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

[Cedric Rolfsson]

BC I'm waiting on a post from you before I move forward. Just a polite reminder.

[bclements]

Apologies, should have one up this afternoon.

[bclements]

'Ronin:

Sensor Roll, por favor.

[Tiredronin]

yeah... I didn't think Daedalus would be eating much pizza tonight.

Talos: sensors 5, clearsight 3
05 04 04 03 03 02 02 02

Icarus: sensors 3, clearsight 4
07 04 04 04 02 01 01

[bclements]

'Ronin:

[ Spoiler ]

Enjoy the slice: nothing on the scanners that is an anomoly (rats not withstanding, lots of them in the area). No cars, motorcycles, people outside the warehouse area, anything.

All are free to post, but Dragon's probably got something to say before we get much further.

[bclements]

I'll be out of town next Monday (July 10) thru next Thursday (July 13). Internet access is going to be spotty, but I'll try to respond in the evenings if at all possible.

[WinterRat1]

Sorry for the delay in replying, drop me a line if there's anything you need from me BC, otherwise I think we're relatively open for anyone to respond, and Dragon will be waiting for a response from Doc.

[bclements]

Yep, I'll respond as Doc to Dragon, but otherwise y'all are free to go.

[WinterRat1]

BC - Can we narrate our safe departure, or is there a point at which we should all stop posting and wait for you to move us forward?

[bclements]

Y'all are ok to go, I'll stop you when the ninja's show up.

Where are y'all going?

[WinterRat1]

Good question. Where are we going guys, any suggestions? At some point we'll probably want to pay this Yakuza guy a friendly visit, but let's start examining our options first.

[Cedric Rolfsson]

Remember we were heading to Erebus's bolt hole at this point. We've also previously outlined our options and I don't think those have changed significantly.

We'll want to look into the guy that hired me and Tenmou, probably hitting the flowershop to get whatever records we can find relating to who placed the order.

Retreive Daed's van

Retreive Vinne's package

Figure out who is trying to kill us {check}

I think we may want to split up, I doubt I'd need more than two guys to break into the flowershop and steal his telecom.

I have no idea how we're going to be gathering info concerning where the van and Vinnie's package is located. I think I have a contact that can help but I'm not sure he's survived the SR4 conversion.

That's kind of where I'm at for now.

[bclements]

[Mister Juan]

[WinterRat1]

See, people always misread Grendel. He doesn't want his players dead, he wants them to suffer.

Therefore we can be confident he won't kill us until we've suffered in an appropriately spectacular manner. Hence, we are safe for the time being. By 'safe' I mean, 'won't die now, but may suffer horribly'.

[WinterRat1]

Be careful when editing your posts everyone. There seems to be some problem where random stuff gets lost if you edit a post and resubmit it. I recommend copying and pasting for a while from a saved document until the problem is fixed, especially if you write something long.

[bclements]

Actually, I was just going to bring him in to see what kind of large scale weaponry would be approporate for this situtation. He's always said he wanted to deploy morters...

[WinterRat1]

Unless anyone has any objections (e.g. BC is planning on raining mortar shells down on us in the next few minutes) I can write up our regrouping at the car and subsequent departure with Dragon outlining the objectives and getting the team split up and moving along.

Thanks Cedric for the list of our objectives, saves me time looking it up! Any suggestions as to who should go with whom where?

[Tiredronin]

So I am still kinda uncomfortable with splitting up as even a "simple" breakin at the flowershop can be horribly complicated (e.g. mortars). This is compounded by the fact that we only have one car at this time.

But we could just send a small team to case the Lonestar compound while the other team does the flowershop. what assets we have right now:

Dragon - fast, can shoot, can get shot
Erebus - faster, can shoot
Temnou - I forget (sorry!) but i assume he can shoot, and cut people.
Virgil - can't seem to cast spells, can do spirtual recon. can't shoot
Daedalus - 1 drone shoots, 1 drone spots, and carries an SMG. can't get shot :P

[banditf50]

To offer a bit more detail on Virgil's status (to the best of my knowledge). . .

He is able to cast spells, though with penalties that seem to be increasing with each casting. So when the drek hits the fan he will still throw a spell, but he is going to be highly conservative of his magic use in the meantime.

He can no longer astrally project, but his astral perception seem unaffected.

He has not yet tried to summon a spirt since the affliction started, but he still has command of his two bound watcher spirits. They can be used for some useful recon, both for magical threats, and to get into places that a drone cannot get to.

Virgil is not useless yet, but I wish that we'd be able to find someone with some answers before this gets any worse.

[Shadowrunner13]

Sorry for my lack of posting... I've been super busy in RL...

Yes, Tenmou shoots and cuts stuff. :)

SR13

[Cedric Rolfsson]

You've got Erebus down pat,

He is greased lightning, shoots and is pretty good in hand-to-hand but he'd better put the bad guy down first cause he ain't exactly a tank.

I'd suggest that we adjourn to my bolt hole first, and then we send a muscle man and someone with some tech savy to do the B&E.

I'd suggest we send Daed to case the Lone Star impound place, provided we know where the vehicle is at, since he could do that with a drone. I may have a contact who could help us out with that info in exchange for info, assuming he's going to survive the conversion.

I have no idea what to do about the Itchie-Gummy guy at this point. I think we need a freaking decker to do some data searches and run down more info before we can proceed against either him or Vinnie.

I think we need to put the feelers out to our contacts and find out what is going on with the opening moves of what feels like a war between the Yaks and the Mafs. Does anyone have any contacts that might be able to help "cure" Virgil? Do we even know what's wrong?

[banditf50]

I know that at least on the end of D&D V3, many of our contacts are already tapped out due to the escapades of the previous few days in-game. For example, Virgil's friends at the clinic in Puyallup would be his best assest at learning more about his condition (seeing as they are both very skilled magical healers), however the clinic is busy handling the influx in patients that the 'mysterious disease' (not the one affecting Virgil) has created.

The best that I have found out so far is that the condition affecting Virgil is magical in nature, and appears to be progressivley degenerative as he contines to draw upon more magic.

[WinterRat1]

It seems we all agree we should regroup at Erebus's safehouse in-game while figuring out our next move and examining some of the options available to us.

Since it's your character's safehouse Cedric, do you want to write up our departure from Doc's, arrival at Erebus's safehouse, and open the team meeting?

[Cedric Rolfsson]

Ya, we'll play out the scene and I'll post the arrival at the bolt hole. Its an abandoned industrial park, which according to the novel 2XS are quite common in the Redmond Barrens area of I think Kingsgate. I'll check. I'll post tomorrow