Caitlin will let Nadia get the phone, since I don't think creating a ward is something that can be interrupted.

I think you are probably right Glyph, Although it wasn't something I intended to call you on if you had picked up. (HAHA you picked up the phone you gotta start your Ward OVER!!! )

We lost everyone here?

I'm here. if people are waiting on me I apologize, I thought I was waiting on Mush. lemme check it out.

Still kickin

Waiting for whoever picked up the phone so yea Mush.

Sorry guys, no excuse. Please give me until tomorrow.

Still here.

In case people are confused. The Desk Clerk never gave Markus the new floor or the new room, so when Nadia told the clerk to let him up, the npc didn't know if she meant the new room or the old room, so he picked the old room.

and fun was had by all.

*chuckle*

Stealth
3 4 5 5 8

Gel rounds loaded in Guardian.

Tashio, You and your unidentified attacker are entering Combat. Please roll Initative.

What we will do, is you will outline your characters action for each initative pass, and I will do the same with the NPC. If it proves necessary you can than adapt you plan for the second intiative pass, and so on.


Juan, by my SWAG, it will take one combat round for the elevator to arrive where you are, and one more for it to go up to the 16th floor. Let me know if that sounds particularly unreasonable to you.

Combat Initiative + Phases

EEP forgot enhanced artic. Made adjustments.

All sounds good to me.

Tashio. Sorry for being slow with response, I need to do some rules checking. Unfortunately internet access is at work, and whipping out multiple RPG rulebooks is frowned upon. What i'm trying to figure out regards movement. You described Markus as "Moving back". I presume that to mean a brisk backwards walk,rather than a run. Am I also correct in thinking that your distance traveled is divided by the number of initative phases you are taking in an Action? This is to allow me to figure out whether or not the assassin makes it into melee range.

I don't believe there is anything that prevents you from firing your weapon on your phases even if he is in melee with you, but if i'm wrong, someone stop me.

Not quite, it was more like stop, see him, while aiming the gun at him take 2 maybe 3 steps backwards to open a gap to try put myself in a position where I could try fire before he leaped or tried to attack sort of a way to sense if he was there looking for a fight or not instead of just trying to blow him away.

IE out of direct melee range before combat started, where he would have to move to attack, instead of just standing their and taking a jab.

When he attacks then I'll move based on what is needed. But Guardians burst fire is complex action, don't have rulebook here either but I think movement is a simple action so would not be able to "move" at least in terms of normal movement.

I have a sudden urge to make a joke about taking a knife to a gun fight.

only if you do it in a sean connery voice.

Sorry about the holiday's slowing things down. I hope to get started again soon.

Tsall good.

Assassin
Initiative: 28

Initative Pass 28

The Assassin closes the distance with a dikoted long-bladed knife: 10S
Edged Weapon Roll: 9,4,3,3,2,2,1,1
Enhanced Articulation: 22

(Please Roll a melee combat skill Tashio. if its unarmed combat, or using your gun as a club, or whatever you choose. If you do full defense or anything of that nature, please let me know. I need to know the results of this, to see how it effects your shooting. with the way the dice roll is retreating your opponent though, I don't think you have much to worry about.)

LOL well his inititive dice served him well
Getting 28 init for me would take 2 5's and a 6 on init roll

Okay defaulting to Str for unarmed combat 8 Dice going to throw in 2 combat pool. +4tn for defaulting to stat.
Remove the 2 pool dice from 3rd combat phase. (Don't think we'll get that far )

Str: 1 1 1 2 4 5 8 10
Pool: 5 11

If thats not enough success (I believe I need 2 against TN 8 ) I'll karma reroll fails.
Karma Reroll: 1 1 2 2 3 4 8 9

Damage: 8M Stun Base

For IC post if you want.

Markus moves to the side parrying the assassin's knife arm away, jabing his fist into his exposed underarm before firing a burst of bullets into him.

yeah. your initative can be whatever you want if you can't do anything with it it doesn't matter.

Assassin resisting damage

8M (Stun) staged to 8D (Stun)

-4 impact armor TN # 4: 11 10 9 4 2 2

Assassin takes 8M (Stun)

Assassin resisting Bullet Damage

10S (Stun) Staged to 10D (and change)

10S

-6 ballistic armor: +2 target numbers for wounds: TN # 6

Damage Resistance: 11 3 1 1 1 1
Combat Pool: 3 2 2 2
Karma Re-Rolls: 5 4 4 4 4 4 1 1 (JEEZ!)

Assassin Takes Deadly Stun, plus 8 points of physical damage.

That's friggin pathetic. LOL. IC Post up in a moment.

Ouch Thats one thing I'm glad they fixed in 4th ed was this defender gets to deal damage in melee. Either you get hit or you block the attack. In 3rd ed you can end up with a Sami surrounded by a whole bunch of gangers and he'll take them out in one round because his skill is far superior than theirs because he gets to counter attack everything.

As they say never take a knife to a gun fight.

biotech roll, or default.


(you'll know if he has a pulse, but if you can pass a roll you'll get more detail information on his health)

Bio-Tech/First Aid
Roll: 1 3 5

Roll to try patch assassin up a bit so that he can be safely moved.
Bio-Tech/First Aid
Roll: 1 7 9

By the way, how close is Caitlin to being finished with her ward? She was nearly done with it the last time I posted.

Sorry about that. time slowed way down during the conflict. You may presume that you are finished for your next post.

Actualy I took his mask off would look rather suspicious lugging some masked man around.

oh yeah. So much for the suspenseful unmasking scene.
(DUN DUN DUN)

thanks for nothing tashio.


J/k

lol

*chuckle* I aim to please.

Assensing tests:

George will unsling his Cobra and keep it in his hands. If the guy even tries to make a move, he'll plug him with a burst (ah the wonders of sound suppressor! )

Sorry if I missed this, but is this guy the same guy who shot Nadia in the bar?

You didn't miss it. I haven't said. Sorry. I should post a detailed description of the man. I'd forgotten to after Tashio reminded me that he took his mask off already.

Can't I just shoot that dumbass who calls himself a security manager and stop the pain?

You can try.

<clatter of dice>

Edit: I'm gonna need a Negotiations roll (specialization Fast talk)

I'll roll if you want, but seeing what i rolled for our beloved Japanese Cyber-Assassin of Doom, you might want to do your own rolls.

Negotiations

2 2 4 9

sorry Tashio, but are you calling from the hotel or your private line? I figured you were calling from a private cellphone, but if not let me know.

Private line to Microdeck, hotel line to security.

okay. Guys I'm sorry i've done such a poor job posting lately. My job has me doing the work of two people cause my co-worker got fired for being an A$$.
I will do my best, and I apologize for the distruption.

Not a problem things been pretty busy all round and with server being down for 2 days did not help either.

Astral assensing test:

Sorry for the delay, works been nuts must have missed the post the other day. Back on track and time to burn

Perception Test:
2 3 3 4 11 29

(lets hope something worth spotting or maybe not )

I want to thank you guys for being so patient with me. I apologize about being so slow. Please stick with me.

Still here, still kicking

I hope someone's going to try to crash that meeting... just so I can try out George at some combat

LOL Yea still floating around, *wonders why i'm signing myself up into more games when work is going nuts*

Still here.

I don't think Caitlin really has anything to say for a relatively quick, simple recon. I would have just done a post putting them down there, but I'll wait to see if Musashi Forever wants Nadia to say something first.

Ok guys. I know that this is probably my fault for being so spotty about posting and I'm sorry, but I am really lost about what is going on in the story right now.

Could somebody please give me a quick rundown?

On the other hand, I am glad that we have kept it going. I am having fun, just a bit confused. A summary would be really helpful.

Thanks.