Recruiting for an experiment Options

[Fuchs]

And Dagda at the Party.
(A bit prematurely, since he's just walking up to the door still)

[Cthulhudreams]

It's likely that you'll get more than one gig per month, so it's doubtful that lifestyle costs will get too out of control.

I built that on the assumption I'd get one job a week (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Edit: Actually not quite, it features 8 weeks of a year for doing other things and being in hospital (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Glyph]

Finally got another post up for Dancer. After the message, I knew she would need to leave, but I didn't want her to zip out of there without interacting with the other PC in any way, so it gave me a bit of writer's block. I left some of the conversation vague, so Tobias can fill some things in if he wants to post any of the conversation.

[Fuchs]

Dancer "caught"

Dancer and Carroway chatting. (And yes, that's a bishonen elf in chaps and a thong)

[Sir_Psycho]

God, it's hard to come up with interesting posts sometimes.

Also fuchs, good work. I'll probably send you a PM when I get home of what Blackie Might be wearing to the rave. (He's like 24 hours behind Dancer and Carroway.

[Fuchs]

OK!

[Fuchs]

Carroway getting glomped

[Sir_Psycho]

Comedy gold.

[JonathanC]

I hate mondays so much. I didn't even get lunch until almost 3pm. And to make things even better, my job has suddenly become to do somebody else's job because they suck at it. While still doing my job.




(in other words, very sorry about not posting until tonight)

[Cthulhudreams]

Guy at the crash bar have anything for dagda, or just drop it?

[JonathanC]

Guy at the crash bar have anything for dagda, or just drop it?

Sorry about that, I was kind of groggy when I was replying. Crash Crush Bar is a decent place to meet, but it's kind of hit or miss whether the bartender on duty has any real connections. At the end of the day, it's a chain of sports bars...like Hooters for orks.

[Fuchs]

Carroway getting into Goldie's limousine (maybe NSFW)

[Fuchs]

DD's improvised e-card she sent at Dagda

Dagda's view

[Cthulhudreams]

I've checked Richard out for 5 hits on the assensing test, any chance of gettng those results? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[JonathanC]

Sure, I must have missed that post...My eyes must be glazed, because I still can't find it going back over the thread. With 5 hits you basically get the full monty, so is there anything in particular you're looking for? He's not magically active or a technomancer, he isn't lying, his emotional state is mostly calm, though there's an undercurrent of stress and fatigue. He's likely been busy with these arrangements for most of the day, if not longer. Nothing terribly interesting in terms of cyberware. A datajack near the back of his head, his eyes are his own, as are his ears.

[Cthulhudreams]

My fault then, I'll make sure to post this stuff in the OOC thread then. It is in a spoiler in the post were I hand over my gun to the guards, and check out DD (4th march) at the same time.

I was really just looking to see if he had any obvious cyberware, but the emotional state is a huge boost too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) - it's really just a look for anything out of place.

[JonathanC]

It's fine putting them in spoilers. I've just been posting really late at night this week because work has been thick, so I'm kinda tired.

[Sir_Psycho]

I finished fiddling with Blackie's sheet. Do you want to do the roll for starting cash for him? I imagine that the Motel Vacancy is squatter level housing?

[ Spoiler ]

Blackie Pilger – Human Sneaky Photojournalist/Hacker – 400 BP
Metatype: Human – 0
Attributes: 180
Special Att: 0
Skills: 176
Gear: 45 Points
resources:
contacts: Diagoru (Connection: 5/Loyalty: 4)
Qualities: -
-Mild Addiction, Psyche (+5)
-Incompetent, Armorer – (+5)
-Mild Allergy, Uncommon, Animal Products -- (+5)
-Guts (-5)


Attributes:
_________
Body: 2
Agility: 4 (6)
Reaction: 4 (5)
Strength: 1 (3)
Charisma: 2
Intuition: 5
Logic: 4
Willpower: 3

Edge: 3
Initiative: 11
(+1 Pass)
Essence: 6

Active Skills:
______________
Athletics Skill Group:
Climbing : 3
Gymnastics : 3
Running : 3
Swimming : 3

