Crap.

Oh man... I just got a wicked idea, but its just too over the top.

Akuma pulls out his Dikoted Katana and cuts into the flooring of the car, making room for himself to get at the bug.

Could be possible to pull off, but getting the right leverage while under the car seat could really suck.

I edited my IC post. I didn't realize you ment the bug was under the car.

Quick thing, my cell phone VIBRATES. any shadowrunner worth his salt wouldn't leave a cell phone on 'ring' just because of this reason.

second thing, is it possible to plug in the cell phone to my data jack, so I could use the transucer to talk without making any noise?

Ooh, Ooh, I think I might know who the turncoat is...

...but then again, I'm never good at picking these things.

Elfie: vibrating phone noted. Also, assume your comunications are being performed through the transducer as per Grey's description, whose rules-fu is strong tonight. Also, were you right?

PFogg: sorry I couldn't give you much for a "peek" into the kitchen. If you look on the image I linked above, you can see that the doors into the kitchen open in and with the indicated direction of swing, you're mostly looking at the south wall of the kitchen (using the image's orientation).

Blitz: let me know the force of the spirit you wanted and what type -- a watcher? -- and I'll roll everything up for you. Oh, and props for realizing that it wasn't a double cross!

Im good like that

Actually, I had written up my OOC post, but somehow never posted it.

Just a force 4 standard city spirit.


And do I know the dwarf's name???

Rowans Percption test (Looking for any booby traps): 11 09 05 04 03 01 #D:6 TN:4 HR:11 S:4

Rowans stealth test (Trying to not make noise as she walks around): 09 08 04 03 03 02 02 #D:7 TN:4 HR:9 S:3

Finally, just so you know, she brought her pack, which was holding jsut about everything.

If the door is clear, she quickly opens the door, stepping into the kitchen with her Gaurdian drawn and ready

Reaction test (in case of surprise): 11 07 07 05 04 02 02 #D:7 TN:4 HR:11 S:5

Blitz:
Conjuring (5): 17 05 05 04 01 01 #D:6 TN:4 HR:17 S:3 <-- good deal!
Drain 5M: 17 05 03 02 01 01 #D:6 TN:4 HR:17 S:2 <-- light drain

You had some drain from an earlier influence spell, so I added one to the TN to reflect this but you still made off pretty will for this one. Three services but one more box of drain.

Eflie:
Good deal on the guess. Only thing is that Alessandro was the Johnson and Jimmy was the Fixer, but that's okay.

Perception: 10 10 05 05 03 03 #D:6 TN:4 HR:10 S:4
Surprise: 11 11 04 02 01 01 01 #D:7 TN:4 HR:11 S:3

Rowan continues to walks as quietly as possible into the dining room.

I just used that perception test for everything. Figured you wouldn't mind with four successes and all

Akuma has an area knowledge of Greater Seattle, would that help us figure out a good place to go?

Area Knowledge: 11 11 05 03 03

Dont mind at all.. Rowans going to go through rooms much like she has in the past two rooms, trying to make sure the place is safe. I somehow get the feeling the house might explode at any moment, so in addition to looking through the rooms, she wants to try to find the most likely place for a bomb and make sure the place is clean, so she will haed in that direction. She also wants to identify the symbol.

A few rolls if you need them
Identify the sigil (defaulting to Int): 11 05 05 04 02 02 #D:6 TN:8 HR:11 S:1
Perception: 05 05 04 02 01 01 #D:6 TN:4 HR:5 S:3
Demolitions: 07 05 04 03 #D:4 TN:4 HR:7 S:3
Reaction: 13 04 04 04 03 02 01 #D:7 TN:4 HR:13 S:4

I think thats everything, if you need to roll anything else, just do so for me.

I rolled to see if Alice would speak up with an idea, and I got 21 09 04 03 02 02. Considering that 21, I decided she would speak up with another alternative.

Oh, PFogg, did Rowan look at the note yet?

Wait...I thought we discussed his health in PM's prior to my joining the open game. I have heal and I DEFINATELY would have healed him at the hospital if they hadn't provided a mage for that task.

