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

[Meriss]

@Unarmed: Makes sense to me and we also have Nevada as a friend in common.

@Vegas: You and me can work on the wiki and stuff while the cats are away. :)

[Meriss]

@Unarmed: Apparently my spanish sucks worse than I thought. The nearest translation I'm getting for "Que onda ese?" is "what ripple that?" ????? eh?

[Unarmed]

just supposed to mean 'what's up, man?' lol. If anyone's spanish sucks here, it's mine. =)

[WinterRat1]

GenCon Announcement - I will be out from Friday, Aug. 17 through Sunday, Aug. 20 for GenCon. I will try to get replies to people before I leave, but right now GenCon prep takes priority, so if I don't get to you before I go, I apologize and will catch up as quickly as I can upon my return.

[Meriss]

@Winter: Have fun, get swag! (Bring some back)

@Unarmed: I kinda figured, just looking at it through intraweb autotranslator is kinda funny

[Fresno Bob]

Blargh blargh.

[Meriss]

@Unarmed: "Nothing man. How about you?"

[Lindt]

Hope GenCon was good.

Posted. Finally. Going to update my wiki stuff soon-ish.

[Abbandon]

Winter Fool has cybereyes with zoom and magnify and he will be using them to scan people as he and Child drive north along 124th ave. He also has his wired reflexes on so he should be able to look around quickly.

[Meriss]

@Unarmed: just waiting on grendel to respond before Ink answers Doc.

[WinterRat1]

All - Quick update, I'm closing on a condo with my fiance this Friday and then am going to Kentucky for the weekend, so time is very tight. I will try to give everyone something to work with while I'm gone, but I can't make any promises. If I don't get to people this week, top priority next week will be catching people up to speed. My apologies for the delay.

[WinterRat1]

DITG Update Time:

Bockscar & Nevada - The IC post pretty much said it all. You two are somewhere in the third/quarter of the building closest to the Raiders' side of the alley, but the windows don't give you a clear line of sight and the guns fell silent. You currently have no idea where they are, or even if they're still out there.

Note that from a rules standpoint, the second rifle shot happened during IP 1, and the guns stopped firing during IP 1 as well.

Go ahead and put up your actions for CT 5, I already set up the wiki. Deadline is Saturday, August 25, 23:59:59 CST. If you have any questions, let me know.

Felix and Aziz - Voorhees, go ahead and move Aziz and Felix forward, same guidelines as I gave to Abbandon above (don't abuse it, keep it focused, work towards the ultimate goal of linking up with the other gangers, etc). If you want to move forward to a meeting of Shade, Aziz, and Felix as they debate their next move, go ahead and do so and I'll reply as Shade.

EDIT: I just heard from Mister Juan, he said he completely forgot about DITG and will have a post up ASAP. Wait until Friday, and if you haven't seen a post from him by then, go ahead and move this group forward. Thanks for your patience!

Legion, Grack, Thumper, Doc, Ink, Fool, Child - As the group heads south, they'll run into Fool and Child, who are cruising north up 124th. I'll leave it to you all to decide where and how you meet up (as well as to play it out), but assume you'll meet up around 00:45:00 somewhere along 124th Ave NE.

Any questions, let me know.

All - I will be closing on my condo this Friday, then going out of town until Sunday, August 26. I will catch up with whatever comes up between now and the weekend (that I don't get to before then) as soon as possible upon my return.

[WinterRat1]

Meriss - You're at the 41 minute mark, not the 21 minute mark amigo. :)

[Fresno Bob]

[rob]

Winter

Aight, common sense check - Box is from this area; home ground, and buckets of knowledge skills for this sort of thing. Might even know this specific building. Would it have a back door or some other quickly accessible avenues of approach? I can roll any number of things for this.

If there is one, can I get eyes on it in one free action?

Also, do we get a resolution phase for last turn? Can I fire up my sniffer program and try to listen on them while I move? The fact that they've already stopped firing is bad news...

[adamu]

pragma, Abbandon, Meriss, Unarmed, Grendel, Lindt
Winter

With the deadline for event registry nearing and all of us soon to be together but also on the move, would it be easier on us and Winter if we all just slaved our registration details to Grendel/Legion?

Otherwise, we'll all be inputting slightly different addresses, or waiting to the last minute to register.

If it's okay with Winter, for location we could all just put "With Legion".

Just a thought.

[Lindt]

Im good with that. Cause after all, Legion is where all the action is! That and Grendel is the mac daddy.

Ill post something near-ish to where you folks are and we shall hash it out from there?

