@ DireRadiant - He'll answer, but I'm going to need specific questions or information you're trying to get out of him.

Ok to spare me some rolls I talked with Fenris and he is using the buying hits thing so I will be summoning five spirits (Air, Water, Plant, Beasts, and Man) Rating 5, each with one service on them. This will take me 25 hours so that's me for the next bit.

What if they resist?

@ Redjack - Basicallly what Buddha's talking about is just having both sides buy hits to save the time from rolling dice. Buddha bought as many hits as he could with his dice, and each sprite bought as many hits as it could with it's dice, and results were compared. No real margin for exceptional successes, but it speeds up the process when you're doing alot. I'm fine with it as long as it's equal across the board. I'm not going to buy successes if you're rolling, but I will buy if you're buying to speed up time.

@Fenris:
RE: Summoning - Ok, that makes sense.

@All: well I'm apparently going away this weekend so I'll post a Perception roll to check for guards and possible escape routes later today,

Aha, should read the IC thread for updates first!

@Fenris: Perception test, 1 hit. Bah Invisable castle hates me.

Is there any information that the team needs from their resident hacker?

@Bishop: If Porter can hack the security cams for the building, that would be great.

@Fenris: Back.

Meriss--For clarity, which building? The one which LoneStar is currently standing in front of, the hotel or the Expo?

That'll tell me which way I need to do this... Porter of course specializes in kicking the door down, probing the target generally takes too much time...

The building the rest of the team is in front of, that would be the one with Lone Star standing out front try and be discreet. Dervish will be asking IC shortly once he spots the cams.

*Looking side2side* Umm... Anyone seen the bar-keep round here?

@Red: Try a PM?

No, just started by poking around the OOC. Figured everyone could get the benefit of updated info.

Sorry, I've been busy.

I thought the threads were going to be bumped plotwise every week regardless of where we actual were IC.

New datatrail starting under a different Spoofed ID. (Not the same name that just searched for all the data)

tracking the signal, will search until threshold is met
11d6-> [6,6,2,3,2,4,5,4,1,2,1] = 3 hits
11d6-> [3,5,5,5,3,6,4,4,4,1,4] = 4 hits (7)
11d6-> [6,3,4,4,3,6,2,4,1,4,5] = 3 hits (10)
11d6-> [3,6,2,3,1,2,5,3,6,6,2] = 4 hits (14)
11d6-> [1,4,1,2,6,1,3,3,2,5,4] = 2 hits (16)
11d6-> [5,6,1,3,5,6,6,6,6,6,6] = 9 hits (25)
11d6-> [2,6,2,2,5,3,6,1,4,6,6] = 5 hits (30)
11d6-> [5,5,2,1,5,4,2,6,5,2,1] = 5 hits (35)
11d6-> [3,6,4,3,1,5,4,6,5,4,4] = 4 hits (39)
11d6-> [5,2,4,4,3,4,4,6,6,2,3] = 3 hits (42)
11d6-> [6,1,6,1,4,5,2,2,5,4,2] = 4 hits (46)

Analyze/Perceive in detail:
11d6-> [4,1,6,1,6,2,1,3,4,6,1] = 3 hits

Info preference is Type, Rating, Alert Status

@Bishop: I meant to post IC but forgot. Thanks for picking up my slack.

Meriss--No worries, it gave me an excuse to put something up and keep moving us forward.

Is there some hold up on the game here? Does not seem to be much movement IG?

All - My apologies. I had meant to update the game every week, regardless of the IC movement, but Real Life™ has unfortunately intervened. I have been ridiculously busy lately basically remodeling my entire house on somewhat short notice. I anticipate that this will continue to consume the majority of my attention until the beginning of next week. I hope to be able to pick back up on my original posting schedule at that point. I will allow a week to continue wrapping up the scene at the apartment, and then move forward with the run on the Expo.

Ready whenever you are.

I'm back from GC. Those of you I met, it was a pleasure and I'm looking forward to next year. Now let's get cracking...

@Bishop: kewl how was GenCon? Get any good swag?

So, this week I'm wrapping up the apartment scene, and next Sunday will start with the actual run. And yes, that's Sunday. I'm bumping it forward a day because my school semester is starting on Monday, and there's no way I'm going to have time to post on the first day of school So, from now on, bumps on Sunday.

[Willie]On the road again...[/Willie]

Bishop - Porter will receive the following information: The Type is a basic commercial node, Rating is 5, and status is on nominal alert (i.e., IC is probably already active in the system).

Meriss - You know that by law, there has to been at least one fire exit besides the main entrance, and stairs to every floor that lead to it. You've checked the front of the apartment building, and don't see this extra entrance. Around back, you see a small door marked "Employee's Only", and a separate door marked "Fire Exit, Alarm will sound". The alley behind the apartment building is empty at the moment, but LS has a presence at both ends of the alley way.

Wearz - Still waiting on that Perception and your Knowledge roll for structural information about the building.

If the gremlins aren't having their fun, Sweetness is forwarding what the nice young officer said to the others.

Does the officer tell us, or can we otherwise tell which apartment it is?