Hrm ... I honestly don't recall. I think I have all of the PMs between us on my laptop where I have all of my notes. Let me look when I get back. It's entirely possible that it was in a message with a bunch of other info and I missed it. *shrugs* If so, then we'll just remove Mojo's healing attempt let you give it a shot. Makes more sense that you do it, anyway.

You know what -- I like that better, seems to fit. Let me know how much spell pool you want to have used previously and I'll edit the IC posts now.

Since it was at the hospital, I would have used all spell pool for the test, not the drain....

It's been so long since we did the meet, that I thought Jimmy was our Johnson. I forgot about Alessandro totally, so I meant Jimmy even though I kept saying our Johnson.

Elfie: I figured, that's why I mentioned it.

Healing Roll: 15 11 10 09 05 04 04 03 02 01 01 01 #D:12 TN:10 H#:15 S:3
Karma Re-Roll: 15 11 05 05 05 04 03 03 02 #D:9 TN:10 H#:15 S:2
Drain 3S: 05 05 04 04 03 03 #D:6 TN:3 H#:5 S:6 <--- NO DRAIN!!

Damn, that was nice. So, if you want to use the re-roll on your karma point for the second roll you'd have 5 successes to split amoung healing and reducing the base time. Let me know how you want to do it. If you use your karma pool for that one you wouldn't have it back, yet. I usually run that you can use your karma pool once per run.

Rowan would have looked at the note, yes.

What do you mean, reducing base time? I thought healing was simply success = # of boxes healed up to max force of spell.

Nope. Say you get 5 successes. You can heal 4 boxes and use 1 success to half the time you need to sustain the spell to make it permanent.

Right -- concidering you had a lot of time, you could just heal the 5 boxes and he'd be doing a lot better, but if you think that Sophia would have been worried about getting caught, then you might have wanted to speed things up a little.

Anyway, here's what Sophia knows about Medea, since Duster just dropped her name. Since the rest of you haven't heard about her yet in characeter, concider this information for Blitz alone, but since Blitz will eventually end up explaining things to you IC, I decided to just put it here and not in a PM to Blitz alone. Plus, this is just easier.

Medea Caroletto is a cousin of yours known for her vindictive nature. She's a mage that is extremely potent and is known for using elementals to help her get things done. She's also the one that Gio was trying to tango with that got him all banged up. She's one of the family's favorite assets since she's also knowledgable about the Astral plane, and as a result, she's often been an asset in an information gathering way. She was one of the first of your family in this area as your family began to try to take operations away from the Rosselis.

As soon as Alice pulls over, Akuma will jump out and crawl under the drivers seat with his bug scanner. Finding the bug shouldn't be a problem, I already have a lock on it. I'll then try to remove it, which should be a standard Electronics B/R test.

Electronics B/R (+1 die from Enhanced Articulation): 10 05 04 02 01 #D:5 TN:4 H#:10 S:3

Really? No matter, that's only useful in combat situations and at the time she would have done the healing, time would not have been a factor.

Mojo's not got anything up at the moment, but I assumed he would be prepared to stunball the car behind the team if necessary.

FYI: Medea's a woman, not a man. Doens't really matter, but it's more in keeping with greek mythology that way And the "Ray" that Gio mentioned, Blitz, is the member of Gio's family that was killed by Medea, precipitating this whole mess.

Here is a Safehouse Locations knowledge skill roll for ya: 09 05 05 05 01 #D:5 TN:4 H#:9 S:4

At home, Rowan drops off everything, but keeps her two gaurdians (both with gel rounds), 2 spare clips (gel), a smoke grenade, and her MP-5 with Ex-EX

coupla' things. One, incase it helps,

Shadowrunner haunts: 10 05 04

Two, back at Ana Mia's, Lex would probably take something of the two goons to give back to Alessandro for ID. Their guns, first (Because what good goon wouldn't carry a pistol somewhere?), if they don't have those, then liscences?

Third, Lex is loaded for bear in the SUV with all his stuff. That includes the tricked out Ares Alpha, Max Power (both with ExEx), deck, Medkit, and the electronics toolkit. Figured I wasn't gonna leave the SUV during the hospital run, so no harm in bringin all my stuff just incase.

