OOC: Trails of Reflection Options

[Fenris]

CardboardArmor: Countdown - Pistol Adept
Tisoz: Tolkien Jones - Full Shaman
TinkerGnome: Raton - Decker
Paul Harkonen: Irving - Troll meat wall
Nikoli: Kaneda - Pistol-Sam
Bearclaw: Lee - Racoon Shaman B&E specialist.

This is the OOC thread. All rolls and game mechanics comments and questions should be posted here. Each time we switch scenes, please indicate in this thread what gear you are bringing with you. Nothing worse then trying to drone on for 15 lines in the IC thread to make sure the GM knows what gear you have. If you don't indicate a gear list each scene change, I will assume your gear list is the same.

No signatures in the IC thread. Breaks the flow. Standard formatting is to highlight team members names in bold. Helps people pick out references to themselves and keeps conversations flowing. Dialogue spoken outloud should use quotes (" "). Text in italics is assumed to be non-verbal or over comms.

You've lost a B&E specialist and a rigger with the two people that have dropped out. Do you want me to replace them?

[paul_HArkonen]

I think not, unless we know we'll get a rigger, otherwise i think we're go.

[Raiko]

I'll running short of on-line games that I'm involved in, and I can get a rigger done within 48 hours or so. I don't have one handy, but I like riggers and I'm familliar with Rigger 3.

You could start without me if necessary, and whichever character knows mine could just give me call when my character is ready.

[Chance359]

I could throw a B&E specialist together if theres still room.

[Fenris]

There are 6 people in the game. If you two can get the majority vote, you're in.

[tisoz]

Fenris, you pretty much nailed my character's social life. I want a re-roll on losing her, or finding someone else. :)

A rigger sounds good to me. Does anyone have a sweet biotech skill? I'd rather have someone that can do some mundane healing, than another B&E guy.

I"ll start the Team Karma Pool by contributing half of my karma pool. Ok, so it is only 1 point, but that's what happens when you are non-human and have the Bad Karma flaw. Any way:

Team Karma Pool: 1

[TinkerGnome]

Raton already said he was kicking in a point of team karma in the BG thread. Actually, the question is less who contributes and more "does the team want to have a team karma pool" because if we do, then everyone has to kick in at least one point.

[Nikoli]

I'll definitly kick in a point

And I'd like to see either the Rigger or B&E have biotech. I was going to but dropped the skill wires due to cost constraints and essence.
And I an not a B&E, I just don't want teh Sam to be the one setting off the alarms if I can help it.

[TinkerGnome]

Raton has the skillwires but not the chip. We can buy one for him out of the advance money for the run if need be, I don't want to delve into trying to revamp the character right now.

Raton's tribe (name, age, sex, race, screenname):

Meghan Lewis, 17 F, Human, "MG"
Cody Faires, 14 M, Elf, "Bait+Switch"
Lance Avallone, 12 M, Human, "Lancelot"
Clinton Echeverri, 16 M, Ork, "Eastwood"
Ericka Navarrette, 11 F, Human, "Sprite"

[edit]Yes, I'm verbose. Searching the Matrix (simple search) for any news items that seem relevant or China town goings on:

TN: Base 4, low profile +2, high initiative -1, smart frame assistance -2, et/matrix bonus -1 = 2
Base time: 1d6 hrs = 2 hrs
Roll: 05 05 05 04 03 03 03 02 02
Roll Summary: #D:9 TN:2 H#:5 S:9

[/edit]

[Nikoli]

Just for my own knowledge, when did I get the call from Strings and is the meet that night or the next?

[paul_HArkonen]

I'm go for the team pool, i'll chip in my 2 points.

[paul_HArkonen]

shall i assume that Fred gave me the time of the meet as well, cause in the post it doesn't say. Or do i have to clal him back and yell at him to get the adress?

[Bearclaw]

Lee is a path of the mage phys ad, and has a first aid skill of 3 :D
He also throws a mean Heal, but that doesn't really help much on guys with skill wires.

Fenris>>On the karma pool thing....do we chip in good karma or karma pool, and as I ended up with 94 karma, my karma pool is pretty high. Should I lose the extra points from the karma pool and add it to my character?

