I am the Law (ooc/recruting), And the Law won Options

[Meriss]

[Toivoton]

[Meriss]

Hey boss can I get me one of dese http://heavyangel.com/?page_id=62?
I'll trade my Mossberg for it.

[Toivoton]

[Meriss]

Capt. Holstine is the top man, after that we prolly work similar to Rangers/ Seals/USMC. We're all Sargents. and the guy/gal in charge is Top/Master Sarge.

[imperialus]

[Fastball]

The swirling colors of Eleanor's aura will reveal her genueine enthusiasm as she asks about Sharp and Walker's magic. As the evening progresses, the colors will become slightly blurred, a clear showing that she is at least as intoxicated as you. You'll discover she has a full life force (essence 6) with no cyberware, and an equal level of magic (6). The owl charm will also reveal itself to be a Force 2 summoning focus. Finally, there is a good chance that at some point you will find a watcher or two flying around her like a dog(s) whose master just came home from work.

[imperialus]

First IC post is up. This is mostly just a chance to get aquainted and for everyone to check in. First post to get the story moving will be up tommorow.

[imperialus]

you can probably copy and paste the past half dozen posts into the IC thread.

[Toivoton]

Forgot the foci. Sorry, bear with me - I'm noob as I said..

You can find he has a power focus force 2 and a sustaining focus force 4 hidden in his clothes.

Syber:
Good post, but I think you are supposed to roll here and with the invisible castle thingie. *Points at the first post in this thread.*

[SyberCat]

Hey folks! Syber here! You can call me Syber', 'Lena, 'Cat, or Selene, if you wish.

Since Lord imp hasn't said no, I'm going to plug in a bit of background for you, although it may be less useful than I think! What you're about to see though, is both an IC set of information that can be gained, followed by the actual stats behind the character. Subject to change based on the GM's notice!

So... for those of you who like nosing around in the many nodes of the wireless, one of you might find this file - it's one of Casey's personnel files:

[ Spoiler ]

Knight Errant Profile: Firewatch Officer 131823: Casey
Classified: Eyes Only; Destroy after reading

Handle: "Casey"
Birth Name: Cassandra Elysia Finnegan
Known Aliases: Casey Fenestre, Casey Lupin, Casey Faux, Supermodel Arcadia Nine, Casey Bond, Casey Brand, Casey Marks <<other aliases suspected, subject is known to prefer simply "Casey">>
Age: 28
Gender: Female <<subject is known to emulate all variations of gender>>
Metatype: Human <<subject is known to emulate other metatypes>>
Height: 160cm <<appearance of height varies>>
Weight: Baseline unavailable
Classification: Awakened Adept (Class 6, Grade 2) <<subject is known to emulate other classifications, classes and grades>>

Team Assignment: Covert Operations Specialist, Seattle <<team insect designation pending>>

Profile:
Subject has adopted a "baseline" appearance for Firewatch duties, although it is believed the established baseline is not 100% congruent with expected genetic expression. Genetic testing suggests some genome fluidity with occasional indications of manipulation by an Awakened subject. Baseline appears to be mesomorphic female of slightly above average height with brown hair and matching eyes. Variations are to be expected, and for some missions, encouraged, as such uniforms cut to both male and female phenotypes have been issued.

Fluidity of appearance is not indicative of psychic instability. Subject testing reveals a stable core psyche, frequently disguised to aid in infiltration techniques. Testing by Awakened personnel indicates subjects ability to step into a role is not limited to physical and behavioral aspects.

Core Psyche includes dedication to common good, willingness to take risk <<which occasionally manifests as a sense of play>>, bias towards lawfulness, strong loyalty once given, awareness of imperfect systems, ability to accept consequence, and tendency to complete tasks.

Testing indicates subjects baseline physicality is barely below average for a Firewatch member, but skillset inventories reveal high rank infiltration abilities which may compensate.

Recommendation: Subject would augment teams lacking specialized infiltrators, while functioning at minimum standards for a Firewatch team. camouflage kit recommended for heavy resistance encounters.

