@Silo
Well, Felix will clutch on JJ. Get us out of this chummer As for the box.... we still have it or did China Doll take it?

Felix still has the troll size package in his pants.

Theoretically China Doll will try to hook up with Aziz, JJ, and Felix as they get off the roof. Since that was the assigned team. And besides one of the girls need to keep an eye out for you guys.

I think you're stuck with the package for now.

edge roll (trying to lose a tail if Spikes are following/chasing) for Nurse driving her bike with 0day as passenger:

Yea, that whole "I'm getting a BIG TROLL SIZED PISTOL in my pants" thing was edited out I was just ludicrous

By now, JJ and Felix should be getting close to Felix's bike.

Well, I don't know how group edge expenditure works, but if Toy didn't need to spend to self-stabilize then she has one more point of Edge left and an Edge attribute of 6. If anybody would like to go ahead and use that to make good our escape I can't really think of a better use, especially considering that Toy is pretty much down for the count for now.

Lol. Edge-de-moxed!

Edge + 3 bonus roll

Halo and Tao will take off and at least try to get their attention enough (flipping them the bird and other stuff short of shooting at them) to pull at least a few of them away from HQ and the rest of the gang's escape. Well, that's Halo's intention at least.

Edge Roll for Shade

Edge: 06 02 = 2 hits

So that means China Doll can hook up with Felix and JJ in the Gym, but then we have the problem of meeting up with Aziz. I'll probably post IC asking "What about Aziz?". Are we going to wait for him and all go together?

You could have JJ ask for authorisation and drive Aziz´s bike, to pick him up at the fire escape. Just a suggestion.
As I pointed out some days ago, the fire escape is probably situated at the east wall, in the small alley.

Now the 3d mapdosn´t look like there is an alley to the east, but I guess, that´s not the intention, because that would have been really bad planing from the architects, as it would leave most rooms without windows, even though there is enough ground, to move the whole building further west towards hunt st.

JJ is alredy driving Felix's bike. But, he could drive it just to the fire excape. Dunno...depends, I suppose.

And then Aziz would have the classic "Willem Dafoe in Platoon" moment.

What I meant is that we need to establish the groups of fleeing people. Don't worry about innactive characters as they're fleeing in other directions or simply missing in action at this point.

To make it easy, please put the info up here.

Posted at that site. I think this team's goal was to flee to the mall across the river. But I'll leave that up to our valiant team leader CD.

Edge roll here too...

From the looks of it, the bulk of the pursuit is going to follow Halo. Once everyone is accounted for, I'll give you further details.

BOHICA!

Bring it on yo. *kisses the dice roller and promises it all kinds of special favours for great rolls when needed*

Does anyone know if the Spikes have a beef with any of these neighboring gangs?

1) We can drag pursuit into an area that they don't want to enter and maybe shake them off...

2) We can drag pursuit into an area that they enter anyway and piss off one of our neighbors by dragging their enemies to their doorstep.

3) We call ahead to any Spike-hating gangs and tell them we're hand delivering a group of them, and let the bullets fly where they may.


...maybe.

posted up to the wiki Halo's plan of escape.

Might not be around too much between now and Saturday. Will try to post/keep up as much as possible if we start moving again.

That looks like everyone. Post up in a matter of moments.

Urk, describing the pursuit here:

Halo's pursuit
Leader (shotgun)
Mage 1
Cyber 1, 2, 3 (shotguns)
Mundane 1, 2
Adept 1

Group 1 pursuit
Mage 2
Adept 2
Air spirit (appears to be on defensive assignment)

Everyone without shotgun listed has a pistol.

JJ's driving Felix's bike, just a general roll to make sure he don't wreck, etc.:

MJ....i'll edit my post...

Felix will extend his counterspelling to everyone in his group. This means that JAX, CD, JJ and Aziz all get 3 extra dices to resist spells.

If it's needed, here is Felix's initiative for the "round"

Whatever you choose, Felix is casting an Phantasm spell. He'll create the illusion that some stone/earth wall comes out of the ground to block the alley, just after their group has passed.

Spellcasting: Phantasm Force 3

Thanee - Shade will follow Raven's lead right now. I just posted IC, so go ahead and reply when appropriate.

Tinkergnome - For those of us who aren't being pursued, how far ahead are we allowed to post?

Depending on how long it takes to play out the pursuit of the others, would it be appropriate for those not being pursued to stop somewhere and role-play while resting/hiding?

Well, I finally got around to posting in the IC thread. It's basically my imaginative interpretation of what it would be like to bleed to death suddenly on the one hand but then all of a sudden have your brain getting back what it needs.

Of course, in real life, you'd probably get permanent brain damage or something but I guess that dosen't apply in SR.

I've actually got two mechanics questions, then.

1.) Do I have to roll on a permanent injury table when taking a D wound like I'd have to in SR3?

2.) How much karma have we accumulated total at this point in time?

Thanks for the help, guys. As always I am deeply appreciative.

So far TG has only accounted for 9 trolls.. now we only killed 1 in I recall, so what makes you think you're not going to be persued WinterRat?

@ GM & TinkerGnome

Need some clarification, to decide on any course of action!

1) Seeing as the 3rd Air Spirit is still around, what hapened to TF´s SoM & Watchers #1,2,3? Check their objectives again, please . If any of them get desrupted, Tao will know and act accordingly!

