Alice is on the inside with Akuma actualy, but if you want to play her as an NPC that fine with me

I could just go in solo, I can take em!

OK i'm lost as to who's where. So far we have Lex in the car, Akuma doing the rappel thing, where is Mojo exactly, and Either Alice or Rowan was supposed to be with Akuma on the roof, I can't remember which...

Heh, you are way off...

Rowan is going solo on the roof. I'm going inside with Alice. Mojo is in the van with you, concentrating on sustaining all the spells.

So who's driving the van then?

Thats a good question, that was gunna be Alice. How about if we have Alice NPC driving the car and Mojo can come in with me?

The way I understand it (YMMV):

• Akuma -- inside
• Rowan -- roof
• Alice and Lex -- car
• Mojo -- ?????

This is because Alice is the driver and for now an NPC, unless (until) Kurb gets back. Lex is decking from the car (freesat) and Rowan is the backup up top. Rowan's got more gear than the UCAS Troll Marines so she definately doesn't want to go in the front door right now unless necessary. Akuma was going in the front to deal with the guards as Rowan deals with the window.

Mojo -- do you want inside or oustide -- inside you get to deal with guards, outside you get to help Rowan deal with climbing, glass, perhaps Sophia, etc.

-- Dash --

As an aside -- the way I run NPCs is to have them perform any action that you guys ask them to unless I think they would jump in to perform their purpose. So, Alice will automatically want to help you guys out by parking the van where you guys want it. However, she's not going to go in guns blazing unless you tell her to because it's not her part of the plan.

Also, I don't have her entire gear list (I may have lost it) so I'll improvise if necessary.

-- Dash --

Mojo can do quite a lot from the outside (infact, possibly more than inside). So he'll be in the shotgun seat of the car. Specificly, he'll be casting stealth and Improved Invisibility on the inside man, and then levitating out the target.

<<oops, that was an IC post. hehe, wrong thread...>>

Spellcasting: Force 5 Improved Invisibility then Force 5 Silence. Both are drain 3M and TN 4 (with sustaining modifiers to the second one cast with focused concentration). For both castings, it'll be 12 dice to cast, six dice to resist drain (trauma dampner).

Imp Invis(4): 01 11 05 03 01 14 05 04 15 04 11 05 (9 successes = 5 due to force limit)
Drain(3M): 04 02 10 03 16 04 (5 successes = no drain)

Stealth(5): 04 05 05 02 09 05 04 05 02 03 10 03 (6 successes = 5 due to force limit)
Drain(4M): 01 04 02 16 02 10 (3 successes = no drain due to trauma dampner)

For those kinds of rolls --- where the TN doesn't rely on modifiers that are up to me --- just roll them yourself. Saves time. Just let me know the successes and your drain and that's okay with me.

-- Dash --

Nice rolls there though!

That should come in helpfull.

Hmm... I didn't think indirect illusions had a force limit on successes, the force instead being the TN to see through them. If you want to play it that way, though, it's fine with me, seeing as how a TN 5 perception roll isn't overly likely to net 5 successes.

More spellcasting, though Same dice for all of 'em since I dropped the initial spells.

Levitate (3): 5 successes (limit 3 for effect), No drain
Imp Invis force (5): 3 successes, No drain (TD saves me again)

then:

Stealth (5): 8 successes, No drain
Imp Invis (5): 7 successes, No drain

Geeze, mcmackie's die roller liked me for those second two

yeah, his dice roller does well for me too

Holy crap! I told you his dice roller does well for me...

Stealth roll while moving through the building: 14 05 10 11 04 13 05

Stealth of 6 +1 for Enhanced Articulation.

I still prefer to roll by hand (even when I'm rolling 21 dice as my decker).

I guess Lex will be in the back seat of the car then.

