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

[Sedna]

Sentinel, you're the other person whose storyline moves to the new thread. The ball's currently in your court, just so you know.

Good idea, Slipshade -- I'm following up on it :)

[WinterRat1]

Sedna- Move on with Dragon and Sybersnake as you see fit. I just haven't had the chance to post an extended post the last few days and have been juggling some stuff around with Grendel, as you know. So despite my wishes for a more extended post, I figure that gets the point across and prevents me from holding up the game.

[Cedric Rolfsson]

Has anyone checked the offical shadowrun website recently? Apparently SR4 is coming out in August.

[Ecclesiastes]

:rotfl:

[Sedna]

We're currently e-mail discussing how to handle it. Really, we don't know enough yet to make a ruling. When we do, look for it to be posted by WinterRat in the Guidelines thread :)

[Sedna]

WinterRat (and bandit, if you're around):

I'll deal with Virgil's phone call and get the two of you together next post, probably tomorrow. Very tight on time, today.

[WinterRat1]

General Announcement

At the point your character moves into January 8, please begin posting in

Living in the Shadows: IC, Jan 8th-14th

We are having new threads per in game week to keep one thread from getting too monstrous. Bastard, welcome aboard, would you mind transferring your post from the IC thread to the Jan 8th thread? Thanks!

Week 2 has begun! (Well for some of us anyway, we're all working on it) :)

[bclements]

Hello y'all. Look forward to joining your world.

[Sedna]

Welcome :)

WinterRat and bandit: just don't have time for that post today. (Been a day. Been a set of days, actually.) WILL get it written tomorrow.

But don't let it stop anything you want to write in the interrim :) It's just really a matter of getting the phone call dealt with, and the four of you (Dragon, Virgil, Sybersnake, Tiffany) to the back office. But for me, at least, I have to address the phone call first.

[Slipshade]

Welcome Bastard and bclements

[paul_HArkonen]

Welcome new comers

@ Winterrat: Ettiquette test: 08 05 05 05 04 03 01 (+2 dice for lvl 3)

I'm asking for any info he has, along with for him to keep his ear to the ground. I'm not asking to keep it a secret (he would know that).

thank you.

[WinterRat1]

I must have forgotten to add my welcomes...I thought I did...doh! Well allow me to add my welcome to the newcomers as well!

Paul- I assume by your conversation in the IC thread you obviously don't expect an immediate response (to be expected of course). He'll get back to you when he has something.

[Bastard]

Thank you Slipshade.

Hello all :)

That took me a long time to get in. Started creating my character in late December/early January :D

[paul_HArkonen]

we like to say that means you put hard work and effort into him and he's going to be really good.

[Bastard]

Either that or grendel and WinterRat got sick of me pming them, over and over and over. :D

[Scrapheap]

WinterRat-

Wondering if I know the location of Virtual Daze?

AK: Redmond - 10 10 04

[WinterRat1]

Yes you do.

[Sedna]

Most hitcher jacks allow only silent ride-alongs. This one allows speech interaction, which anyone with Computer skill higher than 2 will be surprised at -- but everyone's actions except Bob's are tied to Sybersnake's.

[Sedna]

Sunday karma:

bandit: 1. (No GM bonus this week.)
WinterRat: 1 (+1 GM bonus) = 2

[WinterRat1]

Sedna- Judging by the way your last post ended, I assume you will be posting next in the Dragon/Virgil storyline? Since neither of us is in control nor even has anything to react to (since it appears your post ended just as we logged on) there's nothing really for us to do. Can we assume you will be posting next in that story and wait for you to do so?

[Sedna]

Actually -- as I'd just e-mailed -- I was going at quite a pace here, trying to condense a few things together to get you quickly to that meet; and I wanted to know that I wasn't going too fast for what you wanted to do/learn/ask/share information between yourselves/do differently ...?

So I stopped in case of actions wanted (feel free to backdate within reason :) ), and will edit that post if those actions end up changing the outcome.

[WinterRat1]

Actually, by all means, keep pushing us to right to the meet, at this point, we're just along for the ride, since as I stated we have no control and nothing to respond to, so just bump us towards the meet is my vote.

[Sedna]

Ack! I was caught up ...

For all of you posting in the new thread, you'll find your webbed storylines caught up completely in about an hour. Shadowland's still behind a bit: working out a separate formatting for Marketplace/Personals/Classifieds.

And that offer of bonus karma for coding for mouse-over ALT-style picture pop-up is still open :)

WinterRat: can we be very, very careful about how we apply the words "have no control"? especially since it's half a step away from complete PC "coasting"? Outside the Matrix, both Dragon and Virgil do have control over their own actions, completely: and I'm willing to edit to ensure that. To some extent you have direct and veto control over Sybersnake's actions. The only thing you can't control or influence is the mechanics of the meet.

I know what you intended, but it's also something I happen to feel rather strongly about (ensuring that PCs at all times do have control over their own choices -- if not over their environments, and usually not over what others choose equally to do).

I'm writing this openly, rather than in e-mail, because it's also something that applies to everyone who's part of this project. Okay? :)

[WinterRat1]

Ahem, my mistake. To clarify, I was saying 'no control' in reference to the post in which Dragon had deliberately ceded control to Sybersnake during their earlier IC discussion. Specifically, when she asked him if he was ok with how Galina was setting things up and he replied that once it entered the realm of decking, he was willing to follow her lead, making her 'in charge' if you will.

So when I said 'no control', I merely meant that I was continuing to follow Dragon's previously stated policy of allowing Sybersnake to dictate their course (while involved in all matters decking) until such time as events returned to his own areas of expertise. Particularly, once they actually arrived at the meet, since as the post ended we're in that 'transition time' between jacking in and actually being in the matrix.

My desire to fast forward to the meet was an extension of that; namely, that Dragon was fine with all Sybersnake's decisions and was simply going along until they got to the meet; hence, no need to 'back post' to interject anything. Sometimes, even Dragon simply follows orders and goes along for the ride. :)

Hope that clears it up, and that there was not any intention on my end of 'PC coasting', which I wholeheartedly agree with your opinions on.

Apologies to all for any confusion about Dragon's actions, and my own assumptions about how it would/could be interpreted.

[Ecclesiastes]

Computer check (with Hacking Pool) to download the video feeds

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