BlueRondo

That weird double-short-post I just did was only because the computer was glitching on me - it posted my first short IC post twice, and I didn't want that in the IC thread, so I just made something up to edit in in its place.

At this point, feel free to keep talking with St. Pierre. Or shift to another scene. Whatever.
If you want to talk to Miguel, go ahead and move in that direction, either in this scene or another.

BlueRondo

That weird double-short-post I just did was only because the computer was glitching on me - it posted my first short IC post twice, and I didn't want that in the IC thread, so I just made something up to edit in in its place.

At this point, feel free to keep talking with St. Pierre. Or shift to another scene. Whatever.
If you want to talk to Miguel, go ahead and move in that direction, either in this scene or another.

Damn, there it goes again. I wonder if it's all adding to my post-count...

Okay, just so everyone knows what is up with posting activity/replies - I will of course continue trying to get as much done every day as possible, but from tomorrow I plan to prioritize Ankle Biter's story as much as possible.

Okay, just so everyone knows what is up with posting activity/replies - I will of course continue trying to get as much done every day as possible, but from tomorrow I plan to prioritize Ankle Biter's story as much as possible.

No fair! I´m the one in need of extra post-count

2nd wave, John

I just made some judge intention rolls for the boardmembers and Kip, to guesstimate the effect of my little speech - I mean, am I in even deeper shit then before, having lost the old boys´ sympathy, or are they just hurrying to check if Kip´s dady is into this move? (next IC will elaborate a bit, what I´m looking for, too). Let me know, if you want another social skill roll from me as well.

I'm getting the double-post problem now as well.

Me too!

Crap, was hoping that would double. That would have been funny.

Electra - First wave.
Blimey, getting a pririty story, that'll go to my head.

Err, hope I haven't been slowing things up for you guys.

Dude, since you are still on a solo track, there is no way you could have been slowing anyone up.

One very important roll I forgot to ask for - Infiltration!

Actually, give me about five of those as soon as you have the chance.

2nd wave, John

Cool
Will probably have my next IC up tonight.

EDIT: Do you guys actually hit the 'ad reply' button twice or dos it doublepost for you automatically, when the error appears? Cause it dosn´t for me

It gives me the error message about one out of three times, even after I discontinued e-mail notifications, which the admin post implied might help.

What I do now is, if I get the error message, hit "go back", and then when it goes back to the draft of my message, I hit "cancel post". This has worked consistently for me.

Ankle Biter

Never mind about the Infil rolls - I don't want to make you wait so will roll those for you.

Ankle Biter

No surprise, you both saw quite neatly through each other's stealth/concealment.

Composure clearly fine based on your earlier roll.

Need initiative and declarations and rolls etc.

BlueRondo

Well, your last IC post looks like the end of that scene. See my earlier OOC post - ball is in your court now - you can let as much or as little time go by as you like - but whatever you want to do next, post IC to get the ball rolling or just let me know OOC or by PM (but I'll probably STILL just ask you to make an IC post to get the ball rolling!).

Say, adamu, did you get two PMs from me? When I sent the first one, I got the same error message that's causing the double-posts, so I don't know if it went through or not.

BlueRondo

I have gotten exactly one PM from you, dated Dec. 12th. I will respond to it at length as soon as I get the chance.

For now, yes, you are right that contacting Miguel should be no problem. He is at your grandmother's house most evenings, so even if you still want to keep your distance from her in order to screen her from the troubles of your life, you will know where he is and he should be easy to reach.
And yes, he is at Mass every Sunday morning, and although he has his entourage and special balcony, you feel you would be allowed to approach him.
Or you could try to go through St. Pierre or one of the priests, all of whom seem to have access.
Go ahead and IC moving forward with that for now.

BlueRondo

I have gotten exactly one PM from you, dated Dec. 12th. I will respond to it at length as soon as I get the chance.

