Well, I'm not really paying attention. I just summarized the rules because it helps me learn them

Triangulation would have to be the only way, I guess, since you can't tell how far out something is without knowing what its signal rating is ahead of time. On a run... just try every hidden node until you find the right ones, I guess

Josie's Ettiquite test:

MrMiracle
Reroll that test with one die. Defaulting applies a (-1) to your dice pool, and you don't have Etiquette. Of course, you still need two successes to sleaze your way in, so just make sure you don't critical glitch. Chiller can get you in.

A-In


On the rules question regarding hidden nodes, the book does make it clear that it is difficult to find one if you don't know what you're looking for. On runs, it would probably be obvious when you get a list of hidden nodes that they are security or network devices. Also, you could do a matrix perception test to see what type of node it was: comm, remote device, etc. The more you can walk around, the better triangulation will work, because you need the signal rating to vary.

Okay, that's fine, this is like my.. .second.. SR4 game ever. So I've never actually been on a run where I needed to pinpoint hidden nodes.

BlackHat
No prob. By the way, the guy in the white suit will get up as soon as you head for the door to the right of the bar. Do you head in that direction? I'll take that post, so just tell me generally what your character would do. Also, make a perception test on him when you get closer.

Can others tell when you're assensing them? I assume not, and the following will only happen if that's correct

Assensing the three targets:

Rerolling ettiquite:

TinkerGnome
For the most part, yes. If they were astrally perceiving, they could tell that you were astrally perceiving and might guess you were assensing them, although that would be an outside chance. Of course, you had to get a critical success on my actual NPC...bah! Heh, oh well, you get the book on him.

MrMiracle
Ok, you didn't critical glitch. Just get Chiller to help out.

These etiquette tests are the Man's way to keep the Tuskers away from the pretty ladies in the bars!

The way this is going, it looks like it is turning into needing a run just to get to the meet with the Johnson.

DireRadiant and MrMiracle
I'm assuming that directive was to me, so I took care of it in the IC thread.

Everyone
As soon as Mister Juan checks in with his entrance, we're pretty much ready to go. Someone will take care of making sure you know where to go, in case you don't already. So sit back and drink at the bar or something for just a bit.

Yeah, A-in will head over to the door.
His general emotive state would be... anxious and nervous, I guess.

Everyone
Basically, everything should be in place for you to get yourself to the meeting room. I don't have a problem with having you guys post that far ahead, even past Mr. Hawthorne's snide questioning of you. Go ahead and make a perception test, visual, once you get to him. Let me know if you think your character would make a big deal of it, or you want me to post responses from him or something. Once in the meeting room, make another perception test (astral too, I'm sure Nvwati). Assume Carver greets you upon entry with something like "Hello, please sit down". Nothing too out of the ordinary.

Josie
If you message Carver, he will tell you where to go for the meet. Put that in your post if that's what you decide to do.

Perception (3) + Intuition (4) + Active Visual Enhancers (3) = 10

ARKARY
Actually, you should be rolling 2 dice, not 3, since you are defaulting to Intuition as you lack the Perception skill (-1 to pool for defaulting). Don't worry about this roll, since it isn't that important, but keep that in mind for future rolls.

All right. I guess that just means if I want to see something I'll have to punch it first.

Nvwati's cool with the questioning. It takes more than that to ruffle her

Perception test:

Chiller will follow Josie, as that's whom gave him the invite. Josie can do all the talking. if asked Chiller just points to Josie and says he's with him. Feel free to include the ICly in your post mrMiracle.

Perception Test:

BlackHat
That is not a glitch. The rules state that "half of the pool dice or more" have to be 1's in order to glitch; if you also rolled no successes, then that makes it a critical glitch (mucho no bueno).

Mister Juan
I kinda skipped over your dramatic entrance, although feel free to post in past tense or something to make up for it.

Everyone Else
Yeah, I know, total cliffhanger, so Carver's text is forthcoming. In the meantime, I'd like to hear (probably in thought form) your character's reactions to the other characters (and the NPC's). Also, if you feel slighted by what I wrote for your awesome perception roll, it was probably because I couldn't think of anything. So if you were after something particular, please say so.

DireRadiant
By the way, I liked your last post very much, it really seemed true to the typical veteran shadowrunner thought pattern. Excellent!

I'm eventually going to assense the other runners, but that's a lot of work to put on everyone this early on I assure you it's for medical reasons. And stuff.

It'd be easier to do thoughts if we all put forth a character description/pic either ICly or OOCly. Mine is a few posts up.

thewolf
Thats quite fine mate. I would have wrote something, but I had a quick rush of work today, and so, wasn't even able to get online at all.

I wasn't sure if the static (jammer?) would have cut off A-in's technomancer link to the matrix or not. His Comm is probably useless if the rating of the jammer is anythign worth buying, but his ECCM complex form should give him a signal strength of 2 even with a rating 6 head-jammer strapped to his forehead. AFAIK, signal strength 1 means you can access nearby Matrix accesspoints and get online.

So I poseted accordingly. Let me know if I messed up and I'll edit/remove.

Physical Description: A-in looks to be in his late teens. Fresh-meat, that's for sure. He seems awkward and out of place at this meet, and is dressed a semi-formal white button-down shirt and black pants. His hair is black, but it seems to have a sort of 'unnatural' sheen to it, like it was recently died. I also believe he was lead in first, meaning he was sitting in an awkward sort of silence with the elf and Johnson when the next person came in.

