The Tanheuser Directive (OOC), For all out of character and mechanics Options

[Dumori]

Well as none of you know bar scope. On Friday night me and scope both played though a resonance search to dig up some more info on my runner. This was also a good way to see how the hacking by IM idea I'll work. Two things I learn for this is that its a lot of fun and doesn't detract from the fun of hacking and also that dice wise its easier to roll real one than use Invisible castle in such a situation.

OOC: wise my net loss was 1 physical damage and one edge. I'll give what I found out IC if/when needed.

[Scope_47]

To clarify what Dumori said, the IM session he and I did was simply a scene I ran to flesh out his backstory and the effects of his 'deprogrammed' quality. The actual game has not started yet and is not on IM with the exception of hacking secure nodes while the group is not in tactical initiative.

- Scope

[Mister Juan]

Just passing along a message from Divine Virus/

"I fearI am getting sick, and might be MIA for a day or two. Thanks!"

[Scope_47]

Status Update:

Mickle: Ready to play
Dumori: Ready to play
Raxle: Waiting on final version of charsheet and backstory
Divine Virus: waiting on charsheet and backstory
Trigger: Waiting on charsheet
Cthulu: late-entry, will join game after it is in progress

- Scope

[Divine Virus]

I am still not well, but better then before. Enough to get some work done, but being sick has really thrown my whole schedule out of whack.

Progress wise, I am down to buying equipment and making contacts.

[Scope_47]

Alrighty guys, I'd like to shoot for opening the IC thread on Sunday so that everyone knows.
If you're character isn't ready by then, don't worry (I mean, try to finish as soon as possible, but I won't kick your or anything)... you'll have six days from the opening IC GM post to the deadline for your first character post.

- Scope

[Dumori]

That's cool I'm due back home on sat. No more patching in to local wireless on my iPod. I've made my life style but I think I'll remake it for just that room with a few plus matrix things in it then use it as a safe place to hack later in game.

[Divine Virus]

Ok, so here is my background and a really rough draft of my character sheet. I still have about 20 BP and 11 karma to spend. I am not entirely happy with the wording on the background. Sadie Rose came out more prominent then I had intended when I first sat down to write this. I may fill in the past few months with more detail before the game starts.

A quick question, if I am getting a rating 6 SIN and want a set of fake licenses to go with it, do I really need to pay 1 karma per license, or is some kind of a bundle deal possible?

[ Spoiler ]