OK here we go. I need to log into FreeSat, then bounce into the Hospital's grid:

(all my utilities are at 6)
FreeSat access: Deception 6: 10,8,8,5,5,5,4,4,3,3,3,3,2,2,1,1,1,1,1 (my dice hate me today)
Find Hospital Grid: Browse 6: 23, 10,9,5,5,4,4,4,4,3,3,3,3,2,2,2,2,2,1 (i take that back)
Log on to Hospial Grid: Deception 6: 11,9,9,7,5,5,5,5,5,5,4,4,3,2,1,1,1,1,1

If people start shooting star, I'll make an edit slave test to loop the cameras, but right now i'm just trying to get in and sit.

@Dash: I still know where the slave subsystem is in the Hospital's grid, at least for the cameras, right?

Grey, for Mojo to cast the spells on Akuma he droped the spells that were on me first, thats why i backed time up to account for me getting onto the roof.

<< Nevermind >>

I'm probably missing something. What I thought was happening is that Rowan was going to the roof and then going inside while Akuma was going to wait inside as backup. The spells cast were set 1) erroneous (this set was dropped), set 2) on Rowan to get him to the roof, and set 3) on Rowan once he was on the roof for the breakin.

I think I was mixing up Akuma and Rowan's roles in the breakin. Anyway, if Akuma needs spells cast on him, it might get difficult/interesting, and I'll need to roll those at the increased drain codes and TNs (which I haven't already).

Akuma is going inside and taking out the guards, then moving into the room from there. Rowan is going to the roof, then repelling down and coming in through the window. Please don't drop the spells on me.

Is Akuma trying to peak into the area with the guars? You can hear some activity from the nurse's station -- perhaps two voices -- maybe three, you're not sure.

-- Dash --

Stealth check (+5 for mundanes, normal versus the mage if he is perceiving the astral and looking in my direction): 14 09 01 03 05 10 14

Perception check to see whats going on: 04 03 02 03 16 04

I'd probably want to peek in on the cameras at this point. Preferrably the hallway camera and Gio's room (if it's not covered anymore). I should know where the camera station is, I still need a spoof test to watch the feeds, right?

Spoof-6: 11,11,11,5,5,5,4,4,3,3,3,3,3,2,2,1,1

Damn -- nice rolling -- that'll get you a look

@p. fogg

I modified a perception test giving it a +2 for trying to be discreet while suspended from a rope and peeking in the window. Espcially considering you probably went down feet-first as any normal person would climp and not head first, so peeking discretely through a window below you would suck. Results are posted on the IC thread.

Rowans climbing roll : 04 07 02 05
Rowans stealthyness when she looks
in the corner of the window: 05 01 05 01 01 13 04
Rowans Perception roll: 01 05 04 02 05 05

Browse to find the alarms subsystem...just in case.

Browse-6: 20 (why can't I get those kind of rolls when i NEED them?),5,5,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,3,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,1

Ok, lets try that again...

First things first, Sensor test: 9,5,3
Secondly, Browse-6: 05 02 01 05 03 01 01 08 10 02 10 04 02 02 02 03 04 10 08

Once Rowan cuts the window, she plans on drawing her narcojet pistol and openning the window...

Elfie and I just made the rolls off-line and posted the results of his matrix combat. Seemed easier than working on the boards -- faster, too.

Rowan climbing check (if needed to get beside the window and not in plain view): 03 07 01 04

Rowan stealth check (hoping the gaurds wont notice her): 04 02 01 05 02 04 11

Rowans surpise test (if need be): 07 07 08 04 05 02 04

Rowans initiive (if need be): 7 + (03 + 01) = 11

If the gaurds dont notice her, and walk back out of the room, thats fine, Rowan will wait a bit before sneaking back in. If they notice something is amiss, then we will see where it goes from there.

Dash, are the door locks on the matrix at all, by any chance? This is all just a thought, but if they are, I could try to stall the guards from getting in the room while Rowan makes a quick snatch. Of course, that's all just speculation.

You don't know -- you could try to locate the door locks, though

Rowan is shielded by a force 5 stealth (5 successes) spell which should make noise negligible. Also, there's a force 5 improved invisibility (also 5 successes) on top of that.

