OOC: A Short Victorius War, A Living in the Shadows game Options

[bclements]

I like the line of thought, and will file it away for use in the not too distant future.

'Ronin, you've got PM ;)

[WinterRat1]

Cedric - Would Erebus have replied to Dragon by now? As a player, I would obviously prefer to wait for his response to Dragon's questions, but I understand if he wouldn't have had time yet. Let me know if I should post a reply or if you plan on having Erebus respond to Dragon first.

[bclements]

It's a little long for 5 seconds, and I apologize for that. Erebus could have responded in the time as well.

The perils of internal communications...

[Cedric Rolfsson]

I'm going to talk to Doc about this. Remember, he does hang out with the Princes of the Blood street gang so violence is probably not the problem. He probably wouldn't even freak if we had just shot the guy, but he's a Bear shaman as well as having had some kind of medical training so he draws the line at torture. Just remind him that this fragger shot an anti-personnel rocket into a bar of dock workers about two hours ago and explain that if we turned him over to the Star he'd get a death sentence anyway.

[WinterRat1]

Good points. I'll refer him to you and explain those facts. I'll try to get up a post later today. Busy day at work today.

[Cedric Rolfsson]

I put up a post, sorry about the delay life is crazy here. My brother got married this weekend and the pastor forgot to actually sign the documents, so we're not really sure if he's married or not yet. Who gets married on a freaking Sunday!?! I came to work hung over and dead tired, that was horrible.

BC, can you tell me if there are any windows near the door where we came in? I don't want to just stick my head out the door to look but I also don't want to be standing on the inside of a door just as the anti-armor rocket comes knocking.

[banditf50]

Making sure the marriage license is actually signed . . . I'm adding that to my mental checklist of things to watch out for as I get ready for my own wedding :-P

Thanks Cedric . . . congrats to your brother!

[Cedric Rolfsson]

Oh ya Bandit, btw, the voice of wedding experience here again, do NOT keep a bottle of Tequila in the groomsman's waiting area, very bad plan.

[ Spoiler ]

I'm not sure what you're relationship is with your in-laws or your folks but my wife pulled a PR tour de force during our wedding that I thought I'd drop on you. During our wedding there was a time planned for the "wedding song" which I've always thought of as a little dumb, but my wife planned that for a reason. She had made up a couple of little doo-dads, she cross-stitched a "picture" of our outlined faces etc. etc. blah-blah, and during the wedding song she and I trooped down to the first couple of rows and gave a gift to her parents and mine. We took a couple of seconds to say thank you I love you etc etc. and then trooped back to our places for the rest of the ceremony.

The little doo-dads worked like a charm. My in-laws kind of just tolerated me before that, sort of like they knew we were getting married and I wasn't a total leper but I always got the impression that they figured their daughter could do better. The little gift things had both sets of parents crying in the aisles, they're framed on in places of honor on the wall. I've been a saint ever since. Something like that during the wedding, a little surprise for the parents like that, does miracles for in-law relations. I can't take credit for the idea but I've certainly reaped the benefits.

[WinterRat1]

[bclements]

Ouch. Missed that. I'll have you an answer this evening (don't have the SR3 book at work) unless Grendel or another GM want's to step in and give a quicker ruling.

[bclements]

[bclements]

Straight from the rules man's mouth:

[WinterRat1]

Sigh, that's what I remembered, but I was hoping I was wrong. Thanks BC.

OK team, Channel Beta is NOT encrypted or secured. D&D V3, channel Alpha IS secured. I have encryption, the backup unit Susan got for Virgil has encryption, and Daedalus BETTER have encryption, given his character concept. :cyber:

[Tiredronin]

heh in terms of organ donation, you should have slit his throat or something. :P
though.. is this day and age does organ donation even exist? what with synthetic organs and all.

[bclements]

Ah, just hit him on the head really hard. You want to get him brain dead for organ donation currently. In SR times, I'd just imagine that you'd open him up when he was still awake :)

EDIT: The car's will arrive in the morning (read: I'll have a post up then).

[WinterRat1]

Whoops, you're right. BC, can I edit to have Dragon crushing his skull or stabbing him in the head or something?

And when I said 'unconfirmed organ donor' what I really meant was 'spare parts for organlegging'. :)

[bclements]

If you want, that's fine. I'm sure that some Tanamous doc can still make some money off of him (liver, kidneys, etc).

[bclements]

Sorry, work kept me tied up all day (funny how work can do that while you're at work).

I'll try to have a post up this evening, and by tomorrow A.M. at the latest. Thanks for your patience.

In the meantime, I'd ask that no one go past the timestamp in 'Ronin's post.

[Cedric Rolfsson]

BC on June 14 you wrote;

"Note: there aren't any real encumberance rules in SR4, but I don't want any Stay-Puft Marshmellow Men running around. Even the goons here aren't going to carry the kitchen sink to come kill you."

I was looking at SR4 for something else and saw this, carrying capacity and encumbrance rules are on p. 300, I thought I'd let you know for your review.

[banditf50]

Here is a summary of the rules on SR4 page 300:

[WinterRat1]

I will be out of town for the weekend and away from any computers until Monday afternoon/evening.

[bclements]

First off (particulary to Cedric and generally to everyone else) let me say that I'm quite happy with anyone checking the rules. Please, keep it up, 'cause it makes me both a better GM later on, makes everyone more used to the new rules set, and makes the goons you may or may not have to deal with later on more realistic and approporate to your characters. Every bit of help and guidence I can get is a boost.

I'll also apologize to Cedric that, because he spoke up, Erebus got dinged. I've made a note to double check loudouts and carried gear so that I can apply what I've ruled uniformly across everyone (goons possibly encountered included).

With that, let me explain my thought process on this:

The rules on page 300 were the ones I used, however no weight for any gear is listed in the book. The guidence mentioned was (I'm using the Version 1.3 of the PDF, but it's not changed from the print book that I've got, so everyone on SR4 should still be covered by this):

[Cedric Rolfsson]

See this is what happens when you start trying to be realistic. :)

No offense taken, I'm one of those players who wants my characters to act as real as possible, and I realized that I'd IC posted picking up so much crap that my guy would be stubbling around clanking and clattering while trying to remain upright. I'd reached my own ridiculous quota.

One of the questions I had, (which I believe BC answered) is do we have to post IC the mundane acts of putting down a bunch of stuff? I've never played by post and I get confused about how much stuff to post IC and how much we post OOC and how much the players and GM can just assume.

BC, can Erebus make out any other person's in the vehicles? He'll flip through IR and Low Light as needed to view the interiors.

[bclements]

Erebus sees a couple of more pizzas in the first car on the IR spectrum, but nothing humanoid.

Everyone's free to post as well.

[banditf50]

Temporary absence notice

My grandfather died this past weekend, so I will be leaving town today to tend to my family and the funeral arrangements. I will be back online on Thursday. Thank you all.