New Orleans -In With the Family, OOC - comparing notes Options

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OK, here is the updated locations and Cast of Shadows for In With The Family.

IWTF started as a table top game and has since jumped to the forum , so the first 4 or so pages are discussion about the first game ,then the on line bits next.

First we'll start with some of the house rules in effect. Never really formally posted them, so this may be added upon later.

Smartgun link applies to two weapon firing - It makes no sense that the targeting sights that appear in your line of sight suddenly have no effect what so ever because you are using two guns. That rule is gone.

Common Sense Points - A lot of times, people come up with great ideas of hilarious comments in games. Those deserve reqrds, but karma is a bit much. So I reward Common Sense Points (CSP). Essentially, they work the same as karma, but can only be applied to knowledge skills. Knowledge skills are great, but rarely raised, because everyone puts their karma on active skills. This fixes that.

Bad Karma - Doing something very screwed up, like being an major ass, or doing something just plain evil in game, such as raping a goat or stealing candy from babies. That can get you bad karma, which is essentially edge for the opposition.

Edge for NPCs - Everyone has edge. Keep this in mind. It may not be a lot, but it's there.

Soft caps on skills and attributes, no modified max from cyber or magic
Cyber is built in, so it makes no sense that it should stop at 9 for attributes. Same goes for magic. Skills and attributes can go over 7 (after buying Exceptional Attribute or Apptitude), but increase the multiplier by 1 (skills x2 becomes x3 ,etc).

Improved Physical Attribute Adept Power changed
It makes no sense that you can buy cyber and raise atttributes normally, but when you use magic, it costs more to raise the attribute. So it doesn't. It also makes no sense to make it cost 2 magic points once it goes over the normal attribute. So it doesn't. This all seems to be an attempt to nerf physads attributes, when they were already expensive enough to begin with. With powers like Critical Strike, it makes no sense to make normal attributes so much more expensive.

The "Oh Shit!" Card Occassionally you'll have a character that has been around for a long long time , and has used up his/her Hand Of God. I also ignore the rule about being able to use HoG once by brning off a point of Edge. Having 8 HoG's is just ridiculous. But as a happy medium, I use the "Oh Shit!" card.
You can buy one for 50 karma. I also sometimes give one out for birthdays. :D You can basically save your self from one "Oh Shit!" moment by burning the card, such as , say dying. Doesn't come up a lot, but it just might save your llife.

Qualities
---+2 qualities The BBB has qualities that apply a +2 to a number of specializations, such as hacking/exploit. Specilization qualities as we'll call them are available for any non-combat skill, including spellcasting/counterspelling for the same BP/Karma cost.
---Neg Qualities There is not a limit to the Negatvie qualities you can take ,as long as the ones you use aren't ridiculous such as Incompetent:Archery. If you want your character to have a number of crutches, that's just fine. Neg qualities also do not count towards notoriety. The fact that you suck with computers, or are addicted to cigarettes, are not going to make a bit of difference in most social situations.


Cast of Shadows

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Shadowland-New Orleans
This Shadowland node was estabnlished not long after the crash. It's security is what people have come to expect from Shadowland, starting with being impossible to find without a good list of references. It's SysOp is an old hand named Sandman who set up shop in New Orleans with a couple of other experienced hackers -LAN, Elsie Dee, and Zephyr. They handle a lot of data exchange, ,especially smuggling niformation and patrol routes. Their system architecture is set up to look like a 24/7 Mardi Gras. Data nodes appear as bars most of the time, but good luck spotting the IC in the crwod. Better to mind your manners.

Temptation
Tempatation is a classy bordello located just off of Bourbon street. The buidling it's self is three stories, done in clean, black reflective glass. The AR overlay is done very subtly, so that erotic and exotic images slowly slide across the glass, just perceptible enough to be enjoyed. It caters to both genders, and all metatypes. Although the clientele is predominatly male, Cynthia pays special attention to the needs of her female guests. There are areas of the club that are "Ladies Only".
The first floor boasts a small but excellent restaturant, a lounge/parlor, and a stage room. Private booths and rooms are available here for a price, some iwth a view of the stage. The second floor is reserved for offices, and massage parlors, and other "pamper rooms" for the guests. The third floor is where the working girls ply their trade. Tempation is run in person by Cynthia Vicenete, a caporegime within the Kozlowski family. It is her brain child, and her pride and joy. It is also an excellent money maker, and a secure place to get business done.

Liquid Blues
The Liquid Blues Night Club is about as trendy as clubs gets. The club's decorations are done in heavy chrome, steel blues, and black, with plenty of neon blue to go with it. The AR display's here are intense, and some rumors suggest that the writer employed a bit of simsense emotive tracks and maybe ever psychotropic waves to enhance the club goers "good times".
Cyber, body art, nano tattoos, full body dyes, are all the norm here rather than the rule. The club is corp owned though so forget about packing any hardware in to this place. They won't want you scaring the corp kids away.

Ace in the Hole
A quiet little pool hall in a less reputable quarter of New Orleans, the Aceis a dive, bar included. It's got a dozen pool tables, all suprisingly level, that get frequent use from the locals, and little to no tourists. It's a well reputed place for cutting street deals, as the trideo usually plays loud enough to cover regular conversation. Most of the deals that are done here are drug deals, or small time larceny. The NOPS don't bother wit ha place like this, because it pays its collections moeny to the Kozlowski family in time every month.

Due to a recent drive by that riddled the front of the place with bullets, followed by a spell battle that blew out a wall, this venue is currently closed.

The Pink Elephant
A sleezy little dive in an out of the way place in town, The Pink Elephant is more than it seems. The owner is a "swing" fan, and so old 1940's-50's music plays here constatly. The bar has a rep as rough and tumble. There's two pool tables, concrete flooring, and a bar that once had someone's head put through it. The bartender, Sleezy P. Maritini, is indeed a sleezy, greasy, balding little man. But he's also an excellent source of underworld information. The bouncer, a troll named Ed, is suprisingly intelligent and courteous. He is also very in to proper Japanese etiquette.
Beneath the Elephant is "The Pink". It's one of New Orleans' only opium dens, and also does quite a lot of business in te flesh trade. Rumors say that they even have a clinic for making "Nadja Daviars", the slang term applied to anyone that has had work done to look like a famous personage, in order to command a higher price.


The Naughty Kitten
This strip joint is a combination gentleman's club and seedy strip joint, divided into more or less equal parts. In the gentleman's section, there is also a small restaurant that serves authentic italian dishes as well as local flavors. The food is superb, if a bit expensive. "Regulars" however, usually get a discont, assuming they have the right "association".

There is a bar in both halves of the joint, the barteneders skilledi in the right kinds of etiquette for where they work. The joint is a front for mafia operations of course, and a regular hang out of several wise guys. Joe Mencion, one of Julain Mancuso's men, does most of his work out of here. He handles the collections for the businesses in the nighborhood, some of the illegal gambling, and any outstanding loans for Mancuso.

