2072 [+4 Months], Multiple Players / GMs - Recruitment Always Open Options

[Aria]

Welcome indeed!

As an aside, do you mind if I use The Suit again as a key NPC in this game...I didn't nearly kill him of in Conflict, honest (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Aria]

I am new to this system. Can you please explain in game terms what happened? I had two successes out of 10. Yokinko was trying to get more to complete the trace. He should need 8 more. Did he report that his task was finished? Jamie should know what actions could result in this effect. Galen does not.

Galen

Well I'm going by all the police films I've ever seen...tracing a comm call requires you to have a connection long enough to get a fix (10 successes with a -ve pool equal to their stealth program which is none in this case). The trace program is designed for icons rather than comm calls as far as I can tell which tend to be less permanent...someone correct me if I'm wrong?!?

Capture Wireless Signal (Sniffer )
You eavesdrop on wireless traffic going to and from a device. You must
be within the device’s Signal range to capture the traffic. You must succeed
in an Electronic Warfare + Sniffer (3) test to start the capture,
and then you may copy, record, or forward the traffic without another
test as long as you remain within the target device’s Signal range and
keep the Sniffer program running.
There is no way for other parties to detect your capture (without
access to your commlink, of course). If the traffic is encrypted, you
must break the encryption before it can be captured.

&

Trace User (Track )
You trace an icon back to its originating node. This is a Computer +
Track (10, Complex Action) Extended Test. The target may increase
the threshold with the Redirect Trace action, and a Stealth program
run by your target acts as a negative dice pool modifier.
When you reach the threshold of the Extended Test, you have
successfully traced the target, learning the target’s access ID and the
location of the device housing the originating node (usually the user’s
commlink). If the target is using a wired connection to the Matrix, you
learn his exact location. If he is using a wireless connection, you have
his location triangulated to within about 50 meters. As long as you
keep your Track program running and the target remains connected
to the Matrix, you may continue to monitor the target’s location. Black
IC can make the trace easier.
You can also use this action to trace a subscription to its other
end. For example, you may trace the subscription from a drone to the
rigger controlling it.

[Seth]

I think that your agent needs to keep retrying (and its -1 die per retry), until it accumulates enough successes. Or Aria can just fudge it and say "these are computer incompetents and your agent just found them".


As an aside for anyone else who wants to join Ember in the separate, just let me know and I will write you in.

[galenbd]

Well I'm going by all the police films I've ever seen...tracing a comm call requires you to have a connection long enough to get a fix (10 successes with a -ve pool equal to their stealth program which is none in this case). The trace program is designed for icons rather than comm calls as far as I can tell which tend to be less permanent...someone correct me if I'm wrong?!?

It sounds like whoever was on the other end disconnected the call before the trace completed. I'm perfectly fine with that. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something else rules-wise.

EDIT I'm working up an IC post, but I won't get it done 'til tomorrow night.

Galen

[Alyena]

Have been thinking about Doza, hope the following is ok

• Started life as a street kid in Denver.
• Joined a street gang as a way of getting a regular meal.
• Spotted by a mercenary group recruiter, seemed a good way out of the streets
• Given 2nd hand cyberware to enhance performance.
• Met Jotamon at a gun club and had a year or so dating him.
• Had a few authority problems and didn't care for 1 or 2 jobs the group took on.
• (Has her own code of what she will and won't do)
• Was part of a black ops team, supposedly bounty hunting, in Chicago. It was actually running a spoiler on another team, when things went wrong. Was left for dead as a result of 'plausible deny-ability'. Managed to get out and decided not to go back.
• Went to Seattle to lie low for a year or two until she was forgotten by previous comrades (who think her dead anyway)
• Was going to get back in touch with Joatmon when safe to do so (honest!)
• Has been running as casual muscle etc with no real team since arriving. Picking and choosing jobs that appeal.

Can I clarify what Doza's brief is regarding 'the Kid'. She has quite strong code about what she will and won't do. If he's been used as a courier, will have no problem picking him up and turning him upside down to see what falls out. However, will not cause him any real harm, or deliver him to others if I think that's likely.

[Seth]

@Aria
First stab at a background for Jotamon

Nothing came easy to Frank Mareno. Born as an orc, the tenth child of a member of the Marenoclan, he was always the runt. Other people seemed to more gifted, and more likable. Frank found his first life lesson: "Work hard and you can compensate for anything". He wasn't clever, and he wasn't lucky, but he knew how to apply himself to his studies, and he worked hard. The family noticed and rewarded him with his first piece of cyber/bioware cerebral boosters. The difference this made to him was incredible. A whole new world of understanding was opened. This was the start of his love affair with tech.

