I wouldn´t really like that. Where is the problem, with the Stuffer & Sushi people having a delay of any kind?

EDIT: EHRGH I´ll keep an eye on you V & V, you pushed me over to the next page!!!

Hey, don't worry about it. We came up with a solution. Its a non-issue now.

Anyway, did you want me to post arriving at the SS myself, or were you going to do it?

No rolls are needed if the person you're detecting isn't trying to evade detection. In fact, the rolls probably wouldn't be made on your end, anyway

Go for it. Once everyone's had a chance to respond (about 24 hours), I'll tie stuff together a bit better.

I did another pass on characters.

hmmm... says "reviewed, commented"... in the event that i pre-emptively took your comments into account before you even made them, does that mean my character is ok?

[edit] ie, are the actual changes, marked in bold on the character sheet, acceptable? [/edit]

Check the discussion. You have to pick between the GL and the lynx.

@Voorhees
Aziz now has his armor increased by 3/3
Hope it helps

TG - If I may offer my input, Silo's post raises an excellent point. From what I can see, people have just been whipping out times on their posts without any consideration as to how long the events of their post actually would take. Conversational posts need to be within a couple minutes or even seconds of each other, depending on the length.

In LITS, we have a convention that a post should never jump so far forward that any other PCs in the area do not have time to respond or act. So for example, if there are three gangers at the garage, a post should not jump more than a few minutes forward at most, and should be accompanied by an explanation, perhaps something along the lines of 'the three of them sat in silence for a while, before...<insert continuation of story here>.

In a game like this, it is very important to keep time in a controlled and logical fashion, and it is important for everyone to develop the posting discipline to examine what their fellow players have posted and consider how long that would take before posting their times and replies. We cannot treat the time section of the time/date stamp as an afterthought, or else we'll be all over the place. In LITS, as a GM, the very first thing I examine is how much time should have passed between my player's post and my reply.

I realize with all the players we have and this being a fairly new format for most, it'll take time to develop a standard format and understanding of how to appropriately handle time, but if we don't, in the long run, the thread will become chaotic and impossible to keep up with.

If everyone would please take the time to read each other's posts, consider how long that post would have taken, and keep your post close enough to the previous post's time to give other PCs a chance to respond to that same event (if they so choose), I think that would help slow down the thread (in a good way) and create a more orderly, linear timeline.

TG - A suggestion I have from a GM standpoint is this: If you have an event that you are planning to have happen (in this specific scenario, the Stuffer Shack incident and Slam's arrival) I suggest you state OOC that no one close enough to be affected by that event should post past a certain time.

For example, if the Stuffer Shack incident was going to happen at 20:00:00, and Slam was going to arrive at the gang HQ at 20:00:00, then no one in the Gang HQ, anyone in the Stuffer Shack, or anyone close enough to arrive at the Stuffer Shack during the course of the event should have posted past 20:00:00. Then it would be a simple matter for us to all pick up our response posts at 20:00:00 from wherever we were at that moment, so we're all responding to the same thing at the same time. That keeps everything happening at the same time, as you probably intended, without jumping all over the place or having to go back and edit our times. Plus, it stops us from having to backtrack if we've already gone past the time of the event's occurrence, as appeared to potentially be the case here.

Anyone too far to be involved in either of those events would be free to post, under the assumption that they would arrive too late to impact the events, and therefore, could not arrive until X time or 'after it's all over'.

Please let me know if any of these suggestions were helpful.

So my armor is now 11/10? I daresay thats going to help.

Heh...nah...i'll be okay for now.

@Mister Juan and Voorhees,

We probably should give Neo and Raven some time to join in.

[edit] I'm out for the night. [/edit]

Well, the way I read it, Toy Robot hung around after the others left, and she's the only gang member in the SS right now. Hence her decision to hide. It seems to me from the feel and flow that most of the people starting at the SS had started to walk back to the hideout and probably would have been notified of the robbery halfway there or something.

Actually, no. Page 178 pretty clearly states what that's supposed to mean - Unbound Spirits on remote service don't count as controlled spirits and Bound spirits on remote service do. The wording on page 179 is a little confusing, but only a little.

Of course, the game goes directly to crazy town and does not pass Go or collect 200 if you really allow people to have unbound spirits not count against their controlled limit. I honestly think that when it eventually gets errataed (and it will), that unbound spirits on Remote Service will simply continue to count as your one allowed unbound spirit until they complete their mission or are dismissed. The current house rules are in between the crazy-tastic actual rules and the probable rules fix that will be handed down either shortly before or after Street Magic comes out.


Anyway, here are Cammy's rolls for her introductory adventure:

Cammy Intimidates children at a bar:

Success!

Cammy runs off into the night, taking both simple actions as sprinting:

Or to put it another way, 41 meters in one combat round, which is 1/120th of an hour, and represents a speed of 49.2 KPH (just over 30 miles per hour).

Cammy climbs over a 3 meter fence:

That's getting over the fence in one combat round (though only barely).

Cammy climbs over a 4 meter privacy wall:

Which means that she goes right over it in less than a combat round.

Finally, she's approaching the Shack from 'round the side:

3 hits, which is pretty ninja/pirate. Apparently noone was expecting someone to come from that angle...

-Frank

I need an opposed test for watchers for Ch + [Con or Negotiation]

cheers Bladepoet

Decides for only 1 hour as well.

And now the real help

unsuccessfull! ARGH

No Drain, at least!

That is one nice typo

Clarification: JJ don't give massages. Well, he would to Auran, Nurse, Wyrm and probably Raven.

Good point.

This is why I was saying previously that time doesn't matter until it counts. We've royally jacked up the timeframing so far and really for no reason besides generally keeping track of sequence.

But, there is a big difference between sequence and time; and we are using the time stamp to indicate sequence (i.e. who says something first, second, and so on).

Then TG comes down and implements a timestamp that stands for TIME. It jacks all our random "sequences" up.

What if TG posted "max times." I think WR mentioned this concept. Basically, stating "everyone, do stuff up to XX:XX:XX time."

This would allow for us to not have any more time inconsistencies as well as giving everyone the opportunity to participate (which with this many people is going to be an ongoing issue, especially between our US and overseas members).

This could be done on both large and small scales.

For examples, TG could have stated, "no posts after 20:00:00" (large scale) and then after that post could have stated, "no posts after 20:02:30" (small scale). The small scale example would have allowed everyone to give one or two posts relating what their character is doing, and then TG could give more info (which is exactly what he is planning on doing).

Even though this will slow things down some for us frequent posters, I think this is the best way to ensure that we don't have time inconsistincies on a constant basis, especially since TG has the timeline in his head. TG...you have to control the time for us all.

Hm, damn, I knew, I should not have booted that Mask spell

We should develop a house ruel for massaging, just as with pool, so I can see, if it´s worth it, to learn the spell

My suggestion would be Agility+Intuition. This would put JJ somewere in the middle. The real mistress of massage would be Toy, I guess (fit´s her bg), but it might be hard to get her to do it, without hooking her up on p-fixers

Total 8+3= 11

Uh, that doesn´t look good!

Dreck, they keep making 2 hits with 3 dice

Outch, one box of physical drain, I´d probably look for other allies

So much for Spirit Affinity

You see pretty much what I described. There's no one on watch, as far as you can tell, though you don't see the trolls until they're out of the shack (it not being big on windows).

@MK Ultra

Slam will let you do pretty much whatever, so long as it's fast. Take an astral peek or whatever.