A lot of 'escort' work comes out of the Kitten as well, with the "Adopt a Kitten" program they have going. The girls here are smart and good looking, and so command a high price that the treet scum can't usually afford.They also usually know quite a lot of gossip about the city, it's criminals, and its seedier business men. The bouncer, a troll named Roman hand picked by Mancuso, is very protective of the girls.

The Arena
The Arena is an uunder ground fighting ring in one of the worst parts of New Orleans. It's security is tight, and it's door fee expensive. Anyone that wants to can fight, but remember that fights here are bloody and usually to the death. Plenty of other vices are on hand for the clients and spectators willing to pay the extra price.

Franklin Heights Apartments
A swanky apartment building with a name any yuppie cold love, it's desgined jsut so to keep the locals away. This ten story apartment buidling fits the high life style demanded by many made man, and a few worth while associates. It also has it's own security force, which helps keep things more secure for the residents. In such a place, it's guarantted that any distrubances are left as "don't ask, don't tell", even when there are screams involved. Security will stop by to see if everything is "ok", but other than that, it's sound proof windows and walls don't let much disturb the neighbors. Ahhh .. the sins of silence.


Kozlowski Family

Capa Miriam Kozlowski – Dona of the family age 53
Miriam is the daughter of the first North American dona, Paula Kozlowski. She inherited her position and has since held on to it with a tenacity that keeps others from vying for her position. Her reputation as being absolutely ruthless, without mercy does for the rest of her competition.
A few years ago Miriam became, some would say, obsessed with the Voodoo religion. She enlisted a local mambo as her Consiglieri, took to occasionally wearing the garb of the Ghede followers, and quietly performs the voodoo rites. Miriam is not magically active, so it is apparently a religious conversion. She has gone so far as to recruit the family’s former rivals the Voodoo Posse. The move was at first met with anger, but it helped tremendously to win the war against the Zobop.
Now days, Miriam’s legendary rages have turned more in to a cool and collected, almost sociopathic calm. Very little ruffles her feathers. She has been known to calmly, even icily, execute soldiers that have failed her, or order the execution of entire groups that have crossed her. She does not hesitate to deal out death, and does so almost off handedly. She has retained her striking good looks, and looks more of a woman in her early 40’s than a woman pushing her mid-fifties. She can and does still seduce men that strike her interest, but rarely keeps a lover for long.

Sottocapo Jack “Oz” Ozlowski - human age 52
“Oz” as he’s called on the street is one of the old guard Kozlowski’s . He’s spent the last 7 years behind bars, after being arrested and tried for 3 counts of murder one. It all came down after a few made men of the Mussino family decided to take it in to their heads to hit one of the operations that Oz was in charge of , a small dockside casino called Wonderland. Oz caught up to three of the men, and had them executed mafia style. The last one , an ork named Jocko Vanceli, turned state’s evidence, and testified against Oz in exchange for immunity and protection. Jocko has been in hiding ever since.
Oz has been out now for 6 months and is working on regaining his former place. He is finding the family very different than when he left it, and is working on bringing back some of the “traditional values” that seem to be lacking now. In his eyes, power and money are becoming more important than tradition and respect. Oz served under Stan and Paula Kozlowski as a soldier back in the ‘40’s, and so remains very loyal to the Kozlowski name. But with Miriam’s departure from the traditions the family was built on, he’s begun putting more of his efforts into supporting Pamela Rodenbush to secede Miriam.

Sottocapo Harry Rybinski
Harry the Hammer rose to the Sottocapo position during the “Krewe Wars” in ’62-’64. With Oz gone, a new war leader was needed. That leader was Harry the Hammer, a large polish ork from “the old war”. He is a war veteran, having learned his skills fighting the Russians. He applied those skills using the various krewes against the krewe groups the Zobop brought to bear. With his strategy, the Kozloski family emerged relatively unscathed from the proxy war.
Harry is surprisingly un-phased by Oz’s return. New Orleans has plenty of action to share, and it lets him focus more on the families enemies in stead of day-to-day business. Harry is extremely loyal to Miriam, most likely since they both have similar temperaments and out looks on how to treat rivals. Rumors still circulate that the two have been some-time lovers over the years.

Sottocapo Erak Weisler
Approaching his ‘80’s, Weisler has all the fire of a many at half his years. Weisler was the family Consigliere until the last few years. The change in family structure seems to have awoken the fire in the man that got him in his previous position years ago. He was ousted by Miriam and replaced by her voodoo mambo. The change in hierarchy hasn’t set well with Weisler, and he’s made little secret about it. He has not gone so far though as to directly say that Miriam made the wrong choice.
Weisler was Paula’s Consigliere before Miriam, and helped her mother consolidate her control over the family. His words still carry weight, especially with the other families and older Mafioso in the area. He has ties to the Atlanta Gianellis as well, and has used them in the past to consolidate a working relationship between the neighboring families. Currently his main task assigned by Miriam is to keep the balance and peace between the other families, the Mossinos and the Romeros.


Capo régime Julian Mancuso
Mancuso is one of the Captains that rose from the short mob war seven years ago. He was a made man that came from a mob family. Well bred and educated, it was of course expected of him to go in to the family business. His father was killed by the Zobop during the war. He still holds a grudge, and intensely dislikes anything that stinks of voodoo. Miriam’s “change in taste” as he puts it, sits very ill with him. However he knows better than to question the Dona. He is suspicious of her new Consiglieri however, and questions nearly every order that he believes comes from her.
Mancuso is a smart and charismatic man. He was raised in the family business and has a good head for it. He spends a lot of time in the bars and back alley clubs of the city, making sure he still has a feel for the streets. He does a lot of the families recruiting, and hiring for any shadow work that needs to get done. He’s well liked by most of the saldatos, and has a good reputation even with other syndicates.

Capo régime Vince Spinnelli
Vince is a ship jumper from the failing Gianelli family in Atlanta. The family has hit hard times in the past years and is failing fast. Rather than go down with the ship, Vince was the fleeing rat. Fortunately for Vince, he fled with a good part of his crew, and brought them all over the Kozlowski family, where he was awarded a captain’s position.
Vince’s work is dealing with the street muscle. Small street gangs and krewes are the people he normally interacts with. If you’ve torqued off the mob, Vince is most likely the person that’s going to be given your name to have you taken care of. Vince isn’t particularly intimidating or a veteran or heavily augmented. Rather, Vince is good at finding the right person for the job that needs to be done. He’s also an excellent student of human nature, skilled at reading people and predicting how they’ll react.