[Abbandon]

Im fine with attaching ourselves to legion. hopefully child and fool make it into the fold as opposed to beat up by grack and doc lol. Below is a draft for a meeting with those involved. It looked like Doc had a chance to respond to Ink so I didnt want to cut him off. Anyone can post this draft for the meeting or just scrap it and write their own or change this one around however they want.

Doc, Ink, Thumper, Legion meeting Fool, Child rough draft..

[ Spoiler ]

Having absorbed another wayward soul, the group of 5 gangers turned to the south again and began walking to where only thier glorious leader knew. Gunshots were still ringing out in the night and then everyhing returned to silence. There were only a handful of lit up windows in the surrounding buildings as most people turned them off so that they could see outside and also eliminate any shadows that could be used to target them from the outside.

The group was brought to a halt again though as the lo sounds of a motorcycle engine idling along reached their ears like some enemy gangers on patrol. Legion gave the command to clear the street and take cover. Legion could see Thumper readying the pistol he had pulled from the dwarf and gave him a wait command.....

It had been slow going for Fool and Child. They slowed down for a number of people who only turned out to be bums who were just unabe to get off the streets even in ti chaos. Once they themselves has to pull the bike over and hdie when they had approached an intersection and heard another bike. The bike blew by quickly like i was either running from something or trying to get someplace quickly, probably both. They had cleared that intersection and were coming up another when Fool's cyber eyes finally caught sight 5 shadows emerge from the darkness. He gave Child a tap on the shoulder to slow down again but he could tell some of the shadows had already heard something.

The 5 shadows froze in their tracks and as Fool and Child got closer Fool was able to make out more and more features. One was obviously a troll. what the hell was that..an Orc that had a big hole on each side of his face where his cheeks had been..disgusting. After the initial shock it seemed like he should remember who that was and then it occured to him that the Hammerpack did indeed have a guy who fit that description. As he began to take in the guy who was in the middle who seemed to be leading the others Fool saw him gesturing wit his hands and then they all split and disappeared off the street taking cover whereever they could. Not before Fool had a chance to halfway recognize who the middleman was. He was pretty sure it had been the man they were looking for. Legion. The leader of the hammerpack. A man who had survived many gang destructions and who might be able to sympathize with Fool and Child and take them in.

Fool leaned forward and shouted so that Child could hear him. "I think we found Legion but they scattered." Pointing up ahead, fool continued "Come to a stop up there. Keep the engine going though I could be wrong..."

[Unarmed]

pragma, Abbandon, Meriss, Unarmed, Grendel, Lindt

I have made my IC post, urging us to keep moving.

Abbandon, your post looks like a good idea to me, and will get us to a point where we're all meeting swiftly. As long as everyone else is fine with it, go big.

Also, I like Adamu's suggestion of just leaving our location as "with legion" as to reduce confusion, as long as it works for winter I think we should run with it.

[Meriss]

I also agree with adamu. If grendel and Winter are okay with it. It sounds like it'll make a far less cluttered registry.

[adamu]

@Abbandon - your IC draft looks great to me, buddy.

[Vegas]

WinterRat

Sorry... I'm a bit (ok a lot) under the weather and swamped with an unexpected and new job starting. I know the deadline for Nevada's actions is tonight at midnight but I'm having trouble sitting in front of the computer for any period of time, let alone long enough to type up coherent thoughts and things involving numbers.

Basically I wanted her to somewhat split from Bockscar now that the outside shooting had stopped, go back towards Marsh's body and the girls and see if she can do anything for Marsh, and or protect/corral the girls so they don't get picked off.. or at least TRY to keep them alive and an asset for the gang.

[Meriss]

@Winter: Perception roll to look for tats and body mods. Will also prolly twig to everyones wounds eventually. 4,1,4,5 1 bloody hit.

@All: A note on Ink's tats. Just so everyone is clear on this, certain tats listed in my backstory are not fully "finished". The LoCoS piece is not yet blacked out, Ink will do this as soon as he has the time. (Out of respect to Legion and his new homies.) The weeping Madonna is weeping normal tears and the field is not skulled yet, as the full impact of the war hits him these elements will be added. The Phoenix is not in existence yet either. But as soon as Legion figures out a name, new colors and a symbol it will be added.

On New Symbology: I realize we're not even close to a point where we trust one another enough to figure this out IC. I thought I'd get the ball rolling OOC, so our artistic section can come up with something. May I humbly suggest, Phoenix or something else similarly appropriate. Possibly with the some of our old colors worked in?

[Abbandon]

Heh I suggest "The whatever street Zombies" cuz you can knock us down and we just get back up again. And we can play off peoples fear of actual zombies and ghouls hehe. Bad side is we will probably draw the attention of the 162's and other real undead types.

[grendel]

I was going to suggest Dark Phoenix, but I'm not sure I like it enough.