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 Apr 1 2011, 03:59 PM
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Dragon  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,258 Joined: 9-March 10 From: The Citadel Member No.: 18,267  |
QUOTE (sabs @ Apr 1 2011, 02:02 PM)  Aria, you are a vile evil demented wench and I love you for it. That IC post is pure evil (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'm glad you approve (IMG:style_emoticons/default/vegm.gif) ...now I leave you to go WTF!!! and post your next actions IC in the blissful knowledge that something really weird is happening (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Apr 1 2011, 08:59 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,248 Joined: 14-October 10 Member No.: 19,113 |
As you are probably intending, I am somewhat confused by that IC post.
Firstly: Huzzah! Feather and his girl friend down. My spirit's services are used up, and I will summon another. Secondly: Joshua and I will get back with Sticks, and start behaving like a military unit again: I blame the possession it totally screws up any discipline, but it is a lot of fund Thirdly: Huh. That scan didn't pick us up, and I didn't see his astral form. Fortunately Gash isn't aware of that, but it is fairly wierd. Joshua and I will do on IC post, about the end of the fight, and regrouping with Sticks. I will try and stabilize Feather. I assume there are some medikits around level 4 within grabbing distance (who leaves home without one except me). 2 successes gets me a stabilisation If there are no medikits, |
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Apr 2 2011, 07:52 AM
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#678
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,248 Joined: 14-October 10 Member No.: 19,113 |
OK My first summoning of Isingoma does not go well
[ Spoiler ] Change of plan, clearly the goods are speaking and stealth is not the way in. Mukanda / force 6 task spirit with first aid and influence [ Spoiler ] I service is basically "hang around, keep us all first aided, and follow Joshua while possessing me". That leaves me with 3 services My first aid http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2963076/ 5 successes, I forgot to remove 3 die (situation / awakened) so that will actually be 4 successes, which is a nett 2 wounds recovered. So at the end of the demoralising spirit summoning fest, I am down 1 physical damage, and possessed by Mukanda |
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Apr 2 2011, 10:34 AM
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#679
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Dragon Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,258 Joined: 9-March 10 From: The Citadel Member No.: 18,267 |
QUOTE (Seth @ Apr 1 2011, 09:59 PM) As you are probably intending, I am somewhat confused by that IC post. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif) Don't worry, I hadn't forgotten that you are dual natured when possessed! No astral form has been near you for a little while and you haven't heard any howling either... Feather is stabilised and a rather irate Sticks is sending a drone into the core with you (I'm looking forward to the dressing down you've got coming! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ), I suspect the others are very close behind now they have jammed the lab airlock... Cpt Roberts and Lt Bryn need to decide on their next course of action... |
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Apr 2 2011, 02:57 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,248 Joined: 14-October 10 Member No.: 19,113 |
QUOTE I'm looking forward to the dressing down you've got comin Well when you have been bollocked as many times as I have...one more doesn't make any difference. It's not my fault if he cannot keep up |
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Apr 4 2011, 01:06 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,229 Joined: 20-December 10 From: Land of the Oatcakes Member No.: 19,241 |
only short but I thought I'd post IC just cos I hadn't for a bit.
How do you think we should proceed captain? Can I see any other ways up other than the lifts? How far up do the stairs go? I don't know why from reading back but i got the impression they didn't go all the way up. That's probably wrong though |
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Apr 4 2011, 01:23 PM
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Dragon Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,258 Joined: 9-March 10 From: The Citadel Member No.: 18,267 |
The stairs do go all the way up and down. I'm assuming you will split and take the stairs as it's less dangerous!
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Apr 4 2011, 07:43 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,248 Joined: 14-October 10 Member No.: 19,113 |
@Sabs
Joshua and Gash are just waiting for you to give us some instructions. Mind you, not giving us orders is amusing: that way we get to rampage a bit more |
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Apr 5 2011, 03:16 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,996 Joined: 1-June 10 Member No.: 18,649 |
soryr, been throwing up since yesterday.
I should have a post tomorow. |
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Apr 5 2011, 07:26 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,229 Joined: 20-December 10 From: Land of the Oatcakes Member No.: 19,241 |
QUOTE (sabs @ Apr 5 2011, 04:16 AM) soryr, been throwing up since yesterday. I should have a post tomorow. Tasty! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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Apr 5 2011, 01:51 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,248 Joined: 14-October 10 Member No.: 19,113 |
QUOTE soryr, been throwing up since yesterday. I should have a post tomorow Sounds horrible. Hope you are better soon. I will be travelling a lot in the near future for 3 or 4 weeks, but will try and check each day. If I am not posting its because the internet is crappy wherever I am. |
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Apr 5 2011, 02:53 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,486 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Michigan Member No.: 7,180 |
Basically, our men should be operating with their comms in hidden mode (and not connecting to random public nodes), and traffic between them should be encrypted. If that is the case, and we're still seeing external AR imagery, we need to bring the tacnet down, and everyone needs to run at Signal 0 (or skinlinked). I think we can function that way, and it'll give our opponents less of a way to mess with us/track us/ spy on us.