Capo régime Charles “Chuck” Weneislauss
Big Chuck has been a Captain in the Kozlowski family for the past 15 years. Chuck is a polish troll, and the only troll to be a captain in the North American mob. He’s very intelligent (some say thanks to bioware augmentation) and surprisingly charismatic for troll. He’s also known for taking frequent trips to D.C. and visiting his “ol’ Pal Boom” at the Avalon night club regularly, and working family business with the D.C. families.
Chuck is usually well dressed, and eats a lot, usually Italian or Cajun food. He drinks and smokes and generally conforms to most “wise guy” stereo types. He’s got a solid head on his shoulders. Most say it’s his lack of innovation that keeps him from climbing higher in the family. Those that know him better say that he’s comfortable where he is. He likes it better on the street level, with fewer responsibilities than he might otherwise have. He prefers to stay where the action is. Most of his work revolves around collecting for protection rackets and enforcement on the lesser forms of filth. He especially delights on collecting on those that can’t pay their gambling debts, as he sees their situation as “their own damn fault”.

Capo régime Blake Lawson
His name sounds like something out of a soap opera, and his looks match it. Blake is tall, dark, handsome, and charismatic. He holds him self confidently, and is comfortable in any social setting. The Dona uses him for most of the work through their casino concerns. He does most of his work out of the Belle Fortune, one of New Orleans’ biggest casinos, completely controlled by the Kozlowski family.
Blake acts as the go-between for all the casino managers, and handles the organization of the underground casinos throughout the sprawl, and is the friendly face of the mob. He acts more like a business man, as someone in the entertainment industry, than as a mobster. Usually anything truly illicit, such as dealing with cheaters or shadow ops against other casinos, is handled by his right hand, Edgar Terrace. Many call Terrace Lawson’s evil twin, because of their similar appearance, and like minds in most of their dealings.


Capo régime Cynthia Vicente
Cynthia is a new Captain, raised to the position only a year ago. She has been placed in charge of the families vice investments, specifically pornography and prostitution. The former captain, Dan Vicente was “removed” from his position after Miriam found some of the details of how he was using some of the “assets” at his disposal. Cynthia was Dan’s wife, and happy to see her philandering husband go. There are those that wonder if it was Cynthia that pointed out Dan’s perverted indiscretions to Miriam to gain his position. Either way, the Dona saw fit to give Cynthia his spot, to apply “a woman’s touch” the industry.
So far Cynthia has performed well. She’s been recruiting more talent than most expected, and cutting in on the yakuza’s bunraku business by countering with high class escorts. Cynthia her self is in her late twenties, a good 12 years younger than her late husband. Whether or not she’s on the look out for a new beau is anyone’s guess, because right now, she’s all business. Plenty of the men of the family are seeing her as an opportunity for advancement. The fact that Dan originally married her because she was both intelligent and gorgeous certainly has something to do with it as well. So far though, the dark haired widow has ignored any advances.

Marco " the Mook" De marino
Marco stands out a bit in the New Orleans mob, especially the Kozlowski family, because he's got the look and stlye of an up town R&B star. He doesn't seem the type to spend time working the streets with wise guys. But as he says, "you gotta do what ya love". Marco loves working the streets. He's the type of guy that knows people, and knows who to talk to to get things done. Being african American ("I'm black damn it. Does this suit look african to you?") helps him in a number of social circles where other made men might fear to tred as well.

He has a sense of style that makes him acceptable in many higher social circle,s and the skills to make him self welcome. He answers directly to caporegime Vincente, and is one of her favorites. He's one of thos gusy that everyone seems to owe a favor to.

Marco is called "the Mook" because he's about as far and away as being an italian mafioso as one can get, but still has unquestioned loyalty.

Barnabus Dabrowski
Barnabus should be a dwarf. He's thick, he's hairy, he's bald, and he speaks with a horrible polish accent. Only problem is he's six feet tall. Medical exam have shown that he is infact a dwarf, with a case of "giantism". So, naturally, everyone calls him Barnie the Troll. Or Barnie the Big Purple Troll if you really want to torque him off. He's in his 30's, bald with a thick brown beard, and has a serious attitude. He does a lot of the work that requires a less gentle touch. He and his sister Anna were raised in a polish family in New Orleans, and raised in the mob.

Anna Dabrowki The opposite of her twin brother Barnie, Anna is an attractive, thoughtful woman. She is a dwarf, prefers nice clothing, and better food. She's a bit thick set because of it, but she brags that her "womanly figure" has stopped more than one 9mm. She also has a bit of a temper, but she's more likely to resolve it with her shot gun than her fist as her brother does.


Vincent "Vin" Capelli
Vin is a New Yorker, born and raised. The fact that he's spent the last 15 years in New Orleans makes no never mind. He was originally from the Luchesse family, and moved south for reasons unknown. Vin is a well respected made man, who isn't very interested in rising in the ranks. He's smart , and very experienced. He handles a lot of things that would usually be handled by a Caporegime, but doesn't want the responsibility. His talents lay in organization, and a good working knowledge of the law. Rumors say he was once a mob lawyer.

Eddy Tango
Eddy, "tango", "T", Eddy Tango is one of those guys that loves the mob's mystique and grandeur. He's latin, good looking ,and young, and very big on style. He spends a lot of money on clothes, girls, and vice. He's also ex-CAS military, and very skilled in combat. Some people think him a bit of a blow hard, which may be true. But he's good enough at his job to be a made man. Currently Hary has Vin spend a lot of time with Eddy to "keep an eye on him."
Rumors are now circulating Vin perhaps didn't keep a good enough eye on him , because Eddy hasn't been seen in a few weeks.

Andy Torturo
Aka Andy T, Andy is a classic mob hitman. He's been doing it for years, and is pretty good at his job. Not the type to use a rifle, Andy gets right in his marks face and does his business, then cleans everything up, nice and shiny. He's the type of guy that makes people dissapear, whether it's cement shoes, Tanamous, or the gator farms. Andy does the run of the mill stuff though, not the high profile. He's unaugmented, so he's not the type to be sent after a razor boy. What he lacks in the 'bleeding edge' he makes up for in experience.

Robert Milocheck
Rob is a go to guy for information. His home is in New Orleans, but he does a lot of traveling for his day job as an parts salesman for GulfSttar Intl. His name sounds foreign, but he's never been out of North America. Most of his work takes him through the CAS and UCAS, so he quite a number of contacts all over. He's a man that's known for his friends.

Snake Skin
SnakeSkin is a small tiem drug dealer that has a lot of connections. He is a suprisingly pale human man, with a very large number of piercings, brandings, and tattoos all over his body, giving him his rough skin that earned him his name. He deals in everything from BTL chips to marijuana. If you can count on him for anything, it's to know where to get it. His ties are als oto the Kozlowski family, and he does most of his dealing ot of the bar/pool hall Ace in the Hole. He can be found there 16 -20 hours out of the day most times. After all ,if people don't know where to shop, they'll go somewhere else.

Pounder
A weapons dealer from the North west, Pounder is a lady that knows her stuff. She's in her mid to late tweenties, human, and 100% all she can be. A former merc, Pounder realized that she can make a lot more cred selling the guns than using them . She's been doing it ever since. She also delivers, does special orders, and likes tips.