2) I need more details on the force persuing Halo! Who goes first, how far are they apart, do they persue in a scatered line or in bulk (waiting for the slowest ones, i.e. the Adept, thuss giving Halo a bigger headstart). Observe in detail 5 hits (plus sensor enhancements, i.e. Tao probably clearly hears the Leaders commands, unless he uses some cyber link)

3) Remember Watcher #4 will be distracting the Adepts as per 3rd Round Mission (distract the Spikes inside the Y, tell them we give up and what they want is in the basement/pool).

4) Remember Halo got 5 hits (IIRC) on her Bike roll!

5) Tell me ASAP, when TF´s old Spirit of man is outside of the 200m radius, so a new spirit can be summoned!

From Tinkergnome-

TG had also said he hadn't assigned all the trolls yet Just wanted to give you fair warning should you suddenly find a trog on your tail....
There were 14 trolls to begin with.... we only killed 1 if I recall.
(note I find it surprising how fast that mage, the leader and the Adept suddenly mounted in persuit, but I guess that's going to take more than one combat round)

Actually after some thought, it is quite in character for Shade to go after Toy Robot... Wyrm's just annoyed right now, nothing personal... Just that with all hell breaking loose, she just wants to get out of their and she feels she's being slowed down. Getting Auran out is a priority though, so she's not just going to drop her friend and run.

I mentioned in my post that 3 of us carry Auran down, cause I do not control Steel. I actually have no idea what he's doing, as he's an NPC, so I haven't included him in my post. Electrode's already downstairs, and I have him helping out once we hit the gym.

I don't see you needing to change your post, and wonder why you feel compelled to...
If you're wonder, and no it's not personal, why Wyrm is on edge is:
- She can't hack the Trolls commlinks even though she should have been able to
- She can't try again, cause the trolls have whisked through her defenses like a hot knife through butter and we have to escape.
- Shade wanted to stop and heal Auran, even when it was evident that we had not time.
- When Shade got the idea that time was short he simply dropped Auran to get others, instead of helping. (selfish I know, but she's not really thinking right now)

When she discovers that Shade had gone to save Toy Robot, she won't be holding a grudge on him, after all, she generally looks up to him.

As for some of my questions on the boards. I was not aware Shade had his own bike, it sounded like you wanted to ride 3 on there...

I appologize if I was short with you.

Dranem- It's cool, thanks for clearing all that up, I appreciate it. To answer a couple of your points.

1. Good point on the number of trolls. I hadn't been counting, and I frankly didn't remember how many there were (been a little busy trying not to die ) so you raise a good point that TG could still assign some to pursuit, since I obviously missed that he hadn't assigned all the trolls yet.

2. It certainly is in character for Shade to go after Toy Robot, but as far as changing my post, the issue is mostly the timing of the actions.

The way I see it, Shade's action in Combat Turn 2, IP 2 left Auran to go help Toy Robot, which is where he was at Combat Turn 2, IP 3. However, between Combat Turn 2, IP 2 and the beginning of Combat Turn 3, IP 2 before he left to go downstairs, Wyrm had an action to transmit or yell out for him to help, in which case he certainly would have come back to help and not gone directly to the gym.

It's in character for Shade to leave Auran to Nurse to be healed (since he thought they'd hold out downstairs longer than they did, and he underestimated how long it'd take Nurse to heal Auran) and go help Toy Robot, but it's also equally in character for him to go back and help with Auran, which is why I specified in the wiki he'd stay back to help anyone who needed it.

So if Wyrm would have/did call out to him for help, I want to reflect Shade's actions appropriately and accurately, without letting IC post timing differences or a miscommunication in the OOC thread cause him to act uncharacteristically to that degree. It is very much in Shade's character to help the others, so if at any point in time he was cognizent of the need for his help, he would have done so.

Of course, if you want to just let things stand and play it out IC, that's fine too. I just was confused and caught off guard with Wyrm's reaction, but it made me realize I could have overran you with my IC post, which to me is the real issue, and one I wanted to correct if possible and/or necessary.

3. Didn't realize you weren't controlling Steel. My mistake.

4. Thanks again for the explanation, it really cleared things up and put Wyrm's thoughts into perspective.

5. Thanks also for the apology, and I also apologize if I communicated myself poorly on the boards, which unfortunately happens at times.

Let me know if you want to edit to account for the overrun, or just play it out IC. It'll be interesting and fun either way, I'm sure!

I havn't really said anything about how the spirit looks like so far (just refered to the spirit as 'the spirit' ).

I guess a Spirit of Man would look pretty much human, maybe a bit like a squatter or even like a ganger with a leather jacket with the 410crash Logo on it, given the place where it was summoned.

Bye
Thanee

In general, you don't know any gangs with a particular beef against the Spikes, though you're pretty sure that there aren't any nearby gangs who actually like them. They're an elf-hating troll go-gang, so there's a natural response from most of your neighbors that's less than positive associated with that.

I only assigned 9 trolls... because only 9 trolls are chasing you. A few stayed behind to search the HQ in case you guys had hidden it there somewhere and were just trying to draw them out while the real package was left behind. The leader isn't stupid, though he's certainly not very smart, either. Group 2 was not pursued because of the rocketous speed at which they were traveling.

Tinkergnome - I had this question for you earlier as well: