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

[Cedric Rolfsson]

Agreed, I'm going to get ahold of my contact, who runs with the Princes in Puyallup and see what it'll take to get a quiet place to squat and to have him look over Virgil.

BC:

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I'm got a Dominic Hammerclaw contact, "Doc" who is a Bear shaman running a shadow clinic in Princes' territory in Puyallup, level 1 contact. I'm going to get him on the phone and see what I can arrange. Is that something done IC or what?

I'm also going to want to make some arrangments with Elan, I'll offer up a Sony CTD 360-D cyberdeck as collateral for a short term loan. The deck's worth 70,000 street value and I'd like to either sell the deck or, preferably, let him hold the deck for a loan of say 50,000 which I'll repay to get my deck back. That'll give me some working capital so we can do what needs to be done to get Daed's van and Vinnie's stuff.

[banditf50]

Whatever the details of your call to your contacts are Cedric (which is obviously private) I'd recommend that we at least start driving somewhere as you are working out the details. Conversations that last even a few minutes could be deadly at this point.

[bclements]

Yeah, everytime you've stopped to talk, things get shot at/blown up. :)

[WinterRat1]

That's why we're moving while we talk, unless anyone has a problem with what I just posted? Let me know and I'll edit.

[banditf50]

I will be unavailable for a few hours now. .. . back online later tonight :)

[bclements]

Cedric:

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Go ahead and make whatever arraingments you want IC.

[Tiredronin]

wonder how they keep finding us...

[banditf50]

BC: On our ride Virgil is going to call up Juliette at the clinic to let her know that they have been attacked again to to make sure that everyone is still safe at the clinic. Can I go ahead and handle this entire conversation IC, or would you like me to leave room for you to add input on Juliete's end?

ronin: I just don't know . . . completely and utterly do not know. We have been about as careful as can be expected, so perhaps they are just much better at tracking us then we are at losing them.

Some things we should ask ourselves as a group:
-Were both these ambushes performed by teams working in co-op? Both hired by the same organization?
-Is it possible that we have two independent parties after us for some reason? Group #1 after Dragon, Virgil, and Daedalus for our prior actions (perhaps Julia related), and group #2 after us now for what just transpired with Vinnie?

[Sedna]

Am I handling Juliette, when and if the call happens?

[banditf50]

Sedna: That is exactly why I chose to post OOC instead of just blindly dialing her up IC. I wasn't sure if some type of behind the scenes communication would have to occur between you and BC. Virgil isn't going to request anything, he is only looking to see if Juliette and the others are safe.

[WinterRat1]

Personally, I think there's two separate parties after us. It's pretty obvious that Erebus and Tenmou were set up. Their employer probably arranged for them to get wacked after they delivered their message in case they survived giving Vinnie his message, so they couldn't spread any tales.

I don't think they were working in co-op though. The level of skill between these guys and the ones who hit us outside of Tommy Wong's is pretty fragging big.

But yeah, I'm open to thoughts as to how they found us, cause I'm getting real tired of getting shot at everytime I sit down.

EDIT: Ronin, Bandit, ha, this is like our old SR campaigns where you guys never wanted to go anywhere or do anything cause you'd always get somehow ambushed, remember? :)

[banditf50]

You know winterrat, I can't help but think how one of Virgil's motivations for leaving places like Aztlan to return to Redmond was so that he could have a quieter life of helping people who just needed to make a better life for themselves. Now the warzone hs come to us :-P

Oh, and that was one of things I liked about the Idea of LiTS, that I could finally hae a situation where I could roleplay doing everything but runs . . . .wow how naive I was :)
Though since we still have not made any deals with any potential employers we are still just fighting for our own survival.

Two side notes:
BC: Any decision about that phone call yet?

All my teammates: Why don't we just send Dragon up with Erebus while the rest of us stay and guard the transportation. I remember this safe house or Erebus's as having an underground garage. It would be far mre defensible to wait there than to wait out in a city street.

Any thoughts . . . .?

[bclements]

bandit: Sedna's going to handle Juliette for continunity. You can go ahead and call, though.

[banditf50]

Thanks BC, post is up.

[Shadow]

I would like to thank BC for taking over for me while I dealt with the family issues. Big round of applause for a job well done.

Now that I am back,

perception checks from everyone, sensor tests do apply.