Midnight
Midnight remains still an enigma to the world at large. She has changed very little over the years, still appearing as a woman in her late twenties, black in skin, with mesmerizing deep blue eyes. She has grown her hair out in to waist length dread locks, and remains thin enough to almost be gaunt. Her motivations still remain a mystery, as most interactions with the Posse go through one of her lieutenants.
Under her leadership the Posse has grown in strength. Although her methods would normally align her with the Zobop, she seems to regard them, more as rivals, which may explain her alliance with the Kozlowski family.

Gateway
Gateway is a true conjure man, what a hermetic mage would call an aspected conjurer. He is a very powerful summoner of spirits, but is completely incapable of casting any sort of spells. It is known, however, that gateway has somehow learned the metamagic of Great Ritual, allowing him to add his power to the ritual sendings of the Posse.
Gateway follows Legba, and so is consulted on all of the Posse’s doings. He is a powerful diviner, and is rarely seen in public, spending most of his time secreted away in the group’s headquarters. Sources say that he spends most of his time enchanting telesma and performing summonings.

Julius Brown aka Jules
Jules is a massive troll with skin as black as night. He has tattoos of lightning bolts running up the length of his heavily muscled arms, and usually wears only a leather vest and jeans over black steel toed boots. Black on black on black. He is a followr of Papa Shango and a powerful combat mage. He is also a member of the infamous Voodoo posse, the magical assassination voodoo group for hire. Jules is suprisingly soft spoken, but is a terror if his anger is roused. It usally takes a while, but is like a building storm, raging fiercely once brought to it. He also has very strong loyalties to those close to him. His rep has recently gone up, after mopping the floor with another particularily nasty voodoun.

Lucky "Lady Luck" Santangelo
Lucky is an italian-descended elf, recently moved from Seattle to the Big Easy. She's been working with the Kozlowski family since she's arrived, and is a made woman. She works mainly in small time gambling and numbers running, but is also making a rep for her self doing collections and other odd jobs. She's a good looking elf, but has a nasty streak and isn't afraid to show it to those that really piss her off. She's also known to have a connection to a female weapon's dealer named Pounder that also came with her from Seattle, so she has access to top notch weapons.
She acquired the nick name "Lady Luck" after making it through a number of suprisingly nasty scraps, a winning streak at the casinos, and starting up her own small time bar/river casino called the "Lucky Strike"

Sinn
Another mover from Seattle, this elf has a mean streak a mile wide. He's sarcastic and rude, and has a problem with orks and any sort of authoriy figure. He's also rumored to have killed a dragon, wanted by LoneStar, and reportedly been killed somewhere between 2-5 times. He's a voodoun, and rumors say a follower of the Red Eye paths. He was also formerly married and had twins, but his wife and one of his children died on a hit apaprently meant for him about six months ago.
Sinn has a rep as being "hard to kill", as he's been gunned down a number of times, and keeps coming back. He's got a nickname from it: "Bad Penny".

Hard Rock aka Rock
Rock is a "former" kick artist from western North America, who until recently was doing hard time with his twin brother PickAxe, until he got his lucky dsay. He apparently saved the life of Jack "Oz" Ozlowski in prisoin, who in exchange, managed to get him an early parole, then made his records dissapear.

Since then Oz and Rock have been nearly inseperable. Rock is Oz's new right hand man, now that the sottocapo has retunred to power. Anything Oz needs done, Rock takes care of. He's a massive, heavily cybered ork, that normally carries at least three heavy pistols , and most certainly knows how to use them. He isn't the brightest, but he is incredibly loyal to Oz, and to a somewhat lesser extent, his firends Sinn and Lucky.

Malice
Malice is a human female fighter in the underground Arena. She's rumored to be a physical adept, although no one has sucessfully assesnsed her. She's a mean slitch wit ha wicked sense of humor, and enjoys inflicting bodily harm. She's 5;1" with hair that alternates between black and blond, well toned, and aggresive. SHe usually wears leathers, along with a nunmber of belts and buckles, and has various parts of her skin exposed.

Blue Moon Krewe
The Blue Moons deal exclusively in gambling throughout the Crescent City. Their operations are all of the underground variety, usually literally located in some basement of some legitimate business. There dens are small and discrete, and easily portable in case of a raid. Their bag men collect every day , making sure that anyone one den can be easily lost without to much worry about damaging the krewe’s operations.
The krewe numbers in the twenties, mostly Rastafarians of any meta type. The leader is a dwarf by the name of Jack Cotter. Story goes that Jack and Co tried to make their way in Las Vegas some years back but were pushed out by the Commanche mobs. They decided to come back home and try their luck in their own back yard. Jack hates Native Americans with a passion, but has little trouble with anyone else, giving his krewe a good amount of diversity. He’s smart, and practical, and doesn’t usually let personal issues get in the way of “good business sense”. At his core though, Cotter is a hard nosed criminal through and through. He did a ten year stint through the state Penal system some time back and came back harder than ever. He tried to pull off the calm business man routine, but has a reputation as one vengeful cuss.
Cotter’s right hand is a human woman named Amelia. She doesn’t really fit in with the rest of the Krewe, being Caucasian and much calmer for one. But Cotter listens to her when she gives advice. When he and his krewe returned from the Vegas sands, Amelia was with him, and they’ve stuck together thick as thieves ever since. She’s short with dark hair, pretty but not overly so. Most think that Amelia is the brains behind the operation, where Cotter is the will that drives the krewe.


Black Throat Krewe
The Black Throat is a real hard edged Krewe numbering no more than 30 that started operating along the river a couple of years ago. Their claim to fame is smuggling up and down the Mississippi, the route that smugglers refer to as “the throat”. For the last few years they’ve been muscling up to various smugglers and stealing business away from various existing crime organizations. They’ve managed to last this long because they’ve got some serious backers. The krewe came in to being seemingly cut of whole cloth, and sporting SMGs and assault shotguns. They were a pain in the hoop, but they weren’t the body that it would take to get rid of them. Expect some action brought against them some time soon though. Word is that they sent a “delegation” to Capa Kozlowski to make their claim official. She had the delegates cut up in to little pieces and fed to her dogs. All except one, which she had watch the entire affair, castrated personally, then sent back to the krewe.
The krewe’s leader is a human named Blaine, somewhere in his early thirties. He’s smart, cool, and confident. He’s not only the brains behind the krewe, but also the money source. He brought the organization together, and has kept it on a solid track since then. He could hire more hands, but seems to prefer a more stream lined organization. He dressed well, although not being sp pretentious as to try wearing a suit around new Orleans, and is said to be able to handle himself well in a fight.
Blain’s first lieutenant is a female human named Eve, a local. She’s also said to be an dept, following a version of the warrior’s way. Apparently, the lady has a knack for automatic weapons. She’s fast as an adder and a damned good shot. She’s personally responsible for a lot of the respect the krewe has. His second is a hacker, a younger elf boy, early twenties tops, that rumors are saying is a technomancer. His handle is SINtax, which is apparently some sort of hacker joke. The kid isn’t much in the meat, but the net jockies say he’s top notch in the system. Where Blain picked him up, no one knows.

