Date Mayhem

Okay, just noticed that August 15, 2070 is a Friday, and anally spent the last half hour trying to figure out what happened.
The porn convention was correctly dated - the night of Tuesday 8/12, crossing over into wee hours of Wednesday 8/13. Somewhere in the daylight hours of Wednesday, it stayed Wednesday but became the 14th by the time you entered the S&M Disneyland. So now, the next day, you are on the 15th when it should be the 14th. I have no idea how it became Monday.

So - the current TIME is correct, but the date should be 8/14/70, and it is Thursday.
This is important to me - once time becomes arbitrary, all else becomes meaningless.
From now, please use the correct date noted above in future posts. It won't change anything in the past, and will accurately reflect the actual passage of time.

Unless you are totally bored with nothing to do, there is simply no need to try going back and editing correct dates into past posts.
We'll just get back on track right now and that'll be good.

Will do Adamu!

Sorry about the mixup somewhere along the way... I'll probably go back and edit Etain posts to fix it when I have the time.

Well - that would be cool - but it's a lot of fixing. No real need to do it unless your as anal as I am and have a lot more free time than I do!

And no need to apologize. Trying to see where the mistake had started, I think I found errors by all five of us here or there.

WHAT?!?! Us make errors?!?! Surely you jest!

I'll get an arrival post up at the Docks tomorrow.. unless MJ beats me to it, or anyone makes a comm call/text message to the twins along the way.

@BR

Need to know if you took a gun.

In my upcoming IC post, I need to get physical descriptions of the gangers in, so I am going to use Carla's POV. Not intended as posting for you - you'll only be in as a set of eyes seeing the three gangers.

And speaking of the gangers - here is the deal. You control them strategically, but I will handle the tactical micromanagement. In other words, where you post them, what you generally assign them to do, that is up to Carla to decide, EXCEPT only St. Pierre will actually go into one of the bars - he uses the other two for perimeter stuff (what they actually do in an emergency, I will decide). But when it comes to rolling for them and having them fight or whatever, I will handle them.

@MK

You didn't post rolls for your three matrix searches. I agree that you don't really need to by this point - I know you just buy successes. I will have the agent divide the drive time evenly between the three tasks and give you the results in an IC post.

@EVERYONE - It has been a LONG time since everyone gave IC physical desctiptions of themselves, and most of your appearances have changed to one degree or another. Would appreciate some appearance details thrown into subsequent posts over the next few cycles - you don't have to do a full work-up if you are not inclined, but salient features, especially things that might have changed would be dandy.

You got that totally right, Adamu, intended to do a clarifying OOC for the datasearches today, but you allrady gave me exactly what I wanted

EDIT: For that 'change' in John´s appearence, just think 8 mm or Munich, just more subtile.

Sorry for the delay, folks; I should be able to get a post up tonight.

In the meantime, Carla will have the team head over to Humpty Dump's first.

You or someone else will need to IC that. Please, people be fairly detailed about that -
Note that Conall will probably have to lead the way - the place is hard to find, and he's already studied the maps.
Where do you park? What do you do with the gangers? Who is headed in? Once you enter, I will describe the place IC.

Also please don't forget that, per the rules of thumb posted above, from the time of entering the waterfront area, it takes about 15 minutes to navigate to either location.

HOUSE RULE UPDATE

This is just for you addicts out there -
My previous rules was that if you fail three resistance checks against taking your drug in a row, your addiction escalated a notch.

Someone just pointed out to me some real flaws with that system.

So from now on, it is every 10 times you take the drug - either dice-forced or RP-voluntarily - every ten times in a row without ever succeeding in a resistance test and turning down the drug for 24 hours. So ten times taking the drug in a row with no successful resistance jacks you up an addiction notch.

Addicts, we'll start this now, so if you could please keep a tally yourselves on that (resetting every time you resist, of course) I would appreciate it.

Included the new addiction rules on the wiki

BR - reading your latest IC post, I fear there may be some slight disconnect, so just in case that is true, I want to clear it up now. To wit, St. Pierre is the only troll in your group. Bandito and the Padre, like most Los Locos, are humans.

