Salted Wounds [OOC], a Deep Black Sea game Options

[Jack_Spade]

As it's 8m up from the ground, R4 are still sufficient
And yes, you can just walk up to the window and shoot outside.

[Volker]

Adapsin, Biocompatibility and Betaware (as well as 1 Million Euros) allow for some pretty slick soldiers.

Apparently. At least with a Frankensteinian master mind (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I guess I can't access his pain editor via his commlink, can I?

[Thanee]

It's biotech. Unlikely. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

Jupp, there was even essence left to pay for an internal router so wired reflexes and reaction enhancers can work together without matrix access.

Ok, new Round:

Anna's Spirit: 28
Mage: Ini: 16+4d6 27
Guardian Spirit Ini: 14+3d6 25
Bound Guardian Spirit Ini: 14+3d6 23
Assault: Ini: 15+3d6 22

[Gilga]

Iinitiative 28:
Anna's spirit will cast two mana barriers, one to envelop the mage's barrier and the other to force intersection with the mage.
I assume that forcing intersection is an attack, so can only happen with one barrier.

Mana barrier: 2#6d6t5 2 3

Intersection: 12d6t5 5
Intersection(mage barrier: 18d6t5 6
fails to collapse the mage's barrier.

drain: 2#12d6t5 4 3

Spirit takes 1 damage.

Initiative: 18+2d6 24

Initiative 24: Anna's action Complex action levitate.
Levitate F7 - (5 drain).
Levitate: 13d6t5 8 Wow --> only 7 hits kept.
drain: 15d6t5 4
1 drain.

[Luckace]

Initiative Aeraziel: 16+2d6 23

Initiative Wraith (astral): 10+2d6 16

[Thanee]

Nova's Initiative 26

Bye
Thanee

[Volker]

As I just changed my data processing to 8, my init is Initiative: 4d6+14 31
Noice!

[SquirrelDude]

Initiative Rd 3: 3d6+11 24

[Volker]

Two questions:

a) Can I see the spider without performing a Matrix Perception?
b) Do you still have the overall map somewhere? I'd like to move the van as close to the row of windows where Shark, Nova and bnc are at the moment. If it's unclear, where I mean, I'd like to indicate it on the map. I can search for the link but in case you have it at hand, that would be, well, handy.

[Jack_Spade]

a) No, as the decker is not within 100m with his device
b) https://pyrophilios.files.wordpress.com/201...appartments.png
Assault lies pretty exactly at the O of Scaffolding 8m above the ground.

So Ini is then:

bnc 31 (Calls Car, Aims)
Anna's Spirit: 28 (Trys to intersect Mage's barrier, loses one barrier)
Mage 27 (Leavs Fog Form, shuts off Dual Nature, walks out of room)
Nova 26
Guardian Spirit 25 (Breaks remaining Astral Barrier)
Sharkboy 24
Bound Guardian Spirit 23 (Tries to frighten Anna's spirit)
Aeraziel 23
Assault 22
Wraith 16

[Thanee]

Ah, the merc isn't on the ground, yet? I thought he were. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

So, essentially, we are right next to him?

And the mage is now in the corridor?

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

In the corridor two levels above you (or in another flat - you don't have eyes on him right now)

[Gilga]

@Jack Wow... I did not know that vampires could stop being dual nature. What happened to the mage's F9 barrier ? are the spirits now out of it?

You are missing Anna - at initiative 24, would cast levitation on Assualt.

[Jack_Spade]

@Gilga
Thanks,

bnc 31 (Calls Car, Aims)
Anna's Spirit: 28 (Trys to intersect Mage's barrier, loses one barrier)
Mage 27 (Leavs Fog Form, shuts off Dual Nature, walks out of room)
Nova 26
Guardian Spirit 25 (Breaks remaining Astral Barrier)
Sharkboy 24
Anna 24
Bound Guardian Spirit 23 (Tries to frighten Anna's spirit)
Aeraziel 23
Assault 22
Wraith 16

And there are actually three ways to that - one from SG, one from FA and one from SL (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Thanee]

Ohh... okay, he is further above. Alright then...

@Jack Wow... I did not know that vampires could stop being dual nature.