The Lucky Strike
The Lucky Strike was opened by Lucky Santangelo in January of 2070. Nearing it's one year mark, the Lucky Strike is showing surprising staying power considering it's a casino/bar/sports den in a city of a thousand casino/bar/sports dens.
Little is known about the owner, Lucky Santangelo. Rumors say that she's a "made man" within the ranks of the Kozlowski Family, others say she's no more then a gambler with a lucky streak. What is known is that Lucky won the deed to the Strike from Vincent Hotchkiss, a New Orleans real estate and porn mogul, in a hand of poker. After that, she had the place gutted and restored.
The Lucky Strike is made up of two floors, the ground floor and the basement. The ground floor consists of the bar, grill, sports den and casino near the back. The basement holds most of the staff offices and a few private gaming rooms. Rumor says that there's another level to the Strike but so far no one has ever been able to substantiate the claim.
On The Inside
The interior of the Strike is done in the style of an old Irish pub; dark woods, frosted mirrors, wood paneled floors and comfortable barstools. The sports den is done in the same vein but, with all the modern amneties and fully AR compatible.
Past the sports den, you come to the casino proper. The casino holds 500 people at full capacity and has enough gaming to satisfy even the most jaded gambler. There is even a pool hall, where you can pit your skills against the hustlers that make the hall home.
Downstairs offers much the same in the way of decoration, but also offers more privacy for those so inclined. Private game and meeting rooms are offered for those who can afford to play in peace.
The staff of the Lucky Strike is made up of gorgeous and friendly young men and woman, most from the local colleges and universities, rumor says that some of the pretties on staff can be purchased but once again, rumors can be just that, rumors.

This post has been edited by fistandantilus3.0: Apr 13 2007, 05:34 PM

[fistandantilus4....]

Below is the original front apge, edited down a bit to make this thread start more relevant.

[ Spoiler ]

I'll start this one off. This is for our current home campaign. Makes it a lot easier that PMing back and forth. Share your thoughts and anything going on in the game.

Bit of Guidelines since it came up:
handles or names (Such as Ben) are just fine either way as far as I'm converned. if anyone doesn't want theirs up, just say so.

Keep this one on game topic though. If anyone has questions about RL in general, keep it to PMs to keep it from getting to cluttered.

Try to spell right (SinN). You can abbreviate my handle or use Ben. Either's fine.

Remember that currently just the three of us (F3.0, SinN, and OTP) are the only ones on DS out of our group.

Don't bring up cyber wear in SR 4 anywere OTP might read it. :D

OneTrikPonyWith your permission I'll send this to Mitch

To compair notes:
1. I said he was a mosquito shaman. I'm not sure of this I just picked mosquito because that's the insect that I hate most on this earth. My next choice would be roach but Target: Smugglers Havens specificly refereces Mosquitos.

2. how would they know that we're planning to extract the Gulfstar guy? I'm not saying they don't know but i'd like to know how they found out if they do. AFAIK they only saw us at the meet and then they saw you walking around the French quarter.

3. Book references. Normaly I wouldn't look this stuff up but since Ben is teasing and I have access to nearly all of it I'll do the search. My character can't bring this stuff into the game.
T:SH;
Buggs... one guy says he's seen a mosqito hive out in the bayu in the shadow rumor section. No one refutes his comment.
Gulfstar...
President / CEO: Jacob Keene
best-known for comeing up with more efficient ways to make high-performance fuels... "What most people don't know is that Gulfstar also owns the Delta Queen riverboat line...they've gone beyond dinner and dancing to gampling, the occaisional floating brothel, (which Rock would love to see even if it is on the water), and one hellufa lot of smuggling up and down the river...word on the street is, Jake's got an arrangement with Dona Miriam Kozlowski; (another damned mafia connection) he moves goods for the Mafia, and she lets him keep a fair chunk of his gambling profits."

So we need to check out the Delta Queen line--not just for a shot at some high class trim--and make sure that this isn't anoter Burbon connection too.

Bug City:
Desolation angels/ mantis spirits...
Linda Hayward: mantis spirit member of Desolation Angels,
IIRC she can be counted as the one who touched the whole bug city thing off. she kidnaped Mitchel Truman--son of Truman Tech CEO Daniel truman--leading Kyle Teller and Knight Errant Comander Anne Ravenheart to the bug hive.
Description: Stunningly beautiful (with small but firm breasts  :rotfl: just kidding) Bright blue eyes, Dark hair, Good figure.

Nasty Girlz: (probably mantis spirit) Gyno Gang
This was a gang of 5-10 females reputed to be Mantis spirits in the CZ. There is no direct mention that they are or are conected to the DA's but I thought I'd mention them because they are probably a mantis cabal.

Tiger Faux: (shadowland poster) he wrote a comment in the mantis spirit text which is interesting.
"...i've dealt with one who calls her self Vixen. She's average hight with just-longer0than shouder-lenght strawberry-blond hair and blazing green eyes. She always wears some combination to green and black leather cloths, somtimes with a stylized winged angel painted on the back of her jacket or vest...[talks about how she was a cockteaze and he wanted her; probably some compulsion spell or power she uses to catch dinner]...She was smart, cold, violent, and had a harsh violent sence of humor.

That's all I could find in Bug City about the DAs. There was quite alot of mantis stuff but we already know most of it and the rules in that book were contradicted in later publications (probably including SM) so I skipped it.

Super Tuesday:
In an adventure vice presidential canditate Ann Penchyk hires some runners to help her smuggle a couple Desolation Angels out of the CZ. The Spirit Vixen is mentioned again. turns out she's a high force Spirit and dominant leader of the DAs at that time. Also introduced is a mantis spirit Mara Suhar a reporter from chicago of East Indian descent. The adventure confirmes that mantis spirits have some compulsion power. (or at least they did in SR2)

Shadows of the Underworld, Loose Alliances and the Novel Burning Bright
Relevant points are summed up in this thread on Burning Bright
i don't have Loose Alliances so I can't say that the thread has complete reference but we're going to have to use contacts to get at this info anyhow so we can look at the book next time we play if some one roll's good enough.

4. do you really think the DA's extracted our target the prior two times?

Joshua/Joseph Lindon is the CFO; The Chief Financial Officer is the same thing as a really high paid accountant.

Assume for a minute that he's not a bug. Why would you extract the guy who controlls the ballance sheets for the whole corp? I make these arguments: (i call them aguments because I need to be argued with, my mind is going in circles.)

A-- No one really wants him for the knowledge that he has. If all you want is access to the ballance sheets you can get that by useing a top level hacker. The only thing he knows that isn't available through simpler means than extraction is what the company plans to do in the future. It doesn't help to extract him for that because if he's gone he can't bring his plans to fruition.