<<'Fluidity of appearance' don't begin to cover it! I've seen this badge on anything from the big guy next to me in the weightroom to the elf maid I've been ogling for a week!
FirewatchPhil>>

<<You'll want to clean those tracks, Phil! Don't want the superiors knowing you've been eyeing other badges, do you?
Casey>>

I'm sure anything else can fit in the IC thread... including memories of training together. From training, (and this document), it's clear she's your infiltration specialist, or at least the mundane (non-electronic) version of it!

As for actual stats... here ye be, for you curious types! (Settling one or two last details with imperialus, so there may be a change or two.

[ Spoiler ]

Name: Casey
Human Adept

Body 4; Agility 3; Reaction 4; Strength 2;
Charisma 5; Intuition 4; Logic 3; Willpower 3
Edge 8; Magic 6
(Derived:)
Initiative 8; Essence 6

Active Skills:
Stealth Group: 4
Influence Group: 4
Outdoors Group: 1
Athletics Group: 1
Pistols 5
Perception 4
Automatics 3
Dodge 3
Blades 3
Escape Artist 2
First Aid 1
Parachuting 1

Knowledge Skills:
English: Native
Sperethiel: 3
Spanish: 3
Or'zet: 3
Elven Society : 1
Gangs : 2
Security Companies : 2
History : 1
Business : 1
Military : 2
Security Procedures : 2
Crook Hangouts : 1
Corporate Security Tactics : 3
Current Events : 2
Club Circuit : 1
Police Procedures : 4

Qualities:
ambidextrous (+)
Blandness (+)
First Impression (+)
Adept (+)
Lucky (+)
Sensitive System (-)

Initiate: Grade 2
Initiation Abilities: Masking, Flexible Signature

Adept Powers:
Voice Control
Melanin Control
Metabolic Control
Sustenance
Nimble Fingers
Linguistics
Eidetic Sense Memory
Mystic Armour 1
Rapid Healing 1
Flexibility 2
Kinesics 2
Facial Scuplting 2
Improved Ability: Disguise: 2

Contacts:
Informers - Loyalty 2, Connection 3
This represents the group of contacts that Casey has paid over time in the
course of one "investigation" or another. While not a single individual,
they can frequently be reached, but may not have the information she needs.
The web of information does stretch quite a ways, though. Most of the
informants have information that would only be relevant to her "spying" duties,
and none of them know exactly what her real appearance is.

Captain Holstine - Loyalty 2, Connection 4 (Free)

Equipment:
Stock Firewatch Equipment
Firewatch issue camouflage Suit
Silencer
Concealable Holster
Raecor Sting
Ceska Black Scorpion
Fichetti Security 600

Subvocal Microphone
Commlink : Renraku Sensei

Cellular Glove Molder (Rating 1)
Keycard Copier (Rating 2)
Lockpick Set
Maglock Passkey (Rating 2)
Sequencer (Rating 2)
Flashlight
Medkit (Rating 2)
DocWagon Contract (Basic - per Year)
5x Latex Face Mask
Fake Sin (Rating 1)
4x Fake License (Rating 2)
4x Nanopaste Disguise (Small Container)

High Lifestyle
(Legitimate) Licenses to carry and conceal all equipment

Weapon Focus, Force 3, Bonded:
Forearm Snap Blades [Muscular trigger]

I think that's about it for now... see you in the other forum!
-Syber'

[SyberCat]

[Toivoton]

Can you give us some basic laws (or just guidelines) that we are upholding? What magic are we allowed to use normally? For example can we levitate people or order spirits to possess people to move them away from places they aren't supposed to be in? Can you mindcontrol? Meaning on "normal people" as an alternative to physically forcing them to do something or pulling a gun to threathen them to do something, I'm not talking about suspects who are shooting.

Say you are breaking a fight. Mundane way to deal with it would be to pull them apart and then talk to them. Now if you don't feel like doing that, can you skip that by levitating one of them out of the other's reach and then talk to them?

Or if you are breaking a bigger fight (say a 20 people free for all) with only your partner, can you just cast mobmood (sad or friendly or something) or "deputise" a few people by possessing a couple and influencing a couple?

Naturally this is assuming that the "deputised" people aren't hurt for doing things you force them to do.


If the briefing for the first job isn't next morning, Walker is going to requisition some summoning materials to be ready. Force 4 and force 5 if he can get them.

