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[Toras]

One Punch speaks Mandrin as a native language and an accented version of English.

Those who have heard of him know that he is an expert Unarmed Fighter and Archer oddly enough. Some might recognize him from the pit fights that has participated in, as he's pretty well known in that circle.

Those who've worked with him know that he is typically a quiet and collected fighter, spots the occasional quip or light hearted comment. He can be pushed too far and that is were things have a habit of getting messy.

[Scope_47]

@Jeremiah

[ Spoiler ]

Scope is surreptitiously keeping tabs on the troll girl on the dance floor.

[Redjack]

An Shui speaks native English, fluent Cantonese & a bit of Mandarin.

He has a reputation of being unwavering in regards to his personal code of honor. This makes him an oddity on the streets where everyone has a price. Despite this defect, he can be counted on by his team mates even in the worst of circumstances.

[pragma]

@All in post

John's kind of a take charge kind of guy. Here's a leadership test to see if he ruffled anyone's feathers. Do with it what you like.

Cha+Leadership+First Impression # dice 13 :: 6 2 2 4 1 6 3 6 6 4 5 3 4 -- 5 hits

@Toras

Don't mean to railroad One-Punch here. If you want him to do something that can't fit within my post, I'll edit accordingly. Let me know.

@All

In addition to the language deals above it is known that Goat is a shrewd negotiator, competent tactician and decent, if slow, gunfighter.

It's also well known that he knows a lot about Hong Kong KE and, if you have worked for the Red Dragon Triad or are a particularly avid newshound, that he is a former KE officer.

[Redjack]

Assensing Rolls: [Intuition(4) + Assensing(1) + Aura Reading(2)]
4,6,5,2,1,4,5 = 3 hits on Troll Girl
1,5,4,4,5,4,1 = 2 hits on Elf
2,3,4,5,3,1,6 = 2 on Taller Johnson
4,1,6,4,5,5,3 = 3 on other Johnson

Edit: Wasn't sure if there were reserved rolls or not. Provided them in case not.

[Scope_47]

@Jeremiah

[ Spoiler ]

Are there any hidden weapons and/or cyberware that Scope can detect in the two Johnsons, the troll, or for that matter the other runners at the table? (Radar sensor functions as millemeter wave (IE: cyberware/weapon) scanner - in case you were not familiar with it. Since its a part of her, I'm not sure if it would use device rating or her own perception)

[Jeremiah Legacy]

Redjack: Actually, there are two problems:

1) The rolls are reserved. I'll make them and tell you what you see.

2) Elf? What elf?

Pragma: How the other players handle it is their decision. As for the Johnsons, they don't seem to be too ruffled; you are pros and they are asking for an ugly job. Of course, the First Impression did help.

Scope: looking into your question, will get back to you.

[Redjack]

[Toras]

I am fine with it. But other than going and asking the girl to dance, I'm at a loss as to how to do so quietly. Still, he does have something to contribute, if they aren't with the Johnson.

Since he's glancing around, what roll should I make for the two "spies" to determine likely fighting ability and training based on the way they are standing and moving.

(Rough capability, based on my knowledge of the martial arts. )

[pragma]

@Toras

I think One-Punch's dancing been rendered a moot point by Scope's observation that our observers are with the Johnson party. Scope or Jeremiah shoud feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Also, I'd just pictured him kind of dancing without a partner in order to obscure the LOS to the table; it would be like having a giant, dancing, grunting wall between us and the observers.

Again, probably a moot point.

[Scope_47]

Pretty much, Pragma. Scope already drew her own conclusions about what is going on - but she has the militaristic perspective of presenting a 'unified front' - so she's not discussing it right now. Scope's POV is that the troll is definitely with the Johnsons we are talking to.

Trust me, if she thinks drek is going down, you'll find out in very, very short order. :cyber:

Typically though, meet security is the Johnson's job is it not? I OOC always thought that bringing something like a white noise generator or otherwise 'doing the Johnson's job' would be a good way to insult the client. Of course, that wouldn't stop me from having certain character concepts have a white noise generator in their pocket just in case since they are tiny and completely legal - not to mention cheap.

[Scope_47]

@Jeremiah

[ Spoiler ]

Scope can't understand what the Johnsons are saying, but she is recording it for later with her cyber-ears.

[Jeremiah Legacy]

Wow, lots of work for me.

Redjack:

[ Spoiler ]

The male dancer "spy" is healthy, though he's had a few drinks. He's also in a good mood, but trying to not let himself get too distracted. He appears to be a mundane.

