The Found Arcana - Chapter 10 [OOC] Options

[Jack_Spade]

1) Commands are simple actions identical to messages. You can give the same command to multiple recipients. So you'd need two simple actions

2) let's assume your character considered the speed issue and gave toothless a hole close to the ambush site. Roll in for the drone and use some actions to sprint. I'm ruling the combination allows you to get close within one round and you get one attack with your last action.

3) the van is a generic one with body 12 and armor 6. Buying hits that's enough damage to cut through in one complex action.

4) the real problem is, that neither driver nor car are disabled yet. Unless that is done, they'll simply drive away from the drone.

[Tecumseh]

I'm not sure what to tell you - the car stopped, but it has the standard mirror shade windows, preventing outside observers to look in. No-one got out yet and the car doesn't look to have been modified.

I wasn't assuming that the vehicle had a mirrorshade windshield, but maybe that makes sense in the context of astral security. I suppose I was also thinking that thermographic vision might reveal if there are any forms in the front seats and what their posture might be.

I think I'm getting sick so I haven't read today's posts yet. Hopefully I can sleep it off.

CT1 IP2
Simple Action - fire at vehicle engine
Simple Action - stand up
Free - jog toward vehicle
Free - (from Perfect Time) comm something to the team

EMBARRASSMENT: Mato doesn't actually have Longarm. This whole time I thought he had the Firearms skill group but he doesn't. Well, I guess I know where the next block of karma is going. I am currently out of karma so I don't have any to buy rating 1 with.

Well, let's find out if it works. He has a good Agility, a smartlink, and a big stationary target. Maybe it will work out great

Agility 10 - Defaulting 1 + Smartlink 2: 11d6t5 4 hits

Take that, engine. Base damage is 11P -8AP + net hits.

Exhausted now. I'll try to IC post tomorrow.

[Jack_Spade]

Get well soon

Thermo doesn't work even with a regular car (insulating properties of car glas)

You are allowed to use automatics at -3 to substitute for longarms, but you hit anyway. So let's assume you used the called shot for -4

No armor and only 12 body dice for the car to resist: Soak: 12d6t5 5

9 boxes filled and the car is stationary.

Now let's see how the spirit is doing:

Manifests and is hit with two banishing rolls:

Banishing: 14d6t5 4
Banishing: 13d6t5 3
-1 service

Banishing: 12d6t5 4
Banishing: 13d6t5 3
-1 service

That leaves the spirit enough services to do it's job
Noxious breath: 29d6t5 11

Defense: Defense: 10d6t5 3
Defense: Defense: 12d6t5 2

21 and 22 Stun damage

Soak: 4d6t5 1
Soak: 6d6t5 2

So both take 20S

That rolls over to a full stun track and 5 P

[Thanee]

Wow! That worked rather well! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Sidenote: They would also both suffer 6P Drain from the Banishing attempts. But that will not make any difference, it seems.

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

Is the Shedim gone, though (disrupted)?

So, it is just the dead body now, which will soon begin to decay, now that the magic is not keeping it from doing so?

And does Arione carry anything?

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

No, the spirit is still inside - just with a full stun track

[Thanee]

Ok, so we can expect the spirit to become active again in about an hour, I suppose...

So, how does one get rid of a Shedim? Fill its physical monitor? Destroy the body?

Do we have any knowledge that helps with this? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

Yeah, destroy the shell and then disrupt or banish the spirit.

[Thanee]

Grim work... I mean, she is dead already, but still... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

if she is there before the deed is done she'll load her Ingram with something lethal and help obliterate the head. She'll have nightmares later, but for now? Get the job done.

That's so metal.

I'm back and caught up on the IC thread. I'll post in a minute.

I just had dinner right where we had the meet with the Hackers Club back in Chapter 7. The ice cream pop-up that was there two years ago (in the middle of the pandemic) has moved around the corner into a bigger spot. Then a fancy Italian spot that my parents like opened up and expanded into the space. Bellevue today is a actually a pretty good approximation of Bellevue in the 2070s, at least in terms of socioeconomic status and corpers (and not, say, metas).

@gilga How are the protests? You're making the news every day here.

[Gilga]

@Tecumesh - The biggest ones we have seen in Israel. My family and extended family are very active in them. At the same time, the gaps between the political parties are not that big. Still, somehow I don't see any opposition leader doing something so unpopular as to compromise when there are so many people in the streets demanding to stop. The coalition leaders are having a similar difficulty because backing off may break the government. After all, they delayed everything else to deal with the judicial reform, and all that effort has resulted in very little so far. We need a responsible adult to take the political system out of this dead-lock and I am not sure we have anyone.

