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BlackHat
QUOTE (adamu)
And as if he didn't have enough to worry about, Cerberus noticed an insistently flashing icon in the corner of his vision - incoming commcall from Angelo.

"WTF is with all the people pouring out of the building, guys? The guards we put at the doors are running low on ammo - get back down here and help em out..."
Konsaki
QUOTE (Black Hat)
QUOTE (adamu)
And as if he didn't have enough to worry about, Cerberus noticed an insistently flashing icon in the corner of his vision - incoming commcall from Angelo.
"WTF is with all the people pouring out of the building, guys? The guards we put at the doors are running low on ammo - get back down here and help em out..."

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Konsaki
Caittie - Technomancer

As almost anyone can guess, I just sent Shadow to hack into Ceberus' commlink. I'm sending the rolls to adamu though.

adamu
Konsaki

Well gee whiz, dude, you had 'em right here a second ago. I cracked the book and started comparing stats on y'all's sheets, and I'm done resolving it.

But I will wait for that PM I guess, to see if you have some sort of special instructions.
Konsaki
QUOTE (adamu)
Konsaki

Well gee whiz, dude, you had 'em right here a second ago. I cracked the book and started comparing stats on y'all's sheets, and I'm done resolving it.

But I will wait for that PM I guess, to see if you have some sort of special instructions.

lol, sorry. Had a change of heart about showing just exactly I was going to do. I did send them to you in a PM though. biggrin.gif
Abbandon
Cerberus

Ugh, sorry for my absense the other day. Dumpshock.com doesnt come up for me and it still wont. Then i got pissed off at waiting for it to fix itself so i remembered i get stupid emails about all PM's and used the link in those to come back today.

Cerberus might as well be a chick with all the freaking multitasking he as to do lol. Hey maybe its a good tie in to any increases in logic i make lmao like maxing it out. ( no i havent spent any karma yet).

Im drawing a huge blank trying to figure out how to get out of this cleanly so we arent being actively hunted down by Loui. If we attack him it would go bad, if we ran it would go bad. Maybe if we ran he would give up, maybe he would be less likely to try and mess with us now that there are three of us. Atleast until at some future point where he comes back and trys to kill us in some ambush.

adamu
Abbandon

Actually, I didn't notice any absence. Anyway, glad you found your way to the site. It's not just you. I had to reenter a seach for 'dumpshock forums' and when that link came up it worked.
BlackHat
Dice roll (in case its necessary): Charisma + Influence (Negotiation, probably) = 8 dice
2,5,1,6,1,2,1,5 = 3 hits.

Thought about blowing edge on this to really try to ramp up the paycheck - but then, when I agreed, I'd be that much more less likely to succeed. Minimally, Adam is hoping to get Cal to admit that he fucked up - that his plan isn't water-tight, and that he needs Adam. It'd be great if I could get him to admit that he left these details out so Adam would agree to $400, instead of insisting on mobster-level type wages, but if I can get him to bump that number upwards a little bit, that'd be great too.

And, I dunno how soundproof this van is - but I suspect that Deerwalker and Sledge can make out most of what is being said.
adamu
BlackHat

Well, I IC posted while you were rolling. But I thinkyou got what you wanted.
BlackHat
QUOTE (DireRadiant)
If they even hinted she needed to break some kneecaps, she knew exactly what she was going to do.

She focused her eyes on Cal.

Niiiice. biggrin.gif
Konsaki
Caittie - Technomancer

Hmm... I'm going to have to think about the next post... Sorta have to think up what she can say without it being meta-gaming.
JDragon
QUOTE (Konsaki)
Caittie - Technomancer

Hmm... I'm going to have to think about the next post... Sorta have to think up what she can say without it being meta-gaming.

Yeah, I'm having to watch what I say too.

JD
Konsaki
QUOTE (JDragon @ Oct 24 2006, 10:19 AM)
QUOTE (Konsaki @ Oct 23 2006, 04:33 PM)
Caittie - Technomancer

Hmm... I'm going to have to think about the next post... Sorta have to think up what she can say without it being meta-gaming.

Yeah, I'm having to watch what I say too.

JD


Dice Rolls
[ Spoiler ]


... Ok, well it looks like she is intelligent enough to figure something out with her own mind, using the information she had and can see around her.

Lets see what she knows:
The mob thinks ther is a mage in here
They only sent 2 trolls, so they are either scared or confident
They both have guns, but one has a LMG
Rocky doesnt look to have cyber in him and doesnt have a LMG nearby, so the other troll, Ceberus, is the cybered one with a LMG
Rocky has his commlink turned off and will have to wait a few turns to get it working again
Ceberus is on the comm with Angelo, who might be one of the Mafioso
There is at least one injured person because of the crying child and woman yelling at Ceberus.
Looking around, she can see the blown off door, the dead dwarf with a head wound, the woman Ceberus was working on, and Ceberus talking on a comm

Am I missing anything?
I need to know if Rocky is going to let Caittie down or not, cause it could affect my other rolls and I want her to grab her stuff out of the coffin while she talks it out and thinks.