The female dancer "spy" is ... off. Mundane, but heavily cybered up. Eyes, ears, reflexes, legs, arms, she seems to be more cyber than human. Essnese almost to the floor. Definitely ready to fight at any moment, yet emotionally calm.

Since you assensed after Scope's comments,

Taller Johnson is agitated and angry, although also very concerned. He is a mundane, with implants for his commlink and his cybereyes, high quality and some enhancements. He also has a balance augmenter, but no other ear enhancements.
He also has cyberlegs with foot anchors, but no other cyberware you notice.

Shorter Johnson is also agitated, angry, and concerned, but mostly concerned. He is a mundane, but if he has any implants, you can't tell.

Underage Troll Girl is a mundane, a little high on novacoke, and in love. She is, however, starting to get impatient.

Scope

Few things. First, you are right that security at a meet is typically a Johnson's job, but keep in mind that they are out-of-towners. It is possible that they don't know what they're doing. As for other things:

[ Spoiler ]

Your radar sensor would use your perception, the device rating, AND your Intuition; the sensor is a tool helping you. However, there are penalties for the music in the air.

You didn't notice it before because you weren't paying attention, but now that you focus on your radar sensor, you are not picking up anything from the party at all. Once you look out to the troll, you notice that she is not carrying any weapons or any cybernetics you can tell.

And, ear recording noted.

Toras: You do get a bonus for your martial arts knowledge skill, as 'assensing' potential opponents would be part of learning martial arts in general. So you get 7 dice to roll, which I did for you. The result:

[ Spoiler ]

It'd be a slaughter. There is no way that they could stand up to you for more than a second, unless you were asleep, blindfolded, and underwater. Then they might have a chance.

[Redjack]

@Jeremiah

[ Spoiler ]

I'm confused. The red-headed troll girl: I assume she is the one from the front door who was making out with an elf? (Could you clarify if she is in fact the same troll?)
Also, who are these dancers? I looked back and didn't see you mentioning anything about them to me. For the moment I will await clarification on the "spies" before posting about them.
Thanks!

Increased Reflexes F3: 4,6,1,5,5,6,3,3,4 = 4 3 hits
Resist Drain: 3,6,3,4,4,2,1,1,4Drain = 1 hit; 2 Drain

[Jeremiah Legacy]

Redjack:

[ Spoiler ]

Yes, this is the same troll girl you passed on the way downstairs. And, in your IC post, you referred to assensing the dancers seen by Goat, and they are different people.

[Scope_47]

@Jeremiah

[ Spoiler ]

Ok, so Scope detects no cyber or weapons on her party (good to know IC that they are unarmed), and no cyber on the troll. What about the two Johnsons?

Also, now that she's shifted into combat mode mentally, she is mentally categorizing pretty much everyone in the vicinity into categories of high threat, medium threat, low threat, probable KE, club security, and non-combatant - so she's looking for weapons and ware since she knows from previous combat experience that there are way too many action-sim junkies out there who want to play hero and not mind their own business if a fight breaks out. Also, she is going to visual once over the crowd again.

Oh, also, on the radar sensor thing (glad mine is rating 4 BTW), does the r3 attention coprocessor blanket perception bonus apply to that? (I'm trying to decide IC how much she relies on the results from it, since she'd know her own capabilities pretty well).

(yeah, sorry to make so much work for you, but she's agitated and ready for a fight)

@All,
You remember that 'you'll know when she thinks the drek is going down' thing? Probably gonna be soon unless something else unexpected happens.

I must say that this is the most entertaining meet I've played in so far - I've got a 'player theory' as to what is going on, but unfortunately the character wouldn't come up with the same idea.

[Jeremiah Legacy]

Scope

[ Spoiler ]

If I was unclear, I'm sorry. You did not get anything from anyone at the table, PCs or Johnson. Your radar sensor is being jammed, probably from someone or something there. However, the jamming does not go beyond the table.

[Redjack]

@Jeremiah

[ Spoiler ]

Those were in Goat's spoiler. I assume that I am not to respond to other people's spoilers (Since spoiler text comes across clear text in emails it is sometimes hard to miss the text of a spoiler) No, I was looking for the elf that the red-headed troll girl was making out with when I first saw her. If he is not present I am ok to not talk about him again.

If this is you go ahead, An Shui will notice and respond to those as well. ;)

[Meriss]

Whoa nelly! Looks like I'm going to get left in the dust here. :D

Mandy has a flyspy in her purse if that will help any.