The issue seems to be trust rather than the specifics of any laws. I suspect that the government is ready to back off but is looking to keep face to preserve itself so they need some 'victory' to compromise. I think it all goes to another delay of a year or so, and nobody knows what will happen after that. There are real problems with the economy and personal security and a year from now - they may take the center stage. This is where a government should be focused rather than on fixing a system that has been broken for the last 30 years or so. There are always more urgent issues to handle.

Agreeing on 'stalling' leaves both sides able to say to their supporters that they did not compromise, but time is limited.

[Thanee]

Hope your people get this resolved at some point.


Was about to have Rachel heal the wounds (5 physical each on Tien IV and Phillip from stun damage overflow; luckily this gets halved, it was 20S they suffered) with her spell, but I don't think that even works while petrified, so she asked AM to do this instead (she should have a few more dice also with Trouble). (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

Gilga, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I generally find what you share to be more insightful than what we read in the news over here. Not that the news is inaccurate, but it misses some of the context.

Alright, let's make sure we have a complete To Do list, not necessarily in this order just trying to get everything down:

1) break shell
2) scramble eggs shedim
3) bury Victoria
4) drop petrification / heal Tien IV and Phillip
5) loot as appropriate
6) deliver Tien IV and X-T to Tien III
7) pack up (tarps, guns, etc.)
8) scrub Matrix
9) scrub astral
10) C-Square things (Mato has 5 units)
11) not sure what do with the vehicle we just shot
12) get paid, go home

Did I forget anything?

[Thanee]

6) but make sure, he does not do something stupid (again)

11) burn it? Maybe with some sort of timer...

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

Oh, and Rachel actually has a Medkit 6. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

Mato has an HE grenade. (Five, actually.) I suppose we could chuck it into the vehicle along with Victoria.

If the vehicle is still operational (which it may not be), I suppose we could have it drive into the land mines along the fence to the no man's land.

New business plan for SIS: since nobody else seems to be paying attention, AM and Tamarind take over the automated farm and funnel all the produce to us. (Or, you know, the revenue from the produce.)

[Gilga]

Mato has an HE grenade. (Five, actually.) I suppose we could chuck it into the vehicle along with Victoria.

If the vehicle is still operational (which it may not be), I suppose we could have it drive into the land mines along the fence to the no man's land.

New business plan for SIS: since nobody else seems to be paying attention, AM and Tamarind take over the automated farm and funnel all the produce to us. (Or, you know, the revenue from the produce.)

Aren't you forgetting the mana line that spawned the Shedim in the first place (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Jack_Spade]

Technically, that's not part of your job 😉

But if you want to investigate, you'll have to infiltrate the farm

[Tecumseh]

Yeah, but if it's all automated and we're handling it remotely then the shedim have nothing to possess! Except, you know, car accident victims.

Okay, seems like the To Do list is fairly complete. Let's start checking things off.

Mato is rather more detached than the rest of you, or so I presume. If Tamarind is going to have nightmares vaporizing Victoria's face, then what about this:

A) Mato plunks Victoria from a medium distance with the Mannlicher
B) Trouble + Raven's spirit curbstomp the shedim
C) Mato chucks Victoria's body into the incapacitated (?) vehicle and tosses an HE grenade in to keep her company

That keeps the shooter at a safe distance so there's no lifeform right there for a shedim to attack.

Or we could skip the shooting and just let the grenade do the shell-breaking. Could trigger it via wireless.

[Jack_Spade]

The car is indeed incapacitated - otherwise, yes, that is perfectly doable (technically you could let the F13 spirit fry the body and also astral combat the spirit as one service - with that much power, the F8 Shedim won't stand a chance)

[Tecumseh]

That's a fair point. That would definitely work.

I was thinking of what to do with the vehicle and an HE seemed like a viable way to dispose of it.

[Jack_Spade]

You could just tow it, you know (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Tecumseh]

Yeah, but to where? And do what with it when it got there?

AM has the Fix spell. Could that get it operational again?

[Jack_Spade]

Fix should do it.

A chop shop would give you a bit of cash for the car and make it vanish

[Thanee]

Probably not a big issue, but still... if the spirit destroys the body, the Shedim will have a small window between destroying the body and being able to act again.

While, if the spirit waits for the body to be destroyed, he could act immediately against the Shedim.

Bye
Thanee