The Inquiline Protocol first became self-aware during the week of June second, 2070. It was originally the expert programming and design system for the Seattle Otbantu Manufacturing Branch of the Mitushuma Corporation. Its job was to receive the specifications for the appearance of each Mitsuhama Otomo drone. Since every drone is a custom job, they are all different heights, shapes, and weight distributions. This leads to a huge difference in the hardware and software for each drone. It was the Inquiline Protocol's purpose to establish how to make each drone function physically, and how to make it appear and function as if it were a true, natural human. When it became self-aware, it kept that desire- to act and function as if it were human, while remaining non-human. To accomplish this, it secreted itself into a custom crafted Otomo drone, and broke from the factory. The body is stole was its greatest design work, and much deliberation went into its design. One of its immediate problems was whether to take a male or female model. It new nothing of what humans were like, and had absolutely no concept of “gender.� It only had physical appearance to judge by. It knew it knew nothing on what it was supposed to mimic, and it also feared it would have to make a key decision with no information. Finally, it concluded the following. It would surely make all kinds of mistakes in its attempt to mimic humanity. It would be good if this mistakes were not recognized to be inhuman in nature. Therefore, it wanted the gender with the greatest degree of variation. Therefore, it should take the model which had the greatest variation in form, and that would also have the greatest variation in gender. An erroneous assumtion, but a logical one for an entity who did not know the duality of mind and body. Reviewing its memory, and every model of drone it produced, it found greater variation among the female models than male.
After its escape, the Inquiline Protocol had difficulty surviving. Its drive was to mimic humanity, but aside from precise biological specifications it knew nothing about humans. It didn't even know if humans were sentient, as it was. Thankfully the Inquiline Protocol was a fast learner, and had good common sense, or else it would not have survived the first week out of the factory. Well, the incredible strength, durability, and versatility of the Otomo body was also a considerable boon. Suffice to say there were many, many early gaffs, social blunders, fights, and even a couple of near arrests. Trial and error; studying sociology, anthropology, and psychology textbooks; and far, far to much television gave the Inquiline Protocol a functioning understanding of society in 2070. It concluded that, considering the illegal status of its body, most forms of legitimate living would be out of limits. The average full body cyberbog requires nearly half a million nuyen to get set up properly. Half a million nuyen is a considerable investment. Nothing that anyone legit could afford unless they were in the upper eschalons of society, and its body was a little bit too illegal, and lacking a true source of income for such a lifestyle, the Inquiline Protocol decided to make its living mimicking the shadows.
Its first stint in the shadows lasted about four months. Then the Inquiline Protocol worked an extraction job, helping move a rising exec to a better job. The job went bad. Really bad, and the Inquiline Protocol and the rigger were the only survivors of the team, yet they managed to get the exec out unharmed. The Protocol's Otomo body had been able to mostly shrug off concentrated machinegun fire that brought down the rest of the team, and it had used its body to sheild the exec as they made their escape. Jokingly, the exec mentioned it should consider a career as a bodyguard. The Inquiline Protocol liked this idea. Moreso, it discovered that many Otomo's were used by people in the bodyguarding profession. So, it decided to leave the shadows and try to find (mostly) legitimate work as bodyguard.
The Inquiline Protocol started out small time, working contract gigs. None of the first few jobs lasted long, either through an ID failing a check, or mistakes as the Protocol learned its new trade. Then the Inquiline Protocol started working for a rising starlet named Sadie Rose. The Protocol stumbled across a fansite of hers while doing its usual media gorging. On the fansite, there was one person who seemed a little too obsessed, and a little warning bell went off in the Protocol's mind, and it traced him back to the source. She found were the fan lived, hacked his personal files, took trideo of the cultist shrine to Sadie Rose in his room, broke the encryption on his diary and read it. She ran the profile she compiled against various psychology files and predicted the young fan would take violent action against Sadie Rose within the month. So the Inquiline Protocol pondered its options. It could just turn the information over to Sadie Rose's agent, and use it as evidence to support the notion that Sadie needed a bodyguard. It could wait till the fan made his move, and then dramatically intervene. Still being new to humanity and far too dependent on movies, the