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

[WinterRat1]

Eyes- Ok part of what I wanted was for you to respond to that kid, I thought you were just ignoring him. For the sake of not going back and revising a ton of posts, in your next post, assume that you did see him, but you were not entirely conscious of it because you were tired and it was so unusual. When Eyes was distracted for a moment (by Stan and the waitress) and then looked back, he was gone. A mental monologue of response should serve to simulate that, and for the time being, that’s good enough.

Scrap- I don’t know what’s more disturbing. The fact that John just offered a doctor a living person to butcher and sell, or that everyone is so normal about it.

Slip- Ah, I remember now. I’ll take a look at it (hopefully this weekend) and get back to you on it.

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[The_Eyes]

Already in the process. :) Give me a while though; I've got to consider Eyes's response carefully, considering that the way the circumstances are looking (ICly) I may not be playing him much longer. :eek: I'm beginning to feel like that one guy in the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, sitting in a house smack between a derailing train, a moving fault line and a crashing airplane all at once. :D

[grendel]

[WinterRat1]

[The_Eyes]

[WinterRat1]

Scrap- If you have nothing else to do in the clinic (besides wacking the goon and giving Fraggers 1 and 2 any instructions you might have) you can write yourself doing those things and then write yourself up to the clinic to meet Max. If there's more you have/want to do here that needs my involvement, post up to that point and then just let me know in the OOC thread.

Eyes- You're back up again. Oh, and give me another perception roll.

Sedna- Were you waiting on me for anything since my last post that I might have missed?

EDIT: Eyes- And who says Stan is between you and hot explodey death? :P

[The_Eyes]

[Sedna]

Sorry, peoples: just got here to post -- through more flu (don't ask) -- and apparently tonight is the scheduled electrical disruption, meaning computers will be down.

Until tomorrow. (Leaving quickly before the power gets pulled.)

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WR1-
The only thing I will need your input on was John was going to ask the bodyguards for actual names and contact info. You can PM me the response or post it here.

-S

[WinterRat1]

Scrap- They'll give you a phone number to contact them at, but they're moonlighting as bodyguards from a legal professional security firm (which they don't want to name) so they prefer to avoid giving out their real names. Just in case.

[banditf50]

Karma awards for my players

Cedric: 1 (Oct 17th - Oct 23rd)

Moirdryd: There is a post waiting for you back on page 69 of LiTS:IC and a complentary post on page 92 of the OOC. I just wanted to flag them for you in case they got barried. Happy posting.

[Cedric Rolfsson]

I have questions concerning the conversion to SR4. In looking over the conversion I notice that several Edges and Flaws didn't carry over. Unfortunately for me those included almost every single edge and flaw I have, so now what?

Am I free to just add whichever qualities make me happy or what?

In the conversion I loose a bunch of nuyen towards lifestyles and toys and such, but I've already included those in the IC posts, what happens to that?
For instance, I bought a permanent lifestyle as a bolt hole and obviously cannot afford to do so in the conversion, what happens to that lifestyle since I believe we're planning on using that as a base of operations IC?

Also, what happens if the conversion effectively destroys your character's back story? I built my character's motivation around the Hunted Flaw and now that's gone, so what do I do? I think this is something I'll be discussing with Bandit in PM but I understand we're supposed to at least post the questions here for everyone to consider.

Those are my initial set of questions concerning the conversion, I'm sure I'll have more.

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WR1-
FYI-I'm not expecting them to answer. I'll have another post up later that will hook Max and John back up.

-S

[The_Eyes]

Well, as for Qualities I'm sorta improvising. My character's Phobia for instance I'm just taking the allergy rules and pretending they're similar; if your GM doesn't approve he'll just say so and you can change accordingly. The lifestyle thing, I guess you'll just have to buy a few months and leave it at that. It's not like any of us are going to be making a monthly lifestyle payment for several years yet. :P

At this point we're just going to have to accept that the switchover's going to happen and make the best of it. Qualities and such are pretty easy to hand-wave; just take the old Flaw value, multiply by 3, and round to the nearest 5, using the result as a baseline.

[WinterRat1]

Thanks for the FYI, I'd have thought you were waiting for an answer otherwise.

[Bastard]

:( Sorry for the long delays...been busy, a lot of overtime the last month, along with other issues brought up by my absence from home. Too bad the government sees more of that OT check than I do.

:D Good news, Im only scheduled for 3 long days this week, and 4 next, so maybe I can make some posts! :spin: Plus I have an extra day off in there somewhere.

:rotate: Im going to rebuild my computer this weekend...I think, so if Im offline next week, its because I did something wrong. :wobble: Which is a real strong possiblity due to my lack of computer comprehension. :grinbig:

[bclements]

Just don't let the magic pixie smoke escape from your computer. That's not ever a good sign :D

[banditf50]

Cedric: Your conversion comments have already sparked discussion amongst the GM core. Rest assured that we are working out the most fair compromise to suit your situation :)

[WinterRat1]

Shadow- Glad to have you back! Hope everything's going good with la familia. (er, the normal kind, not the Mafia kind, for those of you who don't know!) That must have been a REALLY long movie Ivan was in. :D

[Bastard]

That pixie smoke wasnt green, was it?

[bclements]

No, the green smoke is (checking pixie smoke reference card) a bad sound card :)

Also, I'll be out of town in Baltimore from tomorrow (Wednesday) until Friday. I'll probably have Internet access, so I'll be able to post in the mornings and evenings.

[Slipshade]

Scrap/WR1 - I will try to get something up today so we can move on to the meet with the Wong's.

WR1 - Should I write up to reaching the Arcology or just to leaving the Respite?


Slip

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Slip/WR1-
Heading to the Arcology leads me to a question: what is publically known about the Arcology mall/food court? Specifically, do they check for weapons, illegal cyber, etc? If we have to go in basically unarmed, then we'll need to be extra careful, Slip. The Wongs may have decided to help us...right into an ambush!

If needed, I'd like to see if we can recruit a gang member or two to go in early, to check for a set-up.

[grendel]

The Arcology still hosts two full companies of Red Samurai guards along with Ren Raku's standard security for the building, and the UCAS Marines still man barricades along Ren Raku Way. Security at the mall and food court is tight, with weapons and cyberware scanners, as well as astral scans. The Arcology is a AAA area.