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

[WinterRat1]

And speak of the devil...ok Ronin, Bandit dealt with all the magic flying our way, and I dealt with the super jacked up street sam with the Body of 14!!! Oh, and I also dealt with the minor matter of not dying when we got the missiles shot at us. It's your turn to carry the team now. :grinbig:

Uh...you can carry the team here, right? :please:

[Sedna]

No continuity problem. You already know that there is a phone issue involved -- remember Inleat's call to Virgil? Quick ruling for continuity purposes: short-range local and what's already established is holding -- but if you were to jump out of Icarus now, ronin, you might have problems getting back. That means Talos is on captain's chair only.

Daedalus is intelligent enough to know that the others can't possibly get there in time in any case: this one is up to him. (I gave you that extra karma point for a reason: your choice meant that you're around now to do something about this one.) He also knows that drone is too small to be carrying any kind of ammo-based weapon, no matter how tricked out it is.

I have no clue what the "flying Dragon" idea is. (Scanning a bit further down) ... uh ... possible, barely. I'm thinking not at all desirable from Dragon's pov. The weight factor would cut your speed seriously down. And in any case it isn't happening because of the aforementioned communications issues.

And Galina, Bob, Trank, and Juliette know that they're working in a clinic in the Puyallup Barrens; and when they took Sybersnake in, they may as well have joined Combat Inc. 'Nuff said. (Along that note, there is one very obvious thing you could do ... :) )

OOG: your background should actually be helping with this one, ronin. What factors are typical for a quarantined infectious disease containment area ... and how could someone take advantage of that at no risk to themselves?

WinterRat: :grinbig:

[Sedna]

Btw -- I don't mind speculative tabletalk from all and sundry. In fact, I'm encouraging it. After all, ronin's just getting his feet wet here, and it is one heck of a situation to be dropped into.

[grendel]

[Cedric Rolfsson]

Grendel, gracias. I'll look into it.

Umm, Ronin, when there is an infectious disease situation, all of the vents should have multiple baffles which could be closed to completely "seal" the system. To prevent infection from either leaving the facility or entering the facility. Couldn't you simply close the baffles on either side of the drone and thereby "capture" the drone? That way you could have Dragon recover the drone and maybe get a clue as to who it came from.

If it was valuable enough the rigger running the drone might send people to come get it and the you could follow them back.

Just a thought.

Cedric

P.S. Don't places like that have an incinerator? Maybe there is some type of "purification" system in the vents which might be able to disable to destroy the drone. A simple telecom call to the clinic, saying you're a neighbor who saw it enter while looking out the window at the exploding missiles would probably be enough to at least warn the clinic

[Shadow]

A Short Victorious War is back on track. Please post as appropriate.

[banditf50]

Cedric: You are now involved in aSVW . . congrats! I sent you an email detailing that fast-forwarding that will needed for your timeline, but nothing should be too vital. Consider youself cleared to post in Shadow's game. Best of luck :)

[paul_HArkonen]

ok, I would just like to say Wow, That's going to be bad... Ok, first things first, no He wasn't ariving at 7:30, but the post started then. He actually "arived" at something like 8:45, which I meant to have be 9:45, that's my fault for not making it clear. And it's also my fault for not noticing the time conflict.

I'm going to have him show up for dinner at 7:45 and finish it within a half-hour, that should still be ok. I'll adjust the timing of the meet, but that would mean Max would actually be punctual, rather than late.

I'll go back through and edit the ofending posts. You know, this is what I get for trying to use this to relax before an exam...

[Sedna]

Actually, to make this flow a bit better, ronin, I'm changing the time of the events at the clinic to 17:30:00, to correspond with WinterRat's post. Is everyone okay with that?

(These things are going to happen, paul. Just look at the rapidly darned-over split in their storyline!)

[paul_HArkonen]

I suppose this is true, but I really should try ot read these things more closely than I've been able to. Oh well, could be worse, we could be jumped and max killed in my storyline, but the same person survive in Bandit's. (Don't get any Ideas Winterrat, I've been paying enough attention to know what's been happening to you guys and I'm glad it's not me.)

[Sedna]

Turns out I slipped as well in my reading -- that "encounter" seems to have been a good deal more distracting than I realised! ;)

Here's the tentative calendar. It's still rough as hell, but at least it's up. To it I'm gradually going to add the major keynotes of people's storylines, the ones that other people might actually notice if they're not actively looking for them.