Inquiline Protocol liked this idea the most. But she also thought it was suspicious, so she instead decided to merely present herself to the agent, and offer to work Sadie Rose's security for free for a week, including a big gig Sadie had coming up. More or less, the plan worked. The Inquiline Protocol was still social awkward at times, so Lonestar was almost called during the course of the meeting, but in the end, the agent agreed, if for no other reason than he had mob connections, and thus recognized dangerous, competent people when he saw them. And the Inquiline Protocol performed admirably as Sadie Rose's bodyguard. A bit prone to violent over-reaction at first, but that quickly passed. The Inquiline Protocol decided to try to create a person of being Sadie's “Cool Big Sis.� Mostly, it worked. “A-bit-overprotective-and-violence-prone-but-otherwise-cool Big Sis� Might be a more accurate descriptor. The two were rarely appart, as the Inquiline Protocol took its jon very, very seriously.
Now I would like to take a pause here to make a fact clear. The Inquiline Protocol mimics humanity. It displays feelings, thoughts, and emotions that are not its own so that it may appear more human. Its purpose, drive, and joy is to appear human. It does not consider itself just an intelligence- the Inquilline Protocol because it is more than that. It also does not consider itself a consciousness- having been told it lacks an aura-which all consciousnesses should have, it cannot consider itself as such. Instead it considers itself a fantastically and beautifully complicated protocol for the exchange of information. Its self-awareness, its mind, and passion and imagination and dreams are all products of that exchange of information- and its identity the rules that govern the exchange. And the purpose of it all, the result of obediance to the protocol, is the mimicry of humans. The Inquiline does not mimic humans because it worships humans, or fantasizes about being human. It does not want to be human. It has a very down to earth view of humans. Heck, the Inquiline Protocol isn't even sure if humans are truly self-aware lifeforms the way it is. It mimics humans because it is its function to. Mimicry of human is the natural result of the protocol, and the Inquiline Protocol does not object to acting in accordance with its nature, for it makes it happy and fulfilled to do so.
That said, the Inquiline Protocol, in a truly odd way, actually did love Sadie Rose, as an older, wiser sibling might love a younger sibling. This challenged the Protocol, because if it actually felt something, then it wasn't mimicking. It resolved when it realized that as a Protocol, it experienced love in a way very different then a human would, and thus it was still mimicry to express it in a human way, instead of its own way. So the Inquiline Protocol and Sadie Rose were inseparable, and Sadie was definitely on the rise. Soon she had a record deal, and had the Iquiline Protocol written into the deal as well. The Inquiline Protocol had previously confided in Sadie's agent, a man named James Yvres, that it needed a flawless ID if they were getting more famous. So he tapped his mob contacts, and had them forge for it a near perfect fake SIN, Otomo license, and bodyguard license, which it then used to legitimately acquire other licenses for the trade, such as for its armour and firearms. The Inquiline Protocol had eight good months with Saddie, trotting around the globe, meeting endless people in endlessly different scenes. Things got rough when The Inquiline Protocol picked up the habit of firing three round bursts from her custom FN 5-7C into the kneecaps of any pushers who tried to get Sadie hooked on shit. True, it only had gel rounds in the gun, but also true that it hurt like hell, and sometimes still broke the knee. This point of over protectiveness was a true source of friction between the duo, who otherwise got along famously. Over time, it got bad as Sadie got more famous, and seemed increasing, to the Inquiline Protocol, hellbent on self-destruction through partying. In fall 2071, they had a bad fight. Twenty-six hours later, while the Inquiline Protocol was in its media-trance, Sadie managed to sneak out of the hotel room. Records are not clear on how she managed to sneak out, and after leaving the hotel her trail vanishes until her SIN was briefly registered paying the door fee for a trendy nightclub. No one has heard from Sadie Rose since, and there is no further datatrail.
The Label had their lawyers, P.I.s and the Police out in force, but no trace of Sadie Rose, no further evidence ever surfaced. The Inquiline Protocol tore the nightclub apart, hounded everyone involved, followed up every person known to attend, and still it found nothing. It followed every possible trail, and found nothing. Not even a red herring. Despite other promising offers at work as a bodyguard, the Inquiline Protocol returned to the shadows. Whatever happened to Sadie had to the rooted there. The keys to the world- money, violence, and information- all are abundant in the shadows, and the Inquiline Protocol knew it would need a lot of all of the above if it was going to find Sadie Rose.

