OOC: SRM04-02 Extraction, Artifact Rush, Part 1 Options

[Slacker]

I've updated the banquet hall map.

[Severus Snape]

What application did you use to create the banquet hall? I'm looking for something I can use for games I run, and I haven't found anything really worthwhile yet.

[Slacker]

What application did you use to create the banquet hall? I'm looking for something I can use for games I run, and I haven't found anything really worthwhile yet.

Oh, i wouldn't recommend what I use for most people. I created all the patterns and objects myself in Adobe Fireworks which is really more for web design. But I use it at work all day and am comfortable with it.

[Dak]

I've got GIMP, and I'm awful with it, but its better than nothing.

[ChromeZephyr]

I'd make a snarky comment about GIMP, but every time I try to use it my Photoshop muscle memory gets in the way and I end up getting pissed.

[Slacker]

I'm too anal about making things pixel perfect for me to like using GIMP. That's why i like Fireworks for being able to quickly and easily set each object at a specific x/y point with specific width/height. I also do everything with vector based graphics so they scale with ease and clarity.

[Slacker]

DOH!!! just realized i neglected to mention something Gardner will be interested in knowing. The banquet hall itself appears to be warded. I should have told you about that when you used astral perception to realize the blue dragon has a physical mask spell on himself and that there is an illusion that the balcony look like it's covered in water.

Because I failed to mention it before now, it's not going to affect the Improved Charisma spell you cast on Mr. White. It's more that you would have to step through the barrier before any of your spells could affect people within it.

[Kiirnodel]

yeah, would have been good to know, but it's okay. I know how to deal with it, and we'll just move forward from here. Things shouldn't be too different, even with the ward there.

[Mach_Ten]

I'm too anal about making things pixel perfect for me to like using GIMP. That's why i like Fireworks for being able to quickly and easily set each object at a specific x/y point with specific width/height. I also do everything with vector based graphics so they scale with ease and clarity.

If its worth doing well, its worth doing in PAINT (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Slacker]

yeah, would have been good to know, but it's okay. I know how to deal with it, and we'll just move forward from here. Things shouldn't be too different, even with the ward there.

OK Thanks for understanding I have no idea how I overlooked it before now

[ChromeZephyr]

If its worth doing well, its worth doing in PAINT (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Obvious Troll is Obvious. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[O'Ryan]

Does anyone have any gecko gloves / knee pads? If they're willing to use them, or let Eclipse borrow them, I think if we can have a couple people stuck to the wall waiting would be good to at least delay things if our zip-line party is spotted en route.

Just a reminder, after tonight I won't be able to post until Sunday evening.

[Mach_Ten]

Does anyone have any gecko gloves / knee pads? If they're willing to use them, or let Eclipse borrow them, I think if we can have a couple people stuck to the wall waiting would be good to at least delay things if our zip-line party is spotted en route.

Just a reminder, after tonight I won't be able to post until Sunday evening.

I have gecko gloves and part of the plan was to be above blacony out of sight until "GO" time.

if Gardner wishes to go first there's no problem in that, he's bigger n' me and can go anywhere he chooses (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'd suggest we go in the 3 minutes before the drop to get setup

Garnder to sort out the magic defences, Eclipse and TW to get the climbing gear ready for the descent and me to climb above the balcony for the drop.

[O'Ryan]

Sounds good!

[Dak]

Mr. White rides the elevator.

Didn't seem worthy of an IC post.

[Dak]

Just a reminder, after tonight I won't be able to post until Sunday evening.

Quick! Grab all of his stuff!

[Slacker]

Mr. White rides the elevator.

Didn't seem worthy of an IC post.

Yeah, yeah. I was just giving eveyrbody else time to post up what they were doing while you were traveling between buildings. I'll post up something IC for you arriving at the banquet hall in a little bit.

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Everybody that is going across on the zip line, go ahead and give me a Climbing + Strength (2) check to try and stop properly on the other side. Remember to subtract 1 from your Strength for defaulting if you don't have the climbing skill.

[Slacker]

Just realized I forgot to mention the scale for the Banquet hall map. Each "square" is approximately 4mx4m. Once inside the hall, Mr. White will be able to gather that the section off to the left of the map is the kitchen. Oh and how did if forget to draw doors for the kitchen? lol.

[Dak]

Slacker, any sign of our target? I don't suppose I'm lucky enough that he's sitting at the table? Boy wouldn't that be hilariously anti-Shadowrun.

Our employer was really specific about time. Is it exactly 15 minutes? I'm wondering if he's just being anal about the time, or if some other sort of event or distraction will occur at that point.

So, darkened room, presentation on a stage, lots of people sitting around small tables. Right? This should be interesting.

[Severus Snape]

I'm still waiting on the sniper's commlink to come back into range. Do you need an IC post for that?

[ChromeZephyr]

Strength 6 + Climbing 1 = 2 hits. TW's good. I'll post something IC momentarily.

[Slacker]

Slacker, any sign of our target? I don't suppose I'm lucky enough that he's sitting at the table? Boy wouldn't that be hilariously anti-Shadowrun.

Our employer was really specific about time. Is it exactly 15 minutes? I'm wondering if he's just being anal about the time, or if some other sort of event or distraction will occur at that point.

So, darkened room, presentation on a stage, lots of people sitting around small tables. Right? This should be interesting.

Give me a Perception Test -3 for the general low-light conditions and glare from the brightness of the stage lighting that makes the rest of the room appear all the darker.
And no, you aren't so lucky that he's at the same table with you.

[Slacker]

Strength 6 + Climbing 1 = 2 hits. TW's good. I'll post something IC momentarily.

That's cool. You may want to assume that Gardner went down the zip line before you did.

[Slacker]

I'm still waiting on the sniper's commlink to come back into range. Do you need an IC post for that?

Around the time people start sliding down the zip line, he comes back within range for you. He's no yet over to the balcony. So no worries that he'll spot them just yet, but he is heading in that direction.

[Dak]

I have a question that is both IC and OOC.

"The job is an extraction, hostile, and you must begin in exactly fifteen minutes."

Now, if this were an actual job that an employer hired a group of skilled people to do, and he wasn't going to micromanage it to death, we'd wait until after this presentation, when the mingling started. Per his requirements, we've begun the extraction. There are runners on a zip line, and White is in the building looking for the mark.

But I know how Shadowrun works. There's an equal chance that our employer will accept nothing less than Mr. White jostling his way through the quiet and dark hall, peering at people, trying to find the mark, while helpful and polite guards encourage him to return to his seat. Then when he finds the mark, he has to whisper to him "Hey, I know we're in the middle of a presentation for your benefit, but I need you to come outside with me for a minute. Its for something really important. No, no it cannot wait twenty minutes until after this presentation is finished." I swear its like shadowrunning is just a 2073 reality tv show, some weird version of Punk'd meets Jackass meets Candid Camera. The whole world must be watching us, laughing at us trying to meet these sometimes insane demands.

*cough* Sorry, I'm better now. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

So, that question was: Are we supposed to yank this guy out right now, during the presentation? Or can we wait and grab him during the mixer bit?