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Konsaki
QUOTE (BlackHat)
Unfortunately (for them), they picked Cerberus to meet up with, first. wink.gif They'll probably all be dead before the rest of us even hear about this. biggrin.gif

I'm just wondering what spirit(s) that mage has waiting around in the astral to wax cerb if he gets frisky. I also think the dwarf can handle his own since he's also cybered up. cyber.gif
Abbandon
That sounds like coaching Konsaki. I dont need that. I know full well what these guys are capable of. That doesnt mean you just roll over and die/get hauled off to prison.

Weren't these guys working for Loui or something?
BlackHat
That was one theory, but we never really bothered to find out. I sleep better at night when I assume they were.
Abbandon
@adamu I called the mage Lonni cuz thats what was his name is on the wiki. If his name is really whatever you said it was I can change it. Also it would be nice if the dwarf gave his name cuz its not on the wiki.
DireRadiant
QUOTE (BlackHat)
Unfortunately (for them), they picked Cerberus to meet up with, first. wink.gif They'll probably all be dead before the rest of us even hear about this. biggrin.gif

Cerberus should have made the deal to rent a gun, otherwise....
Abbandon
rent a gun?? what are you talking about?
DireRadiant
QUOTE (Abbandon)
rent a gun?? what are you talking about?

A scene in Silverado.

Didn't Cerberus just leave a weapons shop?

Abbandon
Hmmm If I have seen that movie I dont remember that scene lol. Is that the western with John Wayne and Dean Martin?
DireRadiant
QUOTE (Abbandon)
Hmmm If I have seen that movie I dont remember that scene lol. Is that the western with John Wayne and Dean Martin?

You may be thinking of El Dorado, which sounds similar, but Rio Bravo is the one with John Wayne and Dean Martin (and Angie Dickinson).
JDragon
Combo post up from Pragma & I, covering a little conversation about magic and such between Rocky and Fort.

Have a good New Years all!!!

JD
Abbandon
Nice scene. Its great to finally know something about Rocky lol. I was about to flip out the first time you said Rocky was going to meditate to gain new powers. I forgot that was an option, I thought adepts had to do physically exuastive things to do it. Rocky's way is pretty cool though.

Rocky sounds like a native american like Geronimo. Atleast in the movies he had visions that he could not be hit by bullets lol.
JDragon
Thanks.

I hadn't seen anything on how exactly an adept got their powers so I just kinda went with it.

I'm guessing his outlook comes from growing up in the barrens and the fact that his mentor was a shaman.

JD
adamu
Okay - just got back from vacation. Tired, sick, everything's a mess, and I have to go back to the office tomorrow. Will get things back up to speed as soon as I can - maybe tonight...maybe not.

Thank you for your patience.
Konsaki
Hope ya feel better soon. It's good to see yer still alive anyways, was starting to question. biggrin.gif
Abbandon
The month of january should be nuked. 2/3 people caught the flu again in my house. Im the only one who hasnt and I am trying to keep it that way hehe. This time its just runny nose and body fatigue instead of last years projectile vomiting hehe.

If Adamu has whatever the people in my house have it only lasts a few days. Still I hope you recover quickly.

I know its totally worthless for this game but I should be getting street magic any day =) So atleast I will have something to do while I wait for the game to get back on track =). I also got the #2 novel in the new shadowrun series, looks like it has toxic spirits in it or something so it should be fun to read.

Three movies I watched this week all had some cool shadowrun ties. "War", "Shoot em Up", and "Resident Evil extinction". War just had normal gun/blade combat and cosmetic surgery. Shoot em up had wicked gun stunts. Res Evil had magic/technomancer qualities. I recommend all 3 of them.
adamu
QUOTE (Abbandon)
@adamu I called the mage Lonni cuz thats what was his name is on the wiki. If his name is really whatever you said it was I can change it. Also it would be nice if the dwarf gave his name cuz its not on the wiki.

Abbandon - as we all know, I don't refer to the wiki nearly enough. Don't know what's up there, or who put it up. But in the end that's a player-created resource.

My thorough review of the earlier scene shows that the fire spirit referred to its summoner as someone named Lowell when it spoke directly to Sledge. Now the dwarf has referred to the human as Lowell. That's the IC record.

It is fine with me if you leave it there as a mistake, edit it to Lowell on the assumption that Sledge told people what the spirit said, or even just edit to "that guy" or whatever. Anything you feel comfortable with.
Abbandon
Hey i was just asking for clarification.

Cerberus is recording this meeting by audio and video. He would also like to observe in detail both of them to get physical descriptions and or features like tat's.
adamu
@Abbandon - ....and I was just clarifying.