B-- He wanted to be extracted because of accounting discrepancies that he covered up. No, because he returned twice before.

C-- He was extracted because he's such a damned good financier that he's in demand and everyone want's a piece of him. Posibly, but you'd think that his loyalty to Gulfstar would offset his value as a corporate officer in another corp.

D-- as the chief liaison with the market analysts it would be effective to extract him to cause a brief devaluation in the corp's stock. This might work once but there are other ways to depress your own stock.

I'm getting nowhere.



Message Forwarded From fistandantilus3.0

Message Forwarded From SinN

#1 Remember the Johnson. Figure out where he factors in
  A worker. Bug spirit worker i mean. Not neccesaraly a bug spirit himself, considering he looked human. I figure hes a mage. Since Sin could break his masking. An Insect shaman is my geuss.
#2 Remember the key important parts of the Desolation Angels, what they're all about.
  Killing bug spirit/shamans. The Johnson could be already dead. Maybe they think Sin, Rock, Lucky, and Sirene are in leage with the bugs. If they're infected too, then maybe they're simply there to kill us and insure that the ceo isnt extracted.

#3 Everything that's going on is covered in canon SB's. For two examples, Target:Smuggler Haven's has an important key, and of course, loose Alliances. There's antoher book that has something very key.
  Havent read any of those. Send me some info. Ill do some homework.

#4 Why is the CFO being extracted?
  Hes a bug, The Desolation Angels have gone after him before, and failed both times.  Perhaps they found a new opening. Some how, using us to do it.

Burning Bright[/QUOTE]
And Jess' intitial thoughts:
=OneTrikPony] hints...
1. The Johnson is a uber powerful mosquito shaman initiate with masking. (I wish mitch could remember how many successes he got on that assencing test that failed)

2. The Desolation Angels are all about Ann Penchyk(sp?) I'm not looking it up because Rock doesn't know anything about them. Damned glitch on his gang opperations roll.

3. Again I'm not looking it up because I don't want to know. (damned stupid PC's, I'm good at playing the dumb guy but I don't always like it. Should have dumped 10 more karma into contacts.)

4. The hint is actually the three little letters CFO. I'm trying to get Sin to assence him to follow up on the bug connection.)

5. Why have the first two agencies we've run against only had 2 degrees of seperation from Ares?

6. What is Periawyr going to do to my new family???

On another note; Dude I have a but load of karma to spend. 7 in game karma, 30 out of game karma, and 31 CSP. I don't want the karma from the pizza last time. I just wanted you to know incase I'm improveing too fast. Rock is going to want some down time if he lives thru this adventure.

About the healing, I made a bad roll on my healing test. It's going to take me the full 20 days to knock it down to moderate (3 boxes). How long did we have between my getting out of the street dock and the beginning of this adventure?

[OneTrikPony]

Fistandantilus3.0 ; Thanks for re-posting that. (I don't think I should get anti-karma for spelling your handle wrong :D)

Everyone; I still don't see what I'm missing My mind is going in circles still about why the johnson gets extracted all the time and makes his way back.

has anyone found an online SR4 Dice server yet?

Is Lucky working tonight?

Be back in about an hour

[OneTrikPony]

[fistandantilus4....]

okay, time for the recap

[ Spoiler ]

team recieves job from N.O. fixer Genevieve, mid to late twnnties, established fixer. Asked to meet Johnson directly at an out of the way diner to the north of the Crescent City.

J is a wiry, excitable little man. Human, seems nervous or agitated. Asessnes as mundane. Aura matches the way he is acting in way of emotions. Offerst he team 70k to extract Joseph Lindon, Chief Financial Officer of Gulfstar, a locally based AA corp. Johnson leaves , walks in to the woods behind the diner.

Team notcies a blond human female biker a bit away from the diner. She leaves appx 5-10 minutes after the meet closes. No one sees her leave. She is later identified by her attire as a Desolation Angel.

Joseph Lindon - Works for Gulfstar, has for 15 years. Two previous extracions, over 2 years ago. Both times he somehow returned to the corp. No details on this. he lives in extraterritorial housing the AA owns about 10 miles from the corp Hq. Later find that he sees a shrink on Tues and thurs, has a fear of flying.

Has two bodyguards, one an ork dog shaman named Dober (w/ an ally named Rott), who is a former runner turned corp. Second is an elf "street sam" named Mr. Draug.

The Corp - Gulfstar Intl.

Based out of N.O., Gulf star works primarily in boat/ship produciton, and oil drilling primarily in the Gulf of Mexico. The corp family living center is where most of the corp citizens live, including Mr. lindon. The employees commute via three tilit wing commuter air buses back and forth to work and home. Execs use one of 4 executive helicopters. Appx 5-7 min flight from lift off to landing. There are a pair of yellow jackets at each building, as well as a number of roto drones patrolling.

Mr Lindon takes one of the company limos (15) back and forth to work in the morning (anywhere from 8am-7pm), escorted by one security car.

Team met up at the N.O. 31 flavors to discuss, started the leg work, where most of the above was batted around. Other useful information was :

team needs a place to stash the target. Sin goes off to find and ward a safe house.

Lucky and Hardrock get some extra work to pick up some slack directly from Oz, instead of through Mancuso.

Brian's character, who's name I can't recall, does some leg work on the physical locations, getting the above info.

Astral scan of both buildings shows strong wards, watcher spirits, and air elementals on the roof (Force 6, 2 that he saw), and earth elementals in the parking lot (also Force 6, also saw 2).

Bri's char back ground says that Gulfstar produces some larger ships for the CAS military, which are then armed by Ares, putting him on edge. No one knows why he is so touchy about Ares.

Beandip starts getting to work seeing what kind of Hack he can work on Gulfstar's system, as well as diggin up more back ground work.

Lucky hires in independent decker from Shadowland N.O. to find out more about the target and his past extractions. Decker is working on tracking down the other teams.

Bri's char searches the matrix for anything on the Johnson, finds nothing.


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From here, Sin heads out to find a spot in the French Quarter, which already has bit of a back ground count. He ends up wandering the Quarter for a good three hours, accomplishing nothing. no reason is given.

he is attacked by a biker girl, identified as antoher Desolation Angel, who attacks from suprise with a knife, nearly killing him, until he is able to summon and be mounted by a Ogoun spirit, and activates his weapon focus. he drives her off, and gets shot at by a cop. he loses his commlink, because he was on it when he was attacked, and left it when he ran after his attacker. Last shot from the commlink is a hand picking it up. Sin gets a disposable phone. Tells Bean dip to monitor it, and to hack it clean as soon as he sees it on the matrix.

On the way to meet back up with Sin, after picking Lucky up at the street docs (previous shoot out in underground casion having left her incapacitated), a bike cop pulls them over. The officer (female human bike cop) has them step out of the car , essentially accussing Rock of picking up a prostitue (Lucky) because of how she was dressed, since her other clothes had been torn badly and cut by the street doc, and nearest "clothiers" was an S&M shop.

