The Found Arcana - Chapter 13 [OOC], Urban Exploration - 13 is the luckiest number... Options

[Jack_Spade]

Yeah, Common Sense should be used with that rule.

Though it's strength dependent anyway how much additional armor you can wear.

Helmet+mask is usually enough for Str 3 characters
+Leg and vitals protection for Str 5

[Tecumseh]

Hey, we're back.

[Thanee]

Yeah, these downtime periods are not scary at all...

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

Yeah, I've been checking in obsessively the last few days (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif)

Before I move this along to the dead drop - anything else you want to do before you head towards the Arcology?

[Tecumseh]

Hmm, anyone have any good Contacts?

Mato has a lawyer and a personal banker downtown, but they're not really in the shadows so I'm guessing they wouldn't know anything relevant.

I think Xavier Tien III might be the best bet. He was our Johnson in Chapter 10. He's an artifact collector and well-connected and might be familiar with this world.

@gilga What about Adeline Peters?

[Beta]

Yay we are back!

I'd had a post worked out in my head about Tamarind's preparations, but of course I've forgotten now that we can post again (and I hadn't thought to write it up elsewhere). I'll figure something out again later today. (Need to figure out what drones are where, what armour/weapons/etc. to haul along, and what her shopping list for the mall is.

[Beta]

Tamarind is taking her four flying eyes and four kanmushi with her, and will hopefully recover the team drone downtown, and bring it too. She'll bring her Proletariat (mechanics's helper, aka Stitch) and Medikart (paramedic drone aka Toothless) in the van, and if it seems workable she can bring them. The larger flying drones she is all leaving at the house.

She'll start off wearing her lined coat but at the mall she'll see if she can pick up an armoured vest, which might be less awful in a possibly very hot arcology (or for going through ventilation shafts)

Bringing taser, light pistol, and SMG (we'll see if brinigng that latter in is feasible), along with gel round ammo and her Looper and Fuzzy rounds. If she can buy stick-and-shock ammo at the mall she will (100 rounds)

Running ID Antonio Babtista, R4, with licenses for driving, weapon carry, security consultant, and press


Bringing along respirator, goggles, earbuds, and wearing contacts. And of course her RCC (with dongles), and her chrome pigeon drone Beauty perched on her shoulder.

At the mall, if Rachel manages to find the grapple gun with wire and the gloves for dealing with the wire, Tamarind will also buy a pair of the gloves

Regarding contacts, depends on what we want them for? Tamarind does have one for a mafia member who taxes food delivery businesses downtown (pay a cut or your deliveries start never making it to destination). Would presumably at least know something about options for getting into the arcology? But also I don't think we are sneaking in, so do we need to know?

[Gilga]

I must admit that I don't know what we are doing, we went back to home to grab some equipment and go to that "mall" what is the game now? (e.g., why are we calling contacts?)

[Thanee]

Essentially, the mall is in the same structure where the old Renraku Arcology was.

So, we go there, to then find our way into the "forbidden parts", where we suspect that Diego and his crew have ventured.

Quick stop home prior to the mall to grab some equipment. Then off the the mall to get some more equipment.

Oh, yeah, and between home and the mall, we stop by that matrix spot where the data is sent to.

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

Before I move this along to the dead drop - anything else you want to do before you head towards the Arcology?

Do we know anything about the ACHE / mall security, especially astral security?

I also just realized that "ACHE" is in the middle of "Rachel". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

Only the usual: The mall is a public space, so it's heavily monitored and mall cops are around, but not like high security. It's more deterrent for gangers and the like. You can expect a few watchers to float around and somewhere an overworked wage mage to control them.
But there are too many people coming and going to investigate anyone with magic potential.

[Thanee]

Mostly wondering, whether Rachel should dismiss her spirit or hide the presence with Manascape.

Still have two services, which could come in handy. And good Intuition is nice for spotting things. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

Knowing Jack, that spirit might just keep us alive. Rachel is the powerhouse in this crowed.

[Jack_Spade]

Manascaping it would probably be the safest bet. But you have enough time to summon a new spirit

[Thanee]

They can and will vanish you into a hole - or a meat processor.

Charming! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

Alright, setting Manascape up (will be sustained via Illusionist (Mana)).

Spellcasting 7 hits (No Drain) + 1 more hit (her Magic is 2 higher at the moment)

Raven will hide the presence of the spirit (and any preparations she carries with her), her own aura just remains the same (masked as Magic Rating 6; spells and foci are masked).

Bye
Thanee

[Thanee]

advertising the latest GMC muscle car collection

Aha, another hint about which car Rachel should go for! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Bye
Thanee

P.S. If anyone needs help climbing, Raven has two Gecko Crawl preparations.

Of course, AM could also just use Levitate. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Tecumseh]

Trivia: the Renraku Arcology has 320 floors, although that number isn't readily available online. I had to go back to my Seattle Sourcebook from 1990 to double-check. That's one of my very favorite sourcebooks, and a significant reason why I got so hooked on the setting back in the early 90s.

Not that anyone asked, but as long as I'm wandering down memory lane here are my top 5 sourcebooks in chronological order:

- Seattle Sourcebook (1990)
- Sprawl Sites (1990)
- Native American Nations, Volume I (1991)
- Native American Nations, Volume II (1991)
- Vice (2009)

Vice is an update of 3E's Underworld Sourcebook, but I thought Vice did it better.

Honorable mention to the Sioux Nation series of PDFs for 5E. I've barely scratched anything from 6E. I have Free Seattle and should probably read it at some point.

[Thanee]

But what about Shadowbeat? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

Good catch - that's what I get from going by memory - it's 320 levels above and 20 below ground - no idea how I landed at 400 levels total.

Corrected the entry accordingly.

I'm basing my information directly on the adventure book Renraku Arcology Shutdown

[Gilga]

Jack can we use magic fingers to simply plug a cable to the billboard?

[Jack_Spade]

Certainly - magic is just as viable a solution here

[Thanee]

Or... you could hop on your BMX, pop a wheelie, and then drive up the post vertically until physics no longer apply to you! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Well, or you fall down, whichever comes first.

Bye
Thanee

[Beta]

The obvious technology based thing to do is use the drone we already have on station, which was previously able to plug itself in (back at the Ranch), and attach a fibre-optic cable with plug and have it plug that into the board.

BUT I think the Magic Fingers solution is better, provided that the general feeling is that the hands can 'fly' up while carrying the cable*. After all, people are more apt to notice drone+fiber than just fiber

* One of those things in 5e that is open to interpretation is whether, when you move a sustained spell, it 'hops'** or slides*** . I think that in a previous discussion we agreed that spells slide. (In my home game I ruled that spells 'hop' not 'slide', to avoid, among other things, using a horizontal barrier as a flying carpet, or sliding mana barriers across the battlefiend to cause astral intersections -- things that are still a concern of mine, but if we'd agreed on sliding then let's not change it now)
** Hops: at the same time the spell effect stops being in place A and appears in place B, without the spell effect crossing the intervening distance
*** Slides: the spell effect moves from place A to place B, in (I forget if it is a simple or complex action), traversing all of the area in-between them in the process

[Jack_Spade]

The drone could do it, but the agent on it doesn't have the ability to create a data tracer.

You still haven't committed what you want to do:

- Wait until the data is collected or
- Create a tracer program that alerts you