The Plan:
First, Caittie is going to turn off all the cameras in the building with a 2 hour no respond condition.
I'm guessing that the quickest plan would be to have Rocky use normal unarmed combat against Ceberus (stun damage) untill he is beat up pretty badly. Then while Caittie hides in a different tube and closes all the hatches, you guys can cut off the dead dwarf's head and take it down to Louie. Caittie will feel sick at even suggesting it, but will talk about it anyways.
When/If Louie asks where Caittie's head is, the trolls will say that this was the person in the tube, and the mage used mind control/body control to get Rocky to beat up Ceberus. Only a lucky shot from Ceberus got him down.

This plan sorta relies on the troll's lieing ability at the end, so I'm not sure how it will pan out. At least she is saying something that might get them all out.
JDragon
@ Konsaki

Not until she shows some interest in working together to resolve the issue. If she does that and is convincing then he will not have a problem with letting her go.

But at this point he's not going to till they are all on the same page.

Hope this helped some.

JD
Konsaki
Edited my last post, adding in a simple plan.
JDragon
Glad to hear she's open to working on things.

Got a couple thoughts....

#1 not sure I like the idea of beating on Cernerus, if he's all tooled up it will make the fight much harder if the plan falls apart.

#2 Not sure Louie would buy the, this is who was in there, and to go along with that I know Rocky is a crappy liar, and I'm not sure about Cerberus.

#3 if they don't buy the trick, they wiill come in and tear the place apart looking you. OR they will just blow up/burn the place to the ground standing outside to make sure you don't slip out.

But good ideas, cause I don't have much aside from the going out the back and fighting our way out. wink.gif

JD
adamu
Konsaki

Don't know if you were looking for anything from me for those rolls posted a few posts back.
All seems fine, EXCEPT,
I reviewed the club scene and as I suspected, Angelo's name never came up. So you don't know for a fact that the mobster Cerberus is talking to is the particular guy that shot Beth.

Sounds like you guys are pretty much into the whole interacting planning thing. Let me know if and when you need anything from my end.
Konsaki
@Adamu

Just rolling to see what my character out how my character would act during this situation. I was trying to get a feel of what 'she' knows, so I'm not meta-gaming.
Thanks for the call on Angelo's name, though.
Konsaki
QUOTE (JDragon)
Glad to hear she's open to working on things.

Got a  couple thoughts....

#1 not sure I like the idea of beating on Cernerus, if he's all tooled up it will make the fight much harder if the plan falls apart.

#2 Not sure Louie would buy the, this is who was in there, and to go along with that I know Rocky is a crappy liar, and I'm not sure about Cerberus. 

#3 if they don't buy the trick, they wiill come in and tear the place apart looking you.  OR they will just blow up/burn the place to the ground standing outside to make sure you don't slip out.

But good ideas, cause I don't have much aside from the going out the back and fighting our way out. wink.gif

JD

The only problem I think there is with fighting it out, is that unless you get them all, including Fishbreath, they will just find us again.
Look at Caittie. All she did was mess up their guns as Alex fried Sal, who wasnt very much liked but was 'one of them'. They tracked her down, even with a new SIN, and sent you two up to scrap her.
If I was a mage and fried you two, it would be no loss cause you guys are just hired help but once you guys start tearing into actual Mafioso, they take it personally.

The best bet would be tricking them or running away without killing them.
Major problem with tricking them, is that you trolls suck at social tests on average.
Major problem with running away is that you just lost your job, SIN, Lifestyle, Contact in the barrens, and maybe your normal contacts (in Ceberus' case)

Are your characters willing to put it all on the line for one girl? Are their moral values worth duking it out with the Mafia, who like to pay back 10 fold?
I'm not trying to get you to kill my character, but there are select few options on getting out alive and without many negative effects. smile.gif
Konsaki
@Adamu

If Caittie pulled up an AR blueprint of the building, would she be able to see sewer and air duct access points. Also, would she be able to tell if she could fit inside either of them.
adamu
Konsaki

Your biggest problem would be actually making heads or tails of the full engineering schematic. Some places would have a whole program in place that you could ask questions and all that. But this place - doubtful. I haven't refreshed my memory on your skill list lately, so I can't give you odds, but there would be some sort of test to determine how accurately and with what level of detail you could read it.
I mean, the only reason for a map showing HVAC and sewers to exist is so it can be worked on by professionals, and those maps are covered in specialized symbols and notations.