They cannot... normally. But there is a quality in Forbidden Arcana, I think, that allows you to supress your dual nature for a while.

Bye
Thanee

[Volker]

Thanks, Jack!

Short recap:
bnc is in the van.
Wraith is in the van.
Sharkboy is next to Assault at the Scaffold (approxiametly the "o" in "Scaffolding")
Anna, too, is on the scaffolding, somewhere nearby.
Nova is next to Sharkboy but still inside, standing at the window.
James is at the window in the next flat, so probably somewhere between "S" and "c" in "Scaffolding".
Battery is sprayed about in the whole fucking flat bnc and Kerstin once used to live in.
The vampire mage is somewhere two stories above.

Everything right?

If so, I'd command the van past the containers and around the corner so it can pick us up quickly once we jump/climb down the scaffolding.


Ah, and something else: I realized I only declared it in the spoiler section and forgot to describe it in the IC part. bnc shared an ARO feed with Eliza and the rest of the team to be able to perform I am the Firewall if need be.

[Gilga]

Just to help a bit:

bnc 31 (Calls Car, Aims)
Anna's Spirit: 28 (Trys to intersect Mage's barrier, loses one barrier)
Mage 27 (Leavs Fog Form, shuts off Dual Nature, walks out of room)
Nova 26 fire (6 hits - to be resolved)
Guardian Spirit 25 (Breaks remaining Astral Barrier)
Sharkboy 24 -
Anna 24 - Levitate Assualt 7 hits - to be resolved.
Bound Guardian Spirit 23 (Tries to frighten Anna's spirit, fails)
Aeraziel 23
Assault 22
Wraith 16

[Luckace]

@Volker:
No, Wraith is still in the janitor's flat, he didn't have time to get to the van or anyhting yet. But he does have his bike close by, which bnc probably noticed.

@Jack: As I commanded my spirit to prevent the mage from escaping, it would go after him. Floating to the upper floor and entering physically seems like the quickest choice (walking rate 18m, running rate 36m).
But tecnically, barriers ignore stun damage (CB p197), so... does this really mean there is no way for my spirit (unarmed combat without natural weapon) to enter/break the cheap glass except for spending a complex action to shoot an elemental attack at the window (or perhaps the Called Shot Splitting Damage)?

[Jack_Spade]

Sorry guys, I got home very late tonight, so no update today.

@Luckace

A called shot to turn stun into physical damage will suffice, but that is no different from just using an elemental attack to break in - in both cases you need a complex action.

Also, your spirit doesn't know where the mage is exactly, so it will have to spend time looking for him.

[Gilga]

Jack i think that Writh is astrally projecting toward mage. So the spirit should know if Wraith knows through Wraith's telepathic link to it

[Jack_Spade]

Yeah, but as far as I can see, he didn't move in the Astral yet - or was that implied and I just missed it?

bnc 31 (Calls Car, Aims)
Anna's Spirit: 28 (Trys to intersect Mage's barrier, loses one barrier)
Mage 27 (Leavs Fog Form, shuts off Dual Nature, walks out of room)
Nova 26 (shoots assault)
Guardian Spirit 25 (Breaks remaining Astral Barrier)
Sharkboy 24
Anna 24
Bound Guardian Spirit 23 (Tries to frighten Anna's spirit)
Aeraziel 23
Assault 22
Wraith 16

[Volker]

Sorry guys, I got home very late tonight, so no update today.

Don't worry! I doubt anyone insists on an update every day. This is leisure time not an obligation. At least to a certain degree.

[Luckace]

I think Jack is correct that I'm not yet close enough to identify the mage, but I shall most likely do so as soon as my next action comes up. No, you didn't miss anything.
So basically: 23 spirit can go astral -> 16 I can zero in -> 13 spirit could find him theoretically
But that's only anticipated, of course. From what we've seen so far, anything could happen in the meantime (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

@Jack: If it indeed goes this way, would you approve without my spirit having to look for him?

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Also, your spirit doesn't know where the mage is exactly, so it will have to spend time looking for him.

[Jack_Spade]

Yes, if Wraith spots him, so does his spirit. Don't forget that those mana barriers do block line of sight on the astral (or rather make it hard to see through)