Rules Question:

With a spell sustaining foci, can the magician to whom the foci is bonded voluntarily 'disrupt' the sustained spell at will? Page 191 doesn't talk about it and I can't find any references in Street Magic.

It says if a spell foci's spell is disrupted the magician can use the sustaining foci to sustain another spell. p. 191 SR4. Does 'deactivation' of the sustaining foci cause disruption? Can a magician use the Force 3 sustaining foci to sustain a physical barrier and then decided to dump the physical barrier and immediately cast and use the foci to sustain a detect enemies spell? Are their any tests involved or anything? Does a deactivated sustaining foci become blank, or upon activation does it immediately 'restore' the spell it was previously sustaining, because that would mean the character whose focus is snatched away from his person would have to recast the spell to get the benefit of the sustaining focus again.

I'm posting here to and elsewhere, sorry if this question doubles up.

A sustaining focus sustains the spell instead of the magician. Of course, the magician can simply deactivate the focus (a free action, p. 191 Activation), at which point the spell is no longer sustained, and then the focus is free to sustain another spell, but has to be activated again.

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Thanee

Are we waiting on anything in particular, IC? I'm well aware this is my first DS game, so maybe I just have unrealistic expectations when it comes to posting speed, or something... so no offense intended, I'm just wondering if I assumed a "roughly one post a day" schedule for players, or what. I know it sure feels like other games are whizzin' by a little faster than this, though, gang.

Usually, thats pretty much the pace. But this is always a busy time of the year for pretty much everyone. I know Vegas is pretty busy, and I damn sure know I'm crumbling under work

Like I said, I'm not tryin' to sound like a dick or anything. It's just...I mean, we're still on page 1, y'know? I'm eager to play!

This is a pretty normal occurance in PbP gaming, you simply got to have to live with it.
It's extremely rare, that games run completely smooth over months or even years.
A game should not have stalls like this too often, though.

I suppose Vegas just has a little rough time currently. Show some patience.

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Thanee

Sorry y'all.. I'm on day 11 of 12 days on in a row. Couple that with trying to find a new car and just being downright exhausted it's sapping my energy to post. I figured you all would be better off with no posts than half-assed posts from me and I was kinda winging this bit to let you guys interact and free-from this before we moved on. If you guys just want me to power ahead, I can do that too... I also didn't want to just keep going and possibly leave a few people behind either of they're not on once (or more) a day. It's a delicate balance that I'm still trying to manipulate to please everyone so basically what I'm sayin is....

Up to you guys.

Considering, that most are probably waiting for Erik to say something, some post would be good, I guess.

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Thanee

When in doubt, post. When we've got (it seems) several players who are content to do the "wait and see what everyone else posts" sort of gig, it means the "everyone else" in that equation just plain needs to post as often as possible, to keep things moving. I mean, if all anyone does is wait and see what everyone else does, nothing'll ever move forward, y'know?

That's very true.

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Thanee

Vegas assensing of Erik's 'friend'

You asked for 8 rolls and your target is 5 ... here are the results:


1: 2
2: 4
3: 6 + 4 = 10. ... Success
4: 3
5: 1
6: 3
7: 3
8: 1

1 success

That blew chunks. Oh well. And yes, all you poor benighted teammates of mine, I'm playing Apex as something of the addle-minded professor. He tends to poke his nose in where it doesn't belong, a lot. Lucky for him he has teammates who are capable of keeping said nose in the same configuration it started in.

Cedric, I suppose you are not totally familiar with 4th edition yet (judging from your above post).

You do not need to reroll your 6's anymore. The target is *always* 5, there are no modifiers, that change this. It's just a question *how many* hits (successes, as they are called these days) you score. Modifiers will always change the number of dice you roll.

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Thanee

Thanee, I know, its just that I use an on-line dice roller from third edition and then cut and paste. It's easier that way.

No big deal, I've been asked about it like three times already.

I see.

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Thanee

Whee, progress! It's a lot more fun having new posts to read than not. Sorry if I was being a pain. It just felt like everyone was stopped at a four-way stop-sign intersection, waiting for someone else to go first.

Yeah, like the traffic jams... they come out of nowhere and when they are gone you wonder what even caused them.

BTW, you have used a closing quote-tag to mark the end of the first line, that doesn't really work. Might want to edit that into a closing color-tag.

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Thanee

Scarlet's Dance Check: 4 hits



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Thanee

@Vegas: I suppose Erik Suriel is a contact we got then... mostly out of curiosity... what's his connection/loyalty? Or are we not supposed to know that?

And speaking of contact ratings... I, so far, only got the team-contact rating for Apex.

What numbers should I assign to the other characters (Julio, Billy, Jinto)?