[bclements]

I'm glad I'm not in this then :rotfl:

Well played all, it was fun.

[WinterRat1]

Perception (-1 TN due to Perceptive Edge, much relevant cyberware for vision/hearing if helpful Shadow): 09 05 04 04 03 01 01

EDIT: Ya did good BC. And on a side note, if we get ambushed AGAIN, that makes five combats in less than 2 days for Dragon and Virgil.

We’ve checked for astral surveillance, technological surveillance via drones, physical surveillance, and electronic/radio surveillance. Did we miss something or do our enemies just have superhuman information resources?

PS Bandit, do you have any ideas how to deal with your magic problem for the time being, cause it looks like we might need to draw on your magic even more.

[Cedric Rolfsson]

Perception check for Erebus: (low light and thermo mods to TN)

01, 02, 02, 04, 07

Edit: Memo

To: Dragon and Virgil
From: Erebus
Re: Targets

Dear Dragon and Virgil, I feel it necessary to point out the two large bulls-eyes painted on your backs. The reason I feel it necessary to point these things out is that you both seem to attract random violence at a pace similar to a KKK rally in Harlem. :)

I'd like to point out that I've been shot at three times, punched, attempted to be strangled, and had missiles shot at me all within the last 5 hours and I'm the SAFE one to be around in this group. :)

[banditf50]

Perception test for Virgil: (currently has a serious stun)
16 04 03 03 01 01

To make your thoughts even funnier, let us consider the fact that not only have you been attacked this much (as the safest one to be around). Dragon and Virgil are not even involved in a "run" at the moment. All of this seems to stem from one urban shamans mild-mannered attempt to do some good :-P

Man I can't wait for winterrat to respond to that . . . :)

P.S. I don't know of anything that Virgil can do for his magical problmes at the moment. The best step to take is to find someone else capable of astral perception and have them scan Virgil's aura. I'd like to keep the magic use to a low right now seeing as the condition only seems to worsen with each attempt.

[WinterRat1]

Cedric- KKK in Harlem got nothing on us, at least, not unless they started handing out rocket launchers as party favors at the local 7-11s. The way we're going, you'd think every goon in the city has a rocket launcher in his trunk, just in case he runs into us. And I should point out you had A missile shot at you. Just one. Count yourself lucky. ;-)

I still shudder to think what would've happened if I missed that perception test...

Bandit- You don't want me to respond to that comment. Of all the things we could be doing, we're dragged into a freaking quagmire here because of you and your goody-goody nature. Are you aware that we're now facing AT LEAST three distinct groups of enemies, if not more, and we're not getting paid what-so-freaking ever for any part of it?!?!?!?!??!?!?! :mad:

And oh yeah, now you can't use magic either. You run out of spells and you're getting demoted to meat shield. :]

EDIT: And yes, I'm aware that at least one group of enemies is on our tail because of Dragon's romantic/sappy/loyal/in love/idiocy with respects to Sybersnake. But I conveniently left that part out of the above pretend rant. :grinbig:

[Shadowrunner13]

Tenmou's Perception (with a moderate physical wound):
14, 11, 5, 5, 2

[Tiredronin]

Talos sensor test:

Sensors 5, clearsight 3

10 08 05 04 04 03 02 01

yeah... this is why Daedalus wanted as much as possible to not be seen in public with these two.. ::sigh::... but well... we're all marked now : (

[Sedna]

And I should know better than to read some of these OOC posts in a public place. I was laughing so hard, people from twenty feet away were staring at me.

I'm still amazed at just how seamlessly you two, bclements and Shadow, have been able to pick up from each other. Very nicely done.

I'll just finish up the Juliette phone call then, last bit of the transition.

Good to see you back, Shadow :)

[Shadow]

Thanks, good to be back.

BC did an excellent job, I think any transition was due more to him than to me.

[WinterRat1]

And since these OOC posts can become a LITS Comedy Central and we’re trading pseudo-flames, let me point out that Mr. “I’m the Safe One to be around in this group” (ahem…Cedric/Erebus) has recently informed us in the main LITS OOC thread that his character backstory is based off of and built on the Hunted Flaw. Oh yeah, you’re the safe one all right. Maybe these guys hitting us are connected to the people after you, and not us. :sarcasm:

And Ronin, you should have remembered, if one of us is hunted, we’re all hunted! :D