Cop scans the car, spots a firearm. See that lucky has a SIN, and no regietsred firearm. menitons that Lucky has run into this problem before. Gets on her radio to call for back pack, apaprently ready to arrest them.

Quick call to Sottocapo Oz gets a quick phone call, and the two of them are free to go, to the chagrin of the bike cop lady.

Team meets back up at a dive bar Sinn knows, sans Serene, who is at home w/ the kids. Find out that a woman matching the dsecription of the biker at the diner was at the bar looking for him earlier. She left after not getting a satisfactory answer.

lucky gets high on Bliss after a dealer gives her some for the pain she's still in since she left the street doc early.

[fistandantilus4....]

[OneTrikPony]

[fistandantilus4....]

*deadpan*The poor baby, what ever will he do... */deadpan*

feel free to add anything you think I've missed that's important.

you probably just dropped the quote in to the wrong spot. I'll edit it.
edit: fixed

Think about this. What happened at the meet, where the first Angel showed up. What happened after the meet?

[OneTrikPony]

Ok This is how I remember it:

I'm watching the johnson walk away into the forrest. I ask if the guys think I should follow him. They say no and I ask them to get me a burger. Next thing I know the biker biff is gone but I didnt hear her start her bike. (later I'm thinking about it and I remember the desolation angels colors she was wearing.) We go to talk and plan on Burbons Barge. I puke up the burger. Jimmy buys me a shot. I go find the team in thier private room and I puke up the shot. To calm my mind and stomach I start playing with Hummpy. Burbon comes in and looks pissed. I get to work and start looking around the matrix for info. I turn up next to nothing. Streak (brian's PC) Serches the whole matrix for the perrenial classic and GM favorite;

"Anything I can find at all, anywhere, without specifying anything that would target my search or using any contact I might have or any of thier contacts."

His logic + google + edge test turns up nothing on Joe Lindon. We give up and Lucky and I go to work the next day where I get her shot to hell because I thought it would look cooler if I stood behind her while guns went off. Also we had pizza for lunch but I didn't have "little aisan girl" for lunch because I was working. ("MMMM little aisan girl" I need to call Ed as soon as we get back to the game.)

more to come.

[fistandantilus4....]

[OneTrikPony]

the end of th meet.

Lucky negotiated for a down of 17.5 k ¥
Sin assenced the johnson and fount him to be norm but nervous
Streak (I'm going to call him Yellow :)) had his bug out in the parking lot watching me and then he called his bug in and parked it.
the johnson waked out of the diner and into the forrest.
the bike and the biff disapeared.
Sin bought me a burger...

! BUT I DIDN'T GET ANY FRIES ! That must be it. The waitress didn't pack fries with my takeout! THAT SLITCH! We need to go back to the diner.

[fistandantilus4....]

yep, that waitress is a biotch. IC, asuming you reviewed the recording, Sin came out and made a call, then went and got you a burger. Then the biker chick was gone.

[OneTrikPony]

Sin made a call? I don't remember that at all. Who had eyes on Sin. I only recorded lucky's eyecam feed. I'm having a hell of a time keeping track of peoples positions in this game. I wish everyone would pay more attention to stating their locaion and actions. If I hadn't lost track of Lucky in that caison firefight our party would have about 10 more damage boxes than we do now. Why didn't she take a cover action?

"Keep your head down and your bra on." will be my watchword for Lucky as soon as she sobers up.

[fistandantilus4....]

:rotfl:

yeah, Sin stepped out and phoned home, 'cause Serene wasn't there. He was letting her know the scan.

Why didn't she take cover? I don't know, but I bet she will next time. ;)

[OneTrikPony]

Ok that makes no sence. Why not follow us to find out where we're going next?

What's the situation with the cam footage? Do I have access to it or am I going to have to reconstruct the sceen from memory?

When did streak's bug enter the Restraunt?

OoC; it's kind of circumstantial but so far the desolation angel seems to look alot like Vixen from Bug City, Supertuesday, and Shadows of the Underworld. If She's here in NO her career has been too long and I'm tempted to do something about that.

Sin When you see this; I'm working on these questions.

? Why was the DA chick there;
A1, she was following our Johnson
A2. We're back to the idea that she was looking for Sin.

? Why did she leave the meet after seeing you make a call?

? why not follow us?

? What about Sin's past makes him so interesting to the DA's?

Be back in a couple hours.

[fistandantilus4....]

[OneTrikPony]

"THEY"?
She let herself be seen. FUCK!
Now I feel dumb. I should have looked for the B team. except that they were invisable.

God I hate mages

My tradecraft sucks.
We're all playing tacticly stupid. No one takes observe actions. No one covers. Character A never knows what character B is doing. Character B never talks to character A. We have 1.5 hackers and two halves of a rigger who don't know their jobs. I hope we can keep everyone together long enough to get some teamwork going. If I were playing Tinman He'd have everyone without cyber eyes wearing goggle cams with constant open links and Gumbo would be to worried about security to fuckaround hacking comlinks and makeing trouble.

[SinN]

Alright, for starters:
Sins's past is just that, His. ;) It wouldnt be a smart idea to ask him what he has done or what has happened to him. The D. Angels could have noticed becuase he is pretty notorious. His street cred is i think 4, and his notoriety is 3 or 4. Pretty high for a still beggining charactor. Exactly what I wanted when I made him. I understand the consoquences of that as well, so no one should worry.
As for the bugs. It take quite a bit of power to make Sin afraid. Some say his bravery is masked with foolishness, stubborness, and downright insanity. Keep in mind, he is, without a shadow of a doubt...crazy. :D Some man-hating dyke biker wants to brawl, hes game. Even if he knows how strong she is.
Im pretty sure the D. Angels arent bugs. They're has got to be some misunderstanding is to why they attacked Sin, unless his rep got the best of him. But if worse comes to worse, we still need to be prepared with a shitload of guns, magic, and weapon foki. The bug ran when Sin was mounted by the loa, and pulled out his....foki. ;)
But just to be fair, I'll give you a breif outlook on Sin's past.
He doesnt know where he was born, or who his family is. He lived in an orphanage until he was 7. He often got into trouble for playing pranks, some innocent, but mostly cruel. He later learned that his name was Jacob Sinner. (Thus the name, Sin)The origin of this name was exactly as you might think, unknown. As a child he often spoke of a man in a top hat that would come and see him. And often the jokes he played on the headmasters and other children, were blamed on the man in the top hat. He was finally adopted to a family with the last name Micheals. They tried to change his name to that too, but he refused. Sin learned quickly that he was adopted into an abusive home. He still caused trouble and everyday he was beat for it.
When he was 14, his foster father came into his room to smack him around a bit. What his Foster parents didnt know is that Sin had awakened. Sin began casting spells to fight off his foster father and nearly killed him. Though his foster father survived Sins rage, he would never lay a hand on him again. Sin ran away that night. He too, had taken damage from the spells. And was barely concious. He ran until he came across a run down Carnival, or so it seemed. Looking astraly, Sin could tell it was a power site. He aproached and was face to face with a man with a top hat. He seemed famialar, but was not the same man from his childhood. The man took him in and for the next few years tought Sin all he needed to know. He was educated in math, english, history, and all that Jazz. But what he was really taught was how to effectively use his magics. The Ringmaster (man in the top hat) tried his best to channel Sin anger, but was unsucessful in a way. You've all seen him at work, you be the judge.
Remember, in game you dont know this. Sin has told nobody about his past, only bits and peices to Siren, is all anyone really knows. Hopefully this will strike some ideas for you guys is to why these D. Angel biker chicks are lookin for him. But think about this, maybe they're not looking for him, maybe they're looking for someone he knows. Or something he has. Or maybe they are looking for him, but not to kill him. Maybe the chick in the french quarter was only supposed to subdue Sin. Ever think of that?