Stealth Group:

Disguise : 4
Inflitration : 4
Palming : 4
Shadowing : 4

Electronics Skill Group:
Computer : 3
Data Search : 3
Hardware : 3
Software : 3

Cracking Group:
Cybercombat : 4
Electronic Warfare : 4
Hacking : 4

Perception : 2
Escape artist : 1
Locksmith : 2
Con (Fast talk) : 2 (+2)
Pistols (Semi-Auto) : 1 (+2)
Unarmed Combat : 1
Artisan: 1 (Photo editing)

Knowledge Skills -21 Points :
Journalism (Photojournalism) 3 (5)
Photography (Cyber) 2 (4)
Corporate Environmental Practices 3
Corporate Civil Liberties Practices 3
Leftist Philosophy 2

English: N
Japanese: 3
Korean: 3


Gear:
Shock Glove — 5S(e) –half--- 3R -----------200¥

Colt America L36 4P — SA — 11 © 4R 150¥
Concealable Holster — 2 75¥
Smartgun System, internal — 6R 150
Skinlinked 50Y
Rating 4 Fake Licence = 400Y
Silencer 200Y

Ares Predator IV 5P –1 SA — 15 © 4R skinlinked 400Y
Silencer 200Y

Chameleon Suit 6/4 10R 8,000¥ + mods = 11, 050
w/ Thermal Dampening Rating 4 x500Y = 2kY
Chemical Protection Rating 1 x250Y 250Y
Nonconductivity Rating 4 x200Y = 800Y
+Skinlink 50Y

Actioneer Business Clothes 5/3 8 1,500¥

Armor Clothing 4/0 2 500¥

Nanopaste Disguise
Small Container 12 500¥

Rating 4 Directional Jammer =2000 + 50 (skinlink)
Wire clippers — 25¥
Lockpick Set --- 300¥
Rappeling Gloves — 70¥
Gecko Tape Gloves -- 250¥
Climbing Gear — 200¥
Chisel — 20¥
Gas Mask — 100¥
Stealth Tag Earing
Tag Eraser 150Y
Fake ID (Ishmail McDougal) rating 3 - 3000Y

Electronics Kit 500y

Flash Pak
Ammo:
Light Pistol:
100 Stick and Shock bullets -800Y
50 Flechette – 500Y

Heavy Pistol:
50 Regular =100




Softs:
L.A Mapsoft Rating 6 - 30Y

Throwing Weapons ActiveSoft Rating 3 – 9000Y

Corporate Economics Rating 6 – 60Y
Environmental Issues Rating 6 – 60Y
L.A. Drug Dealers Rating 4 – 40Y
L.A Organized Crime Operations Rating 6 – 60Y
Maglock Electronics Rating 6 – 60Y
Security Procedures – 60 Y
Police Procedures – 60Y

Spanish Linguasoft R3
French Linguasoft R3
Italian Linguasoft R3
Sperethiel Linguasoft R3
Russian Linguasoft R3
Chinese Linguasoft R3
Arabic Linguasoft R3



Cyberware
total cost: 28, 050Y
Total Essence Cost: 1.4cyb

Cybereyes Rating 4 [11/16] 1k w/
Eye Recording Unit 0.1 [*] 4 2,000XXX
Flare Compensation 0.1 [1] 4 750¥
Image Link 0.1 [*] 4 *500XXX
Low-Light Vision [2] 1k
Smartlink 0.1 [3] 8R 1,000¥
Thermographic Vision 0.1 [2] 4 1,000¥
Vision Enhancement (Rating 2) 0.1 [Rating ] Rating x 1,500¥ x2
Vision Magnification 0.1 [2] 4 1,000¥