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Apr 6 2011, 08:02 AM
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Dragon Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,258 Joined: 9-March 10 From: The Citadel Member No.: 18,267 |
QUOTE (sabs @ Apr 5 2011, 03:56 PM) Sticks [23:16 August 22, 2070 – Stillwater Eco Tower Level 3] Sticks puts the volume up on his speakers, and literally growls at Gash. "Are you trying to get us all killed. We're in a goddamn mess and you run off by yourself." Even his Horseman seems agitated and irritated. Who knew drones could look pissed off. "I should put you down like the idiotic rabbid dog you are. If either of you do that one more time. I won't even bother with charges, I'll just vent the grey matter in your skulls and send the Death Insurance to your families." Sticks Horseman gets right into Joshua's face. "Do I make myself clear. PRIVATE." Good dressing down (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) QUOTE (sabs @ Apr 5 2011, 03:56 PM) Sticks double checks the status of the team, <<We've cleared to the staircase. Squad 1, what's your status.>> Laying out his orders, <<Gash, what would it take to blow up the ward on this floor so it's gone.>> Not quite sure why you want to bother with this?!? The ward is preventing astral intruders from going into the cyber labs which you have more or less ignored anyway...?!? Or did you mean the ward on the level below you? |
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Apr 6 2011, 08:05 AM
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#689
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Dragon Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,258 Joined: 9-March 10 From: The Citadel Member No.: 18,267 |
QUOTE (BlackHat @ Apr 5 2011, 03:53 PM) Basically, our men should be operating with their comms in hidden mode (and not connecting to random public nodes), and traffic between them should be encrypted. If that is the case, and we're still seeing external AR imagery, we need to bring the tacnet down, and everyone needs to run at Signal 0 (or skinlinked). I think we can function that way, and it'll give our opponents less of a way to mess with us/track us/ spy on us. The AR feeds do seem to be bypassing your spam filters (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I would guess that they have nasty technomancer ways of detecting nodes within the tower... As to spying on you, given the size of sensors in SR4 you are being Big Brothered more or less the entire time you are inside the tower... |
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Apr 6 2011, 11:46 AM
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Dragon Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,258 Joined: 9-March 10 From: The Citadel Member No.: 18,267 |
Thought I'd be nice to you (it makes for a change (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif) ) and team you all up again...
I imagine that Sticks will have command still for a bit as it was his mission originally and he is part of the 'elite' rather than the basic troops that Roberts and Bryn have brought along...of course if he wants to cede his authority then that is entirely up to you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) You probably have the men to achieve your mission now...after all the inhabitants only outnumber you 3-1 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif) |
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Apr 6 2011, 02:26 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,996 Joined: 1-June 10 Member No.: 18,649 |
Oh you know, I'm going to edit my post, I had forgotten which was the ward (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Apr 6 2011, 04:08 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,486 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Michigan Member No.: 7,180 |
QUOTE (Aria @ Apr 6 2011, 04:05 AM) The AR feeds do seem to be bypassing your spam filters (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I would guess that they have nasty technomancer ways of detecting nodes within the tower... That's kind of what I guessed, which is why we should turn those nodes off (or at least tell them to use skinlink only, or signal rating 0). It isn't so much that they can detect our nodes that worries me (although its bad if they can triangulate them) it is that we can't prevent our commlinks from connecting to theirs and interpreting the simsense. QUOTE As to spying on you, given the size of sensors in SR4 you are being Big Brothered more or less the entire time you are inside the tower... Yeah, no surprise here, either. It's still bad tactically, but there probably isn't anything we can do about it. QUOTE I imagine that Sticks will have command still for a bit as it was his mission originally and he is part of the 'elite' rather than the basic troops that Roberts and Bryn have brought along... Roberts will have no problem deferring to the SpecOps with more situational awareness. This is their mess, really, and from what he's seen, he'll be glad to pass the buck back to them. He's here to help this team get out of whatever mess they got themselves into - not to take over the operation. That said, if Sticks prefers to have him make a few calls, he'd be glad to advise as needed. |
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Apr 6 2011, 04:24 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,996 Joined: 1-June 10 Member No.: 18,649 |
remember, Sticks is an NCO. He's literally dying for an officer type.