And how do you use colors?

[Fastball]

"It's simple, you just use:"

[Meriss]

Any of you mages assensing Bang get this

[ Spoiler ]

On 3-4 hits you percieve that Bang is not just an average troll
he happens to be an adept as well. You also find that his emotions are supprisingly stable for a troll. On more than 4 hits you discover a core of fear/anger/hatred. this manifests as a roiling black ball buried deep in Bangs Aura. No matter how many succcesses you get if you are an experianced mage, you will notice the small aura which seems bonded to his, it radiates contented sleepiness. If questioned about this Bang will respond with confusion. If asked about what is under his left arm, Bang will raise his arm and reveal Bob, his demon ferret. If asked about Bob he wil launch in to a five minute precis on his purchase of Bob

[imperialus]

Tovioton:

My basic assumption is that the constitution and judicial system has remained largely unchanged with regards to suspect’s rights and actual procedure. This is mostly just to reduce headaches on everyone’s part since I have no desire to rewrite a legal system and I don’t want anyone to need any real world legal knowledge beyond watching a few episodes of Law and Order. Ares has largely adopted the same justice system as the UCAS though there are some notable changes.

For example under the UCAS constitution it is illegal for evidence to be gathered through the use of a mind probe spell or anything like that. In Ares jurisdiction it is legal as long as the suspect is not an Ares citizen. There are a few other examples like that but for the most part assume they are the same. When specific spells and the like come up, I’ll make a ruling.

The mob mind/mood spells are a sort of grey area. The Supreme Court hasn't made a final ruling on Glover V. UCAS where a mob mind spell was used on Mr. Glover by a Lone Star mage to force him to release his common law wife who he was holding hostage and surrender to the police. The defense is arguing that it was a violation of his rights over his own conscious and was an abuse of police powers while the government is arguing that without the use of the mob mind spell Mr. Glover who was under the influence of NovaCoke intended to kill his wife and attack the police. The incident took place in 2054 and it still hasn’t wound its way though the court system.

KE doesn't outright ban the use of mob minds and the like but they strongly discourage their use outside of the most critical of situations. If it's a choice between a man either throwing a grenade into a crowd or using mob mind to force him to replace the pin then by all means use it just be careful not to cause a PR nightmare while doing so. “Deputizing” unwilling people would probably be frowned upon, but casting mob mood to calm a fight that could turn into a riot would likely be acceptable, at least as long as the people about to start rioting don’t have really good lawyers. Basically it boils down to “use at your own risk”. Depending on the fallout you might be hailed a hero or you might be dragged in front of a discipline committee. From a metagaming standpoint all I’m really trying to say is don’t abuse it. Mob mind/mood are powerful spells, if you start casting them constantly to try and shortcut through major aspects of the plot you’ll probably get slapped down, use them appropriately you’ll be fine.

If there are any other specific spells or anything else you want clarification on please let me know, I’ll answer as best I can.

[Toivoton]

Walker doesnt't actually have mob mind/mob mood. I was just looking at my nonlethal takedown options since I had to drop stuff like gluestrip and I started to wonder if it would be better to influence or levitate people to allow them to be cuffed instead of say smacking them with a high force stunbolt.

But yeah I sort of assumed mindprobing suspects for evidence was offlimits (not to mention alter memory and that sort of things), but for example possession is something that I need a ruling on - is it okay to sic a spirit to posses an armed suspect and subdue his 2 friends? Or do I have to use the stunX or grenades?

It would be helpful if you could put offensive possession (to prevent a suspect from doing something), possession to "deputise", possession to protect (possessing the hostage), mind influencing spells (mobmind, influence, control actions), shooting (nonlethal), grenades, brute force (Bang), stun spells (stunball), lethal spells, lethal "mundane" force, using mind probe to get info (whats the disarming code to this bomb?!?), physically manipulating spells (levitate, turn into goo), letting the suspect get away and letting the suspect kill the hostage into some sort of "this is better PR then" or "this will get you into jail faster then" order.

Naturally it depends on the situation, but some sort of a guideline would be fun.