Total Cost: 8750¥ + 500
Essence Cost: 0.5


Cyberears [12/16 Rating 3 1k w/
Soundlink
Ear Recording Unit
Balance Augmenter 0.1 [4] 10 5,000¥
Select Sound Filter (Rating 2) 0.1 [2] Rating x 3 Rating x 1,000¥ =2k
Damper 0.1 [1] 4 750¥
Audio Enhancement (Rating 3) 0.1 [3] Rating x 1,500¥ =4,500k
Spatial Recognizer 0.1 [2] 8 750¥

Total Cost: 13 300 ¥ + 500
Essence Cost: 0.5

Olfactory Booster Rating 3 = 3,000 Y

Skillwires (Rating 3) Rating x 0.2 —Rating x 2,000¥


BIOWARE: cost: 140, 000¥
essence cost: 1.45

Enhanced Articulation 0.3 12 40,000¥

Synthacardium (Rating 1–3) Rating x 0.1 (Rating x 4) Rating x 10,000¥ = 10,000

Sleep Regulator 0.15 8 10,000¥

Synaptic Booster (Rating 1) 0.5 - 80,000¥

Muscle Augmentation (Rating 2) 0.4 (Rating x 5)R Rating x 7,000¥ = 14,000

Commlink:

Response Signal Firewall System Cost
4 4 6 6 $ 35,200.00
(includes progs/mods)

Skinlink Sim Module + Hot Sim/BTL mod


Programs:
Analyze 5
Browse 4
Command 6
Edit 6
Encrypt 6
Scan 6
Armor 3
Biofeedback Filter 3
Decrypt 3
Defuse 2
ECCM 3
Exploit 6
Sniffer 3
Spoof 6
Stealth 6
Track 3

Total Gear Cost: Points

TOTAL: 225, 915 (45 Points)

[JonathanC]

Quick note about the lack of updates: My laptop recently became a doorstop after I tried to install Ubuntu. For whatever reason, Ubuntu hates my network card and my wireless card, even though the wiki that has their hardware compatibilities claims that it should work. There was also some drama with my disc drive not liking bootable CDs (bootable DVDs work fine, but I didn't find that out until today). I think I may be close to resolving the issue, which means that I can post at work again. failing that, I have different work hours now, which means that I'm not exhausted (as much) when I get home, so I can just post from there. Starting tomorrow.

Very sorry about these delays, but this is kinda why I was calling this an "experiment". My fears about my schedule/bad luck are rapidly proving true.

[Cthulhudreams]

I'm still hopeful (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[JonathanC]

Me too. But I can't get my laptop to access the internet when I'm at work, which has put a big cramp in some of my response time, since I usually check the thread while I'm at work, and start writing my response post in a text editor, moving my way down from there.

Having said that, it's pretty clear that at best, I'm going to have to stick to my initial plan and run an adventure, and then retire. I don't know how other guys mange it, but getting enough time to do this properly is harder than I thought.

[Fuchs]

Quick render of Blackie arriving at the party.

[Glyph]

Cthulhudreams, let me know what your assensing roll is (you said you were going to be astrally perceiving the party), and I'll let you know what you see for Dancer.

[Cthulhudreams]

Yeah dancer is magically active, so someone I'm watching for

Skill + Stat + Mentor

6 + 5 + 2

1 4 6 4 5 6 3 2 6 5 1 5 5 = 7 hits

[Glyph]

She would seem a bit harder to read than normal, but you would still have enough hits for the 5+ category, so:

Overall health:
Dancer is in good health, with no diseases or toxins present. More unusually, there are also no drugs in her system either, not even alcohol at the moment, which is strange for this kind of party.

Emotional state:
Dancer is presently in an upbeat mood, with a very slight bit of tension as she approaches Richard Rosen's table. She doesn't seem to be self-conscious about the way that she is dressed. There is an underlying nonchalant cynicism in her, the attitude of someone who isn't shocked by much anymore.

Magic: Her Magic is 3.

Essense and Implants:
Her Essense is 4. The only cyberware you can detect is a prosthetic tip to one of her fingers. The rest of her 'ware is the more subtle variance of bioware, augmentations seeming to thread through her muscles, her spine, and her heart. Unlike most of the others here, she doesn't have any cosmetic, surface mods - hers are deeper down.