Living in the Shadows: OOC, never relax... Options

[banditf50]

Sorry about that. I posted those rolls right as I was trying to run out the door to class. I didn't pay much attention because I figured that I summoned the spirit during a non-important time of the game.

3 successes = Light stun

Many apologies

[Sedna]

Referencing the post and dice rolls in this thread of Aug 26 2004, 10:19 AM:

When you can, tisoz, would like this back-information (especially on CorpDeVo), if any, by way of tying up the results of pre-meet actions, since it refers to general research done on the Julia story during the 3rd and 4th prior to the meet. Hopefully one or more of those directions of approach will have some relevance and/or turn up useful information.

Or not.

[SentineloftheMou...]

referencing the 0900 January 7, 2063 - Land's End Magic Shop entry

I apologize for the lack of posts; didn't want my character's timeline to get too far ahead and was slacking over the holiday weekend.

Currently, my character is spending time between making the circulation and developing an Ally spirit formula for a future initiation familar ordeal.

I will also be out of town until Sunday night. My wife and I are celebrating our first wedding anniversary.

[Sedna]

Congratulations! :)

[WinterRat1]

Major Announcement

Due to personal reasons, Tisoz will be taking a leave of absence as World GM. Obviously, he was already having difficulty keeping up with the game, so he'll be taking a break for a while just to catch his breath and take care of business.

A reason he waited so long was his sense of responsibility to the game, and fortunately, we have someone who'll be stepping up to the illustrious job of World GM. :D

May I present, (drumroll please) Sedna! She has graciously agreed to help with the job of managing the World IC, and will be taking over management of the following players: myself, Bandit, and Sentinel. All other players under Tisoz will be under me again. We will keep this arrangement until Sedna can get her feet wet and get comfortable with GMing, at which point we'll probably mix it up a bit again. Please note, volunteers are always welcome to GM. :grinbig:

Additionally, Sundays will be designated "karma days", from here on out, to ensure continuity. I will allow Sedna to post first, then I will follow, so I can keep my karma records current and up to date. I will update the player lists, check them if you like, and look for your karma update later tonight.

And on a personal note, congratulations Sentinel! Hope you had a good time with the wife!

[banditf50]

Congratulations on your new appointment Sedna, and thank you very much for stepping up to the responsibility. I love reading your in character posts as they are of a very high quality and draw me into your character. Looking foward to playing under you.

[Sedna]

Ack! Thank you, but I'll just hope I can live up to what you both seem to expect of me :)

Edit: oops ...

[WinterRat1]

Apologies, it's been an extremely bad day. I will post the karma awards here tomorrow.

[Kurukami]

Aha. That explains Sedna's reply to Bandit's post in the "Living in the Shadows:IC" thread, which confused me to no end for a few minutes. :D

[banditf50]

Arrrgh Sedna. You keep addressing Virgil as Bandit, who isn't even a character :spin: hehehehehe.

I'm just messing with you. It is funny though.

[WinterRat1]

Karma for the last two weeks:

paul_HArkonen: 4
Sedna: 6
Digital Heroin: 3
Neophyte Overlord: 4
Kurukami: 5
Shev: 4

I felt the descriptions, conversations, in-character thoughts, writing, and the maintenance of the flow of Salvation was exceptional overall, even if posts tended to be short in length (which actually worked out great because of how smoothly the conversations have been flowing), so good job everyone. Please note that a major consideration is posting frequency and total number of posts. I skimmed through the last two weeks of Salvation and did a rough tally of number of posts (per player) for the past two weeks, then gave everyone 2 quality points in addition to point(s) for the number of posts over the past two weeks. Sedna and Kurukami get the extra point (s) for their Shadowland posts.

In case people are wondering, the quality bonus is a function of posting frequency and quality of posts in regards to role-playing, creativity, contributing to the overall flow of the game, contributing to the overall feel of the game, and bringing your character to life.

[Kurukami]

Cool. I've been trying to check in pretty regularly, even though the last few weeks have been muy busy with work and whatnot.

[Sedna]

Oops. I am sorry. Edit/edit/edit ... thump [/lack of sleep]. Glad I provided the moment of amusement. (Did I catch them all?)

Thanks, WinterRat!

[SentineloftheMou...]

Hi everyone. I'm back.

Sedna, I responded to your email. If you have any questions about it just let me know.

[Sedna]

Thanks! :) and replied.

[banditf50]

You know Sedna if we reply any faster to each other's post, we'll be having an IM conversation . . . :P

[WinterRat1]

Don't look at me to intervene in the convo. I'm just the driver, and having a nice little conversation with myself. That and trying to get us there without being killed. :)

[banditf50]

Sedna I do not know how difficult you wish to make it for me to gather information so I've included an ettiqutte roll here . . .

ettiquette: 2, 4, 5, 5

[WinterRat1]

Scanner Success Test: 21 18 01 01 05 03 05 03
Electronic Warfare (Complimentary skill): 10 03 04 01 05 04 03

Decryption Success Test (if necessary): 10 09 01 01 01 02 05
Electronic Warfare (Complimentary skill): 03 01 04 04 04 03 01

Perception Test (with a -1 modifier): 11 09 10 02 05 04 04
Information Gathering (Complimenatry Skill): 10 04 04 02 03 03

[Sedna]

Just happened that I was on-line at the time, and that you two are among my major on-line priorities :D

Etiquette's perfect. It's not that bad of a social environment -- uninvolved bystanders always tend to gawk and gossip.

The Decryption roll is going to limit it a bit, WinterRat, but it could be much worse.

New Shadowrun truism: passengers which come close to outweighing the car tend to have an involuntary effect on its movement. ;)

[WinterRat1]

Just so you know, I have hearing amplification Sedna, as well as all those other mods to sight and hearing. :)

[Sedna]

Hence the overhearing :)

[banditf50]

Sedna

Rolls for scanning the emotions of the crowd (astrally):
assensing test: 11, 5, 5, 4, 3, 3
aura reading (comp test): 3, 4, 5, 5

Rolls to scan for signs of a violent magic:
assensing test: 15, 5, 4, 4, 4, 3
aura reading (comp test): 19, 8, 2, 1

[Sedna]

Surprise (please make it? :) ) and initiative time. For now, the beestie's still completely astral. Virgil obviously is immediately vulnerable, and so is the Doc Wagon employee, who hasn't spotted it yet.

[banditf50]

Here we go kiddies:

astral suprise: 14, 7, 8, 4, 2, 2

astral iniative: 5 (+6 + 20) = 31