Recording noted. Also noted that you were getting as good of looks as you could. If you go back in the OOC thread, you'll find a good photo of the human. And the text descriptions of both are fairly detailed. No tats or obvious scars or identifiers other than those I mentioned, but in game terms if you make a perception test on each, I will add your successes to any future dice pools you use should you encounter then in disguise or need to describe them to someone else.


@Everyone - Okay, everyone but Angel is roughly at the same point in game time, so you are all totally free to act. That leaves a bit of catch up for Konsaki, but of course it doesn't have to be anymore than an "Angel sleeps" post. I know that Johnson and Sledge have the options of meets later in the day, although I have no idea or preference whether they will attend them or who they'll take with them if they do.

Ball in y'all's courts - have fun.
BlackHat
AFAIK, nobody has gotten back to Smith one way or the other reguarding whether or not they can make a 5-o-clock meet. He'll probably be planning to show up around then, reguardless, but if there's some urgent thing we need to discuss *ahem* he's ready to show up sooner. wink.gif

As far as Smith's meet with Deerwalker later that night, he was planning to go alone, to both limit cross-pollenation between his two lives, and to get a chance to be alone with Deerwalker. biggrin.gif But I intended to mention the meet to Fort, so he knows I'm on it, and if he wants to come ot make sure I get the right book, or whatever, I'm sure it can be smoothed over.

Also, on his way over to the team (whenever that takes place), Adam will be stopping by his locker.
Abbandon
Geez the FBI guys could have tagged our van while i was being driven around, I could be getting followed back to the truckstop as is. Even if we took taxi's everywhere we could still be followed..

We need to go knight rider, where we drive into the back of a semi trailer as its driving around town.

These are perception tests to see if im being followed and to help spot the FBI guys in the future, and to see if Cerberus could pick up on any lies they may have been telling:

[ Spoiler ]
Abbandon
Well I think Cerberus got alot done. If he spots anyone trailing him he will try to lose them.

Otherwise his intentions are to head back to the truckstop, load his gell rounds into their clips, with something covering his hands so he doesnt leave dna or prints on each bullet, and buy some online games for 50 bucks a pop ?

Halo 3050, Tenchu Online, and Court Ball.

-Halo is a FPS shooter, and has ground/air vehichles
-Tenchu is a ninja game that has stealth, all kinds of forms of melee combat(blades, clubs, unarmed), and archery
-Court Ball is just a sport sim of the aztec court ball that has made a reappearence in shadowrun sports.
JDragon
Fun stuff as always. :-P

Hey maybe they will be able to refer me to a good plastic surgeon.

Ok, it looks like we need to adjust some time stamps, or adjust Fort & Rocky's conversation as the call from Cerb would have come in before or during our chat.

Any thoughts? If we start adjust our time stamps, then we will need to tweek Dire's I think as well.

JD
DireRadiant
Lots of people can adjust their post timestamps, or Abbandon can add a few minutes to his.
JDragon
QUOTE (DireRadiant)
Lots of people can adjust their post timestamps, or Abbandon can add a few minutes to his.

Good point.

JD
Konsaki
Though I dont have a post up putting Caittie exactly at the current time, she's ready to participate whenever. You just have to remember that she isnt on the @Team network right now.
Abbandon
Well I had cerberus put everyone's comm's into one team thing so you should get the text messages.

I will adjust my time stamp.
adamu
@Abbandon

You don't spot any tails.

The dwarf did not seem to be lying.
BlackHat
Since we're all split up, and Cerb stole the group's wheels and was told not to come back, I'm going to assume somebody needs a pick-up. biggrin.gif
Abbandon
Damn smith and his 20 quesions. Hopefully cerberus puts everybody at ease over just going back to the trucksop.

*goes back to reading street magic*
JDragon
Well if Cerb doesn't pick him up Rocky is using a taxi, cause I don't think he's going to fit on Smith's bike.

