OOC: SR4-First Run, Food Fight! Options

[Slacker]

I'm currently waiting for netlich's new character, once everything is squared away with that, we can start back up with the game.

Before we do start up i will be sending each player a PM with some background information to help facilitate adding the new characters (netlich's, BaronKen's, and Cold-Dragon's). Basically, one of them will have worked with the team before, another will be a contact of the missing mystic adept, and i actually haven't quite decided about the other, but it will either be another contact of the missing mystic adept or somebody that is looking for the mystic adept for a whole nother reason.

[Cold-Dragon]

Gotcha


(just so you know I'm still alive)

[Slacker]

@netlich: You should have a new PM from me with some feedback on your character. I say should because the first time I tried sending it said your mailbox was full.

@All: Just need to go over a couple minor details with netlich about his new character and then we will start. I wil likely post or pm a small bit of background info for each of you tomorrow or Saturday and then we can get this thing rolling once more.

[netlich]

k got it... and the 7 copies of it! somethign went wrong there and it came back 7 times!!!

I should have the modifications by the end of today and the same for the concept/char description....

[Slacker]

Ok, I’d appreciate it if each person only looks in the spoiler for themselves:

@netlich:

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Don’t believe you’ve giving me a name for your character yet, but he has previously worked with Zelda, Tempty, Taku, Crosshairs, and the missing mystic adept who was previously unnamed, but I’m going to call him Wang Chi. In fact, your last run with them just finished up a day or two ago (the rest of the group had gone out celebrating and stopped off at the Stuffer Shack after the night’s revels were finished). Being a bit more serious minded (or for whatever other reason you want to come up with that would be in-character for him), your character did not go out partying with them or you left early, thus explaining why you weren’t at the Stuffer Shack.
Metagaming, I’m sure you’ve figured out this whole thing has to do with the team’s last mission (why else would I be giving you details about it, right?). Try to keep in mind that your character wouldn’t necessarily think of that instantly (unless he’s the paranoid sort).
Anyways, here’s the basic info on the run: You were hired by a female Ms. Johnson to recover a package that was stolen from her uncle who lives in Australia. Her uncle’s agents had been able to determine that it was being shipped to Seattle via a small time shipping company that deals pretty much exclusive in traffic between the outback and the Seattle metroplex. Initially the team had plan to grab the package in transit, but soon realized that would be unadvisable as you discovered more security on the vessel than estimated. Instead you relied on some skilled hacking of the warehouse and were able to grab the package from there before it was forwarded on to the final recipient, designated on the shipping invoice as S.Z. In the end, the run wasn’t all that difficult.
If there are any specifics you think your character would have tried to find out about during legwork, tell me and we will see about it.

@Whizbang:

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Ok, netlich’s new character (as yet unnamed) has worked with the rest of the team previously. He may or may not be a regular member of the team (you guys can discuss that openly if you wish), but whatever the case he was with you all on the last mission. He just wasn’t out with you partying or whatever on the night you all stopped in the Stuffer Shack.
Metagaming, I’m sure you’ve figured out this whole thing has to do with the team’s last mission (why else would I be giving you details about it, right?). Try to keep in mind that your character wouldn’t necessarily think of that instantly (unless she’s the paranoid sort).
Anyways, here’s the basic info on the run: You were hired by a female Ms. Johnson to recover a package that was stolen from her uncle who lives in Australia. Her uncle’s agents had been able to determine that it was being shipped to Seattle via a small time shipping company that deals pretty much exclusive in traffic between the outback and the Seattle metroplex. Initially the team had plan to grab the package in transit, but soon realized that would be unadvisable as you discovered more security on the vessel than estimated. Instead the team relied on your hacking skills at the warehouse and you were able to grab the package from there before it was forwarded on to the final recipient, designated on the shipping invoice as S.Z. In the end, the run wasn’t all that difficult.
If there are any specifics you think your character would have tried to find out about during legwork, tell me and we will see about it.

