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

[SinN]

It'll still be interesting to see how it all plays out. If the D. Angels are there, then at least expect for Sin to provoke them. Cuz he will.
And if whats gonna happen is what I think is gonna happen, there isnt gonna be much of New Orleans left to cover after Sin is done "Venting."

But you never awnsered my question Jess. Would Mancusso or Oz have anything to do with anything that has happened so far?

[OneTrikPony]

I have no idea which pies Mancuso has his fingers in. I really don't thing Oz is connected to this current run. At least not with anything to do with the bugs.

Remember when everything came to a head with Burbon Lucky Rock and Sin on the Voodoo Queen? Rock specificly told you that Oz told Lucky and I not to persue any investigation of Burbon/Remmy (whats-her-last-name?)

I think it's more likely that, since everyone knows that you and your associates are running against Gulfstar, Oz will put my ass in a sling for fucking with a partner of the Family.

Have you ever assenced Oz? That could tell us alot.

Be back later tonight if anyone want's to talk more

[SinN]

I attempted it once and Oz got kinda mad. Well actually, Sin was attempting to assence the area. I could attempt it again if there were no other mages around.
But remember, we werent going after Gulfstar, just an employee of Gulfstar. Start thinking like Sin, you'll feel lots better. :D
Also, We dont know how much the police have on us from one of our former teamates. All he had time to give was names, but a name is all they'd need for Rock and Lucky, they have SINS dont they?

[OneTrikPony]

It was the cop that picked up your comlink. Rock had been sending you all the files as we did our legwork. They were.

Both files from lucky's decker: the Joshua Lindon extraction info and the Burbon info.
Pictures of the Johnson.
Pictures of the DA girl at the diner

We need to assume that your comlinkis hacked. The NOPS have had plenty of time to defeat the level 3 encryption on the files as well as the level 2 databombs. Even if you had firewall 6 and rating 6 agents it would only take them about 6 minutes worth of work in VR to completely gut your link.

Gumbo will never see your comlink on the matrix. They will have taken it to a shielded room and picked it clean. The only thing we could have done is make an immediate run on the station house were the cop took your com to get it back before they got it into the hands of a techie.

The NOPS know everything that we do about what's going on.

You need to start thinking about what activities your com has recorded over the last 6 months. You might wan't to let luthor(? your talismonger who Rock met) know that you've lost your link because they'll see at least that transaction.

[SinN]

I dont have to worry about the last six months. It was a new com that i picked up in the run before. I had Gumbo hype it up a bit. The stats were a bit higher then that. Ill ask Ronnie on sunday.
Lets still assume that they know everything. Better be safe about it. Whats Sin has to start thinkin about is where to move. And perhaps a change of wardrobe ;)

Ill have Luciar keep an eye out for himself. If Sin has been known to go there, then they might hit that. Hes already talked to Bourban and Siren, so they're takin percausions.

Enough about Sin, what do we have to worry about with Rock, Lucky, and whats his name. Oh and Gumbo too?

:nuyen:

[fistandantilus4....]

[SinN]

Lesson Learned indeed.

Ill figure a way out of this, im sure. Besides, Havent been paid yet. And, I owe that D. Angel a couple pokes with knife for the wonderful job she did on me. That'll be a fun one.

For starters, Sin should warn everyone that his com is missing and it has info that could burn them. Bourban especially. But knowing her, Im sure she'll be fine. Its just Sin's family that should have anyone worried.

I wasnt to worried about Lucier. I figured he knows what hes doing. Rock and Lucky have connections and they should be able to ask a few favors. Brians charactors com was wiped and destroyed remember Ben? It was on the boat that burned down, and before it was destroyed, Gumbo wiped it clean. I specificly remember that part.

This is one of those situation is to where im ready for Sin to face his death....again. And after looking at it for a few minutes, trying to hold in a bit of laughter considering its not as scary as everyones making it out to be, kick death right in the balls. And walts away smiling. :D Sound like a plan?