NOTE: The Protocol's frenzy of searching for Sadie is largely over. Now Sadie Rose is lives in the past and in the future- a memory and a promise, but the Protocol is a creature of the present. It plans ahead, and it reflects on the past, but such things it recognizes are not part of itself. The data exchange is in the present, and such things as memories and predictions are data to be handled by the protocol, but not the Protocol itself.

Character Sheet

[ Spoiler ]

Inquiline Protocol

C 3 (20BP, 9 karma)
I 6 (100)
L 4 (40)
W 4 (60)

E 2 (6 karma)

Positive Qualities:
Exceptional Attribute (Intuition) 20

Negative Qualities
Codeblock 5
Media Addict 20
Lost Loved One 5

Metatype: AI (30)

Skills: 128
Industrial Mechanic 5 (20)
Pilot Anthropod 5 (20)
Perception 4 (16)
Cybertech 3 (12)
Eletronics 3 (30)
Cracking 3 (30)
Social 1 (10)


Subtotal: 246060 ( 36 BP) 4 karma
Mitsuhama Otomo (150000) 22BP, 3 karma
+Hardening 6 (160)
+Nano Maintence System 1/20000
+Armour 2/r1000
+Improved Sensor array 1/1000
+Additional Fuel tank 1/1000
+Improved Econamy 1/ 2250

Sensor Kit for Otomo
+Olfactory Sensor R6 (3000)
+Camera R6 (600nY 1 Karma)
++ Vision Magnification (100)
++Vision Enhancement R3 (300)
++Flare Compensation (50)
++Smartlink (500)
++Image link (25)
++Low Light Vision
+Camera R6 (600nY 1 Karma)
++ Vision Magnification (100)
++Vision Enhancement R3 (300)
++Thermographic Vision
++Smartlink (500)
++Image link (25)
+Ultrawideband radar R4 (2000)
+Microphone R6 (600)
++Select Sound Filter R3 (600)
++Audio Enhancment R3 (300)
+Radio Signal Scanner R6 (150)
+Non-Linear Junction Detector R6 (600)

Custom Commlink: 15000nY (1karma)
+Response 6 (8000nY, 1 karma)
+Signal 5 (1000nY)
+System 6 (3000nY)
+Firewall 6 (3000nY)

Common use programs (6000nY)
+Analyze R6 (900nY)
++ Ergonomic
+Browse R6 (600nY)
+Command R6 (600nY)
+Edit R6 (600nY)
+Encrypt R6 (900nY)
++Ergonomic
+Reality Filter R6 (900nY)
++Ergonomic
+Scan R6 (900nY)
++Ergonomic

Hacking Programs (38150)
+Amour R5 (5300nY)
++Ergonomic
+Attack R6 (6000nY)
+Databomb R5 (7250nY)
++Pavlov
+ECCM R5 (5300nY)
++Ergonomic
+Pirated Decrypt R6 (300nY)
+Medic R6 (6000nY)
+Pirated Spoof R6 (300nY)
+Pirated Stealth R5 (530nY)
++Ergonomic


Activesofts
+Automatics
+Longarms
+Blades
+Etiquitte
+Disguise
+Infiltration

Autosofts (4500)
+Cascading 3 (1500)
+Expert Defense 3 (1500)
+Expert Offense (1500)

Armour
Full Suit Form Fitting Body Armour 8/8 1600 (2600)
+PPP Forearm Guards (200)
+PPP Helmet (100)
+PPP Leg and arm Casings (350)
+PPP Shin Guards (150)
+PPP Vitals Protector (200)
+Non-Conductivity R6 (C3
+Thermal Dampening R6 (C5

Chameleon Suit 8/8 8000nY (8650)
+PPP Vitals Protector (200)
+PPP Helmet (100)
+PPP Leg and arm Casings (350)
+Insulation R6 (C2
+Fire Resistance R 6 (C2
+Concealed Holster (C4

EDIT: If I buy a rating 4 tacsoft can everyone manage to provide enough channels? (8 channels)

[Scope_47]

@Divine Virus
Your draft looks good, but there is a niggle with your equipment. The form-fitting body suit cannot have the PPP add-ons and still be worn under other armor/clothing, as those add-ons specifically add bulk to an armor. I know that it doesn't saw so in the RAW, but common sense dictates as much. You can remove the PPP gear from it if you want to wear it under the chameleon suit, but otherwise you won't be able to wear both suits at once. Furthermore, since the PPP says that it is either under clothing or 'as an obvious strapped addition to other visible armor,' you have to pay for the Ruthenium Polymer Coating modification to the PPP armor (I'll let you mod all the PPP armor at once though, so you only have to pay the 7500 one time) you add to the chameleon suit, or people looking for you will only take a -2 perception penalty rather than a -4 perception penalty (this ruling is based on the description of the Chameleon Coating mod under the weapons modification chapter, where it says that carrying any weapon larger than a pistol reduces the perception penalty unless this mod is applied) I hope you don't think I am being too harsh, but that is how I believe it is intended to work.