For now, yes, you are right that contacting Miguel should be no problem. He is at your grandmother's house most evenings, so even if you still want to keep your distance from her in order to screen her from the troubles of your life, you will know where he is and he should be easy to reach.
And yes, he is at Mass every Sunday morning, and although he has his entourage and special balcony, you feel you would be allowed to approach him.
Or you could try to go through St. Pierre or one of the priests, all of whom seem to have access.
Go ahead and IC moving forward with that for now.

Damn, my new "stop the double post" trick didn't work that time....

BlueRondo

I have now sent you two PMs - one long, one short, neither crucial. Please let me know which if any you got. And maybe satisfy my curiousity as to whether the e-mail I missed was anything important (I got one with cool questions, but you said you sent two?).
Anyone know if they are going to fix this current glitch?
Oh well, guess it's hard to complain about a free service!

2nd wave, John

Sorry didn´t gat my IC post for you done this morning. You can blame 9 Dragons (wasn´t realy because of that ). Anyway, I´m quiet sure I´ll get it done tonight - unless L5R-O-Mania gets me again and I have to read through old samurai-RPG-sorcebooks all night again
Of course officially I´ll claim that I just want to help you in priorityrizing Electra´s story

Well, since, like Ankle Biter, you are still in a solo story thread, taking your time doesn't slow anyone down.
I look forward to your post when it arrives.

Oh, my initial PM just said that I might be out all week studying for finals, but obviously I'm not quite that disciplined.

BlueRondo, I feel with you! I couldn´t resist either, when I better should have learned some more

Adamu, very cool Conell-scene
Oh, and btw, thanks again for notifying the admins about my problem

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2nd wave, John

Ok, basically I try to persuade Kip, that handling me like a mad-magician-mass-murderer only makes him look weak, so hegives me a bit more room to breath.

The most important points are as follows in that order of importance.

-not have my headware scanned: While I really won´t keep stuff I have on headmemfor long, I still would want to spare me the humiliation and have some data to crunch, until I can access some secret data-archive -unless I get killed one way or theother before. So in the long run, it makes no big difference IC or OOC.

-gain some time, to gather personal stuff (pictures and stuff like that) from my office and appartment in the HQ. (EDIT: If that dosn´t work, I´ll have him explain his demands exactly, to gain more time - reading everything up and asking more questions about technicalities, if he cites paragraphes again EDIT-END)

-gain Kob Parker´s and/or Alice Mon´s assistence to gather my belongings and escort me outside

-EDIT: Earn the ability to make comm-calls. I know this will be quiet hard to get, thus it´s at the end of my list EDIT-END

Another question is, to what extend I´d keep my regular lifestyle till trail - though I probably won´t use much if any of it.

Here is a social roll - negotiation I guess, as usual without modifires

MK Ultra

Okay, you got a fat critical success on the negotiation roll - I hope that Edge was worth it - it won't refresh until you're in Seattle....

What that success means is that you can pretty much run the situation - within one limit - and that is that you will end this scene and the scene at the apartment with not a single thing you didn't pay BP for at chargen. Go along with that and you can roleplay this any way you like.
Chalmers is weak, and afraid of you.
If you want to get Alice and/or Kob in the room with you, just IC how you do it and it'll work - that's the crit success.
If you want to persuade Mr. Korthals to approve you without doing any scans, cool - that's the crit success.
If you want to make commcalls - just IC how you persuade Chalmers to go for it - that's your crit success.
- Gathering personal stuff is no problem.

But Chalmers and the guards will rush you along - brutishly if you force them - they want you out of the office.
Once you are out of the building, they can't force you to do anything. But they tell you that they are going to clean out your apartment - so if you don't go straight there to get your stuff - it'll be gone.
And again - by the end of a couple of hours, you are out of the office and out of the apartment, with only that gear you have paid BP for.

Now, you have earned the ability to go ahead and IC for Chalmers and the guards within those parameters. Kob and/or Alice will stick with you throughout this experience.
I suppose once you are out of the apartment, you will want to discuss weightier issues with them. I will handle their responses on those things.

You can contact the runner team if you wish.

