Down in the Gutter: OOC, The Nuts and Bolts of Staying Alive Options

[pragma]

Pragma - Good job of Role Playing then. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I guess I should have specified that I wasn't really serious in my comment. Just having some fun.

Don't worry. I figured it out. The smiley face usually sends that message pretty clearly. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[adamu]

Adamu - The screeching can be heard, but it's pretty faint.

Well, maybe if they get closer it will get louder!

The electronic message will not get through to you in the sewers.

That is unhappy for me (I was mostly just wondering if he was included on the mailing list for Legion's message, but that now becomes academic). Is that right now, or an all the time thing (I have been sending and receiving from sewers previously - was that wrong? If so very sorry.) Is Signal rating a factor at all? I was under the impression that although mesh network coverage is extremely spotty, if two commlinks were in Signal range of each other, that wouldn't be relevant. Or is it just a sewer thing?
NOT NOT NOT trying to make a fuss. Just want to know these things, since Grack would have, and they are very important for future actions.

[WinterRat1]

Adamu - The screeching did get louder when they headed north, but then faded again when they headed west.

The message not getting through was a 'Black Die of Doom™' rolling against you on this particular instance.

As always in Kingsgate, you can't necessarily count on electronic communications, and there's not necessarily a pattern to the how or why.

[adamu]

The message not getting through was a 'Black Die of Doom™' rolling against you on this particular instance.

As always in Kingsgate, you can't necessarily count on electronic communications, and there's not necessarily a pattern to the how or why.

Coolness - doomful black dice - cool. Me having overlooked something I could have done better - not cool. So I am happy now! Thank you for the response.

[WinterRat1]

All, especially Whipstitch - Anyone need anything from me? I think I've been pretty up to date with what people need from the actual gameplay standpoint.

Whipstitch, you haven't IC posted in four days, are you having problems figuring out how to meet up with the others or have you just been too busy to post? Let me or the other players know if you need help coming up with inspiration/a way to get introduced to the rest of the gang.

[Whipstitch]

I'm going to post tonight, or tomorrow morning. Just been busy, had to finish a portrait for classes.

[WinterRat1]

OK no problem, just wanted to check in on you and make sure you weren't getting lost in the shuffle. With 15 or so players it's easy for people to slip through the cracks if they aren't proactive, and with you being a newcomer I didn't want you to feel neglected/ignored in all the insanity.

[Whipstitch]

Sorry for the treadin' water nature of my newest post, but I've had a goofy reaction with my newest medications and I'm just not feeling terribly creative atm. Basically, the gist of it is that Cuervo's going to be chilling in the shadows just outside of the Heights and wants to hit up anyone who's by themselves (like Maus) for information. If/when Twiggs, Legion and the rest of the crew comes by he'd reveal himself there too based on the logic that if Twiggs isn't getting jumped they must not be on the warpath. I figure either that or wait 'till Ink gives him a ring back. I could also have him go scavenging or feeding rats in the park too if that seems like a more expedient path towards getting everyone linked up. I had some ideas the other day, I'm just kinda scrambled atm and don't want to go jumping the gun too much, but at least this way my location is hashed out so we can work from there.

Here's an infiltration roll pre-enviromental/home ground modifiers 10d6 → [5,2,4,2,1,4,6,5,5,1] = 4 hits

And a Perception roll pre-enviromental/home ground modifiers
6d6 → [4,2,2,1,2,6] = 1 hit

[Meriss]

@Winter: The message was sent approximately 5 seconds after Whip's last post. Just me trying to catch up. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Vegas]

@Meriss

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As I remember, WR had said earlier in the thread that Cuervo's message did NOT get through to Ink... just FYI. See Post #1109 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[WinterRat1]

Vegas and Meriss –

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I went back and checked post 1109, Vegas read it incorrectly. Cuervo’s message DID make it through to Ink.

[Mister Juan]

I'm back in town. I'll do my best to catch up on everthing.

[Vegas]

Sorry Meriss.. my bad.

It's been a rough day, I should know better than to be on the boards (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

[Slipshade]

Oh man I really hope this was an April Fool's Joke.

http://www.shadowrun4.com/wordpress/?p=220

Last thing I would want during recruitment is to have every other character concept be a dracoform.

[Whipstitch]

Hey, technically a Feathered Serpent could afford a contact and some lifestyle. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[WinterRat1]

No dracoforms in my games. Period.

If this is the crap they're thinking up instead of stuff that's actually useful and relevant (like say, a workable matrix system that actually makes sense...), then the developers are becoming nothing more than fanboys trying to see what kewl magickal powerz they can come up with next.

[Whipstitch]

Meh, as a GM I find the idea of workable dracoform rules for high powered games fairly useful. Then again, we often roll with 450 bps for mundanes and 420 + 2 initiations of your choice for Awakened in my games too. That's neither here nor there though, and I think it goes without saying that Dragons don't really fit into DITG anyway.

[Slipshade]

I'm ok with them adding options for Obsidimen and T'Skrang as it appears they are (at least the sample mentioned Obsidimen in the first paragraph), as for me it would be a better side effect of the temporary rise in mana than SURGE was and sticks more to with the original FASA Earthdawn/Shadowrun crossover stuff. But Dracoforms? I am with WinterRat on this one. That sounds really fanboy-ish and not much use in most campaigns.

Ok I will stop mentioning it as this is probably better suited for other forums on Dumpshock.

[grendel]

If people want to play Earthdawn, let them play Earthdawn. I'm here to play Shadowrun. If people want to play a game that has over three dozen different "metatypes", let them go play Rifts. You can play a dragon in Rifts no problem. But there's a reason why dragons are feared creatures in Shadowrun, why there are only twelve of them, and why even when the drakes were brought out it was with numerous and heavy cautions against letting players get their hands on them. I like the common mythologies that Earthdawn and Shadowrun share, I like the fact that the consequences of actions in the fourth world are still ringing in the sixth world. But I've been against crossover features, such as races, horrors, etc. from the beginning.

[WinterRat1]

Grendel – FYI, Felix isn’t with you guys right now. If you look at post 460, you’ll see he snuck off back to the old Splintered Crash HQ to take a look around and see if there’s anything left.

[grendel]

Well that sneaky bastard. Editing.

[Mister Juan]

Hey all! I'm just back from out of town, so I'll be catching up on everything as soon as I can!

@WR1
I'll have a post up tomorrow early afternoon.
Just wondering; how far is Felix from the old Crash's HQ? Can I write all the way into the HQ, or do you want me to stop at some point?

[WinterRat1]

Pick one: Odd or Even.

[Mister Juan]

@WR1
Man do I love those (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
I'll take odd.

[WinterRat1]

The Black Die of DOOM ™ says you need to give me an Infiltration roll.

And in case it wasn't obvious, you can't write up to the HQ.

You're currently a few blocks away, in the old LoCoS territory.