[Scope_47]

@Jeremiah

[ Spoiler ]

Oh! No, I didn't get the impression that I was being jammed (That's something I think she would have noticed, since an entire spectrum of her vision went bye-bye). She'll be just eye-balling it then, same MO - not as concerned about not looking like she is looking around - I'm not sure if its a infiltration or a shadowing check to not look like you are casing the place, so I'll roll both - but she will break eye contact with the Johnsons for this.

Infiltration: 11d6.vs(5)->[1,4,3,5,4,5,1,1,4,3,1] = (2)

Shadowing: 9d6.vs(5)->[1,6,1,2,5,3,3,1,6] = (3)

Wouldn't jamming also prevent Commlink usage?

[Jeremiah Legacy]

Redjack

[ Spoiler ]

Goat mentioned in the IC concern about the two people dancing. I assumed you were referring to them. And you were right that spoilers are PMs. Either way, now you got your assensing of the two people.

Scope

[ Spoiler ]

It's hard to tell what they are arguing about, but it seems that the taller Johnson is denying all knowledge about the troll girl and clearly doesn't like you and wants you out of the job. The shorter one is trying to calm him down.

And all I said was that the signal is jammed. You don't know why it is, but the comms are working. Also, remember that it would be part of your sight, but it was in the background and only in regards to this table.

Any last shots you want in before the Johnsons stop arguing, get them in now.

[Mister Juan]

Basically, Christophe is going to subscribe everyone's commlink to his own, so that to communicate with one another, they have to run through him. He'll then load one rating 3 Agent to scan the network over and over, looking for intruders.
Agent loadout: Analyze, Attack & Armor

He will then start to actively search for the “eavesdroppers� commlink node, as well as any other hidden node in the surrounding area.

Here are a bunch of EW+Scan roles (Detecting Wireless Nodes).
Do tell if you need more.
http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=1337898


Once he locates the nodes his looking for, Christophe will analyze them.
Here are enough Computer+Analyze rolls to pretty much cover all basis.
Depending on what he finds, he will adjust his further actions.
http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=1337916

[Scope_47]

@Jeremiah

[ Spoiler ]

Assuming that An Shui gives a description of the chromed out dancer, Scope will look her over to glean as much additional intel as she can. Aside from that, she's going to use her knowledge of Knight Errant procedures to determine how likely it is that A: this woman is actually a KE officer and B: should violence break out, how fast and how strong will the response be (she already figures somewhere around two minutes just because of the high-profile nature of the place) given the combat scenario - and how would the presence of firearms affect that response.

Also looking for club security measures and devices - especially things that could plaster faces on the evening news if something goes down. (using applicable knowledge to assess these).

[Jeremiah Legacy]

OK, time for the catch-up.

Mister Juan:

[ Spoiler ]

Dancers and troll girl, you're in. They were in active mode, except for troll girl, who was passive. What do you wanna know?

The Johnsons' commlinks were in hidden mode, but either you are really, really good or their OS is crap, because you're in. Against shorter Johnson, you have 3 net hits. Against taller one, 1 net hit. Same question: what do you wanna know?

Scope:

[ Spoiler ]

No way that the girl is a Knight Errant anything, unless they really lowered their standards. Even if she is cybered up - and your observations tell you she probably isn't - she wouldn't know what to do when everything fell apart.

If a fight broke out here, KE would probably be here very quickly and you would have a horrible time getting out. The cameras are not watching your table (at least there is some descretion here), but they are watching the general floor area, and chances are, if a firefight broke out, they would zoom in on you real damn quick. They would be surprised for a moment of how you got your gun past the guard, but that just means some uncomfortable questions for the front door guard later.

Then, there's the question of getting out. You either need to go up five floors or through a wall and hope that you, by luck, hit a tunnel; all the while going through security, KE, people wanting to be heroes, and a bunch of chipheads and drunks.

Assuming you get out, Dante's Inferno is a very popular place; anything that would happen here would make the news tonight, with live footage. Let's see, anything else?

Oh yeah, this is a popular shadow place, and messing with their place with bullets would bring a lot of scrutiny here. And the shadow community would take its aggressions out on you.

Short answer: Don't even think the word "gun."

[Mister Juan]

@Jeremiah

[ Spoiler ]

In order of priority, this is what Christophe is looking for.
-connected ID/SIN (who their commlink is "broadcasting" them as)
-Firewall Rating
-What applications are running (IC, Agents, etc...)
-List of subscribed item