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

[Ecclesiastes]

Grendel: Here is the roll you asked for.

Computer - 11 11 10 05 05 04 04 04 04 03 03 02 01 01 01 01

[Bastard]

Grendel-here is a roll to see if I can find something that would react with the metal.

Chemistry 5: 5,4,4,2,1

[banditf50]

Hey everyone. I got back from my trip yesterday evening and have caught up on at least some of my ~33 hours of no sleep. I am reading any posts that I missed right now, but I probably will not be able to respond until tomorrow because I have to catch up on back-logged university stuff first :(

The_Eyes: Such a "small world" moment. I guess we are both scientists of some discipline. What is your field of study if you do not mind the question?

bclements: Thank you for your well-wishing. It is great to see that we have a community developing . . . .enhances the entire LiTS game if you ask me :)

[The_Eyes]

Chemistry. Specifically my little trip to the APS was as an undergrad researcher, working under a bioinorganic chemist. It was fun, but academic research is probably not the career for me (which is bad 'cause I want to go to grad school and that's pretty much what you do as a Chem grad student. :P) How 'bout you?

[Sedna]

bandit: I forgot to add in karma for your Sheepdog column (sorry! I'm catching up too), so you've got a revised total of 3 for the previous week. I edited the post.

[grendel]

[The_Eyes]

That last post read anything like right? I was trying to get a little of James's zone-out-factor there, and explain why he doesn't like being around lots of people by trying to peek inside his head a little. If it's confusing just let me know and I'll try another approach; most of the reason I do this stuff is to improve my writing/description ability, and feedback's the best way to improve.

[The_Eyes]

You could always bond some corrodable material to the outside (welding, glue, etc) and rust *that*... but maybe I'm not supposed to be making OoC suggestions?

[Slipshade]

Eye - I thought it came across just fine.

I do play by post for the same reason. I would really like to improve my writing skills and this is the most enjoyable way to do it.

Slip

[banditf50]

The_Eyes: I am just finishing up B.S. degrees in chemistry and biology. It is an honor to be roleplaying with a fellow chemist. My trips to the APS was part of my undergrad research, which I will be continuing as a M.S. student in the fall. My specific area of interest is structural virology.

There are a lot of opportunities available for industry research after grad school, especially for a chemist. Not to mention the fact that the industry jobs (especially with the drug companies) pay quite bit more than do academic positions.

[The_Eyes]

Oh I know. I wish I had had the money to go straight to grad school out of college. Unfortunately I didn't, and now I'm looking at the prospect of applying without any good academic letters of reference; not a fun prospect. Means I'm really gonna have to study for that GRE 2. :)

[Morgannah]

Hey all!

Yep, you're reading this right; I'm online and back in business! So hide the fine china, bolt the liquor cabinet, and hide your good looking relatives ..

okay, I just can't keep up the charade. :) It IS nice to be back, though, and I'll be around for the month at least. Guide's Honour. :grinbig:

[WinterRat1]

Glad to have you back Morgannah! I'm looking forward to following Cosmo's adventures again. :)

PS Just for everyone's knowledge, Morgannah has been in contact with her GM, Grendel, during the time she's been away, so we did know what was up with her.

Letting us know you will be gone does not have to take the form of a public service announcement in the OOC thread, just as long as we know what's up with you, that's good enough. So yes, the procedures do actually work! ;)

[WinterRat1]

Slipshade, Scrapheap, Sedna- Look for responses to your posts (Sedna my post as Dragon; I believe Salvation does not need my intervention at this moment?) sometime tomorrow night. Just letting you all know I'm aware I'm up for all those storylines.

[Sedna]

When you can will be soon enough, WinterRat ... although I don't promise a two-hour turn-around this time!

Morgannah: glad to see you back :) [/updated toaster]

[The_Eyes]

A couple of rolls, just in case they're actually used. Almost don't want to post these; they're so bad. :P

[ Spoiler ]

First off, Comprehension tests for Jane's instructions. I made two seperate rolls as the orders could be thought of as two seperate commands rather than one big one:

Pilot rating: 05 03 01 01 01 01
Agent Hacking Pool: 04 04 03 03 01 01
Computer(Programming): 08 04 03 02 01 01
(!! Out of 18 dice, only one of 'em was higher than a 5? Yeesh.)

Pilot rating: 17 08 03 03 02 01
Agent Hacking Pool: 10 10 05 04 02 01
Computer(Programming): 10 04 03 03 02 02

Second, Search tests for Jane. These are simple searches, so base TN 4, minus 1 for +4d6 matrix init =3. The irony is not lost on me that I am actually slower than my agent. :P Oh, and does it bother anyone else that agents are no better at searching on their own than smart frames, as agent hacking pool has nothing to do with search tests?
Search roll(1): 03 03 03 02 02 01 (!! I'm either lucky or cursed.)
Search roll(2): 08 05 04 02 02 02
Base times of 6 and 4, respectfully.

Hmm, I think I need to program a search assistant for my search assistant. :D

[banditf50]

Happy April Fool's Day to all my fellow LiTS players!

Welcome back Morgannah!

[Slipshade]

Actions:

1st grab Keira and dive for cover

2nd Cast Chaotic World (Force 4) targeting the first threat through the door.

Sorcery Roll: 5 + 5 Spell Pool = 10 Target is I®

14,09,08,05,04,04,03,02,01,01

Drain: 3D

Resist: 5 + 1 Totem = 6

05,05,05,03,03

Woohoo! Barring background count I drop that to a light fatigue.

[The_Eyes]

Wow, not holding back at all. A little jittery, are we? :)

[WinterRat1]

OK, take a L stun (no background count in here). Also roll a Body(5) and initiative as well.

[Slipshade]

Eyes - Considering I forgot to put on any armor and left my gun at home...yep very jittery. :)

Body Roll: 14, 05, 05 (Wow my luck is holding out)

Initiative: Reaction 4 + 1 (Ok there went the luck) = 5

[The_Eyes]

Well, looks like you guessed right. After all, you're not paranoid if they really *are* all out to get you. :D

[Morgannah]

It's great to be back and thank you for the warm welcome!

I've posted twice but I'm not sure what's happening .. please don't hurt me if it double-posts before I have a chance to fix things up. :)

[grendel]

All optional rules from The Matrix sourcebook are in use.

That could have been a PM, but I wanted to have the last post in all the LitS threads. Makes me feel like I'm doing my job. :)

[WinterRat1]

Slip- Your luck held when it counted, that's all I'm gonna say. OK you're up first. Post your action in the IC thread and any necessary rolls that you anticipate in the OOC thread. Oh, and we're in 'combat mode' now, so watch your time. 3 seconds per combat turn. You don't have to keep an EXACT count (too much work on both our parts) but you should not be advancing by more than a few seconds per post. See the gun battle outside Tommy Wong's with myself and Virgil for an example of time flow if you need one.