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

[Scrapheap]

Nothing like a polite GM!

[Slipshade]

WR1

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If Ettiquette (High Society) works then: 21, 04, 04 (Wow)

if not:

Charisma: 09, 09, 08, 05, 04, 02, 02

[bclements]

Shadow, roll me a perception check for Ivan.

[Sedna]

grendel:

Per that rough map earlier, you've got maybe 20' of slightly curving ~ 5'-wide corridor to get to before you reach the door. I wrote it as suggestion because he's able to extrapolate what happened, but he too isn't in a position to see it directly.

All surprise has been dealt with, from now on we're into normal initiative. No sound of bullets yet. Richochets will be an issue.

Q -- how does SR4 Confusion work? As of now, it's active.

[WinterRat1]

Eyes- Quick check. Your meet is on Saturday, I keep thinking it was at 12:00:00, correct? Or did I get that time wrong?

Sedna-

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You have a meet at 22:00:00 on Tuesday, correct?

Scrap-

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You have a meet at 22:00:00 on Tuesday, correct?

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WR1-
Yes. And one at 20:30 at Loveland Quinn's.

Slip-
Can I assume that John told Max about the 20:30 meet as they exchanged stories?

[WinterRat1]

Scrap- Crap, which one is the Loveland Quinn's one again? Who are you meeting and what for? Refresh my memory please? Argh. Too much to remember! :)

[Slipshade]

Scrap - Yah, I just didn't want us to have to repeat everything again in the IC post, so I just left it with a blacnket statement about use telling each other our information.

WR1 - Still no contact from Blaze yet correct? I also assume you know that Max is always looking at people's auras...being dual natured kind of does that to a person. :)

[Slipshade]

WR1 - Loveland Qinn's was the Shaman that John's contact set him up with. I am guessing it is the same Shaman that my contact set me up with, but that is just a guess. :)

[Shadow]

[WinterRat1]

Slip- They're being totally honest, open, and vulnerable, as far as your reading of their auras shows. And thanks for the Loveland Quinn's reminder.

[Scrapheap]

[Slipshade]

WR1 - Why does the phrase "Little worm on a big F%#$ing hook," sound so appropriate right now. :D

[WinterRat1]

Slip- Don't blame me, you're the one who volunteered to help. :)

[Slipshade]

WR1 - Not blaming you. :)

It is just amusing that Max actually thinks he will be able to walk into a prison camp for metahumans looking as he does and then walk right back out with one or two of the camps detainees, because hey we are all civilized people around here, right?....right?!?

:D

[WinterRat1]

You just keep telling yourself that Slip. :D

[Slipshade]

LOL! There's no place like home...there's no place like home.

[bclements]

[grendel]

[The_Eyes]

Heh, a hippie with a sense of schedule? Will wonders never cease. :)

Do I remember anything else about Carla? Or, related to that, how free am I to make up details here? I mean, saying someone's on the extremist side of the People's University, is that like saying that you've found a particularly ravenous rabid dog, or did you mean an extremist on the more humanitarian, docile side of the Uni? :)

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Oh, and assensing on both, as they walk into the room:
05 04 03 01 01 01 01 - for Stan
05 05 05 03 03 03 02 - for Carla

And I'm pretty sure I already know that Stan is nervous. :) And perception's off by the time they introduce themselves.

(Edit): Okay, post written. Does that sound like the Carla you envisioned? :)

[Sedna]

Sorry, grendel, my total SR4 know-not is really showing, which is actually the major reason for this current slowness of posting (otherwise mostly caught up in all things except webbing): I know storyline, I know environment to be able to react to whatever Vedic does, I know what every NPC is doing in the abstract, I have their stats, but I am still very much learning out game mechanics, and in this case specifically how initiative and actions work.

The current question is regarding what would SR3 be a Force 6 Hearth spirit (same plane, yes: if not same elevation ;) ). Does MG and WL still equal Force? How do its initiative / RE change? The other powers (Accident, Alienation, Concealment, Confusion, Guard, Search) -- same pattern of change as what you've already written? (Trying to minimise your work needed in answering.)

WinterRat:

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Two meets, yes? Meet #1 Tuesday 20:30:00 per Rosa arrangement. Meet #2 set up with the rigger and street samurai for Tuesday, 22:00:00 at Z's ... is it Scrapheap I'm coordinating with? Alleycat post to take it from 16:18:31 Monday, 08 January, 2063 to the Tuesday 22:00 meet?

Everyone: web -- specifically Blogger -- help needed, specifically two things. Anyone here know how to:

(1) reverse the reverse chronology (so it goes oldest to newest, and not just in archives)?
(2) trick the software into printing a different year outside usual posting limits?

[grendel]

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[The_Eyes]

Keep in mind that a Force 6 spirit is far and away more powerful in SR4 than it was in SR3 in many ways. The Reaction attribute alone tells you it rolls 12 dice to defend itself against ranged attacks even without full defense, and 18 dice against melee. This is of course assuming you can find enough armor penetration to deal with the weapon immunity, or on the flip side note that Willpower and Cha are on average lower. Air spirits are damn near invincible under the new ruleset. Basically in terms of raw power a F6 spirit under these rules is something like a force 8-9 spirit under SR3.

This balances by noting that spirits are tough to summon, and have pretty hellish Drain as well.

[Slipshade]

WR1 - I am not sure if you saw my update yesterday or not, but I thought I would give you a heads up.

Slip