Yes, you can get the map. Yes, if you read it properly it will show you how big the ducts and pipes are and where they go. If you read it real well it will show you which passages are blocked in any way and how securely. MAYBE you can get whether the sewers are full of effluent, etc.
Konsaki
QUOTE (adamu)
Konsaki

Your biggest problem would be actually making heads or tails of the full engineering schematic. Some places would have a whole program in place that you could ask questions and all that. But this place - doubtful. I haven't refreshed my memory on your skill list lately, so I can't give you odds, but there would be some sort of test to determine how accurately and with what level of detail you could read it.
I mean, the only reason for a map showing HVAC and sewers to exist is so it can be worked on by professionals, and those maps are covered in specialized symbols and notations.

Yes, you can get the map. Yes, if you read it properly it will show you how big the ducts and pipes are and where they go. If you read it real well it will show you which passages are blocked in any way and how securely. MAYBE you can get whether the sewers are full of effluent, etc.

IE. Caittie can get the map, but probably wont understand it much, if at all. Ok, np. One of the major reasons to have knowledge skills, you never know when they might be usefull. biggrin.gif
BlackHat
Is this guard wearing his uniform? or is he in street clothes?
adamu
BlackHat

He's wearing his uniform. He's ready for work.
adamu
Carl's Coffin Players

You guys are cruising now. Great progress.

I do have to ask you to put the brakes on for a moment, though. You are at least 10 seconds ahead of Cerberus. Let him finish the call and then you can all proceed.
adamu
BlackHat & Sledge

Okay, sooo sorry about the confusion with posting to the wrong thread.
Back here now and hoping this post will soothe my anality somewhat!

But now I am off to bed. More tomorrow.
BlackHat
Sledge, Little confused about the post. Are you setting up C4 to explode and telling Smith you'll give him codes later on (after you explain saftey stuff)? The current countdown is confusing. Hope you're not blowing us all up. biggrin.gif
DireRadiant
OOC, the timer will reset every 5 seconds and countdown again. This will be obvious after the first cycle.

Or it may simply be deja vu...

Wanted to have the little moment of tension at the end of the post.
adamu
DireRadiant

Naturally setting a makeshift bomb on a human with complicated detonation conditions will require a demolitions test.
You already knew that.
I will set the threshhold once you've fully explained how you want it to work.
DireRadiant
QUOTE (adamu)
DireRadiant

Naturally setting a makeshift bomb on a human with complicated detonation conditions will require a demolitions test.
You already knew that.
I will set the threshhold once you've fully explained how you want it to work.

I was hoping they could talk Sledge out of it and come up with a much better plan!
BlackHat
Lol, why? C4 is a SWEET plan, we don't actually need to arm it - we just need him to THINK we could blow him up at a moment's notice....
DireRadiant
Log 3 + Demolitions 4 = 7
2 hits = 6 4 3 6 3 2 4

encrypted code commands.
Start Timer N seconds countdown
Reset Timer N seconds
Stop Timer

Basic plan is a thin flat necklace under the shirt around the neck.

To blow up immediaetly you can send a reset with 0 seconds.

Probably going ot have to load my software Agent onto this guards head at this rate.
BlackHat
If you want in on it, that's cool - otherwise I was planning on how to handle his headware... thought about subscribing something (agent, data-bomb, something) to send the detonation code too... but, then I thought about how close Adam would be standing to him - and thought that I would prefer it if Adam went on believing that the C4 was for show, and that he wasn't going to be bathing in guard tonight. biggrin.gif
DireRadiant
Well Sledge has determined the Mr Smith at least seems to be able to do his job. Lots of points there. But we still haven't had a chance to confab IC, with Cal and Deerwalker either... so there's a lot of room for misunderstanding here.
BlackHat
Yep. Glad Sledge contacted Smith in AR - at least the two of them can confer while we drive to the site. I get the feeling that any discussion of the plan's flaws is just going to agrivate the hippies. biggrin.gif

... just wait until I tell him I am going to release the prisoner, hand him back his weapons, and walk with him into the building. biggrin.gif So much for your plan, Cal!
Konsaki
@Abbandon

Caittie is walking freely out of Rocky's grasp, and is now wearing some glasses and was pointing in your direction as you were walking back up.
Abbandon
Cerberus Bad News

frown.gif Well guys im really sorry but Im not gonna be able to play for who knows how long. My computer was going realy slow and i was trying to shut things down and restart my computer and i did something bad to the IP connection. I get fatal errors on my computer if i try to get a connection now.

Please dont kill off Cerberus. Please just put him on autopilot. Im pretty sure this situation wont be permanent. If you get another player to drive him dont let them spend my money or my karma.

Every morning and night i checked our game and everytime i walk by my busted useless computer now i get sad thinking about you guys.

I cant make any promises about checking in. Im using a relative's computer and they live far enough away that i have to use the car to get here and i cant really see blowing gas money on this.