You have made many references to blackmail material. Hmmm. This isn't anything that was ever 'paid' for, and I don't recall you actually doing anything 'in game' to put this together. On the other hand, it is the sort of thing John would definitely have done.
Don't want a game-breaker here - so let's say you have enough personal dirt on key RFS leadership that once they fire you they are unlikely to pursue the matter further. But you do not have anything that would give Lanier or Ares serious pause.

Okay, I think that pretty much covers most of what you can and can't do in upcoming IC posts.

So IC as far forward as you like. Really far - fine. Just a little bit? Fine. I don't expect you to get through all this in one post - I am just trying to get all the issues covered in this one big OOC post, since I don't know which of these things you'll want to address first.

All cool, the black-mail stuff was realy just fluff, I didn´t expect to get anything from it but a valid point for negotiations (which dosn´t realy dependon John having anything, but on his reputation that he could and probably would). As I posted IC, John did never plan for his corporation to auto-disintegrate after his own death, so there is no really hard stuff out there to be automatically released (that would be a security issue, too, as some glitch or randomhacker hitting gold could do much damage outside the parameters it was meant to do so - that´s the doubleedged sword of paranoia, you got to be as afraid of your precautions going wrong, as of not having any ).

The rest it really neat! We´ll see if it was worth the Edge, but from a plain IC perspective it definitly was

Everyone

Just a quick status report on all the threads - want to make sure I am not forgetting anyone and that no one thinks they are waiting on me.

BlueRondo - can post, but not necessary. Wait or post.
Ankle Biter - you are up. Waiting on your post.
Mister Juan - you are up. Waiting on your post.
Vegas - In 'waiting for events to catch up' limbo. Feel free to IC post, but not for more than an hour of game time.
MK Ultra - PM answered - waiting for IC/OOC posts.

pragma & DireRadiant - in combat (?) Waiting on OOC posts.
Konsaki, BlackHat, JDragon - frozen in time - sorry. Hopefully not for much longer.
Abbandon - unconscious.

If I have any of this wrong or anyone is waiting on me, speak up. About half of you are on hold, and I am working on it, and planning tricks to minimize all this waiting in the future (I hope).

Here is my starting cash roll

Conall - The Moment of Truth
Etain - A Voice crying out in the night.
John - From the board room to the streets
Cerberus - WHo knows what's going on while you sleep?
Rocky - Breakfast of Champions
Angel - Starting work...
Smith - Trying to find the Will to do something
Carla - Actually looking to have a black cat cross her path.
Electra - Greek Wrath Incarnate... Mother look out.
Fortunato - Switching the conversation to a different.. (astral) plane
Sledge - Hurry up and wait, its' always that way.

Was wondering when you'd give us a storyline arc update DR

God, I look forward to those

Just my way of showing I'm following everyone's awesome stories.

Tune in for next weeks episodes!

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MK Ultra

Starting cash disposition looks fine.

As noted at the beginning of the Up from the Bottom thread, keeping track of your money is your job.
Note that while High lifestyle subsumes a lot of expenses, you will not have it until you reach Seattle. Outside Seattle you will soon have Street lifestyle, so will have to pay for every little thing you do (and for the time being I'll want to know of every instance when you use any SIN or fake SIN-registered cred).
As noted earlier, cost of transport to Seattle free.
Runner being paid with stolen RFS funds.

Vegas & MJ

As I am sure you could already figure out, unless you need to see something or talk to someone besides each other, you guys can converse or whatever all you want at this point.

Adamu
If Conall has the time, he'll cast Increased Reflexes at Force 2, and Combat Sens at Force 4.

Increased Reflexes
Force 2
Dicepool: 8
Rolls:4,3,3,4,6,4,2,5
Hits: 2
Drain: 3S
Dicepool: 8
Rolls: 1,6,4,3,1,3,3,6
Hits: 2
Drain Taken: 1S

Combat Sense
Force 4
Dicepool: 8
Rolls:2,5,4,3,1,2,6,4
Hits: 2
Drain: 4S
Dicepool: 8
Rolls:1,4,5,5,4,1,2,5
Hits: 3
Drain Taken: 1S

Total Drain: 2S

So thats +2 dices to all defense rolls and surprise tests, +1 to reaction and +1 IP

Here's Initiative.
Dicepool: 8
Rolls:3,4,5,1,2,3,4,2
Hits: 1
Initiative Score: 9
# of IP: 2

I'll stop here for now in case you don't want the fight to actually take place now

MJ & Vegas

All those rolls look fine.

