One minor point about the van - neither front seat modified for trolls, so -2 dice for any physical/combat action attempted by a troll in the cab.

Remember, no window or firing ports in rear, but plenty of room for everyone to cram in.

I could make another post where I reach the van and get in the driver's seat, but I'm not sure if that would be jumping too far ahead since we're not sure of what either the doctor or the mobsters outside are going to do.

I imagine that the actual getaway scene will play out in reaction to both the area we're driving through, the frequency of civilians, and the mob's actions. I mean, if we drive out of there, and they just sort of let us go, there is really no reason to go roller-costering down the city streets drawing attention to ourselves.

In fact, I don't know if one can attempt a stealth roll in a vehicle or not (I would imagine not), but if there is any sort of roll for nonchalantly exiting the clinic in the van and/or coincidentally driving off when the mobsters (especially Angelo) have their attention on something else... it's worth a shot. The one or two rounds difference it might make is probably negligable in the long run - and if we somehow slink away unscathed, awesome. At the very least, it might cause them all to wait around an extra round or two for Angelo to give the order to persue.

Please feel free to post yourself getting into the van. I was minutes away from doing it for you.

I am going to the convenience store right now, and then I am making an IC post. It will get everyone on the van, with Smith in the driver's seat, and it will put Sledge on her bike.
But if you beat me to it, all the better.

Stop there, though, cuz I will have a small event for right after you are mounted up.

After that we can talk about your actual mode of departure.

Dammit - mother of all crossposts. Dude, you were offline when I started typing. Oh well, no one's fault.

Here is what we'll do -
First, you and pragma please adjust your time stamps - pragma keeps jumping ahead 15 minutes - I guess he's eager to get outta Dodge!

Second, none of the actions contradict each other - so, BlackHat, please just OOC me what if anything I ICed about you that you find contradictory to your character, and I will edit that out and leave the rest. There will just be a double-POV of one person's POV. Oh well, we're not writing the Great American Novel or anything.

Posted literally milliseconds before you did. But I think it still makes perfect sense.

As for what to do next. Are we going to be using the car-chase rules from the BBB (pros and cons, it is another not-very-well-thought-out-system) but the round-by-round on vehicles makes even less sense.

Also, any way we could get another description of hte situation? As I understand it, there are black cars surrounding the block, basically pinning us in. I imagine to get out, we're going to have to go through somebody - but I imagine that if they are set up as a roadblock, turning themselves around to follow us might not be the easiest thing in the world. People frmo the other side coming at us (like the limo) would probably have little trouble, though, since that car could fit through any gap that the van fit through.

Do we need vehicle initiative (or modified handling rolls if we're using the car chase rules?) or do you want us to just post what we're going to be doing, and handle the details when the limo actually gets to us?

Will adjust, but everything you posted sounds in character.

If I remember correctly, OOC the Limo contains people who are aligned with the clinic. the SUVs are Fishbreathes.

As to whether or not that's been made clear IC... well...

Yeah, I think there was jsut hte one limo... or did Angelo come out of a limo too? o.O
In any case, they're certainly more aligned with the mobthan with the clinic, so I don't intend to stick around and talk.

Doesnt Johnson already know Fishbreath's way of negotiation through Rocky's description of Fishbreath? I know I wouldnt want to negotiate unless I had all his men bleeding on the ground around him and a pistol to his head.

Lol, that, and we don't really have anything to negotiate. THe only thing we want from them is to leave us alone. The only thing they want from us is Rocky, Cerb, and Angel.

We can't give them what they want, and they sure as hell can't give us what we want.

Except, perhaps, if we only gave them ONE of the three... but I suppose in any situation where we could be pitching this idea, they could be shooting us all in the face.

Johnson would totally negotiate over the phone or something while we're driving away - but unfortunatly, I never got that Bigio chick's number.

The Limo approaching had the woman from the other family. The one Angelo was trying to talk into something.

Talking to her might be different then negotiating with Louie.

Note that in fact Adam hismelf is working for one faction wihtin the same organization already. There are different people and factions involved, might be interesting to learn more about each one.

This is all OOC of course. IC Sledge is going to do as she thinks best on what she knows IC.

I suppose it will depend on how they go about flagging us down (if they even want to talk). If the van is coming at us quickly, that is probably hostile.

I can imagine a scenario where the limo pulls up next to us on the road, as we're tear-assing away and the lady leans out and makes the "roll down your window" motion with her hand - so I do, and then her friend shoots me in the face.

No huge loss if that happens...

Unless we're on a highway going 90 mph. Course, I woudl trust that Angel could yank control back before we hit anything to heavy.

Of course, but her drive dicepool of a defaulted reaction (2 dice) wouldnt do shit in a crash test.
She would probably just compile a Machine sprite with the 'Drive Van' autosoft and have it do the driving for her.

Of course, Sledge can drive her Bike and the Van at the same time pretty much.

O_o
Didn't think of that... Multiple IP for the win!