Anyways im sorry for messing up our game. I am pissed. I've only got to shoot 4 people with my damn light machine gun and 3 of those were innoscents!!

Konsaki
Damn... that sucks.
I hope you can get your comp back up and running. Sucks to see a person have to drop due to tech issues. frown.gif
I'm pretty sure JD and I can IC the small stuff, and maybe Adamu can handle the major stuff like dice rolls and major decisions.
JDragon
That SUCKS man.

Just a suggestion. IF you ahven't already tried this.

Back up your data, then reinstall your OS. It will be a pain in the but but it should default all your settings.

Good Luck and hope to see you soon, I don't want to be the only Troll hanging around here.

JD
MK Ultra
Abbandon/Cerberus

Ahw, dreck. Really hope you get your PC running -no pun intended- again asap (Loui Fishbreath is counting on you).
Konsaki
Caittie

Perception test to see if Caittie heard what Ceberus was whispering
Perception + Inutition = 6 Dice
5,4,6,3,4,5 - 3 hits
adamu
Konsaki

Okay, they are obviously intentionally speaking so that you will not hear them, but good successes, so...
Rocky has his back to you, so you can't really hear him at all. But Cerberus is more facing you, so when he punches a word or his voice rises, you can catch bits.

"Yeah, I know......Louie....Hell.....Angelo.....................No way I'm offing a helpless little girl....................no matter what....no matter what.......freaking serious.....[then almost as if he wants you to hear it] up to her eyeballs in something............"
adamu
JDragon & Konsaki

Have conferred with Abbandon, and I'll be running him until he gets back with us. Look for my humble attempts to keep his character in character - otherwise expect the minimum from him in terms of help with planning.
adamu
DireRadiant

Okay, I think I understand. Basically, you can detonate it anytime you want, and you've also set up some sort of electronic intimidation you can do by playing with the timer?
If I've got that right, your two successes will do.

[ Spoiler ]
adamu
DR & BH

Okay, guys, it's time to move forward. Let me know if you need anything. Teru is seeming pretty cooperative. Cal will answer any questions. Teru's shift starts at ten, so time to swing into action.

So just OOC me with any questions you want answered, and I will provide answers OOC and you two can work them into some whatever IC posts you need to launch - as in, Smith entering with Teru, and everyone else in the van at a staging spot just out of sight of the grounds.

You two both post regularly, so - communicate if you need to but don't pussyfoot around waiting for the other guy. Whoever is online take the ball and run.
DireRadiant
QUOTE (adamu)
DireRadiant

Okay, I think I understand. Basically, you can detonate it anytime you want, and you've also set up some sort of electronic intimidation you can do by playing with the timer?
If I've got that right, your two successes will do.

[ Spoiler ]

Just one thing I forgot to mention, the signals are encrypted, don't want some random wireless traffic setting this off.
DireRadiant
DR & BH

At least one of us will ask about the Hacker. Sledge will point out it would be a good idea to clean up the data trail from the kidnapping, if it hasn't been already. The vehicles at the very least will have been tracked through the traffic system etc. The Hacker, if available needs to take control of the guards commlink and monitor it. Or else Mr Smith or Sledge will have to do it. (Mr Smith may wish to claim to do this and charge for this, while Sledge actually does it by loading her Agent onto the guards commlink.)

- Where is the Hacker.
- Is the data trail being cleaned up?
- Can the Hacker monitor the guards commlink.

And we have less then twenty minutes to get into position....
adamu
DR & BH

Actually, you mentioned the encryption earlier. Good play, I got it.

Cal will tell whoever asks that the hacker is being provided by someone 'up the chain, way up the chain'. That's about all he can tell you re. identity and location. If you ask 'up what chain' or something like that, he will just smirk - it is obvious he assumes Smith knows already.

He says the traffic stuff has already been covered, and he has already figured that if you they disable the headware comm he would have to tell the hacker. He'll call and explain that, and come back sounding confident as ever that it is being handled.
adamu
Carl's Coffins

Nice response IC Konsaki. My post for Abbandon was basically to set it up for you guys to move forward. Basically, anything REASONABLE you come up with, he will go along with - until Abbandon is back with us, obviously, and then it will be his call.

So ball basically in JDragon's court now.
Konsaki
QUOTE (adamu @ Oct 26 2006, 09:50 PM)
Carl's Coffins

Nice response IC Konsaki.  My post for Abbandon was basically to set it up for you guys to move forward.  Basically, anything REASONABLE you come up with, he will go along with - until Abbandon is back with us, obviously, and then it will be his call.

So ball basically in JDragon's court now.

7.5ft troll with a LMG vs a 5.5ft elf with a backpack... yeah... I would back off in real life too. biggrin.gif

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