@Shalimar:

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Ok, netlich’s new character (as yet unnamed) has worked with the rest of the team previously. He may or may not be a regular member of the team (you guys can discuss that openly if you wish), but whatever the case he was with you all on the last mission. He just wasn’t out with you partying or whatever on the night you all stopped in the Stuffer Shack.
BaronKen’s new character is actually a contact of the missing mystic adept’s (the player who was supposed to play the mystic adept never got as far as naming him, so I’ve just made up the name Wang Chi for him). Your character ran into the two of them once in a bar a few months ago and Wang Chi introduced as a friend named Grins.
Metagaming, I’m sure you’ve figured out this whole thing has to do with the team’s last mission (why else would I be giving you details about it, right?). Try to keep in mind that your character wouldn’t necessarily think of that instantly (unless she’s the paranoid sort).
Anyways, here’s the basic info on the run: You were hired by a female Ms. Johnson to recover a package that was stolen from her uncle who lives in Australia. Her uncle’s agents had been able to determine that it was being shipped to Seattle via a small time shipping company that deals pretty much exclusive in traffic between the outback and the Seattle metroplex. Initially the team had plan to grab the package in transit, but soon realized that would be unadvisable as you discovered more security on the vessel than estimated. Instead you relied on some clever hacking of the warehouse by Zelda and you were able to grab the package from there before it was forwarded on to the final recipient, designated on the shipping invoice as S.Z. In the end, the run wasn’t all that difficult.
If there are any specifics you think your character would have tried to find out about during legwork, tell me and we will see about it.

@gobogen:

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Ok, netlich’s new character (as yet unnamed) has worked with the rest of the team previously. He may or may not be a regular member of the team (you guys can discuss that openly if you wish), but whatever the case he was with you all on the last mission. He just wasn’t out with you partying or whatever on the night you all stopped in the Stuffer Shack.
Metagaming, I’m sure you’ve figured out this whole thing has to do with the team’s last mission (why else would I be giving you details about it, right?). Try to keep in mind that your character wouldn’t necessarily think of that instantly (unless he’s the paranoid sort).
Anyways, here’s the basic info on the run: You were hired by a female Ms. Johnson to recover a package that was stolen from her uncle who lives in Australia. Her uncle’s agents had been able to determine that it was being shipped to Seattle via a small time shipping company that deals pretty much exclusive in traffic between the outback and the Seattle metroplex. Initially the team had plan to grab the package in transit, but soon realized that would be unadvisable as you discovered more security on the vessel than estimated. Instead you relied on some clever hacking of the warehouse by Zelda and you were able to grab the package from there before it was forwarded on to the final recipient, designated on the shipping invoice as S.Z. In the end, the run wasn’t all that difficult.
If there are any specifics you think your character would have tried to find out about during legwork, tell me and we will see about it.

@BaronKen:

[ Spoiler ]

Your character is a contact, with high enough loyalty that your are extremely interested in finding out about his whereabouts, of the missing mystic adept’s (the mystic adept was previously unnamed, but I’ve now given him the name Wang Chi). The only other member of the team that you have met was Tempty, and that was just happenstance as she ran into you and Wang one time a few months back while you were have a meeting in a bar or club somewhere. Wang introduced the two of you by name, but as there was obviously some business being discussed between Wang and yourself, she did not stick around long.
Anyways, in the last day or so you have been hearing some rumors about some people looking for Wang and from the descriptions what sounds like the rest of the team. In fact, the strongest rumor was told to you by somehow you met at your Talismonger (you and Wang used the same Talismonger). Someone named Celia (Cold-Dragon’s character) happened to be there looking for Wang. Celia claims to be an old acquaintance of Wang’s with important information that he needs, that information being that some bad people are hunting him, possibly because of some run that he just pulled off.
Already having heard some rumors of such (and also wanting to confirm that Celia is in fact a friend of Wang’s), you tried to get in touch with him again (seems he had his commlink turned off while the group was out partying and prior to that you were just getting his voicemail). Surprisingly you get through and start warning him of the rumors you’ve heard (this would be the phone call that had delayed Wang from entering the Stuffer Shack with the rest of the group). When you mention the name Celia as the one who you just brought the newest rumor to you, he said “Celia, eh? Hmmm…….” Then you heard the sound of gunfire coming through the line and a muffled curse from Wang. There was also some muffled crashing sounds and the sound of breaking glass, but it is all a bit hard to distinguish with the storm going on. The best you can tell the commlink was dropped and left on (at least until the line goes dead with the sound of screeching tires and what you suspect was a motorcycle’s engine being run hard not quite a minute later). After that, you have tried to call him but get nothing, in fact it’s as if the commlink is completely dead, you aren’t even getting voicemail anymore.