One problem Frank had was that he didn't really like violence. As the son of Soldato, it was expected that he would take part in the family business. And every now and then the family business involved concrete overshoes or leg breaking. Frank noticed though that he could put off joining the business if he went to college. The problem was that even with hard work, he wasn't making the grades. This is where he learnt his second life lesson "There is always another way". The college needed grades, or sporting excellence. Frank was actually very good with a pistol, and with two years of serious practice he was good enough to get a college sporting bursary.At college he learnt about people: how to talk to people, how to understand them, and get them to do what you want. He learnt about computers: how to get them to do what they are supposed to, and even better how to break through their defences. He came to the opinion that a man who understands people, and understands computers can do anything.

It was in his last year at college that he met Doza. The two got on surprisingly, and the year that he spent with her was the best in his life. Frank and Doza were making plans for how they could escape the destiny that fate had thrown them: She was a mercenary for a "leave feet first only" outfit, and he was the son of Mafiosa. Then she suddenly vanished without a message or anything. Frank assumed that she was dead. This was the start of a truely miserable year

He became a soldato for real, and his negotiation skills and computer skills counted for almost nothing. A Fortunately he was good at acting, and he could put on the act of the Soldato, but he was constantly scared that it would stop being an act, and start being who he was

After a year the Vory happened. With a slight historical bent, Frank called that the night of long knives. It was meant to be a coup de tat, a putsch. The Vory came from nowhere and in a single night half the Moreni family died under a series of coordinated strikes. Frank was visiting the Capo when it went down, and was bored at a family dinner. He had hacked the external cameras to alleviate the boredom of the Capo's birthday speech, when he saw the marks of another hacker looping cameras.

Alerting everyone, the run on the capo was defeated, although Frank was very badly wounded almost to the point of death, he personally killed two of the samurai that burst through the doors into the family meal, that were about to kill the Capo. The capo ensured that Frank lived, and there was no shortage of cyber/bioware to help repair his shattered body.

Frank now learnt his third important life lesson: "In a violent world, it is important to be able to survive, and to be able to dish it out". The ware helps a lot, but Frank has puts a lot of effort into maintaining his skills at combat, and generally keeping fit.

Frank has now proved his manhood in the eyes on the Mafia and is a Made Man. This has worked to his favour, as it means among other things that he can avoid some of the more unpleasant sides of the Mafia business. Frank mostly deals in white collar crime now. The Mafia he works with call him Jotamon: a misspelling of "Jack of All Trade, Master of None".

Frank is currently travelling around the company. He earns enough money to get by as an electrical repair man. He tells the Family it is a cover, and he is still called on for the operations, but he is much happier with a microtonic toolkit repairing a microwave for a little old lady, then he is breaking bones for the Family.

[galenbd]

Hack on the Fly
Skill: Hacking
Utility: Exploit 5 (Mute)
Threshold: Firewall
Reference: Core p.230

5 successes

Galen

[Aria]

@DH/Seta: Not having seen your character post yet I’m assuming you are a push bike cycle courier but let me know if I’m wrong. I thought I’d reintroduce Scratch from your Loveland game for another bit of inter game continuity. I will probably stat her up as a 400BP character for 2072 too (probably with some modifications to the original stats as I’m always tweaking my characters (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) )

@Doza: Background looks fine to me but the thought of second hand cyber just makes my skin crawl (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Especially something as invasive as MBW – they had to strip it out of a dead guy! But beggars can’t be choosers, and they probably only told you it was knocked off once they’d turned you back on (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

Your contract regarding the kid was moderately specific – collect him, keep him safe and take him to a specified location which you guess to be a safe house (the implication being he was in some kind of trouble and you would be helping him out). How they knew where he’d be is anyone’s guess of course...!

@Jotamon: It’s going to be a shock seeing Doza again! Weird coincidence heh?!? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

@Jamie: You will easily breeze through the limited security on the commlink – see IC post...you just need to let me know what you want to do with the info...

[Notsoevildm]

Hi all,

Saw the thread necromancy and was wondering if it would be okay to get Copperhead back into play? A troll shaman with cyberware, she is one of the more broken (and not in a good way) characters you could build in SR3.