:nuyen:

[OneTrikPony]

[SinN]

Hmm. Sin as a breeder? Sounds Plausible. Aside from the fact he has an 8 for his Charisma ( a base of 6. with the plus 2 for being an elf) he is becoming a kinda strong mage. Perhaps a pawn, like Oz might want with Sin? I dont think Sin has anything the D. Angels would want.

But it has been confirmed that it is the same NOPS officer, remember? Perhaps, shes with the D. Angels as well. She fits the description. Blonde, man-hating, kinda bitchy. And, as was said before, Rock, Lucky, and Sin were hit by her in the same day. Sounds too much like a coincedence to be one. Either shes with the mob, bugs, or D. Angels. One of these for sure. Im positive.

Any more ideas? Give me somthing to ponder till sunday.

:nuyen:

[OneTrikPony]

Wow! I can't believe I got my racial epithets mixed up. Sorry, Sin is a KEEBLER not a BREEDER. What a silly mistake :D

Here's some more info.

Gulfstar owns and runns the River queen chain of Riverboats. They are mostly restraunts and clubs but some are casino's and brothels. The book says that the Koslowski family has a profit shareing deal with them.

It's interesting that Burbon also has a casino riverboat and she is tied to the Mafia.

The Dragon Perianwyr was a shadowrunner Worked with a guy named Kiel Teller. the two of them were heavy hitters for Aztechnology. They fucked up the Mercurial job and then Fucked up another job. After the second time they were on the run from Aztechnology. Kiel teller owned a club in denver. When he was killed he left the club to the Dragon Perianwyr.

Burbon was a shadowrunner. She also sang in a club in denver and works or has worked for Perianwyr. Burbon either works for Donna Miriam Koslowski the head of the neworleans mafia.

So Gulfstream has ties to the Mob. Burbon has ties to the mob. Burbon has ties to the dragon. The dragon is on an Aztechnology hitlist.

It gets worse. The Azzies are blood mages. The bugs spirits have been working against blood mages since 2052. The funny thing is that the mantis spirits kill other bugs. So who's the bad guy here?

I'm not sure wether we should go ahead with the extraction at this point. I don't think we should be fucking with the bugs even if they are the johnson.

Two problems are that the Mantis' might have operatives in the NOPS. The NOPS now have all the info we have about the extraction. They may have been telling GULFSTAR about the extraction plans. Gulfstar is a partner of My primary employer. Burbon is a partner of My primary employer and thus a partner of Gulfstar.

We need to do Three things

1. Get an astral Look at the target Joseph Lindon

2. Scout the forrest by the diner; without getting into any type of fight

3. Find out what interest the Mantis spirits have in us.

I'm questioning the targets "Fear of Flying" and tuesday meetings with his "psychologist" Could these things be a cover for something else or is B just trying to give us openings for the extraction? Doe's he do adventures that way?

! that's another thing. We can check out the Psychologist. :D who on this team most needs to spend some time with a head shrinker?
(I should have played a decker) If Hardrock dies I'm calling up my old combat decker from UCAS naval inteligence. That was a pretty good character.

[SinN]

If anyone needs therapy, its Sin. He wont even have to try and look fucked up. :D
I doubt Anything will happen to Rock. Unless, he keeps up the keeb business. Then Him and Sin will have to tango. Nobody seems to be after Rock and Lucky Directly. Maybe the family, though. Rock might want to watch his ass there. Lucky too.
Perhaps we can set up a therapy session with the doc, and get some info that way. Its a stretch, but its worth a shot for the idea.
Sin still seems pretty screwed, but i got a plan. Im not worried. Neither would Sin. His primary concern is how far the D. Angels are willing to go to get to him. Meaning= His family.
I get the feeling something fucked up is gonna happen. We may call in some back up.
Im positive Bourban wouldnt screw Sin like that. If she knew something, she would tell him. And if it concerened everyone else, he would let them know too. Sin has grown as close to Bourban as anyone else is gonna get. Maybe more. Considering her affection for his children. Especially Gaberialle. And if nothing else, to repay the favor for watching out for her for so long. (When they met, he took it upon himself to destroy an idol controling her. Didnt turn out the way he wanted though. A.K.A Bottled Demon.) Also, clueing her in on Rock and Lucky's plan to take out "a Voodooin in the Bayou." Though they decided not to, its still the thought. And then theres also the fact that they're both children of ways of Loa/Baron. Shes a big beleiver in that we need to look out for eachother. I doubt she'll be much trouble.
I dont know who the bad guys are in this situation. Its definitley not the Azzies, and since when were bugs good? Im not even sure we're the good guys. Personally, Sin has thought from the beggining that someone is playing us. Thats why hes taking so many percausions this whole time. Covering his tracks. (Aside from his stolen com link) But hes got that covered..ish
Would Mancuso or Oz have anything to do with this?

[SinN]

[fistandantilus4....]

would I throw a fight at you for no good reason? Would I do that? Well, ... maybe.

IIRC, you never did get a good look at the cop that popped a shot off at ya' Sin. Did have enough chance to glance to see taht yes it was a cop, and yes it was a bike cop.
OTP, you guys have the capability to startworking more as aunit, as far as eye cams and such. Remember that in SR4 you can get contacts w/ a frickin' eye cam, and you've got a competent decker.

We are playing on Sunday. Unless Alysha stays really sick. I've had to miss a bunch more work, but I think one Sunday can be ok, as long as I go in on Sunday morning.

You guys are thinking good thoughts now. Just needed to get teh ball rollin' apparently. Good on ya',.

3 CSP for each of ya.

[OneTrikPony]

I'm just saying that when we go into the forrest we shouldnt attack and if we get attacked we should run away. All we need to do in the forrest is see what's there.

Who has a Contact with the Track skill or outdoors survival skill.

I'm not sure that I will beable to play on sunday. My brother needs some help with his house and if we can't get it done tonight and tomorrow I'm going to have to help him sunday.

thanks for the CSP