@Cold-Dragon:

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First off, is your character male or female? The name sounds female, but I wanted to double check with you to be sure.
Anyways, you have ostensibly been hired by the Seattle Metroplex Zoo to find the whereabouts of a rare animal that was stolen in transit from Australia. It has been described as a nearly hairless breed of koala that was to be a new attraction in the coming spring. It is believed that a group of Shadowrunners were the culprits (you were given rough descriptions of those the suspects). You are doing it for a friend of a friend of a friend. The job is just to find out the location of the animal, not necessarily to recover it (though they’d probably produce a nice bonus if you were able to do so). The person who hires you doesn’t care about who did the stealing, they just need to know what happened to the koala as their “job is on the line here”.
Being alone on this you told them you weren’t sure what you could do, but they couldn’t afford to hire a whole team so they just said do your best. As it turns out, you got lucky (well in a way it was both good and bad luck). You quickly ran into rumors of another group looking for the same runners (only description you’ve heard is “suits” and “dark”). From the sound of it this other group has better resources than you do (not surprising as they are a group and you are alone). At that point you were getting ready to just give up on it as you expected they would find the runners before you could, but by that point you had found out the name of one or the runners, Wang Chi. The name sounded oddly familiar though you have no reason why. Out of curiosity more than anything else, you decide to try one more place (a late night talismonger shop Wang supposedly frequents) before calling it quits.
There you run into a contact of Wang’s named Grins. Deciding to use this opportunity to get closer to the runners in hopes of finding out about the koala, you claim to be an old acquaintance of Wang’s (well the name does sound familiar to you so it at least remotely possible though you don’t actually remember ever knowing anybody by that name) needing to warn him of the other group that is hunting for him.
Grins seems a bit suspicious of you, but he goes ahead and gives Wang a call over the commlink (probably wanting to check your acquaintance story along with giving him the rumors). He seems to talk to Wang for a few moments and then a look of concern comes over his face (almost immediately after your name was mentioned, so you were a little worried that your story was failing to hold up). After a moment though, you realize that Wang is no longer answering Grins.
Basically, that call is what delayed Wang while the rest of the group entered the Stuffer Shack. The events in the Stuffer Shack are likely what caused the interruption in the conversation, but the line went dead on Grins less than a minute later so there really is no way to tell if something else might have happened to him.

Ok, those spoilers should give everybody a little bit of background on the story. You can go ahead and post what your plans from here are going to be and anything you think your character would have tried to find out regarding whatever I just told you in the spoilers.
I haven’t decided what to do with the Crosshairs character just yet. He’s either going to decide to forget about finding out about the missing mystic adept and go into hiding; or he will disappear in much the same way as the mystic adept. We’ll see.
I'm actually not feeling too well right now, so that may reflect in the spoilers. If so, just post or pm me and i'll try to clarify.

[Shalimar]

I'd like to use my armorer (fire arms) 7(9) to add barrel weights to my pistols to counter act the -1 recoil for firing twice in one pass

Rolled (9 dice)
4 6 6 1 5 4 3 1 4
3 hits

If nothing else, it'll make book keeping easier.

Do we have a hacker anymore? If so, maybe we should talk about a program that will link our senses(cyber) to create a 3-d map so we can know what is where in a fight?

[netlich]

Hope you get better :-)

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Well it will all depend on how I learn about the dissappearance. If we were to meet or discuss something post-mission, then obviously I would worry it had to do something with that specific mission or worse case with another one...
But unless my char is somehow contacted about the news or the missing person fails to contact me for some prearranged meeting or such then I will just live my shadowlife as usual :-) REplacing ammo, healing woods and trying to make conections for my next move...

Misison intel wise it depends on the presentation brief by the Ms Johnson and how on the need-to-know basis she kept us...First of all she hired us for something personal which already makes it a second rate job or not so high up the ladder of shadowruns anyway. I would like to know the package's true identity and the background behind it (what her uncle does for a living, what the package was, who was behind the stealing etc.)
With what you have provided me up to know I would only be concerned about the extra security and the identity of the package (Unless the mission params were specific about us not needing to know that - in which case I would be ok but with an increase in pay offs obviously ;-) ). knowing who the reciepient of the shipping was to be would be an added bonus but not something I would actively ask for.

In general Information is power so the more I knwo the better but I won't step on th ewrong toes to do so and neither will I veer off what I am asked and I have agreed- to do...