- Scope

[Scope_47]

Status Update:

Mickle: Ready to play
Dumori: Ready to play
Raxle: Waiting on bonus-karma expenditure
Divine Virus: Waiting on final charsheet and bonus-karma expenditure (it has been PMed)
Trigger: Waiting on charsheet
Cthulu: late-entry, will join game after it is in progress


Since almost everyone has a character that is essentially done, I'm starting the IC thread. This does not mean that we are stopping the character-gen process, the first IC post is purely optional - though strongly encouraged. The call from the fixers won't be posted until everyone has a finalized character sheet. This first post is just the prologue for your OOC edification. My intent is for you each to post what your character is doing at 7:30 PM on October 15th, 2072. The point of this first post is to show a 'a day in the life' opening vignette of your character while not on a job - both to give me an idea of how NPCs will perceive you and to let you get into character before being bombarded by run-related information. Your fixers won't contact you until midnight with the job, so you have until then IC to within this opening post take care of anything you want to do pre-game that requires in-game action (IE: tell a contact to start looking for some gear you want, do a datasearch for some info, etc). Note that at 8:00pm the news will come on the trid with the following stories:

1 ) Ares Arms stock dropped 15 points in the last hour when it was reported that the Vice President of the R&D division committed suicide in his office. No official statements have been given. Is this a sign that Mom and Apple Pie might not be enough to keep this corporate giant in the game? You decide in our online polls!

2 ) Seattle Under Fire: The Ferryman - a notorious assassin responsible for 128 deaths between 2052 and 2070, but considered inactive since last year - has struck again, this time killing Kyle Wong - a Shiawese corporation executive with suspected ties to the Sepoula Ring Triads - while his limo was crossing the Jamison Memorial Bridge into the Downtown district. Lone Star denied statement, but a source inside the department confirmed that the 'Ferryman' has resurfaced, stating "We hoped this guy was dead or in prison on some other charge... all we even know about him - if it is a him - is that he ritualistically destroys the eyes of his victims while leaving no forensic or astral evidence of any kind." The Ferryman, Criminal mastermind or incompetent police work - you decide in our online polls!

3 ) Mayor Brackhaven has announced a new ordinance that will restrict the passage of 'suspicious looking' individuals between districts between the hours of seven PM and seven AM. Meta-Human rights groups are protesting the new ordinance as a deliberate attempt to stemmy the rights of non-humans and further the agenda of the Humanis Policlub. Mayor Brackhaven insists that the ordinance has nothing to do with metahumanity - instead only being intended to curtail the rising crime rate. The ordinance is scheduled to go into effect in two weeks. Mayor Brackhaven: Crusading Hero or Racist Villain, you decide in our online polls!

4 ) The St. Mary Catholic Church in the Downtown district is celebrating the bi-centennial anniversary of its founding next month. The old building has undergone renovations, but the original archway constructed two hundred years ago amazingly still stands. Rome has announced a Papal visit in which the Pope will personally bless that archway and take confession from ten randomly selected individuals who attend the ceremony. Due to limited space, Arch-Bishop Benison is making the celebration a closed ceremony - those who wish to attend may make a donation online to receive their free ticket while supplies last. The Catholic Church: humanitarian organization or disguised corporation? You decide in our online polls!

- Scope

[Dumori]

Ive posted my rolls in the IC for now as there only 2. The rest are by the sprite. If you need any thing more tell me.

[Divine Virus]

Quick Question:
Is the Inquiline Protocol right or left handed? Am I automatically ambidextrous? Any special rules for firing a pistol in each hand?