JD
BlackHat
Yeah, probably not very well.
Konsaki
Caittie would like a ride though and will be requesting such if he can provide.
I'm working on a post right now.
Konsaki
GAH!!! I cant get my mind to focus enough to put the post from my head to the keyboard... The crappy part is the fact that I have it all in my head like a freaking movie too...
Abbandon
Just make an outline and then go back through and flesh out all the parts.

matrix stuff
call smith
put on make up
ride to wherever
dismount and say hi to peeps

hehe
BlackHat
Or give the green-light, and I would be happy to post something that includes Smith picking you up from wherever it is you are (the mall still?). Either way is fine by me.
adamu
Just poking my head in as I have not posted in 48. Looks like you guys are busy working things out among yourselves. But if there is something that I have overlooked that someone is waiting on from me, just let me know.
Abbandon
is idle, im still reading street magic bit by bit and. think im still in the astral security section. Just left off with all those crazy wards.
BlackHat
I think we're just working out the mundane details (what time we all arrive by, who drives who, etc). Other than that, I think we're ready to move forward. Smith likes Fort's suggestion to meet someplace other than the truck-stop, so he'll respond as much to Cerb's suggestion that we stick to the motel. He has no real problem with Cerb heading there, to pick people up, though. I figure, if they're tracking Cerb's van, they'll be tracking it to wherever we go - and since rent runs out tonight at the motel, it'll be just as easy for us to move on once we've discussed our next steps.
Konsaki
I'll have a post up later today, hopefully. Had something come up on Sunday, which is why I didnt post anything then.
BlackHat
Sounds good. If you want to write up the part about Smith coming to give you a ride, that's fine too. He'll be pretty happy about it, actually, and be willing to small-talk (if you feel like it), but when you guys head out, he'll make you wear his helmet (he'll risk it, himself, I guess), and hold on tight.
BlackHat
Oh yeah, and he'll hit up his locker before picking anyone up. No point in taking the curious hacker to his last remaining secret.
Konsaki
I have the post around 35% done. Things keep jumping out of nowhere to keep me busy... Either that or it's those damn shrooms giving me visions... either way, I'm working on it. biggrin.gif
pragma
Fort's going to panic then take a cab to a camera free area near the waffle house, put on a mask, scrub his signature and go in.

I forgot to roll the three dice Sledge medicined to Fort, those will be dealt with first
More healing # dice: 3 :: 1 4 5 -- 1 success
-- brings Fort down to one box of physical

Casting force 5 mask to look like boring human businessman
spell: # dice: 11 :: 6 2 3 1 1 3 6 4 5 1 3 -- 3 successes
drain: # dice: 12 :: 6 2 5 1 6 6 6 1 2 6 6 1 -- 7 successes
JDragon
QUOTE (pragma)
Fort's going to panic then take a cab to a camera free area near the waffle house, put on a mask, scrub his signature and go in.

Just going to bail on me? nyahnyah.gif

Well I guess once you leave I can have Cerb pick me up.

JD
adamu
Okay - lets try to finalize all this....

As of around 2 in the afternoon -

Smith on bike to locker, then pick up Angel (IC post forthcoming), and then to the Auburn waffle house.

Fort taking cab to "camera-free" staging area near waffle house, doing magic stuff (all looks great), and then into waffle house. pragma - I'll need a perception test (add half of your appropriate tradecraft knowledge skill dice) to identify a "camera-free area" in Auburn - a tricky but not impossible feat.

Cerberus, having looked for tails, heading in Love Machine to truck stop, pick up Rocky, then to waffle house.

Still no word what Sledge plans on doing vis a vis waffle house meeting.

I need to wait for Dire on that, and I also plan to wait at least on Konsaki's IC post, since he's been working so hard on it.
In the meantime, of course everyone else is welcome to IC as they wish.

Once I hear from Dire and Konsaki, though, I plan on just doing an IC myself of people going to the meeting as declared (for any parties that haven't done so themselves) so that we can all get to one spot and you guys can be free to post from there.
BlackHat
Sounds good.

Smith will be dressed up, but in more of a button-down shirt and slacks way than a suit. He'll also have some cologne on, and overall look like he made an attempt to look good. Of course, this was in anticipation of meeting with Deerwalker after meeting with the team, but at least he won't be starting this mission in a t-shirt and jeans again. wink.gif Somehow I doubt Smith's fashion-sense is going to sway the feds at all, though.

Depending on when Konisaki's post goes up, I might do a quick follow up about them driving there, but if you beat me to the post, feel free to move along. It won't be anything important.
adamu
All noted - although as you know, there is not yet a meet set with the feds - you are actually all just meeting to hear Cerberus tell what happened and decide what to do about it.
BlackHat
True, but I figure we'll either take them up on it soon, or they'll be spying on us, or we'll end up hitting them with a car again, or something. biggrin.gif If not, even better. Smith had plans, anyway, and it didn't involve going to PMITA prison.
DireRadiant
QUOTE (adamu)
Still no word what Sledge plans on doing vis a vis waffle house meeting.

Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.
Abbandon
Im cool with that plan. Cerberus will leave nothing of his or anyone elses at the motel room.
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