If your plural uses of troll were just typos, no worries.

No worries anyway, really, just want us all to be on the same page.

Thank you. I really do appreciate it.

BR - since it seems you plan to stay in the van, I don't suppose it matters quite yet. But after you all got underway, Georges will have stowed away his collection of spare weapons. So I still need to know whether or not you took a gun.

Okay - you guys will arrive in the vicinity of Humpty's Dump at 20:53ish.

Whoever ICs next, feel free to jump forward to that point if you want. Or, of course if anyone has any RP or actions they want to do during that 15 minutes, that is fine, too.

Helpful information I provide based on Carla's plan.

* Pretty much everywhere is illegal to park, but that is obviously ignored. Parking the bike won't be hard. I will need to know how far away and such.

* Unless Carla gives more specific instructions, Padre will drop Bandito off about a couple of blocks before you reach the bar, to watch that side. He'll drop Krait off wherever he sees the bike stop. Then he'll park a block away on the other side of the bar from Bandito, and the three of you will take up your watch. Again, that is only what he will do if no one tells him to do something else, and I provide the info for the use of whoever makes an IC post of your arrival.

Oh, and BR & MK - thanx for the descriptions - great stuff.

Will not be at home and thus out of touch untill fryday, though I can probably read stuff at work..

Oh, sorry about that, adamu. Carla didn't take a gun before leaving.

Boppity boopy!

Casting Force 2 Increased Reflexes
Rolls: 2 hits
Sustained with Force 2 Sustaining Focus
Drain 2S
Rolls : 3 hits
No Drain

Casting Force 2 Combat Sense
Rolls: 1 hit
Sustained with Force 4 Sustaining Focus
Drain 3S
Rolls: : 3 hits
No Drain

Okay, so I just want to be totally clear based on IC posted so far -

Krait going in alone first, then twins follow? If so, at what interval? Will they be with him or separate from him after they go in?

MK - once I have confirmation that you have gone in, I will do an IC describing Humpty Dumpty's interior. Any particular sorts of points you'd like me to focus on?

I the twins are entering at least some time after me, since they did park a short distance away, while I have been exiting the car relatively close. We´ll stay separate.

I´ll take a look around, as if I´m looking for someone (but casually only), while moving to the bathroom. I especialy want to look for additional exits, any patrons that might cause trouble if violence erupts - especially anyone carrying weapons, as well as any patrons that might be fixers or dealers. And of course I´ll be looking for EJ and anyone that could possible be his partner -the fast woman from the video (judging from size and stature, as everything elsa was blured) as well as any non-caucasian females in general, especially those that might make good faces.

Rock on, I was hoping DV was at the Dump.

Muahahahaha..

I think MK has it about right... Twins in shortly after him, maybe a minute or so after (3 elves walking into this place are likely to draw attention no matter how much distance between their arrivals) and at least that way Krait can't get into TOO much trouble on his own (I hope ) I'd imagine the twins would stick together, at least in relative proximity to one another... or Conall between Krait and Etain so he can get to eithers side in a reasonable time if anything gets hinky. Granted I can't speak for MJ and what's in his head for Conall... Basically Etain will listen to her brother first, Krait/Carla second unless he's putting himself in outright danger (a la Ground Zero) and then she won't leave but will try to help him.

One more thing... has Krait shared the information about Vanity (any additional details that the twins didn't get out of Ricky) with the twins/rest of the group?

Also, Adamu did the twins get any type of look at an image of EJ and Vanity together/separate in Ricky's "book" of work?

Uh, oh. I have been found out

Hehe, welcome aboard "officially' DV. Good to have a new (and familiar) face in the group.

No, the results of the datasearches have not been sent to anyone except Carla, for paranoid network-security reasons.

EDIT: Yep, welcome, DV, see you @ Humpty´s Dump

Allow me to extend a welcome to DV as well.

Good thing we came to Humpty's Dump - otherwise this would have been a sloooowww mission.