[galenbd]

Intercept Traffic
Skill: Agent 4
Utility: Sniffer 3
Reference: Core p.230-231

2 successes

Galen

[Aria]

Hi all,

Saw the thread necromancy and was wondering if it would be okay to get Copperhead back into play? A troll shaman with cyberware, she is one of the more broken (and not in a good way) characters you could build in SR3.

Would be good to have you back! Can you post your sheet here along with a quick 3 month catch up? Are there any of the new threads you fancy in on?

[Seth]

@Aria/Jotamon
Gosh this is awkward...what to say. What do you say when you have just been shot at and the love of your life who you thought was dead suddenly appears.

@Aria/Ember
Feel free to be rational or irrational....your wife is in emergency at the moment.

Mind you these guys are just high class messenger men.The paperwork looks legit (as far as you can tell: it has a gold seal and everything), and basically means that it will cost the employer if you end up dead (or beaten or robbed or ...) Then again maybe they can afford it. For 100K though they could order a hit on you by a serious assassin or kidnapper.

@Notsoevildm
There are two or three threads running. You are very welcome to join Ember in the thread I am running or either of the threads that Aria is running (I suspect that Aria's two threads will merge...but who knows).

[galenbd]

@Aria, I'm impressed by your organization. I'm only running one game and am having to work to keep it together. My hat's off to you.

Galen

[Aria]

@Aria, I'm impressed by your organization. I'm only running one game and am having to work to keep it together. My hat's off to you.

Galen

We'll see how long it lasts lol

[Aria]

@Aria/Jotamon
Gosh this is awkward...what to say. What do you say when you have just been shot at and the love of your life who you thought was dead suddenly appears.

Well she's come from a completely different direction and wasn't a shooter...hang on...nobody has had a chance to shoot at you yet (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[galenbd]

I know and I'm desperately trying to keep it that way. I just can't find the guy I think is the most likely shooter.

Galen

[Aria]

I know and I'm desperately trying to keep it that way. I just can't find the guy I think is the most likely shooter.

Galen

There seems to be some confusion then...the shooter was one of the two goons that Seth/Jotamon has laid out on the ground...he was firing at the kid and you lot were close by

[galenbd]

Not yet he's not. He will be if he ever catches up with us.

Galen

[Alyena]

Sorry Aria, I'm struggling a little with my first post. What is Doza's brief for the Kid? Thanks.

[Aria]

Sorry Aria, I'm struggling a little with my first post. What is Doza's brief for the Kid? Thanks.

• Find the kid at a particular intersection (more or less where the group now is)
• Ensure his safety (open to interpretation!)
• Bring him to a location (safe house) in Renton
• Collect your bonus

I've deliberately not made it too specific because I don't want your orders to conflict with your moral code or lead you into trying to kill off the other PCs before the game gets going (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Let me know if you need any more info and I'll ransack my brainpan!

[Notsoevildm]

Copperhead's sheet is in my sig. It's about 13 karma, 30k nuyen and a couple of extra contacts over the 400 BP. These were awards from the original thread but I can recreate the original 400 BP character if you prefer.

I'm happy to join any of the current arcs, but I still need read through the whole thread to bring myself up to speed.

[Aria]

Copperhead's sheet is in my sig. It's about 13 karma, 30k nuyen and a couple of extra contacts over the 400 BP. These were awards from the original thread but I can recreate the original 400 BP character if you prefer.

I'm happy to join any of the current arcs, but I still need read through the whole thread to bring myself up to speed.

According to the rules tweak I did at the start of the this thread you get 10 karma + 1 per 2 IC posts - at 34 posts that gives you an extra 17 on top (+17x 2500 nuyen)...so you've got loads more to spend (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Backup for Ember on Seth's little thread path would be appreciated...he's mainly a summoner so I think he would compliment Copperhead's skills...

[Seth]

@Aria/Ember
The easiest way for you to get Copperhead in is to 'already know him', and ask him to help. The money that Mr Johnson fronted is enough to recruit someone if you want to keep it more impersonal.

[Aria]

@Aria/Ember
The easiest way for you to get Copperhead in is to 'already know him', and ask him to help. The money that Mr Johnson fronted is enough to recruit someone if you want to keep it more impersonal.

If I recall correctly Copperhead is a her and there's a possibility that she has worked for Argent before and is 'on the books' as a contact?!?

[Seth]

Sounds like a plan.

If you want to, you can ask Mr Johnson to cough up extra cash for associates, as you are currently at the negotiation stage