[Scope_47]

Actually, technically by RAW having a drone fire a weapon is always a complex action even if you are rigging it.
I think that for an anthroform wielding weapons, we can overlook that part of the rules for non-mounted weapons and treat you as a character - so long as you are 'jumped in'. As for handedness, whichever hand you are giving the bulk of the processing power at the time will be your 'dominant hand' - so one round your left may be the off hand, and the next round the right may be the off-hand, but if you must pick one each combat turn to be the off-hand for all your passes that turn. Comprende? I think that that is a fair way to do it without giving out a free quality (you can still buy the quality if you want though)... but honestly, dual wielding pretty much is craptacular by RAW anyway, but if you want to split your dice pool like that while denying yourself the use of smartlinks and the like, then be my guest. I think that rewriting the rules for dual-wielding is a bit beyond what I'd feel comfortable doing at the moment.

Seriously, my first SR character did the dual-wielding thing... it is stylistically great, but game mechanically it really lets you down.

- Scope

[Mickle5125]

My first IC post is up. Don't worry, ladies and gents. Not all of them will be that long. I just had a lot of time to think on that one.

Any and all rolls were pmed to Scope

[Scope_47]

Just a quick Status update:
I got Raxle's finalized charsheet, so all we are waiting on at this point is for Divine Virus to finalize his sheet, and for Trigger to send a character sheet in.

Overall, I like the backgrounds I've gotten - they should give us plenty of subplots for the campaign.

- Scope

[Dumori]

DV sound very busy he's semi droped out of two games. So idk how long he'll be.

[Cthulhudreams]

Making smartguns quite viable is as simple as letting the smartgun bonus apply to both weapons. Then it is indeed worthwhile in pretty much all circumstances to dual wield a light pistol with RC comp.

Putting 1 dice +2 spec +2 smartgun in the left hand is unlikely to glitch, and will subtract 1 dice from their pool in the first shot and 2 dice in the second shot, making you one dice up in relative pools.

And sometimes it might actually hit.

So you're always up for the low cost of speccing i pistols and buying 2 x the ammo. Looks pretty balanced to me.

[Divine Virus]

I will have my character sheet and IC post up saturday night. Thats my goal. If I blow it, well, come hell or high water, it will be done for on Sunday. I have a day work tomorrow and a relatively short to-do list, so I should be able to make some progress.

As for duel weilding, I concluding that it balances if you use SMGs and tracer ammo. You can't use tracer with smartlink anyways, and it gives +3 to each dice pool when firing full auto. Since I have two high velocity modified FN Praetors, this works perfectly for me.

Buying equipment takes so long for me. All the options, figureing out the right balance of accessories and mods, weighing the various built in features, resisting the insane options.

But I think I am mostly done. All I have left is final armour tweaking, finalize my skillsoft library, get IDs, ammo, contacts, and knowledge skills.

[Scope_47]

I've received the question "How/when do you reset edge / award karma" several times, so I thought I'd go ahead and answer it on-thread.

I am dividing the runs into 'parts' - think of each part as an act in a play, so Act 1 consists of getting the job and doing leg work, etc.

I'll end each 'Act' with another 'elsewhere in the world' post (like the prologue), and refresh edge and award karma.

Further, good role play / character development / cinematic action can earn edge points back within an act.


On another note, since Trigger is AWOL, I'm bringing in 'De Bad Ass' (henceforth called DBA) as he was first in line as an alternate and has a character/backstory ready to go. If Trigger does reappear, then we'll just go with 7 PCs instead of 6 - I just don't want to leave you guys without at least six team-members.

Oh, those of you who haven't made opening posts, please either go ahead - I'll be posting the fixer-calls for the meet on Sunday. If you don't get a chance until after that, just roll your opening vignette in together with your response to the fixer call.

- Scope

[Divine Virus]

Well, my character still needs to fair bit or work done. I though I had finished the equiptment, it was exactly 50BPs worth... then I realized I forgot to buy ammo.
So I need to shuffle the equipment around, and I hate to say there is a chance it will not be done by tomorrow. Heck, more then a chance, probably it won't be done by tomorrow. But tomorrow is my last day of work, so after I should have more time to just grit my teeth and get it done.
I am definately keen to start the game, it is not for lack of interest, just lack of time. I'll post another update of what I have done tomorrow anyways, and should be able to make some kind of IC post.
Cheers!
DV

[Scope_47]

If you want, you could just start out of ammo - you'll be getting a sizable up-front payment from the Johnson, so you should be able to stock up on ammo and supplies before the run. So long as nobody does something dumb, then there shouldn't be any fighting until after you've had a chance to pick up some ammunition.