[imperialus]

@ Toivoton:
Yeah sure. Give me a day or two and I'll have something worked up for you. It shouldn't be a huge issue until we actually get to a point where bullets start flying which at the average pace of message board campaigns won't be for a few days at least.

@ Everyone:

Toivoton got me thinking about it and I realized I left somthing out of the posting instructions. When combat does start I'm just going to do initiative rolls on my end and I'll post them (in intitiative order including bad guys) for everyone to see. This'll just help things move quickly rather than wait for 6 people to check in with initiative rolls.

I'll post that I'm making an initiative roll a few hours before I actually post the roll so that people have a chance to tell me if they want to spend edge or not but if I've already posted the roll before you've had a chance to check the thread and you want to use edge just let me know in the OOC thread and I'll reroll it. The only thing that really won't work is if you want to spend edge to go first in the round and someone else has already posted their action. Hopefully that doesn't come up but if it does we'll cross that bridge when we come to it either retroactively editing your action or something else.

Once it is your turn in the initiative order you have 24 hours to post your actions otherwise I will simply assume that you are doing the most obvious course of action, diving for cover, returning fire ect. No edge will be used and you arn't going to do anything creative, mostly just focus on keeping yourself alive.

If you need to make a roll (damage resistance, spell resistance ect.), once again you have 24 hours to do so, at which point I'll roll for you, once again no edge will be spent (unless it's painfully obvious that you're in a position where you couldn't survive without spending edge).

[Toivoton]

No real point in telling you are going to roll initiative a few hours before you do - a few hours is too short to expect people to see it. Just post the rolls and if someone wants to use edge, he is welcome to do so then (yeah it lets people see what they roll before choosing to use edge, but it isn't THAT big deal imo. Besides I'm for everything that makes the mechanic part of a forum game go faster.).

I'm also very much for letting you to roll responses (you know things that they ARE going to roll - resists, dodge, reflective perception, defending against melee, spell resists and that sort of thing) - It would suck to have to wait for a day because the perp you were questioning, decided to hit you and you have to roll block. Or something like that. Just don't make our chars do things (mainly things that need actions) if possible - THAT is something we want to decide.. :)

Actually I would even be for letting the GM run combat with players only telling what their characters are trying to do with the GM telling how things went and asking what to do every few turns and the players make the IC posts.

You know "Walker is going to start by channeling the force 5 guardian spirit, stunball (force 7) the ones on the left and then start shooting at the ones in the middle. Sharp is going to watch our back, using his flamethrower on threats and if things get bad, Walker will sic the force 4 spirit of man on the biggest threat."

Then GM rolls init and runs combat as directed. Now if say the group is suprised from the back and Sharp is in serious trouble taking a couple of big manabolts, GM should ask how the group reacts.

Granted I'm new here, but it sounds scary when you say that you are going to wait for 24h when somebody is shot. Doesn't combat last years if you do that?

[imperialus]

thing with me rolling resistances is the application of edge, I can't tell if someone wants to use edge or not so this'll just make life easier. The action will continue before the resistance roll is made and at the end of each initiative pass I'll just post a summary of everything that happened factoring damage taken and the like then. Modifiers such as wound modifiers and the like will go into effect immidiately after they are caused but they just won't get discribed until the end of the IP.

[Meriss]

Boy i realllly need to learn to read. I've been posting like mad in the IC thread but kept forgetting the quotes for "speech"

[imperialus]

As long as it's cyan it's no big deal. It's readable which is all that really matters. I routinely forget stuff like that too unless I happen to type the whole post up in word.

[Meriss]

Well I found this so maybe we can all stop laughing at me.
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...opic=16412&st=0
Hilarious, I especially like the one about Firewatch Go! Some how I think Bang would LOVE this show

[imperialus]

I've actually been debating the idea of having a documentry style show like Dallas SWAT or something like that follow you guys around for a while. So far it's on the back burner since I don't know how to implement it without it becoming a joke but you never know, one day you might go out for a call and there'll be a producer waiting for you at the crime scene.

[SyberCat]

Wouldn't be too difficult to arrange, given someone's background... all they'd have to do was get in touch with a certain model's agent... and oh, my, what confusion could ensue from that!

I may have to beg/pray/insist/bribe someone for that one!

Cheers,
-Syber'