OOC: Trails of Reflection Options

[Nikoli]

sweet

[tisoz]

Nikoli, have we met at your meeting place recently? If so, I would have set up a ward. If not, can I come by early and set one up? If everyone wants to meet on the boat, we can do it behind some nice astral security.

Hopefully someone has a white noise generator and bug scanner.

[Nikoli]

I has a generator, rating 10.
No scanner though. I included the <address> just in case you hadn't met up there. It's justa bolt hole for me, nothing to important. If nothing else we meet there then continue to your boat.
If you want to set up a ward first, be my guest.

[tisoz]

I'll get there an hour early and set up a F1 ward just to let me know about astral intruders, then let some watchers monitor astral space. If we plan on using some set place for meets, I can take a while and set up a high force one.

I was thinking about the boat because I have a rating 12 lodge (astral barrier 12) inside a F8 ward, plus a force 8 spirit guarding the place, plus the usual watchers keeping a look out. But it would kind of suck to lose all that, and really piss off the landlord.

So, back to a safe meeting place. Everyone could add their specialty to making the place secure. It takes hours = Force to set up the ward, and it lasts # of weeks = successes. I can also summon a F8 Hearth spirit. If I totally blow the drain roll, I'll take 2 boxes of stun, which should be gone within an hour.

[tisoz]

double post

[Nikoli]

I have no issue with moving the team meet to your boat. I only offered my bolt hole because I know about it. I also know that our characters need to share some info around before this gets too deep.

[tisoz]

Bolt hole sounds fine.

What day is everyone on? I don't want to get too far ahead of everyone.

Going to Nikoli's bolthole @1:30, setting up F1 ward just to alert about astral eavesdroppers. If we decide to use the place for regular meets during run, I will upgrade as time permits.

TN2, 8 dice, 09 09 05 04 04 03 03 01, Ward will last 7 weeks.

Niloli, can I get a description of the bolthole and a location, maybe what type of buildings surround it?

[Fenris]

Bump tomorrow at 5:00pm, or thereabouts, to the time of the meet. Please finish any recon or prep you'd like to take care of by then.

[tisoz]

Carrying everything but the shamanic lodge materials, ordinary clothing, vest w/plates. Leaving all grenades except concussion in vehicle.

When everyone arrives, ask:
what people know about Yamazika
results of any legwork
what questions to ask at meet
what kind of job is acceptable (opened ended or vaguely defined is out)
if anyone has:
credstick reader/verifier
bug scanner/detector

Synchronize commlink/radio frequencies

Offer to negotiate (Negotiation 6, Psychology 6, Int 6, Will 7, -3 TN edges (I guess I do have Face qualities :)).)

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Conjuring F8 Hearth spirit
TN8
Centering for succ., 0 succ.
7 +2 Totem dice, 17 08 08 05 04 04 04 03 01, 3 succ./ services
Drain TN8, 8 dice, 17 17 11 05 05 05 02 02, 3 succ. stage to L Stun, TD takes care of that.
Order it to guard the boat and Cecelia, follow Cecelia's command for other services.

@Bolt Hole
Conjure 8 Watchers F4
Center for Succ on all
TN4, 09 04 03 01,
TN4, 09 08 04 03 03 01 01
4 hours
Drain TN8, 1 succ, TD no drain
TN4, 17 09 02 01
TN4, 09 05 04 04 04 03 01
6 hours
Drain TN10, 2 succ, no drain
TN4, 17 05 03 02
TN4, 05 04 04 03 03 02 01
4 hours
Drain TN8, 2 succ. no drain
TN4, 11 02 02 01
TN4, 05 04 03 02 02 02 01
2 hours
Drain TN6, 0 succ., TD no drain
TN4, 05 04 03 02
TN4, 09 07 04 04 03 02 01
5 hours
Drain TN9, no succ, TD no drain
TN4, 04 04 04 02
TN4, 05 05 04 04 04 02 02
6 hours
Drain TN10, no succ., TD no drain
TN4, 05 04 01 01
TN4, 16 05 05 05 04 03 01
5 hours
Drain TN9, no succ, TD no drain
TN4, 04 03 02 01
TN4, 05 04 03 03 02 02 01
2 hours
Drain TN6, 3 succ, no drain

Conjure F8 Hearth Spirit
Centering for succ., 11 03 03 01, doesn't help
TN8, 7 dice, 05 05 04 03 03 02 02, crap
Drain, 15 11 11 07 05 05 04, no drain with TD
Try again
Center for succ., 17 05 03 01, no help
TN8, 08 05 05 04 04 03 03, 1 service
Drain 16 10 07 03 02 01 01 01, no drain with TD
Tell it to follow Lee's orders while I am "out".

Astral project then cast Spell Shield and Astral Armor. Would have done it before, but can't sustain while projecting.