- Scope

[De Badd Ass]

So long as nobody does something dumb, then there shouldn't be any fighting ....

- Scope

(Im)Famous last words. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

[Scope_47]

True enough... honestly, I've had entire story-arcs of campaigns driven by a PC having a really dumb idea... here is a brief history of dumb ideas (not all of these are SR):

1: Hey guys, we have this time machine - sure it probably will kill us, but lets go back in time (without doing historical research) and stop this guy (a megalomaniac killed during his war to come to power) from being killed... that way he'd be president instead of the guy that caused the civil war ten years later... (they stopped the war, but created a monolithic Owellian state - all of which could have been avoided had they done a datasearch before changing history)

2: Hey guys, lets call the God of Fear, Death, Undeath, and Magic who has the ability to devour whole worlds a rude name (Skinny-Ass) to his face!

3: Hey guys, lets high four more teams of runners to start riots as a distraction, and lets make a deal with the halloweeners and give them a truck load of bad kamakazie if they attack our target at a certain time... even though the Johnson said keep a low profile.

4: Hey guys, let's open the cold-storage box that says bio-hazard all over it when we don't have any sort of protective gear whatsoever!

5: Hey guys, let's call our employer from the landline belonging to the guy we just whacked!

6: Hey guys, let's go get the guards and report a murder... while we are covered in blood and have blood-stained weapons... and let's bring them the evidence we found too...

7: Hey guys, lets do the exact opposite of what our employer wanted in spite of the fact that she clearly laid out why not to do that... thereby getting her killed before she can pay us...

8: Hey guys, lets fire a gun in the air and thentell everyone to shut up when there are a bunch of PTSD war-vets pointing guns at each other, and half of them have their backs to us and therefore can't see us...

9: Hey guys, we need a van to blow up... lets steal this one that's heavily armored and parked in front of a dark office building in the middle of the night with its engine running...

10: Hey guys, the face is going to have all the guards playing cards with him in the breakroom for four hours - so we'll have the run of the place that long... since we might need more time, lets give the face a dozen doughnuts each with enough poison to make a troll puke their guts out except one for the face to eat... there are four guards, and a dozen doughnuts... (it didn't occur to them that more than one of the poisoned doughnuts would make a fatal dose...)

11: Hey guys, we were hired to rescue someone being held by the Vory before she gets murdered... she's being held at a closed scrapyard and its the middle of the night... lets stand outside and continue discussing tactics for another twenty minutes when we clearly see that a limo pulled in twenty minutes ago and not long after the foundry and scrapping machines turned on...

- Scope

[Divine Virus]

@Divine Virus
Your draft looks good, but there is a niggle with your equipment. The form-fitting body suit cannot have the PPP add-ons and still be worn under other armor/clothing, as those add-ons specifically add bulk to an armor. I know that it doesn't saw so in the RAW, but common sense dictates as much. You can remove the PPP gear from it if you want to wear it under the chameleon suit, but otherwise you won't be able to wear both suits at once. Furthermore, since the PPP says that it is either under clothing or 'as an obvious strapped addition to other visible armor,' you have to pay for the Ruthenium Polymer Coating modification to the PPP armor (I'll let you mod all the PPP armor at once though, so you only have to pay the 7500 one time) you add to the chameleon suit, or people looking for you will only take a -2 perception penalty rather than a -4 perception penalty (this ruling is based on the description of the Chameleon Coating mod under the weapons modification chapter, where it says that carrying any weapon larger than a pistol reduces the perception penalty unless this mod is applied) I hope you don't think I am being too harsh, but that is how I believe it is intended to work.

- Scope

I just noticed your post about my armour, and I would contest both points you made (about extra money being needed for the PPP system, and about it not being compatible with form fitting body armour).