>.<

Okay, no need to elaborate on all the reasons why the group would be better off if Johnson got shot in the face.

Adamu

DireRadiant

I would definatly go with my original plan to pilot using my command program (which I believe replaces my reaction with my command program rating?). Adam would be using trodes, and his commlink would be wirelessly connection to the van. The original plan involved Adam going full VR, so consider that done - the idea was that I'm slow as a normal person, but full VR would let me pilot the hell out of this van, and maybe have a few spare IPs to do other things.

Aside from getting some initial acceleration (first IP) and going with the plan to non-chalantly drive off and see who follows, Adam will also spend a round exploring the vehicles capabilities (IP 2, analyse program? Very interested in sensors - would like to be able to see what I'm doing). At this point, I probably be able to see (through the sensors, or Sledge's AR feeds) . The third IP would probably either be spent further exploring what options I have available, if it takes more than one complex action (mounted weapons? color-changing paint? morphic liscence plate?) and/or accessing any internal or external microphones/speaker system to allow me to talk and hear the rest of the team. Not sure if I can subscribe to all of the sensors at once since I have subscribed to the vehicle - or if it would take a complex action for each one that I would like access to (in which case I woudl need a list of what's available to pick and chose over the next couple of rounds).

I could see combat turns slowed down to 10sec per turn in Vehicle Combat. The moving through and around other vehicles and obsticals would greatly hamper shooting the enemies. Unless you are trying to make a HUGE scene, you wouldnt be firing all the time, but only when you had a reasonably good chance to shoot your target and not civilians/objects.

Adamu

Using some of the down time to summon a force 5 air elemental with guard as the optional power.

Summoning (-2 wounds): # dice: 8 :: 4 5 1 5 5 5 5 1 -- 5 successes
Spirit Resist: # dice: 5 :: 1 3 2 2 6 -- 1 success
Drain: # dice: 12 :: 2 2 1 2 2 1 5 6 4 4 5 5 -- 4 successes

4 service and no drain -- awesome.

Doing that and continuing to be on spell defense alert.

pragma

If you felt like ICing the summoning, it would add cool color.

DireRadiant

transaction complete

EVERYONE

Edge refreshes.

It won't again until Louie is dead.

On second read, I agree with you. Skinlink will let your comm talk to, say, your cyber eyes, and that's mighty handy, but to access the sim module you do need a datajack or trodes or a skinlink connection to a headware comm (but then all headware comms come with sim modules anyway, but I digress). So looks like the dorky trodes for you.

Thank you for helping me finally see the light on this - Abbandon stubbornly stuck to having a datajack even when I kept trying to tell him it was pointless with all his gear skinlinked. Seems he will have the last laugh on me if he ever is looking to do an VR action.

@DR

So, are we already recieving an audio feed of what Sledge hears? or is she planning to give the play-by-play?

Either one seems like it would work for me, but obviously it would help if I could hear her say her words.

Of such encounters are street names birthed...

Yep, Sledge isn't the best negotiator, on the other hand, she's very hard to intimidate.

Okay, cool - I thought we covered that lack of cyber earlier, but couldn't recall.

*shakes his fist at Sugar Lips*
Its honestly not the worst name Adam could end up with. Not particularly manly either, though.

Could you imagine him in a bar, at a meet, and introducing himself to someone.
"You can call me, 'Sugar Lips'." *gets punched in the face by homophobic Shadowrunner*

Unfortunatly I have yet to hear it to complain.... or to rename Sledge.
I'm thinking.... "Butch"

DireRadiant

Judge Intentions roll, please.

Ok, just wanted to get something up tonight, just in case I don't have time tomorrow/friday before my Con starts.

Rocky will follow the others lead, shotting while at distance and then closing to pound as needed.

After the last fight he will target spell casters first then the big melee fighters if any. using my standard attack pattern.

Catch you all next week.

JD

JDragon

Thank you very much. That sort of notification is extremely quite most much appreciated. Have a great time.

Impressive Edge, Adam/Smith/Johnson/SugarLips is going to have a run for his money soon on showing surprising undeserved competence. And I've been using the cascading sixes rule, when it has come up - but I am not sure the BBB is entirely clear on it. Adamu certainly hasn't complained.

In defense of the Dwarves and Elves, they too are on the same level as the tuskers when considering the 'Edge' issue.

Yeah, if one of you mutants wants to be good at something more than 7 times a mission, you have to actually learn how to do it. Too bad humans can't learn how to see in the dark, or have armor-skin, or be crazily flexible. Oh wait, we could if we were adepts I guess. Fugging mutant adepts. Barely human at all anymore.

There's always SURGE or Technology...

SURGE definatly = mutants.

To those who might be interested: http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/14/hitachi...s-the-heck-out/

Too bad the SR universe consistantly lags behind the real one. Blowing a handful of RFID dust onto someone would be awesome. Or leaving it someplace so they track it everywhere they go after stepping in it.