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Thanee

Double post (sorry), but just a little bump to get our stuff off page 2.

I need to get a assensing test results before I can proceed.

With only one hit, you can just look up the table in the SR4 book, I don't think you will gain much beyond extremely basic information, I'm afraid.

Of course, it's enough to find out, whether she is awakened and her general emotional state, but that's about it.

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Thanee

@ Cedric

She's concerned, she's healthy, she's mundane.

OK y'all...

I'm leaving it up to you as to what your characters do for the next 30 minutes in game. Please do not post beyond 22:07:00

I know some players are out of pocket for health reason at the moment and hopefully we'll all be back together full-strength ASAP.

As for me, they found my car, stripped like a cheap table dancer on the south side of town. Hopefully I'll have the new car details and the old car insurance stuff straightened out by the end of next week at the latest and can devote MUCH more attention to the game and each of you.

Bear with me a bit longer guys... pretty please with tequila on top?

No worries.

Hey guys!
I'm very sorry for the delay but I had an unfortunate little incident with my right lung which landed me in the hospital for the past 3 days. I'm currently posting from a laptop, which my father was nice enough to borrow from his work place. I'm still rather whoozy from all the stuff they're pumping in me so this message might end up making little sense I've been told that, if everything stays well during the weekend, I should be able to get back home either sunday night or monday morning. Anyways, thats pretty much all of it.

Excuses, excuses. You should've just used your left one, and kept posting!

Okay, okay, just kidding. Hope everything works out for you, man. Glad to hear you're (relatively) okay.

Yep, get better. And soon!

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Thanee

Anyone doing anything else during the next half hour of IC time, or is anyone waiting on *me* for anything else?

I suppose so. Just move on to the mysterious 22:07:00 time stamp.

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Thanee

Pretty much just chillin', yeah. I thought a little back-and-forth with Jiro might be fun, but Juan seems a little indisposed at the moment, so prob'ly nothing much will come of it.

22:06:59

Everyone is waiting anxiously, the last second seems to stretch like an eternity...

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Thanee

Sorry about my absentism. I'm back and ready to post.

No problems, besides I'd kinda be calling the kettle black and I'd have to change my monogram to something starting with P if I said anything about you being gone

Post will be going up tonight assuming I don't die during dinner or something. Sorry about the delay guys. I don't just want to toss crap up there, and I'm my own worst critic, so instead of sitting on my hands fretting, I"m just gonna do *something* to keep this moving and not die.

Thanks!

Ok, limited post is up (got called into work for a bit tonight after being there 8 hours this morning) feel free to act/react to it and we'll see where it takes us.

Plot shall thicken soon enough my friends, soon enough.. We're almost at the witching hour of 22:06:59

*poke* Anyone else postin'? Or should Vegas move forward with her plot-thickening-witching-hour stuff?

Yep, moving forward sounds like a plan.

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Thanee

Forward Ho!

I'm good with pressing forward.

However, I cannot guarantee timely posts after today until next monday. I'm making one of those dreaded trips to the in-laws. We leave tomorrow morning early, and don't return until Sunday evening. While they do have internet access, my wife gets exceptionally irritable when I'm in front of the computer and not being social with her family. Did I mention that I'd rather be shoving nails into my eyeballs than socializing with her family?

Anyway, I will do what I can when I can, and will be back to posting regularly on Monday. I give Vegas/Critias free reign to play Julio in my absence if the game ends up waiting on me.

Ok, moving forward then.

TheOneRonin thanks for the heads up, I'm sure we'll get you covered till you get back. Good luck surviving the In-Laws, and please stay away from all nails and other power tools

Critias Before we proceed I need a memory check from you (LOG + WIL)

Once that's out of the way, we'll get started

I certainly was not intending to comment upon anyone's chosen profession. I wasn't attempting to suggest that anyone present had engaged in any particular service industry, nor should my comments be read as intending to cast aspersions upon any specific profession. Why some of my best friends. . er. . . .ya.

Well let's move on, nothing to see here.

Sorry to double post, but while you're on, Vegas -- anything from that roll, that I should know about before we go any further?

Nope

And nice post! I was laughing.

I am glad, Thanee, that someone on either thread finally noticed/commented on the "bs" login name. I thought it fit, in so many ways.

Heh. The first thing I had written there was more along the lines of “Hey, living up to your initials once more, B.S.?”

But I thought that wasn't entirely fitting after all...

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Thanee

OK, so as everyon comes back to the table can I please have *2* memory checks (LOG + WIL) from each of you, except Critias, I've already gotten one from you so I just need one additional from you.

thanks y'all...and dang I hat posting from my phone...