OOC: Balance Due Options

[HeySparky]

@ Badguy 3, Edana (Astral Combat 6 + Focus 10) Base TN 2
09 08 05 05 05 05 05 05 04 04 04 03 02 01 01 01 (TN 2, 13 Successes)

@ Badguy 2, Edana (Astral Combat 6 + Focus 10) Base TN 2 +2 for switching opponents. TN 4
13 07 05 05 05 04 04 04 04 03 03 03 03 02 01 01 (9 Successes)

[Buddha72]

Go Sparky go! :spin:

(this is me bumping to keep us current)

[BishopMcQ]

Sparky--You need to decide what herne and your watchers are up to.

BadGuy3 is dead. He's at 10 Stun, 10 Physical.
BadGuy2 is down and bleeding.

[Buddha72]

ok Gellawyn is going to shoot at Bad Guy 4

Centering to remove penalties TN 3
01 02 04 04 05 05 (4 succcesses)

Karma
03 05 (2 successes/6 total -3 penalties)

1st Shot TN 8
01 01 01 01 02 03 03 03 03 03 04 07 11 15 (3 successes)

2nd Shot TN 8
01 01 01 02 02 03 03 04 05 05 05 08 11 11 (3 successes)

Using hammerhead arrows so Base damage is 11M Stun.

[HeySparky]

Oh no... the whip is talking?

That can't be good. Did stun damage kill that guy? Is it possible to pull punches? Because if so I would have wanted to. She is expressly not out to kill. If there is nothing to do by the rules (IE - enough stun can kill no matter what the intent) then that's... bad.

Anyway. You've probably seen it, but I'm out for the week. Will post as I can. Herne and the spirits are to stun damage any remaining bad guys. Edana will continue fighting until baddies are down and then move back into the room with Michael. There will probably be a call in here somewhere her lawyer contact.

[BishopMcQ]

Stun rolls over. Effectively he took a Deadly wound and failed to soak, which caused 8 boxes of damage to come in. 4 filled in the Stun bar on top of the Serious he already had, the other 4 then rolled into the Physical bar killing him. If he didn't already have a Serious Physical, then it would have simply been a moderate wound. (Internal hemorraghing or deep tissue damage)

If you ever want to pull a punch, you can choose to withhold dice from a test, but you have to decide that before rolling any of the dice.

[BishopMcQ]

Dropping out of combat at this point.

All the thugs are nursing full stun bars and various levels of physical damage.

[Buddha72]

Bumping us to keep us current. :)

[BishopMcQ]

Hey all--I'm dropping off for the rest of the week. Look for bumps on Monday when I am back from GenCon.

Anyone with an appropriate knowledge skill (TN 6) (Gang ID etc.) will recognize that these guys are local street thugs for an all ghoul gang called the Flesh Eaters.

Feel free to talk amongst yourselves but please don't stray too far from the clinic.

[Buddha72]

Hey all I talked with McQuillan last night to get the dirt from GenCon Indy and I mentioned converting this game to SR4 especially since they have Street Magic out now. Any interest?

[HeySparky]

Totally interested!

[BishopMcQ]

I'd ask who has access to Street Magic...

Right now I believe there may still be a few things that are lost in the conversion simply because not every ability has been updated for SR4. If people want to look at their characters and think about the conversion process we can talk about it over the next few days. For ease of continuity, I would probably continue in the same timeline, which will effect the Hackers and Technomancers (both of which are so prevalent in our group... ;) ) and state that wireless access still is not available.

[HeySparky]

I've got the .pdf of Street Magic. So I'll be reading it over the next few days and figuring out how Edana, Herne and the Uber-Whip-of-Astral-Annihilation fit into the picture.

[Fenris]

I'd be more then willing. I think a number of abilities didn't carry over, but no biggie, there's new ones.

It's going to be a bit of an adjustment dropping down to the lower power level though. Just to double check, how much karma did the characters have at char gen again?

[BishopMcQ]

Karma was left fairly vague...for the new comers it was make a character and we can adjust the power levels slightly.

For Edana, she was initially built at 100 Karma, earned 40 weekly karma from Chasing the Prize, plus some incidentals, and as of next week you will have earned a total of 52 more karma for Balance Due. Some of that was spent on Initiations and skill ups...

I'd be comfortable saying +200 karma and 50k after the initial 400 bp. Though because of the slightly skewed economy, the 50k may be lessened if people seem to have a lot more money and gear than the SR3 incarnations.

[Buddha72]

So talked some more with McQuillan about the thread and he said to run it all past you folks.

I would like to convert to SR4 (so I can start learning the system better and stop confusing myself switching back and forth) and then I would like to get us back on track with the storyline. I think we have 4 stable players now (Fenris, Sparky, Shadow and me). Word on the street as they say is that Shadow has dropped off because of moving and should be back to more regular posting afterwards.

So I would like to recruit one more player with the understanding that we are looking for a very committed player who can commit to posting at least once a week if not more. What I am looking for from you all is whether or not you have enough interest in this thread to do the work in a timely fashion and get it back on track. Sound off and let me know. :D

[HeySparky]

I did most of the heavy lifting on SR4ifying Edana this weekend. But she's got some major MAJOR holes. But a lot of cool new things too. :/ McQ? You ready? :D

[Fenris]

I'm all for getting the thread back on track. I like the characters, the concepts, and am definitely up for revamping the character.

Anybody have ideas on a fifth?

[Buddha72]

I was going to offer up Blitz, I've played with her before and she is also looking to get more experience in the new rule set as well. That's my input.

[BishopMcQ]

I'm comfortable with adding Blitz if she is interested. (All talk along that thread has come through middlemen.)

What I would really like to see though is a continuation through dealing with Ulick before we implement any sweeping changes. So please all, keep the IC thread moving...if you need anything from me let me know, but right now it looks like it's inter-party dialogue.

[Buddha72]

You got it boss man. I believe we are waiting for an answer from Edana at this poitn in the IC thread.

[HeySparky]

I'll see your bump, and raise you.

[Buddha72]

Enchanting (to see if I know about talking foci)
01 05 08 09 09 11

[Fenris]

Magic background test: 11 05 05 03 02 02 02 02 01 01

Anything 'bout spirits that might help?

Conjuring background test: 03 03 02

bleh, karma: 09 03 01

[BishopMcQ]

Nothing on enchanting.

Magic background: Foci have been used before as anchors for ritual spellcasting, which include communication spells such as mindlink.