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Spell Shield F6
TN 6, 13 dice (Sorcery 6, Spell pool 6, Fetish 1), 10 07 07 05 04 04 04 04 03 03 03 01 01, 3 succ, Rerolling failures: 09 08 07 02 02 02 02 01 01 01, 3 more succ.
6 successes, +3 Spell Shield
Drain, TN3
Center for drain, 05 04 04 01
8 dice, 17 16 13 05 04 04 04 01, 8 succ., no drain

Astral Armor F6(Touch Range)
TN7 (Foc. Conc.)
12 dice, 14 09 09 05 05 05 02 02 02 02 01 01, only need 1 succ.
Center for drain, 07 05 05 02
Drain +1L, TN 3+1+2-1=5, 8 dice, 05 05 04 03 02 01 01 01, 3 succ. w/centering, no drain
Astral Armor 6 to check meet location.

Stealth 11 08 08 03 01

Looking for wards, magicians and spirits first.

Perception 16 04 04 02 01 01 (-1TN, Perceptive edge)

[TinkerGnome]

Raton's going to ask around the guys he knows are involved for a ride, but if he can't get one, he'll move as incognito as he can down to the meet.

[Bearclaw]

Before heading to the team meet up, Lee is going to send Bandit over [edit] to the meet site in Chinatown [/edit] to check things out. Both astrally and physically if possible.

This post has been edited by Bearclaw: Jun 1 2004, 12:27 AM

[paul_HArkonen]

Irving will Show up with his Sword and leave his assault rifle in Token's vehicle, whatever it happens to be, he will be wearing Formfit Aromor, and his secure long coat he's also going to have his radio on him. He's going to get a ride with Token.

[Nikoli]

The Queen Anne bolt hole is a Low lifestyle basic apartment in the lesser portionof Queen Anne. It's spartan, but clean and well stocked. There is a certain amount of minimalist furniture as this palce was meant more to hide out in and recuperate, not live it up.

I have a jammer(10) and a micro-transceiver (10) with 4 encryption also have 1 spare rating 6 microtransceiver with rating 4 encryption if someone needs it, I believe Countdown needs it.
I have a p-sec which I believe handles basic credstick transactions (rating 3, but I may be wrong)

[tisoz]

If Raton mentions needing a ride to Irving, I swing by and get them both. My vehicle has 2+1 bench seating.

Who/what is Bandit? Want to wait and send Bandit wit me when I project from the team meet? I'd hate to show up after astral security may have been alerted. If you send Bandit before I go, let me know what happened before I go.

I wasn't aware a pocsec did that; I've got one, too.

I just have a subvocal mike wired to a transceiver 4, no encryption. I guess I could trade some karma back for cash and buy encryption if needed. Then again, I think I'd rather learn a communicate spell. :)

On the karma subject, way back when someone mentioned Fenris houseruled metahumans started with 2 Karma pool. Is this true? Also, does bought karma add too karma pool? I didn't see an answer when this was asked.

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I don't know how much time everyone has to respond before Fenris moves the time/plot along so I will add my between meet plans. If anyone wants to accompany to the marina and watch a nice sunset, that's fine. Because back at the boat after sundown, I'm conjuring some spirits. :)

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F4 Great Form Sea Spirit
Center for Drain: 04 04 03 02
TN4, 7+2 dice, 08 05 05 02 02 02 02 01 01, 3 services
Drain TN4, 10 08 05 05 03 02 01, no drain
Invoking TN5, 05 05 05 03 02 02 01, only need 1 success
Drain TN5, 23 08 05 04 04 03 02 02 02, no drain

F4 Great Form Sea Spirit
Center for Drain: 10 02 02 01
TN4, 11 04 04 04 04 04 03 03 01, 6 services
Drain TN4, 05 05 05 04 03 02 01 01, no drain
Invoking TN5, 13 09 04 04 03 02 01, only need 1 success
Drain TN5, 07 05 05 04 04 03 03 01 01 01, staged to L, Trauma Damper takes

it from there.

F4 Great Form Hearth (Boat) Spirit
Center for Drain: 04 04 02 01
TN4, 7+2 dice, 10 09 07 05 05 02 02 02 02
Drain TN4, 11 10 10 08 04 03 02 02, 5 services
Invoking TN5, 11 09 08 05 04 04 04 04 03, only need 1 success
Drain TN5, 15 08 07 03 03 02 02 01, no drain with TD

F4 Great Form Hearth (Boat) Spirit
Center for Drain: 04 04 02 01
TN4, 04 04 04 02 01 01 01 01 01, 3 services
Drain TN4, 10 04 04 04 02 02 01 01, no drain
Invoking TN5, 05 05 05 05 04 03 02 01 01, only need 1 success
Drain TN5, 08 07 05 04 02 02 02 01, no drain thanks to TD