[fistandantilus4....]

That;s one of the things I keep wondering about. No one seems to care that if you don't finish the job, you don't get paid.

[SinN]

It'll find a way to kick us in the ass now, or later. Lets just take our beating and finish the job. The D. Angels will get to us somehow, and the NOPS will eventually catch on. Its all a matter of how we chose to go about it. Sin does have a 100k bounty on his head. Lookin to increase that a bit. ;)

[SinN]

[fistandantilus4....]

nice, well, at least you think a lot of your self. Just don't blame me when bounty hunters come knockin'. :D

I also have some other things in the works for other characters. I very much enjoying having stuff going on besides just the run at the saem time. Makes for a more interesting game.

And don't be so sure that it's something to laugh at just yet. You still don't really know just what's going on. Which I'm all kinds of excited about.

[SinN]

Me too, im stoked to see what you got planned. And as always, I'll never see it comin. :)
Im just hopin Sin doesnt die just yet. Im lookin forward to using that dead mans book.

[fistandantilus4....]

yeah, that's one of the books that may be showing up in a bit. Lucien will have a couple of the others for you to look at. I don't want you gusys to lose your characters either, so don't do anything stupid. :D I have a lot of things in mind for you.

[SinN]

I promise that I'll play it smart, as long as you dont get all "Diablo Hell Mode" on us. :] :evil:

[fistandantilus4....]

Define "Diablo hell mode".

I have lots of stuff in the works. Some if it standard SR stuff, some of it very different. Plan on bringin in some more of Rocfk's old connections in to the game, bring back soem old stuff from other games, that sort of thing. Looking forward to it very much.

Also still wondering if you guys are going to figure out what's going on. That's my favorite part.

[SinN]

Diablo hell mode= Pretty much any Run that took place in Amazonia, Austrailia, or Vampiric Drakes! (Even though the vampiric drake fight was rad as hell. Good run btw)

That should Be interesting to meet "Jimmy" though. Something very diffrent though? Any hints or refrences to jog my mind a bit? And as for figuring out whats goin on? We come close to hittin it yet? With mine and Jesse's discussion i mean.

[fistandantilus4....]

You guys have a lot of the right elements in there, but you keep ignoring some of the important things that are there. Jess pointed out one little bit that was a huge part of it then promptly forgot about it.

Jimmy? Confused?

Ran an awesome game fro Alysha BTW the other day. SHe has a dragon shaman character that got into a spell battle in the middle of Downtown Seattle with Nightmare, the leader of the Halloweeners gang. Fireballs, Shred spells, Blast and eruption spell,s a a great form air spirit Force 12 doing the storm power over a 2 mile area. Ahhh... good stuff....

[SinN]

Damn that must of been intense. Ill have to get back to Jess about some of his points, and theories. Maybe we'll figure something out and be a bit more prepared for whatever suprise we got instore.
BTW we need to finish the run with Hood and Gemini. Im intrested to see what you got in store. It'll fill good to get out of the frying pan for a sec. By that, I mean, Hood hasnt gotten into trouble just yet. ;)

Anyway, back to basics. Sin is screwed for the moment. He'll figure something out. Lucky is all sorts of fucked up on whatever chips SnakeSkin gave her. Im sure that'll have some reprucutions. Rock's playin all this cool, considering hes gonna get into some shit with Oz over the Gulfstar thing. Also, Ben's gonna bring in some of his old contact. Icepick maybe? I dont know what goin down with brians char. Somethin about aires. Its obvoius he doesnt like aires. And hes got some connection to this Dragon Bourban knows. (A discussion him and Sin had)
Should get intresting.

[SinN]

[fistandantilus4....]

HA! Oh yeah, forgot about that. Jimmy or Theo

Lucky rolled pretty bad, so she's now addicted to Bliss. Think of it as a mild addiction to a high powered ecstasy.

Sin... well... Sin might be screwed, he might not. Reaqlly depends on how things go for the next game.