[TinkerGnome]

Do you get karma pool out of purchased karma? I wasn't clear on that one and didn't take any that way.

You do contribute pool, though.

[Nikoli]

I always took that as good karma, not karma pool

[TinkerGnome]

I meant, "do you get karma pool for ever 10th/20th karma out of purchased karma" not the other way of reading it. So if you start with 50 and have a pool of 6 (you're human), and you buy 20 more, do you have a pool of 8 and get 18 good karma to spend on other stuff? Or can you just spend those 2 karma instead?

Looks like I do need to rework the character a bit.

And team karma is definitely pool and not good karma (SRComp, p 82).

[Nikoli]

Sad.
I know NSRCG doesn't put purchaed karma into the karma pool, only earned, so that might be a good question to field to McMackie

[Nikoli]

Oh, fyi Fenris, Shootign hand is typically left, but the cyber-gun is in the right. my feeling is the SL system would switch between the two automatically, no gun, use the fuchi, hold a gun, turn that off. (this avoids the 2 weapon shooting but still gives me an ace)

Guys since we know and have worked with each other before, howabout we post a few of the 'tricks' we worked into our characters so we can better plan the tactics we would use. Maru-san is a tactician (SUT 4 or 5), he has gel rounds normally loaded in his shooting pistol and EX-explosive in the backup cyber pistol (if you're down to the backup, its a matter of survival)

He carries a few non-lethal grenades, 1 or 2 slip spray grenades, a few freeze foam grenades 1 freeze foam solvent grenade and if the need is there a neruo-stun grenade. he also loads out a dart pistol with narco-ject rounds.

For stealth runs, the recently mentioned armor setup, a US spoofer and a jammer if need be. He typically only speaks via radio, through a transducer while on runs.
He is not a B&E kinda guy, he's just not likely the one the guards will spot.

[paul_HArkonen]

Irving is the one the guards will spot but on the other hand it doesn't really matter, he's there to distract and take bullet shots, not much is going to hurt him too badly, balistic armor of 8 and body of 17, yeah, not much is strong enough to really hurt, but that are his tricks stand up and distract them while everyone else runs. He is very good at that tough. and at shooting other things all to hell, when i said meat wall i meant it.

[Bearclaw]

Lee is a total pacifist. He will hurt some one in an emergency, but he won't do anything that stands a good chance of killing some one.
He's got several grenades; flash, concussion and Thermal smoke.
He also has lots of illusions like trid phantasm that will make sure no one pays any attention to him at all. He's a big fan of ducking around a corner, concealing himself in a doorway, then having his phantasmal self fire a shot back from around the next corner as the bad guys come around. By the time anyone figures it out, he'll be eating fresh salmon in the Space Needle.
In an emergency, he has Clout and Stunball.

[TinkerGnome]

Sorry guys, I was feeling typish ;)

Searching the Matrix (simple search) for info on the meet location. I'd like a layout, etc, if possible (doesn't matter if I get a real one, just so Raton can plan escape routes, etc):

TN: Base 4, low profile +2, high initiative -1, smart frame assistance -2, et/matrix bonus -1 = 2
Base time: 1d6 hrs = 3 hrs
Roll: 14 10 10 05 05 02 02 01 01
Roll Summary: #D:9 TN:2 H#:14 S:7

[Fenris]

Tinker - The Matrix search turns up basic plans for a strip mall of small offices along the docks. That particular office is just one of many. Each of the offices was created with the same basic floor plan, just one open receptionist area in the front, an office in the back, a store room, and a small restroom.

[TinkerGnome]

Anything from the headlines of the day?

[TinkerGnome]

Okay, I'm good at writing myself into trouble ;)

Let's see if I can write myself out of it. Same search TN as before, roll:

09 09 08 08 07 05 05 04 02
#D:9 TN:2 H#:9 S:9

Hopefully he'll turn up that he's wanted for questioning. Then he will proceed to fix that little problem.

[Nikoli]

I gotta hand it to you, that's a new one on me. Using aastral sight to hit on women. very smooth.