Wasteland Blues (OOC) Options

[Mulcarn]

Damage Resistance: 11d6t5 4

The first guard is caught unaware of your attack and goes down in one hit.

Time to roll initiative.

Control Tower Guard #2 - Initiative: 7+1d6 12
Control Tower Mage - Initiative: 6+1d6 10
Lesser Air Spirit - Astral Initiative: 6+3d6 16
Lesser Fire Spirit - Astral Initiative: 6+3d6 19
Lesser Man Spirit - Astral Initiative: 6+3d6 17

[Gilga]

Initiative: 12+1d6 18

[Mulcarn]

Initiative Order

Harbinger - 25: Stunball Barrage
Karmakaze - 20: Action Pending
Lesser Fire Spirit - 19: Materialize behind Jaws
Jaws - 18: Sniper Shot
Lesser Man Spirit - 17: Uses Fear power on Harbinger
Lesser Air Spirit - 16: Materialize behind Karmakaze
Control Tower Guard - 12: Action Pending Unconscious and bleeding out
Control Tower Mage - 10: Action Pending

I still need an initiative roll from Karmakaze and maybe Titan. (If he shows up that is)

Out of curiosity, why is Harbinger's initiative so high? Did he take some drugs earlier? Increase Reflexes? Also don't forget that there's a BGC of 2 going on as well.

[Jack_Spade]

He still has the F3 Increase Reflexes going with 6 successes and 6 reagents, since the limit is not force dependent the BGC didn't diminish its effect (maintained with Focused concentration)

[Mulcarn]

Did you remember to add the -4 penalty to your stunball dice pool? (-2 from BGC and -2 from Astral Perception)

[Jack_Spade]

Aren't the -2 only for mundane actions? casting an astral spell on the astral shouldn't be penalized.

[Mulcarn]

Astrally perceiving while trying to accomplish mundane tasks is very distracting; you take a –2 dice pool penalty to actions on the physical plane. While spellcasting and it's like may not be a 'mundane' task you are still suffering from sensory overload from being dual-natured regardless.

Mana spells: When using mana spells, the magician can only affect living things with auras or astrally active entities (such as spirits or foci) even in the physical world. Mana spells can affect targets on either the physical or astral planes, but only if you’re on the same plane as your target(s).

My ruling - Since you're physically casting a spell on a astral target(s) you incur the astral perception penalty.

[Jack_Spade]

Alright, in that case I'm losing one dice on the last throw (since I already removed three instead of two dice to make the throwing easier) (I'm abusing the rule that special modifiers like specialization and mentor bonus are added after the split instead of before)
[7d6t5=6, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 1] 2 [7d6t5=6, 4, 2, 6, 2, 3, 4] 4 [6d6t5=2, 5, 6, 5, 1, 6, 2]

[Mulcarn]

The guard tower is about 100 meters away from where you all parked. You'll have to get much closer if you want to handle the remaining guards. The spirits are going to bum rush you from the astral and start taking you guys out. Their statblocks will be listed below.

[ Spoiler ]

Control Tower Guard (Professional Rating 2 Grunt)
Metatype: Human

Attributes

Body: 4
Agility: 4
Reaction: 4
Strength: 4
Charisma: 3
Intuition: 3
Logic: 3
Willpower: 3
Edge: 3
Essence: 6

Initative: 7 + 1d6
Movement: x2/x4/+2
Condition Monitor: 10P/10S
Limits: Physical 6, Mental 4, Social 5
Armor: 12

Skills

Close Combat: 4
Etiquette: 4
Firearms: 4
Perception: 4
Running: 4
Sneaking: 4

Gear

Armor Jacket [12]
Glasses [Capacity 3, w/ low-light vision, thermographic vision, smartlink)
AK-97 [Assualt Rifle, Acc 5 (7), DV 10P, AP -2, SA, BF, FA, RC 6, 38 ©]
- Smartgun System, Internal
- Gas-Vent 3 System
- Spare Clip
Combat Knife [Blade, Acc 6, DV 6P, AP –3]
Sony Emperor commlink (Device Rating 2)
Standard Credstick
76 Assualt Rifle Rounds, Normal

Control Tower Mage (Professional Rating 2 Grunt)
Metatype: Dwarf

Attributes

Body: 5
Agility: 3
Reaction: 2
Strength: 5
Charisma: 4
Intuition: 4
Logic: 4
Willpower: 5
Edge: 2
Essence: 6
Magic: 4

Initative: 6 + 1d6
Astral Initative: 8 + 3d6
Movement: x2/x4/+2
Condition Monitor: 11P/11S
Limits: Physical 6, Mental 6, Social 6, Astral 6
Armor: 12

Skills

Assensing: 4
Astral Combat: 4
Conjuring: 4
Etiquette: 4
Perception: 4
Sorcery: 4

Qualities: Magician (Hermetic, Resist Drain with Willpower + Logic)

Gear

Armor Jacket [12]
Sony Emperor commlink (Device Rating 2)
Hermetic Fetish
Standard Credstick

Spells: Fireball (Limited), Flamethrower (Limited), Manabolt, Combat Sense, Increase Reflexes, Confusion, Mass Confusion, Levitate

Lesser Air Spirit (Force 3, bound with 2 services)

Attributes

Body: 1
Agility: 6
Reaction: 7
Strength: 1
Charisma: 3
Intuition: 3
Logic: 3
Willpower: 3
Edge: 2
Essence: 3
Magic: 3

Initiative: 10 + 2d6
Astral Initiative: 6 + 3d6
Movement: x2/x4/+10
Condition Monitor: 9P/10S
Limits: Physical 4, Mental 4, Social 4, Astral 4
Armor: 0