He doesn't seem to have any gear on him - except a little renraku sensei in his shirt pocket, and some glasses which he is wearing. (Perceptive characters can go ahead and notice the earbuds in his ears, but it won't mean much).

A-In
Oops, I was hoping that was clear. There isn't a jammer running, but WiFi inhibiting paint (Rtg 3). Basically, all of your wireless stuff will still work within the room, but your connection to the Matrix (and your commlink's) will be severed. I assumed you would begin using your ECCM complex form, but didn't want to say that explicitly in case that's not what you wanted to do. Of course, with the ECCM you won't have any trouble reconnecting your living persona with the real Matrix.

Everyone
Yeah, good idea TinkerGnome, if you haven't already do post a short physical description (clothing, appearance, amount of obvious cyber, things easily visible on you)

Acutally, I'm not sure I can turn the ECCM off. But yeah, the use of "static" threw me off, since I thought that would be "noise" or jamming signals... if it was a "silence" or something on the matrix, I would have thought wifi inhibiting paint. I'll adjust appropriatly.

As for a physical description, Patrick looks.... average. Everything about him is: shot cropped brown hair, brown eyes, no apparant scars, moles, freckles or tatoos. Not even any cyberware. He's of average heigh, and average build: not tall, not short, not skinny, not fat. Quite frankly, he could be anyone anyone knows.

Even his origin or age are hard to define: he's caucasian, with a very subtle tan. Maybe european? Russian? Irish? Italian? German? French? English? Difficult to say.

(Well, he does have the "blandness" quality so... he's rather hard to describe. If you need to get a mental picture of how he acts, speaks, looks and behave... think of Nicolas Cage's character, Yuri Orlov, in Lord of War)

Clothing wise, everything about the man Patrick is currently "being" screams italian: mannerism, speech, and particularly clothes. His short brown hair is slicked back, and his face is freshly shaven. He's also wearing a pair of silver rimmed glasses.

TinkerGnome
If assensed:

Josie looks like he'd fit in more at a construction site than in a boardroom. He wears steel-toed work boots, stainproof jeans, thermal shirt, and a dark grey armored jacket. Two small pouches hang from his belt, neither of which seems large enough to be a gun. He doesn't have any tusks, but his two horns bend steeply backward.

Chiller is a very dark skinned Tusker with short hair, dark eyes and shiny white teeth, except for one or two missing or chipped teeth which have been replaced with clear enamel. When he smiles, some of the teeth appear veined in ice, or to be made entirely of ice. One tusk appears marbled in ice. Only slightly taller then average tusker height, just a little over two meters tall, he's obviously fit and trim, but not overly muscled for an ork. There is a discrete datajack port behind his right ear, but you are more likely to notice he wears an earbud in his right ear first. Almost always he's dressed in a retro classic black slacks, black suit jacket, white shirt, thin black tie (tear away!), and rubber soled dress shoes. He does not wear glasses.

Mr. Scorpion was originally my City of Villains character, so the easiest way to describe him is to just show you some pictures (sorry about the low quality, but I don't have a great video card):

Mr. Scorpion

Mr. Scorpion Close-up

He's tall and thin, wearing a crisp black suit, black shirt underneath, and a white tie that matches the color of this spiked back hair. He's very pale, and has some vaguely asian facial features, although it's hard to tell behind his mirrored sunglasses that completely hide his eyes. He also wears black leather gloves that usually have faint white lines running across them, although for this meet he's wearing plain leather gloves. The most unusual thing about his appearance is despite the nice, clean, black suit he has, he's wearing sturdy and heavy brown shoes rather than black dress shoes like you'd expect.

For your later reference:

Clicky

TinkerGnome
Wow, impressive. The GM is way to lazy to do that much work...haha.

Everyone
I'll give you a chance to storm out of the meeting if you want to, quickly followed by your character's untimely demise from a falling car. Heh...anyways, you can ask questions at this point, and Carver will go on with the rest of the spiel when I post again tonight probably.

Fiddle fiddle fiddle.

Clicky, redux.

Slowly learning how to do things nicely. It doesn't look great in IE, but... well, it's IE. What do you expect.

Negociation roll

Mister Juan
A tie, so I throw you a bone.

Well, since it was a tie, here's a second roll!

I'll spend one point of edge to make sure that SOB spits all the cred he has!
Spending the Edge before rolling; puts in the rule of 6.

Edge Pool now down to 4 (from 5)

DireRadiant
Indeed, it doesn't happen often. Heh...

Mister Juan
LOL at using edge during the Johnson negotiation. Classic. Anyways, at least it was effective.

Well, it's one of my moments to shine
I mean, the guy's a face.... that what he does!

Anyways, I'm glad someone got a kick out of it

Sorry for the delay in posting, real life intruded. Back to the SR4 World!

Real life? WTF IS REAL LIFE!

Just kidding mate It's alllll goood.

OOC: I think it makes sense for Patrick (purchasing savvy) and A-in (Has the expenses cred) to arrange a safe place to conduct planning and contact the rest of the team to meet there?

Sounds fine to me.

Other note, I redid my website yet again. Now it should actually, you know, work in IE.

Clicky

DireRadiant
Logical thinking. Patrick would probably make the suggestion to find a place anyways

TinkerGnome
Thanks a bunch. Quite useful!