Feel free to discuss. Adam doesn't have any other agenda for the next hour, so unless someone brings something up, I am down for fast-forwarding.

I recognise that although our Stun problems wil lbe alleviated, our two big ass-kickers will still be heavily wounded. I'd be down for killing Louie over lunch, except that we probably can't track him down that easily (unless someone has a home address, and we wanna risk that).

In any case, I'm expecting our mission to take place dinnerish (whatever time the trolls inform us is his usual work-time) which gives us the after noon to prepare/heal.

Neither of those are Adam's strong points, so, again, unless he is needed for something else - I will probably have him take off (or you guys drop him somewhere) and he'll go to classes, pick up some food in the caf, and meet you guys at Rudolpho's... or not, depending on the plan.

I can imagine a plan where you guys need a face to help assassinate a guy, but its probably not one we'll end up using.

Well - a lot of this confusion is 100% my fault. It was me that encouraged people to do what they wanted, and when Abbandon mentioned waiting because Fort and Angel were still sleeping in the van, I posted again, encouraging people not to "pussyfoot around."

And yeah, I did mean that to say that if people want to post, they probably should just act in character and not necessarily wait around for a consensus from everyone else. I have seen and am seeing too many games where things just grind to a crawl because everyone is afraid of stepping on someone else's toes or being seen as too pushy. And it just takes too long in a forum game to get everyone's agreement on every little action.

So I applauded and appreciated Abbandon's original post.

And even more so I appreciate that he took the trouble to totally rewrite it in response to team discussion.

On that note, I have absolutely no problem with planning being done OOC, provided no privileged ino is shared, which hasn't been a problem. OOC planning keeps things moving faster, etc.

And of course there is a place for edits.

I do hope there won't be too much second-guessing people after the fact. As has been pointed out - you're mostly noobs. Furthermore, you don't all have the same personality, and not all of you are the sort of people that live your lives by polite middle-class American social values. If someone's IC action rubs someone the wrong way, rather than the time-travel solution, it would be funner if it was worked out IC - that's what I think.

Naturally if someone's IC post impinges on another player's role-playing prerogatives, then that is a valid time for an edit request.

(Although if I may say so, pragma let us know he would be offline for a bit, and left tacit permission to keep him moving with the team. Angel had been catatonic for some while, none of you had any indication of how long that might last or why exactly it was happening, and even if she came out of it she would have been in little position to fend off being carried in. Cerberus had legitimate reasons to rest his shot-up troll self somewhere more comfortable than the cramped confines of the van, but also may not have wanted to leave his companions sleeping and vulnerable. He also may have had the view that who cares if he is welcome in the house - it belongs to a guy that tried to assassinate him. And finally, the GM encouraged people to move the action forward.
All I am trying to say is that I am truly glad this whole thing was all straightened out before I got home from work, and I think the way things stand now is perfectly fine - and I certainly am looking forward to Konsaki's next IC post - been awhile, dude - but I also want to say that I don't think Abbandon's post was necessarily inappropriate in any way.)

Well, BlackHat, I applaud your role-playing choice.

However, while it is a totally artificial consideration, and you are more than free to do what you want, dude just think how long in real life time killing Louie may take in this forum format, even if they just jump into the van, go to wherever he is, and start shooting. You would be dealing yourself out of a lot of play time.

(Naturally if you had some projects of your own to do in the meantime - I don't mind running things - although it sounded like you were just going to do daily life kinda stuff.)

No problem - all that is great roleplaying, and like I said, it's all up to you. Just wanted to share my thoughts on what it might mean for how much BlackHat got to play Shadowrun, but then I also appreciate your thoughts on sharing the limelight once the situation changes.

DireRadiant & JDragon

JD -obviously I will tell you if anyone comes down the driveway.

Since both of you can see the road - Rocky from the house a little, Sledge on patrol a lot -

There is not much traffic out here, but that is not to say there is none. You rarely see more than one car at a time, but single vehicles are not too uncommon. Mostly trucks, private and commercial, but sometimes a passenger car or bike.

Naturally if a threat arrives, you will get a perception test - but that's raw, unmodified dice. Are you looking for anything specific, and particular suspicion parameters?

Adamu,

As DR mentioned the Black SUV's or any other mob vehicles I may have seen while working for Louie.

Also will be watching for vehicles that seem to not be moving with the flow of traffic. Like they know we went down road X but not where we turned, so they are looking for signs of us. In other words passing by slowly.

Also trying to keep an eye out for vehicles passing multiple times, (IE more than twice in a 15 minute period).

