The Found Arcana - Chapter 9 [OOC] Options

[Beta]

I just remembered the sort-of Govi painting -- AM would probably not want that destroyed.

[Gilga]

Yes, I had some writeup planned for that. She was too afraid ever to activate it.

[Tecumseh]

Sorry, got totally sideswiped today. I had every intention of writing a post this morning but then a fire drill dropped in my lap at work and before I blinked seven hours had gone by.

My eyes are bleary now. I should be able to crank something out tomorrow morning.

[Tecumseh]

This cracked me up:

Packing Taking down SIS and loading your valuables into the cars would take about an hour, but there is not that much work to be done - just a threshold of what is 'valuable' would a two-week supply of soy nuggets be considered valuable? Or a coffee machine that draws dirty pictures on the coffee?

Great callback.

This is our lifestyle with some of our shared possessions listed at the bottom: https://stormy-waters-2075.obsidianportal.c...gative-services

Someone set me straight: did we or did we not sell the Dodge Xenon in Chapter 1? It's listed on the wiki page but I feel like I'm always wrong whenever this topic comes up.

We do have some Psyche if anyone named Raven wants some.

[Gilga]

We did not sell it, but I write AM always driving the Ford because I never remember its model name.

[Tecumseh]

Gilga, did the olfactory sensors (or the chemsniffer ring) come back with anything suspicious about the cookies?

[Tecumseh]

Is the photo from the bar on the first floor of the Gates Hotel/Casino?

[Gilga]

As a selfie, there is not much of a background but as far as you can tell it is likely.

[Gilga]

Gilga, did the olfactory sensors (or the chemsniffer ring) come back with anything suspicious about the cookies?

sorry for the delay - did not notice that. The cookies are delicious as far as the olfactory sensors can say and they do not appear to be poisoned or anything.

[Tecumseh]

Happy holidays, all. I was just thinking about Pike Hall and the Christmas festivities there a couple years ago.

[Jack_Spade]

Funnily enough, so did I when I watched the Glass Onion on Netflix

Happy holidays everyone ☺️

[Gilga]

I just watched it yesterday (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
Happy holidays!

[Jack_Spade]

Happy New Year everyone 🥳

[Thanee]

Happy New Year! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

Raven would like to disguise herself, so that someone who has seen recent pictures of her in her business attire wouldn't reckognize her.

Probably changing her hair style and coloring her hair with the Makeover spell, as well as completely different outfit.

What time is it now?

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

Close to midnight

[Beta]

Sorry, not dead, just been struggling to produce anything (work, ShadowRun). Not sure if this is the infamous post covid brain fog or some new face of depression or just what. I certainly didn't intend to vanish for two weeks again, but each night I pushed it off to the next night when I oculdn't think of what to say ... until here I am two weeks later.

@Jack_Space Tamarind is short of gear for much hacking. She has an attack 1 dongle that she can use with edge to go after something, but the owner will know about it. She can get marks with EW, but all the fun actions take sleaze or attack. Upgrading her attack and sleaze ratings are high priorities.

[Jack_Spade]

@beta

Yeah, we need to get you a device with sleaze capability. I'll modify a stealth tag for you one of these days (It's surprising just how much Bobby can get done with a little knowledge and a bit of luck (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) )

[Beta]

Some basic sleaze shouldn't be too hard to do. When I went from a build based on our existing in game xp to mostly starting character, I just basically decided to cut most of the hacking ability for now and keep some other areas mostly intact, to make the re-conceptualizing easier. I'm sure I could have cut Toothless (the paramedic drone) for example, and paid for an R2 sleeze dongle, but I just decided to leave that for further development in play. Most likely first thing to do is modify her RCC to add a sleaze attribute, and continue to rely on edge for very small amounts of hacking.

Getting a sleaze attribute high enough for any degree of regular use outside of Redmond gangers will be a longer term project.

[Gilga]

If you want to go creative with it, I think there is a spell for increasing gear limits and we're going to have access to quickening.

[Tecumseh]

Is AM initiating and getting quickening?

She's going to have Growth permanently cast, right, rolling around and looking like a fomori from here on out

[Gilga]

I was thinking going from short elf to a tall elf. E.g. from 160 cms to 180 or 190.

[Beta]

The only times that Tamarind is apt to be needed for hacking is when AM isn't there, at which point relying on a spell gets iffy (does she want an RCC that she can't get through wards? Maybe buy a high end commlink and hack it to have sleeze 1 and do it there instead? Eh, we can deal with it when we get there.

[Gilga]

I think that a "stay in the van" rigger/decker sort of fits Tamarind. Not to say she cannot act, or move to locations and so forth, but I think she can get a lot of mileage with an RCC that is never in the vicinity of wards. I agree that it does not cover all scenarios.

[Beta]

She was built never to be in hot sim, but that doesn't mean that she has to leave the van all of the time. After all, "leave the talking to the talky people" is one of her mottos.