Astral Perception on Gio. I might have missed a past attempt at this, so just tell me if it's been done, but is it possible to magically heal Gio?

Perception: 05 04 03 02 #D:4 TN:4 HR:5 S:2

Since I will be on a plane tomorrow and probably be unable to post for the day, here's a heal spell (force 5) just in case it's feasible:

Casting (7 skill + 1 pool, TN 10-Essence, max 5 boxes): 13 05 05 04 03 02 02 01 #D:8 HR:13
Drain soaking (2(damage level)): 07 05 04 04 03 03 02 01 01 #D:9 TN:2 HR:7 S:7

TinkerGnome: Thanks for the rolls, you missed Blitz and I doing that one a moment ago. Blitz healed him when Sophia and he were in the hospital. But, thanks for the initiative on the rolls anyway. Happy travelling.

Rowan: thanks for the gear update.

Elfie: the same. For the sake of saving time/space on the IC thread here's what you got off of the bodies. Their wallets were intact with ID inside. But, their holsters were empty. Who ever killed them must have disarmed them first, but you do recall that there didn't seem to be signs of a struggle.

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Moved us right to Akuma's place to keep things going on. If anyone really wanted to do anything while on their way to his place, let me know. Also, Akuma -- you're sheet that I have didn't include a lifestyle so I just gave you an middle-to-low apartment in my head. Doesn't really matter to me what level it is at the moment, but if I'm off base from what Akuma would have looked for, then consider it a safehouse that you knew of with the safehouse locations roll.

Just since I KNOW it will come up...how did I find out that Gio was going to attack Medea and how did I find out Medea had set up a trap?

You were told this through your family. I doesn't really matter who, but the story your family had was that Gio was gunning for Medea because Medea killed Ray Rosselli. When you found out that your family knew about Gio's ambush, you rushed out to try and head him off. When you got there, you found Gio being loaded into an ambulance and the rest is history. Speaking of which:

Memory(4): 17 15 05 05 02 01 #D:6 TN:4 HR:17 S:4

It's struck you as odd, though, that if Medea were going to turn the tables on Gio when he came to kill her that Gio would have been shot. Medea, after all, is a mage and an accomplished one at that.

I plan on heading directly to my father...but Im not sure if you plan on putting obsticles on place to make it difficult.

Tempting, but I want to see what you're going to tell him

Hi everyone: a message, I just organized my files for the website I've set aside with character sheets etc. As a result, any links that I posted to pictures and what not are broken. If you need anything, ask me because I didn't delete anything, just moved most of it around.

I'll get back to the IC thread later if I can but I have plans tonight. Enjoy Friday, everyone!!

Im assuming it's one of those locations nobody ever knew about...he taught her how to drive young...like 14 and against his wife's wishes so it was always their secret.

I didn't get a chance to post this yesterday, but Akuma has his phone line tapped so he can record calls. He is currently listening in on Gio's conversation.

I just posted the conversation you heard on the IC thread figuring that you would fill the others in on what you heard anyway. Good thought, too

Hey all but Blitz: If you have a conversation to do between the characters while Sophia and Gio are not in the room, go for it.

Blitz: hold up for a moment and see if the others want to do anything before Gio and Sophia get back.

If you guys just want to discuss matters with Gio and Sophia there, then just post after Gio's comment on the IC thread and leave things as they are.

WHoops....sorry...read the IC thread before the OOC....

Blitz: No problem. Looks like people are following your lead anyway

Everyone: For this and other games that I'm running, I put together a data-driven website that will track damage for people. It's here: http://fp1.cc.lehigh.edu/djg7/index.asp. You should be able to see your characters and then click on their names to see their current damage record. Figured it would be handy if anyone in the group actually ever suffers damage!!

Link is broken. "The page cannot be found"

Dash, I believe we are waiting on you to post IC and get the game going foward.

weird -- works fine for me. I did have it broken for about 10 seconds and then fixed it -- maybe that's it

I know, I was kinda hanging out for a moment waiting to see if anyone had any posts to do and getting that program running. Moving on .... now .....