No prob on my end, boss. I'm actually a little busy getting my students' first quarter grade ready for their report cards. Get better soon!

I'm waiting on Juan for a moment since how quickly he gets back to hotel might become a factor.

Null persp.


(I love that phrase. )

*sticks his nose in again *
Voice control is also out of SOTA64, its almost identical to voice modulator cyberware. I'll post the description when I get home don't have books at work. (For some obscure reason they object to that sort of thing here, I mean realy!)

Damn Skippy.

Tashio, If you make up a character I will gladly work you in in fashion that suits your interest and amount of time.

Why are you waiting one me? Last time, you asked me a bike roll, which I gave you (it's one page back).

Need anything else?

Never saw the bike roll, sorry.

That's ok. I just thought it was me who had missed something Got me worried.

Voice Control
Cost: 0.5

An adept with Voice Control has an amazing level of control over the properties of her voice. The adept can change her voice's pitch, modulation and tone at will, as well as increase her volume. This allows the adept to mask her voice and imitate sounds within the normal range of metahuman vocalization (i.e. no infrasound or ultrasound, including mimicing the voices of others. This trick can be used to defeat voice recognition systems. Use the adept's intelligence in an Opposed Test against the system's rating, or against the Intelligence of other characters the adept is attempting to fool. Voice control also allows an adept to "throw" her voice up to (Magic Attribute) meters away.

Hmm what are char creation specs and what sort of char would be useful?

Glyph, I apologize I totally missed Caitlin checking the astral.. Assessing roll please.

Well, now we know the rules for voice control. Thanks again Tashio. Some of these "Social Adept" powers seem like they could be very powerful for their cost.

Voice control is about right, its almost the same as Voice Modulator cyberware which is fairly cheap. Commanding Voice is rather cheap IMO, but on the other hand its use is fairly limiting. Though in combination with some of the other abilities it can be pretty powerfull.

I'm curious on one thing: is there only ONE way to get to Hobbes suite?
The main reason I want to know is because George wants to move Hobbes, but without getting him to pass thru the lobby.

The Elevator is the only way you know of. You saw the emergency stairs in the lobby, but where they came out you have not yet discovered.

Hey, I think I'm gonna go on strike. George keeps doing all the "face" work!

Well, he might have the ideas... he simply doesn't have the skills to carry them out.

Assensing roll:

Couple of Corrections and problems, please read:

Caitlin. I apologize that I missed your Assense roll earlier. Please recognize that you would have seen what you saw the first time you checked the astral after Nadia's encounter. Don't worry about it gaining any extra information after your initial request to check the astral.

Also. about the room changing. Floor 16, consists of one suite. It opens directly to the elevator. To be honest I forgot what floor I had said you were on when i first answered George's post. If it is alright with everyone, please presume the clerk put you up on floor 15, which is the closest place to you where there are standard "individual" rooms, and the elevator opens onto a hallway. So they would be rooms 1507, and 1508, one floor below. I hope everyone is alright with that. I'm not usually so scatter brained. but I guess its the nature of the whole "post at work while your supposed to be doing other things" type play.

It's all cool. This was your first time right?

yes indeed.

I'm a little confused. I can see that you are bringing the new character into the game, but I could use a little more explanation. I am not clear on what happened in the phone call and IC Nadia is very confused. You didn't give her time to ask any questions either. Why should the characters accept a new person this way?

The two incidents aren't linked.

The phone rang. Microdeck is informing their meeting partners that they are sending an advanced man, and they don't want you to flip out and waste him. You aren't required to deal with him in anyway if your team decides not to. But he's going to be snooping around the Hotel and the conference room, and they didn't want you to see him and wax him. Horace is still on the phone, you can certainly speak with him about it. I expected it go be a bit of back and forth before you hang up on him.

edit: AH.. I see the confusion. I used the term "link up" but Horace didn't mean literally work side by-side per say. but be aware of each other. Bad Word choice on my part.

Ok, thanks. I was having difficulty realizing that there were two calls going on.

*sniff* nobody wubs me

*chuckle* yea no-one said you had to accept or like Markus but he's gonne be sticking his nose in there and stir up some chaos

"Welcome to the party, pal!" (I just watched Die Hard today. )

Checks for Nadia's phone call to the front desk.

Negotiation

For Caitlin now, the default will be all of her Sorcery and Spell Pool into Spell Defense. She will re-allocate dice when she needs to, but at the moment her main concern is protecting the group from potential hostile magic.

Is there a connecting side door between rooms 1507 and 1508?

You were told that there would be. But you haven't fully entered the room yet, so you can't say for sure.

If the room is clear, he'll proceed in doing the same with room 1508. Once that is done, he'll pull all the blinds, and unlock any connecting doors between the two rooms.

George will then quickly walked the hallways of the floor to get a basic layout, and spot all the exits.

How long after the shooting is this? Is it still a bit chaotic downstairs?

You haven't entered the full lobby yet, but it is still hectic, with at least one Lone Star Official on the scene.

For everyone's sake I've presumed that Markus was in the downtown area when he recieved his call, since I didn't want to wait for the 2 hours it would presumably take to cross town to introduce your character, and i don't know where he hails from since you've not sent me any background info (lifestyle placement etc.) lol

Yea send me your email address so I can send you all the info
His appartment is basicaly on the border of Downtown and Renton.

Negotiations Roll if needed.

1 2 5 6

No mention of a connecting door.... do I take it there isn't one?

No I'm sorry, there is. It unlocks with no complications.

Rolls for setting up the ward:

Okay. You guys are settling in for the night. However I can't advance time till Tashio's character gets some things done that he needs done. feel free to do some intense roleplaying until we get caught up. I apologize about that, but it comes with bringing a new player in the game.

I hope everyone's enjoying the game so far...

Hmmmm, should I roleplay Nadia's dreams?

sure. It's all good.

I understand if things are slow this week, most decent people have some kind of vacation. (not me.)

My appologies this work caught up with me in a major way this weekend and today, had no time to do anything I'll post now.

it happens to the best of us. I was away from my computer this weekend anyway.

Negotiations Roll

3 5 5 8

Tashio are you attempting to intimidate or some other form of social engineering, or just trying to reason with him?

Hmm left my memory stick at home with char sheet on it, can't remember if he had intimidation or not. But yea a combination of intimidation and negotiation, he's obviously not very comfortable just makeing sure he does not get comfortable

I can check your character sheet, and roll the higher social skill if that would work for you
.

Hmm I Negitions is 4 if he has intimidation its either 3 or 4 so negotiation should be fine, unless you want to roll intimidation as a complimentary

Hmm okay Negotiation 4 Interogation 3 guess its straight neg roll, hmm though prehaps Psycology complimentary roll?

Negotiation:
3 5 5 10

Psycology:
3 5

George will let Hobbes mubble away... no way for him to listen in.