Let me know if you need anything else.

JD

@adamu

Hey guys, I'm back in action.

Assensing the necklace: Int + Assensing - 1 wound # dice: 7 :: 1 2 1 3 3 4 4 -- 0 successes
-- Is there anything stopping me from just trying again when I get no information?

If not, Trying again # dice: 7 :: 6 5 2 3 5 4 6 -- 4 successes

Also, I think the air spirit should still be maintaining concealment and movement on Sledge and the van, but if it felt like its job was done then it may have stopped doing so. Is there an official GM ruling on what it has done or should I just IC freely?

Omg i've been robbed!!! lol. Im not protesting or anything But how the heck did Fortunato know about the necklace, we havent went over what i took off those guys in the clinic. I guess you could say it was laying next to the comm's that you know i took.

Still it looked like Fort just woke up and snatched the necklace and took off for no reason lol. It would have been kool if you had been looking around astrally around the van and saw like an astral signature on the necklace and went all serious about it.

I didnt even get a nod or hey whats up when you left the barn

I assensed Birnhauser before he entered the clinic and saw the necklace then.

Fort's going to give you a nod or what's up when he's done with what he'd doing -- It's actually on my list of things to do at the top of my character sheet, I just didn't want the post getting too crowded.

Need to remember LOS rules too and the range of spirit tasks before they become Remote tasks. (100m per magic point I think)

I'm looking to finish writing up my IC post within the next few hours. Working a 7 day work week on a salary pay blows giant monkey balls, especially when it's 12h work days.

Passle o' questions need answerin'.

pragma on the spirit - if I were more on the ball, since the spirit is smart, I would have had it ask you what you wanted it to do. But in general, unless otherwise stated assume the spirit continues a task until told otherwise or dawn/sunset.

So right now it has concealment and movement in effect on the van. Sledge, however, left its LOS, since even if it goes for altitude, it would then be out of LOS of the van in the barn, and it treats the summoners vehicle as the default priority. So no more power in effect on Sledge.

As for the Assensing, check out p. 59 "Trying Again". Your second test loses two dice.
These are three separate necklaces, so three separate tests. I'll assume you started small. That gives you three successes on the smallest necklace - it is a sustaining focus with a Force lower than your Magic rating.

DR & JD

Visual perception tests please.

Dire

I got another thing what needs answerin'...

I figure everyone has their own interpretation of the bleakness of the Shadowrun universe... but it seems to me that in a Shadowrun future, farms would be considered really rare - its probably tons easier to build a small factory that can pump out soy products and use that land to extend the sprawl, right? Sure, on the outskirts of towns there are probably still some farms (we're in one, right), but I imagine that the land it is on is worth a ton... if the owners were inclined to sell (and any reasonable Corp could "convince" them without too much trouble).

IOW, is there anything our characters should infer from this farm.. from "OMG, I didn't even know farms existed anymore" to "Damn, you two must be loaded - that's clearly not the reason you Shadowrun"?

BlackHat -

Without addressing anything about this farm specifically, the worldview you describe is generally correct (in line with my own). Farms on beautiful pastureland like this are relatively rare within the Metroplex - more rare than now. They do exist however, for a variety of reasons and in a variety of circumstances.

But you are not off track in your interpretation of how Adam might perceive this farm based on his being a citizen of the SR universe, and it is not just something I came up with without any explanation just cuz I wanted a farm scene.

Whether the particular circumstances here are interesting at all, or relevant to the story, only the Shadow knows.

Yay, I finished my IC post. (I know, took me long enough )

@Pragma + Abbandon
Open question to both of your characters. It's sorta just an Ice breaker though to continue on with character interaction.

>.> <.< O_o

You see nothing... The ninja are succesful...

Continuing assensing:

Middle sized: # dice: 7 :: 2 4 5 2 5 6 1 -- 3 successes
Large sized: # dice: 7 :: 3 6 2 1 3 1 2 -- 1 success
Large sized round 2: # dice: 5 :: 2 4 3 1 1 -- 0 successes

Sitting down before I hurt myself.

Also, assensing Caittie: # dice: 7 :: 6 4 5 5 1 3 2 -- 3 successes

@Pragma


@Adamu
Hope I'm not overstepping, but he is assensing my character atm.

Konsaki

Not at all - what you get for assensing successes if very clear in the book, so you just saved me a post, and the emotional stuff is much better coming from you anyway.

pragma

The medium-sized necklace is a sustaining focus, lower force than your Magic.

The large-sized necklace is magical.