WinterRat: could you first-page link it?

[paul_HArkonen]

most impressive, Thanks for putting in the work to get that site set up.

[Morgannah]

Excellent work on the site so far, Sedna. :) It's a great read!

Oh! And congrats to Shadow and the cast of the our newest run!

[Sedna]

Okay, I think I've got that time discrepency sorted out: Okay by you three? After that abrupt cut-off, there has been no further communication between Daedalus and Dragon/Virgil.

[WinterRat1]

Hey all, extremely late night. Quick things

Everyone- Will post on stuff tomorrow.

Sedna, Ronin, Bandit- I'm fine with the time change, works great by me and we'll run with that.

Sedna- I'll first page link the stuff in tomorrow.

Shadow- congrats on the run starting and good luck

That's the basics, all other stuff to come

[Sedna]

paul, WinterRat: do you want me to sort out your time issues? (I've done it before for your storyline, paul, pre- and during early part of Salvation, when we were first working out how to intermingle run and core thread.) Means it won't be solved for another 24 hours -- just keep using whatever "time" you're using right now -- gives me a sense of flow -- but it will be solved then.

[WinterRat1]

Sedna- go ahead and sort out the time issues, that would be very helpful, thanks!

As an aside, Ronin, Bandit, I've noticed a lot of people saying they're very entertained watching our storyline, but they're very glad it's not them. Maybe we should reassess our lifestyles if that's the case, huh? ;)

[The_Eyes]

Slipshade: you may want to correct your magic professor: Ritual magic does not in fact require more than one person. It's a common misconception actually, rather like the one about shamans all being Native American tribesmen. Rituals actually require little more than a mage, a ritual link, and a place of power, be it circle or lodge, to prepare the ritual. Of course it's much easier to have a number of magic users working in tandem, particularly if the spell is complex or the linking difficult--but I digress. :D

We don't want your professor getting something like that wrong, do we? :)

[Scrapheap]

Eyes-
Actually, I think he got that from me. And I got it from a quick glance at Magic in the Shadows. I didn't read the section in depth, but all of the wording was directed at the team, kept mentioning the team leader, etc.

But, if you're correct (and I assume you are), you're right and he should edit the post. It makes sense that Scrapheap would not have the info right, but a practicing shaman would.

Sorry, Slip! My bad.

[The_Eyes]

Yup, just checked, page 36, under "The Ritual Team": "A single spellcaster can perform ritual sorcery alone, with a Ritual Pool equal to the character's Sorcery (or Ritual Sorcery specialization).

You are, however, trying to use Astral Tracking, I'm assuming, and in that you do need at least one other person, to be the spotter who actually does the tracking (the leader can't be the spotter, apparently).. so the point may be moot.

[Cedric Rolfsson]

Just making sure I'm doing this right. Erebus is spending Karma and improving my Motorcycle skill from zero to 2. I don't have my books (I looked this up at 1:47 a.m. this morning after spending two hours on poker and one hour prepping a case for a hearing for this morning) but I believe the karma cost is 6.

0-1 = 2 karma points

1-2 = 4 karma points

If this is wrong please correct me.

[The_Eyes]

Pretty sure you round down when multiplying, so 1 Karma and 3 Karma, for a total of 4. Er, unless your Reaction attribute is 0. :)

For reference, Karma spending is in the Guidelines, here.

[WinterRat1]

Thanks Eyes for that link. The main obstacle, Cedric, is training time. I believe you're getting fast-forwarded(?) so this shouldn't be a problem, but yeah, check the Guidelines in regards to that and make sure you have a record somewhere for future reference, and just post indicating that you're training.

Check on the rounding though, my general rule of thumb is 'always round whichever way screws you most' since that's usually how it is.

[Slipshade]

Eyes, yes it would be astral tracking so I would need the extra person anyway. I will leave the post as is, since the extra person is still appropriate.

Thanks for the clarification, I haven't had time to brush up on the Ritual spellcasting rules.

Oh and he is a Professor of Parazoology not Magical Theory, that and the fact that he awakened late give him (and me) a lot of leeway to make those kind of mistakes. :)

Slip

[banditf50]

Cedric: All your training time is justified and has been approved by me as per me giving you permission to fast-forward. Thanks for posting the karma spent in here in the OOC, that way both winterrat and I can make a note of it.

*Again to winterrat, I already approved the training time as part of his fast forwarding.