Vegas PMed me earlier about you guys' astral state, and I should clarify here.

You have both been transported to the Metaplane of the Seelie Court through Astral Gateways (so you don't have to be an initiate, and you don't have to deal with the Dweller on the Threshhold).

Thus, you are both technically in Astral Projection.

However, the nature of this Metaplane is that while you are on it, you have all the characteristics of your physical self. So you will fight just as you would in the meat.

EXCEPT - that is all just perception. So everything will be as though you were in the meat BUT only Mana spells work - no Physical spells.

Also note that, technically, for a focus to come with you into the astral, a projecting magician must activate any foci he takes with him in advance. However, since the story essentially railroaded you onto this metaplane with no warning you'd be astrally projecting, then I will say that the 'physical-seeming nature of this Metaplane allows you to reach back to the real world and activate those sustaining foci.

Mister Juan, since your IC post has you launching right into battle, then nothing more need be said. You are about 10 meters from Patrick. He's as eager to do battle as you are.

I need your declarations and rolls for the first combat turn.

And pay close attention to the words of the queen in my final IC post.

Hmm... It is getting very interesting in the metaplanes...
That last statement by the Queen makes me wonder if Etain cant help out in some way... If there are no rules but win...

In the blue corner, leaders of the Danaan-more, the O'Donnell's.
And in the red corner, fighting for their lives as well as their name, the O'Neill's

I think it's about time for the Wonder Twin powers to activate

*ponders the last words*
*mutters something dark about no mana spells*

Well, since Patrick is a summoned spirit right now, you can dispel him or summon your own spirits to attack him.

Muahahahahahahaah..

Konsaki you are so positively evil, it's so damn cool : )

Just think of it as your character's own personal vengeance against him.

I'm a tactician, nothing evil about it. I like looking between the lines for opportunities that I can take advantage of, though without all the information (IE being the GM) I might not come out to the correct solution.

Since physical spells don't work, Conall can simply not cast Improved Reflexes on himself, since it's not a mana based spell. This should bring down his total drain to 1S, and his Initiative to 8 (1 IP).

Now, lets get down to business.

Since last thim they fought, Patrick charged him with all he had, Conall is going to hang back and wait for him to come to him... that is, if he goes first on initiative. If he does, he's going to delay his action until Patrick charges him (since they're 10 meters appart... it's likely that he will). This would count as a Defender Receiving Charge, and so, give him a +1 dice when he attacks Patrick a split second before he's on top of him.

Of course, Conall will bring out the claws.

Casting Death Touch
Force 8 (Overcasting)
Dicepool: 12
Rolls:6,1,6,5,4,1,5,1,6,1,4,4
Hits: 5
DV: 13P
Drain: 2P
Dicepool: 8
Rolls: 5,3,3,4,3,3,1,2
Drain Taken: 1P

Current State: 1P, 1S

Clawing away at Patrick
Dicepool: 8 + 2 (touch attack only) + 1 (if receiving charge)
Rolls:3,6,1,1,3,5,3,2,6,2,6
Hits: 4

If Patrick isn't charging, just bring the number of hits to 3.

Here are a few melee dodge rollsDicepool: 9 + 2 (Combat Sense)
Rolls:5,5,3,6,3,1,5,1,1,5,2
Hits: 5
Rolls:4,2,2,2,2,6,5,6,1,6,3
Hits: 4
Rolls:4,3,4,2,6,2,4,3,5,3,4
Hits: 2

And some damage soaking...
Dicepool: 4
Rolls:3,6,2,2
Hits: 1
Rolls:1,2,2,6
Hits: 1
Rolls:4,2,1,4
Hits: 0