[Slacker]

@Shalimar:

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Using the SR3 customization rules, it will take you 8 hours of dedicated work to take care of that (base time of 24 hours divided by your 3 successes). It's no problem for you to do that, though i'd like to know if you plan to stay up after you leave the Stuffer Shack to work on that or get some sleep first.
As to the program you would like Zelda (Whizbang's character) to make....well it would be a fairly simple thing to instruct an agent to do that sort of thing i imagine. But as she doesn't have any agents, it would take her a while to program something herself (even common use programs have a base time of 1 month to program them and agents have a base time of 3 months).

@netlich:

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True, you don't actually know that Wang is missing just yet. Let's go ahead and say that sometime during the day following the events at the Stuffer Shack (actually i guess it would be the same day as those events since they took place around 3AM) a friend or just a contact calls you up and tells you he had heard your team was in a tussle this morning.
Not knowing anything about it, you decide to call one of them up. Randomly you tried calling Wang Chi first, but got no answer and didn't even get his voicemail. From there you call one of the other team members (your choice as to who and go ahead and post IC for that call).
As to info on the run, Ms. Johnson was not very forthcoming with it. Though it seemed more like she just didn't have the information as to the exact nature of the package or who might have taken it. She said her uncle is a simple Australian businessman who mostly just deals in real estate ventures though he also owns a couple of emu farms and is a big contributor to a wild life preserve there.
From picking up the package, you certainly could tell it was an animal of some sort, but the box was sealed in such a way that it would be obvious if you opened it to see exactly what kind of animal it was.

[Cold-Dragon]

Hmmm, interesting....(for me, I'm not peeping, lol)

[ Spoiler ]

Yes, she is quite female, lol. I considered a male for awhile, but decided the setup was better with that (goes a little better with the rich background as it were).

Since I'm obviously having some issues with Grins, and then Wang went MIA, she will act a bit alarmed for the awkwardness of the moment, and try to inquire a way of investigating what just happened. This is a real link, and if there is some connection to Wang (however baffled she herself is at the connection), she's going to try and take it, evne if it means a little more legwork.

She needs money, after all, and in a way, it could get her another contact if she helped out. That, and in some aspect her mentor would want her to discover this mystery - it'd be liking discovering a secret about yourself if you think about it.

On a darker note, if she figures out what happened to him or someone else, there's 'roleplay' value of her offering up to the others of his group. ;) (just to show you there's more than one way for her to go with this)

Back onto the Koala mission; she would certainly check to try and find some sort of market there might be for such a species. odd magical components, freaky films, the latest in purses, that sort of thing. An eco-terrorist of some sort might not be out of the norm either.

[Slacker]

@Cold-Dragon:

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Yeah, I am trying to make this mission far more about roleplaying, so just go with however you think your character would handle it. Both you and Grins are at the same point as far as story goes (though of course Grins has a little bit better idea of just exactly what happened on the call). Feel free to go ahead and post IC to Grins.
In researching the koala, i'd imagine that you would tap Abby your Talismonger contact about any magical connections and possibly Kara the stripper for anything fashion related.
Let's start with Kara, she hasn't heard anything recently, but she does overhearing a couple of guys she was dancing for once (maybe a year or more ago) talking about the ridiculous things their wives had bought, and she believes one mention some outrageously priced purse that was made from the hide of a koala. She doesn't know anything more about it, but she imagines that a hairless breed of koala might be better suited for that sort of thing (they'd probably want more than one though).
Abby isn't all that up on aboriginal lore/mysticism (not much of an Australian customer base being in Seattle). However, she does know of various rumors ok the Awakened lands of the outback; mana storms, awakened para-critters galore, and the like. In fact, she seems to recall something about an awakened koala; little more than ghost stories told frighten children out of sneaking out at night though.

[Shalimar]

I'll have her sleep first, and then work on it the next day.

[Slacker]

Sorry the IC post wasn't much, it was really just meant to bump the IC thread up again as it had been over a month since anything was posted to it.

[netlich]

For Slacker and Shalimar

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k' I will be calling Tempty the gungbunny :-)
Slacker,would you like me and Shalimar to build our phone call here on the OOC or to build it via PMs also forwarded to you before we post it IC so as not to take up much IC space?

Shalimar, my (yet unnamed) StreetSam will be calling your char for info on the missing guy- I just got whiff of it and am trying to reach the group for further details plus a heads up on the rumour that I missed a helluva brawl in a munchies store!!!!