OOC, I think, and IC Sweetness thinks this might not be worth pursuing immediately, but perhaps wait till the investigating officers have moved on. It doesn't seem like it's very nice putting the rest of you into such risky potential contact with the Star.

@Fenris: Mmm kay. Welecome to Dervish's favorite game. "B&E"

Any word on which apartment it is? also what threshold would I be looking at to get into the "Employees Only" door.

Is the system considered to be on "Active Alert" thus raising my Thresholds, or is it just the day to day affair of a system with IC?

Sweetness will buy the hits and drain rolls for the watchers one hour of service.

@ Bishop - The system is considered on "Active Alert", thus raising your thresholds.

@ Wearz - Just go ahead and post rolls here in the OOC, please.

@ DireRadiant - Go ahead and give me a Computer + Logic test to check for Gremlins

Ok...smash and grab time. I double checked, the threshold is only increased for the fragger who triggers the alarm. Of course, we all have to suck up the extra IC and possibility of a system reboot.

I'm in VR, HotSim with the current payload:
Analyze 5; Browse 5; Edit 5; Scan 5;
Armor 5; Attack 5; Biofeedback Filters 5; Exploit 5; Spoof 5; Stealth 5;


Hacking on the fly
Threshold is 5 (5 Hacking + 5 Exploit + 2 Codeslnger +2 HotSim)
[3,5,1,6,4,2,5,5,4,6,5,6,1,2]=7 hits
>>System rolls against my Stealth program (Rating 5)

Once Inside,
Data Search + Browse looking for surveillance systems
(Threshold unknown, 1 IP) I'm providing extra rolls because I don't know the threshold.
[1,5,2,5,6,1,3,3,3,3,1] = 3 hits
[4,4,1,5,1,2,3,3,1,2,6] = 2 hits (total 5)

If Porter has found the surveillance systems:
Hacking + Edit to create a feedback loop of imagery
[3,3,5,6,5,5,6,1,5,4,4,4] = 6 hits

------This ends my round 1. Free action <@Dervish: Move Quickly.>

If Porter has NOT found the surveillance systems, I will attempt to crash the system OS.
Hacking + Attack vs Firewall+System (threshold 5, 1 turn)
first turn
[4,3,4,1,5,3,6,2,6,1,5,4] = 4 Hits EDGE!!
>> [6,5,2,4,2,2,4,5] = 3 Hits (total 7)
second turn
[3,6,1,2,1,5,4,2,5,5,4,4] = 4 hits EDGE!!
>> [3,5,6,1,6,1,6,5] = 5 hits (total 9)

Free Action switch to AR, send a message to the team <@All: 15 second blackout. Move.> and move into the jammed section of the house.

@Fenris
Okay rolling the bones

I'm not sure what you want tests for, so I am doing them all.
Activating Traceless step: I forget whether this has drain or not.
Runnning to the door: 5,6,5,5,1,5,2,5 6 hits

@ DireRadiant - Don't sweat it too much, I wasn't looking for success or failure as much as I was looking for glitches Nothing goes wrong, since you didn't roll a 1.

@ Meriss - No drain on the Traceless walk.

@ Bishop - Please give me a Hacking + Stealth roll.

Two adepts with traceless walk...One lock pick and the second with astral perception. What an infiltration team!!

Hacking + Stealth
[1,4,1,2,6,3,1,4,5,1,5,4] = 3 hits EDGE!
[6,3,3,5,3,1,6,2,4] = 3 hits (6 total)

@Fenris: I am a maroon. I totally forgot to get Locksmith. Bah I'm an idiot.

Rolling
Picking the lock using edge - agility + R2 Autopick = 3,1,[6, 4],[6, 2],1,1 2 hits.
Infiltration to get in unseen: 5,6,5,5,4,2,1,1 4 hits

@Fen: Infiltration roll: 2,4,3,6,5,6,3,6 3 hits. meh

Agility(6) + Infiltration(3): 4,6,2,4,5,4,3,3,1 = 2 hits

Just to remind you all Ikari is currently in a summoning marathon and not able to help out though I regret it now since you're all doing action type things.

Meriss - As a note, you guys have been collecting 1 pt of karma every Monday, so you might consider investing a bit into lockpicking

Alright, the beginning of the actual shadowrunny-type stuff is here!

As per the IC post, the trade show is going on for the next four days, ending on Friday. You have quite a bit of information about alot of the participants, and some about the specific type and kind of gear you're looking for as well.

This week (August 27th through September 2nd) will be the week of the tradeshow. We'll have things wrapped up (one way or the other) the end of the week.

All Don't forget your weekly drip of karma!

@Fenris: Coool! so I've got what 4 karma? 5 maybe?

@ Redjack - You are correct.

What's the game plan here folks? Need to chat it out real quick and get rolling, you definitely don't want the GM deciding what you do

@Fenris: That was the problem boss. We had not figured out what to do with the show. I'm going to post the plans as I saw them, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

1. Dervish would like to do the whole mission impossible route. In fact that is what he was designed to do. Break in after hours and steal everything not nailed down.

2. Red and Dire brought up the idea of grabbing the goodies at the vendors hotel. Minimal fuss and if we are careful no chance of the Star.

3. I not sure what WMZ, Bishop and Budda wanted. I'm sure it involved their specialties though.