The Found Arcana - Eleventh Interlude - Seattle [OOC] Options

[Thanee]

@gilga: Why is AM only rolling 4 dice? You should have a few more with Spellcasting + Magic. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Also, this is so not gonna work... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

I just bought 4 hits for the spellcasting. These are the bonus dice for Bobby.

[Thanee]

Ahh... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

As for telling them the truth... well, Bobby kinda tried that already.

At this point, he telling them anything just won't work, I suppose.

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

Okay, if AM is onboard with the plan then let's get a Charisma + Con roll for AM as well.

Is Trouble sustaining the Increase Charisma on Raven?

Thanee, let's get a Charisma + Impersonation (Human) roll too.

Edge recommended.

Edit: I've been playing 5E since the week it came out and I think this is the first time I've seen someone use the Impersonation skill. If you had given me a pop quiz, I would have said that it was a specialization of Con.

[Thanee]

Is Trouble sustaining the Increase Charisma on Raven?

No need, Raven can sustain both her spells without penalty (Focused Concentration and Illusionist).

Thanee, let's get a Charisma + Impersonation (Human) roll too. Edge recommended.

Ok. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Edit: I've been playing 5E since the week it came out and I think this is the first time I've seen someone use the Impersonation skill. If you had given me a pop quiz, I would have said that it was a specialization of Con.

Yeah, it is not one of those skills you see a lot. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

It's kinda like Shadowing and Stealth.

I guess it was introduced mostly due to them breaking up the Influence group (from SR4), they needed some more skills to put the two new groups together (Influence and Acting).

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

Charisma + Impersonation (Human) + First Impression + Edge 9 hits (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

Raven's pulling her weight. Now to AM.

[Gilga]

Con fast talk:
Fast talk: 13d6t5 4
Edge reroll: 9d6t5 2

[Tecumseh]

Okay, Thanee, give your opening speech!

[Thanee]

So, they did not know about that part. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Still, it will hopefully give them something to think about why Dennis might have chosen this path.

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

Opened up some new threads, already. Hope you like the idea for passing some ingame time to get into the next month.

The actual chapter 12 IC will be up in a couple days. Not intending to rush you here. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

Ooo! An interlude and a prelude!

Mato is mostly done. I've spent my karma but still need to pick my Interlude reward, spend some knowledge karma, and decide which gene treatment he got while he was out. I've been waffling back and forth between Synch and Reaction Optimization but I can't seem to decide. I'll try to finish him up today/tomorrow.

I'm traveling Sunday through Wednesday and might be slow to respond for a few days.

If we're going to skip forward a month, we should handle our April income. I just have to remind myself how we do that.

Another thing we forgot is that at the end of March we would have collected a ¥10,000 installment from the Hacker's Club, then another such installment at the end of April. That means we won't have any lifestyle expenses (which Mato's Trust Fund already covers part of) and that there should be some left over to split among us.

Don't have time to roll this up now but I'll try to tonight or tomorrow.

[Thanee]

Oh, right. Here, I hunted down that last post about that...

http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?s=&a...t&p=1364484

Looks like the Hacker's Club was taken care of, actually. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

So, my part for the teamwork check: Etiquette: 6d6t5 2

[Tecumseh]

Ahh that's helpful, Thanee. Thank you for digging that up.

And looking over my records, I see that I haven't updated them in almost exactly a year (April 8, 2023) so I was obviously lax in recording the March installment from the Hacker's Club

Okay, here's where that leaves us for April:

- ¥2,000 Touristville office
- ¥9,800 Bellevue lifestyle
+ ¥5,000 Mato's trust fund
+ ¥10,000 Bellevue Hackers' Club
+ ¥???? Etiquette test
=
+ ¥???? profit

As for the Etiquette roll, I think AM can only accept 5 Teamwork dice. Bobby provided 2, Mato can provide 2 by buying hits, and I'm confident that Raven can generate a success. So we can have Gilga roll Charisma 6 + Etiquette 5 + Teamwork 5 = 16 dice to see how we do.

We're already at ¥3,200 in profit so whatever AM rolls will just add to that. And I'll update the Hacker Club ledger for real this time.