Stealth only protects against noise that she makes -- the very very slight noise that she would make as she turns the glass cutter is not heard, but the scratching of the cutter on the glass, the pop as it leaves the glass and the ringing of the pane that the vibration caused did make noise.

Works the same as Akuma -- if he takes a shot, it won't make a noise because of the spell, but the guards will cry out, the slug will hit them and make a thump, etc.

-- Dash --

Rowan looks for boobie traps around the window Perception test: 04 01 04 03 03 03

If its clear Rowan slips into the room, and takes a quick look around, trying not to be seen or heard. Stealth roll: 03 03 09 03 05 03 03

Anybody home? If not then she looks around more thourougly, first for boobie traps, second for anything else of importance.

She looks around assuming she isnt caught (looking for boobie traps of any kind), Perception test: 09 05 01 04 03 01

As a note -- the semester is over for Elfie and I and I know he was moving home for the break this weekend -- probaly causing the delay.

-- Dash --

Yeah, sorry for the delay, I'm at home without my character sheet.

So it's probably be easier to pull up Gio's chart to see if he was moved. If that shows up as nothing, I'd want to look for a memo indicating prisoner movement. Since the guards are still outside I'm thinking Sophia magicked him somewhere else (or they could still be in the room ).

Dash, you should have my sheet, you can make the rolls as you see fit. I'd probably want to check the cameras first, since if the guards are still there, then he probably wasn't 'officially' moved. If that's fruitless, I'd like to check his file and/or hospital records of prisoner movement. Any IC I destroy, suppress with my hacking pool. My sensor is halved because of the doubling of my Masking.

Sounds good. I'll do the rolling below and post the results on the IC thread. FYI: I uploaded the .htm for your character to my website.

Remember: locate file is an interogative op, therefore you need 5 successes before it's successful.

Locate File: (3 successes)
Locate File: (1 success)
Locate File: (0 successes) *shit man, you're going the wrong way!!*

At this point you noticed the activation of a Probe IC. Recognizing it from the last one you fried (in the previous matrix run) so you blast it. Finishing your interrogative operation (c'mon swartz....)

Locate File: (0 successes) *stupid swartz*
Locate File: (1 success) -- that'll do it

Anticipating the fact that after you find out where's he's gone to, you'll want to take a peak there as well, I'm going to roll up the number of rolls it takes you to see into the room and see into the hallway. Then, let me know which one you want or both. Any cybercombat that takes place as a reslt of your actions to find these two cameras we'll save until you tell me which one you want in which order.

To find hallway camera: 4 rolls
To find room camera: 6 rolls

let me know if you want to do one, the other, or both. Then, we can resolve any necessary cybercombat.

Grey -- I wonder if we're misunderstanding each other or if you're misreading the maps I made (as much my fault as yours -- not trying to assign blame ). Made a smaller graphic of the important area of floor 4 here. I think that you thought the elevator opened the other way.

When I made the blueprints I neglected to mark which way the elevators opened, but they always open into that large open space which is a small sitting area.

Does that change what you want to do?

Also, if you're wondering, I didn't pick room 422 on purpose because I knew you were working on a windowed escape -- i rolled three six sided dice and that was the result. I didn't even realize there wasn't a window there until Grey said something *blush*

Instead of hiding near the storage room, he'll go north, then head west and peek around the corner to see whats going on outside that room.

I'll edit my post.

Edited the post and I'll throw in a perception test just in case.

Perception: 11 11 05 04 04 01 #D:6 TN:4 HR:11 S:5

(nice, the updated dice roller sorts the roll and gives the stats )

OK, so first off, I'd look into the room to verify he's there, and who's with him. Second, I'd look into the hallway camera to see what's guarding him. Any combat I'd get into, I'd try to be conservative with my hacking dice for improvised defense, but I'd still use some for extra punch on my attack-D.

And that's not the correct file. I had a couple of minor changes after that one, like the middle lifestyle, but nothing relevant to what's happening now, the hacking pools and programs are all the same.

Dash, what do I see in the hallway when I peek around the wall?