Yeah, nothing beats showing up to the meet suffering from mild brain damage from being dumped the night before.

Also, Feshy, does having administrator rights do anything for me? I would hope it was well within the powers of the administrator to open up employee records, or access sercurity cameras and suff (admin > security rights) - so I'm not even sure if those last search rolls were needed, and I'm not sure the book has any word on if an adminstrator can cancel/close/disconnect/ban dwarven bouncer icons or not.

A little brain damage never hurt anyone. Oh.. wait...

Yes, as administrator, you can access any of the security measures you've found (cameras, MAD, etc.) which will probably also let you pinpoint their location. You could also most likely disable the "dwarf" -- though the system will probably bring him back up on it's next action, or bring out the next stage of it's security (as it still believes it is under attack.) You could also spend an action canceling the active alert, though again the firewall may still re-activate it. I think even an administrator must spend a good deal of time convincing the system that it is no longer under attack if it doesn't detect the intruder leaving or being crashed -- call it a test identical to "Crash OS."

Search rolls are pretty much always needed. It's not so much to access the data (that would require other rolls, like decrypt and defuse) but to find the important stuff out of all the data you can access.

You definitely get the higher initiative (after the "Dwarf"s initial attack) so you're up.

Sorry about the delay, I was picking up one of my lizards from the Vet. I'll probably be falling asleep soon too; it's a good 4 hours past my bed time as is.

wow... he really *is* on the metaplane with lizards. and here i thought he was just being silly

anyways, since you asked (i was gonna mention it in the IC thread once it got around to being time to leave for the place) i plan on leaving a good half-hour leeway on how long i think it'll take.

i presume with low lifestyle i am taking the bus (ie, taxi is probably more expensive than the lifestyle can handle on a regular basis, although if necessary i can probably do it every now and then).

so, i figure i should probably leave at around 1:30 or so (although i'll have Robby check up on the bus routes just to be sure).

Okay, I cant' really perform a crash OS/Program/Myself action since I have neither an attack program running nor 3 combat turns to devote to the task. But I think I have another plan.

One thing I want to try is (as a free action if possible) to get a list of all the activly runnig programs on the node. I assume this is like the free action to detect active wireless nodes, or something. I want to do this to check to see if other IC has already been activated that I maybe didn't notice (Trace IC?)

As I understand it, "Crash OS/Program" is used when you've broken in, and want to turn off a remote (non-IC) program that you don't have legitimate access to. With my admin access, I should be able to access and run/deactivate/whatever any program on that node as if it were on my own commlink, right?

At least, the book makes it sound that way, saying admins can take "actions that damage the system or render it inactive".

If this is the case, Dual will use his two simple actions to perform two "Deactivate Program" actions. The first will shut down the firewall program (which should deactivate the active-alert - but even if it doesn't, it will render the +4 bonus worthless). The second with deactivate the dwarven bouncer (attack IC?).

Let me know if I know this to be impossible, and I'll pick new actions - but I'm hoping to just take the whole security system (firewall and active defenses) offline for a second (literally, since I act 3 times in 3 seconds) to sort of "purge" the system.

Edit: Posting somethign to this effect to the IC boards. Let me know if I'm overstepping my admin privilages and I will edit that post as well.

Hehe. I essentially am on some sort of lizard metaplane. There's a good two dozen reptiles in my apartment. They have their own room. We get regular shipments of thousands of crickets. Unlike some of our past mail carriers, the one stuck delivering the crickets this time has a real good attitude about it -- "At least it's not bees" he says...

Yes, low lifestyle will most likely be bus. You have no trouble finding a bus that will get you there about half an hour early from your apartment.

As I have low lifestyle too, I suppose I'll be bussing it as well - taxies are for after we get paid!

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a single complex action for "swap program" -- so far as I can tell, you have to unload a program (simple action) and then load a new one (complex action.) So it won't be until the third action that you can edit the logs, though you will get an extra simple action to take. If you still use this plan, let me know in what order you unload and re-load the programs.

If you want to determine the firewall's rating, you'll have to observe it in detail (simple action) when it comes back up (which it will do before your next action.) Because you're administrator, you will automatically get the rating as long as you roll at least one success.

I don't think there are any security tallies in SR4 (I kind of miss that concept) so it's pretty much up to patrolling IC. Which leads me to believe that just about EVERY system would have an agent looking for potential intruders, as this one did (IC can run stealth too )

Gotta learn to clean up afterwards. Think of the next hacker to come along! Could be your friend you messing up!

Yes, the firewall came up before you unloaded exploit, and the IC came up afterwards (before you loaded edit)

I assume the same analyze that will detect you will also reveal you are a valid target for their actions -- but I gave them a penalty to detecting you because of your administrator-like status. I figure whatever code of yours they do detect may show up as administrator and thus throw them off.

Edit -- Oh, and give me two stealth rolls with every action you take -- those IC are going to keep looking for you for a while yet...

Made me curious how intrusive the cyberscanning is, while I can see a visual scan going undetected, but reading the description, millimeter wave spectrum ranged to 15 meters. This piece of gear somehow makes a physical adept a real attractive option.

I'm not sure if you were saying that cyberscanning is or isn't intrusive

At 15 meter (apx 50 feet) it isn't as though one has to wave a stick over someone or anything (like those little hand-held things they have at airports, nowadays).

However, I imagine you do have to point the instrument at someone - which most street sams would probably take as kindly to as pointing anything else at them. Luckly, Dual's scanner(s) are fairly subtle....

So far it looks like no pile of bodies. You seem to be the only one making any kind of a scene while entering GingerKid hasn't posed yet, but I don't imagine Snapp is going to, well, snap and kill everyone. So the scene should look as described for everyone else.

There's definately an AR terminal to pay electronically.

Are you asking the door man about Dirty Jimmy, or waiting until you are inside?

Ah, the pilot is the Pilot Ground Craft skill.

So

Attribute REACTION 4 + Skill Pilot Ground Craft 1 + Vehicle Handling Growler 1 + AR 1 = 7 Dice


AR is Augmented Reality P. 159

"Driving with Augmented or Virtual Reality
Characters who are physically driving/piloting with the
aid of augmented reality (they have subscribed to the vehicle
as a service) receive a +1 dice pool modifi er on all Vehicle
Tests. If they are remotely controlling the vehicle, they receive
no bonus."

I think if you use Pilot, the vehicle test is actually Pilot + autosoft, Pilot replace attribute, and the autosoft replaces skill.

These are all so easy to find and collected together in convenient organized places with excellent examples in the book naturally.

Asking the doorman as Bubbles pays the cover charge. It's almost 3 PM! Can't waste time searching the place and asking everyone. Be kind of obvious if Bubbles goes an and loudly asks for him.

The information in the book isn't really well organized for how you would use it in play.

Actually, this was in response to Toptomcat's post... yours wasn't there when I hit reply

And yes, I mistook the "Pilot" in your post for "Pilot" instead of "Pilot Ground Vehicles." Darn similiarly-worded terminology.

But yes, I understood the AR bonus, and "Maneuver" is the specific autosoft that affects the Pilot (that is, autopilot)'s ability to drive.

I had just mistakenly thought you had added the autopilot ("Pilot" now) to the roll, which is how SR3 worked instead.

If I remember the table correctly, "Items and weapons" require two successes to identify. I'll check again to be sure.

And yea, the "edit post" chokes on the spoiler in a spoiler, so my signature line has to stay this time. Hope I didn't make any other errors in that post.

Ooops, weapon is 1 hit, "other item" is 2. So yes, it should have found the stun baton. Too bad I can't edit the post; but I had already given you the information anyway. Just replace "probably" and "most likely" with "Is identified by your datasoft as"

Since it might affect Bubbles.

On page 254 there are some additional modifiers.

2 or more implants/items +1 (Threshold)
4 or more implants/items +2 (Threshold)
6+ implants/items +3 (Threshold)

"If the threshold is reached, the scanner detects the item/implant and notes
its general locations and type; additional hits provide more
detail (function, model, grade, etc.).'

The question I have is if you don't achieve the threshold, do you get a "Something here but I can't possibly find a match" or do you simply get "Nothing matches database".

The other question is if it's a single test for a single scan and you get a result for all items if you achieve the threshold, or you get a test against each item.

e.g. I do one scan, and if I achieve threshold I can tell that there are 4 items and what they all are. Or do I do a scan and do four tests, one for each item the scan might pick up?