As before, Mato also receives an extra ¥500 from his Trust Fund (¥425 after taxes). He will pay Tom & Rat's combined retainers of ¥1,000. He'll also pay ¥1,350 for the various subscriptions he has which I often forget about:
- AR Fashion Subscription, Business
- CarnivoreGold: linguistic database and code-breaking software
- MonaLisa: facial recognition software
- Pheromone Detection
- Thermal Mood Reading: assists Judge Intentions
- Vocal Tension Lie Detection: also assists Judge Intentions

[Gilga]

For AM rolls:
Ettiquete work: 11d6t5 3
Ettiquete work: 5d6t5 2

5 hits total.

[Tecumseh]

Alright so that's ¥5,000 for the business income plus ¥3,200 = ¥8,200.

Divided five ways that's an extra ¥1,640 each.

[Gilga]

Updated AM's sheet, she took a specialty of boxing/punching for her unarmed (close combat with the house rules) skill.

[Tecumseh]

I'm traveling Sunday through Wednesday and will be slow to post in the meantime. Trying to catch the eclipse, although I'm not sure if the weather will cooperate.

[Gilga]

Wow, I just read about this eclipse to know what you are talking about. From the piece I read, it appears that you have to move quite far to see the eclipse. Impressive project - and good luck!

[Tecumseh]

Indeed, my son and I flew halfway across the country. But my brother lives here so we're about to make it a family visit too.

[Jack_Spade]

Best of luck with the weather then - my only full eclipse experience wasn't more than 20 ago - and it was spectacular, despite light cloud cover.

[Beta]

I just caught up on the IC thread of the Interlude -- you all killed it! It was a great read.

Extra props to Jack for this post:
Bobby nodded as in agreement. Potter was well trained - or should he say, social adept...
.....

Since he was on the spot and appeared to have been promoted to ask softball questions, he added one final one to the Pott.
"Is there any news about who targeted you in your home? It seems like someone is targeting your whole party. Are your other party members safe?"

The mix of word play and provocation was just perfect.

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And let's say that during this time Tamarind was having a bit of a crisis, both about uncertainty of whether she wanted to stay on as a detective and also realizing how much she'd lost her edge while rusting in the rural parts of the FRFZ for the past several years.

She's been regularly going to Cutey's gym, realizing that she can still be running her drones while hitting a punching bag or lifting weights (her noise reduction let's her cover very long ranges without difficulty now). He's also been refreshing her on the basic hand-to-hand combat training she'd let lapse since leaving the Sioux military, most of 20 years ago. Between the two she's visibly looking fitter, and more confident too.

She's also been spending time with an old contact from her previous time in Seattle, Saumya. The relationship had become strained after Tamarind had abruptly left the city some years ago, with no explanation and almost no contact. Saumya is now running "Dumplings? Dumplings!" out of Touristville, selling more or her spicy soy-based dumplings through deliveries than face to face customers, and scrambling to work out the economics of the deliveries, protection money, and everything else involved. Tamarind has spent evenings helping in the kitchen and providing some deliveries and generally helping Saumya out while she catches up to how her business is evolving. (it may yet all fall apart, but for now it is treading water). The socialization also seems to have been helping Tamarind be more comfortable with people.

And finally she's been putting in time at the shop of "Hi-Fi Phil, your electronics upgrader!" His shop is even closer to the Bellevue/Redmond border than SIS's house is, definite bars over the windows territory. She knows that he's skilled with hardware, has the facilities to do drone modifications, and has connections of dubious legality, but before she can lean on him to do anything really exciting she figures she needs to make friends with him. Fortunately he seems lonely and is happy to have someone listen to his boasts and his stories, and to compare opinions with on vintage electronics. Tamarind can understand why he is divorced, but doesn't mind him much. She's a little worried that he might think she has a romantic interest in him, but she figures that complication is at least another month or two away. (not until she buys Loyalty up to 3 I figure, lol)

When Potter came to visit, Tamarind had conveniently scheduled a training session with Cutey, so she was getting a refresher on the use of a combat knife instead of going through the political cut and thrust.