Caittie is going to continue listening in on the sec channel while getting the van out of the battlezone for now.

Is the sec channel being forwarded to the team? If so Fort's going to throw knowledge at the problem:

Int + UCAS Special Ops - 2 wounds # dice 3 :: 4 3 5 -- 1 hit

Hmmm the book says that you can not use first aid AFTER magic but it doesnt say anything about first aid and then magic. You probably already ruled on it the last time Adamu and I will try to dig it up(and subsequently put it in the wiki) but if anyone remembers offhand...

Anyways you want cerberus to play doctor with fortunato to, Pragma??? Just dive into the back of the van. You want stun or physical healed? I think best case scenario i can only heal 2 boxs of either.

That's right, Abbandon - first aid --> magic okay, but the reverse won't work.

Copy on your first aid test - bummer about the roll.

Rocky will get his box of damage back if and when JD agrees that he wanted to be healed.

North is the way we know.

Announcement

Real world pressures mounting.

I generally ignore them in favor of gaming, but family, church and work responsibilities are coalescing.

For the next ten days, I may or may not be doing any GMing. I do plan to keep up with the games I am a player in - sadly, that takes virtually no time whatsoever - so I will be checking in, and if I have time I will post to this thread. But I've been slipping into a quantity over quality trap lately, and would like to take a step back.

This is a good chance for IC posts and player-on-player role-playing - even in situations where seconds count, I never frown on RP interactions between players.

Look for renewed daily action from about Oct 30.

Adamu,

Hey thanks for the heads up. We all have things going on at times, and you have done an amazing job keeping these games going.

Back to the game.... I will take the point of healing, is that P or S? Prior to the healing I had the following wounds.
1S (from 1 shots)
6P (from 3 shots)

I'm going to try to do an IC post soon, I'm thinking of doing a quick flash back of the last 2 minutes as the adrenilin wears off.

JD

I rolled for physical wounds.

Take it easy Adamu. Take your time getting your life back within exceptable limits hehehe.

Caittie didn't share the security channel with the team because she thought it might add more chaos to the mix. She figured that just saying they had incoming heat might be the better thing to do.
Now that everyone is in the van/on the way out, she'll ask what the specific terms mean, though she can guess that it's not looking good.

As of now, the sec channel is broadcasted to the team.

Three guesses what a ghost is.

Tir special ops
Watcher
Ally Spirit

Those are good, but I'll pick different guesses just to make it interesting...

1. Stealth-monkey (Camo-suit)
2. Really really pale bad-ass.
3. Actual, literal ghost (Its almost Halloween!)

Given the OOC hint that its already here... I'm guessing #3.

So what size breast implants should Caitie get when we all get reconstruction??

Hey what kind of skin pigmentation does Sledge and Rocky have??? I wish I could draw so I could bring my vision of Cerberus to life.

Speaking of which... Adamu, are we using rules from augmentation here? I think you might have said something about street magic a long time ago, but since Smith isn't a mage it probably went in one ear and out the other.

Augmentation has rules for breast implants... but don't worry, Cerb isn't left out. There are rules for penile implants too! Nobody will recognise him!

I wish I had money for the expansion books. I dont even have street magic.

I have Augmentation, but have not had any time at all to read it.

Assume we are using all non-optional rules, and I will let you know at some point if I find anything that is just too ridiculous to conscion.

Updates on optional rules (some look cool) to follow once I get around to it.

Short answer - if there is something in there you want to get, it will probably be fine if you stick to RAW.

Since everyone now has the audio, I will assume Angel also downloaded the file recorded so far - so no one has to worry about not having heard what has already been said.

pragma - your knowledge skill roll tells you that MODs probably are Mobile Observation Devices (surveillance drones).

Having figured out what the team is staring down the barrel of (more or less literally). Fort's going to conjure up his usual escape route.

Force 4 air spirit w/ optional noxious breath:
summoning # dice 8 :: 2 5 5 4 6 5 1 5 -- 5 hits
drain # dice 12 :: 1 1 5 4 6 4 3 3 1 3 6 2 -- 3 hits
spirit resist # dice 4 :: 2 1 1 2 -- 0 hits, critical glitch
-- Hot shit

The first services he requests will be concealment and movement on the vehicles.

He's also going to tell people what's going on - I'll IC it soon.

Man as this mission raps up im really getting excited about writing about Cerberus and what he will be doing on his off days. I was thinking about where and how it will happen. I think it will probably get put in the wiki. It should probably go under history but im thinking about making a new tab called Off days or off the clock or something else i dont really care about the name. What do you guys think?

Are any of you looking forward to writing about your characters while they are not running? Have you been thinking about it and the various ways you want them to grow(not just in skills)? Do you all want some down time after this is all over and if so how much?

Hehehe, here is one last map update for the junkyard:
Junkyard

I feel you...

My first thought was just that if I fleshed out those kind of days on the wiki I would be totally immune from other people's time frames and timing issues. Like nobody else would have to flesh out their days if they didnt have to and we could keep the gaming going.

Like IC you could make several days, a week, a month go buy with just a sentence and instead of everyone writing about their down time, we would just be able to advance the game along to whatever was gonna happen next.