Yes, he's a Master Sergeant, and a hard ass. But this is a hard core military unit, command belongs to officers (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) even wet behind the ears Lts. |
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Apr 6 2011, 06:12 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,248 Joined: 14-October 10 Member No.: 19,113 |
@Blackhat/MisterJoshua
Nice to be nearly meeting up with you lot at last! @Aria I'll do a quick assense to check that I recognise at least some of the auras: default die give me a couple of successes, and I think the odds of that many adepts around are low, and if there are that many, then we are screwed anyway. Can I see if any of them are astrally active, so that I could initiate a conversation ? The invisible force that is taking them down...is that a spirit or some sort of spell? The biodrones that they are fighting are (I assume) animals controlled by rigging. Could you give me a very quick description of them. My current plan is: If there is a mage or spirit here, deal with it If not, possess a biodrone and get it to attack the other. |
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Apr 6 2011, 06:14 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,486 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Michigan Member No.: 7,180 |
QUOTE (sabs @ Apr 6 2011, 12:24 PM) remember, Sticks is an NCO. He's literally dying for an officer type. Yes, he's a Master Sergeant, and a hard ass. But this is a hard core military unit, command belongs to officers (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) even wet behind the ears Lts. Very well then! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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Apr 7 2011, 08:02 AM
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Dragon Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,258 Joined: 9-March 10 From: The Citadel Member No.: 18,267 |
QUOTE (Seth @ Apr 6 2011, 07:12 PM) @Blackhat/MisterJoshua Nice to be nearly meeting up with you lot at last! @Aria I'll do a quick assense to check that I recognise at least some of the auras: default die give me a couple of successes, and I think the odds of that many adepts around are low, and if there are that many, then we are screwed anyway. Can I see if any of them are astrally active, so that I could initiate a conversation ? The invisible force that is taking them down...is that a spirit or some sort of spell? The biodrones that they are fighting are (I assume) animals controlled by rigging. Could you give me a very quick description of them. My current plan is: If there is a mage or spirit here, deal with it If not, possess a biodrone and get it to attack the other. @Seth:
@Blackhat & Mr J (& everyone): You will be quick to notice that you have lost comms to the outside world...there's no jamming and your comms work fine but there's no outside matrix connection (faraday cage?!?) ...yep, it's happening again (being nice to you couldn't last too long after all) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif) |
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Apr 7 2011, 12:26 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,486 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Michigan Member No.: 7,180 |
The report says tacnet is reinitializing. Does that me we are no longer seeing the building's AR, or is the spider disobeying the order? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
I don't mind reminding him that unless we're able to keep them off our comms, completely, we're better off without them... but I don't want to start barking about misunderstood instructions if they guy actually did his job. The fact that he didn't find any malware doesn't mean squat if we're still connecting to unwanted nodes despite being hidden and encrypted. |
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Apr 7 2011, 02:29 PM
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Dragon Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,258 Joined: 9-March 10 From: The Citadel Member No.: 18,267 |
He seems to have found a way to block out the unwanted AR feeds...
...for 'tactical' purposes he will run an isolated commlink set to receive the AR feeds so that all the effort I've put into planning the interface isn't lost on you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ...don't worry, your comms are clean, they just can't reach the outside world for some reason... it makes sense to me that you would want to know what the enemy are pumping in your direction (AR wise)...know thy enemy etc...?!? |
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Apr 7 2011, 03:15 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,486 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Michigan Member No.: 7,180 |
QUOTE (Aria @ Apr 7 2011, 10:29 AM) He seems to have found a way to block out the unwanted AR feeds... ...for 'tactical' purposes he will run an isolated commlink set to receive the AR feeds so that all the effort I've put into planning the interface isn't lost on you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ...don't worry, your comms are clean, they just can't reach the outside world for some reason... it makes sense to me that you would want to know what the enemy are pumping in your direction (AR wise)...know thy enemy etc...?!? No, not really. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I appreciate you not wanting to waste any planning put into the AR descriptions, but frankly any information they are going through this much effort to send to us is unlikely to be helpful. At best, it might allow communication between our factions - but we have nothing to say to them - at worst, it would allow them to mislead us, track us and at the most inopportune time to hack us. They can probably track us through the omnipresent sensors, anyway, but the *smart* thing to do is to go dark in the matrix, and force them to interact with us only in the real world, where our merc teams (theoretically) still hold some advantage. They have us beat in the astral, and in the matrix, so we need to close those off as best we can and focus on the mundane - and from your descriptions of the last 3 encounters, our men seem to be able to handle themselves against their forces, even when their forces have some technological advantages. I say we press that advantage. Plus, they *might* be able to decrypt and sniff our matrix traffic, anyway, without us knowing, but it is probably impossible for us to do the same to them. We would be negligent if we continued to send all of our commands and tactical data through the air, after the enemy has demonstrated to be able to do a whole bunch of "impossible" matrix tricks that our spiders cannot explain, much less counteract. I'm willing to believe that they know enough to decrypt and intercept our tactical data. I doubt they know enough about Deep Watch and Military hand-signals and jargon to be able to glean anything from watching us communicate in the real world. *shrugs* Like I said, though, if we shut it all down, we'll miss out on half of the cool descriptions... so I'm open to letting it slide, if the other PCs don't mind. |
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Apr 7 2011, 04:35 PM
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Dragon Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,258 Joined: 9-March 10 From: The Citadel Member No.: 18,267 |
No, I take your point...avoid playing on their turf...makes sense to me! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Just prod me if I start putting in AR stuff again...you can't see it if you go dark, will just have to play with the holograms that you can all see instead!
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