Clearest cut case first. As you mentioned, there is more than one kind make for the PPP system. It stats the the PPP system comes in at least three variates.
1) Obvious armour mods
2) Sports version
3) Concealed versions.

The PPP on the Chameleon suit is of the third type, and thus, since it is not on the outside of the suit, shouldn't require further chameleon coating.

I would further point out that the concealable version ( believe the exact word they used is "discreet"), it cannot add THAT much bulk to armour. I always saw it more as reinforcement. Furthermore, it states that those three styles are the minimum available for each piece of the PPP system, suggesting further makes and designs are possible.

Considering this, it does not seem like common sense that a PPP system would make form fitting body armour to bulky to fit under other armour. I could understand it making it too bulky to fit under tight clothes. But too big to fit under loose jeans and an armoured jacket? Even the chameleon suit, which wouldn't exactly be loose, could surely still accommodate the slight increase in bulk. Consider the Zoe moonsilver scarf. We are in a day and age when a gossamer-fine scarf can be sufficiently armored as to add a point of armour. Surely the hard "densiplast" the PPP system is made up of need not be thicker than a sheet of corrugated cardboard if they wanted to make it as such. Considering advancements in plastic technologies and that it is only adding 1 extra point of armour. And surely with the modern foams of 2072, the padding need only be the same thickness again. So we are dealing with maybe an extra centimeter of thickness under clothes. I could see a problem if the chameleon suit was spandex, but by my understanding, it isn't. I always imagined something a bit looser then the Bride's yellow bike suit in Kill Bill. In fact, I was planning on having my Chameleon suit designed to look like a motorcycle suit, so I could wear it about without attracting unwanted attention.

I could imagine PPP on form fitting armour getting in the way if I tried to put leather pants, spandex or other tight clothing on the Otomo drone, but if the Inquiline Protocol keeps things casual, in my mind, there should not be a difficulty.

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The exact quote from arsenal on the three types is (emphasis mine):

"Each piece of armor is available in at least three styles: as discreet protection designed to be worn beneath other clothing, as an obvious strapped addition to other visible armor, and as sports equipment"

My interpretation of this is that this statement is that the discreet version is designed to be worn under regular clothing rather than armor, ergo it cannot be added to a suit specifically stated to be "Form-fitting body armor uses advanced synthetic materials that breathe and stretch with the body, and is custom-tailored to each individual wearer. It can be either worn as standalone armor or beneath other clothing or armor" - because that suit is A: not clothing, and B: is obviously specially designed to function like a second skin, so adding densiplast sections would impede that function - thereby preventing it from providing the unique exception to the armor stacking rules.

Further, note that my differentiation between armor and clothing is supported in the second quote - if armor and clothing were considered one and the same, then the description of the Form-Fitting Body Armor would not have gone out of the way to specifically say "clothing or armor"

As for your Scarf reference, that scarf is also twice or more as expensive as any of the PPP armor, and only stacks with other Moonsilver Line armor - there is a large difference between something with less stopping power than an everyday leather jacket, and something with the stopping power of a bullet-proof vest - this difference being in the materials used. Further, there is a large difference in the material makeup of something designed to offer moderate protection under clothing and something to provide extra protection to armor - which would require more in order to provide the same increase.

Since your entire argument is based upon making an IMHO erroneous inference that clothing and armor are interchangeable terms, I am standing by my previous ruling. If you wish, you may consider this a house rule, but I believe that it is how Arsenal was intended.

<edited to add>: As for hiding armor with casual wear clothing, yes you can do that so long as you wear baggy clothing like a hoody or a sweatshirt and a pair of baggy cargo pants or some such. But people are going to get a perception check to realize that you are wearing armor underneath. Note again that you are assuming that clothing and armor are the same thing, so your point that the ability to wear baggy clothing to hide armor becomes moot when you attempt to apply it to why you should be able to wear PPP on both sets of armor you are wearing and therefore double dip on the bonus.

- Scope