BR

I thought Adamu said that St. Pierre was the ONLY troll in the van and it appears that he had let out his human companions Bandit and the Padre along the way to scout the perimeter.

Just wondering based on your last IC post....

Oh, let me re-read the IC description. I thought the plan was for the trolls to wait in the van while the elves went into the restaurant.

EDIT: My understanding is that only Bandito was let out of the van.

BR, see Adamu's previous post further up the page You're right about Bandito being the only one let out, except he and Padre aren't Trolls, only St. Pierre is.

Oh darn - I must have been skipping over posts or something. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

6 hits for Perception - made some assumtions in my IC, can Edit everything out you think I won´t spot of course.

3 hits for Etiquette, to fit in, even with massive mali for being an elf and what not, so spoting me as an outsider should be Perception (3).

3 hits for Shadowing, to make my scouting less obvious -looking like I´m searching for a colegue would still be fine- though this number of hist will be reduced in case I get any mali.



EDIT: BTW, did not intend to make any pause before entering the bar, thought walking from the van to the door should be enough time to send the message to the twins, but alas ...

EDIT2: Would like to scan wifi for any hidden nodes. p. 225, Electronic Warfare+Scan (15+, 1 CT). Buying hits (2 per CT, 18 hits max.). Will take 24 to 27 seconds.

Perception Roll to see what's outside the van: 4 Intuition + 3 Perception - 2 Partial Light (I figure the combination of night and lighting from surrounding establishments makes for partial lighting) = 5 dice

6, 4, 3, 4, 6 = 2 hits.

If I understand correctly, the timestamp at the top is the time your post ends. This matched the time signature from when the message was sent, so I figured it was the last thing you did before stepping through the door. Now, when I first read it, I thought the heavy sigh was frustration with having to give seemingly redundant instructions, and THEN you got into character as the worn-out shift supervisor. Rereading, I realize it could be interpreted another way- that the heavy sigh was PART of the shirt supervisor persona. Even if I didn't see you pause and get into character at the door, an elf in a business suit would be enough for me to tag you as unusual, and I am confident I can get at least 4 successes on a perception test. If you want me to go back, roll perception, and then edit my post, I will.

It´s all fine, no need to edit anything. It really dosn´t make that much of a difference. Just wanted to clarify my original intentions with the IC.

No.

Okay - looks like with confirmation that you are all in the same place, hearty welcomes have been extended to Divine Virus.

For those that don't know him, DV is, in my opinion, an outstanding SR player, and I am glad to have him with us.

Now is as good a time as any to address some of the concern, a few posts above, regarding IC posts of perceptions of each other, and edits thereto.

For now, everyone please assume that I am watching that sort of thing very carefully. I know that y'all are largely unaware of what's going on and who's who, and I also know that some of your characters are designed to be very very strong perception-wise.

I am seeing spoilers and PMs of various actions and die rolls, all of which let me adjudicate all this perceptionizing.

So far, nothing in IC has in any way overstepped the bounds of what your characters could perceive in game terms. All in all great job of assessing what was reasonable, not meta-gaming, and keeping things moving.

There may be some slight discrepancies when people add fluff to their posts of observing others. That is something we should just be mellow about unless it is really relevant to game effects, or else the whole thread will get sterile from everyone being afraid to say ANYTHING about the other characters.

If anything needs to be edited, trust me, I will say so.

If you really think I missed something, which is possible, let me know.

I also really want to thank MK Ultra for taking the initiative and, upon seeing that he was in the same place as Divine Virus' character, want ahead and did his own description based on my earlier post. Saved me a lot of work!

One small point I would like to clarify -



Just so we are clear - south wall is front door; east wall is bar with two doors behind it. The two bathroom doors are also on the EAST wall, north of the bar and behind the games. Then on the West wall is the stage, with two unmarked doors.

MK - yes, your map shows that one of those doors is an emergency exit.

You have a clear view of the front door. You see Krait go in. You can see the twins leaving the alley across the street, heading for the front door but taking their time.