[Shalimar]

For Slacker and Netlich

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Yea, xxx, it was a heck of a fight, some gogangers thought that they'd open up shop at the Shak, they weren't really good at it though, maybe if they weren't against runners it might have gone better for them. Tempty's laugh comes over her headware line.

There was some dumb troll who thought he was a super hero or something, with a pink cape and everything. Pretty tough though, he went head to head with a spirit and stood his ground after I geeked the shaman.

[Slacker]

@netlich and shalimar: Feel free to go ahead and have the conversation in the IC thread. Just be sure to designate to whom you are communicating.

@All: The spoilers were really just slightly specialized and were more to hide particular information that a couple of the new characters got. If there is anything you think you would have shared with the others at any point in the past or just want to mention now, feel free to do so. You only need to use spoilers when there is something in particular that you don't want the other players to know (i.e. discussion of distrusting the any of the new characters would be best dealt with in spoilers).
I'd actually like to have any interactions among the characters be in-character if at all possible, because the Food Fight! scenario was so combat-centric I want this one to be far more about actual roleplaying.

[Slacker]

Looks like there is going to have to be a small change in plans. BaronKen has recently gotten swamped with RL issues and won't actually be able to continue with the game (at least not for some time).
I had already been talking to another player that netlich had mentioned to me about joining the game in some way. I think i will just switch out the new player's character with BaronKen's in the story because nothing had really happened with the character yet.
I'm going to be discussing it with the new player shortly, but I thought I would go ahead and mention the upcoming change to all of you first.

[Shalimar]

I am 100% confused with who is what, what happened, a timeline, and just about, well everything. Whats going on?

[Slacker]

Timeline:

Day -2 (i.e. 2 days prior to the incident in the Stuffer Shack)
Team consisting of Crosshairs (player has left the game), netlich's as yet unnamed character, Zelda (Whizbang's hacker character), Tempty (Shalimar's character), Taku (gobogen's character), and the mystic adept Wang Chi (player dropped out before ever finishing the character) completes a mission to steal a crate being shipped from Australia.

Day -1
Team gets a day's rest after the run is over with.

Day 0 (Stuffer Shack incident)
Team goes out to celebrate together the completed mission. For some reason netlich's character ducks out early. After the night's revels the team stops to grab some munchies at a local Stuffer Shack.
Wang Chi gets a call that delay's him from entering the Stuffer Shack with the rest of them. Unbeknownst to the team, this call is from a contact of Wang Chi's (this was originally to be BaronKen's character, but I'll be switching it to a new player since BaronKen can't continue). The call also involves another new character, but that isn't anything the team knows anything about.
Anyways, Wang Chi never comes into the Stuffer Shack and if anybody had looked out front they wouldn't have seen him out there either.

Day 1
Team presumably gets some rest after a hectic night fights gangers. Meanwhile, netlich's character (who I just notice called himself Hammer in the IC post), heard from a contact that the rest of the team had some trouble after he had left the party the night before. He first tried calling Wang Chi, but didn't get an answer and didn't even get voicemail. So he called Tempty.

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I think that is everything. If you need something clarified, just ask.

[netlich]

Errr...yeah ...You didn't tell us what happened to Wang Chi?


No?

Oh well it was worth a try! ;-)

[Slacker]

lol. nice try netlich, but you will have to do some investigations if you want to find out what happened to Wang Chi, and you might never find out the truth.

[Cold-Dragon]

and since I don't know a wang chi, I just idle around, twiddling my toes in my shoes, wondering about things....hehe. Thus far anyways...

[Slacker]

Still working with the new player on his character. I think we are getting close to finishing.
Just having to explain how a few things work first so it can be an effective character.

[Cold-Dragon]

sorry for sounding impatient with a post, lol.

If there's a way to help ya Slacker (wow, pun. again apologies for ironies in word play) and get things going, I'd volunteer to lend some hands.

Everywhere seems to be slowing down recently. Dnd boards, then a 2 day downtime here...

[Slacker]

Actually, the new character is complete. Just couldn't access dumpshock at all. Going to email the player momentarily to say that it is back up and then we can get things moving along.

[Cold-Dragon]

Ohh, good and convenient, I like that. ^-^

*stereotypes character for a moment and comes around with a large batch of brownies* Which of my wanted saboteurs is hungry? :P (lol)