As for Hood and Gemini.... that one's gonna be fun. I have a few more parts worked in for their quest, trying to come up with some more head trips for ya' really. Guess we'll see how it goes eh?

Still wondering if Bran is acutally going to show, and what we'll do with him for a PC if he does. Same for OTP really, since he seems to think he may not be there.

[SinN]

I figure if Jess isnt gonna show, we'll tell everyone its off, and then run the Hood/Gemini metaplane game, savvy?

Im excited to see whats in store for Sin and the gang. I like a challange, but dont take that too seriuosly. Make it fun, not difficult and hair pulling. I got faith. Your games are awsome. Always have been.

One more thing. Is there gonna be a fight with the D. Angels?

[fistandantilus4....]

[fistandantilus4....]

Update for OTP, just before our session started yesterday, Alysha figured out what was going on. I'll give you the low down of what she and mitch, and the Brian and Alissa were able to figure out.

For starters, the Johnson works for *drum roll please...* Ares!

Here's the scan as they figure it:

Mr. Johnson is an insect spirit. Mr Johnson wants to extract Mr. Lindon in order to replacfe him with a bug spirit, then bring him back to GulfStar again, meaning that the CFO would be under Ares control.

This means that he can orchestrate stock buys, sales, give Ares al the corps info on where their moeny is. Basically open the back door for Ares to come in and start buying up the AA corp.

The Desolation Angels aren't working w/ Mr J, they're working against him.

They havent been trying to kill you guys. The Desolation Angels always act in 3's. Meaning that when Sin was attacked, they could have atacked with all three and killed him. The bike cop, she wasn't alone. Why would they attack and pull you over?

The one that attacked Sin attacked with a knife. Mantis spirits don't need to use a knife.

They attacked Sin and tracked and pulled over you and lucky to gather ritaul link materials. Gettign sin's commlink was bonus that makes it even easier to track you with a competant decker.

The John (they reason at least) is a MOSQUITO shaman!

Read Threats 2, it has a file about Ares controlling bug spirits and shamans by capturing the queens and bringing them in, then manipulating their brood into doing their bidding.

The mosquito shaman needs to bring Lindon into the nest to change him/

The Desolation Angels are getting ways to track you so taht they can follow you after you meet w/ Mr J.

They want to follwo Mr j back to the nest. That way they can kill and devour the mosquito spirits and grow stronger. That way they 1) grow in force and 2) screw over Ares' plans.

Mr. J is a mosquito shaman, insect spirits have the power of controlling insects of their type. They can control mosquitos. Comsquitos suck blood. Mr J could also have ritual links of you. Every mosquito you see could be a spy for him.

So the question is... who are you going to side with. The Angels won't let you not extract Mr Lindon, because Mr J could find out to easily if you tried to trick him and meet w/o Lindon. So you need to get Lindon so they can track down the nest.

Mr J won't let you not get Lindon, because he needs to protect his queen. if his queen is destroyed, so is his magical ability. Completely. So he needs Lindon for Ares.

The question is.. if you get Lindon... who will you side with?

[SinN]

My vote is we side with the Angels, after we get lindon, let them do their thing. And we go our seprate ways. Cuz as was said before, they've collected dna on all of us, not only can they ritually track us, but can also ritually kill us with spell casting and such. Much like what Sin and Bourban did to a previous charactor on this campaign. Any takers?

Alysha- We finish the job, take lindon the Johnson. Let the Desolation Angels do whatever. It isnt our fault the Angels attacked. That way, we dont piss off Ares, and the Angels can do what ever they want.

:nuyen:

[fistandantilus4....]

Another option, help the J against the Angels. Maybe make him and Ares Happy.
or Maybe Ares doesn't care as long as the job gets done

or Say screw it and run off.

Really though you''re probably going to have to pick a side. Which devils will you deal with?
:vegm:

Either way, both of the groups could currently have ritual links on you. So don't let that decide it for you.