Skills

Assensing: 3
Astral Combat: 3
Exotic Ranged Combat: 3
Perception: 3
Running: 3
Unarmed Combat: 3

Powers: Accident, Astral Form, Concealment, Confusion, Elemental Attack (Electricity) Engulf (Air), Immunity (Age, Electricity, Pathogens, Toxins) Materialization, Movement, Sapience, Search
Weaknesses: Allergy (Pollutants, Severe), Allergy (Radiation, Severe)

Lesser Fire Spirit (Force 3, bound with 2 services)

Attributes

Body: 4
Agility: 5
Reaction: 6
Strength: 1
Charisma: 3
Intuition: 4
Logic: 3
Willpower: 3
Edge: 2
Essence: 3
Magic: 3

Initiative: 9 + 2d6
Astral Initiative: 6 + 3d6
Movement: x2/x4/+5
Condition Monitor: 10P/10S
Limits: Physical 4, Mental 5, Social 5, Astral 5
Armor: 0

Skills

Assensing: 3
Astral Combat: 3
Exotic Ranged Combat: 3
Flight: 3
Perception: 3
Unarmed Combat: 3

Powers: Accident, Astral Form, Confusion, Elemental Attack (Fire), Energy Aura (Fire), Engulf (Fire), Fear, Immunity (Age, Fire, Pathogens, Toxins) Materialization, Sapience
Weaknesses: Allergy (Water, Severe), Allergy (Pollutants, Severe), Allergy (Radiation, Severe)

Lesser Man Spirit (Force 3, bound with 2 services)

Attributes

Body: 4
Agility: 3
Reaction: 5
Strength: 1
Charisma: 3
Intuition: 4
Logic: 3
Willpower: 3
Edge: 2
Essence: 3
Magic: 3

Initiative: 8 + 2d6
Astral Initiative: 6 + 3d6
Movement: x2/x4/+2
Condition Monitor: 10P/10S
Limits: Physical 4, Mental 5, Social 5, Astral 5
Armor: 0

Skills

Assensing: 3
Astral Combat: 3
Perception: 3
Spellcasting: 3
Unarmed Combat: 3

Powers: Accident, Astral Form, Concealment, Confusion, Enhanced Senses (Low-Light, Thermographic Vision), Fear, Guard, Influence, Immunity (Age, Pathogens, Toxins), Materialization, Sapience, Search
Weaknesses: Allergy (Pollutants, Severe), Allergy (Radiation, Severe)

[Jack_Spade]

Are the spirits manifested yet? And is the mage visible from the tower, or (what's probably best for his health) in the tower and out of combat.

[Mulcarn]

No, they still need to spend an action to materialize or to do something else. The mage isn't visible at all and is inside the tower. The other guard is visible and has taken cover.

[Jack_Spade]

Alright, I'll hold of with my actions until the others have had their chance to do something.

[Gilga]

Being himself and probably unaware of any spirits - David will just swear that the second guard took cover and would fire at him nevertheless.

Fire second guard: 17d6t5 5

[Mulcarn]

Control Tower Guard
Full Defense Dodge: 12d6t5 4
Damage Resistance: 11d6t5 3

Guard #2 goes down with 12 boxes of physical damage.

[Titan]

Looks like it is only Jaws and Harbinger, since I have seen Bastard post in other threads but not Wasteland Blues.

Perhaps if you guys tried to work with the other players, this game wouldn't have ended up like this.

[Gilga]

Oh please... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
We could just take on more in the car - I even suggested it.
it is you that wish to take things to absurd... just saying.

[Titan]

I'm not the one who left the needed character behind, and never even tried to contact him.

Just saying. After all you have a very bad rep Gilga. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Gilga]

David said "Great Karma... There are two 'seats' the gunner seats with an assault rifle connected, and there is one next to the driver."

To the rest, he said "Meet you all in the first installation point?

for once - you know exactly 'where we are going'.

[Gilga]

Can we just have Titan seating on the lap of someone ? Exceed capacity from 3 to 4? I doubt you can just take a taxi to CZ.

and here is a suggestion to just take you with us.

[Mulcarn]

The first node is located at Chicago's Midway Airport, about three kilometers inside the CZ. - Can be found on Page 3.

To be perfectly honest and square, I'm not really sure what the problem is. QP told everyone where the nodes are and which one is first and which is second. Her getting up and leaving mid-conversation was a scripted event on my end. She was meant to do that. And she was going to explain at the end of the mission why she did. Most of the fun from Shadowrun comes from the mystery and the not knowing of what's happening or why it's happening for that matter. And as shadowrunners you're expected to roll with the punches and solve the mystery. Like detectives. Like heavily-armed criminal mercenary detectives.

It'd be insanely, stupidly boring if I showed my GM notes before, after and during every mission. I even went out of my way to make sure that this is the most basic and non-challenging shadowrun to exist. (Or one of them anyway (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) ) Again, whats the problem?

[Mulcarn]

@Bastard - Can I get an initiative roll from you please.

[Bastard]

Initiative: 20

[ Spoiler ]

Initiative: 3d6+9 20

[Mulcarn]

The fire spirit will materialize directly behind Jaws. The air spirit will do the same but for Karmakaze.

The spirit of man will use it's fear power from astral on Harbinger. Defend with Logic + Willpower.

Fear: 6d6t5 2

@Bastard - You can delay your first action while 2 out of the 3 spirits spend their actions to materialize or you can take cover somewhere.

[Gilga]

Which combat turn are we in?

[Mulcarn]

First turn, first initiative pass.