them.
Right now her foci are turned off.

[amra28]

Wu Xian is wearing his regular business casual clothes and black, leather duster.

[Guest_MK Ultra_*]

[DireRadiant]

To gain some insight into the current situation you may roll the following

Charisma + Etiquette
- 2 dice penalty if not native to Hong Kong

Threshold 2

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- The hotel would most likely prefer to handle things with their internal security.
- If it's clear the team isn't involved in the death, the hotel is unlikely to pursue matters further. The status of guests of a guests, which having permission to enter the room prove, accords the team some status to be treated as guests.
- Having your Johnson die while you were working with them, even if you had nothing to do with it might be considered bad luck. Who wants to hire bad luck?
- For non natives, the long term relationship and reputation of runners and johnsons are very seriously tracked in Hong Kong. They really matter.

Actual encounter charisma rolls will be done seperately

[BlackHat]

Just the "face" (who is that anyways)? or shoudl everybody roll?

[DireRadiant]

[BlackHat]

Since i would be defaulting, I'll volunteer NOT to be the guy who has to explain this one to the hotel. ;-)