I can always make an IC for time passage with Cerberus without fleshing it out IC and saving it for the wiki. But I understand you wanting it to be more part of the game. I want to work it in so lets see what happens but I also liked the idea of a side project. Its kinda like the "takes" section.

All good thoughts.

As far as I'm concerned, you can pretty much do what you want on the wiki.

Regarding IC - at such time as you have downtime available, I will do it in a way that people will be free to post a lot or a little depending on how they are inclined. That's actually not much trouble to manage.

If you want to write a bunch of non-official stuff on the wiki, fine, but I would hate to see you go to a lot of work only to find that you don't actually have as much downtime as you think you do...

You mean before one of the strippers in the group i hired trys to kill me as part of the next story segment? hehehe. Yeah I wont do any writing until I know how much downtime there is "approximately".

Okay, my hiatus is over. I should be back to GM posts almost every day.

pragma - just to be clear - you automatically released the F6 Beast when you summoned the F4 air.

The spirit's critical glitch results in it offering you its strength in an unreserved and eager manner - thus, it is actually a F6 air spirit, with the additional power of Fear, which it just used successfully on an astral Lone Star mage.

The spirit is, obviously, materialized and humming along in a vortex surrounding the van.

To all drivers (Caittie, Smith, Sledge). As of now, you are all F6 concealed and movemented.

Now since the Movement thing is a multiplier, it is ultimately up to each up you exactly how fast you want to be going (with a very high upper limit - up to 6X you vehicles' max speed).

Now, since this is a very happy and benevolent spirit, it will help you along and keep those bikes from falling over or whatever out of control bikes do at super-high speeds. So you will face no vehicle tests while you are covering the five klicks to the freeway, which is where you are all currently headed.

But as I have warned many times before, I am going to have to get a bit more "realistic" about the effects of these powers in traffic.

Once you are on the freeway, you will all be virtually invisible (well, unnoticeable), even to each other. Almost no one will even try to avoid hitting you. Plus there's whatever speed you choose to flying along at.

So once you hit that freeway, I will need updates from pragma on the status of the powers, and from all the drivers on how fast you are going. Even with just the Concealment alone, look for some STEEP vehicle tests.

Where are you now - if the van is moving at max speed while in the "safe zone" of the access road, it can cover over 10% of the 5.1 klicks per combat turn!

Now the power just went into effect about the time of the most recent time-date stamp, so I am currently going to guesstimate you at about 4.5 km away from the freeway. You will cover the remaining distance in 13 seconds.

pragma - I'll have another IC for you after a few seconds of game time go by - so if you go astral, please confirm doing so for me either OOC or IC.

Just noticed the sec chatter never made it into the IC thread. pragma, could you do me a big favor and copy the following into your second to last post just before the paragraph "Shit!"

"...eyes on. Action looks limited to Niners Delta and Charlie."
"Central: lock down and wait for Lonely Hearts. Redirect MODs to north and south exfil routes."
"Scrambling on that - runners moving north now."
"Lonely Hearts ETA?"
"Looks like...90 for the bird...ghost should be on site already."
"That wraps us up except for battening down the hatches. Open channels two and three for data streams from the MODs to Lonely Hearts. Keep this channel clear for necessary traffic."



I will need to know if anyone wants to do anything in particular over the next 12 seconds....

pragma

Thanks for the cut and paste.

I need a Perception test from you. If there is anything in particular you might be looking for, let me know.

You can't keep up with the van AND be aware of your surroundings at the same time, so as it becomes relevant please try to keep me posted on when you "play catch up" with fast astral movement.

Konsaki

I need a Perception test from you (based on the van's sensors, of course).

Anyone

In the one second of game time elapsed while Fort floated out of the van, you have travelled about 500 meters!
Things might happen pretty fast here, so if you have actions and don't let me know, I will just consider it a realistic simulation of how fast you are roaring down the road....

CORRECTION from yesterday - I said something about all you Concealed people not being able to see each other - that was wrong, the spirit can and does allow you to see each other.

Probably can't post till Thursday earliest. Sledge will probably just follow the others out.

@adamu
Perception: # dice: 6 :: 6 6 6 5 2 2 -- 4 successes

Unless something needs smashing, Rocky will be trying to stay quite and out of the way. This is not his area of expertise.

JD

(yes I have an IC post coming sooner or later, just need to find Time and insperation at the same time :-P )

Pragma, I had asked awhile back if you wanted healing and if so what kind and how much was there to heal. You never answered but you did tell us to watch over you while you cover our escape.

I havent written anything about healing Rocky and Cerberus yet becaue of that.

@Abbandon

Fort hasn't said anything regarding the issue, I think he was out of body when Cerb asked.

OOC, I wouldn't mind, but do what you think Cerberus would.

Abbandon

Before you jump too far ahead with the healing, please review the rules on how long using First Aid takes, and then keep in mind it has been barely 10 seconds since you guys piled into the van.

JDragon

As the player most at the center of the recent combat, I look forward to your IC post more than any other.

Because the IC action has now progressed past the junkyard fight, I would appreciate if you would, when you have time,

1. Put your IC post here in the OOC.

2. Decide where it best fits into the other IC posts.

3. Ask someone to cut and paste your post into their's at the appropriate place, with a separate heading per our IC posting guidelines.

Thanks

(They really need a feature wherein thread-starters get edit privileges on all posts in the thread!)