There is light pedestian and vehicle traffic. The people you see on the street follow the same demographics as in the bar - 80% male; maybe 50% human, 30% ork, 15% troll, 5% dwarf. Mixed ethnicities. All look like dock workers or people that would spend time with dock workers.

I will apply this roll on an ongoing basis as you keep watch out front.

@MK - you will find the responses to most of your perception tests in my upcoming IC post. Yes, you are still getting looks from the patrons - you are an elf in a suit and that is the way it is - but it really would have been a LOT worse without your Etiquette and Shadowing successes.

Not enough time has passed for the Scan to complete.

@Adamu

Thanks for the confirmation. Didn't want to assume and I wanted to know/clarify just what information either of the twins knew before going in. Looks like they can spot EJ and Krait and that's about it

Was also waiting till MK got "settled" inside a bit before posting the twin's entrance from either myself or MJ. I'll try to get that up today.

Yeah, Vegas, he's in there now.

Everyone should post at will. A lot will be simultaneous, so even if everyone posts forward 10 or 20 or 30 seconds, there is no need for the timeline overall to progress more than 20 or 30 seconds. In other words, feel free to overlap posts as long as nothing conflicts directly.

I'm pulling a bit of an MK Ultra here, only with not nearly as many dice


Trying to fit in more than just scenester clothing + appearance, looking more confident than apprehensive as she approaches the bar at least


and as they're heading towards the bar...looking around for EJ

@Vegas -

You don't see EJ, though as with BlueRondo, I will take your perception test for him as an ongoing state.

Your etiquette successes are noted, and will help you - though as I warned MK, they don't change the fact that your are a hottie elf in a human/ork dockworker bar.

Finally, no fault of yours, and I expected there would be some slight time-warping, but the easiest way to keep everything on track right now would be for you to move your last timestamp back 20 seconds - i.e. from 20:54:23 to 20:54:03. I would appreciate it.

@MK - not sure who you are focusing on with "beauty and the beast." My best guess is the good looking Hispanic and the troll - so assume you can hear that conversation for now.

If you want to try for info on the African-American woman, as you said, I will need your IC approach. And how about a roll for your asking about her and the blond woman...

Will do (allready planed for that, but had no time to roll) ... but maybe not before tomorrow night, cuz I will be home late today. Would do the Afro-IC, after I got a Blond-Result.

Beauty and The Beast was the correct guess.

Adamu

Moved the timestamp back, don't really want to because it REALLY compresses the "Krait enters and then 30 seconds later Conall and Etain enter" bit, but that's fine...

I posted only because i didn't want to get hit with a force forward post (72 hours since last post deal).. I suppose it doesn't really matter over all.

For now, Conall will just do his best to mind his own business, sit a the bar and do his best to get a pint.

Vegas - sorry - really didn't mean to cramp your style. Reckon the content of your post stayed intact, it just went more...efficiently...in game time.

Trick is, we've got some players sort of racing to complete some very time-critical tasks, so time is a bit compressed. But at the same time, very much want everyone to be able to participate.

Anyway -

EVERYONE - looks like we are out of Intensive Care, as posting is back to normal and the game is really cooking along now. Sorry for the draconian measures.
So the 72-hour rule is off - just post as you are inclined - although the way things are going down, I would advise folk to keep an eye on the board, or they may get left behind by the flow of events without maybe getting to do things they wanted to (if you have things you are waiting to do upon certain conditions, and don't want to have to watch the board 24-7, feel free to let me know about it).

So back to normal unless we slip back into the doldrums or we have any long, unannounced absences.

I think you got your blond result already - unless you want to press it, bartender said he didn't know, as he had just started working here.

By the time you catch up with my latest timestamp, you can assume the bartender is back talking to you after serving beers to the twins. So you can ask about the black woman whenever you like.

Adamu, in addition to the lack of driver, is the suzuki a stand-out car in this type of neighborhood (as in it's higher-class than anything else you'd expect to see there)?

No - a lot of dockworkers could afford it. But it tends to take a very expensive pilot program for a bike to pilot itself, and also it can be a big security risk to have an unattended bike with the engine running. For those reasons, it seems out of place here.