F4 Great Form Hearth (Boat) Spirit
Center for Drain: 11 05 04 01
TN4, 05 05 05 04 03 02 01 01 01, 4 services
Drain TN4, 16 07 04 04 03 02 02 01, no drain
Invoking TN5, 08 05 05 03 03 03 02 02 01, only need 1 success
Drain TN5, 05 04 03 03 02 02 01 01, 1 succ + 1/2 of 2 succ f/centering

plus TD = no drain

F4 Great Form Mist Spirit
Center for Successes: 05 03 03 02
TN4, 09 08 05 05 05 05 05, YEAH!, 7 services
Drain TN4, 29 07 05 04 04 03 03 02, no drain
Invoking TN5, 11 09 08 05 04 03 01, only need 1 success
Drain TN5, 10 05 04 03 02 02 02 01, L drain that disappears w/TD

F6 Great Form Sea Spirit
Center for Success: 08 03 02 01
TN6, 22 11 08 05 05 03 02 01 01, 3 services
Drain TN6, 14 09 07 03 03 01 01 01, Light drain that TD takes care of.
Invoking TN9, 09 04 04 03 02 02 01 01 01, only need 1 success
Drain TN13, 05 05 05 05 05 05 04 01, M drain, TD takes down to 2 boxes

Time needed to heal, base time is 120 minutes
TN3, 10 07 04 03 03 02 01, 5 succ, 24 minutes

24 minutes, or a few more, later
F8 Hearth (Boat) Spirit
Center for success, 10 09 03 02
TN8, 11 08 05 05 05 03 03 03 01, 3 services
Drain TN8, 08 05 04 04 04 03 02 01, M drain, TD takes down to 2 boxes

Healing Test
TN3, 05 04 03 03 03 02 01, 5 succ, 24 minutes

F4 Great Form Sea Spirit, 3 services
F4 Great Form Sea Spirit, 6 services
F4 Great Form Hearth (Boat) Spirit, 5 services
F4 Great Form Hearth (Boat) Spirit, 3 services
F4 Great Form Hearth (Boat) Spirit, 4 services
F4 Great Form Mist Spirit, 7 services
F6 Great Form Sea Spirit, 3 services
F8 Hearth (Boat) Spirit, 3 services, order it to protect the boat and Cecelia, follow Cecelia's orders for remaining services.

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[Fenris]

Yes, metahumans start with two karma pool. No, bought karma does not add to karma pool.

[Fenris]

Tisoz - You can only have one hearth spirit at a time, regardless of the service. Also keep in mind that evne great form spirits go away at sundown and sunup.

[Bearclaw]

I've got a rating 4 micro-transciever and rating 4 encryption.

[TinkerGnome]

Raton will agree if wetwork isn't specified. If it is wetwork... then it's moral delima time. He'll eventually agree if everyone else does, though.

[Nikoli]

Maru-san won't agree to direct wetwork, he had his fill of that already.

Addendum: Those afflicted with HMHVV, etc. Are a different matter. They pose a clear and present danger and are given no quarter. His pacifism is more like Kenshin Himura, he can kill, used to with ease, now he avoids it as much as possible.

[Bearclaw]

Lee will not even agree to incidental killing. He's got a super squirt, and clout, as well as some concussion grenades. If some one needs to go down to accomplish the job, that's not a problem. They don't have to die.
If the job is to kill people, he's out, period. And people means pretty much anything that has an intellect. Vampires, ghouls, etc included.

Bandit is my ally spirit. He can manifest as either a Racoon or an Amerind in a suit.

PS, with bought karma not adding to the pool, I have another 4 points of Karma. I will spend and send an update to the GM.

[tisoz]

[Fenris]

tisoz - Great forms don't count against the limit of only having one, but you can still only have one of any specific domain. Read - You can have an air spirit, an ocean spirit, a hearth spirit, and a city spirit all active at once, assuming they're great form. However, you can't have a great form city spirit and another city spirit at the same time.

Spirit 1 - Spirit is healthy, in a neutral emotional state, it is a variant fire spirit, force is equal to yours, you will recognize the summoner's aura.

Spirit 2 - Spirit is healthy, in a neutral emotional state, it is a variant fire spirit, force is equal to yours, you will recognize the summoner's aura.

Ward - Same summoner that summoned the spirits, Force of the ward is 10.

Yamazika - He's healthy, implants in his nervous system, head, arms, and hands. Not suffering from any drugs, emotional state is excited, source is the speech he just gave. While he appears to be holding some things back, he does not appear to be openly deceitful or misleading.

[tisoz]

[Bearclaw]

I'm not posting in the IC thread because Lee is listening and gathering info before speaking himself.
The job is sounding good though. "Get into some where hard to get into and steal stuff. And we'll pay you to do it." Hell, they might as well have offered him some fresh fish while they were at it :)

[Nikoli]

Same with Maru-san.
Trying to get a feel for the situation:

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Etiquette: 10:3:5:3
Japanese Culture: 1:5:10:4

Is this guy acting in accordance to how Yakuza or Japanese men in general hire in this situation?